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I'm that man Matt Dillon united states marshal The first man they look for and the last they want to meet It's a chancey job And it makes a man watchful And a little lonely the blazing sun and dust Dust everywhere And the hot dry wind from the panhandle Faking your lungs driving the blood to your brain and Godin you into things you might not even think of any other time That's what the summer days are like in dot city But the nights are different After sundown when the warm dark lies soft and gentle on the prairie Then everything changes The nights are fine That's a blast and killin heat of the day that breaches the trouble There i'll be doggun Yes, sir. It's her all right. Oh, you're talking about chester. Who's her lucy? Well, you remember her mr. Dillon that girl that olie from hunt took out of the long band saloon and married last winter Lucy was her name lucy middle camp Coming down the street there see Oh, yeah, first time seeing her in coon's age I hear olie fries pretty close herd on her. That looks like she's coming here Never could figure them too. Mr. Dillon. Why she'd marry him. I mean and 800 acres of mighty good ring How are you matt chester ma'am? How'd you sit on? I haven't time that I can't let he from know I came here Oh, why not? Why did you come? Ephraim's gonna kill me What it's true. He told me so I know everybody thinks he's so good studied to be a preacher and all But he's not good. He's mean and cruel I made an awful mistake when I married him and now he won't let me go Oh, why does he want to kill you? He accuses me of things Crazy terrible things. How do you want to file a charge? Have him locked up? My word against his With him always quoting the scripture and the like And me six months out of a dance hall People can't forget that. Maybe it's only you can't forget it I've been reminded often enough He keeps telling me i'm evil and that he tried to save me He says when I'm married and I let him into sin and now I have to pay. Well, what do you want me to do? Talk to him warn him something He's crazy mad. I don't know what he might do. I can't take a hand in this without more to go on Sooner or later, you'll have to take a hand in it And if you wait too long, you'll have to bring him in for murder My murder Think about it marshal Well, uh, maybe later, huh? He from hunts over there at the bar. I want to talk to him for a minute Are you gonna get is a sermon? Well, maybe that's what I need Evening miss a hunt or marshal Will you join me? Oh, thank you. I will a glass for marshal dill and lad. Yes, sir Evil all it may be But a vast help indeed and vanishing the cares of the day a man like you shouldn't have any cares Mr. Hunt care likes everywhere in this veil of tears marshal Men's brief joys clearly bought You're good fortune, sir Huh luck. Well, how's the message? Our health is excellent as it usually is in youth Her state of grace may be somewhat more uncertain. Oh It's nothing that can't be dealt with It's a man's bound and duty in this world to lend his own strength to the frail reeds of his household To support them against the storm and strife of this temporal life A man is a rock, sir And the woman a reed Swayed by the winds. Uh-huh But uh, if the rock happens to break the reed What about that mr. Hunt? I doubt the rock will break the reed marshal Good evening, sir Good evening, mr. Hunt What's all the hunt preaching about these days? Look, uh, kitty You knew lucy when she worked here didn't you sure? Tell me about her, huh? What's she after? What does she want a chance to be somebody? Which is hard as nails matt and she'll use anybody to get what she wants That's why she married olifam Oh, there's there's something else you might not know matt. Oh There's a young fellow working out there at ephem's place Booth writer Oh, you mean that young kid who was drifting in here a couple of months ago? How does he figure? Well, I don't know but I do know lucy And he can take it for me matt He figures Hey marshal, but I reckon I better get back to work Unless you've got something else on your mind. No, nothing. I guess uh Just wondered how things are going booth now. I like it fine here Yeah, I had to study from some good man to work for it. I got no complaint. How do you get along with miss hunt? fine Why I just wondered Uh, weren't you wearing a gun when you first rode in the town? Yeah, it's over in the bunkhouse mr. Hunt don't hold with guns He don't pack one himself. He's never had any reason to You got something on your mind marshal You're young booth And it's a big world Why don't you go take a look at it, huh? Some of the big spreads up north or on out west in the territories marshal With a setup like I got here a man would be crazy to pull out and he might be crazier to stay I like it fine here Just fine. All right I can't run you out It's your life booth As long as it lasts And nothing to be done about it Like a mountain slide starting to move slow, but about to pick up speed any second and smash anything in its way And the heat kept getting worse all that week The water pumps along the plaza dried up And even the night stayed hot Sundown didn't seem to make any difference. Ah, maybe if it hadn't been for the heat Things might have worked out different. I reckon there's something you already know. Oh, what is it chest? I was just down at the hardware store and he from hunt come in. Well, what about it? 