Lady Luck | Frontier Town (1949)

Summary

Episode Summary: "Lady Luck" | Frontier Town (1949)

Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Release Date: February 17, 2025

Episode Overview

"Lady Luck," the final installment of the Frontier Town series, transports listeners back to 1949, immersing them in the rugged landscapes and intricate dealings of the Wild West. This episode masterfully blends suspense, deception, and the timeless struggle between lawmen and outlaws, culminating in a gripping confrontation that underscores the themes of justice and ingenuity.

Main Characters

• Chad Remington: A frontier lawyer juggling legal duties and running his late father's cattle ranch.
• Cherokee O'Bannon: An ex-medicine man turned livery stable operator, and Chad's loyal companion.
• Sheriff Kurt Bode: The steadfast lawman of Bonanza City, determined to uphold justice.
• Boston Flora: A captivating singer with hidden motives, married to Monty.
• Monty: Flora's husband, a high-rolling gambler with a keen sense for scams.

Plot Summary

Setting the Stage

The episode kicks off with Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon managing Chad's cattle ranch. Their routine is disrupted when they receive a telegram from Sheriff Kurt Bode of Bonanza City, inviting Chad as a guest to a grand party celebrating the territory's peace officers ([07:03] Chad Remington).

The Party in Bonanza City

Upon arriving at Boston Flora's Place, the duo is welcomed into a vibrant social scene. Boston Flora enchants the crowd with her singing, setting a lively backdrop for unfolding tensions ([09:47] Boston Flora). Amidst the festivities, Sheriff Bode introduces Monty, hinting at underlying conflicts ([11:19] Monty).

The Confrontation

Tensions escalate when an unexpected confrontation breaks out. Chad Remington brandishes his wit and authority, leading to a physical altercation where Monty is subdued ([12:21] Monty). The situation intensifies as the trio attempts a chase across Santa Fe Street, only to find the bridge destroyed, complicating their pursuit ([14:18] Chad Remington).

Unraveling the Deception

Back at the sheriff's office, friction arises between Chad, Cherokee, and Sheriff Bode as they scrutinize the evening's events. Chad suspects a deeper conspiracy involving Boston Flora and Monty, proposing that the night's chaos was orchestrated to obscure a more significant scam ([20:05] Chad Remington). His suspicions lead him to deduce that Flora might be manipulating both sides for personal gain.

The Final Reveal

Determined to unmask the truth, Chad Remington and Sheriff Bode collaborate to expose Boston Flora's deceit. Their investigation reveals that Flora and her husband have been orchestrating scams, including the jewelry theft from the party. Confronted with the evidence, Flora and Monty are apprehended, bringing the episode to a satisfying close ([28:49] Chad Remington).

Key Moments and Notable Quotes

• Chad's Invitation:
  "Well, this telegram's from Kurt Bode, you know, the sheriff over at Bonanza City. He says there's a big party being given day after tomorrow honoring all the peace officers of the territory."
  — Chad Remington [07:13]

• Boston Flora's Enchanting Performance:
  "Oh, the men in my life are the curse of my life. They promise and promise till I'm nobody's wife..."
  — Boston Flora [09:47]

• Chad Confronts Flora and Monty:
  "Senor, if she no give the jewelry to me, I not shoot her."
  — Chad Remington [12:16]

• Sheriff Bode's Determination:
  "I'm up to throwing the three of you and the calaboose, that's what."
  — Sheriff Kurt Bode [27:56]

• Chad's Insightful Deduction:
  "You think Flora has more brains than you have. And more brains than Monty has."
  — Chad Remington [26:13]

Themes and Insights

"Lady Luck" delves into the complexities of trust and deception within frontier towns. Through Chad Remington's analytical approach and Cherokee O'Bannon's unwavering support, the episode highlights the importance of vigilance and integrity in maintaining law and order. The cunning tactics employed by Boston Flora and Monty serve as a testament to the ever-present challenges faced by lawmen in the Wild West.

Conclusion

This episode of Frontier Town encapsulates the essence of Old Time Radio Westerns, blending rich storytelling with dynamic character interactions. Andrew Rhynes delivers a meticulously crafted narrative that not only entertains but also pays homage to the classic Western dramas of yesteryear. "Lady Luck" stands as a fitting finale to the series, leaving listeners eager for future rebroadcasts and reminiscent of the timeless allure of the frontier.

Transcript

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[Chad Remington]

Foreign.

