WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 And the performance of Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 00:03.000 --> 00:07.000 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in... 00:07.000 --> 00:09.000 ...SALS SPENCE! 00:23.000 --> 00:26.000 I've done a lot of living for a kid 18 years old. 00:26.000 --> 00:30.000 And right then I could feel time beginning to run out. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 That was the night thing had us holed up in the old McSween house. 00:34.000 --> 00:39.000 The place burning all around us, an old man McSween sitting there reading his Bible. 00:39.000 --> 00:43.000 And me and Charlie both were knowing we had to make a break. 00:43.000 --> 00:47.000 Fire's getting hot all the time, Billy. When's it gonna be? 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 Still got time for only a good smoke, ain't I? 00:49.000 --> 00:52.000 There's ain't hardly no time to be smoking cigarettes, is there? 00:52.000 --> 00:55.000 No, we've been a tighter ones than this, haven't we, Charlie? 00:55.000 --> 00:57.000 Maybe you have, but I haven't. 00:57.000 --> 01:00.000 You realize we gotta run within 10 feet of them fellas out there... 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 ...before we can make it to the woods? 01:02.000 --> 01:05.000 If we make it to the woods, we'll make it. 01:05.000 --> 01:09.000 Some of us have a doubt for who came this far. 01:09.000 --> 01:13.000 Now ain't that convenient. Just what I need to light my smoke. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 Ready to go, Charlie? 01:18.000 --> 01:19.000 I guess so. 01:19.000 --> 01:21.000 Good luck. 01:21.000 --> 01:23.000 Charlie Fowler, get him! 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 He made it, Mr. McSween, he made it. 01:29.000 --> 01:31.000 I shall go now, then. 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 All right. Hey, wait a minute. Where's your gun? 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 I've never carried a gun yet, Billy. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 And I do not intend to now. 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 I shall carry my Bible. 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 It stood me in good stead for many years. 01:45.000 --> 01:47.000 A Bible against them? 01:47.000 --> 01:51.000 Say, it might work. It might just work at that. 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 You step out there where they can see you holding it... 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 ...and I won't fire when you start a cross. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 All right. Now. 01:59.000 --> 02:03.000 Here do I walk in the valley of the shadow of death. 02:03.000 --> 02:05.000 Mr. McSween! 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 I will be an OEVO... 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 ...without what we think. 02:09.000 --> 02:17.000 I am on a nice journey. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 They shot him. 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 Nothing but a Bible in his hand, they shot him. 02:23.000 --> 02:27.000 All right, kid. You're next. 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 Well, here goes nothing. 02:31.000 --> 02:36.000 Oh, come on, I'm waiting. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 Let's go get him. Get him in one. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 I'll be. 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 I'll be seeing you fellas around. 02:43.000 --> 02:49.000 And when I do, watch out. 02:49.000 --> 03:02.000 Ha ha, the Lincoln County War, they call that one. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 Just a feud between two cattle kings... 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 ...and me, nothing but a working hand. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 But seems like they blamed the whole thing square on to me... 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 ...just because it was Billy the Kid. 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 I'm not going to let them get away with it. 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 It seems like they blamed the whole thing square on to me... 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 ...just because it was Billy the Kid. 03:21.000 --> 03:24.000 A tough little vile that had killed 16 men. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 From then on, it was me running and them closing in... 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 ...and just a matter of time. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 That was when I first met Pat Garrett. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 Me and Charlie was hit out in the mountains. 03:36.000 --> 03:46.000 I'll never forget the first sight I had of all Pat. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Hey Billy, looky here. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 What is it? 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 The fellow riding up the trail. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 Oh, a lanky cuss, ain't he? 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 Likes putting that drag on the ground over that poor little pole. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Lanky or not, I don't like it. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 What's he doing up here? You know him? 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 No. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Howdy. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 You mind if I pull up a spell? 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 It's a free country up on these parts anyway. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 We just passing through? 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 Not exactly. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 You're Billy the Kid, aren't you? 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Keep your hands in plain sight, mister. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 You'll get down off that horse really soon. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 All right. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 That's better. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 Ah, was you looking for Billy the Kid? 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 That's right. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 What do you want with him? 