 large city and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with the u.s. marshal and the smell of gun smoke william conrad story of the violence that moved west with young america story of a man who moved with it united states marshal what you're doing there's miss kitty there in front of the texas trail i think she's waiting to say hello chester but she's going to work so early for her i didn't hardly knew him yet i don't know about kitty but the stage from which it was due in about noon oh i forgot sheriff binson's coming today that's what the telegram said why would the sheriff of which it all come all the way to dodge mr. dillon must be mighty important maybe there's somebody here you'd like to take back with it hello kitty hello math chester miss kitty so this is what dodge looks like at noon it's a little too real for me we were wondering what brought you out so early sam sam worthy want to see me come on and say hello okay we got a few minutes hello sam sam marshal hello sam hello chester you having a drink gentlemen i know thanks sam sam it isn't noon yet what am i doing here thanks for coming kitty it's a new girl i just hired i thought it'd be sort of nice if you take her over and sort of show her the ropes glad to sam coming from st louis on the santa fea this morning needed a job real bad well i hope she's not one of those innocent lambs has been a lady all her life i'll go get her sam takes pity on every lost soul that hits this town no one could stay lost around dodge for long true chester that's why most of these women ought to stay home pretty carol that's her name carol you know her yeah yeah i know her yeah here here she is everybody carol this is kitty and marshal dylan and chester proud for hello carol aren't you going to say hello matt it's been a long time carol matt and i knew each other out in arizona for a while anyway till matt sort of changed his mind what are you doing in dodge kara i thought you'd be surprised i heard you were marshal here somebody told me on the train you've been living in st louis i've been living everywhere matt i left her zone about a year after you did i even tried san francisco i made out pretty good there too uh... you plan on staying in dodge why not i heard there's a lot of easy money here sure any objections to my stay in matt well of course not kitty it's it's real sweet of you to show me around let's sit over there and have a talk first shall we sure maybe you can teach me a few things see you later gentlemen i'll say one thing mr dylan she's a right pretty girl anyway she's changed since i knew her she's changed a lot uh... come on chester the stage is about to you now this is my office here sheriff dodge is sure a growth marshal been three or four years since i was here must look mighty small compared to witch talk mr benison maybe dodge will be bigger in witch a toss someday well it's denver they say is grown i'm curious to see that are you headed for denver sheriff they're holding a killer for me up there well sit up sit up i'm taking the next stage west marshal but uh... i wanted to be sure to see you on the way through dodge there's some trouble headed here fellow called jack tolliver is a bank robber marshal and he's killed a few men along the way he opened up the state bank in witch talk about a year ago and he's been working his way through the decoder since then but here he's back in kansas took five thousand dollars out of the bank at salina a few weeks back well what makes you think he's going to try dodge because he's heading south dodge is a natural for them he's got a couple of partners i don't know their names uh... what does this tolliver look like that's a trouble marshal nobody ever got a good look at him i know of but uh... i can't tell you something about one of the gang he sends this one ahead of him to sort of look things over for a week or so and he and the other two right in what about the man that scoffs ahead for ain't a man marshal it's a woman a woman don't know her name she changes it all the time anyway but she's right pretty about five foot seven black hair eight lies she's smart and she's tough right clear mr dillen that sounds not what i like that's a pretty clever operation chester uh... sheriff i sure thank you for telling me all this we'll be watching for you i better go get some dinner before that stage pulls out see you on my way back marshal goodbye chester bye mr benson thanks again sheriff mr dillen that sure did sound like car he was describing no but of course he wouldn't be mixed up in anything like that well i said she'd changed chester but i hope she hasn't changed that much i uh... i better go have a talk with her kitty told me i uh... i'd like to talk to you carol come in is it embarrassing for you matt my being in dodge why should it be carol we were pretty good friends once well we can still be friends you mean that matt you really mean it you know what i mean carol why'd you come here what do you want well just to talk a little about what about you where you've been do you ever get married things like that i never got married i told you i've been everywhere what else what have you been doing lately why don't you leave st louis i haven't been in st louis you said you just came from it you didn't let me finish i haven't been in st louis very long and i had no reason to stay there what's this all about if you don't want me in dodge say so i'll leave now you're you're welcome in dodge carol i don't know whether to believe you're not well maybe i'm being too curious i'll shut up oh it isn't bad i guess it's just that there's a lot of things i don't want to talk about you understand that sure but i won't be bothering you anyway i have to go out of town for a few days tomorrow where are you going selina there holding a prisoner for me there selina yeah and you're going tomorrow yeah i'll be back in a couple of days matt couldn't you put it off for a while another week why i don't know i'd like your own i feel like such a stranger i'll be more at home in another week please matt sure kara doesn't make much difference you let me know if there's anything i can do for you thanks matt i will what you're there mr. dylan yeah did you find out anything only if she is mixed up with this man tolliver she can't get in touch with him for a week but we won't worry about it till then it'd be kind of too bad i mean you being a friend of hers and all the sheriff said tolliver's killed a number of men chester i won't mind stopping if i can we will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment but first united states savings bonds pay three percent interest when held to maturity they're safe they're sure no gamble with uncle sam savings bonds the bond a month plan at your bank or your payroll savings plan makes saving automatic now the second act of gun smoke few days passed and as i thought nothing happened kara worked at the texas trail and although we kept an eye on her she talked to so many strangers every day there was no way of telling which might have been her bank robber friend jack tolliver would have been easy for him to just right into town anytime he wanted by kara drink and get what information she gathered i talked to her now and then and although she tried not to show it i was pretty sure she was aware that i was suspicious of her and then one day i was real sure dark and chester and i just finished a game of three handed stuff