 In a large city and in the territory on West, there is 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, the story of the violence that moved West with Young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. That's a job that makes a man watchful. You ain't seen me since you left home. I ain't here, Pete. Well, Fat, you can't do that. She's dead. She went thin. She'd been ailing a long time. Well, it seemed to come home, I told her. Come on. I'll help you down off that horse. Take a look. I ain't as good as Ma, but I've been right-handed with the stock. You've got a hole in you for a fact. Ma had healing hands. No use. It ain't all that bad. I'll get the doctor. No doctor. Can you fix you up? I ain't going to bring it. Talk like headed, Pete. A doc knows more about healing than Ma did. You bring the doc, he'll bring the law. The law? Leave it be. You want it, Pete? I said leave it be. I gotta know. I'm wanted. The law wants me. What for? We robbed a bank. I come home. I brung beer out in them saddlebags. I come home for Ma's healing. I brung the money. I'm glad she didn't know. You gotta try. You gotta keep your strength up. You were something like this. I gotta do something, Pete. No use. Now, you just listen to me a little bit. I've been thinking. You ain't never killed nobody, have you? No, I ain't never killed. The law just wants you for the money you stole? That's a plenty. Yeah, but you could give it back. No. You could give it back and save the law a lot of money and tracking. Talking crazy. No, I ain't, Pete. No, I ain't. You gotta have help. Now, I'm going to write in the dodge for the doc. No, the law. Don't you worry none. I'll see the marshal. I'll tell him you want to square things up. The law's supposed to be fair, ain't it? You're all right then. Now, you give back the money and it'll be all right. 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Mentholatum deep heat rub is available in both the United States and Canada. Chester's coffee would have ruined your taste for this stuff. Sam's coffee isn't that much better, kitty. Don't let him hear you say that. I have said it to him a couple of times. What Sam said? He said I could always drink whiskey. Well, he's right about that. You know, he may be making the coffee bad on purpose. Oh, well, now, he doesn't know all about it. Yeah, right here, son. I'd like to talk to you. Why don't you sit down, son? Well, thank you, ma'am, but I ain't just easy in a place like this. Would you come outside, Marshal? All right, son. I'll see you later, kitty. Sure, ma'am. What's your name, boy? Joe. Joe Belvin. Belvin? Your place is east of town, isn't it? About 12 miles. I haven't talked to you before, have I? No, Marshal. I ain't spent much time in town. Ma'am didn't take no man wasting herself in a town like Dodge. All right, Joe. We can talk here. What can I do for you? Well, Marshal, it's about the law. I've been figuring on a problem. We're going. The law is ripped, so it's to be fair, ain't it? Well, that's the general idea, yeah. It ain't just for locking up and hanging, is it? Maybe you better tell me what you're driving at, Joe. Well, it's like this, Marshal. Suppose a man done something wrong, and then he squares it up. Wouldn't be no use to arrest him now, would that? That would depend on what he'd done. Well, like robbing a bank? Oh. That'll be pretty hard to square, Joe. But the way I figured, Marshal, a man, if he hadn't hurt nobody, could save the law a lot of trouble. How's that? Well, he could turn the money back, couldn't he? Yeah, he could do that. That's what I said. That's the way I seen it. He'd be square. Yeah, but he'd still have to stand trial, Joe. What kind of law is that? A law that was broken. Well, that ain't right, Marshal. The law's supposed to help folks in it. It's not supposed to help folks rob a bank, Joe. Wouldn't it be easier for you if he got the money? Now, listen to me. I don't know what's on your mind, but I can tell you what's on mine. I'm not interested in things being easier. Getting hold of the money wouldn't make no difference? Wouldn't make any difference. It don't seem that the law will help a man, and that's a fact. He could do better without it. Joe, you get ideas like that in your head and you're bound for trouble. You ain't off with me nothing but trouble. I'll be moving on, Marshal, and thanks for nothing. Now, I won't be forgetting, either. I hope you won't, Joe. Give me a favor, will you, please? Sure, Doc. When you see that this letter gets to the post office in time to get on stage, I just got a call to go out of time. I'd like to get started right now. Sure, I'm headed that way anyway. Well, thank you, Matt. Here it is. Must be pretty important. Well, I'm sending for a new medical book. I'd like to get it as soon as I can. Well, Doc, I thought you knew everything already. Oh, well, I may have thought that, but I'd like to give the new books a chance. So long, Matt. Where are you headed for in such a hurry? Out to the Belvin Place. The Belvin Place? Well, who's sick out there? I don't know yet. The board just said to hurry. Well, I'll see you later, Matt. Don't make much sense to me, Mr. Dorn. I'm frank to tell you