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 I got a message for him. 04:35.000 --> 04:36.000 You're from the law? 04:36.000 --> 04:39.000 No, but my message is... 04:39.000 --> 04:43.000 Well, if you made the kind of law like Bob Olinger and that bunch in Lincoln, 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 I got no time for him. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 And you are the Kid, huh? 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 That's right. 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 Now what do you want? 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 I got a message from General Lou Wallace. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 He wants to talk to you. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 Who's General Wallace? 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 New governor of New Mexico. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 President Hayes just appointed him. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 He's waiting for you, Don Lincoln. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 No. 05:03.000 --> 05:04.000 You crazy, mister? 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 You think either one of us is right back into that town after what's happened? 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 Ah, wait a minute, Charlie. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 You see... 05:11.000 --> 05:12.000 What's your name in here? 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 Pat Garrett. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 You say this man was sent all the way out here by the President? 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 He wants to talk to me? 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 That's right. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 But if it comes from the President of the United States, 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 I don't see how I can very well say no. 05:25.000 --> 05:26.000 Billy, you ain't going. 05:26.000 --> 05:27.000 I'm going. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 He'll guarantee you safe conduct. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 As far as he can. 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 I know what you mean. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 Billy, you know Bob Allens, he'll never let you get out of that town alive. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that myself. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 By the way, Mr. Garrett, whatever made him send you? 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 You're a stranger out here, ain't you? 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 I guess that's the reason. 05:50.000 --> 05:55.000 Seems they couldn't find nobody else in Lincoln that took much to the notion 05:55.000 --> 06:00.000 of tracking down Billy the Kid. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Well, there's your town of Lincoln. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 That's her. 06:16.000 --> 06:20.000 And if there ain't Bob Olinger and the rest standing out in front of Murphy's store, 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 just like they were waiting for somebody. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 They are. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Word got around even before 11. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 I guess it would have been. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 You're on your own now, kid. I'm staying here. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 So, now are you scared? 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 No. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.000 I'm just staying on my side of the wall. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 What's that supposed to mean? 06:40.000 --> 06:44.000 Well, if I was to ride in there with you and Bob Olinger and them started shooting, 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 the next thing you know, I'd be shooting back. 06:47.000 --> 06:52.000 And the next thing you know, I'd be in the same sorry sort of shape you are. 06:52.000 --> 06:56.000 That's good enough, Nancy. 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 I'll be seeing you around. 07:06.000 --> 07:07.000 Hi, Billy. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 Hi, Bob. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 I hear you're the law around here now. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 I'm a deputy, huh? 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Looking for the law? 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 When I come looking for you, Bob, you'll know it. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Right now I'm looking for General Wallace. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Smart kid. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 You know where I can find the General? 07:23.000 --> 07:26.000 He's sitting down there on the porch of the old house. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 Thanks, Bob. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 I don't want no thanks for you. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 Nothing. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 General Wallace? 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 Yes? 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 You wanted to talk to me. I'm Billy the Kid. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 What? What's with you so young? 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 What? 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 Shall we go inside, Billy? 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 All right, General. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 I'd like to talk to you privately. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Sit down. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 Thanks. 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 A lot of paperwork you got on that desk, General. 08:08.000 --> 08:12.000 Well, to tell you the truth, I'm writing a book. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 Then? 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 It's about ancient Rome. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 I never had much school. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 I know you didn't. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 I know quite a lot about you, Billy. 08:22.000 --> 08:25.000 But not if you listen to the way they tell it around here, you know. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 I've heard both sides. 