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Remember, whenever, wherever you go this summer, go first by long distance. Good morning, Matt. Hello, Doc. Yeah. You had breakfast yet? I'm waiting for Chester to get back from the depot. Somebody told him there was a telegram down there for me. There's a telegram? Uh. Oh, you should have left it there, Matt. Oh, telegram usually means somebody's coming to Dodge looking for you. Or that you gotta go somewhere and look for them. Either way, it spells trouble. Well, if it wasn't for trouble, Doc, I wouldn't have a job. Well, then you ought to quit. It's a poor thing when a man has to make a living off of other people's troubles, huh? Tell me something, Doc. How long has it been since anybody came up to you and told you how good they were feeling? Yeah, see, now, I hadn't thought about that. I guess we are pretty much alike after all, man. Well, I got it, mister. What are you looking so glum about, Chester? What does it say? Better read it yourself. It's kindly private life, huh? U.S. marshal, Dodge City, Kansas. Coming to get married. Noon train, Saturday. Meet me sign Mavis McLeod. Oh, Mavis McLeod. Oh, that's a right pretty name, Matt. She pretty, too. Mr. Dillon, you really gonna get married? Oh, yeah. Pretty foxy, Matt, keeping this quiet. Now, wait a minute, you two. If you're all through talking, I'll tell you something. Oh, now, quiet. Now, Jesse don't seem to be. This is an important moment. I'm listening. All right. Now, this may be kind of a shock to you, but as my two closest friends, I wanted you to be the first to know. Yeah. Mr. D. Yeah, Doc. Yes, Chester? I'm not about to get married. And what's more, I never heard of any Mavis McLoud. But she still might be pretty. I don't care if she looks like Lily Langtree. But, Mr. Dylan, ain't you even going to meet her? Yeah, I'm going to meet her, but right now let's go get some breakfast and talk about something else. Look at there, Mr. Doom. Straight up noon. And there comes old train, right on time. Yeah, it's troubling you, ain't it? No, no, Chester. I think trains should run on time. Yeah, sure, that's what I mean. Hey, look. Looky there, Miss Kitty going into depot. There, see? Chester. Mr. Dylan, I swear I never said a word to her about this. She's probably expecting some mail or packages or something. Anyway, she never seen us. Say, how are we going to tell Mavis McLeod from anybody else? I don't know. Look, look, look, look. There's a girl. Would that be her, do you think? Would that be her? Chester, I told you, I never even heard of her. How would I know what she looks like? Well, that little girl's right pretty, Mr. John. And she's the only female lady there. Okay, okay, let's go ask her, then. I'd. I'd judge her to be about 18, wouldn't you? Yeah, about that. Say, she's pretty, M. She is pretty. Excuse me, miss. Yes? I'm Matt Dillon. Oh. Well, maybe you can help me. Well, maybe. I'm looking for the U.S. marshal. Do you know him? Well, I'm the Marshall, ma'am. Oh. Oh, you are? Then you got my telegram. I did. Well, that's right. You. You didn't have my name on it, did you? Of course not. How would I know your name? Ah. Oh. Oh, my goodness. Oh, well, you didn't think I was coming to marry you, did you? Oh, how. I mean, how awful for you. Well, I. I'm still a little confused. Oh, this is Chester, Prof. How do you do, Chester? Well, I'm proud to know you, ma'am. Miss. Oh, I'm so sorry, Marshall Dylan. I. I guess I should have explained more in the telegram. Oh, that's all right. Who did you come here to marry? Well, I don't know. You don't know? Not yet. I just got here. You two are the only men I've met. Chester. Yes, sir? Go over to the depot there and see if you can find Kitty, will you? Yes, sir, I sure will. Mavis, how old are you? I'll be 19 in December. No. Where are you from? I won't tell you. Well, why not? Because it isn't polite for a gentleman to ask a lady so many personal questions. All right. Why did you send me that telegram? Because I thought I'd be safe with the Marshal helping me. Well, helping you do what? Get married. Oh, don't look like that. I'm not crazy. They need women out here, don't they? Well, don't they? Yeah, they. They need them. And I'll make a good wife, too. But of course, it'll have to be the right man. Marshall. I won't marry just anybody, you know. And you can stop Shaking your head like Ms. Jon. I found her. Hello, Matt. Kitty, this is Mavis McLeod. Hello, Mavis. Welcome to Dodge. Oh, thank you, Kitty. Kitty, I know. Matt Chester told me all about it. Don't mind the Marshall, Mavis. Sometimes he's a little slow to understand these things. He most certainly is. Why, he's been looking at me as though I were a bug of some kind. Kitty, you take care of her, will you? I'll go try to figure something out. Yeah, she'll be okay. And Kitty, don't. Oh, don't worry. I won't take it to the long branch. Okay. You. You let me know if you need anything, Mavis. Besides a husband, I mean. 