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Wolf? Yes. Hunter. What's healing you, boy? Huh? What is it? You figure him out, Jono. You listen, huh? It's horse. So it is. You heard it first. Huh, fellas? Good boy. But you stay quiet. Now, hear me. Make him out. Johnno. It's Graham. Coming here, huh? Say, if he's coming to camp and he promised to stay away, it must be something serious. Hi, there. Hello. What's up? Just about everything, huh? Now that I've been in Spanish Flats, that trouble words got out. The mask man was murdered. And just when things were going our way. Just when people were beginning to get up the courage to fight on our side. Oh, that bad? It means half of our work has gone for nothing. How do you mean? You think we'll be able to convince them they've got a chance against the men who killed the masked man? They were frightened enough of that gang before, but now they're absolutely terrified. The Sheriff. What about the sheriff? Remember how puffed up he was after Tonto tricked him into capturing Red Kemp's gang, huh? Well, after that, I thought he was going to be of some use to us. But now he's as bad as any of them. He's half frightened out of his wits. Golly. Tunnel, there's just one thing we have to do. We can't let all our work be spoiled like this. What you mean we've got to tell him the truth? Oh, we made promise. I know, Tunnel, but this is just one of them times when a promise has to be broken. Don't you see? He'd tell you the same himself. What are you two talking about? What promise is this? Is it something I don't know about? Well, I. Is this for me to say, Graham? It's up to Tonto, but I think Tono knows that something has to be done. Tano? What's he talking about? Of course I'm not demanding that you tell me that. It's something that concerns the work we've been doing. I think you should remember we're fighting on the same side and sharing the same risks. Well, Lone Ranger. Him. Him not dead. What's that? Him live. And you've never told me? You let me go on thinking I brought him here to his death. Don't blame Connor, Graham. It was a masked man's idea. Worth it. He didn't trust you. It was just that he figured the fewer knew about him still being alive, the better. Yes. Yes, of course. Well, anyhow, now it's out, Conno. I'll tell you what you better do. What? That ride to town and tell the sheriff what you just told Graham. He thinks a heap of you, Tunnel. He'll believe you or he wouldn't believe me. Here's Count. And you can depend on him getting the news around as fast as anybody can. Now, Count, Sheriff Wicks of Spanish Flats is having other troubles besides those caused by the rumors of a Lone Ranger's death. In his office he rapidly read a letter that had just been delivered to him, then slapped it down upon his desk with an expression of disgust foundation. What's the matter now, Sheriff? Get bad news? Know who that letter's from? How could I? I ain't read it. Captain Blake. Yes. Who's he? Army man. Captain Blake of the Texas Ranger. Oh, of all the damn Reddit nerve. You sound like what he wrote you. Wasn't such pleasant reading. He says I'm to blame cause there's so much smuggling going on over the southw of my county. Well, ain't you? What's that you said? Now don't get mad at me, Sheriff, if I tell you the truth. You know it as well as I do. When did you ever try to catch Laramie added? But he's one of that game. Well, there you are. Scared stiff with them. You know anybody around here ain't Graham Ain't. But from what I've heard, neither is Arizona Lawson nor that redskin they call Todo. Fact is, just a about a week ago, you weren't yourself for a couple of minutes. What do you mean? I'm talking about that night you rounded up Red Kemp's outfit. They was a part of the same gang. And speaking of Tonto, I think that's him riding that paint of his down the street. Huh? He's pulling up here. There's one dog on Smartingen. If he wasn't, he'd never have been traveling with the Lone Ranger. Oh, don't even mention that hombre's name. When I think of them crooks killing that feller. Yeah, I savvy. Come in. Oh, howdy. Hi there, Tono. What are you doing in town? Me Here feller tell lies? Here feller say masked man dead. Everybody knows a Tono. It's all over the county. It's not true. It's not. Hey, say that over again. Lone Ranger him still lives. Well, I'll be turno. Them folks didn't get him. They didn't.

