Dirt {reused script} | Gunsmoke (11-27-60)

Summary

Old Time Radio Westerns – Episode Summary

Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Episode: “Dirt {reused script}” | Gunsmoke (11-27-60)
Date: August 24, 2025

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Episode Theme & Purpose

This episode features a digitally restored broadcast of a 1960 “Gunsmoke” radio drama, presenting a classic Old West tale of love, jealousy, and violence in Dodge City. Marshal Matt Dillon finds himself trying to avert tragedy when a wedding is threatened by both open and hidden dangers. The story explores the tension between past grievances, family pride, and the sometimes tragic unpredictability of human emotion.

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Key Discussion Points and Story Breakdown

1. The Tension Before the Wedding

• [03:51] The episode opens with rising tension in the saloon between Nate Sybert, a wealthy rancher soon to marry Polly Troyman, and her brother Henry. Accusations of honor, Southern pride, and calls to duel reveal simmering conflict:

  • Nate Sybert: “No man’s gonna shame my sister, sir!”
  • Matt Dillon: “Marriage is your problem, Sybert. Just don’t kill any of them, that’s all.”

• Matt Dillon, ever the peacekeeper, breaks up what could have become a deadly quarrel, reminding everyone what’s at stake.

2. Community Perspectives & Motives

• [06:19] Kitty and Doc, two regulars in Dodge, reflect on the Troyman family’s motives for the marriage, with undertones of economic necessity and faded southern gentility:
  • Kitty: “They used to be rich, Matt, back in Virginia. Why do you think they’re so happy to marry Polly off…?”
  • Matt: “Except for Polly. I think she’s real fond of Sybert.”
  • There's gossip about Nate’s wandering ways and hopes marriage might settle him.

3. The Threatening Note

• [09:13] Chester brings a cryptic, unsigned warning:
  • “If Nate Sybert marries that Troyman girl, there’ll be a killing. I’m warning the law to stop it before it’s too late.”
• The threat sets Matt and Chester on alert, prompting consultation with Sybert, who dismisses specific enemies but vows to be ready:
  • Sybert: “I’ll be wearing a gun too, Marshal.”

4. Seeking Preventative Answers

• [15:13] Marshal Dillon visits the Troyman family, delicately probing for suspects who might wish the union harm. Suspicion briefly falls on a spurned suitor, but Polly insists there’s no one left with such feeling.

  • Polly: “Red Withers and I broke off two months before that… There wasn’t anybody else.”

• Henry levels an accusation at Sybert, but Matt defends the groom’s integrity.

5. The Wedding – Under Threat

• [17:27] The wedding proceeds under the watchful eyes of Matt and Chester, who scan for any sign of the would-be assailant.
  • Nate Sybert (at the altar): “For as much as Nate and Polly have consented together in holy wedlock…”
• The ceremony ends without overt incident. Sybert throws off concern with forced confidence:
  • Sybert: “I guess that warning wasn’t much to worry about after all.”

6. The Shooting

• [23:48] As the newlyweds cross a bridge in their buggy, shots ring out. Nate is hit and seriously wounded.

  • Polly (distressed): “My soul. Marshal, they shot him!”
  • She did not see the attacker.

• Dillon organizes rapid action and begins tracking the assailant from the scene.

7. The Revelation: Crazy Beulah

• [25:27] Matt's investigation leads to the cabin of Crazy Beulah—a mentally unwell woman once noted for her beauty and now an outcast.
  • Beulah (to Matt): "I warned you, Marshal! I told you to stop the wedding... Why didn’t you stop it?”
  • Beulah confesses: she shot Nate out of spurned affection and jealousy. Her sense of betrayal is palpable but poorly grounded in reality.

