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Foreign welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Rines, and I'm excited to bring you another episode absolutely free. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now, let's get into this episode. Here's adventure, here's romance. Here's the famous Robin Hood of the Old West. The Cisco Kid. The Cisco Kid. In our gripping story, Magic of Death, Eddie Morongo was a magician, and a good one. As long as he stayed in the east, things went well for him. But when he came west in the 1870s and fell under the influence of Ace Farrell and Slim Scott, things began to go from bad to worse. Our story opens in a small frontier town. Three men are just coming into the north end of the single street. Two of them on horseback, a third in a wagon. Now remember, Eddie, we'll need time to knock off that fence. So keep your excavation going till you draw everybody to this end of town. I tell you, I don't like this business, Ace. I don't care whether you like it or not. It's going through with it Any Slim? He sure is, unless he wants to stop some lead. Don't try to give us away to the sheriff neither, in case he comes around. You do, we'll get you sooner or later. And besides that, we'll swear you was in on that last bank robbery. Oh, I'll go through with it. I got to. But after this, I'm parting company from you two hombres. He's parting company with a Slim? Yeah, so he thinks. Listen, tenderfoot, you're staying with us as long as we want you. Now stop here. This is far enough. Give us time to get out the way. Then drive slow through the street, ringing that bell and doing your barking. Afterwards, we'll meet you at the spot we sat in the hills. Get going now and put on a good medicine show. Come on, Slim, get up. Come on up here, boy. If I had the nerve, I'd go to the sheriff right now. But I ain't got the nerve. Giddy up high. Look I look I look. Ladies and gentlemen. Come one, come all. Follow me and see the world's greatest exhibition of magic. Get your bottle of magic elixir. Hey, he's a good magic. What do you call him, Cisco? A magician, Pancho. He is a good magician. What he do now? Well, listen and we will find out. Now, ladies and gentlemen, a bit of magic that baffle the combined crown heads of Europe. Come around, Come around, one and all. Now will some kind gentleman with a Sombrero, kindly step up here on the wagon. You, sir, will you oblige me? Step right up here on the wagon. What do you think, Cisco? Go ahead if you want to, Pancho. Maybe the parchment want to disappear. He will not make you disappear, amigo. That would be hard to do with one of your size. They're fried up time easy fine to step up and find you be a magic. A magician too, no. Now, if you let me take your sombrero, sir, sombrero will punch your teeth. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Now observe, ladies and gentlemen. In this hand I hold the gentleman sombrero. While in this hand I hold two fresh eggs. Watch closely now. Watch closely what you do. What you do there. I will now break the eggs into the sombrero. First this egg and now this egg. Do not do that to part a sombrero. One moment, sir, before you lose your temper. Watch closely. I wave my hand over the sombrero. I place the sombrero on your head. Voila. Is the fen. Those eggs. Those eggs. I can't you not feel no eggs on Panto's hair? Take off the sombrero and look in it. See what I the eggs grow so you will. That, my friends, is magic. Now for your magic elixir, ladies and gentlemen. One bottle of this will positively cure Santos. What does that tuning mean? Sheriff, did you hear that? Yeah, sure did. Close. It. Came from the direction of the bank. You'd better get over there, Sheriff. You and I will go with you life under. The bank was robbed, Cisco. And look by them. Murder and coyotes. They shot down Senor Martin. Say, you're Martin, a good friend of our Cisco. Hey, he has done more than one favor for us. He's done a great deal for the people of this town. Come on, boys, let's start looking for clues. By the way, they are swarming through this bank. Any clues will be covered up. Sheriff, will you take a suggestion from me? What is it, Cisco? Ride back and talk to that magician. What's he got to do with it? Perhaps nothing. On the other hand, he may have had a hand in this. He may have drawn the crowd away from the bank to help his accomplishment. No, no, I didn't see nobody with him. Anybody found any clues yet? Pacho, is it? Diablo, you and I will go talk to the magician. But what? Make those eggs disappear. Maybe make us disappear too. No, no, no, no. Go now. Go. Ah, there he is. Guy out of town down at the end of the street. Leave the town so fast as he can. Do you Think he a bandino, Chico? I do not know Chico, but we will stop him. Maybe that he knows nothing at all about the bandidos. Then again, he may be working with them. What do you want? Why are you leaving town so fast, hombre? Ye. Why? Why? Well, there's no sense staying around anymore. The people ain't coming back to watch my show. Not after a trouble like that