[Andrew Rines]

Welcome.

[Narrator]

To the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and let's get into this episode. This episode is going to be Frontier Town, originally aired sometime in 1949 and the title is Lady Luck. This is the last episode we have of Frontier Town. If you missed any part of the show, we do rebroadcast every couple months, so look forward to hearing this again in probably about nine months to a year. Thanks again for listening and I hope you enjoy this episode.

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[Narrator]

Frontier Town the saga of the Roaring West. Frontier Town. El Paso, Cheyenne, Calgary, Tombstone. Frontier Town. Here is the adventurous story of the early west, the tamed and the untamed. From the Pecos to Powder River, Dodge City to Poker Flat, these are the towns they fought to live in and lived to fight for, teeming crucibles of pioneer freedom. Frontier Town.

[Chad Remington]

Howdy there, friends. This is Chad Remington. Chad Remington, frontier lawyer from the frontier town called Dos Reyes. I guess it goes without saying that a frontier town lawyer can find more trouble 24 hours a day than any man, living or dead, west of Chicago. And if this weren't enough, part of my time is taken up with the running of a small cattle ranch left to me by my late father. Matter of fact, it was while I was on my ranch that this last adventure really had its start. The little law office I have, I rent from Cherokee O'Bannon, the ex medicine man who now operates the Dos Reus livery stables. I don't know whether it's because he's afraid I may run out with the rent money or because tagging around with me, he gets to see his favorite scenery saloons. But for one Reason or other, O'Bannon is most always by my side. Well, this particular morning, Cherokee was helping me round up some strays in a far canyon on the back end of my ranch. Everything seemed to be going all right.

[Narrator]

Hi.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Hi, Chad. I was thinking again, why does a man like you with a good law practice bother playing nursemaid to a lot of cows?

[Chad Remington]

Well, to be honest about it, Cherokee cows are like money in the bank. And their products sell for good money. With milk at 6 cents a quart and cream at 10 cents a pint.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

My, my. 10 cents a pint for cream. For a few pennies more, you can get a bottle of good bourbon.

[Chad Remington]

Don't you tell the cows that. They might start changing their product.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Counselor, how is it that cream costs so much more than milk?

[Chad Remington]

Because of the labor involved.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Cherokee cream costs more than milk because of the labor involved.

[Chad Remington]

Naturally, it's harder for the cows to sit on those little bottles.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, Billy Blue Blazes Chad, that's about the funniest remark I've ever heard you chat. We're surrounded. We're being ambushed.

[Chad Remington]

Cherokee, you blame fool. Let that gun alone.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

But they're rustlers. We're being attacked.

[Chad Remington]

Rustlers my eye. Can't you see who fired that shot? Don't you see who it is coming? It's old Sam from the Western Union office.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Sam. Now I wonder what in blazes he wants.

[Chad Remington]

Hiya, Sam. What's up? Sorry.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Throw that shot at ye seem to be the only way stopping you without chasing you another 10 miles.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

What in the name of my grandmother's bustle is so important that you had to stop it?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Well, a telegram come for you, Chad. And since it needs an immediate answer, kinda reckon I'd better bring it out to you.

[Chad Remington]

Here. Thanks, Anne. Well, that's one invitation I'm not gonna refuse.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

What's one invitation? Can you please tell me what this is all about?

[Chad Remington]

Well, this telegram's from Kurt Bode, you know, the sheriff over at Bonanza City. He says there's a big party being given day after tomorrow honoring all the peace officers of the territory. And, well, he's inviting me down as his guest.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

From what I hear about Bonanza City, it's as much a city as a prairie dog's hole. As a tunnel. It's a wide open, rip roaring boom town at that.

[Chad Remington]

I don't suppose that'll stop you from going down and attending the party with me, will it, Cherokee?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Me attend a peace officer's party?

[Chad Remington]

My dear friend, any warrants formally issued against you for selling your genuine Cherokee Indian rattlesnake oil probably have run out now because of the statute of limitations. So no doubt you're fairly safe.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

You know me, Chad. I'm a party man from the word. Go down there and mingle with a lot of tin badges.

[Chad Remington]

Well, mister, as long as your lawyer's with you, even if they do get you, they won't hit you with more than 20 years to life.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, that's a horse of a what?