in the office six fifty six seventy five and seven seven fifty eight dollars you have to count it out loud dog eight fifty nine nine fifty ah when i do it to teach you a lesson chester you've got my money that nothing you're always thinking of money chest money isn't the only place in the world why there's also all my days uh... well there's also uh... also what you better think hard doc he's following your money close did you ever go out in the night chester and look at the stars did you ever watch them and feel close to nature and enjoy the great and wondrous beauty of it all you talk like you had a drink doc of course i've watched the stars whenever it wasn't raining or snowing or blowing the wind down out of the north or whenever i wasn't just two dogs on saddle worry and tuck it out keep my eyes open you're a hard man to inspire chester saving you from the devil would be a full-time job and i'm afraid it's too late now here that the world has corrupted you chester it's touched your soul it's withered it like a like a bean like a bean now don't know if you listen here doc oh kitty oh oh look upon her chester the beauty of womanhood in all its passionate splendor it sure beats the stars anyway are you too dr doc's been trying to teach chester to take a larger view of life kitty got all my money and he just calling about it that's all he's doing money huh well that's just what i came here for oh what do you mean kitty i need twenty dollars ma'am oh well sure there you are before i take it i better tell you it isn't for me what? car needs it she came to me and i didn't have her but i said i thought i could get it for her i think she knows where she could have come to me herself too proud maybe how come she's broke she's been working i didn't ask her what it's for matt it's alright kitty give it to her i will but i'll tell you something i've met some pretty tricky women here in there but your old friend car has them all beat i'll give her the money chester yes follow kitty don't let kara out of your sight till you find out what that money's for i'll wait here for you okay mr jillian the depot's already crowded chester it must be close to train time yes sir and kara will be here i know she will the agent told me she bought one ticket to st louis and asked what time the next train well i hope she's here maybe she's innocent after all mr jillian well soon find out chester oh there she is over there yes and all dressed up too kara's always all dressed up hello matt chester miss kara you're staring at me matt i'm just wondering why you didn't come and say goodbye if you're leaving dodge what makes you think i'm leaving well you bought a ticket to st louis with the 20 dollars i gave kitty for you yes i did i knew you'd figured all out matt and i knew you'd think i'm leaving i wanted you to why kara because i've enjoyed making a fool of you have you a friend of mine's leaving on that train matt jack tolliver i knew you were on to us i'll watch kara if you want to go after mr jillian there are 20 strangers down here chester how do i know which one's tolliver you know i could arrest you kara you're wanted in a lot of places you're too smart for that matt arrest me and you'd never find jack sure once tolliver's on that train i can find him how i'll have the whole train put under guard when it gets to abalone and one by one every man on it'll have to clear himself we'll get him no you won't he'll jump off he won't know what i'm going to do and you can't warn him now hey pulling out mr dillian we'll make it chester so long kara no matt wait come on chester run matt come back you're fooling mr dillian kara doesn't think i'd fold her chester what do you mean she thinks she fooled me well how she wants me on this train she planned the whole thing for it why are we here then well we won't be for long there's a ranch close to the tracks about 10 miles from here i'll have the conductor stop the train and we'll get off there and then borrow a couple of horses and ride on back to dodge jack tolliver's and dodge chester he's thinking he can hold up the bank anytime he wants to now there's nobody to stop it i tied the horse where are we on mr dillian plumb out of sight oh good it's almost dark anyway they've never seen him yeah now things look quite enough come on let's get inside the bank we'll wait for him there how are we gonna get in mr dillian ain't it locked yeah there isn't more than a couple of hundred dollars in there chester mr botkin's been keeping the bank's real money in a safe at his home ever since i heard about jack tolliver hey you gave me a key to the rear door here well if there's nothing for him to steal what do we care well i'll let you figure that out for yourself where'll i get at mr dillian uh over there by the window there or you can see him oh what if they try to come in the front now they want it's too exposed i'll wait over here when they come we'll leave them alone until they get clear inside you understand yes sir i won't shoot till you do all right good no don't stand right in front of the window chester they'll see it yeah but i can't see good if i'm at one side you don't have to be at one side just stand a few feet back from it yes sir now that's better i'm sure they wish there was a moon tonight yeah that'd be a help all right but there's some horses they're heading this way how many four i think yep four yeah that's them here they come they're getting down three of them are they're handing their rings to the other one i hope now he's getting down too she chester that's probably carol my god i think it is all right quiet now yes not so much noise can you take me here so all the way down front street all clear carol okay jack all right go ahead you two i'll follow all right behind the bank desk there according to carol all right get your hands on the air all of you i got two of them chester told her to run outside but i hit him he's wounded carol's having to help him hold it all of her carol get away from him no you don't care you stay right here don't hide behind me jack you'll kill me he won't kill you but if you move i will no let me go get around behind them chester yes you're trapped oliver now let carol go you just stay right where you are both of you i'll kill her if you don't you coward jack i'll warn you mr gillard he's dead i didn't get him soon enough let's see how carol is carol i'm sorry carol it's too dark i couldn't shoot any quicker i don't think she heard me chester he shot her right in the back mr bill yeah well see that's the end of jack pauliver's gang it's the end of a lot of things chester yes sir i guessed he is gun smoke under the direction of norman mcdonnell stars william conrad as matt dillon u.s marshall tonight's story was specially written for gun smoke by john mesden with music composed and conducted by rex quarry featured in the cast were harry bartel jill german vick perron and john daner harley bearish chester howard mcnear is doc and georgia ellis is kitty join us again next week as matt dillon u.s marshall fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the west in gun smoke guns blaze away in peaceful valley tomorrow night on cbs radio gene autry rides right into the middle of a border feud and tries his hand at settling things don't miss the gene autry show tomorrow on most of these same stations the star's address presents america's favorite 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