8. Aftermath and Resolution

• [28:34] Nate survives the attack, though faintly remorseful about his offhand entanglement with Beulah:
  • Nate Sybert: “Well, I got drunk one night, Marshal. She kind of chased after me. I tried to keep out of her way.”
• Matt muses on whether the truth will reach Polly—Nate’s new bride—and narrates Beulah’s eventual transport to relatives far away.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Matt Dillon to Chesterton, on vigilance:
  “[The wedding] could happen right out here.” (18:16)

• Matt to Sybert after the shooting:
  “It wasn’t a ‘he’, Sybert. It was a ‘she’. Crazy Beulah. I just locked her up.” (29:05)

• Beulah’s delusional heartbreak:
  “I warned you, Marshal! …He wouldn’t even look at me on the street after…and then he up and married that Troyman girl.” (25:39, 26:03)

• Sybert, resigned about the tragedy:
  “I might even tell [Polly] the truth.” (30:11)

• Matt on Beulah’s fate:
  “She seemed quite happy about the trip [to St. Louis] and more normal than I’d ever seen her.” (30:38)

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Important Timestamps

• Saloon Confrontation: 03:51–05:13
• Community Gossip, Foreshadowing: 06:19–07:34
• The Threatening Note: 09:13–09:58
• Questioning the Troyman Family: 15:13–16:58
• Wedding Ceremony & Watchfulness: 17:27–18:44
• Post-wedding Shooting: 23:48–24:29
• Matt confronts Beulah: 25:27–27:36
• Nate’s Hospital Bed Confession: 28:34–30:18
• Final Reflections/Beulah’s Departure: 30:38–31:36

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Tone & Style

The dialogue preserves the characteristic blend of stoic humor and hard-won empathy that marked classic Gunsmoke. Tension mounts steadily, but Marshal Dillon’s calm and humanity steer the episode clear of melodrama, highlighting the real emotional toll of violence and heartbreak on the frontier.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode offers a suspenseful narrative, blending romance, family pride, and the unpredictable danger of unrequited love set against a beautifully atmospheric soundscape. It’s an especially poignant story about the unseen costs of rumors, failed dreams, and how the community relies on the marshal’s steady hand not only for law but also for compassion.

Even if you’ve never heard Gunsmoke before, this restored audio drama offers the full flavor of Old West storytelling—sharp dialogue, moral complexity, and deeply human stakes.

Transcript

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[Polly Troyman]

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[Andrew Rines]

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.

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[Matt Dillon]

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[Nate Sybert]

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[Matt Dillon]

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[Nate Sybert]

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[Matt Dillon]

Good evening, Mr. Sybert.

[Nate Sybert]

Oh Henry, I buy you a drink? No thank you sir. What you come into a saloon for if he ain't gonna drink? No offense Mr. Sabbath. I just don't feel like a drink. Well, man's free to do what he feels like, you know. Up to a point, he is. You're all alike, you Southerners. We keep our word to men and to women. Now, is that what you're here for? To see that I don't run off? No man's gonna shame my sister, sir. What are you talking about? I'm gonna marry her in two days. Yes, sir, you are. Look, Henry, we postponed the wedding last month because I had to go to Abilene on business. I run a big ranch, and it takes a lot of hard work and time. And the ranch comes first. Now, can you get that through your head? I understand. I just hope for your sake you don't have to go anywhere this time. Polly wasn't proud having to call off the wedding last month. Now, suppose you leave that to me and Polly. And keep your puppy nose out of this. I don't care for that remark, Mr. Sabitz. No, and let's see what a young Confederate gentleman does about something he don't care for.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, go ahead.

[Nate Sybert]

You're wearing a gun. You can't bluff me.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, hold it, you two.

[Nate Sybert]

Oh, get this little whipper snapper off my back, Marshall, before I shoot.

[Matt Dillon]

That's enough, Savage. All right, Henry, get out of here. Go drink someplace else tonight.

[Nate Sybert]

I'm not drinking, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

It's still ahead. Now get out anyway.

[Nate Sybert]

All right, sir. Don't you forget what I said, Mr. Sybert. I don't know if I ought to marry into a family like that or not.

[Matt Dillon]

Marion's your problem. Cybers. Just don't kill any of them, that's all.

[Nate Sybert]

Have a drink, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

I've got one at the table over there. Thanks.

[Nate Sybert]

Later maybe, huh?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, maybe.

[Nate Sybert]

You sure have stopped that just in time, Max.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah.

[Nate Sybert]

That kid wouldn't have had a chance against Nate Cybers.

[Matt Dillon]

No, but he'd have tried it anyway.

[Nate Sybert]

Not gonna make a real happy Firmlin now.