[Chad Remington]

Come on, Cherokee, we'll bring these few ahead. We've rounded up back to the lower meadow. And then you and I, well, we're hitting the trail for Bonanza. Well, I got Cherokee to Bonanza City all right. But no matter what I did, I couldn't get him out to the party. To tell the truth, there were too many so called attractions in the town itself so that Cherokee wasn't too seriously tempted. The affair was being held in what was known locally as the other side of the creek. Which meant really the other side of the town. The wide open part of the town, the place everyone knew existed, but nobody talked about. The most fashionable palace of entertainment on the other side of the creek was the somewhat flashy but Expensively decorated place known as Boston Flora's place. Which Flora ran with her husband, a real high roller gambler by the name of Monty. By the time Sheriff Bode and I got to Boston Flora's, the party was in full swing and the place was really rockin' Boston Flora stepped up to the piano to sing.

[Boston Flora]

Oh, the men in my life are the curse of my life. They promise and promise till I'm nobody's wife. Fred kissed me and told me of his lasting love. His wife caught him with me. Now Fred's up above. Oh, the men in my life are the curse of my life. If a six gun don't get em then there's always a knife. I got to go through the church with one foot on the till. But he tripped me and bolted. And he's running still, but he gripped.

[Chad Remington]

Me and hold it. And he run into. Yeah.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Well, Chad, what do you think? How about that? The Boston Flora is pretty good, huh?

[Chad Remington]

She's better than good, cherub. She's all right. All right.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Oh, yes siree there's anything to be proud of in this bunch of fleabags we call Bonanza City. Flora is one of them. And when I can locate him in this mob, I'd like to have him meet Flora's husband, Monty.

[Chad Remington]

Monty, huh? Sounds like a gambler.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Oh, he sure is. A real high roller. He's one of the coolest in the business. Oh, there he is now.

[Monty]

Hey, Monty.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Marty. Come on over here and meet a friend of mine.

[Monty]

Howdy, Sheriff.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Howdy.

[Monty]

Well, any friend of yours. A friend of mine, I'm sure.

[Chad Remington]

Thanks, Marty. I'm Chad Remington from over in Dos Reyes.

[Monty]

I'm delighted you could be with us tonight, Remington. Oh, by the way, have you met the wife yet?

[Chad Remington]

No, but I certainly enjoyed her singing.

[Monty]

Well, come on, let's go over. I'll make you acquainted with one of the greatest gals on God's green footstool.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

You got a treat store for you, Chad. A real treat.

[Monty]

Hey, baby. Baby. I want to make you acquainted with a friend of the sheriff's. Mr. Remington.

[Boston Flora]

How do you do, Mr. Remington? So nice you were able to come.

[Monty]

Now what's the matter, Remington? You look like your eyes are going to pop out of your head.

[Chad Remington]

Well, I don't think I've seen that many diamonds all at once since the night I attended the opera.

[Boston Flora]

You or my two weaknesses, Mr. Remington. My husband and diamonds.

[Monty]

Well, I've only got one weakness, Flora. And I don't mind.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

You'Re post a fast mule, a sticker Senori, you just.

[Andrew Rines]

Stand where you are now, huh? Do not like to spoil fiesta, but if somebody move, there's going to be somebody dead. It's not going to be me.

[Monty]

Devil. You got your nerve coming in here, sis.

[Andrew Rines]

And Yamonte. And I have more than my nerve when I leave. First, we start with all this diamond jewelry that your wife she wear, huh? Huh?

[Monty]

Don't give them to him, Poira.

[Andrew Rines]

Senor, if she no give the jewelry to me, I not shoot her.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

I kill you.

[Boston Flora]

Okay, Cavaliere. Money may not look like much, but he's worth more than the rocks to me. Here.

[Andrew Rines]

Gracias, senor Milgraz. And now that I have the jewelry, I take up collection of cash. We're going to start with you, Sheriff.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

You low dying?

[Andrew Rines]

No, no, no, no, no, no, Sheriff. Just for a little joke, I also going to take your badge, senor.

[Chad Remington]

Well, there's not much in my pocketbook, but here it is.

[Andrew Rines]

Bueno, bueno. Like your Americano say, every little bit she come you other people. I shall walk by you slowly. When I do, just drop all your gut into sombrero, huh? Gracias. Gracias caballeros y caballeros. Because I do not want you to spoil your fun by running outside and chasing me. I think I shoot out the lights before I go.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Come on.

