Bartender and Project Investment | Dr. Sixgun (09-09-54)

Summary

Old Time Radio Westerns: “Bartender and Project Investment”

Dr. Sixgun (09-09-54)
Podcast Host: Andrew Rhynes
Episode Release: September 19, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of Dr. Sixgun, as presented by the Old Time Radio Westerns podcast, centers on a comic tale of rain, commerce, and confidence schemes in the frontier town of Frenchman’s Ford. The narrative follows O'Shea the bartender as he encounters Jared P. Kale, an oily "financial wizard" from the East whose big city charm nearly outsmarts—then spectacularly backfires on—several townsfolk (and himself). Through a blend of sharp banter, western hardship, and farce, the episode explores gullibility, frontier resourcefulness, and the pitfalls of wild investments in the 1870s West.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Frontier Scene: Floods & Hardship

• The territory is beset by relentless rain, floods, and isolation. Dr. Sixgun and Pablo the Gypsy Peddler set the tone with banter about the hardships:
  • Dr. Sixgun: "Need webbed feet to get across from the livery stable." (04:59)
  • Pablo: "Last summer the ranchers lost half their stock in drought and now they may lose the other half by floating." (05:44)
• These details ground the episode in classic Western adversity and camaraderie.

2. Enter Jared P. Kale: The “Wall Street Wizard”

• A flashy, smooth-talking Easterner, Kale arrives during the chaos, having survived a nearly disastrous stagecoach trip.
• He introduces himself grandly:
  • Kale: "Permit me to introduce myself, gentlemen. I am Jared P. Kale, late of Wall Street." (09:25)
• He regales the bar patrons with exaggerated stories of his adventures among railroad tycoons, gold magnates, and real estate moguls.
  • Kale: "Where is the manifest golden treasure to be found?" (10:37)

3. Planting a Scheme: Small-Town Big Dreams

• Pablo narrates Kale’s increasing influence: He shares tales of meeting historical greats, hints at future opportunities, and flatters O’Shea into thinking Frenchman’s Ford could be the “next metropolis.”
• O'Shea is soon convinced to form a new venture:
  • O'Shea: "You are talking to the president of the Frenchman's Ford Land and Natural Resources Development Company. Cale's the treasurer." (19:55–20:07)
• Dr. Sixgun is skeptical, warning O’Shea:
  • Dr. Sixgun: "There isn't a doubt in my mind that your Mr. Jared Kale is crooked as a dog's hind leg." (21:04)

4. Proving “Good Faith”: The Escrow Ruse

• When confronted, Kale provides $5,000 in seemingly genuine banknotes as “escrow,” temporarily quelling suspicions:
  • Kale: "Here are $5,000 in banknotes issued by the Drovers national. More than twice Mr. O'Shea's investment. I want you to hold this money in escrow, as it were, to prove my good faith." (21:47–22:11)
• The money is checked and appears legitimate, and O'Shea resumes his excitement over the great “investment.”

5. Whiskey Shortage & Further Troubles

• Flooding cuts off the town, and O'Shea’s whiskey supply is depleted. The express agent, Eve Tucker, holds the additional barrels, only releasing them at an exorbitant markup:
  • O'Shea: "He offered me a price on it. Doc, do you know what that no good crowbait horse thief wants me to pay for my own whiskey? $100 a barrel. Why, I ain't never paid more than $12..." (24:40)
• Kale is soon found to be the intermediary who bought the whiskey with O'Shea’s own initial investment and sold it back to him at a vast profit.

6. The Final Twist: Out-sharped and Out of Town!

• O'Shea discovers the ruse as Doc lays out the scam. Kale has vanished, taking O’Shea’s horse and all available cash.
  • O'Shea: "That no good, pusillanimous cutthroat. He bought my whiskey with my own money and sold it back to me at $100 a barrel." (27:17)
• However, O’Shea retains the $5,000 in Drover’s banknotes and boasts a profit—until the final double-cross is revealed:
  • Dr. Sixgun: "The Drover's bank in Chisholm City went bust... There ain't a nickel left in it." (29:56–30:02)
  • O'Shea: "He knew, Doc. He knew. He knew all the time." (30:16)
• The genuine notes are now worthless paper. O’Shea faints, and the bar erupts in rueful laughter.

