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When Paladin is accused of taking stolen money, he searches for a way to use the situation to better a woman whom he has widowed
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00:00you sent for me offered me a job in order to accuse me of stealing your money mister you're
00:21playing a dangerous game
00:51mr paladin
01:13hey boy your timing is abysmal thank you mr paladin by credit go to mailman he just
01:24bring special delivery letter for you
01:26bank of colton colton wyoming dear mr paladin your job wasn't finished there's a large bonus for you
01:49upon completion i'd appreciate seeing you at your earliest convenience yours very truly j randolph
01:57reward for information leading to recovery of money stolen from colton bank
02:04i get two tickets to opera tonight yes no hey boy one ticket to colton wyoming
02:28one
02:35and
02:37and
02:39and
02:43and
02:48and
02:49and
02:50I'm looking for E.J. Randolph.
03:13Over there.
03:18Yeah?
03:20My name is Paladin.
03:22Paladin?
03:23Well, come in, come in.
03:27Sit down.
03:33Well, now.
03:37Have a cigar.
03:39No, thanks.
03:41Well, I certainly appreciate this, Paladin.
03:45I hope I didn't inconvenience you.
03:48I understand there's still snow up in the passes.
03:54Have any trouble getting through?
03:57Have you found a place to stay yet?
03:59Now, I recommend...
04:01I'm not at all certain, Mr. Randolph, that I'm going to be staying.
04:04Certainly not until you've told me what this is all about.
04:07The last time I was here, you were out of town.
04:08I've never met you.
04:09We've never done business together.
04:12About three months ago, you did a job for John Griffin.
04:16I got your card from him.
04:18Griffin from the Broken Spur Ranch.
04:20He hired you to bring Steve Morrow back.
04:23You remember him?
04:24You don't forget a man you've killed.
04:28Oh, come now, Paladin.
04:30Certainly a man like you don't care whether you...
04:35Well, I mean, you are.
04:38Paid for what you do, it can't really mean anything.
04:41I'm not a bounty hunter.
04:44I do some jobs that other people can't or won't do.
04:47Well, Steve Morrow's case was unfortunately a matter of self-preservation for me.
04:53I didn't mean any offense.
04:55Let's get back to the point.
04:57Griffin wanted Morrow because Morrow killed his son.
05:00I don't see what that has to do with you.
05:02You know what it's got to do with me.
05:05Steve Morrow robbed this bank before he killed the Griffin boy.
05:08He took $30,000.
05:10I still don't see the connection.
05:12Well, it's all very clear to me.
05:13A friend of mine saw you recently in San Francisco.
05:18He says you live exceedingly well.
05:21Like a king, in fact.
05:23I enjoy the niceties of life.
05:25On my money.
05:30Now, Mr. Randolph.
05:35Let me get this straight.
05:37You sent for me...
05:39You offered me a job in order to accuse me of stealing your money?
05:43What's the trouble, Mr. Randolph?
05:55Arrest this man, Jeffy.
05:57Paladin?
05:58Hello, Marshal.
05:59What's the charge?
06:00He's got the money that Steve Morrow stole from my bank.
06:03Do you have any proof, Mr. Randolph?
06:05Well, it's obvious, isn't it?
06:06Money's still missing.
06:07No one's found it.
06:09And Paladin was the last man to see Morrow alive.
06:11That's not enough.
06:12Well, it's enough for me.
06:14You put him in jail and sweat it out of him.
06:17Maybe you know about money, Mr. Randolph.
06:20But I know about law.
06:22I can't do it.
06:24Thank you, Marshal.
06:25Well, excuse me, Mr. Randolph.
06:29Don't let him go, Jeffy.
06:31I can't hold it.
06:32Thank you very much, Mr. Randolph, for telling me the money is still missing.
06:35$30,000 would be gratifying compensation for a long and wasted trip.
06:41Stop him, Jeffy!
06:43On what ground?
06:44Well, he might find the money.
06:46You were the one who told him about it.
06:48Well, I'll pay a reward.
06:49I'll pay a 10% reward.
06:51All right.
06:52I'll post that reward in my office and on the town board.
06:55Paladin.
07:00I'd forget about that money if I were you.
07:02Just keep riding.
07:04Right back where you came from.
07:05Marshal, I've got $30,000, $30,001 good reasons for staying.
07:11You know, if I find stolen money on you, then I've got to arrest you.
07:14I'll remember that.
