Friend's Payoff
Gunsmoke · July 12, 1959 · 25 min · 3,155 words
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Down Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the U.S. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved West with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it.
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, but it makes a man watchful. Had a little lonely. Well, it's a breaky mix.
I'm like a man to work this thing ain't never done. Oh, Mr. You think somebody else in this town might take a hand keeping up their own boardwalk, but no, sir. I gotta do this.
Mr. Father, me now, boy. See? I gotta get these nails in solid. I can't look up for the marshal. Well, that is office right there. in there. You'll just have to wait then. I got a message for the Marshall. Look I already told you. It's on this paper. Let's see it. I'm supposed to give it to the Marshall person. Well you ain't gonna give it to him if he ain't there.
Wanna be back, Mr. Smiles? Oh, I am. Boy, I got enough to tend to without fretting by room Mr. Dillon. Is there a minute? You want me to give the paper to him? I ain't to let loose. I was to nobody else. Well, it'd be all right. Let me see it. I'm the Marshall Assistant. Is right hand man. You might say.
to let it move. Yeah, forever, more. Just quit bothering me about it then. I got enough to do. What a handyman, aren't you, Justin? Well, once you're known, this board just had to be fixed for somebody broke his...
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