started. Did you drive into town by yourself? Yeah, sure. From this end of the town? Yes. Are you trying to say I'm connected with that shooting down the street? If you are, you're wrong. Very well. You may ride on. After you tell me your name. It's Eddie Marongo. I hope nobody was bad hurt in that shooting. The banker was shot dead. Oh, mighty tidy hair. Well. Yep. Did not make wife? No, he did not. You seem to be telling the truth, Pancho. But I am not yet convinced. Come on, Darlo. Come on, local. Come down. There are the wheel tracks of the wagon as he came into town. And there are the fresh tracks of two horses. Close to the wheel tracks. Poncho. It looks to me as if two hombres rode into town with him. We fired the magician hombres somewhere. No, not just yet, amigo. Maybe she'll find you. The egg trick. Never mind the egg trick, Poncho. It's not important at the moment. He put the two eggs in the drink, Poncho. Now, here is where the horse tracks turned away from the wagon. But I. Show me for the agents. Follow them and see if they lead to the bank. If they do, I have a plan. Come on. Go, go, go. Oh. Oh. Well, you finally got up here, did you? Or took you long enough. What you think I was going to do, race these horses? If I done that, the whole town would have got suspicious. As it is, I got questioned. By the sheriff. No, by a man on a big horse. There. There was a fat man with him. What'd you tell him? Nothing. You sure? Look, slim, I ain't stupid enough to put my neck in a noose by telling him anything. I said I came into town alone. Hombre riding a big stallion. Yeah, he had silver mountings on his saddle. Probably was the Cisco Kid. Ace saw him in the crowd when I looked out the bank window. Yeah, so did I. Maybe we better get a move on. No, we're camping right here for tonight. But the further I can get away from that Cisco Kid, the better I like it. I said we was camping here. I've had riding enough today. If the Cisco Kid or anybody Else rides up here, he'll get just what the banker got. All right, let's go this way, Cisco. See, we've learned quite a lot in the last few minutes, Poncho. Quite a lot. You've learned that two hombres stop their horses behind the bank, then walked into the bank. They've also learned from the length between their footprints that the two hombres were running when they came out of the bank. So, Pancho, you are not listening to anything I say. Why are you looking in your sombrero? Aren't you? Let me figure out where the eggs go to. Pancho, that is a magician's trick. Never mind trying to figure where they went to. Now, here's what we will do. What we do? What we do? You ride back, pick up the trail of the wagon and follow us. You'll have no trouble. The tracks are plain. But do not get into any trouble. Just follow the tracks far enough to find out if the other two hombres join the magician. Then come back to town and wait for me. What you do, Cisco? I am going to follow the tracks of these two hombres for the same reason. Remember now, Pancho, keep your eyes open and do not get into trouble. Yeah. What do you do about this, Eddie? Amber? Think we better kill him. What for, eh? You got a nice hollow gold from that thing. I don't want to split it with him. We ain't got you. We can give him a little of it. The thing is, Ace, we got a pretty good setup with him drawing the crowd. Yeah, but I don't like the way he's acting. One of these days he's going to squeal on us. I tell you what. Let's use him to knock off one more bank and then we'll gun him down. All right. Hey, he looked down at riders coming up the trail there. You're right. Hand me the rifle. Now, wait a minute, Ace. Let's see who it is. It's a fat one, rides with the Cisco Kid. He'll make a good time. No, no, no. Wait, wait. Let's take him. And if Cisco rides up here, we can keep him off by threatening to kill the fat one. That's right. That's good. Get ready now, Slim, and we'll jump him. Look at him, Slim. He didn't pay no attention to where he's going. Just stand down under that sombrero here and talk to him. His lips move. I suppose he's crazy. I don't know. Don't make any difference. Hey, listen, as the eggs come out of this umbrella to the ace that is still being dismrah. No. All right, Slim, get him. Get him up. I got him. Come on. Come off there, you. No, no, no. Let's pack him. Let's pack him. Go there. Clip him once, Slim. I sure will. Right now. That'll hold him for a while. I am up to that tree, Slim. Now let the Cisco Kid come up here if he wants to. We must be getting close to those bandidos. Diablo. These tracks are getting fresher. Here's where the other trail comes in. The two bandiros did join that magician after all. Here are the wheel tracks. I hope Ponzo got it. Andre. Mia, we are close. Oh, the other. Ho ho. That's right, Cisco. Don't come no closer. We got your partner here. If you're twinning tricks, we'll kill him. Not mine. Is amazing. Very well. Homage. You have the upper hand for the moment. But if you hurt Pancho, we'll find you no matter where you go. Just remember that. Hey, here comes the sheriff. Patrick, keep him