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You got to get that gun away from him That might take some doing You can do it You got a gun too and you know how to use it. He doesn't know one end from another You've got to do it. It's the only way Maybe the marshal was right Maybe I have stayed here too long You You can't leave now booth Can you You know I can't Then you got to do it And it'll be better to face him if he don't he'll lay for you and shoot you in the back and then me I know I know then it's up to you Am I worth it or not You're worth it That's got me buffaloon all the way out from town. I've been trying to figure it. I still don't know Yeah, but if it ain't stop, you know what it's gonna lead to I haven't got a thing to go on chest him Because a man by zagon doesn't prove he's planning a murder And 10 to 1 he from will order me off his property and tell me to stay off and he's got a perfect right to do it I was in his Yeah Came from inside the way it sounded Mr. Dillon, there's somebody over there on a horse heading down in the river bottom rushing out tonight Wait a minute easy now letters to me Marshal I I admire you You have implicit faith in the law But no law covers an old man being fooled Survive did he say there at the last mr. Dillon? What survives a mental Lucy Chester? Chester you stay here. Yes Where are you going mr. Dillon? I have to carry the sad news to the grieving widow I thought it was my husband. I what are you doing here? What is it marshal? Has something happened? You heard the shots, didn't you well? I heard some shooting a while ago, but I What's happened see from isn't it who else would it be? I don't know. I here was a from You really outsmarted me miss hunt you planned it you carried it out and you'll get away with it clean as a whistle What are you talking about? Your husband's murder You're out of your mind. I guess I should have figured what you were up to but I didn't you were too smart for me You killed him without touching a trigger You worked young booth rider up to that Are you crazy you got e from to buy that gun? You told him rider was bothering you wouldn't let you alone That he was dangerous Maybe even hinted he was too old to protect his wife. Huh had a gun in his hand when booth shot him Do you have any proof of what you're saying? Not a bit Not a bit Like I said, I can't touch you. You're too smart for me Or else none of it's true. Have you thought of that? Yeah. Yeah, I thought of that Well, there's not much point in talking about it marshal I guess I'll be leaving dodge soon. I can't stop you You could if you wanted to matt Days passed with no sign of booth rider I figured he was waiting it out somewhere around town waiting to see which way the wind was going to blow But I didn't know where And I didn't have much case against him anyways probably a waste of time But I still had to try I had to bring him in and try Is a fact mr. Dillon. I ain't never seen a hot spell last as long as this Oh, it's enough to downright frazzle a person. Yeah, that's a rough one. All right Eight o'clock in the evening and that thermometer ain't dropped one degree yet Why it keeps on like this a while. It's gonna drive folks back east Well, here comes somebody. I wish it'd drive somewhere Hmm Oh, Belk. Yeah, I reckon he's hunting somebody to stake him to a bottle And it kind of looks like we're gonna be the ones on it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm afraid we are mr. Dillon Marshall, I Heard a rumor going around you might be looking for this fellow booth rider It's generally known now Well, I just might be able to tell you where he is right now. All right, there's your bottle Now tell me Just like being an informer, but of course I Beals my duty as a citizen to tell you just tell me Belk Now more shall I you got anything to tell me say it and get out And he's hiding in the hayloft down to livery stable And you got no call you got your money Belk now go on get out Well, even in general just Let's go get booth To smoke L and M To the millions more who should try L here is your assurance L and M gives superior filtration because of its superior filter Superior taste because of L and M's superior tobaccos. 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Yes Yes, well now I got a bandage on that and you live to hang it Provided you don't get locked y'all. Why do you have to shoot people in stables, man? It's the worst place in the world for locked y'all. I'll throw her. I remember that don't How do you feel booth? I'll make out you've been hiding at the livery stable all the time No, I I circled back stayed in the barn out at the hunt place I figured you wouldn't be looking there and you figured right That's about all I figured right She was using me marshal. That's what it was She told me when I went back out there She gave me two weeks wages told me to drift. I don't know you know She laughed at me Called me a green kid Now I reckon maybe she laughed at him too She hadn't ought to laugh marshal. That's where she figured wrong Now what do you mean? I choked her to death Probably have let you off clean You were in the clear He had a gun in his hand Even if he didn't know how to use it Yeah, well, I guess it don't matter much now Funny thing too I was heading up north when I stopped here I hit dodge along about sundown. So I figured to lay in for the night Then I met mr. Hunt in the saloon. He'd give me a job. I wasn't Aiming to stay here marshal. You weren't it I was just riding through star William conrad mild and plenty quick on the draw. 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