 I memorized the map and destroyed it. If you kill me, you'll never find the money. Have gone. Will travel. Starring Mr. John Daner as Paladin. San Francisco. 1875. The Carlton Hotel. Headquarters of the man called Paladin. What's all the excitement, Hey boy? Oh, Mr. Paladin, you in trouble with army? Trouble with the army? No. Oh, that's good. Why do you ask? Well, hey boy, hear Army Colonel ask for you downstairs. Hey boy thought maybe you and Trouble give you chance to get away. Oh, too late. Huh? That's Potter. Colonel Potter. Paladin. Well, Potter, what are you doing here? Good to see you. Last I heard of you, you were on the trail of those payroll bandits. What are you doing now? Hell, I'm still on their trail. That's why I've come to you. Three years and you still haven't caught them, huh? Well, come on in. Come on in. Thanks. I'll talk to you later, hey boy. Oh, you saw. Well, sit down, John. Have a cigar. Oh, thank you. Here. Well, you seem to have done all right, Paladin. Oh, I try. I just hope you're not so well off you can't use $500. I can always use $500, John. You want me to join the search, huh? We're getting close to him, Paladin. With your help, I think we can get him. How close are you? How much do you remember of the case? Well, let me think. It was a payroll for Fort Anderson. Two men made off with the money and they took how much was it? $80,000? $90,000. And there were three men in on it. Three? That's right. We discovered there was an army man involved. He did all the inside work. Didn't take as long to find him. Private by the name of Jim Griffin. We've been holding him in the prison at the Presidio. Money is not doing him much good, is it? No. No, but he never got his hands on it anyway. What makes you think so? This. What's that? We found it in his personal effects. It's a piece of a map. It indicates the position of the payroll money. And you think they buried it? Yes, yes. Jim Griffin's been in the hospital at the prison for the last six months. Part of that time he's been delirious. We've heard him mumbling about the map and from what we can gather he and the other two men made a pact to have somebody bury the money and draw up a map and apparently they divided the map into three pieces. Who buried the money? Well, we don't know, but whoever it was, they killed him. We learned that much from Griffin. He's also been talking about meeting the others on December 12th or it'll be too late. I see. Now, where do I fit in with your plans? Well, Jim Griffin died this morning. Oh. We want you to be Jim Griffin. What are you talking about, John? Here. Take a look at this tin type. I see. It's a picture of Griffin taken several years ago. This? Mm-hmm. This is Griffin? You look enough like him to be his twin paladin. I know what you're saying. Will you do it? Well, I don't know, John. This map gives no location. I wouldn't know where to start. Oh, we can help you there. Griffin has a girlfriend who's come to visit him three or four times. She probably knows where the meeting place is. And if she doesn't? Mm-hmm. Maybe the other two men will come looking for you. Like I said, there's a $500 reward providing, of course, that you get the proof on the other man and get the money back. How do you want the money start, John? Then you'll do it. I'll do it. Colonel Potter, shake hands with Jim Griffin. There's no doubt about it. Show business is the business of entertainment and performers are very far from being dull folk. And this is a matter you'll have a lot of fun verifying when The Mitch Miller Show brings sparkling show business chatter and personalities your way over these CBS radio stations. Give Mitch Miller and his show business guests a listen, and you'll prove it to yourself. You can be sure a very good time will be had by all, yourself included, when you get better acquainted with your favorite limelight personalities on The Mitch Miller Show. Three days later, I had become Jim Griffin. Colonel Potter gave me as much information as they had of the man's background, and I was dishonorably discharged from the Army. I even said goodbye to Griffin's old cellmates and to a man they accepted me. But the real test was to come with Anna Baker, Griffin's girlfriend. The Colonel's men had found out that she lived with her mother 15 miles from San Francisco. If I could get by the girl, I could get by anybody as Jim Griffin. Early one morning, I rode out there, and as I came into the yard, an old woman greeted me, followed by a flock of chickens she'd been feeding. Hello there. Yes? Uh, Mr. Baker, don't you know me? I know you. Uh, I've, uh... I've come to see Anna. She's not