away. Cisco, always gun down your partner. You're up ahead of us, boys. Let's run. No, Shannon, wait. Well, what's the idea, Cisco? Those umbrellies are taking parts. Sheriff, you go any closer, they will kill him. Ah, nobody asked you to mix into this. Anyway, we'll rush em, boys. As I said. One moment, Sheriff. I mean every word of this. I have great respect for you, but I am not going to have Poncho shot and killed. Get out of our way. I'm staying right here. And the first one who makes a move to get past me will be shot. And Cisco is now between two fires, the bandits and the sheriff's posse. In just a moment, we return to the Cisco Kid. Now back to the Cisco Kid and our gripping story, Magic of Death. Because he was trying to puzzle out the magician's egg trick, Poncho rode straight into the camp of the desperados who had robbed the bank and killed the banker. When Cisco rode up the other trail, the bandits threatened to kill Poncho if Cisco came any nearer. Just then the sheriff's posse arrived and, brushing aside Cisco's request to wait, prepared to rush the camp. Now get out of our way, Cisco, or Buy Thunder. No, Sheriff. I mean, you draw a gun on us to save Poncho's life. I certainly would, Sheriff. I tell you, those bandidos will shoot him down in a moment if any of us go closer. Oh, I know. Get back down that trail, all of you. Or else we'll kill this fat one. There is your proof right there, Sheriff. Well, all right, Cisco. Now put away that gun. Hey. I would suggest, Sheriff, that we all ride back down the trail a little way until we get out of their sight. Around the bend. All right, back down, boys. Get up. Up the other car. Natalie. Pancho. Cisco. Natalie. Pancho, there is nothing I can do for you at the moment. Pancho. Sometimes I hate to say that to him. Those coyotes, they will pay for this. This is far enough, Sheriff. Now, Art. Cisco, just let me tell you this. I ain't got no idea letting them killers get away, Poncho or no poncho. Neither have I, Sheriff. Now, here is my idea. You have 12 in this posse. With the amount of dust the horses will stir up going down the trail, it'll be hard for those bandidos to tell how many are riding. Well, as long as the bandido see you and me riding down the trail, they will feel that everyone has given up trying to capture them. Maybe they will watch for me because I am Pancho's componero. Now, let two of your riders leave their horses behind these rocks. Let them change clothes with us, Pierre. Then let them ride our horses down the trail. And what do we do? We will walk up this other trail and get above the bandidos. Well, I don't know. Might work. At least we can try. Pick out your men and we will change clothes with them. You see any sign of Cisco and that posse, Slim? No, not yet. They're down there somewhere. They ain't rode into the valley yet. Oh, wait a minute, Ace. There they go. Is Cisco there? Yeah, yeah, there he goes. Riding up front with the sheriff. The rest of them all there? Can't tell on account of the dust. Yeah, sure, they're all there, Ace. No point in anybody staying behind now. The Cisco and the sheriff have left. Well, that one your partner left you. Pancho not believe that hombre. He's gonna leave. Pancho. No. Just take a look down in the valley there. Where? Where? Look, Cisco. Cisco. Pancho. See Cisco down there? But Pancho not believe it. Cisco. Cisco not the ever leave, Poncho. Fine partner to have you say. Nothing against Cisco, Andre. What do you think, Ace? Better change our minds about staying here. Yeah, maybe we head. Maybe we better get over the mountain. Hey, Annie. What do you want? Come here. We're pulling out of here. We put the fat one in the wagon, and when we get up on the cliff ledge, we'll drop them over. Do not drop Poncho. Wait and see. Now, look, I ain't being a partner for any more murder, see? What's that again? You heard what I said. And when we get over the mountains, I'm leaving you. Oh, he's leaving us, Slim. Maybe he will leave us, Ace, same time the fat one does. Maybe it's time to part company with him. Yeah, I'll take them guns of yours, Eddie. You've just signed your own death warrant. Mighty hard work climbing up here on foot. See, Sheriff? There's no other way to do it now, you should be almost above those homies now. We're going too far already. Excuse me. Very well, then. Stay here if you wish, but I'm going to keep on bonfires may decide to leave. I wish to take no chances on that. Now, I'll keep going, but my thunder. Nobody is ever going to get me into a spot like this again. We'll stop on this rise of ground just for a moment. Now, the panzidos were right over there. Just about the same height as this. Well, they ain't there now, Santos. Look, Cisco, they're up above us quite a ways. Matro mia, we're too late. They have horses and we are on foot. Fine idea you had, Cisco. Fine idea. Well, this may be hopeless, but I am going to follow them. You're just having a crime for nothing. Perhaps, but I will not give up. Sometimes the one who takes the long chance wins out. All right. Oh, yeah, then, Cisco, I'm just about winded. Can't keep