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Memorable Dialogue & Notable Moments

• Pablo’s Narration on Twists of Fortune: "He was a cheerful little man... All the rest of the evening, he sat at the table at the bull run and told us tales of that fabulous land far across old baldy creek, which was his natural habitat." (11:23)
• Banter over “Prospecti” vs. Prospecting:
  • Kale: "I know nothing of prospecting, but prospecti. Ah, that is a different story." (10:50)
  • Dr. Sixgun: "Do I understand that you're referring to the Latin plural of prospectus?" (10:58)
• O’Shea’s Humble Investment Ambitions: "How'd you like to be in on the inside of the biggest financial syndicate since John Jacob Astor?" (19:34)
• The Endgame and Irony:
  • Dr. Sixgun: "The Drover's bank in Chisholm City went bust." (30:02)
  • O'Shea (before fainting): "He knew, Doc. He knew. He knew all the time." (30:16)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:23] Introduction of Pablo and scene-setting in the saloon
• [04:59] Arrival of Dr. Sixgun, talk of hardships and floods
• [09:25] Jared P. Kale’s flamboyant entrance
• [19:28] O’Shea pitches Dr. Sixgun the “biggest financial syndicate”
• [21:47] Kale’s good faith escrow—and the setup for the con
• [23:23] O’Shea’s whiskey woes and discovery of the price gouge
• [27:08] The scam is exposed, leading to pursuit of Kale
• [28:28] O’Shea discovers the “profit” left behind—the $5,000 in banknotes
• [30:02] The ultimate twist: the bank has failed, money is worthless
• [30:16] O’Shea’s realization and faint

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Tone & Style Highlights

The episode is marked by sharp, humorous dialogue, Western slang, and playful ribbing. The interplay between the skeptical Dr. Sixgun and the increasingly aggrieved O’Shea gives the story both its comic and cautionary edge. The writing maintains a lively, earthy tone with quick-witted exchanges, period-appropriate bluster, and a wry take on classic confidence tricks—proving the “frontier spirit” was as vulnerable to hucksters as any city.

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Closing Thoughts

This Dr. Sixgun adventure captures both the grit and folly of frontier life, cleverly weaving a tale about the dangers of easy money, the seduction of big schemes, and the constant adaptability demanded by life in the Old West. The episode’s ironic ending—where even an apparent windfall evaporates into thin air—is classic Western morality with a wink.

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A memorable quote to close:

"How do you like that? The confounded little sharper out sharped himself. Doggone if I don't make...let me see—the $3200 in the deal."
— O’Shea (28:41)
(Moments before he learns the bank has gone bust.)

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This episode artfully demonstrates the timelessness of human gullibility and the enduring charm of Old Time Radio storytelling.

Transcript

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[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Here in the Territory, we occasionally hear tales of the great men back in the east. The railroad barons, the great meat packers of Chicago and St. Louis, the Wizards of high finance who hunt their prey on the streets of Boston and Philadelphia and New York. We hear of the private railway cars with crystal chandeliers and the great estates with street stained glass windows and pipe organs in the living rooms we hear of these tales and we are impressed by such enterprise and genius. Of course, we too have our wizards of commerce. I myself am one. And who am I? Pablo the gypsy peddler. And this is my friend, Midnight.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Midnight.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

He is only a bird, but he too is a merchant prince.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

100% knock up, he boasts.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

But don't you believe it. He never makes better than 60%. But perhaps the greatest example of the modern captain of industry that we have ever seen here in the territory was Jared P. Kale. I first met him one day when I was sitting in the Bull Run saloon and in through the swing doors came my good friend, Duck Six Gun. It had been raining for a week and Doc poured the water out of his hat and sat down at my table.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Need webbed feet to get across from the livery stable.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Well, Doc, is it still raining?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Haven't you been outside?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