07:16Marshal, does Rose Morrow still live out there on that farm?
07:20Who?
07:21Steve Morrow's widow, Rose.
07:23Well, her name's Lucy.
07:24You're wasting your time going out there.
07:26We already took the house apart.
07:29Well, that puts you one up on me, doesn't it?
07:31Don't wait up for me, Marshal.
07:32Well, I'll see you.
07:35I'll see you.
08:05Mrs. Morrow, my name is Paladin.
08:25Did you think I could forget you, Mr. Paladin?
08:29I'd like to talk to you, if I may.
08:30Come in.
08:39Excuse me.
08:40These are beautiful.
09:04They're an eastern variety.
09:06It must be difficult to grow out here.
09:09No worth the trouble.
09:11To have at least one lovely thing out here.
09:14And they were a present from my husband.
09:18He brought me some cuttings after one of his trips back east.
09:21You never knew what he did on those trips, did you?
09:23I heard.
09:25After.
09:25Do you think it would have made any difference, Mr. Paladin?
09:31No, I suppose not.
09:38Mrs. Morrow, this hasn't been easy, has it?
09:42I've managed.
09:44Where have you stayed?
09:45I have nowhere else to go.
09:51I don't have any money.
09:55Except, of course, the money you left for me.
09:58Your fee for Mr. Griffin.
10:00Was generous of you.
10:06I used it to buy a headstone for my husband's grave.
10:11You seem uncomfortable, Mr. Paladin.
10:14Do I embarrass you?
10:16No, why should you?
10:18Your husband was an outlaw and a killer.
10:22And you had a job to do.
10:25I'm not an executioner, Mrs. Morrow.
10:27Well, I tried to bring him back.
10:31Of course.
10:34And you can't be blamed for protecting yourself.
10:40I'm sorry.
10:41I find that hard to believe.
10:43Not for your husband.
10:44That would have happened sooner or later.
10:47I'm sorry for you.
10:51You said you wanted to talk to me.
10:53When your husband robbed the Colton Bank,
10:59he took $30,000.
11:01That money has never been found.
11:04That's right.
11:05He stopped here at the farm
11:06before he holed up on the mesa where...
11:10He didn't tell you what he did with the money.
11:14No.
11:15Mrs. Morrow,
11:19a man who brings his wife rose cuttings
11:21would not leave her destitute.
11:24Mr. Paladin,
11:25I don't know anything about the money.
11:28And when my husband left here,
11:31all he had in his saddlebags was food.
11:37I know.
11:38I packed them myself.
11:40I'm very sorry to have bothered you.
11:43I'm very sorry.
12:01I'm very sorry.
12:02I hear you.
12:02I'm very sorry.
12:03I'm very sorry.
12:04I know.
12:05I'm very sorry to have a lot of money in the life.
12:07I'm very sorry.
12:09I'm very sorry.
12:09I'm very sorry.
12:11May I?
12:15Of course.
12:23I think that third bush could use some more water.
12:27Goodbye.
12:41Evening. I'd like to see Mr. Griffin.
12:45Pilots! Come in! Come in!
12:47What took you so long?
12:49Well, I didn't know you were expecting me.
12:51Oh, sure. The marshal told us you were in town.
12:53Wouldn't be very friendly not to drop by, no, would it?
12:55You know Cleet and the boys, don't you?
12:57Well, sit down, sit down, and Cleet pour him a drink.
13:01No, thanks. I can only stay a minute.
13:03Oh? Hey, uh...
13:05I hear you're supposed to be living real high
13:07on old man Randolph's money.
13:09Well, now, Mr. Randolph's a regular town crier, isn't he?
13:12Oh, you know how it is when you're fanning a breeze.
13:15Poor old Randolph.
13:17He must be just about the end of his tether.
13:19You know, here a while back, he was swearing that everybody in Colton had the money.
13:22Why?
13:23Well, Morrow hid out upon the mesa where you found him, you know,
13:26and everybody figured they buried the money up there.
13:29Folks went up there with picks and shovels,
13:31and you never saw such digging and poking around in your life.
13:35I swear that mesa's ten feet lower than it was.
13:38Well, Morrow didn't have the money when I found him.
13:40And his wife says he didn't have it when he left the farm.
13:43You talked to her?
13:44I just left the farm.
13:47Cleet, you and Mr. Griffin's son followed Morrow after he robbed the bank, hmm?
13:53We were in town, just passing the bank, where they came busting out, waving a gun and carrying a sack.