here. If it was up to me, she'd never be here to you, Griffin. Go on, I got work to do. Yeah! Uh, when will she be back? I don't know. Took a horse to be shod. Would you mind if I wait? Jim Griffin, you ain't welcome here. You've brought nothing but sorrow to us. Now, why don't you just ride out of Anna's life? I am leaving, Mr. Baker. I just wanted to say goodbye to Anna. Here she comes. Have your goodbye and be done with her. Jim! Hello, Anna. Jim, they told me you were sick. They wouldn't let me see you. They said you didn't know when... when I could see you. What's the matter? Why are you looking at me that way? You've, uh... You've changed, Jim. Yeah, well, prison does things to a man. Ask me. It ain't done enough to you. Your mother, please. You should have killed her. Jim, are you... you out of the Army now? Yeah, I'm out all right. For good, Anna. Wiley Carson was by a day before yesterday. Wiley? Yes, he said I was to see you. They wouldn't let me in at the prison. He said I was to get something from you. Oh, what? You know, the piece of map. Have you got it? Wiley said maybe you'd give it to me. Now that you're out, you can meet him yourself. Did he say where? The Blue Nose Saloon in Johnson City. But you have to hurry. Yeah. Will you... will you come back this way, Jim? You know I will, Anna. It's a promise? It's a promise. Good luck. Bye. Wiley consisted of a main street, some 20-odd houses in the Blue Nose Saloon. There, I waited for Wiley Carson. I didn't know what he looked like, but I sat at a table where I could see anyone who entered, and they could see me. I waited a whole day, and then most of another. Drink, mister. Ah, well, yeah, fine, all right. Right away. I say now it ain't none of my business, but are you waiting for somebody? You're right. It isn't any of your business. No offense, mister. Just that I don't remember seeing you before. I've been sitting here for two days now. You just passing through? Maybe, maybe not. No offense now, you understand? Hey, bartender, how about a drink? Coming right away, mister. I think I'll just... Well, looky here. But ain't there's a light of the army, Jim Griffin. Hello, Wiley. Bartender, you can bring my drink over here. Yes, sir. This is a surprise. Didn't think they'd ever let you out. I was expecting Anna. I decided to come myself. You look different, Jim. Had prison done things to you. You try it sometime. You hear courtesy of the warden? Yeah. Discharge, huh? Dishonorable. Sounds like maybe they'd know we was to have a meeting. What are you trying to say, Wiley? I'm saying maybe you're working for the army now. Maybe a couple of years in prison and they got you to... Yeah, you listen to me, Carson. I spent two years in a rotten, stinking hole. Just dreaming of the time when we can get that money. I was wrong, Jim. That prison made you meaner than ever. Yeah, well... You just remember that, Wiley. I remember, Jim. Are you two friends ready for your drinks now? Just set them down. Yes, sir. You, uh... You bring your piece of the map? I've got it. Let's see it. I said I've got it. All right, all right. Don't get hard about it. Now, you've been outside. What are the plans now? Same as I were three years ago. All right. We meet Jake tomorrow at the cabinet hard rock. Just like we agreed, Jim. We better get started, drink up. Mm-wee. Stuff so bad, better take a couple of bottles with us. Yeah, well, suit yourself. Yeah, you ain't the old Jim, I remember. The old days, you'd have wanted to bring a bottle yourself. Hey, listen to me, Wiley. There's only one thing I want. I've been waiting three years for that money. Jim, we all have been waiting. Serving time? When it's stinking two by four, sell? I'll get me a bottle. We'll go right now, Jim. Hard rock was 60 miles from Johnson City. The most direct route ran through a series of grassy plateaus that finally tapered out into high desert country. I knew that land like the back of my hand, so I knew the easiest way to get there. Wiley and I didn't talk much. I preferred not to. Toward sundown that day, he began to try to steer me away from the best route, but I stuck to my guns. I was soon to get to the bottom of the desert. I didn't know what to do. I stuck to my guns. I was soon to find out the reason for his actions. You're getting off the trail, Jim. No, I'm not. This is the best way, and you know it. I think we ought to be adding more into them hills. No, this is the way. Sure you don't want to drink, Jim? Nope. And I'll have one. Oh boy. This stuff's beginning to taste better the farther we get from town. Hey, wait a minute. Look over there. Where? I don't see nothing. No, over