08:27.000 --> 08:31.000 I know you didn't start the Lincoln County War single-handed. 08:31.000 --> 08:37.000 But frankly, Billy, the whole country has been shocked by the lawlessness and bloodshed out here. 08:37.000 --> 08:41.000 And some people seem to think you had quite a lot to do with it. 08:41.000 --> 08:45.000 I fought for my side just like the others did for theirs, that's all. 08:45.000 --> 08:46.000 That may be. 08:46.000 --> 08:53.000 The point is, I've been sent all the way out here by the President of the United States to put a stop to it. 08:53.000 --> 08:58.000 Billy, I want you to take off your guns now. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 And I want you to stand trial. 09:01.000 --> 09:07.000 I don't mean to be disrespectful, General, but do you see that bunch of men standing in front of Murphy's store? 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 Yes. 09:08.000 --> 09:13.000 Think I could walk past that store without my guns and get past it alive? 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 You've got past it just now. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 That's because I had my guns. 09:17.000 --> 09:23.000 And as for standing trial, I couldn't get any kind of a trial in New Mexico. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 All right, Billy. I'm going to make you a proposition. 09:27.000 --> 09:34.000 If you stand trial and you are convicted, I personally will promise you a full and immediate pardon. 09:34.000 --> 09:37.000 Full pardon? And then what? 09:37.000 --> 09:41.000 Start a new life. Settle down. 09:41.000 --> 09:47.000 General, when Mr. McSween walked out in front of that mob, he was a man that never carried a gun in his life. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 All he had in his hand was a Bible. 09:50.000 --> 09:54.000 They shot him down in cold blood. 09:54.000 --> 09:59.000 Ah, General, I got a few scores to even up before I settled down. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Maybe it was fate. 10:08.000 --> 10:13.000 I don't know, because Pat Garrett and me got to be real good friends after that. 10:13.000 --> 10:18.000 I was hanging around Fort Sumner and so was he, and we used to see a whole lot of each other. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 And then I didn't see him around for quite a while. 10:21.000 --> 10:26.000 Until one day I walked into Jose Valdez's saloon. 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 Pat! Pat Garrett, you old son of a gun! 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 Hello, Billy. Long time no see. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 That's right. How about a drink on me? 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 All right. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Whiskey for two, Jose. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 Sure thing, Billy. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Why, you've been keeping yourself lately, Pat. 10:42.000 --> 10:45.000 Oh, I've been here and there. 10:45.000 --> 10:49.000 Yeah, I've been hearing about some of those places you've been. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Have you? 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 Hey, is that Billy the Kid? 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 Yes, that's right, you. 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 Who's that heading over here? 10:57.000 --> 11:01.000 Joe Grant from Texas likes to think he's a pretty hard case. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 Hope I ain't gonna have that kind of trouble again, Pat. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 You know, Billy the Kid ain't you? 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 That's right, and you're Joe Grant. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 Oh, you hear about me, have you? 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 Oh, sure, I've heard of you. 11:13.000 --> 11:18.000 Tell you what, Billy, I bet I'll kill a man today before you do. 11:18.000 --> 11:23.000 I don't aim to kill a man today or tomorrow or anytime. 11:23.000 --> 11:27.000 You think I don't mean it, huh? 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 Well, there's $25 cash money right on the bar. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 Jose will hold the stakes. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 Now, what would I want to make a bet like that for? 11:35.000 --> 11:39.000 You scared of losing it? 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 All right, Joe, there's my $25. 11:42.000 --> 11:46.000 Just see that you don't kill nobody that don't deserve killing. 11:46.000 --> 11:50.000 Don't you worry none about that. 11:50.000 --> 11:53.000 I expect he'll sweep it off before he can do any damage. 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 Where was we, Pat? 11:55.000 --> 11:59.000 Yeah, we was talking about the places you'd heard I'd been. 11:59.000 --> 12:03.000 Yeah, I heard you've been talking to the Cattlemen's Association. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 And I heard they've been talking about making you sheriff. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 That's right, Billy. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 I hate to see that, Pat. 12:11.000 --> 12:16.000 This territory is going to be a state someday, Billy, someday soon. 12:16.000 --> 12:19.000 And the state's got to have some law. 12:19.000 --> 12:24.000 For instance, you've been living off other men's cattle for the last two years. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 That's the kind of thing you're going to have to start. 12:27.000 --> 12:31.000 And if you was the law, you'd have to start. 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 Yeah, I would. 12:34.000 --> 12:37.000 Billy, the Joe Grant's coming back up here. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Thanks, Jose. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 Here he comes now. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 I was afraid of something like this. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 Don't worry, I'll handle it. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 Hello, Joe. 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Hello, sir. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 Can I help you? 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 I'm collecting that back from you, kid. 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 Shit! 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 You seen he drew first? 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 You all seen that, didn't you? 