WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Slaughter's my name. Luke Slaughter. 00:03.000 --> 00:05.000 Cattle's my business. 00:05.000 --> 00:08.000 It's a tough business. It's big business. 00:08.000 --> 00:10.000 I've got a big stake in it. 00:10.000 --> 00:31.000 There's no man west of the Rio Grande big enough to take it from me. 00:31.000 --> 00:44.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 00:44.000 --> 00:46.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 00:46.000 --> 00:50.000 Civil War cavalry man turned Arizona cattleman. 00:50.000 --> 00:53.000 Across the territory from Yuma to Fort Defiance, 00:53.000 --> 00:55.000 from Flagstaff to the Wachukas, 00:55.000 --> 00:58.000 and below the border through Chihuahua and Sonora, 00:58.000 --> 01:03.000 his name was respected or feared depending on which side of the law you were on. 01:03.000 --> 01:19.000 Man of vision, man of legend, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 01:19.000 --> 01:25.000 Lots of people back east think us westerners are rough, uncouth, and ill mannered. 01:25.000 --> 01:31.000 Although it might not appear so to a stranger, we do live by a fairly rigid set of manners. 01:31.000 --> 01:36.000 For instance, we don't care what a man was, but what he is. 01:36.000 --> 01:39.000 All of us have come out to this new country from somewhere else, 01:39.000 --> 01:42.000 and why we came is our own business. 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 Of course, sometimes a stranger may drift into town, 01:45.000 --> 01:48.000 who reminds us of things we just as soon forget. 01:48.000 --> 01:52.000 Like the time Wichita and I were sitting out front of the Cosmopolitan Hotel 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 waiting for the dinner gong to ring. 01:55.000 --> 01:59.000 Sure is going to be good to tie on a store bought feed bag, Luke. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 Yeah, I'm getting a little hungry myself. 02:01.000 --> 02:05.000 Well, I wasn't thinking of quantity so much as quality. 02:05.000 --> 02:09.000 I don't trust that pig-tailed bean wrangler you got down to ranch. 02:09.000 --> 02:14.000 I swear there was cat meat in that son of a gun stew he made for supper last night. 02:14.000 --> 02:18.000 I doubt it, Wichita. The Chinese are supposed to be excellent cooks. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 Well, somebody should get that message through to Lum Chung. 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 Maybe you ought to bring him up here for a feed sometime 02:24.000 --> 02:28.000 so he can learn what a lard-fried steak ought to taste like. 02:28.000 --> 02:31.000 Yeah, and mashed turnips, too, without lumps. 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 When are they going to ring that darn dinner bell? 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 I'm starving myself just thinking about it. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 Good morning, Luke. Howdy, Wichita. 02:38.000 --> 02:42.000 Well, Mr. Wallace, what brings you down from the mine in the middle of the day? 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 I'm eating the stage, expecting a business associate in from the East. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 Here you struck water up at the little giant, Mr. Wallace. 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 That's right. 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 What's going on up there on the hill? 02:53.000 --> 02:56.000 First the sulfurette strikes water, and then contention, and now you. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 It seems that there's an underground lake at the 500-foot level. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Yeah, we can sure use some more water out in this desert, 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 but it's never going to bring in as much as silver. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 Well, I don't imagine Mr. Wallace is going to let a little water interfere 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 with his silver production, Wichita. 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 Not for a single minute. 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 We're going to install the biggest pumps west of the Mississippi. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 Matter of fact, that's why the man I'm going to meet 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 is coming all the way out here from St. Louis. 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 He bringing the pumps with him on the stage? 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 Oh, no, Wichita. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 But after I've convinced him that we can lick the water, and I will, 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 he's going to put up the money for the pumps. 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 He know that yet? 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 No, but he knows a good thing when he sees it. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 And believe me, boys, tombstone's a good thing. 03:39.000 --> 03:43.000 A dollar invested in tombstone today will be worth $10 in a year 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 and $100 by the end of the century. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 Well, I think I'll hold on to my dollar. 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 I ain't calculating on being around come 1900. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 Well, here's the stage and right on time, too. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 That ought to impress Mr. Albert W. Norton on how we do things out here. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 Did you say Albert W. Norton? 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Yes, he's the man I'm meeting. 04:03.000 --> 04:07.000 Very important in banking circles back in St. Louis. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 No. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 No, it couldn't be. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 What couldn't be, Lou? 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 Nothing, Wichita. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Just taking it out loud. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 See you're keeping right on schedule, Ed. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Oh, hi, Mr. Wallace. 04:23.000 --> 04:26.000 Yeah, I could have saved the horses a minute and been a bit late. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Only I got a passenger in there. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 I'm hankering to get rid of Pronto. 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 All right, mister, get down. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Get the ends of the line. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 And you are out of a job, my good man, 04:36.000 --> 04:40.000 if I have to buy this stage line to be sure you're discharged. 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 God dry up. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 Welcome to Tombstone, Mr. Norton. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 Oh, hello there, Wallace. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 Had a pleasant trip? 