[Chad Remington]

I guess there were more people hurt trying to get out of Boston Flora's inky black parlor than would have been hurt if the Lone Bandit had fired his gun. But enough of us made our horses and lit out after him to make the chase worthwhile. We circled around through Santa Fe street, cut through Nugget Alley, and that brought us face to face with the bridge over the creek. That is face to face with what was left of the bridge, because there was no question about it. The bridge was down.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

All right.

[Monty]

Hold it, man, hold it.

[Chad Remington]

Rain up. Isn't there a dam upstream by the smelter, Sheriff, we can get across that.

[Monty]

Yeah, come on, let's go before that low down sneak and no good gets away.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Now, wait a minute, Monty. I've been.

[Chad Remington]

Now, this is no time to think, Sheriff. We've got to get after that cuss before we get.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Now hold on. We ain't going after that.

[Chad Remington]

What? What do you mean you're not going after him?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Well, stop and figure it out yourself. We go after him and get in town on the other side of the creek. Then we gotta admit what happened. That one solitary south of the border varmint stuck up a sheriff, two marshals and half a Dozen deputies and got away with it.

[Monty]

Why, you bald headed old fossil. No one's stealing my wife's jewelry and going scot free.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Who said anything about him going scot free? We got a good look at him. And between us being most every lawman for 50 miles around, we'll catch up with him sooner or later.

[Chad Remington]

Kurt, are you serious?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

I sure am, Cad. It's worth a few thousand dollars we lost not to make fools of ourselves.

[Monty]

I'll be blamed if me and Flora are going to suffer because you're a bunch of knotheads. I'm going to cross that creek if I have to swim it myself.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

God on it, Marty. Now don't go flying off the handle.

[Monty]

If you get your hands off of me and let go.

[Chad Remington]

Sheriff. If Monty wants to go, you've got no right to stop.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

You keep out of this, Chad. You don't live here like we do. Care if.

[Monty]

Are you going to let me go?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

You're doggone right I'm not.

[Chad Remington]

Okay, Theny, there was a mistake hitting the sheriff with that horseshoe ring on your hand.

[Monty]

Well, it serves the old goat right.

[Chad Remington]

And I got an idea that this will serve you right. You want some? Up.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

All right.

[Chad Remington]

Monty, you ought to exercise your fingers less and your arms more. All right, fellas, let's take this overdressed gambler back to his wife. We're not going to catch the gent who pulled that hold up tonight, but we can sure do a lot of talking.

[Narrator]

We'll return to the second act of Lady Luck, our exciting frontier town adventure in just a few moments. And now, frontier town.

[Chad Remington]

Well, there's no use alibi now. The sheriff, marshals, the deputies and the frontier town lawyer had all been caught flat footed by a mighty clever crook. Or was it crooks? Somehow, when I started to get my senses together again, it didn't seem that just one man all alone could have conceived that scheme and done all of the execution that was necessary. So after getting back to the main part of town, going into four saloons and finding Cherokee in the fifth. Cherokee. The sheriff and I put our heads together down at the sheriff's office by.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

The whiskers of Walter's uncle Willie Tad, you'll pardon my levity, but this is really a good one. The whole law for two counties around. Robbed of their valuable possessions, they go on a laugh.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Cherokee. But I'll get that crook. Takes me to my dying days.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Men admitting what happened tonight.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Well, it's not just me and the other boys alone. Some of the other men who were there like the mayor. They told their wives they was going to Odd Fellows meeting. Wouldn't be good for the town to have that come out either.

[Chad Remington]

Well, I'm not a married man, Sheriff, but I can see what you mean.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

How you gonna stop it from getting out? This gambler you told me about, this Monty, he isn't gonna stop screaming his head off.

[Chad Remington]

I think he's done all of his screaming for a while.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Yeah. Pretty hard for a man to scream through a face that's all bandaged up with cork plaster. You sure knocked the daylights out of him, Chad.

[Chad Remington]

I'm sorry I did.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Sorry.

[Chad Remington]

I wonder if Monty really would have crossed the creek if we'd let him.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

You just got through saying. I mean, wasn't he the one?

[Chad Remington]

Yes, he was the one who yelled his head off. But, you know, it isn't always the man who screams loudest who's hurt most.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

What you mean, Chad?

[Chad Remington]

Well, I don't mean to sound like a school teacher, but don't either one of you remember the children's story about the man who yelled wolf?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Of course I remember it.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Yeah.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Frankly, I don't get the connection.