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Me tell truth. He's alive. Glory be. Aye. Where's that letter? Huh? The one from that Blake hombre? Right where you threw it on your desk. He's getting an answer. Yeah. Afraid of Ram and his gang, am I? Well, I'll show them Texas Rangers. You get them. You bet I am. Prompt. No help. I don't need no help. So they'll call me ever, huh? I'll do this job, Al. Oh, Scott. Figure me see him now you come, huh? We ride. Yeah. Where we going here, fella? Ride the cave. Ask man. You better let him know that you told he's still living, huh? Any objection? Won't come along? Not all right, let's get started. Get him up. Go get him. Get. This time Cato did not pause to signal the master man of his approach. And he had reached a barren, hilly wasteland along the Rio Grande. Instead, with Arizona at his side and Arizona's dog, Wolf, following behind, he continued swiftly on reaching the river, splashing his way across the muddy, treacherous stream, then making for a cliff wall that was dotted for miles with the dark mouths of countless caves. Although few could have traveled that forbidding district without having soon lost their way, the stern faint engine rode unerringly toward his goal. Reaching the cliff, he sent scout up a narrow, winding trail that seemed carved on solid rock. At length, the trail widened. At last, Toto signaled for a halt where an entrance to one of the many caves appeared just over their heads. Horskoff. Hope of. Oh, yes, please. I'm coming. Oh, that it up there. Sure chose a place nobody'd ever find. Gosh, I wouldn't want to make many trips up here. I guess he must be back inside a way. Don't seem to hurt us anyway. You call Padre? Yeah. Padre. Hi there. Hey, it's us. It's me and Turtle honey. Jim not answer now. Don't get to worry, Antono. We call again. Padre. Hey, Padre. Tarazona. Well, I'll be. Tono, I reckon this is something you need better look into. Mask man ever tell you he might leave the cave once in a while. Him wounded? How he'll get out. That's right. He couldn't say. You think that maybe afraid Alpha get here first. You mean. You mean. Cause we told. I don't like this. The quicker we find out what's happening there, the better you hurry. How we going to get up there? Me lift you. Then. Then you pull Tonto up. Yeah, that'll do it. Me lift you. I'm afraid. Something. Something tells me whatever's up there, maybe we shouldn't know it. Well, here goes. Give me the curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes. Please permit us to pause for just a few moments.

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Sam. Now to continue our story. When Arizona had reached the level of the king, he braced himself, lowered a hand and pulled Tano up after him. Come on, Tano. I got a good home. Just a little more. You're almost there. Me all right. Made it. Better get out of breath. Gosh, it's dark in there. Can't see a thing. Me place. I got matches. There. A lamp. Huh? How'd that get here? Andre. Hang on. Oh, I'll fix it. You ready to look around? Huh? You're ready. Just a second. Yeah. Now we got something to see by. Come on. That's where they camp. Sure, they made their campfire. Ain't a thing in here. Everything's gone. Blankets, rug, Even their medicines are probably brought along and gone. That heaps strange. And no message. No sign, Nothing. No. There's the end of the cave. Me see it. Cardo, you recollect just before we climbed up here what I said? That maybe we wouldn't want to find out what we're likely to in this cave. I was right. Everything gone. No. No message. Oh, we found out. The last thing I ever wanted to know. Last man in Heath. Big danger. Maybe worse. Conno. He'd have left some message if he'd gone willingly, wouldn't he? Although maybe this time Ben Crook's really done it. Maybe. Maybe we'll never see the masked man. T and Arizona, when they had descended again from the cave and reached the valley floor, searched in all directions for a clue to the disappearance of the Lone Ranger madre. But found nothing. When they rode on again, they did so in silence, each preoccupied with his own thoughts. Toto's face, apparently expressionless, only served as a mask for emotions of rage and despair. Arizona's features were set in a scowl when the wolf hunter glanced at his companion, forgot his own grief to offer comfort to the other. No. No. I know what you're thinking. I guess I feel pretty much the same as you. But you can't go blaming yourself for this. If anybody's to blame, it's me. Tell Matt's friend live outlaw find them. You wouldn't have said nothing if I hadn't persuaded you to though Me break promise. Me tell. We don't even know that breaking our promise had anything to do with it. Maybe. Well, maybe Laramie or some of the rest of that gang got scouting around Laramie. I know. I'll bet he's the one. What you mean? Ain't he been in charge of the smuggling for the gang? Ain't he the one that knows all this country here along the Rio best? Then who'd be more likely to find the mask man than he would you? Right. And that means what we was talking about before they decided for us. What? That. Remember when I said I didn't know which one we ought to get after first, Laramie or that Pedro Mendoza? Well, we're hot enough, Laramie. I don't care whether Mendoza works with Laramie or not. If he's the gent that found the mask man, he's the gent I hate to settle with first. That's good. He'll pay, Tahno. And by thunder, I'm going to have the pleasure of helping to make him pay. What's that? Them shots. Where they come from? Who fired them? Them long way off. Maybe. Here they are again. And this time I know which way they come from. Them