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 I can't say I have, since I transferred from the steam cars 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 to this devil's conveyance driven by a madman. 04:51.000 --> 04:52.000 Now look here, mister. 04:52.000 --> 04:55.000 Why, old Ed, here is one of the best six-horse drivers in the territory. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 Then I can see that there is room for great improvement out here. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Well, that may be so, 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 but I'm sure after you've been with us for a few days, 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 you will find that there are a lot of things in our favor. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 Come on, Wichita, let's go. 05:07.000 --> 05:08.000 Well, let's go where? 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 They ain't rung the dinner bell yet. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 We can eat back at the ranch. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 But, Luke, the large fried steaks at the Cosmopolitan 05:15.000 --> 05:16.000 are the best in Arizona. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Then you eat mine, too. 05:18.000 --> 05:21.000 I'm getting out of town before I commit murder. 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 Murder? Who you figured on murdering? 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Him. Mr. Albert W. Norton. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 More coffee, Wichita? 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Thank you, no. 05:38.000 --> 05:43.000 I understand they got a new show at the birdcage. 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 High kickers, they tell me. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 You feel like riding into town tonight? 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 I don't think so, Wichita. 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 I like it fine right here on the ranch. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 You must. You ain't been in town for more than a week. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 That's right. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Ever since the day that Eastern dude pulled in. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Right again. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 Luke, I am a patient man. 06:02.000 --> 06:03.000 Are you? 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 Well, patient is the next, 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 but my patience is a-running out. 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 And just what are you getting impatient about? 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 Luke, Luke, it ain't fair. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 You ain't never told me why you got it in 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 for that Albert W. Norton friend of Mr. Wallace. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 That's right. I never have. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Well? 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 And most likely, I never will. 06:21.000 --> 06:22.000 Aw, now, Luke. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.000 Wichita, I guess there isn't a single one of us out here 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 that doesn't carry around memories that hurt, 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 things we'd like to forget. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 Maybe that's why people like you and me have drifted west. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.000 Well, in my case, I know I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for... 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 I don't want to hear about it, Wichita. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Well, I don't mind telling you. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 I got no secrets from you. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Yes, you have. And you keep them. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 All right, if that's the way you feel. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 But... 06:50.000 --> 06:53.000 Oh, appears we got visitors. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 Nope, nope. Just young buck rainier. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Why don't you give him the evening off? 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 I did. 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 He was going into town to spark Hallie Mae Wallace. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 Well, his spark must have fizzled out. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 It ain't even dark yet, and he's back home. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 Evening, Buck. 07:13.000 --> 07:14.000 Evening, Luke. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 Ain't you back a mite early, son? 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Looks like. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Things pretty dull up in town? 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Yeah, for me, anyway. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 What's the matter, Buck? 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 You want to tell us? 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 Yes, I do. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 I've got to talk to somebody. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 Well, then you just sit right down here in the stoop and spell it. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 Well, I guess it ain't any news to you that I... 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 Well, I've been sweet on Hallie Mae Wallace for a long time. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 Well, you haven't exactly been keeping it a secret, Buck. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 I guess not, but... 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Well, it's more than just being sweet on her, Luke. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 I... 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 Well, I'm in love with her. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 You sure, son? 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 Sure, I'm sure. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Well, you better be. 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 A woman can be as treacherous as a sidewinder. 07:58.000 --> 08:02.000 And the younger and prettier she is, the more sidewinder she can be. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 All right, Wichita. 08:05.000 --> 08:09.000 You know, if everybody felt like you do about women, where would the world be? 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 Better off. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 Don't pay any attention to the old misogynist, Buck. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 What's that? 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 Woman hater. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 That's me. 08:18.000 --> 08:21.000 How about Hallie Mae, Buck? Does she love you? 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Yes, Luke, she does. 08:23.000 --> 08:24.000 Well, then you haven't got anything to worry about. 