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170- Wild Jack Rhett -Harry Bartell

Escape · February 15, 1953 · 28 min · 3,503 words

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Tired of the everyday grind, Ever dream of a life of Romantic adventure, Wanna get away from it all? We offer you Escape! Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

You are standing in a moonlit street of a western cow town, Alone and friendless, while moving slowly down on you, their horses crowding every exit is a band of killers. Each one of whom has been paid to shoot you dead.

Listen now as escape brings you earnest haycock, son, usual story, while Jack Rhett. And that he's born of woman hath but a short time to live, and his full of misery. He cometh up, and he's cut down like a flower.

He flyeth as it were, shadow. And while we're praying a couple of you boys start throwing some dirt on the shelf. Oh, Lord, with whom do you live the spirits of them that be dead, and in all the souls.

that same evening a committee of the leading citizens of Red Mesa gathered together at Mayor Wayne's home to decide upon a new sheriff. All right gentlemen yeah sit down let's get this set. Gentlemen we've got to have a sheriff Todd Mallon and his kind can't kill. We need the toughest gunfighter available and I

want to propose we send for man some you may have heard of. Jack Rhett. Just a a minute may I let me speak. All right go ahead Bo Helen. A gentleman. I run a saloon and I run it for the only men who bring any money at all in the Red Mesa cow punches coming up the chism trail with Texas cattle. If you give them Jack

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