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Well, what do you want with her? That's my business. Well, that may be. Where is she? What makes you think I'd know? She sent you a telegram from St. Louis. I knew she was headed out here somewhere, so I checked. Mavis isn't the kind to arrive in a place unknown. I see. You gonna tell me where she is? Not till I know why you want to see her, and I'll find her myself. She's around here somewhere. She's married, Staley. What? She's married. Now, why don't you go on back to St. Louis and forget about it, huh? Who'd she marry? What difference does it make? You're not gonna bother her. We'll see about that. In the meantime, I hold you responsible. Okay, so you hold me responsible. Why don't we settle that right now? I'll find her first, Marshall. And after I've killed her husband, I'll come looking for you. Well, now, there's about the blood thirstiest man I ever did see. I declare. He's gonna kill everybody. He might try it. Chester, I think I better ride out and talk to Barney Wales. Oh, sure. Not today you ain't. What? Well, Barney and Mavis is in town today. I seen him over at the Dodge House this morning. They're staying the night there. I'll go find them there before Lou Staley does. Hello, Barney. Marshall. Dylan. Welcome on in. Hey, Mavis, it's the Marshall. Hello, Marshall. How are you, Mavis? Oh, I'm fine. I mean, we're fine. Aren't we, Barney? We sure are. You gotta ride out and have dinner with us some Sunday, Marshall. Mavis here is the best dog gone cook you ever saw. It'd be strange if a girl from St. Louis couldn't cook. Why'd you say that, Marshall? Mavis ain't from St. Louis. At least, why? She never told me she was. It doesn't matter where I'm from, does it, Barney? Of course not. But how'd the Marshall know? There's only one way. Lou told him. Lou? Yes, Lou Staley. Whoa. Who's he, Marshall? I don't know, Barney, but he says he's gonna kill you. What for? Marion. Mavis. I see. He loves you, too, Is that it? No. No, not exactly. Well, what then? I made up the name McLeod. Barney. My real name. Staley. There's only one thing I want to know, Mavis. Yes? You love him. I hate him. Okay, let him come, Marshall. I'll fight him. No, you Go out to your ranch. I'll take care of Staley. I never run from a fight in my life, and I don't aim to start now. Oh, please, Barney. It's no use arguing. If this Staley's looking for me, he can find me. I'll go about my business like always, but I'll sure keep one eye open. Oh, evening, Mike. Hello, Kitty. Well, I was in here with Chester earlier. Huh? Where were you? I took a walk after supper. Anything to get out of this saloon for a while. What did you want me for? Kitty? Yeah? That man over there at the bar. The tall dude looking fella. You see him? Who is he? Well, his name's Lou Staley. Did you ever hear of him? No. I thought maybe Mavis McLeod might have said something about him. She's never mentioned him, but I've hardly seen her since she got married. What's it about? Well, Staley's kind of disappointed over Mavis getting married. Said he's gonna kill Barney and then me, and I don't know who all. Oh, for heaven's sake. He followed her out here from St. Louis. So that's it. Jealous lover. Now Mavis real name is Staley. What? Yeah. Well, I guess Mavis kind of fooled all of us. I can understand Thaley wanting to kill Barney. Well, it's not my business how Mavis messes up her life or anybody else's. But murder's wrong, Kitty. No matter what the cause, it's wrong. Matt, Look. Now I see her. She's seen us, too. Hello, Marshall. Kitty. Why don't you sit down? Mavis? You shouldn't be in here, Mavis. I know, Kitty, but I had to come. Where's Barney? He's talking business with some cattle buyers over at the Dodge house. He doesn't know I'm here. This is no place for you, you know. Well, it's good enough for Kitty, isn't it? Well, I own the place. I explained all that to you. Well, I didn't come here for fun. I ran into Chester out in the plaza, and he told me I'd find loose daily here. I've got to talk to him. It probably won't do any good, but I've got to try. Allie's over there at the bar. I know I saw him, but I. I didn't dare walk up to the barn, not with all those men watching. Okay, Mavis, I'll get him. No, I guess I won't have to. I knew I'd find you sooner or later. Mavis, I want to Talk to you, Lou? It's too late for talk. I told you what I'd do, and I'm gonna do it. Lou, I want to talk to you alone. You can go out back, Mavis. Door's right over there. Nobody will bother you outside. Come on, Lou. Won't do any good, Mavis. You know it won't. I don't like this, Kitty. Why not? Talking's better than fighting, isn't it? Talking isn't gonna stop him now. There's something wrong about him. Sort of like he. He can't hear or see anything but himself. Like he's all alone in the world. Well, any man in love acts like that. Man, maybe. But