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 Sure, sure. 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 Let's hold along, Pat. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 All right. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 The rest of you fellas just take it easy. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 That way there won't be no trouble. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Where's your horse at? 13:21.000 --> 13:22.000 Right alongside yours. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 Let's you and me take a little ride. 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 That would be a bad idea. 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 Hey, you know what, Pat? 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 I clean forgot to collect that $25 bet. 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 Pat, tell me something. 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 What? 13:46.000 --> 13:54.000 You gonna take that sheriff job? 13:54.000 --> 14:01.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in the shooting of Billy the Kid. 14:01.000 --> 14:16.000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, South Spence. 14:16.000 --> 14:21.000 Say, Harlow, what do you like to do on a fine spring night like this? 14:21.000 --> 14:27.000 Why, Hab, I like to press the starter of my car and experience that engine snapping alive 14:27.000 --> 14:31.000 thanks to the potent and persuasive power of my Auto Light Stay Full, 14:31.000 --> 14:35.000 the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 And when you get started, Harlow? 14:37.000 --> 14:42.000 Why, Hab, when I get started I can't stop talking about the fiberglass retaining mats 14:42.000 --> 14:47.000 that protect every positive plate of the Auto Light Stay Full to reduce shedding and flaking, 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 and that the Auto Light Stay Full gives longer life, 14:50.000 --> 14:55.000 as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 But, Harlow, we were talking about spring. 14:58.000 --> 15:03.000 Why, Hab, spring to your telephone and call Western Union by number. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 And ask for me, Operator 25. 15:05.000 --> 15:09.000 I'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 where you can get an Auto Light Stay Full. 15:11.000 --> 15:17.000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 15:17.000 --> 15:23.000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Frank Lovejoy 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 and Louis's production of The Shooting of Billy the Kid, 15:27.000 --> 15:33.000 a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:33.000 --> 15:43.000 The Shooting of Billy the Kid 15:43.000 --> 15:47.000 After Pat Garrett got to be sheriff, the cards was dealt, 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 nothing now but to wait for the showdown. 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 And I guess I knew it too. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 But somehow I couldn't bring myself to leave the country, 15:54.000 --> 16:01.000 and that's how we happen to be holed up at the old sheep herders' hut at Stinking Springs. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 It was early the next morning. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 When you figuring to move out, Charlie? 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 Most any time, I guess, Charlie. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 Well, I better feed the horses then. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 Yeah. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 All right. 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 Off your hands, Charlie, we're not your comers. 16:16.000 --> 16:22.000 Get that carrot! 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Charlie, you hit bad. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 I tried to draw on him. 16:26.000 --> 16:30.000 Lie down here. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Give me your eyes. 16:32.000 --> 16:33.000 Oh, man, don't. 16:33.000 --> 16:36.000 Don't talk like that. 16:36.000 --> 16:39.000 Billy, I want a parse. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 A parse? 16:41.000 --> 16:43.000 I've done some pretty bad things in my life. 16:43.000 --> 16:47.000 I'd like to get him off my chest before I die. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 How are we going to get a parser out here? 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 Talk to Pat Garrett. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 Ask him to take me into town. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 We'd be at ease. 16:56.000 --> 17:02.000 All right, Charlie. 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 Pat Garrett. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 John Billy. 17:06.000 --> 17:10.000 I want a parley. Will you come in? 17:10.000 --> 17:11.000 I won't hurt you. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 I'll give you my horse. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 I'll give you my horse. 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 Charlie. 17:17.000 --> 17:21.000 Charlie's dying. He wants a priest. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 Will you send him back to town? 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 I'm sorry about that. 17:25.000 --> 17:26.000 Will you? 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 Billy, you can take this as a compliment or not, 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 but I don't dare spare the men. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 I'll send a couple of new ones to get away. 17:33.000 --> 17:36.000 Are you trying to bargain over a dying man's last wish? 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 No. 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 There's been too much already about you and me being friends. 17:42.000 --> 17:43.000 That's all over. 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 Maybe. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 I wish you'd give yourself up. 17:47.000 --> 17:51.000 If you don't, we're going to kill you the night or tomorrow or the next day. 17:51.000 --> 17:54.000 I don't want that to happen. 17:54.000 --> 17:59.000 Billy, is he there? Is Pat there? 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 I'm here, Charlie. 18:01.000 --> 18:05.000 You were the one who hurt Pat. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Charlie. 18:07.000 --> 18:10.000 All right, Pat. Here's my gun. 