13:59Could tell right away what happened, so we took after him.
14:02He rode east, back to that farm of his.
14:05But he bushwhacked us, killed his son, shot my horse out from under me.
14:09You think he went on back to the farm?
14:11Must have.
14:12That's where the posse picked up his trail again.
14:14Well, thanks.
14:16Sorry to interrupt the game.
14:18Oh, Griffin, the Morrow farm adjoins your property, doesn't it?
14:23Yeah, in the south.
14:24I see it's up for auction.
14:25Should be worth a couple of thousand dollars to you.
14:27A couple of thousand?
14:29I'm getting it for a couple of hundred, the taxes.
14:31Well, somebody will outbid you at that price.
14:33I don't think there'll be any other bidders.
14:35Downright shame, ain't it?
14:38Griffin, Lucy Morrow didn't kill your son.
14:41Her husband did.
14:43My only hope is that somehow he'll know.
15:03Come in.
15:15Well, Marshal, you're up rather late tonight, aren't you?
15:18Make it a habit I'm never turning in till the town settles for the night.
15:24You can start by tucking me in any time you want to, Marshal.
15:28You covered a lot of ground today.
15:30How'd you make out?
15:32Poorly?
15:34Go ahead, open them.
15:36I believe you.
15:39I was just wondering if maybe you weren't getting a little discouraged.
15:43Not a bit.
15:46There's a lot of territory between here and the Mesa.
15:49Morrow could have hidden the money anywhere.
15:51Well, he didn't hide it on the Mesa. This town proved that.
15:54And I don't think he'd have hidden it anywhere along that road,
15:56not without telling his wife.
15:58Since when does a killer stop to worry about his wife?
16:01Morrow loved his wife.
16:04He spoke about her when he was dying.
16:06Oh, come on now, Paladin.
16:08You told me he was talking about some woman named Rose.
16:11A man like him probably had women all over the territory.
16:14Well, I just can't see it that way.
16:19Uh, suit yourself.
16:22Marshal, what about that auction tomorrow?
16:26Griffin says he's gonna take that farm just for the taxes. Is that true?
16:29That's the way I hear it.
16:32That place is worth two or three thousand dollars.
16:34Nobody's gonna bid against him.
16:36This town figures he's got something coming.
16:38He lost a son.
16:39He lost a son to Steve Morrow, not to Steve Morrow's widow.
16:42Paladin, that's the way the people here want it.
16:44It's within the law, and I can't do anything about it.
16:46Do you have to be so legal about everything?
16:48If I wasn't, you'd have been in jail this afternoon.
16:53Good night, Paladin.
16:54Good night.
17:06Kind of late to go calling, Paladin.
17:08Especially on a widow woman living all alone.
17:11Cleet, what are you doing out here?
17:13Just looking out for Mr. Griffin's property.
17:15He doesn't want any trespassers.
17:18It isn't his property yet.
17:19It will be, tomorrow.
17:21I wouldn't try to argue the point.
17:29Go on, Paladin.
17:45Hyabad?
17:46Why not?
17:47Cleetsch.
17:48Do you want to continue the argument?
17:50You want to continue the argument?
18:20Go back in the house, Mrs. Morrow.
18:25I'm sorry this had to happen here.
18:28Did it have to happen at all, Mr. Paladin?
18:31Or have guns and killing become your way of life?
18:35No.
18:39I hope not.
18:50The best one you have?
18:56Nothing better west than the Mississippi.
18:58Well, I hope not. I've got a lot of digging to do.
19:00That ground's baked mighty hard out there.
19:02Hasn't been plowed since Steve Morrow died.
19:04Here you are.
19:11Did you buy that shovel?
19:13Sure did.
19:15Paladin?
19:24You want to bury something, Paladin?
19:26Or dig something up.
19:28What time's that auction out tomorrow?
19:30Two o'clock.
19:32I wouldn't want to miss that.
19:34I'll see you out there.
19:35Somebody's going to get rich.
19:41That stranger there just bought one of these shovels.
19:45I wonder what he's up to.
19:58All right, let's settle down.
20:00And get the business down.
20:04According to law, I'm supposed to read the whole official tax auction notice.
20:10But you all know what it is, so we'll get right to it.
20:12Hold it a minute, Marshal.
20:14Looks like you've got another customer.
20:17Wait a minute.
20:21What's he doing here?
20:22Why haven't you got him in jail?
20:23He killed one of my men last night.