In weather like this, Doc, a sane man stays under a dry roof near a warm stove and a full bottle.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, unfortunately, they don't post little things like childbirth for the weather.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Oh.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Anyone I know?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Marley Younger, out of Cottonwood Flats.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

I thought the bridge was out across the river up that way.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

It is. I had to swim my horse across.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

But you must have gotten soaked.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I did. I dried out a little bit at the livery stable, though. No use changing. I've got to go back out in about an hour. The hand out at the barrel lay with some kind of fever. I promised I'd look in on him.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

How is the river out at the Cottonwood Flats?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, I'd say it was lucky Molly made up her mind to deliver when she did. Won't even be able to swim it for the night.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

It's a funny thing, Doc. Last summer the ranchers lost half their stock in drought and now they may lose the other half by floating.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That's pretty bad all over. Rio Verde's over the banks. Dead Man's Canyon's a lake.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Evening, Doc. You look a little damned. I am. Can I get you something?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

The usual laugh.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Ain't no coffee left in the pot, Doc. I'll have to make up some fresh. Be about 10 minutes. Say, you hear about the stage yesterday? No. They had to float her across the river to get into town. Looked like a flatboat going down to New Orleans in old days, like the broke loose and floated downstream with two gals sitting on the top screaming. And Charlie Peters throwing parcels out like it was a sinking ship in the storm.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

They get through all right?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah, sure, sure. Charlie says he don't know whether the coach Will get through tonight, though. They'll have to go around south by the Platte and see if they can get across Old Baldy Creek.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Well, sounds like we're surrounded.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

I reckon we are in a way.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Suppose it'll stop raining, though. Doesn't take Baldy long to dry up even after a flood stage is in.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What do you know?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

O' Shea set me up a double of that poison of yours. I couldn't be no wetter if I was a blue trout hid under a rock.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

How'd you make it, Charlie?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, I'll tell you, o'. Shea. I drove around this town like Joshua around the walls of Jericho. Went clear up around Rio Verde and then back around old Baldy. Finally swimmer across at ford.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

How's the river?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Hell, I tell you, I felt like a Mississippi steamboat captain if I had to make this trip anymore. I'm. I'm gonna mount a paddle wheel on the hind end of my coach and trade in my reins for a rudder. Now quit palavering, o'. Shea.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

And poor you know I'd like to see that, Charlie. The Overland stage with smokestack and grand Ceylon complete with ferro game and brass.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, it ain't so doggone funny with that little shirt tailed crick roaring like his Colorado river in flood time. I'll tell you one thing. I ain't taking that coach back tomorrow morning. I'll stay right here while I get my wheels on the ground again. Say, Charlie, did you get my box through all right? Got medical supplies I'll be needing. Oh, it's. It's all right, Doc. I had it tied to the top right alongside the mail pouch. Lucky I tied it down. I lost a crate of chickens and three bolts of calico. I darn near lost a passenger.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

A PA Oat be fool enough to ride over from Chisholm City in weather like this.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

A little scrunchy Easterner like to blew away when we come over the pass. When we got into Old Baldy, we must have hit a rock. Cause first thing I know, the guards hollering, man overboard. We had to rope him and drag him behind till we hit solid mud on the other side. Then we hauled him back on board and hid him next to your medicine box. I ain't never seen a sorrier sight since my hound dog fell into the tar barrel last fall. Well, was he hurt? And maybe I better go see him. Well, you might as well ask him, Doc. That's him coming through the door now.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

You sure it's the same fella? He ain't Covered with no mud.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Oh, he's dressed as pretty as a New Orleans gambler from the Mardi Gras.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Same fella, all right, but he shouldn't. Sure didn't look like that when I seen him last. Beats me.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Good evening, gentlemen. Good evening.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Mine host. A glass.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

You mean me?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Why, yes.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

