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Foreign welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Rines, and I'm excited to bring you another episode absolutely free. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now, let's get into this episode. Here's adventure, here's romance. Here's the famous Robin Hood of the Old West. He's cold, he's safe. He's getting closer. The Cisco Kids. Now the Cisco Kid in our gripping story. Bandits Hideout. In the old days of the west, many a dishonest innkeeper made money by hiding out bandits fleeing from the law. And some of these innkeepers got rich by providing hidden accommodations that baffled such wide awake Sheriffs as Dan McCabe. As our story opens, it's early morning in the little mountain town of ripple Creek. Sheriff McCabe is on his way to work when a Sheriff. Sheriff. Yeah? Wait for me. What do you want, Lucius? Oh, all I want is to walk along with you, Sheriff. Well, all right, if you'll quit teasing to be your deputy. Oh, no, I won't say nothing about that. Oh, no. But there is something I'd like to ask Sheriff. Oh, now, look, I'd like you to make me a guard with that pile of gold that's going out from the mines this morning. How do you know? A load of gold going out. Oh, everybody knows that. Sure, everybody. The boys in our mind talk about it. Well, they hadn't ought to last at all. I got trouble enough chasing outlaws to disappear into the mountains without everybody and his brother knowing about gold shipments. Oh, will you make me a guard, Sheriff? You'd ought to have three men at their shipment instead of just two, will you? Oh, all right, Lucius. You're honest enough anyway. Even if you do get things mixed up, at least it can't do no harm. Oh, thank you, Sheriff. I'll go right home and get my guns on. All right. Any old bandit that gets in my way, I'll fix them. I'll just yank that. Right here is where we'll hold him up, Leighton. Ought to be a good hole, too. Cut. Yeah, we won't waste no time arguing with them guards neither. We'll just gun them down. Yeah, two guards. So I understand. Get these horses back out of sight, ladies. Yeah, all right, all right. And after we get the gold, we'll make tracks for Ricklin's hotel, eh? That's right. That coyote Rigland's a robber when it comes to charging you. But he sure does hide you out. Here they come. Layton, get down behind these rocks. Hey, there's three guards along cut. See? There's one bringing up the rear there. Well, you take the two up front. I'll take the one in bay. All right, all right. Steady now. Better go. Yeah, I got the two front one. Blasted. I missed that rear guard. Oh, what thunder's going on up there. We'll show you. Draw a beat on him like. Hey, quit that shooting. Giddy up. Help. Help. I missed him. Con. Haunted fool. Yelling for the sheriff when the sheriff's at least two miles away. Come on, let's get that gold and get up to Rigland's place quick. Not getting this country before. She shall know. I've been here before. P was a long while ago. I believe this is the trail here. Two riders come this way. Cisco. Say we will ask them where is there, senores? Where is there, senores? Well, what do you want? Which trail leads to the town of Ripple Creek, senor? Which trail? Who are you two? Alfred. I am called the Cisco Kid. And this is me, compaero Pancho. I've heard of you, Cisco, and I'm telling you nothing. Come on, Leon is not polite, Cisco. They are anything but polite. Ah, well, let us waste no thoughts on them. Chico, we'll take this trail up. Make the acquaintance of the sheriff at Ripple Creek. Poncho, we will ride on to the west. To the west? Lying on the ground off the trail. Come, we will see more troubles. See? They are both dead bunches. Both of them shot. Go for the sherry, huh? Wait a minute. Look at these tracks. Tracks lead out behind these rocks. They come to these points where their horses were. Then they lead away up into the hills. They the same trail we come down, people. Hey, Spancho, those hombres we met might know something about this. Let us follow them back up the trail requested, sheriff later. Unless I'm mistaken, this is a case of ambush and murder. Sheriff. Hey, sheriff. Oh, what's the matter? I thought you was right in guard with that gold. So I was, sheriff. But after they opened fire, well, I. I turned tail. I fled. After who opened fire? A couple of bandits. They killed other two guards, sheriff, but I fled. Get a potty. Sheriff, hold up. Huh? Could you identify him, Lucius? For sure I could, Sheriff. I know him. In a minute. Get a poty, quick. Oh, probably they've gone into the mountains to disappear like every other desperado. But I'll get a posse. Hey, Jeopardy. Now, there's Rigland over there at the head of the trail. Yeah, got his field glasses with him. Howdy, Rigland. Howdy. Howdy, Boys. In kind of a hurry to