 tired of the everyday routine ever dream of a life of romantic adventure want to get away from it all we offer you escape escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure escape brought to you by your Richfield gasoline dealer and the Richfield Oil Corporation of New York marketers of Richfield gasoline's motor oils and other petroleum products look for the Richfield Eagle on the cream and blue pups tonight we escape to the Old West in the story of a boy who never owned anything but a gun as Joel Murkart tells it in his exciting tale sundown the son is kissing the top of the mountains and in a minute the shadows will start to sneak along the street it's sundown and you can't do nothing to stop it everybody knows that that's why the town looks like a ghost town not a horse nor a rider inside not even a tumbleway oh it's folks around all right looking out from door cracks and windows and now the street ain't empty no more here's what they've been waiting for there's Kirby Hunsaker coming out of the saloon at one end of the town and there's Ben Ford coming from a liver stable at the other end both of them walking towards each other slow right hands hanging like claws an inch from the gun holsters in a minute one of them will be dead Kirby Hunsaker of Ben Ford little Ben nothing but a baby when I picked him up off of the desert 15 years ago hold up a minute Sam what is it over there right out holes here yeah looks like a man let's have a look it's a man right enough what's left of him oh he's come a long way for water comes the wrong place give me a hand with him you live yeah he's alive can't he yeah friend swig this better hold it to me huh son's got his eyes is blind oh drink you drink just a little bit on it ain't gonna help you much burn clean through that better thanks my wife and my kid yeah yeah we're there back there where I left the wagon animals died I I came for water better give me some more Dan no he don't need it no more all we can do is find his wife and kid if there's anything left to find there was something left my son baked wagon in the midst of that hellish inferno a dead woman and a kid five-year-old boy his face is burned his lips is cracked with fever but his eyes stared out across that desert like they was following some nightmare that nobody else could see didn't cry he didn't whimper he didn't talk we give him water and he took it wasn't no place to send him and he has stood there watching us as we buried his mother now what do we do about him a kid take him with us or reckon ain't much else we can do you nobody on the ranch take care of him no ain't nobody here neither he's like a little cactus Sam he'll grow or he'll die he grew big raw bone kid and by the time he is 12 they could handle a man's work and I had a feeling for him I feel him like he was like he was my own feeling that could make me hurt when I looked at him Dan yeah Ben do I have any money well yeah I reckon you have you work for your keep how much do I have Dan well now I don't know it take some figuring but this is your home boy everything that here's yours do I do have enough to buy a horse why I reckon so then I want my own horse see all right boy take your pick that three-year-old black with a star in his face I want him all right you just bought yourself a horse yeah he'd bought himself a horse but it was more than that to him it it meant he had something something that was his come flutter thunder something in the world that belonged to him and not to nobody else it gave him a reason for being alive and he started to build his life around that black horse no horse ever got care like that Ben had had the horse for almost a year when Kirby Hunsaker came he rode in one afternoon while me and Sam was down to Corral Ben was in town with a buckboard picking up supplies when Hunsaker rode in just pounding leather howdy howdy your horse looks like he could use a rest run you need shooing you'd be all right I'll trade him and cash for fresh horse ain't nobody gonna ride a horse of mine that way maybe you didn't hear me I said I'm gonna trade him that means I'm gonna trade him my name is Kirby Hunsaker he said the name like it should mean something and it did Kirby Hunsaker a name that was drifting all over the west with a trail of blood behind it stagecoach drivers and travelers carried it on their tongues and he knew it he had a face like a woman and eyes like a steel trap and there wasn't no glove on his right hand it was brown and weathered from sun and wind and hung close to his right side like a claw never more than an inch from the butt of his gun a gunfighter you're thinking it over you're wasting my time better do it Dan all right hunsaker I'll take the black the star in his face put a rope on him I said put a rope on him not that when he ain't mine I ain't asking who he is put a rope on him any other horse anyone you want even pray get that horse and keep your hand away from that gun Dan what he says you can give young Ben the Palomino he's just a kid and the horse is a horse he'll forget about it no no he won't Sam he won't never forget it pronto friend put a rope on that black pronto there wasn't nothing else to do Hunsaker saddle Ben's horse and just let out down the trail me and Sam just stood there we were still standing there when Ben brought the buckboard back from town I watched his eyes go to the corral like they're always dead and then he turned and looked at me and Sam like like we was a firing squad where's my horse Dan I told him his face was like stone but there was a change in his eyes they got back that same look they had the day I picked him up half dead on the desert lost and robbed and helped you let him take my horse well that Palomino is worth twice as much boy not to me Dan the Palomino ain't mine yes he is I'm giving him to I don't want him I want my own yeah simmer down boy you come back here Sam let him go here cool off we might as well unload this year buck boy all right I'll drive everyone up the house hey Ben Ben wake that fool kid ain't even using a saddle crazy he's going after