I think if you are the proprietor of this establishment.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah, yeah, that's me. What'll it be, mister?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Oh, do I have a choice?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah. Barrel or bottle?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Bottle, I think. My good friend, the charioteer, recovering from your labors, I see.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Where'd you get them dry clothes, mister? Last time I seen you, you looked like a happy sow in a mud hole.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Well, I thought it best to freshen up a little before meeting the citizenry of this fair town. I must thank you, my man, for a delightful trip. A bit nautical in spots, but otherwise delightful.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

O', Shea, pour me another.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Permit me to introduce myself, gentlemen. I am Jared P. Kale, late of Wall Street.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Wall? Oh, you mean that block in Chisholm City where all them dance halls and other places is?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I refer to the Wall street gentleman. The original.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Surely you've heard of him. You mean in New York City?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Ah, a cosmopolite in the wilderness.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now, look here, you. You can't go calling doc things like that you don't even know.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That's all right, o'. Shea. Mr. Gail means it as a compliment.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Didn't sound like no compliment to me.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

May I have the pleasure, sir?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I'm Dr. Matson.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Dr. A divinity or veterinary medicine?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Just plain MD, I'm afraid.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

A pleasure, sir. A pleasure. Ah, my good publican. This, I take it, is my refreshment.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

It's whiskey. I don't guarantee nothing.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

It will do. Lovely weather we're having. I find the practice of agronomy benefits from the rain, don't you?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

We don't have none of that out here, Only crops.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Crops?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Oh, yes.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

I have begun to get the notion, gentlemen, that I have come to the right town.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

You do?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Precisely, gentlemen. Precisely.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

May I ask what brings you to Frenchman Ford, Mr. Cave?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Vision.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Vision, gentlemen.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Is that right?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Gentlemen, I ask you, where is the future of this country? Where is the land which holds the destiny of this vast nation? Where is the manifest golden treasure to be found?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Shirts. Me?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

You. A prospect?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Oh, gentlemen, I know nothing of prospecting, but prospecti. Ah, that is a different story.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What kind of heathen talk is that?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Do I understand that you're referring to the Latin plural of prospectus?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

How delightful to find a classic Scholar here in the wilderness.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I don't get what you're driving at, Mr. Cave.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

You will, doctor. You and the entire nation when the time is right. In the meantime, gentlemen, I offer you a toast. To frenchman's ford, the happy hunting ground. Hunt?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, you've come to the wrong place, mister. You ain't gonna do nothing but hunt for fish until it's your rain stop.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Precisely, gentlemen. Precisely. Shall we drink to it? He was a cheerful little man, and he was dressed something like a cross between a minister, a banker and an undertaker. He had fine, silky mutton chop whiskers, and the rest of his face was smooth as a baby's. All the rest of the evening, he sat at the table at the bull run and told us tales of that fabulous land far across old baldy creek, which was his natural habitat. It was then that I said to fisk, jim, mark my words, you'll never corner the gold market without my help. But did he listen, gentlemen?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Did he?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Oh, not Jim Fisk. And of course, you all know the result.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

But that reminds me of a similar occasion when I was consulted by William Vincent astor on the matter of real estate bill. I told him 42nd street may be out in the country today, but someday it will be valuable real estate. Doc had been called away on his case early in the evening, and when he got back, Mr. Kale had retired to his lodgings, and o' shea was cleaning the bar.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

I'll be with you in a minute, doc. I kept the coffee pot on the back of the stove. It's strong as boiled gunpowder, but it's coffee.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Thanks, o'. Shea. Well, that's the end of it. Up at the rio verde, there was a log jam up at the box canyon gave way. Nobody's going to get across that river anymore.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah. Here you are, doc. She's hot, but she'll claw your throat on the way down.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Good.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Say, you missed all entertainment, doc.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Somebody get shot?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

No, no, with real peaceful evening. I mean that typhoon.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Typhoon?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah, that financial genius. Ain't that what you call him?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I don't think so. A typhoon is a big win.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah, well, anyways, he can really spin a yarn. Did you know that Jim fisk built a house with corners made out of pure gold?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

