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Take your hand off her. Well, if you're lucky, he is. I was about to jab this parasol in your eye. Maybe just like one of your kind. Get out of here, Groot. Go on, before I kill you. You mean it, don't you? You would kill me. It's a good thing you're wearing a gun, Marshal. And you better go on wearing it, too. I'm sorry I got you into this, Mac. No, you didn't get me into it, Kitty. Besides, I don't think there's a man in dodge that wouldn't appreciate a chance to put a hole in Hank Groot. The sooner the better. Hey, who's the girl with Chester? Huh? I never saw her before. Pretty little thing, isn't she? Yeah, she should. Hello, Miss Kitty. Hello, Chester. This here is Anne Cabot. How do you do, Anne? How do you do, Kitty? And this is the man you're looking for. This is Marshal Billing. Hello, Marshal. Ah, it's a pleasure, Miss Cabot. Anne, please. All right. Chester says you were looking for me. I think so. As the U.S. Marshal in dodge, you seem the logical person to help me. Well, I'll be glad to help you if I can. I've come from Connecticut, Marshal. I'm looking for Jack Schomer. Jack Schomer. You know him? Well, I... Wait a minute, Chester. Yeah, we know him, Anne. He's here. Well, no, not at the moment. He had to ride up North somewhere. Oh. But he'll be back. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think so. Look, I'll tell you what, Anne. I'll try to get word to him that you're here. I think I can do that. Oh, thank you, Marshal, but... Well, he's not expecting me. Maybe I just better wait. It might upset him otherwise. Well, sure. Why don't you do that here? Got a place to stay? No, I haven't. Well, there's an extra room over where I live. Is there? Well, I work at the long branch, Anne. It's a saloon on Front Street. Oh. But the rooms aren't too close. Quiet there. Nobody'll bother you. Thank you, Kitty. Well, come on, then. We'll find somebody to carry your things over. I think Matt and Chester are going to be busy. Yeah. Yeah, we are. Goodbye, Miss Cabot. Goodbye, Anne. Goodbye. I'll talk to you later, Matt. Okay. It's not very far. You walk from one end to the top of the other in about five minutes. Oh, my goodness, Mr. Dylan Jack Schomer. Let's go find him, Chester. That poor girl. Well, take Doc with us. Maybe he can do something. It's the best. Ellen M's got everything. It's the best. Ellen M is best. Stands out from all the rest. Ellen M's got everything. Everything. Everything. Best flavor. Ellen M stands out for flavor. The miracle tip draws easy. Let you enjoy all the taste. Best filter. Ellen M stands out for effective filtration. No filter compares with Ellen M's pure white miracle tip for quality or effectiveness. Best tobaccos? Highest quality tobaccos. Low nicotine tobaccos. L and M tobaccos. Light and mild. Every way. Ellen M is best. Stands out from all the rest. How easy they draw. How mild they are. Ellen M is sweeping the country. It's America's best filter tip cigarette. Well, he doesn't care much how he lives, Doc. Well, at least he's got water handy. But with the whole Arkansas River running right past his door, what would Schomer use water for, Chester? Oh, to wash, maybe. Wash him. Now the door's open. Hey, Schomer. It's Marshall Dylan. Better get up. Just sit back on the bed. Well, we'll fix that. What are you doing here? I don't understand. Don't worry about it, Schomer. We'll explain it to you when your head's clear. Do first, Doc. Take this jug of corn outside and smash it. Oh, here you are, Chester. No, no, what are you doing? No, no, never mind. It ain't very cool. You can't do that. That's my liquor. I'm going to get a pot of coffee going, Matt. While I'm doing that, you and Chester take him down to the river. They're going to throw you in and let you soak a while, Schomer. No, I'll drown. Don't worry, Schomer. We'll put a rope on you. All right, come on. Let's get it done. Oh, Doc, I must have had a barrel of it. It's whiskey that comes in barrels, Schomer. Drink your coffee. Floating. Schomer, you're pretty sober now. So what are you going to do? I can't face him, Marshall. I'd give anything to see her, but I can't do it. But I'm no good for her the way I am now. What happened to you, Schomer? What went wrong? The land went wrong, or I went wrong on it. I don't know. Anyway, it beat me, Doc. I was going to start a homestead and then send for Anne, but I couldn't make it I had to give up. I even quit riding to her about a year ago. You're not the first man