[Chad Remington]

Well, neither do I, Cherokee. Not at the moment. But let's go back over everything that happened, step by step.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Ted, I tell you, it's as plain as the nose on your face. At least on Cherokee's face.

[Chad Remington]

Is it? Then how do you account for the bridge being conveniently cut down?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Why, it's because the. Why, somebody must have.

[Chad Remington]

How did it happen exactly? You and I had crossed the bridge not half an hour before and it seemed to be all right.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

What that got to do with Monty yelling wolf.

[Andrew Rines]

Wolf.

[Chad Remington]

Well, it may be more like fox. Fox? Than wolf.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Wolf? More like skunk. Skunk, if you ask me. Dirty Robin. Polecat.

[Chad Remington]

Your remarks are immaterial, irrelevant and probably true. But let's look at the facts. Who organized this party of appreciation for the peace officers?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Why, he told you before. Boston Flora and her husband.

[Chad Remington]

Right. Now, granting for a moment that Flora and Monty had planned the little affair, don't you think they knew beforehand that the sheriff and the marshals wouldn't want to publicly admit they'd been made fools of?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Yeah, but then why would Marty get in a fight with me and risk going to jail? Because he wanted to follow the crook.

[Chad Remington]

Because you couldn't have put him in jail for wanting to do what you should have done. In fact, if he was so inclined, he could probably put you in jail for malfeasance in office, He.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Jumping gumdrops. I Never thought of that. But him and his women still had her jewelry stolen. And there ain't no denying that.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Sheriff's right, Chad.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

And what's more, who was the crook? No one's ever seen him in Bonanza City before. Probably just come up across the Rio Grande.

[Chad Remington]

You're convinced he's a Mexican, aren't you, Sheriff?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Well, naturally I. Huh? You gonna tell me he ain't a Mexican?

[Chad Remington]

The only Mexicans I ever heard talk and act like that were in stage plays.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

In stage play?

[Chad Remington]

You heard me, O'Bannon. If I'm not mistaken, there's a traveling 10 show about to open in Bonanza City this week.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Well, I'll be kicked by a muley cow. You mean you think Monty and Florie hired this actor and the whole thing was put up job?

[Chad Remington]

The whole thing? Including cutting down the bridge?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

For great sakes alive, Chad, it's local. It's wild. How do you ever expect to prove a thing like that?

[Chad Remington]

By taking advantage of the fact that Cherokee wasn't over at Boston Floors with us earlier this evening.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Now hold on there, Chad. You think you're going to make a guinea pig out of me and, well.

[Chad Remington]

Making a guinea pig out of you won't be too hard, Cherokee. The part that's going to take a bit of doing is turning Monty and Boston Flora into a pair of jailbirds. Well, Cherokee squirmed and wriggled and bucked like a sunfishing bronc, but with enough money in his jeans to cut a fancy figure at Boston Flora's bar. Next afternoon, found Cherokee on the other side of the creek, leaning across the mahogany.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

And here you are, boy. Set him up for the house, honey.

[Boston Flora]

Don't you think it's time the house sets them up for you?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Madam, I'm not a man to turn down a tin room. But at the same time, I'm not a man to quibble over a few measly dollars. I am providently, amply provided with the wherewithal to enjoy myself. If you would be gracious enough to join me, I'd like to buy you some champagne.

[Boston Flora]

I don't mind if you do. Charlie. Bring a bottle of Pomeroy over the table by the window. Come on, you and I sit down.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

What's the matter? Why are you staring at me?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Yeah, get up.

[Boston Flora]

You don't look like a prospector or a miner.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

My dear lady, there's a good reason for that. I'm not a prospector or a miner.

[Boston Flora]

Most of the men around here with money get it out of the mine when you get yours.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Madam, I'm a salesman.

[Boston Flora]

A salesman?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

A jewelry salesman. Now, don't ask me where I get my little baubles. Why, some of them come from Tiffany's in New York.

[Boston Flora]

I don't get you. I don't get you at all.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, I found that there are a certain group of ladies working in the mining camps here in the west who wish to put their. Their savings in commodities like fine diamonds that never depreciate in value. And, well, they have an eye toward a rainy day. For example, a woman of your beauty and talent should own jewelry.

[Boston Flora]

Wait a minute, Marty. Marty, come over and sit down.

[Monty]

What is it for us? Well, what's on your mind?