No, I can't say as I heard that.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well, he tried to. Mr. Kale told him he couldn't do it. I reckon the gold didn't hold nails.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Sounds like an exciting evening.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah. Yeah, it was. I didn't have no idea at all, doc. That Them bankers and such worked like that. According to this here Kale, running the bank is like drawing to a inside straight in a strange town with other fellers.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Deck, that sounds like good description.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now of course, if you know the dealer, it's different, ain't it, Doc? I suppose so.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That's what I figured.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well, good night, Doc.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Wait a minute, O', Shea, what are you talking about? What did this Mr. Kale tell you?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well now, Doc, you wouldn't want me to violate a confidence, would you?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, no, no, I suppose not.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well, all I can tell you, Doc, is that when this here town becomes the roaring bustling metropolis of the New Atlantis, just you wait and see who is going to have the biggest saloon o'.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Say, you've been drinking your own whiskey.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

No, Doc, but just wait and see, that's all.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

It rained again the next day and the day after. Doc was busy in town with an endless stream of sore throats and fevers from the cold and damp. But in the Bull Run, strange things were happening.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Hey, o'.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Shea.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

O', Shea. Where is that lop eared swill serving idiot?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

What's the matter, Charlie?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Yeah, peddler. I've been standing here for five mortal minutes waiting to turn over my good money for that bad whiskey. Nary hiding her hair of o' Shea of a scene.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

He wouldn't leave the bar unattended.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I'd reach over and dip up some of that whiskey if I wasn't afraid my hand would dissolve in the fumes.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

O', Shea, keep your shirt on.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

How do you like that? Why, a man in his position is a public servant.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

It's.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

It's like me with the mail. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor saddle sores nor hostile Indians is supposed to keep me from my duty and concern. It. It ought to be the same with him.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now what is the idea, Charlie, making a racket like that?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Are you still selling whiskey or you giving up and going in a dry good?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Hang on, you'll get your drink. I got more important things to do than dish out rot gut to can tankerous stage driver.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Now wait a minute. Just hold on.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What's the matter?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Now listen, o', Shea, it's. It's all right for me to call your whiskey poison and rot gut, but it. It ain't fitting for you to do it.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What are you blithering about now?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, if you ain't got no confidence in your stock, well, I ain't going to buy none. I'll just take my trade somewheres else.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah, just where do you figure to take it, Charlie? I got the only saloon in Frenchman's Ford and this here town is surrounded on four sides by water. The only other drink you can get retail is a physic up to dock six guns or horse liniment down to the livery stable. The only other whiskey in town is enclosed barrels down to the express office and that is on consignment to me.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I reckon you're right. Well, in that case, I guess I'll reconsider.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

That's better. Now what'll it be? Barrel or bottle?

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

We didn't discover the fiscal influence of Mr. Kale until the next day when Doc dropped in for dinner at the Bull Run.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Doc, have you ever been in on the ground floor? Often.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That's where I keep my horse.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Oh, now, Doc, be serious. I mean it. How'd you like to be in on the inside of the biggest financial syndicate since John Jacob Astor?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Not very much.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now, Doc, that ain't the way to talk.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Oh, Shay, just what is all this? Is that Kale fellow working some Scotch skin game on you?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Doc, it ain't no skin game. He's on the level.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Oh, sure, sure.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

I mean it, Doc. You are talking to the president of the Frenchman's Ford Land and Natural Resources Development Company. Cale's the treasurer.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I figured he would be.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now, Doc, you lack confidence.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I certainly do. Just what are you developing with this company, o'?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Shea? Well, you know, like it says, natural resources. Doc, you're a good friend of mine and I want to give you a chance before the small, smart Wall street men snap up all the stock.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Oh, Shay, you simple minded idiot. Why don't you just take your money and put it in a great big gunny sack and hand it to this sharp?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now, Doc, you ain't being fair. Mr. Kale ain't no sharper. He's a financier.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I can't understand it, o'.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Shea.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

You can spot a deadbeat in the Bull Run the length of the bar.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

How can you be so confounded foolish.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

About Kale, Doctor, if you really think.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