20:25This was self-defense.
20:26Mrs. Morrow here was a witness.
20:29Well, what are all these people doing here?
20:31It's a public auction, Mr. Griffin.
20:32Anybody's got a right to be here.
20:33Don't tell me he's got business here.
20:34As much as anybody else.
20:36All right.
20:37We're here to auction off this farm for taxes.
20:40There's $276 due.
20:42We'll start the bidding right there.
20:44Anything over that goes to Mrs. Morrow.
20:46But the county's got to get its back taxes first.
20:49Now, who'll start the bidding?
20:50$276.
20:51Mr. Griffin says $276.
20:52Anybody else want to bid?
20:56Nobody else?
20:57Well, that does it, I guess.
20:58The farm goes for $200.
20:59$500.
21:00You can't do that.
21:01You've got no right.
21:02You heard the marshal.
21:03Well, that does it, I guess.
21:04The farm goes for $200.
21:05$500.
21:06You can't do that.
21:07You've got no right.
21:08Well, you heard the marshal.
21:09Public auction.
21:10You're just trying to jack up the price.
21:11How do I know you've got that kind of money?
21:12Oh, I'll have it.
21:13I'll have it when the time comes.
21:14Now, my bid was $500.
21:16$600.
21:17Make it $700.
21:18$700.
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22:07$700.
22:08$700.
22:09$4,900.
22:15$5,000.
22:19No, I can't.
22:21It's up to you, Mr. Paladin.
22:25Mr. Griffin, you have just bought yourself a farm.
22:30All right, clear out of here, all of you.
22:34Now, wait a minute. I bid $4,900 on this place.
22:37As the second high bidder, I'm entitled to see your money.
22:40You don't think I carry that kind of money around with me, do you?
22:43Then you don't own this place, not till you pay for it.
22:45Ask Randolph. My money is in his bank.
22:48Perhaps Mr. Randolph will make out a promissory note.
22:51Payable on demand. That'd be all right, Marshal.
22:53Sure.
22:54But maybe we ought to get the technicalities done with inside.
23:00Hurry up. Let's get this over with.
23:02Take a time, Griffin. I'm making this note out.
23:04Well, don't forget, uh, deducted taxes, Mr. Randolph.
23:07I have. Sign here, Griffin.
23:14May I see it, please?
23:16It's legitimate. Payable on demand.
23:19Well, that's fine.
23:20Now, if you'll make out another draft for $3,000 payable to Mrs. Lucy Morrow.
23:25What?
23:26That's the reward I believe you offered.
23:2810% of the stolen $30,000.
23:30Yes, but I...
23:31No, you don't, Paladin.
23:32Anything on this farm belongs to me now.
23:34That's correct.
23:35Marshal Jaffe has the money in town.
23:37Mrs. Morrow turned it over to him this morning.
23:39What?
23:40Then she had the money all the time.
23:41Without knowing it.
23:42It was only this morning we both realized why one bush out of a dozen would wither and die.
23:48Roses need water, not money at their roots.
23:50It took her three months to find it out?
23:52It took me all night to realize that a dying man wouldn't call his wife Rose when her name's Lucy.
23:58He was just trying to tell me where the money was buried.
24:00Now, if I may have that draft, please.
24:01You tricked me.
24:02All of us.
24:03We thought all the time...
24:04I know what you thought, Griffin.
24:05I'm afraid your imaginations were working overtime.
24:06Paladin...
24:07Griffin!
24:08Thank you, Marshal.
24:09Griffin.
24:10Remember what you said last night about hoping that somehow Morrow would know?
24:13I don't know.
24:14I don't know what you thought, Griffin.
24:15I'm afraid your imaginations were working overtime.
24:16Paladin...
24:17Griffin!
24:18No.
24:19Thank you, Marshal.
24:20Griffin.
24:21Remember what you said last night about hoping that somehow Morrow would know?
24:27Well, so do I.
24:39Mrs. Morrow, I'm afraid this is small compensation for a man you loved.
24:50Part of this is yours.
24:52No, I consider this a more than adequate fee.
24:57Mr. Paladin, you are a remarkable man.
25:05Just a man who's used a gun perhaps too often.
25:13Perhaps too often.
25:43In the...
25:48More than mighty...
25:49Through, music and énergie, there is no...
25:55You still get to Edie soon, you are?
25:58And here is what we decided to deal.
25:59If you wanted...
26:00There is none of these flaws.
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