get up here, wasn't you? Maybe we want to hide out for a while, Rigland, huh? What you been doing? That's none of your business. Yeah, maybe it is. All right, I'll hide you out for $50 a day a piece. How much? Well, you robber. All right, then, keep on going. Now, look, I could guess what you boys been up to, what with all that gold being shipped out. If you made a good haul, $50 a day's cheap. But I ain't gonna argue with you. Hey, who you looking at down the trail? Couple of hombres riding up. One of them looks like the Cisco Kid. Let me see them glasses. I'll let you see nothing. Maybe this Cisco cut sure is. And I'm telling you right now, boys, you better hide out quick. Sheriff McCabe's a mighty good man and upholding the law. But this here Cisco Kid's just a bloodhound. Yeah, so they tell me. And if I get a chance, I'll gun him down in a minute. Better decide quick, boys. Cisco and his partner's getting close up here. All right. We'll meet your price. Thought you might. I got some nice quarters fitted up underground. An old mine. Tunnel entrance is hidden behind a big growth of thickets. You take your horses right in with you. Wait a minute. Can we see what's going on from in there? Yep, plenty of peepholes. Come on, I'll show you where it is. Now, remember, Pancho, I will do the talking here. Well, it's just the mountain hotels. He's go. And the sage goes rocks. I know that is what the sign says, amigo, but I do not like the looks of the place. No. Also, the tracks of those two hombres horses stopped over there at the head of the trail. We left our horses. Where the tracks of the hombres horses go to, she's go. I do not know. The ground has been dragged over with brush. Maybe the bandido zone. The hotel. Fish. Someone's coming to the door. Howdy. What is this? Componero and I would like room and board here for the rest of the day and the night. I guess I can take care of you. Come this way. Just traveling through strangers. See, we are on our way west, senora. We like the view from here, senor, no? Yeah, so there are lots of other people. This here room looks out back onto the stable. But I guess you can be comfortable here. Well, see, this will be fine. You can pay me for your lodging and board when you come in to Supper tonight. As you please. As you please. We'll be out in a few minutes to take care of our horses. All right. He looked like a bad hombre. Tooth he took. Get a bunch of friends. Walter still noticed. I want to look over the location of the stable first. Chico, it's possible that if those hombres are still here, and I believe they are, they are in that stable. Aren't you? I have an idea. What the idea. What the idea. You stay here and keep watch out these windows. Keep watch at the window. I'll go back out to the front of the hotel and talk some more with the hotel people. Now, keep your eyes open. May see some sign of those om P. Keep the eyes open, Cisco. P. You hope. Be sure you do. I'll get back later on. Keep the eyes open. Sleeping Dead look good to P. But just for sake, keep the eyes open. Conscious? Laid down for five minutes. He's a good friend. Can't you not go to sleep? Can't you not go to sleep? There goes that Cisco kid out front of the hotel. Yeah, that one with him. He probably went out too. Chances are the house cuts off side of him. I saw them both looking out the window of the back room a couple of minutes ago. Leighton, there's just one thing to do. Yeah? We'll get into that back room through the window while them two are out in front. Then when they come back to the room, we'll gun whip them and finish them off. Jump over this way, Leighton. Don't let him see you. Hey, wait. What if that window's locked? We make too much of a noise if we break it. That's the chance we gotta take. Hey, what in thunder is that noise? I don't know. I'll look in the window and see. Hey, the fat one, Layton, he's asleep on the bed. I'll tie the window. We're in luck. It ain't locked. I'll go in first. Now, come on down the window. Hey, he stopped snoring. He's waking up. Oh, no, he ain't. Not after I'm done with him. Better finish him off. Cut. Wait a minute. Here comes somebody. Probably Cisco. Get back to the door when he opens it later. All right. Get him. Layton. Did I expect to find you in here, Aubrey. Oh, good. We got them both now. Leighton will finish him off in mighty short order. And the two killers bend over Cisco and Poncho to deliver the death blows. In just a moment, we'll return to the Cisco Kid. Now back to the Cisco Kid in Our gripping story Bandits hideout. When Cisco came upon the murdered guards of the gold pack train, he at once became suspicious of the two surly men. He and Pancho had met farther up the mountain. So Cisco tracked the men to a mountain hotel. And seeing where the tracks were brushed out, he engaged a room for himself and Poncho. Telling