this country broke. It's more than that, Marshall. Most men who quit find something else to do, but with me it's like I lost everything. I couldn't face people anymore. Then that night I got into a fight at the Long Branch. You heard about that? Yeah, I heard. It ran away. Couldn't stand up to it. I guess I'm a coward. Everybody says I am. Every man's been a coward at one time or another, Schomer. But it doesn't have to last. It's lasted with me. How could I face Anne knowing I'm a failure and a coward to bull... Well, you can prove you're not a coward just by going to see her. Try it. Women have a way of understanding these things. Well, I... I don't know, Doc. All right, Schomer. We'll tell her you're in the horse-trading business. That's why you're out of town. But you'll have to tell her the truth if you see her. I'm only half a man. I don't sub to you. You think on it. But don't take too long. Well, at least it's not as wild as I expected. I keep telling her the real troublemakers don't even get up till sundown. Now, let her scare you. Don't worry about Anne. She doesn't scare easy. Marshall, you haven't heard anything about Jack when he'll be back. Well, Jack Schomer's a busy man, Anne. He's up north somewhere, like I said. He trades horses, you know. No, I didn't. Now, he'll probably be back in an old day or so. I can wait. I'm used to waiting. It won't be long, Anne. No. Oh, kitty, look. Are those the kind of bonnets you were telling me about in the window over there? Those are the ones. If Mr. Jonas doesn't have them marked up too high. Well, there's some price tags on them. Excuse me. Where's Schomer, Mike? Yeah, we sobered him up. He's doing some thinking now. Sitting in that shack of his? Yeah. He up too high? No, that's fair. We'll go in and try one on you in a minute. Oh, good. I wish Schomer'd hurry up in that. I hate playing this kind of game with a girl like that. Yeah, I know. Stay here, kitty. I'm not accustomed to meeting men this way. Oh, now don't get like that. Grote. I ain't doing nothing, Marshall. I'm only talking to Lady A. You leave the ladies alone, Grote. All of them. And if I have any more trouble with you, I'm gonna run you out of dodge for good. A get-moo-in. You want them all for yourself, huh? We're not gonna be that way. You'll see. Thank you, Marshall. I'm afraid they're not all gentlemen out here, Anne. Why are you gonna get around to shooting him, Matt? If I'm gonna stay out here, I guess I'll have to learn to handle men like that. Well, you won't run into anybody worse than Hank Grote, Anne. No, and if he bothers you again, Anne, you let me know. Right away, huh? I certainly will, Marshall. Okay. Now you two go buy your bonnets, huh? Goodbye, Marshall. Goodbye, Matt. Say goodbye. Wonderful. You know something, Mr. Dillon? Oh, what, Chester? Next year, we're just gonna have to find another stove. This is about war out. What about one of them Haberners? They're cheap. It takes two men and a boy to keep a Haberners stove going. You know, uh... Kitty! Hello, Chester. Matt. Oh, what's the matter, Kitty? I can't find Anne. What? We had dinner at Delmonico's tonight, and then I had to go to work. Anne was going back to her room to do some sewing and things, but she isn't there. I don't know where she is. Well, how do you know if you've been there? I broke a heel off my shoe, and I went over to get a different pair. I stopped by her room, and she's not there. That isn't like her, Matt. Well, you go back to work, Kitty. We'll look for her. Come on, Chester. You better find her. Yeah, we'll find her. Let me know, Matt. Will you? Sure, of course I will, Kitty. What are we gonna look, Mr. Dillon? Well, we'll go to the house first, Chester. That's why she was headed. Kitty is awful upset, ain't she? Yeah. Kitty takes a liking to somebody. She's kind of a tiger about them. Yes, sir. That sure is true. Come on. I hope nothing's happened to Anne. Maybe she only went for a walk or something. Yeah, maybe. But a woman shouldn't go for a walk at night alone, could she? No. Might get lost or something. Yeah. I'll stay indoors at night, unless she's with somebody. That's right, Chester. There's two dangers in a place like Doug's. You don't never know what might happen to you. No. Hold up a minute, Chester. I don't see nothing. Ground over there. Just under that patch of moonlight. Goodness. She's been hurt or something. Yeah. Miracle tip for quality or effectiveness. Best flavor. The miracle tip draws easy. Let's you enjoy all the taste. Best