[Matt Dillon]

They'll get along, Kitty, Sybert's and Polly, anyway.

[Nate Sybert]

They will if Henry and his father give him a chance. Too bad Mrs. Torman isn't still alive. She'd handle it better.

[Matt Dillon]

They're nervous about the wedding, that's all.

[Nate Sybert]

Yeah, and about Sybert's money. They needed that.

[Matt Dillon]

They used to be rich, Kitty, back in Virginia.

[Nate Sybert]

Sure, before the war. Why do you think they're so happy to be able to marry Polly off to a big rancher like Sybert? You know what it's supposed to you.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, except for Polly, I Think she's real fond of cybers.

[Nate Sybert]

He's fond of her too. After all, she's a woman, isn't she?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, I know, but maybe you'll settle down now. Quit running around so much.

[Nate Sybert]

I hope so, for her sake. When's the wedding match? They have tomorrow.

[Matt Dillon]

That's what they say.

[Nate Sybert]

You're going, aren't you?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah.

[Nate Sybert]

I love wedding.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, Kitty, that reminds me. I saw Polly on the street the other day and she asked me to tell you that you'd be welcome at the wedding if you want to come.

[Polly Troyman]

She did?

[Matt Dillon]

Uh huh.

[Nate Sybert]

I've only met her at the store in her arm.

[Matt Dillon]

Seems like she likes you anyway. That's what she said.

[Nate Sybert]

Jean Matthews. Do you think I should?

[Matt Dillon]

You were invited by the bride. I don't know why not?

[Nate Sybert]

Well, maybe I'd better think it over. You've got enough trouble if it is. Anyway, I feel kind of good her asking me.

[Matt Dillon]

They're just people, Kitty, like anybody else.

[Nate Sybert]

Yeah, I take you. If there's anything I hate, it's a liar. Mac.

[Matt Dillon]

What's the trouble now, Doc?

[Nate Sybert]

Ah, these eggs. The cook swore they were fresh. I know darn well they've been put down in water glass.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, why don't you raise some chickens then?

[Nate Sybert]

I would, but it just create a whole new class of feed. Chicken feet.

[Matt Dillon]

Seems to me you're in for a bad day, Doc. You started feeling this way.

[Nate Sybert]

I'd sooner trust crazy Beulah over there than most people I know around here.

[Matt Dillon]

Crazy Beulah?

[Nate Sybert]

Yeah.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, yeah. I haven't seen her in a long time.

[Nate Sybert]

Funny thing about her, man. She's still sort of pretty.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, but you look in her eyes, she is. That's something, Doc, I can't help feeling sorry for her.

[Nate Sybert]

I know nothing anyone can do to help her.

[Matt Dillon]

No, I guess not.

[Nate Sybert]

She came to see me a couple of weeks ago. She had the agio and she paid my fee too. And if crazy bureau can pay up, you'd think the more prosperous citizens around here could. I sometimes wonder about these people matter.

[Matt Dillon]

Maybe you charge too much.

[Nate Sybert]

If I charge nothing, they'd still cheat me somehow. More.

[Polly Troyman]

Ms. John.

[Nate Sybert]

Just look at this. Read it right.

[Matt Dillon]

If Nate Siebert marries that Tran girl, there'll be a killing. I'm warning the law to stop it before it's too late. There's no signature. Where'd you get this, Chester?

[Nate Sybert]

It was under the office door when I opened up this morning. What do you make of it? Let me see. It's printed. I thought I might recognize the handwriting.

[Matt Dillon]

That's why he printed it, I guess.

[Nate Sybert]

Well, I wouldn't want to be in Nate Savage boots. Young Henry's gonna shoot him if he doesn't marry Polly. And here's somebody who's gonna shoot him if he does. All in all, it'll make for a lively tomorrow.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, I think we better talk to Sybert's about this Chester he sent over.

[Nate Sybert]

At the Dodge House till after the wedding.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, I know. So long, Doc. Have a pleasant day.

[Nate Sybert]

Yeah, sure, Matt. Yeah, come on. Well, Marshall. Chester. Oh, Nate.

[Matt Dillon]

Like to talk to you, Savage.

[Nate Sybert]

Sure, Marshall. Come on in. Come here.