that. I'm sorry you don't approve. We don't even know who it is. What did I tell you? There ain't nobody here. Well, I can see that. You can go on, then. I can see something else, too. That ain't no business of yours. Maybe not. I told you, Marshall. I don't need no help from the law. I even got you out of the house before the doctor comes. But you should have listened to me. You still got to have help. There ain't no help. Well, sure there is, Peter. I'll find it. I'll bet you Low and Raleigh is laughing for fame. Low and Raleigh? They friends yours? Oh, sure. They're friends. Where are they, Pete? I'm sure they would like to see me. Is there someplace near? Oh, there ain't no... Come on, Pete. Tell me where to find them. They wouldn't be far. Where would they be? I rode off and left them. I come home from Mars, healing. Where, Pete? Ah, back near. All right. You just lie to me. Yeah, Pete? You ain't... Ain't gonna bring the law. Don't you worry about that. We'll get help without the banged-ole law. You just lie easy. I'll be back. I believe much in shooting. Your name, Raleigh? A gun, but I do. Oh, I ain't got no... Just shut up till we get in there. There ain't nothing I can... Better make it good, kid. Raleigh gets awful nervous when folks know where he is. Now, I'm trying to tell you. Pete sent me. But he needs help. And he told me you're his partner, so I come. Need help. And we'll go find him. Where is he, kid? Why, he's at the place. The home place. Out of dodge. Oh, Pete went home. He come home shot. Yeah. He figured Ma could heal him, but Ma's dead. I went for the doc. But the Marshal wouldn't make no deal, so I hid him. I come to you for help. The Marshal wouldn't make no deal. I just sounded him out some. But even if Pete gave back the money, the Marshal said he'd have to stand trial. You told the Marshal about the money? Oh, I didn't come right out and tell him. No, Mr. I just... Well, I just wanted to find out if... if somebody gave the money back, would they go free? Then what did you do? Well, I rode back to the place and hid Pete and hid the money. And I come after you for help. You hear that, Raleigh? The kid come for our help. Yeah. And they knows where the money is. We better let him take us to old Pete, don't you think? Yeah, I guess we'd better. Boy, you know I was wondering about that, too. Oh, what do you mean? Well, when I got out there, Matt, there wasn't anybody there. No. If anybody had been sick, he sure got up and walked away in there, eh? The Melbourne boy asked you to go out there, huh? Yeah, that's right. Just a few minutes before I saw you on Front Street, remember that? Uh-huh. He said somebody needed a doctor. Bad. And you didn't see him at all? Not out there. I didn't. I did see him a little later, though. Oh, how was that? Well, I drove on our little father to see Old Lady Hyde and on the way back, I saw the boy running up from the stream bank. Did you see where he went? He headed for the barn. And a few minutes later, he passed me on the road and he was riding like the pony express. Well, I didn't even so much as waved to me as he went by. Do you think he's up to something? Yeah, Doc, I'm afraid he is. Well, it's just a short spell down to the creek. The money. We can get that later. After we tend to peak. Yeah, Raleigh. We ought to tend to peak first off. He's waiting for you. Right down here. You won't be waiting long. We'll bring your partners. Oh, no. The kid brung us right here. He got us and brung us here. Raleigh, I didn't mean it. You can have the money. Sure we can. And don't you worry none about that. Your kid brother's going to tell us just where it is. I was going to bring it back and split it up. But you won't have to do that now, will you? We're right here. What are you all talking about? This ain't no time for join. Pete needs your help. And I'll tell you, kid, we're going to fix it so Pete won't never need no more help at all. Get out of the way, kid. You're going to shoot him? Don't take the money. Why do you want to shoot him? You know how the law wouldn't make no deal, kid. Well, we won't either. What do you mean? He run off with the money, all right. All of it. He took our cut, too. And that ain't honest, kid. He's got an answer for it. Please, no. And where's the money? I ain't going to show you nothing. Just wait in my little rally. Yeah, I'm all right. Let's do a look here. I had an oddbun man to help and they shot him. He was my only kin and they shot him. I'm sorry, Joe. He would have given the money back. Marshall, he said so. They didn't give him no chance. He'd have been better off with the law, Joe. You'd have locked him up. But he'd have had a chance. Let's get this one to Doc. I thought you said he was dying, Mr. John. Yeah. But we've got to give him his chance, too. He was written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark with editorial supervision by John Maddie Bartell and Vic Parran. Farley Bear is Chester, Howard McNeer is Doc, and Georgia Hawkins is Kitty. This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week when CBS Radio presents another story on Gunsmoke. Ladies news follows. Then Mitch Miller with Tonight's Guest Stars on the seat.