that way. The horse, all saddled. Just standing there. Oh yeah, I see it. Come on. Wiley, there's somebody on the ground. So there is. The heat must have gotten them. Yeah, they heat. This man's been shot. Wiley, give me a hand. Stand where you are, mister. What are you doing? Put that gun away. Who are you? What's the matter with you, Wiley? Throw down your gun. Why? Because that ain't no man lying there. That's Jake, the one we're supposed to meet. You didn't recognize him. Now that gun, throw it down easy like. We're gonna have ourselves a little talk. Then I'm gonna get you a piece of the map and kill you. Just like I'd done to Jake. You're gonna have to come out okay. You're right. Then what's wrong with you? I've had a nagging backache lately with sleepless nights. Makes me feel worn out. Then why not do something about it? But what? I tried Dones pills. Good advice. That's Dones pills, an analgesic and mild diuretic to the kidneys. Nagging backache, also headache, dizziness and muscular aches and pains, may come on with overexertion, often the answer. And they also offer mild diuretic action through the kidneys. So if nagging backache is making you feel worn out, tired and miserable, with restless sleepless nights, don't wait. Try Dones pills. Used successfully by millions for over 60 years. See if they don't bring you the same welcome relief. Get Dones pills today to save money by Dones big economy size. All right, that's far enough. Sit down right here. I'm gonna find out who you really are. You sure had me fooled, mister. You're enough like Jim to be his twin. So you killed Jake to get his piece of the map, is that it? I'll ask the questions. You're tough, aren't you? Talk, mister. Who are you? That's my business. I'll make you talk. I'll hand over that map. I haven't got it. I guess you think I'm fooling. I told you I haven't got it. It'll be awful easy for me to kill you, mister, and then take it. I wouldn't do you any good. I memorized it. Threw it away. You kill me and you won't get anything. Let's go. Call it. You won't kill me, Wiley. No, I... No. No, I didn't think so. We gotta get that money. All right, then you should show me the pieces of map you have and I can take us to it. I guess I'm gonna have to trust you, mister. I guess you aren't that, Wiley. It should be here, Wiley. Unless... Unless what? Yeah. Well, unless somebody got to it before we did. And keep digging. Yeah, there's something here. You sure? Yeah. That's it. That's the box it was in. Why, give me your hand. Dig it out. Oh, dear, no, I... Yeah, it's too heavy for me. Will you give me your hand? But I'll be holding this gun on you. Don't try nothing. Why, you... Maybe not you give me that gun. Wiley. Wiley, why are you asked for it? Turn around, mister. Huh? Anna. Drop the gun. Anna. Why are you doing this? I've come for Billy's money. Billy? My brother Billy. Open that box. You're making a mistake. Open it! You didn't really think you could fool a man's woman, did you? No, I guess not. Now the money's here. Hand me $5,000. Why $5,000? That's what they promised Billy. They got him to bury the money, draw the map. Then they put a bullet through his head. He was only 16. I didn't know that. Who are you? Doesn't matter. Here's your $5,000. Now, where's Jim Griffin? He's dead. Dead? He died in prison. Jim? No. No. You loved him, didn't you? We were... We were gonna be married. He was gonna work hard. Make something of himself an army. And he... He heard about this payroll. Something happened to him. He had to have that money. Jim planned the whole thing. And it... It changed him. I... I guess... I guess it changed all of us. Do you really want this money? No. Not now. I'll take the rifle, Anna. Colonel Miss Wong. Miss Apollodon. How are you this morning? I'm fine, Miss Apollodon. Did Army officer find you last night? Colonel Potter? Yes, he did. He took me out to dinner. He bought me lots of brandy. He gave me $500. That's... Miss Wong, what's the matter with you? Oh, well, for goodness sakes, what did you say? Hey, boy, is wedding ring like eternity? Eternity? Eternity. Miss Wong says you not know. Then what did he say? Hey, boy, say... Because it has no beginning. No. He's too... He say that and laugh. Well, I know. That's only a riddle. Riddle? Was he riddle, Miss Apollodon? Well, um... They saw. Um, a riddle is... Well, that's when you ask a question and... and... and... give a silly answer. No, no. Hey, boy, wasn't making fun of marriage. You sure? Thank you, Miss Apollodon. You shouldn't take Hey Boy so seriously. You just remember that. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun. We'll travel.