He'S going to skin, why, he's practically got you stuffed and mounted.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

I don't know. He sounds real convincing when he gets to talk about them railroad fellers and millionaires and all.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Look, look, o', Shea, have you given him any money yet?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

No, not yet.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That's good. There isn't a doubt in my mind that your Mr. Jared Kale is crooked as a dog's hind leg.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Ah, Doctor, good morning. Did I hear you mention my name?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

You might have.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Doc here says it's a skin game. He says you're out to police me. Well, well, we meet that sort of.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Thing all the time in our profession. Don't let it worry you, Mr. O'.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Shea. What do you mean, don't let it worry me? Are you or ain't you, Mr. O'?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Shea?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

I know of only one way to meet an insinuation of this sort. Now, how much money have we discussed as your share of the capital investment?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

$2,000. Where?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Gentlemen, do you recognize this banknote?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Yes, that's a note on the Drovers bank of Chisholm City.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

A sound bank, gentleman.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Yes.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Well, Here, sir, are $5,000 in banknotes issued by the Drovers national. More than twice Mr. O' Shea's investment. Here you are, Doc.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

What do you mean? What are you giving them to me for?

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

I want you to hold this money in escrow, as it were, to prove my good faith. This would more than cover any money Mr. O' Shea risks in the company.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well, now, that seems fair, don't it, Doc?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, yes, I suppose it does. They're good notes, all right.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Well, there you are, Doc. I trust my reputation is once more unsullied. And now, Mr. O', Shea, a word with you in your private office.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Why, I ain't got no office. But if we kind of crouch behind the bar, down at the end, we can be private.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

I don't think that will be necessary. But we must plan. We have great things to accomplish, you.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

And I.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

Doc showed the banknotes around town. There was no doubt they were genuine notes on the Drover's national, not counterfeit. And o' Shea went on planning the development of the natural resources of Frenchman's Fort. It was about this time that o' Shea found he had other troubles. He showed up at Doc's place looking a little red at the back of the neck.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Doc, you gotta give me something.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Oh, what is it, o', Shea, you're back again.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

No, it's my head and my stomach, Doc. I'm so mad, I'm just coming apart. I gotta talk to somebody.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Now, look, hold on, o'. Shea. What is it you want somebody to listen to your troubles or a dose of salt?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

I don't rightly know, Doc. It is the most aggravating, outrageous.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Take it easy, o'. Shea.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

You know what happened. What? With the town cut off by the flood, I had pretty good business going on, and I ran plumb through the four barrels of whiskey I had in the place. So, naturally, I go down to the express office to pick up half a dozen more barrels. I just leave them down there until I'm ready for him, and he, tucker, takes a storage out and trade.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Now, relax, o', Shea. You'll have a stroke.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well, I'm likely to. I tell you, Doc, if you're called on to plug up a couple of bullet holes in E. Tucker, you'll know who done it.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Just what is it?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well, I went down there to pick up my stock and that lily livered sheep herder has got the nerve to tell me it ain't mine.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

What do you mean?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

He says I didn't pay for the whiskey when it first come in. And since it ain't been claimed, my option on it run out.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That doesn't sound like Eve Tucker.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

He offered me a price on it. Doc, do you know what that no good crowbait horse thief wants me to pay for my own whiskey? $100 a barrel. Why, I ain't never paid more than $12 since I opened a saloon.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

You're not gonna pay it, are you?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

That's just the miserable part of a Doc. I ain't got no choice. What with the town cut off with no whiskey, I close up.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Why don't you?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Doc, have you got any idea what my life would be worth in this town if I cut off the only supply of whiskey at a time like this? I'd lose all the goodwill I ever had. I've just got to pay that miserable old coot his $100 a barrel and take a lick.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Oh, Shay, maybe I better go have a talk with Eve Tucker. Something fishy in this whole deal.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

I wish you'd do something, Doc. I already paid him $500, Doc. He's got me over a barrel.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