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 Tell your men we're coming out with our hands up. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 So they caught me at last. 18:23.000 --> 18:28.000 And the trial was just like I said it would be, short and sweet, 18:28.000 --> 18:32.000 and me sentenced to hang on the 13th of May. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 And they took me back to the jail in Lincoln. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 Handcuffs and leg irons and two deputies to guard me day and night. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 And who were they? 18:40.000 --> 18:44.000 Jack Bell and my old friend, Bob Olinger. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Know what day it is today, kid? 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 28th, unless I miscount. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 You didn't miscount. 18:50.000 --> 18:53.000 You counting the days just the same as I am. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Why don't you lay off the kid, Bob? 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Oh, let him have his fun, Jack. 18:57.000 --> 19:02.000 15 more days for you, kid. 19:02.000 --> 19:06.000 Then you'll be a dancer on the end of the world. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 That'll make you mighty happy, wouldn't it, Bob? 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 If you want to know the truth, it'll be the happiest day of my life. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Well, maybe it will, maybe it won't. 19:15.000 --> 19:18.000 Lots of things can happen in 15 days. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 You figure I'll make it rain. 19:20.000 --> 19:23.000 I just hope you try. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 You see this double barrel shot here? 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 Yeah, I see it. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 And I've seen it before. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 It's loaded with 18 bucks. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 If there's anything I want more than seeing you hang, 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 it's a chance to kill you yourself. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 Morning, gents. 19:39.000 --> 19:40.000 How's that? 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 Everything all right up here? 19:42.000 --> 19:43.000 Just fine and dandy. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 The boys treat me right, Billy. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 Everything a condemned man could want, 19:47.000 --> 19:51.000 including Bob's daily lecture on the fine art of hanging. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 I thought I told you to cut that out, Bob. 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 Ah, just ragging on that? 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 Well, I've got to go to White Oaks today. 19:57.000 --> 20:01.000 Won't be back till tomorrow, so I want you two to take good care of my boy. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 You worry about that? 20:03.000 --> 20:04.000 I'm going home for lunch. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 You got him like it back, Jack. 20:06.000 --> 20:07.000 Then I'll sped. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 All right, Bob. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 Sorry about Bob. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 I want your Billy. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 I know he's a mean devil, but he's my deputy 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 and I had to put him on a job. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Oh, I don't mind. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 Fact is, I'm kind of glad it's him. 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 I don't know. 20:20.000 --> 20:21.000 What does that mean? 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 Nothing much. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 Well, Pat, you... 20:27.000 --> 20:31.000 What are you going to White Oaks for? 20:31.000 --> 20:32.000 His business. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 I heard about that business. 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 You're getting a man to build the gallows. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 I'll be going long, sir. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Hurry back with the gallows, Pat. 20:42.000 --> 20:45.000 It'd be a shame if you never got to use them. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 Ha ha ha. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 How about a little game of blackjack till Bob gets back? 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 True to me. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 I've got the cards right here. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 Do you want a bucket or a bank? 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 I'll bank it. 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 I feel lucky today. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.000 Let's go up to the table. 21:00.000 --> 21:03.000 Not too close, Billy. 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 I wouldn't want you to go making a grab 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 with this gun in my belt. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Now, how could a man in leg irons and handcuffs 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 do a thing like that? 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 I can hardly make out to play my cards. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 Deal. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 I wish I was playing for money instead of matches. 21:16.000 --> 21:20.000 I feel real lucky. 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 Doug. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 I'm sorry I dropped the card on the floor. 21:23.000 --> 21:24.000 I'm sorry. 21:24.000 --> 21:27.000 That's all right. I'll get it. 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 Hey, you got my gun. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 I sure have, Jack. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 I'll use it on you if I have to. 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 What are you going to do? 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 Just don't make any wrong moves 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 and you'll be all right. 