[Matt Dillon]

Chester found this note at the jail this morning.

[Nate Sybert]

Now, who wrote this?

[Matt Dillon]

I thought maybe you could tell me.

[Nate Sybert]

No, I got no idea, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

And you think of anybody who doesn't want you to get married severed.

[Nate Sybert]

I got enemies.

[Matt Dillon]

Sure.

[Nate Sybert]

What man hasn't? But they don't have nothing to do with me and Polly. What do they care if I get married? Well, maybe it's just a joke somebody's kind of playing on you. Mighty poor joke under the circumstances, I suppose it would be. My old man told me to stay away from women a long time ago. Should listen to them.

[Matt Dillon]

A little late now.

[Nate Sybert]

Yeah.

[Matt Dillon]

If you get any idea, let me know, will you? Anyway, we'll be at the wedding. We'll do what we can.

[Nate Sybert]

I'll be wearing a gun too, Marshall. You can count on that.

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[Matt Dillon]

I didn't like the idea of a groom having to wear a six gun at his wedding, and even less the fact that a shooting might take place in church. So I went out to see the Troyman. Polly came to the door and ushered me into the front room where Father and Henry were sitting. Can we fetch you something, Marshal? Glass of bourbon? No, thank you, Mr. Troyman.

[Nate Sybert]

It wouldn't be very good bourbon, I'm afraid.

[Matt Dillon]

Prices are up, money's down, Things haven't been easy lately.

[Nate Sybert]

But we're not with this family anyway.

[Polly Troyman]

Please, Father.

[Matt Dillon]

Polly, I hate to bother you this way, but it's important.

[Polly Troyman]

Nothing happened to Nate.

[Nate Sybert]

If he's run off, I'll find him. Quiet, Henry. Let the Marshal speak.

[Matt Dillon]

He's all right, Polly. I just want to know if you can think of anybody who'd try to put a stop to the wedding tomorrow.

[Nate Sybert]

Try to stop it?

[Matt Dillon]

That's right.

[Polly Troyman]

Marshall. I don't understand what you.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, somebody's threatened to Polly. I don't know who it could be, and neither does Nate Seiberts. I talked to him about it. This is mighty strange, sir.

[Nate Sybert]

It sure is.

[Polly Troyman]

Is it true, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

Yes, it looks that way.

[Polly Troyman]

Well, who's not want us to get married?

[Matt Dillon]

Polly, when you took up with Nate Siberts. Was there anyone else who might have been jealous about it? Uncommonly jealous, I mean. Enough to start trouble tomorrow?

[Polly Troyman]

No, Marshall, there wasn't.

[Nate Sybert]

What about Red Withers?

[Polly Troyman]

Red Withers and I broke off two months before that, Henry. Besides, he's gone to Los Animas.

[Matt Dillon]

There wasn't anybody else?

[Polly Troyman]

No.

[Nate Sybert]

Marshall, have you thought that maybe Nate Cyrus himself might have started this?

[Matt Dillon]

He didn't.

[Nate Sybert]

How do you know he didn't do it? He ran out once before and he's like Henry.

[Matt Dillon]

He's not that kind of a man, Henry. That's why. Now, let's not get all upset about this. I promise you, Polly, that Chester and I'll be there tomorrow and we'll see that nothing goes wrong.

[Polly Troyman]

Thank you, Marshall.

[Nate Sybert]

I'll be there, too. Don't forget that.

[Matt Dillon]

Sure, Henry. But don't come wearing a gun.

[Nate Sybert]

Why not?

[Matt Dillon]

Because I'll take it off you if you do. You're too ready to use it.

[Nate Sybert]

Is there anything I can do, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

I'll let you know if there is, Mr. Truman. I'm sorry I had to trouble you with this.

[Polly Troyman]

I understand, Marshall. I thank you kindly. I'll see you to the door.

[Matt Dillon]

Thanks.

[Nate Sybert]

For as much as Nate and Polly have consented together in holy wedlock and have witnessed the same year before God and his company, and there too have given.

[Matt Dillon]

Come on, Chester.

[Nate Sybert]

Legislature either two others and have declared the same. Thank you. Well, I can see a lot of real fanny faces in there. Ms. John.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah? There's nobody outside here.