It was that day that the rain finally stopped. And the day after that, Doc finally got the chance to go down and talk with Eve Bucker. When he got back to the saloon, o' Shea was in a foul mood.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Doc, would you say it was justifiable homicide If I took my.45 and went down and shot E. Tucker full of hoes?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Hold on, o'. Shea. I think I'm getting to the bottom of this.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Well, I tell you, I'm getting to the bottom of my cashbox. And you was afraid that Mr. Kale was a crock.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That reminds me, O', Shea, how much money did you give Mr. Kale? You were talking about $2,000.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now, Doc, you are on the wrong track. I didn't give no $2,000. I didn't give him but 130 till his letter of credit could get through the flood.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

130, huh? That just about comes out right, huh?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What do you mean?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I just had a long talk with Eve Tucker. I pointed a few things out to him. O'. Shea. Such as he's got to keep living in this town when the flood goes down. And I think he saw the light. He told me he was acting as a salesman when he sold you that whiskey.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What do you mean, a salesman?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I mean he didn't own it. Somebody came around and bought up a whole lot of whiskey from him for $130.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Now, who in town here would go around buying barrel whiskey for a hundred and thirty dollars?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

That's right.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

And Eve Tucker was just selling the whiskey for this fella? That's right, Pale. That no good, pusillanimous cutthroat. He bought my whiskey with my own money and sold it back to me at $100 a barrel.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Now, wait a minute, O'. Shea.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Hold on. I'm telling you, Doc, get out of my way. I'm gonna find that high vine and horn toad and fill him full of legs.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Now wait a minute, o'. Shea.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

You won't find it.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What do you mean I won't? He can't get get far. Not with them rivers roaring around town.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Old Baldy was down three feet this morning. Andy Michaels saw Mr. Kale Ford the creek around 10 o'.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Clock. You mean he got away? Look out, Doc. I'm going to get my horse. What?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I'm afraid he was riding your horse.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Doc. You got your satchel ready? Yes. I think I'm likely to faint.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

How much do you figure he got away with, o'?

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Shea? Well, I guess about close to eighteen hundred dollars, counting the horse.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, then you've got the last laugh.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

How's that?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I guess he didn't have a chance to finish out whatever his scheme was.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What more could he take? My pants.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Oh, no, no. I mean he. He left this.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What's that?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

The $5,000 in Drover's banknotes. I guess they're yours.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Oh, hey, that's right. I clean forgot about that, Doc. And these is good note.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Everybody in town says so. No doubt of it. This is a genuine $5,000 in Drover's national bank note.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

How do you like that? The confounded little sharper out sharped himself. Doggone if I don't make. Let me see the $3200 in the deal.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Congratulations, O'. Shea.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

I guess you developed at least one.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Natural resource in Frenchman's Fort.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

I guess I did. Doggon a duck. I gotta celebrate, boys. The drinks is on the house. Doc, are you sure I can't set you up for some time?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

I'll take it out in beach state. Come in.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

$3200. I'll be doggone. Clotting his own traps.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Chisholm City. The stage is in.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Charlie. Charlie, step right up. The drinks is on the house. I'm celebrating.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, that's just fine. Make mine a double.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yes, sir. We're gonna celebrate. Well.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Say the darndest news. Al Evans come in driving the stage. Just told me. You'd never guess in a million years.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

Yeah, what is it?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

The Drover's bank in Chisholm City went bust.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

What?

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Yeah, it was all over a week and a half ago. There ain't a nickel left in it. Why, it must have happened just before I drove that last stage over to Frenchman's Ford. Big news like that. And we didn't hear a word of it on account of the flood.

[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

He knew, Doc. He knew. He knew all the time.

[Dr. Six Gun (Ray Matson, MD)]

Well, who knew? Who knew why? Funniest thing you ever saw. Folks in Chisholm City using them Drover's banknotes to stuff up holes in the wind. They ain't worth the paper they're printed on. Well, o', Shea, how about another still on the house? Charlie, go over to my table and get my satchel.

[Pablo the Gypsy Peddler]

He fainted.

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[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

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[O' Shea (Bartender/Saloon Owner)]

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