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 I'm going to lock you up in a safe place 21:38.000 --> 21:41.000 and then I'm going to wait for good old Bob. 21:41.000 --> 21:54.000 I'll open that door and start marching down that hall. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Jack, stop! 21:56.000 --> 22:07.000 I hated to do that one, but I couldn't help it. 22:07.000 --> 22:08.000 I had to move fast now. 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 I slipped the cuffs. 22:09.000 --> 22:12.000 I'd always known I could do that easy. 22:12.000 --> 22:15.000 I started back for the front of the building. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 Then I seen Bob Olinger's shotgun 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 leaning there against the wall. 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 I grabbed it up and went over and hit by the open window 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 that looks out on the street. 22:25.000 --> 22:28.000 And sure enough, the next thing I see is old Bob 22:28.000 --> 22:32.000 hurrying down the street with his six gun in his hand. 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 Jack, everything all right up there? 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 Hello, Bob. 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 Really? 22:38.000 --> 22:39.000 That's right. 22:39.000 --> 22:43.000 And looking at you right down the barrel of that shotgun of yours. 22:43.000 --> 22:53.000 Oh, wait! 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 I had a blacksmith cut off my leg irons 22:55.000 --> 22:59.000 and that was when I should have left the country for sure. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 But still I couldn't do it. 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 Fade again? Maybe. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 But then there was a girl in Fort Sumner, 23:06.000 --> 23:12.000 never mind who, but there was a girl. 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 Who is there? 23:14.000 --> 23:17.000 It's me. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 Oh, Chiquito. 23:18.000 --> 23:21.000 It was so late I didn't think you were coming. 23:21.000 --> 23:22.000 I said I would. 23:22.000 --> 23:26.000 Come quickly. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 Chiquito, it's so good to see you. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 You too, darling. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 Billy, you mustn't stay long. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 They say Pat Garrett is in town. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Pat? No. 23:37.000 --> 23:40.000 Old Pat's down around Viscosa. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.000 He thought I'd head south. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Well, I don't know, but I think... 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Chiquito, what are you going to do? 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 You can't hide and run like this forever. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 I'm not going, oh, darling. 23:49.000 --> 23:54.000 I want to settle down like they always said I should. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 I'm going to Mexico. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 You're going with me. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Will you? 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Oh, yes, yes, yes. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 We'll start in the morning. 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 We'll be over the border in a couple of days. 24:05.000 --> 24:06.000 I'm half-starved. 24:06.000 --> 24:07.000 You got anything to eat? 24:07.000 --> 24:05.080 No, only a little bread and some 24:05.080 --> 24:09.000 No, only a little bread and some 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 But Pete Maxwell killed us two today. 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 I'll go borrow some meat from him. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 No, Billy. 24:14.000 --> 24:17.000 Let's just next door and pizza and all that. 24:17.000 --> 24:18.000 Billy, be careful. 24:18.000 --> 24:19.000 Don't worry. 24:19.000 --> 24:28.000 I'll be right back. 24:28.000 --> 24:31.000 Nice, ain't you? 24:31.000 --> 24:32.000 Who is it? 24:32.000 --> 24:36.000 You're one of them out-of-town sheepherders, ain't you? 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 Who is it? 24:37.000 --> 24:56.000 You need to be some nerves. 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 Pete, hey, Pete. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 Is Billy asleep? 25:02.000 --> 25:05.000 No, Billy. 25:05.000 --> 25:09.000 It's so dark I can't see nothing in there. 25:09.000 --> 25:12.000 Who's that fella out on the porch? 25:12.000 --> 25:13.000 Pete. 25:13.000 --> 25:14.000 Pete. 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 He's with me, Billy. 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 Pat. 25:17.000 --> 25:30.000 I'm sorry, Billy. 25:30.000 --> 25:58.000 I'm sorry it had to be me that shot you. 25:58.000 --> 26:07.000 Suspense, a true story presented by Auto Light. 26:07.000 --> 26:10.000 Tonight's star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 26:10.000 --> 26:14.000 This is Harlow Willcox speaking for Auto Light. 26:14.000 --> 26:17.000 And here once again is our star, Frank Lovejoy. 26:17.000 --> 26:19.000 Thank you, Harlow. 26:19.000 --> 26:24.000 And ladies and gentlemen, may I thank you for the many wonderful letters you wrote following 26:24.000 --> 26:29.000 my appearance on Suspense and the wreck of the old 97. 26:29.000 --> 26:33.000 We of the Auto Light family are happy when you enjoy the show. 26:33.000 --> 26:38.000 And may I urge you to listen next week where I know you'll especially enjoy Frankie and 26:38.000 --> 26:41.000 Johnny, a Suspense story starring Dinah Shore. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 Right you are, Frank. 26:43.000 --> 26:49.000 And friends, remember, Suspense is presented by the Auto Light family of 98,000 distributors 26:49.000 --> 26:54.000 and dealers, the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to 26:54.000 --> 27:00.000 coast, and the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 27:00.000 --> 27:06.000 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 27:06.000 --> 27:09.000 standards of quality and performance. 27:09.000 --> 27:21.000 That's why you're always right with Auto Light. 27:21.000 --> 27:40.000 Next week, the radio dramatization and song and story of a woman.