[Nate Sybert]

Yeah. That's Harbich's buggy right there, ain't it?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. He's driving Polly off to the ranch right after the ceremony. She didn't want a celebration of any kind.

[Nate Sybert]

Well, looks like there won't be no trouble after all. I sure hope not. On their wedding day and all.

[Matt Dillon]

It sounds like it's over. They'll be coming out now. Yes, sir. We'll stay close to them till they drive off. It could happen right out here.

[Nate Sybert]

Well, I'll watch whichever way. You ain't watching.

[Matt Dillon]

How would you know which way I'm watching unless you spend your time watching me, Chester.

[Nate Sybert]

Well, I'm sure I didn't mean exactly. Oh, here they come. Oh, my, don't they look pretty?

[Matt Dillon]

Congratulations, Cyber.

[Nate Sybert]

Ah, thanks, Marshall. Let's go over here a minute, huh?

[Matt Dillon]

Sure.

[Nate Sybert]

I guess that warning wasn't much to worry about after all.

[Matt Dillon]

It looks that way. You got nothing but friends here as far as I can see.

[Nate Sybert]

Sure unsettles a man, though, note like that.

[Matt Dillon]

And I think you can forget about it now, Severs.

[Nate Sybert]

I'll forget it when I find out who wrote it. Marshall, that's what I want to ask you. But if you learn anything about it, let me know. Will you promise me that?

[Matt Dillon]

What would you do if I did find out?

[Nate Sybert]

I'd kill him.

[Matt Dillon]

That's what I thought. Look, Sybert, you're married now, and you've got more than yourself to think about. I'm a peace officer. I'm paid for it. It's my job. And if I find out who wrote that note, I'll run him out of the country. And I'll try to keep you from finding out who it was.

[Nate Sybert]

I'm not a boy, Marshall. I'm not sure I appreciate your trying to protect me.

[Matt Dillon]

What about Polly?

[Nate Sybert]

Polly?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, all right.

[Nate Sybert]

I think I see what you mean.

[Matt Dillon]

Marshall, you're just not used to being married. Cyber. You better go on and start getting used to it. Paulie's looking for you over there.

[Nate Sybert]

Well, thanks. Marshall. Are there anything wrong with Dylan?

[Matt Dillon]

Come on, let's see him off. Goodbye.

[Nate Sybert]

Oh, my goodness.

[Polly Troyman]

What's going.

[Matt Dillon]

What's the matter? Justin?

[Nate Sybert]

Yeah. No, I. I'm just like old woman at a wedding. You know, they ought to have more weddings around here, but if you like.

[Matt Dillon]

Them that much, why don't you do something about it?

[Nate Sybert]

Oh, my land. What could I do?

[Matt Dillon]

Get married.

[Polly Troyman]

Me?

[Nate Sybert]

Get married?

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, why not?

[Nate Sybert]

Well, now, Mr. Jones, you know I wouldn't be able to do that. I don't make enough money to keep body and soul together just for me, let alone a wife and a lot of kids and in laws and such as that.

[Matt Dillon]

You could start with just a wife. Let's down that road Cyber took. Come on, grab a horse. Anybody's horse.

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[Nate Sybert]

There's a buggy just past the bridge there. And that mate all hunkered over. He must been hit.

[Matt Dillon]

Pull up so we don't scare the horse just yet. You take a look under the bridge.

[Nate Sybert]

That's right. Will.

[Polly Troyman]

My soul. Marzo. They shot him.

[Matt Dillon]

Is he dead, Paula?

[Polly Troyman]

He's breathing, but I couldn't drive the horse back and hold him too. Marzo. What? Why did they do it?

[Matt Dillon]

Who did it, Polly? How many were there?

[Polly Troyman]

I don't know. I didn't see anybody. We were just driving across the bridge and they shot him. Please, Marshall, how are you? Marshall, please. How's you die?

[Matt Dillon]

Get in the buggy and drive back to docks, quick. Yes, sir.

[Nate Sybert]

Give me that line.

[Matt Dillon]

Tell everybody to stay in town. I don't want them messing up the tracks out here. Now hurry.