if I didn't think he'd just keep coming back. I'd tie him up and throw him on a train for back east. Well, I wish you'd do something. Matt. Matt, look. It's Mavis. Mavis. Mavis. Did he kill her? No, no, she's still alive. Well, you go after Staley, Matt. I'll take care of her. I'll get Staley, Kitty. But I'm going to carry Mavis over to Doc's first. You better come. An O'Reilly Auto Parts gift card is the perfect gift for that hard to buy for person. Give the gift of convenience. From O'Reilly Auto Parts. Auto Parts. Remember how much racket automobiles used to make? Time wise, you practically had to bellow to make yourself heard above the chatter and roar of the engine, the howl of the wind rushing by, and the rattling a rough road gave your poor old buggy and brains. Nowadays, with vastly improved automotive engineering and magnificent new superhighways, you literally purr along the road. This is a vast improvement, but one that can offer danger. 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Oh, there's Barney with his back to us there. Any steer that's walked up here from Texas is tougher than a mule, and you know it. I got better beef than that. But you're gonna have to pay for it. Barney don't pay that friend, aren't you? Hello, gentlemen. What are you doing here, Marshall? Something wrong? Yeah, Barney, there's something wrong. Well, what is it? Tell me. Where's Mavis? Now, wait a minute, Barney. Look, do you trust me? We sure do, Marshall. Of course. Why shouldn't I? Well, there's no reason. But I. I just want you to think about it when you wake up. All right, Shut up. Don't interfere. It's something you don't know anything about. Chester. Yes, sir. Go get a rope and tie him up. But fix it so she can walk when he comes to taking to jail. Well, I don't know. Do it. Okay, sir. I warned the cattle buyers there not to say a word to anybody about Barney. And then I went out looking for Lou Staley. I tried every saloon and gambling house in Dodge. And I finally gave up. Went over to the jail and got Chester. It was past midnight when we entered the Dodge house once more, had a talk with a clerk and went up to Barney and Mavis room. You reckon Staley's running off me, John? No. He won't run till he does what he came here to do. Okay, inside, Chester. You stand over there, Chester, so you'll be behind the door when it opens. Staley sure going to be surprised if he does come here, ain't he? Unless that clerk downstairs bungles it on our land, all he's gotta do is say Barney come in a while ago and went upstairs. Well, it sounds easy, Chester, but he might get scared and say anything. Well, they'd be scared of a man who goes around shooting women. The clerk doesn't know about that, Chester. Besides, Steady may be crazy, but he's armed and he's dangerous. I guess you're right. Say, Barney got real wild when he come to and found hisself all tied up. I had a terrible time. Him with Quiet Justin. A jam. All right, Barney, you coward, where are you? Hold it right there. Stay late. That's Doc's office at the top of the stairs. Barney, he says Mavis is going to be okay, huh? She's doing fine now. Here we are. Wait a minute, Marshall. Yeah? About last night. I'd have found Lou Staley somehow, and I killed him any way I could. Marshall. It might have been murder. Bernie. Yeah. I guess this is the first time I ever thanked a man for knocking me out. Let's go on in now. Hello, Matt. Barney. Where's Mavis, Doc? Well, she's in the back room there. And except for little fever, she's coming along fine, Barney. Just fine. Of course, you'll have to stay quiet for a few days. You can't be moving around. Can I see her now, Doc? Sure. You go ahead. Matt. Mavis told me about the shooting. You know what happened? What, Doc? She tried to take Staley's gun away from him. That's what. They were fighting over it, and it went off. He didn't try to kill her at all. You know, it's funny about Staley. What? Most men would have tried to kill a wife that ran off and married somebody else. A wife? Yeah. Is that so? Oh, you don't. Me and Mavis seems like such a nice girl. Well, you never know. Doug. Marshall Dillon? Yeah? Mavis would like to see you. Okay. Hello, Marshall. Mavis. There's something I want to tell you, Marshall. Okay. Barney already knows. I told him yesterday after you left. Go on. Well, it's about Lou. I know what you think, but I've known him all my life, Marshall. And Lou was crazy. There was something wrong with him. I guess I was ashamed of it, or I'd have told everybody sooner, especially Barney. You're not responsible for his being crazy. No. No, wait. Lou always did say he'd kill any man I married. That's why I ran away. Mavis, you were asking an awful lot of a husband. Crazy or not, Marshall, Lou Staley wasn't my husband. He was my brother. What? You know, Mavis, you've been nothing but trouble to me ever since I got that telegram. 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