up with you. Well, now, come along. As fast as I can see, Senor Sheriff Pasta la vista. Where's that ledge, Ace? Just ahead of us. There it is. Nice long drop down under the rock, too. All right. At least stop them horses. Don't try nothing funny. Remember, I got this gun on you. I'll watch the fat one. Ace, get down out of that wagon. Whatever you say. The old fat one. You get down out of there, too. Like you? Well, that's too bad. We'll worry about it. Which one we put over that ledge first, Ace, let's put the fat one over you. You would punch you over the ledge? That's right. But punching at what? Punching it. Hey, look at something over there among the rocks, Ace. What do you see, hombre? Punching? I see nothing over there. I just think you see a coyote. Maybe one of us. Better take a walk over there, Slim. No, no, no, no. It's all right. Start walking to that ledge. No, no, no, no. Not now. Punch. You want to see the trick first? You Want to see what punch you? Want to see the trick, hombre? Want to see the magician do one more trick and then punch you? Go over the ledge. Get going. Wait a minute. You ought to let him have one last request. So you're looking over towards them rocks too, huh? Eddie stole them for time. Maybe I'll go over there, Ace. I figured they do see something. Better have your gun ready, sir. Him. Yeah, I got it. There's nothing over there but the coyote on me. I could tell you is nothing but a coyote. We'll see. Right in behind these rocks, huh? See that? It's right over. Hey, you. I'm going to take that gun away from you. He's in no position to stand aside. Only. And after I tend to it him I'm coming after you. I should know you can hit his gabeno. Shoot the gun at a time. Well, then I'll get you with my. You may try if you wish. Glad to have the check. Return those blows you struck. Punch you. Just as you say, amigo. Now the second. And the third. Now cut those ropes around your wrist, Poncho. There you are. Next, I'll take these over his guns. Pass to see about the other Omri. She's gonna to call you a coyote, Cisco. Part not know what else to say. I understand, Pancho. It's all right. Now, about you, senior magician. Anything you do with me is all right, Cisco. Just so long as I'm free of those two killers. We'll talk with him and see when the sheriff gets here. Amigo, I think he will be here soon. Then. Then. Then what, Pancho? And maybe the sen show part of where the eggs go to. No. And what did you decide to do with the magician, Senor Sheridan? He'll have to stand trial. Cisco, did you believe his story that those homies forced him to be their accomplice? Yeah, I believe them. So. Sounded all right. I'm much obliged for your health. Gracias, senor Sheriff. Now I will find Pancho. We were right on our way and over to the store. Oh, oh, here he comes back. Now, why did he go over there? What are you laughing at, Pancho? I should know how to do the egg technologies. You buy two eggs over in the store. Punch, you take your sombrero. Sheriff, what's the idea? To see the magician do the egg cake again? In part. You do the egg trick too? Well, you better be sure you know how. Using my sombrero. Now look here. You know how, Cisco. Look, Panto. Break one egg into this umbrella. Now punch you break the other egg into this umbrella. Watch this class. You wave the hand over this umbrella skull. It's magical. Now put this sombrero back on your head so you w that egg running all down my face. You know something go wrong, sister. You. You compounded coyotes. Where's my hand? Fine magician you are, Poncho. Time for us to be leaving here in a hurry. Come on. It did go wrong, amigo. Which means you and I will keep away from that chair for some time to come. But how the magician do the egg trick, Cisco? Well, there's knowledge, chico. And knowledge is a fine thing to have. In fact, you got knowledge, Cisco, as punch your sweaty. Very well. I will ask you a question, Pancho. What is one of the products of the West Indies? Products of the West Indies, Jake. What is one of the products of the West Indies, Pancho? Not no Disco. Oh, come, come, Pancho. Of course you know that. No. Where do people get sugar from? Where do people get the sugar from? Not think, Pancho. Where do people people get sugar from? Know this is good. Well, then tell me, where do people get sugar from? People get the sugar from the next door neighbor. Oh, Poncho. Oh. And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the west, the Cisco Kid. Be sure to listen again for another thrilling adventure of the Cisco Kid. Disco Kid was played by Jack Mather, Poncho by Harry Foreign. This has been a presentation of otrwesterns.com and we hope you enjoyed. Please take some time to like and rate this episode within your favorite podcast application. Follow us on Facebook by going to otrwesterns.com Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel by going to otrwesterns.Com Become one of our ranch hands and unlock some exclusive content. We want to thank the following ranch hand, Steve who joined us recently. 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