tobaccos. Highest quality tobaccos. Low nicotine tobaccos. L and M tobaccos. Light and mild. Today by L&M. It's sweeping the country because it's America's best filter tip cigarette. Yes, today. Why don't you get L&M? Because L&M's got everything. This is it. L&M filters. L&M's got everything. It's the best. Still unconscious when I got her up to Doc's. And she stayed that way. He examined her, but he couldn't find anything wrong. There wasn't a scratch on her. Her hair was messed up some, but we figured that happened when she fell. Kitty and Doc spent the night watching her and waiting. I didn't know the next day and was still unconscious. And there didn't seem to be a thing anybody could do about it. Chester and I stayed out of the way and did our waiting downstairs in the office. I've heard tell of people going to sleep and staying that way practically forever, Mr. Dillon, you think that's what she's got? Whoever heard of sleeping sickness around here at Chester. Well, maybe she caught it back east and brought it with her. Well, I don't know about back east. Marshal? Well, what do you know? Well, come on in. Do you, Marshal? What? I came to tell you I can't do it. I'm going to go away. Maybe you can tell her I got killed or something. No, I haven't been drinking. Not a drop since you and Doc and Chester came down there. Shomer, there's something. Matt, I wanted to tell you that... Yeah, what is it, Doc? Jack Shomer. Hello, Doc. It's a good thing you're here, Shomer. What? He doesn't know about her yet, Doc. Oh, know what? We found Anne lying unconscious on the street last night and she's been that way ever since. She came to a few minutes ago, Matt. Oh, did she say anything? Yes, it seems Hank Groot stopped her and tried to talk to her. She slapped him, made him so mad he hit her. Well, he must have done it with the flat of his hand. But it gave her a concussion. He's a mighty powerful man. Hank Groot hit Anne. I'll go get him, Doc. Well, wait a minute and I'll go with you, Mr. Dillon. I just want to lock the door out back here. All right. I saw Groot going into the Texas trail next door. Oh, good. I'm going back to Anne. She's in bad shape. Yeah, Doc. Mr. Dillon, can you give me a hand out here? Yeah, I'm coming, Justin. Because the door is warped, Mr. Dillon. You have to shove onto it so I can get it locked. Okay. That one sure ain't much. Where'd Schomer go? Mr. Dillon, my gun's gone. What? My sixth gun. It was on the cot here just a minute ago. Are you sure? Of course I'm sure. Schomer must have taken it. Him? What for? To go after Hank Groot with. Come on. You serious, Mr. Dillon? Well, it's a sense Doc doesn't take your gun. Oh, no, of course not. But the idea is Schomer going after Hank Groot. He saw him going to the Texas trail here. Well, this is the last place I'd look for Schomer. Well, maybe. Nothing to groat over there at the bar. I'll get rid of the gun. I'll slide it down the bar. Now will you fight? Who'll do that? You know, I'll kill you with my bare hands. Come on. I'm not afraid. All right. Hold it. Now you stay out of this, Marshall. It's my fight. Not anymore, Schomer. Groot's under arrest. He's my prisoner. What are you talking about? And are you coming, Groot? Using it that way. Here, take it, Chester. Goat comes to bring you to the jail, huh? We'll be up to Doc's. I think Schomer's ready to talk to Ann now. He's in the back room there. I've got to see her. Wait a minute, feel light. Ann died, a couple of minutes. She asked about you. She wanted to see you. I think she knew something was wrong. We didn't prove it. They should have come here first. Instead of going after Groot. Maybe. Might have helped. They didn't prove anything, did they? I wanted Groot to kill me, Marshall. Don't you understand? That way I never have to tell Ann the truth about me. It's her I couldn't face. Where are you going, Schomer? Where do you think, Doc? You're going to get a drink. Just wasn't there. Our star, William Conrad. Thank you, George. Mild and plenty quick on the draw, that's L&M for you. And the pure white miracle tip on the business end of every L&M filters out everything but the taste of the world's finest tobaccos. All you have to do is pick up a carton of L&Ms and you'll see what I mean. L&M stands out from all the rest. Produced and directed by Norman McDonnell, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Ray Kemper. Featured in the cast were Eleanor Tannen, Harry Bartell and Barney Phillips. 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