Poncho to keep watch from the window. Sisko went out of the hotel to look around. Poncho promptly went to sleep. Whereupon the killers entered the room. Gun whip Poncho. And when Cisco came back, gun whipped him into unconsciousness. Now we better finish them both off right here and now. Leighton. Well, that suits me. Wait a minute. Who's this coming? What blazing going on up here? Thought I left you two in that mine tunnel hideout. We figured we'd better get the Cisco Kid before he got us. Yeah, and we sure did get them both. Never mind them. Somebody's coming up the trail. I can't make out. You boys got better eyesight than I have. Come with me and see. Sure. Soon as we finish off these two. No. I don't want any killings on my place. Especially not if that's the sheriff and a par coming up the trail. Come on. Well, I'll take their guns just in case. Come on. Hustle. Oh, my head. Pan's head too. What hit p? I'll tell you in a minute to make a rest so I can't think. Suckers. That was a hard blow. This is not an easy one either. Look, Cisco. Look at the bump. Look at the bumps here. Our guns are gone. Listen to me. Listen to me. Go. Listen. That's a sheriff's party all right. Rigland. Yeah, they're coming right up here. Get Cisco and the fat one into your hideout. All right. We can finish the job there. Come on. Come on. Out this window. Aren't you with you, Cisco? Call out horses. You'll ride down and meet that parson, aren't you? Give those bond dealers a big boy home too, Cisco. There may be time for that later. Right now are you stuck in that window? I will pull you out. Come on. Punch you out now. Hey, what's that I hear out back of the house? Come on. Let's find out. Come on. It's them too. They're getting away. Bottom bullets come close. First we get knocked out by those hom. Now they shoot at us. But our turn will come. Aren't you? And soon come. Soon go now. I tell you what I think, sheriff. I think them bandits come up into these mountains. Anybody with half an Eye can see that, Lucius. Ah, that's what I think, Sheriff. Yes, sir. Oh, I think them bandits. All right, all right. Don't keep saying it. Them tracks prove they come up here. Thing I'm wondering about is whose horses made these other tracks. Oh, I can answer that one, Sheriff. Easy. Them bandits doubled back to Foolish and then rode up over their own tracks. Oh, keep quiet, Lucas. You bother me. Hey, wait a minute. Who's just coming down the trail? It's Sam, Sheriff. The killer. Yeah, yeah, it's them. Gun them down, boys. It's them bandits. Shut up, Lucius. You say any more and I'll send you home. Oh, it's under. It's a Cisco Kid. Yeah, so it is. What are you doing in this part of the country, Cisco? Bancho and I are just riding through, Sheriff. But there is no time for idle talk. If you are after the two killers who murdered the men down the plateau, you will find them up at the hotel. You know, Cisco, I've heard you're a pretty bad hombre yourself. No, he is, Sheriff. He's a bad one. Well, I'm taking you along with me under suspicion. Put the handcuffs on these two, Deputy. Memento, senor. Sheriff. Pancho and I will go with you. But we will not submit to handcuffs. No, you won't, eh? Well, we'll see about that. Do as I say. Deperty. Follow me to tail up. Get Huff. Yeah. Oh, we are suspected. Poncho. Yes, he's gone. Very well. We will follow this trail. It must come out near the hotel. Then we will come back down. If you and I must capture these two killers to prove our own innocence, we will capture them. Now, you boys staying here, the sheriff will ever find you. Yeah, but what about Cisco and his partner? That's what I want to know. Are they going for good or are they coming back? What's the difference? They can't find you as long as you stay in this old mine tunnel. Yeah, yeah. How about building a fire in that store, Briglim? Last cold in here. Go ahead. There's some oak wood. Don't smoke much in any way. The smoke comes out of vent clear up in the tunnel. All right, I'll build one up right away. Now, remember this. Stay in here till I tell you it's safe to come out. All right. I'll go out now and meet the sheriff. Tell him he's barking up the wrong trees. Leighton, I don't like being cooped up underground like this. Neither do I. And I don't like paying Wriglin $50 a day. Well, let's not fail. And finally, I'd like to get that sheriff's posse. Every last one of them. Wait a minute. Wait. You don't mean walk right out and trade shots with them, do you, Cuts? I mean get them from here. We got a couple of rifles and plenty of ammunition. That's right. There's peepholes looking out. Why, we could get all that party before they figure out where the shots are coming from. Yeah, yeah, all right, I'm with you. Then we'll get wriggling too. And after that we'll skip the country. All right, come on, let's get these rifles loaded. We