[Boston Flora]

He says he's a jewelry salesman.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, friend, I can sell you flawless diamonds at less than 50 cents on the dollar.

[Monty]

Oh, you can? When do you pick up bargains like that?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, let's just see that I. Well, let's just see that I picked them up.

[Monty]

What are you, a fence?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Crudely, yes. You want a deal?

[Boston Flora]

Well, Monty.

[Monty]

No, thanks.

[Boston Flora]

But, Marty, I.

[Monty]

Not today, Flora.

[Boston Flora]

But I. No, never mind. Sorry I ask you at all.

[Monty]

Marty, stop wasting time on that overdressed saddle bum. Time for you to sing a song, mister.

[Boston Flora]

I'm afraid I've played my cards too fast. Come back tonight and bring some of the jewelry with you. I'll handle Marty, have the stuff with you and be here at 10:00. Because you and I are gonna do business.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

But don't you see, Chad, that you were wrong? Monty wouldn't even listen to buying her any jewelry.

[Chad Remington]

Which only proves that Monty thinks Flora has enough jewelry already.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Huh?

[Chad Remington]

And if Flora has enough jewelry already, the jewelry she allegedly lost last night wasn't lost that Billy Blue Blazes.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Chad, why did Flora tell me to come back tonight at 10 and bring the jewelry with me?

[Chad Remington]

Because Flora has more brains than you have. And more brains than Monty has. In fact, Mr. O'Bannon, I'm convinced that Flora has more brains than you and Monty have put together.

[Boston Flora]

Now do you get it, Marty? Now do you see what I'm up to?

[Monty]

Baby, I gotta hand it to you. You're the only woman I know who can figure how to have your cake and eat it too.

[Andrew Rines]

I'll say anytime she wants, you can come back and join my tension.

[Boston Flora]

Thanks, Tony. I'm doing all right right here. Now, you understand everything, Tony, don't you?

[Andrew Rines]

You seem to forget your old partner. Baby, I'm the quickest study in show business. And when I meet this Jewelry salesman outside and stick this gun in his ribs. And I say, senor, you put the hands up quick, eh? You'll have his diamonds and your money back all at the same time.

[Monty]

The great part of it is the only squawk the sucker will have would be about his diamonds. And all he'd be able to do is run to the sheriff and holler about his money.

[Boston Flora]

I don't imagine that stone headed sheriff's gonna do anything about that. Because he might be afraid we'd tell what suckers we made of the lot of them.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Who was the sucker?

[Chad Remington]

Cherokee. Keep an eye on the outside.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Right to our Chad.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

Leave it to me.

[Boston Flora]

What are you up to anyhow, Sheriff?

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

I'm up to throwing the three of you and the calaboose, that's what. We heard every word you said.

[Boston Flora]

You know it's bad manners to point at a lady with a gun.

[Sheriff Kurt Bode]

All right, quit stalling, Flora. Let's get going.

[Boston Flora]

Why, of course, Sheriff, if you say.

[Monty]

Marty, come on, let go of her before I.

[Chad Remington]

Well, nice going, Sheriff. I see you got the so called actor.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, what about me? Didn't I get my man?

[Monty]

Or a woman?

[Chad Remington]

What did you hit her with? A chair.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Now, Chad, for shame. You know I'm too much of a gentleman to hit a woman with a chair. I hit her with something soft. I hit her with an upholstered sofa.

[Chad Remington]

Cherokee, Sheriff Bodie and I and all the lawmen for two counties around certainly owe you a vote of thanks for your help in getting the goods on Flora the phony, the Boston bad woman.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Now your thanks be hanged. After all I went through, I would imagine that somebody at least would offer to buy me a bottle of bourbon.

[Chad Remington]

Oh, Bannon, don't you realize you're going to come to a premature death with all that bourbon you take on board?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Ah, that's absolutely ridiculous. Bourbon's the safest drink in the world. Scotch is dangerous.

[Chad Remington]

It is a venom. And how do you figure that, my Chad?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Don't you see? A man who drinks Scots is apt to end up getting chilled.

[Chad Remington]

SA.

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Frontier Town starring Reed Hadley and featuring Wade Crosby is a Bruce Ells production. Supervision of direction by Paul Franklin. Music written and played by Ivan Ditmar. Be sure to be with us again same time next week for another fine action adventure story with your favorite young western star, Reed Hadley. And now this is Bill Foreman telling you that Frontier Town comes to you from Hollywood.

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