hunsaker hurry up Sam saddle up hurry up he was riding hard and light and we was distanced before we even got started but we followed the cloud of dust that trailed after him in the sun down here and he was lost somewhere in the night ain't much chance to find him now unless he stops and strikes fire he won't stop hey be a moon pretty quick hey wait listen yeah it's a horse must be over at the edge that way hey let's take a look it's a horse all right looks like the road the kid was riding something else there too on the ground we rolled up there was another horse on the ground and in the light of the moon I could see the white star on its black face Ben was sitting on the ground beside it a few feet away was the body of a man I rolled it over face up was an Indian there was a bullet hole in his head what happened Ben I don't know this is the way I found it what's wrong with star being his legs broken oh I must have stepped in a chuck hole yeah yeah then the Indian come by and hunsaker give him a bullet in exchange for his horse tracks on the dirt there that's a good thing the boy didn't catch up with him yeah that's a bad break he's got there boy I know nothing you can do for him I know well now why don't you uh just ride on back to the ranch of Sam yeah I'll stay here for a while and catch up with you later you don't have to do that lend me your gun oh now look boy let's ride off you and me no he's my horse then I've got the right to shoot him yeah Ben I reckon you have here's my gun I'm coming me and Sam will walk off a little ways Ben give you a chance to just fall if you want to get it off of your chest I'm ready to ride with you I ain't gonna cry down he didn't cry he hadn't cried when I picked him up off of the desert and he didn't cry then but the tears was inside of him someplace where they couldn't get out never showed in his eyes though something else showed there instead it was hate a hate like a pure white flame I could see it burning there when we got back to ranch that night would you say his name was Dan oh uh who's that whose name the man who took star or uh Hanigan I think yeah Jim Hanigan that isn't what you said before Dan I want to know hunsaker Kirby hunsaker you better go in get some sleep boy then you can have your pick of anything in the corral I don't want another horse well when you see something that you do want you just holler at yours that's promise anything Dan anything all right then I'll take your gun my gun you promise Dan I promise here it's your good night Dan good night Ben well in all my days I never hear this is a lame brain thing it's given a kid like that now he'd have got one somewhere sooner or later and if I know him right it's best to be soon oh he's only a boy third theme you get to be a man faster the next few years and we can hope 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that xylene zip stop where you see the richfield eagle on the cream and blue pumps for richfield gasoline with xylene and now we return you to escape a boy in a gun they were together night and day ben kept it with him in his sleep not under the pillar but next to his cheek and you could see the red box of the barrel on the side of his face when he'd get up in the morning rest of the time was belting around him and when he wasn't working he'd go off alone into the hills for target practice and the target he used was an express company reward poster for Kirby hunsaker after the shots were all hitting the target hitting close and fast he stopped firing and was off on something else the draw I'd catch him at it in the house from the barn wherever he thought he was alone he started to wear his belt different too with a gun holster tied low on his right hip and his right hand hung by his side like a claw and it got more claw like with a passing year rest of him had changed too he wasn't a boy no more he was a man we heard about Kirby hunsaker more and more we heard about him his name had gotten big since he took a kid's horse got to be one of the three names mentioned most when the talk into saloons turned to gunslingers Jim Dunn, Boaz Watson and Kirby hunsaker killers for hire for any dirty job outside of the law but all jealous of each other all bound to meet someday and find out who would be just a flick faster on the draw and Ben had to be there the night a stray cop once he stopped in the rest his horse more coffee stranger yeah thanks I reckon I will watered your horse sure needed it you must come a long way yeah from Goldfield and riding lucky though I come through flagstaff just in time to see the fight what for you mean you ain't heard about it I must have been riding faster than I thought you ought to seen it never was a gunfight like it who was in it two of the best big Jim Dunn and Kirby hunsaker Ben grabbed the edge of the table and his face got as white as borax like a lead bullet had hit him in the gut which one of them got it I prayed for the right answer the answer that would have been right for me not the one Ben wanted or hunsaker beat him Dunn never cleared his holster color come back in the Ben's face and that pure white flame I hate burned in his eyes again hunsaker got the draw on big Jim Dunn yeah wish I could have stayed in flagstaff Boaz Watson someplace in the territory too assumes he gets wind of it he'll be on hunsaker's trail for a showdown well if Dunn never cleared his holster then the man ain't born they can outdraw hunsaker Boaz Watson thinks he can he's been itching for the chance it's a chance he ain't gonna get Ben Ben where you going to just thought I'd take a little ride Dan flagstaff flagstaff Dan and don't try to stop me trying to stop him would have been like trying to stop I have a lens but he couldn't stop me from following neither he rode day and night trading mounts on the way and I was an hour behind him when he reached flagstaff on the third morning of his ride and started his hunt he tried the hotel the express office and one by one the saloons asking the questions and seeing faces go blank he was easy to find when I got to town he left a