are now above that hotel poncho. Above the hotel Sisko. What we do? We stop here for a moment and see the best way of riding down there. You think the best way is to. Best way is what? What are you sniffing at? Fo? Smell smoke, Cisco? Hey, I smell smoke myself, amigo. Where's that coming from? Wood smoke. Hey, I would say he's quite close by here. And look, look there, Fade. Smoke is coming out of the ground right there. Volcano. Volcano? No, no, no, no, no. There are no volcanoes around here, Chico. Smoke come from somewhere, Cisco. Yeah. Let us have a look. This is some sort of vent that comes up out of the ground. Man made, Pancho. This is mining country. Mining country? Those banos must have gone into hiding underground in an old tunnel. Here, give me a hand. This is loose soil. You can easily make an opening big enough to get down there into the tono, Cisco. Yes? If I am right and those banderas are down in the mine tunnel, they will not be expecting attack from this quarter. Not that go, Cisco. It is just why we should take them by surprise. There. That opening is big enough. I'll go down first. Careful, Cisco. Cisco not get hurt. Oh, be careful, Chico. See? This is a mind fellow. As I thought. Come on, Pacho. Pa. Come down too, Pacha. Not get stuck this time. Dark down here, Cisco. See it? But in a moment our eyes will get used to it. Let us walk to the mouth of these tunnels. You see? Better now? Better, Cisco. Huh? There's the party now, Layton. Just riding up. As soon as they stop, we'll open up on them. All right. I'll take the sheriff. They are the party. Don't, Pancho. They're going to fire on the sheriff's posse. He stopped them, Sisk. Hey, there's a draft of wind coming back through here. Cut. Never mind the draft now. Get ready the posse hopping out there. No Puncho. No. Puncho. You are just a little late looking out for me. P. Take me some B. Oh, no you don't. Not if I can help it. Only then I think I can if P help and punch it up. Stay down, Pancho. There's not enough room for all of us to fight. And I see the hat and these um, very well in hand now for you. You ain't getting me S. Pat. I have a different idea. All in the same way. Cisco. Cisco and Cisco Speed. Other hombres and hombres back. Poncho, stand guard over these two. Get their guns. I'm going to call the sheriff. You don't need to call the sheriff, cuz I'm right here and you can hear that racket a mile. You are the two killers in your sheriff. Somebody grab that Homie. Look out. I got him. Get your hands up. Cisco. You two. Yeah, me too. Very well, Sheriff. You. Lucius, come here. I'm coming, Sheriff. Now, which of these four of the ones that held up that pack train? Cisco and his partner or these other two? Oh, well, look. Plush leombre, I. Oh, shucks. I made a mistake the first time, Sheriff. It was these other two. Are you sure of that, Lucius? Yeah, I'm sure. And if he is not sure, Senor Sheriff, the hotel keeper is. I'm sure that in order to save his own skin, he might be willing to talk now that the law has finally caught up with him. Glad to get those bandidos. He's. Yeah, he was very glad to get them punched. And he glad to get all the golds back too. He was especially glad to get that Wriglin Nobly who's been hiding out bandidos for some years. From now on, the sheriff thinks the bandidos will keep away from his county. That Wrigley Nobly was run to your town. That smart Pancho thing. See, I agree with you, Pancho Let us say he outsmarted himself. Pancho let know about this. But Pancho think that liquor normally should be smart like Senor Chavez was. Run a little hotel in the town where Pancho won't live. Oh, not heard about Senor Chavez, Pancho? No tell me, was this hotel keeper a very smart hombre? Smartest hombre Pancho ever seen. Well, how Pancho? Well, Pancho told you all right one time in a poured in ombre from a big city come to stay at a little hotel. The big important hombre go to the room and then come right downstairs and say to Senor Shabbos, you tell the big big lie. And the sign outside the hotel? What did the sign say? Sign outside the hotel say running water in every room. And that would make the hombres mad. He said, the Senor Shabbos there no running water in the room you give me. Well, what did Senna Chavez say about the room not having running water? He say, hre you not look hot enough in this hotel. There a spring in every bed. Oh, Poncho. Oh, a chance. And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the west, the Cisco Kid. Be sure to listen again for another thrilling adventure of the Cisco Kid. Cisco Kid was played by Jack Mather, Poncho by Harry Language Sam this has been a presentation of otrwesterns.com and we hope you enjoyed. Please take some time to like and rate this episode within your favorite podcast application. 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