[Nate Sybert]

We'll be there for you. No, Callie. Get a good tight hold on Nate.

[Matt Dillon]

As soon as the buggy had gone and the dust had settled, I looked around everywhere. I could see no one. And I walked back. Followed Chester's horse tracks down off the wagon road. His were the only marks on that side of the bridge. I crossed over to the other side. There I found the footprints of what must have been either a child or a woman. They let off in the direction of a small cabin about 300 yards away. I follow them, gun in hand.

[Polly Troyman]

Oh, it's you, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

You look who's in there. Tell me.

[Polly Troyman]

Nobody, Marshall. Nobody. Now that I'm not here.

[Matt Dillon]

Get out of the way, Bueller.

[Polly Troyman]

That's what mate said. Get out of the way. Crazy beat. You won't say it no more. I fixed him, Jula.

[Matt Dillon]

What are you talking about?

[Polly Troyman]

He wouldn't even look at me on the street after. And then he up married that Troyman girl.

[Matt Dillon]

You mean you shot him?

[Polly Troyman]

I warned you, Marshall. I told you to stop the wedding. I told you what would happen. I told you I needed to stop it. Why didn't you stop it?

[Matt Dillon]

Bu? Take it easy. Now.

[Polly Troyman]

You believe me. Marsha.

[Matt Dillon]

What?

[Polly Troyman]

Take a look in the cabin.

[Matt Dillon]

All right. What's this all about, Bueller? There's nobody in there.

[Polly Troyman]

Mail. My rifle.

[Matt Dillon]

Where is it?

[Polly Troyman]

Right there by the door.

[Matt Dillon]

It's been fired. All right. Did you really shoot Nate Savage? Bueller? I want the truth now.

[Polly Troyman]

I said I would, didn't I? I hate him.

[Matt Dillon]

Why, Bueller? Why did you do it? Tell me.

[Polly Troyman]

No, I won't tell you. I don't have to.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, Bill, I got your things. Let's go on to town.

[Polly Troyman]

I don't need nothing, Marshall. I got all dressed up and everything. See? See?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, yeah, you look fine.

[Polly Troyman]

I feel better now, Marshall. Now it's all over. He's dead and I feel a lot.

[Matt Dillon]

Give her anything she wants, Chester. See that she's comfortable.

[Nate Sybert]

Yes, I sure will. It's your beau, don't it?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Well, I'm going up to dark. Maybe Cyber can talk.

[Nate Sybert]

Now, you bury up. I'll be back there any minute.

[Matt Dillon]

All right.

[Nate Sybert]

Oh, hello, Matt.

[Matt Dillon]

How is he, Doc?

[Nate Sybert]

Well, I can't hear yet, but don't tire him out.

[Matt Dillon]

Hello, Cyrus.

[Nate Sybert]

Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

I guess we should have stayed with you a little longer, huh?

[Nate Sybert]

I don't even know where it came from, Marshall. He was under the bridge there, I guess. Got me right in the back.

[Matt Dillon]

It wasn't the he Severs. It was a she.

[Nate Sybert]

A woman.

[Matt Dillon]

Crazy Bueller. I just locked her up, Bulla.

[Nate Sybert]

How do you know it was her, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

I trailed her to her cabin. She admitted it. She say why she did it? She said you wouldn't look at her on the streets. Told her to get out of the way or something. Doesn't matter much. Unless you want to tell me.

[Nate Sybert]

Well, I got drunk one night, Marshall. She kind of chased after me ever since. I tried to keep out of her way.

[Matt Dillon]

I said, what are you gonna tell Polly if I leave? Yes, if you live.

[Nate Sybert]

I don't know, Marshall. I might even tell her the truth.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, Nat, that's enough. Yeah, sure, Doc. So long, Cyber.

[Nate Sybert]

Goodbye, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

Two days later, Doc announced that Nate Siberts would live. And the next day they moved him up to the Troyman house where Polly could nurse him. I never did know if he told Polly what it was all about. Maybe he didn't have to. Crazy Beulah never asked about him never mentioned his name again. For her, it was all over and done with and finally somebody remembered. She had people in St. Louis and once I located them I put her on a train and sent her off. She seemed quite happy about the trip and more normal than I'd ever seen her.

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