trail of questions behind him and I found him in a last saloon on the street still asking did you hear what I asked you bartender yeah yeah I heard how should I know does he ever come in here well I've just served drinks I don't watch you comes and goes I'm tired of walking and I'm tired of talking I want an answer well I reckon he comes in sometimes when usually about an hour from now good I'll wait gonna buy me a drink man that's what you came for Dan been rough trailing you boy men and horses ain't meant to be pushed that hard I was in a hurry well maybe we can take it easier going back maybe if we left right now we could camp out someplace tonight like we used to ask me later Dan this is something I gotta do first he wouldn't drink and he wouldn't leave he just stood there waiting looking at nothing he might have been carved out a rock there wasn't a nerve in him and then I heard the door swing the way it had a couple of times before only this time it was different the talk around the tables cut out the bartender's hand is tightened around the glass he'd been wiping ever heading the place turned towards the door it was Kirby Hunsaker I knew that face it grown heavier and crawler but I knew it he stood there in the doorway while them bear trap eyes of his search the room moving first from gun belt to gun belt flicking the extra beat on the ones that hung low looking for the hands without love then his glands come up to face level like a like a assayer examined an oar well him and Ben hadn't never seen each other before but somehow they knew each other their eyes caught and held like two long horns locked together I hear somebody's looking for me in case anybody don't know me name is Kirby Hunsaker I'm looking for you speak your piece a long time ago when I couldn't do anything about it you stole a horse from me you call me a horse thief you ran him into a chuck hole and you left him with a broken leg I had to shoot him you got nerve name your price I might pay it your pet my price is the life of the man who stole that horse you got a gun dig for it you move first hunsaker I'm giving you an age better take it no I want to give you a little time hunsaker if I draw first then you got to move without thinking but I want you to think I want you to think and decide and worry you're talking big little too big I want to give you time like you gave it to a horse with a broken leg because you won't draw fast enough hunsaker not even if you move first I'm going down to the livery stable take a nap it's sundown I'm coming back up the street and I don't want anybody on it you better shoot me in the back while I'm going out that door because if you don't I'm going to kill you hunsaker the flame was in hunsaker's eyes too but it was a man's hate not pure and white but diluted with the memory of the way Ben's gun hung and diluted with just a shadow of fear Ben went back and slept like he said I sat beside him for the best part of our and I shook him kind of gentle sun's hanging pretty low man just about time to get up and walk why don't you start from home Dana I'll catch up to you later I thought that I'd wait up at the hotel all right Dan see you later yeah man I'll see you later so here I am in the wind of the hotel and under he is in the street him and Kirby hunsaker walking towards each other and the town is so quiet you can hear their steps on the boardwalk fingers are the right hands it's flawed like hooks almost touching the gun butts don't even seem like the sun is moving anymore like even the shadows is glued down on the ground waiting for one of them hands to move of course when it comes it'll come fast gonna collect for that horse that's your receipt hunsaker Ben Ben are you all right boy I'm all right let's walk all right all right it's all over now boy let's saddle up it's a blacksmith I guess the horses are ready express rider came in just after you left before Boas Watson is riding in he met him on the trail you're gonna stay and meet him me I got no quarrel with Boas Watson well it looks like you will have he was mighty keen on meeting up with hunsaker looks like you've taken over hunsaker's place you'd better go on alone Dan what do you mean Ben I killed hunsaker now every gunslinger looking for a reputation will try to get it by killing me from now on I got a fight or run well I'll stay with you I've been holed up in one place too long anyhow no Dan well this is where we got a split right now thanks for everything I'll never forget you goodbye Dan goodbye Ben goodbye boy goodbye son well yeah he's a gunfighter now the gunslinging madman will see to that but he won't never be a outlaw like Kirby hunsaker a boy as Watson or Jim Dunne he killed if they force him to it but ain't nobody never gonna buy his gun for killing because he's got to own something Besser took his family I couldn't make up for him Kirby hunsaker took his horse and he'll never really own another one but there's one thing he's got in this world that gun that gun is here he owns it no one wants to have car trouble especially on a vacation trip but sometimes we forget that faulty or neglected lubrication can cause wear and breakdown in any car to keep trouble away see the richfield gasoline dealer tomorrow get all point protection against summer wear and breakdown with richfield all point safety service this service gives your car the extra protection of new rich lube lithium lubricant the premium lubricant that's better always and richfield all point safety service also includes all point lubrication of your chassis transmission differential and wheel bearings and to protect your motor in hot summer driving the richfield dealer puts in fresh clean rich lube 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richfield oil corporation of new york invites you to escape to the jungles of south america with a seething tale of terror and violence as james po tells it in bloodbath starring vincent price goodbye then until this same time next week when once again we offer you escape time handling speaking this is cbs the columbia broadcasting system