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 Oh, yes, I have. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 She's not allowed to see me anymore. 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 What? 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 That's right, Luke. I called at her house like I do every Wednesday. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 And her father answered the door, and he told me that 08:34.000 --> 08:37.000 Hallie Mae was busy tonight, and she'd be busy every other night. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 And that if I was smart, I wouldn't come back anymore. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Why, is that dirty old... 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 Did he give any explanation? 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 No, no, I just slammed the door in my face. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 But I found out the explanation. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 It's right here in tonight's epithet. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Look. 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 John Wallace, proprietor of the Little Giant Mine, 08:57.000 --> 09:01.000 has announced the engagement of his daughter, Hallie Mae, 09:01.000 --> 09:05.000 to Albert W. Norton of St. Louis. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 So Norton's done it again. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Done what, Luke? 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 Only this time he isn't going to get away with it. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 What are you talking about? 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Settle up my horse, would you tell him? 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 Where are you going? 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 I'm going to have a little talk with our friend, Mr. Wallace. 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 It's sure good of you to do this for me, Luke. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 I'm doing it for myself, Buck. 09:23.000 --> 09:24.000 I don't understand. 09:24.000 --> 09:25.000 You don't have to. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 You want me to ride in with you, Luke? 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 No, Wichita, I'm going alone. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 Only here. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 Keep my guns for me. 09:34.000 --> 09:37.000 You're going into town without your shooting irons? 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 That's right. 09:38.000 --> 09:42.000 I'm still afraid I might be tempted to keep a promise to myself. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 What promise? 09:44.000 --> 09:51.000 To kill Albert W. Norton. 09:51.000 --> 09:54.000 THE END 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 Evening, Mr. Wallace. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 Why, Luke Slaughter, what brings you into town at this hour? 10:17.000 --> 10:20.000 Maybe it is a little late, but I want to talk to you. 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 You mind if I come in? 10:22.000 --> 10:25.000 No, of course not. I do come in, please. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Sit down. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 Thanks. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Well, Luke, what's on your mind? 10:32.000 --> 10:36.000 I read in tonight's epitaph that your daughter is going to marry this Norton fellow. 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 That's right. A week from Saturday in St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 Looks like you don't believe in long engagements. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 Not when it's love at first sight. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 Is it? 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 Of course. 10:47.000 --> 10:51.000 Isn't this a rather late hour for congratulations? 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 I didn't come here to congratulate you. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 I came to try to talk you out of it. 10:56.000 --> 11:00.000 Aren't you sticking your nose into something that is absolutely none of your business? 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Maybe and maybe not. 11:02.000 --> 11:06.000 Oh, by the way, where is your future son-in-law? 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 He might be interested in what I've got to say. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 I have no idea. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 He went downtown this evening. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 Oh, that's right. 11:13.000 --> 11:17.000 I heard there was a new troop of high-kickers at the birdcage. 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 I wouldn't know. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 And I don't keep tabs on the comings and goings of Mr. Norton. 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 Maybe you should before you give him your daughter. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Just what do you know about this Norton? 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 Enough. He's a highly successful St. Louis financier. 11:30.000 --> 11:34.000 And his price for bailing out your mind is a girl young enough to be his daughter. 11:34.000 --> 11:39.000 Slaughter. I don't have to sit here in my own house and listen to such dirty insinuations. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 You don't, but you will. 11:41.000 --> 11:46.000 Now, hold on. I apologize, Mr. Wallace. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 You're right. 11:48.000 --> 11:51.000 This is none of my business from your point of view. 11:51.000 --> 11:54.000 But from my point of view, it is. 11:54.000 --> 11:59.000 Because I happen to know Ellie May is in love with a young fellow named Buck Rainier. 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 That wrangler that works for you? 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 That's right. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 I threw him off my premises tonight. 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 I know. That's why I'm here. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Buck is very much in love with your daughter, Mr. Wallace. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 Well, you'll have to get over it. 12:13.000 --> 12:18.000 I certainly would never permit Ellie May to marry a forty dollar a month cowhand. 12:18.000 --> 12:21.000 Mr. Wallace, I've never been married. 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 I've never had any children. 12:23.000 --> 12:28.000 But if I ever do have a son, I'd like him to be the kind of boy Buck is. 12:28.000 --> 12:32.000 And to back up that statement, when he marries your daughter, 12:32.000 --> 12:36.000 I'll make him a wedding present of a couple of sections of land 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 and enough cattle to set him up in business. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 Very touching, Slaughter. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 But Norton's holding the high hand in this game. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 He usually does. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 But this time I don't think he'll win. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 I'd like to see what's going to stop him. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 You will, Wallace, when the hand is played. 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 Are you threatening me? 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 Not at all. 12:54.000 --> 12:58.000 But I'm asking you once more to give your daughter a chance to be happy. 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 That's exactly what I am doing. 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 And that's why she's going to marry Albert Norton. 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 That's your final word? 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 I'm sure of it. 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 All right, Wallace, I tried. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 I hope I haven't kept you up too late. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 But you might try to sleep on this. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 If Ellie May were my daughter, 13:20.000 --> 13:24.000 I'd rather see her entertaining the boys at the Occidental Saloon 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 than married to Albert W. Norton. 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 Mr. Slaughter. Mr. Slaughter. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 Ellie May. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 I overheard you talking to Papa. 13:38.000 --> 13:41.000 Mr. Slaughter, what am I going to do? 13:41.000 --> 13:45.000 Ellie May, are you really in love with Buck? 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 Oh, yes. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 I'll die if I have to marry that awful old Mr. Norton. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 But you want to marry Buck. 13:52.000 --> 13:55.000 Oh, yes, so very, very much. 13:55.000 --> 13:58.000 What am I going to do, Mr. Slaughter? 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 You just go ahead and do what your father tells you. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 Smile and be pleasant. 14:03.000 --> 14:07.000 And act like you were the first blushing bride in the history of the world. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 But I can't do that. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 Yes, you can. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Because, Ellie May, I promise you, 14:13.000 --> 14:17.000 you will never be Mrs. Albert W. Norton. 14:27.000 --> 14:31.000 In a moment, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns. 14:31.000 --> 14:35.000 Tonight, CBS Radio invites you to our Mitch Miller Show. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 As guest of honor at Mitch's table, 14:37.000 --> 14:40.000 you're part of the excitement of show business itself. 14:40.000 --> 14:43.000 You meet the most impressive and accomplished people in show business. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 You learn how they got to the top. 14:45.000 --> 14:49.000 And more than that, you make friends with the biggest stars of the moment. 14:49.000 --> 14:53.000 Each Sunday night, as CBS Radio's Mitch Miller Show comes your way 14:53.000 --> 15:01.000 on most of these same stations. 15:05.000 --> 15:09.000 And now, Act 2 of William N. Robson's production of 15:09.000 --> 15:23.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 To hear the Tombstone epitaph tell it, 15:25.000 --> 15:28.000 the wedding of Ellie May Wallace and Albert W. Norton 15:28.000 --> 15:31.000 was going to be the biggest thing since Queen Victoria 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 took Prince Albert to husband. 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 Every edition carried another tantalizing tidbit. 15:37.000 --> 15:42.000 The bridal gown was coming by fast express from San Francisco. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 The bride's father had bought up all the French champagne in town 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 for the reception. 15:47.000 --> 15:51.000 The nuptials were to be solemnized by the Bishop of Arizona himself. 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 And listen to this in tonight's paper. 15:53.000 --> 15:57.000 The happy pair will spend their honeymoon in the East 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 where they will be transported by private railway car 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 provided by Mr. Wallace. 16:01.000 --> 16:05.000 It doesn't say anything anywhere about what the groom's providing, does it? 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 No, but he must have something to offer. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 Sure he does. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 A line of palaver like a lightning rod salesman. 16:11.000 --> 16:15.000 Just the same, it looks like the three of us are the only people in Tombstone 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 who won't be at the wedding. 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 Don't be too sure about that, Wichita. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 I don't want to go. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 I don't want to see it happen to Ellie May. 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 You don't have to go, Buck. 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 But I think maybe Wichita and I will make an appearance. 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 How? We ain't got any invites. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 And after the way you talked to Wallace the other night, 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 I don't think we're going to get any. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Who said we needed any? 16:37.000 --> 16:41.000 This is a free country, and St. Paul's Church is a house of worship 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 open to any sinner with a contrite heart. 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 We're going to the wedding, Wichita, 16:47.000 --> 16:50.000 but I'm not sure we'll be able to stay for the reception. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 I had my own preparations to make, 16:58.000 --> 17:02.000 but they didn't involve bishops and champagne and such frills. 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 They were relatively simple, 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 and they were all completed by Saturday morning. 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 Got the horses all saddled and waiting, Luke. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 Good, Wichita. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 I oughtn't to stay here and let you do it all, Luke. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Let me come along. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 You just do as I tell you, Buck. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 You'll have plenty to do later. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 Yeah, but what if it don't work? 17:22.000 --> 17:24.000 Then you're where you ought to be 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 and where I want you to be, in the clear. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 Let's go, Wichita. 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 See you in a couple of hours, Buck, if we pull it off. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 Good luck, Luke. 17:33.000 --> 17:36.000 Eh, well, Luke, 17:36.000 --> 17:40.000 it don't seem right going to a wedding in work clothes. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Why not, Wichita? 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 We only got work to do. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 If there be any among you 17:53.000 --> 17:56.000 who knows why this marriage should not be performed... 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 This is our cue, Wichita. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 ...and now, or forever, hold his peace. 18:01.000 --> 18:04.000 Then I guess this is the moment for me to speak, Bishop. 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 What's going on, Wichita? 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 I know plenty of reasons why this wedding shouldn't be held. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Slaughter, this is a private ceremony. 18:12.000 --> 18:13.000 Slaughter? 18:13.000 --> 18:15.000 Not any longer, Wallace. 18:15.000 --> 18:18.000 I'm making it public, and Mr. Norton knows why. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Oh, Mr. Slaughter, you kept your promise. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 I don't know what you're talking about. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 You sure about that, Norton? 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 You sure you don't remember a young lawyer 18:26.000 --> 18:29.000 named Lucian Slaughter back in Peoria, Illinois, 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 just after the war? 18:31.000 --> 18:32.000 You're not... 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 Yes, I am. 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 A little heavier, maybe, and a little less hair. 18:36.000 --> 18:39.000 And the name Lucian was just a little bit flossy 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 for the cattle country. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 So it somehow got whittled down to Luke. 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 Mr. Slaughter, if you have something to say, 18:45.000 --> 18:46.000 please say it quickly. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 You have interrupted one of the Church's most sacred sacraments. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 I'm sorry about that, Bishop. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 Folks, I know this man, Norton. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 He's been married before. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 What? 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 You didn't tell me that, Norton. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 What of it? My wife has been dead for years. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 So I heard. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 And what did she die of? 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Consumption, I think it was. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 You think? 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 Didn't she die of humiliation and a broken heart 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 after you deserted her? 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 That's not true. I did not desert her. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 My business took me to St. Louis... 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 And you thought a small-town girl like her 19:19.000 --> 19:22.000 would be a drawback, so you never sent for her? 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 I don't see what all this has to do with anything. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 A good grifter will make your daughter's life 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 as unhappy as he did his first wife's. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 Mr. Wallace, are you going to permit this boy to interfere? 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 I certainly am not. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 You've had your say, Slaughter. Now get out. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 All right, I'm going. In a minute. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 Look out! He's throwing a gun! 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Cover that side of the Church, Wichita. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 I am, Luke. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 Mr. Slaughter, 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 you have desecrated the House of the Lord. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 I'll settle with the Lord later. Come on, Ellie May. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 Yes, Mr. Slaughter. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 Slaughter, this is kidnapping! 19:49.000 --> 19:52.000 Is it? Or is it an act of mercy? 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 Keep him covered till I get to the horses, Wichita. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 I got him. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 Come on, out this way, Ellie May. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 Where's he going with that girl? 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 Now, folks, 20:00.000 --> 20:04.000 I don't hanker to desecrate the House of the Lord 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 further with gunfire, 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 but I will if you folks don't quiet down and stay put. 20:17.000 --> 20:20.000 Well, Luke, there's Buck waiting for us 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 out in front of the Grange House. 20:22.000 --> 20:25.000 Yep, and there's the Padre from Disby with him, 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 just in case you want to make use of his services, Ellie May. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 Oh, I do, Mr. Slaughter, I do. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 Oh, yeah. 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 Oh, oh. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Ellie May, sweetheart. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Buck! 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 Hurry up, Buck. Get your bride down from this horse. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Howdy, Padre. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Good afternoon, Luke. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Think you can tie the knot for these two in five minutes? 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 I'll do my best. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 You better. 20:46.000 --> 20:50.000 Yes, I figure that's about all the lead we've got on that wedding party. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 And I pronounce you man and wife. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 Oh, Ellie. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Oh, my husband. 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 My very own husband. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 Now, that can wait until later. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 You got the rest of your life for smoochin'. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 You better get out of here now before your pappy gets here. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 You got your horses out and back like I told you about? 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Luke. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Then you two hit the trail. I'll stall off the angry citizens. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Oh, Mr. Slaughter, how can I ever thank you? 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Don't bother. Ride. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 And you, Wichita. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Well, you might name the first one after me. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Now, git, git. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 Come on, darlin'. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 See you later, Luke. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Well, Wichita, let's welcome our visitors. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 All right, Slaughter, what have you done with my daughter? 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 She isn't here, Mr. Wallace. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Of course she's here. We followed your trail. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 Well, she was here, but she just left on her honeymoon. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 What? Why you? 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 Yeah, I'm afraid you're too late, Wallace. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 Ellie May has been Mrs. Buck Rainier for at least five minutes. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 I'll have the marriage annulled. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 I don't see how you can do that, Wallace. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 The girl's overage, and the ceremony was legal in every respect. 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 Wasn't it, Padre? 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 Indeed it was, Luke. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 I'd ask you to come with me. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 I'll be waiting. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 I'd ask you and the losing bridegroom in for refreshments. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 Oh, by the way, I don't see Mr. Norton in your party. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 What happened to him? 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 He fell off his horse. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.000 I'm not surprised. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 Well, as I was saying, I'd ask you in. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 Only I'm sure you have much more adequate refreshments 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 you'll be wanting to consume 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 at what was to have been the wedding reception. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 So if you'll excuse us, 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Wichita and I are going to have a bite to eat. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 We've had a very busy day. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 I'm sure you'll be able to get some fresh food. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 I'll be waiting. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 Indeed. We've had a very busy day. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 But you still haven't told me. 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 Told you what? 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Well, how you happen to know so much about that Norton fella? 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Well, Wichita, I suppose I might as well tell you, 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 you'll never stop nittering me. 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 You see, back in Illinois, 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 15 years ago, 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 there was this young lawyer 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 who was the first man out in the world. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 This young girl, 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 they were very much in love and they wanted to get married. 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 Uh-huh. 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 But the young girl's father had other ideas, 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 ambitious ideas. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 And he made the girl 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 marry a fast-talking young fella 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 named Albert W. Norton. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Whoa. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 And the young lawyer left town 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 swearing he'd kill Norton if he ever saw him again. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Only, you know, Wichita, 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 I like it better this way. 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 Killing's too good for a rat like him. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 Yeah. 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 Yeah, I guess you're right. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 But there's only one thing 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 about the whole shebang that I don't like. 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 What's that? 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 They left in such a hurry, 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 I didn't get to kiss the bride. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 starring Sam Buffington 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 was written and directed by William N. Robeson. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 Supporting Mr. Buffington 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 were Norma Jean Nilsen, 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 Junius Matthews, Norm Alden, 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 Barney Phillips, Ben Wright, 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 and Charles Seale. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 Editorial supervision by Tom Henley 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 with music composed by 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 and directed by 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 and directed by 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 and directed by 24:16.000 --> 24:18.000 and directed by 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 and directed by 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 and directed by 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 and directed by 24:24.000 --> 24:41.240 This is the CBS Radio Network. 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 You