come from that way, back on the north side of the river. Whoever fired them shots, Tano, he's in trouble. Come on, get him up. Come on. Urging their mounts to their greatest speed, the two men recrossed the Rio and raced in the direction of the canyon which the gunshot had seen to come. Just before reaching the canyon itself, they changed their course, circling to gain the crest of a hill that would reveal all that lay below. Reaching the top once more, they drew their mouths to a halt. Hey, Tano, look there. Who you think them fellas are? I may not know. Get your head up about something. Listen to them. So you think they could have seen us? Them not look this way. I guess they ain't. Where it's all gone. What matter? Look beyond them. Tunnel farther down the valley there. See that one? Homie, that's all alone. Look. Now he's jumping from the saddle and runs them rocks. He's flown in at another gent now. Isn't there something familiar about that fellow Connell? Ain't we seen him someplace before? Not Sheriff. What? That's him, all right. You look. Well, golly, if it Ain't with all them fellas after him now. What kind of a hole he got himself in. I may not know. Some other fellow to spread out more so as we can get a good look at him. I give a heap to know who they are. They're edging towards the place where the sheriff's hiding. Maybe them rush sheriff. That's just what they're getting set to do. Don't know. Maybe I'm wrong, but you know what I think. What's that? Didn't you tell me when you seen the sheriff? He said as how he was going after Laramie and he didn't need nobody's help. That's what he'd say all right. Well, I just got a hunch he's found Laramie and wishes now he hadn't. You think Laramie down there? I could be wrong, Tano, but I'll bet plenty I ain't me. Can I hold on him? I'll get masked man who made fiction portrait. Oh, wait. You can't just go right into that bunch. Where do we figure out a way to go at this? They'll have you where they got the sheriff. Hey, stop. You let t go. He pick some. Hey, guns. Go. Come back here. You crazy? Come on. Come back. Gone clean loco cuz he thinks Larry me dumped a mask man. Well, I guess I'm loco too. Cuz I'm following right along. Get up. Get up, boy. Come on. Plunging like a thunderbolt from the hill to the canyon bed, Otto sent Scout driving for the band of his knotted gunman who was slowly closing in on the show. Arizona, shouting wildly to his own flying mouth, followed not far behind. The outlaws, turning at the sound of the two speeding horses were too astonished for their arrival to do more than give way and applied before the onrush. But before Tano in Arizona could check the fighter their mounts they found they'd been carried beyond the gunman that reached the place where the sheriff has taken refuge. Hey, Arizona, get back here with me. Get the COVID right. Me go back. Oh no you don't. Once going crazy like that's enough. You get care dog gone a tano. You got away with it the first time cause he didn't know you was coming. But can't you see you never have a chance the second time. They're just ready and waiting for you. Now you come on me right you said on that. Then I reckon here's where I get mine. Tano. Let's go. You stay back. Nothing doing. You go where I go. You dead kinsman that's my privilege as much as yours. Amy. It you not stay back if you arrive not in your kintai, then come, huh? We take cover with a sheriff. Now you're talking. And if we go hustle, we'll catch lead poison. Hurry up. Get back here with me. Where were you, Sheriff? You bro scout. Why in son do you take small making up your mind come the rest of the way. I thought them skunks was going to get you. Not glaring me feller. Him all right. Him get blast man. You mean this time he's really done for the long ranger looks kind of like a sheriff. Why blast their low down means your eyes see they come better have it. The first attack of the outlaws was beaten off. And the second and the third. Given the breathing space, the three trapped men discussed their situation. Sheriff, while we got a little time, suppose you explain how you got in this fix, huh? Just from getting mad and being a stubborn idiot. Yeah. Got a letter from Captain Blake. The Texas Rangers giving me the dickens. Then a feller back in town said I hadn't gone after Laramie. Cause I yeller he was telling the truth. That's why I got mad. Wouldn't listen to nobody. Just plain old seal red. I heard that he and Lara may be over this well. And little deal with Mendoza some account come here alone. Which same as what I get for refusing help. Now the three of us are in for it. Looks it. Where Mendoza? I don't know. He usually has some half breeds trailing along with him. But I ain't seen hiding a hair of them. Only Laramie there. That wouldn't be them, would it? Huh? Where? Just entering the canyon. Heading for Laramie. Sponge. Fine. Golly. I think bad. Bad just means almost double the lumber again. If there was that's all. We didn't have a chance of 4. Now we ain't got half that many. Well, all we can do is sell out for plenty and give them all we got when they come again. Wait. Hold it. What? Them two gangs don't look so friendly to me, Sheriff Trudeau. They're going for their gun. I don't give a. All I know is that fight was just made to order for us and not watch. Too busy. Ain't got time for no money but each other. Let's look around and get closer. I think when them two punches get through battling won't either one of them win. We will. Come on. Look there. That Greek wing Laramie. By golly, if we don't bud him pretty soon there won't be Enough. Left of those take prisoners. Sheriff, you circle farther there to the left. What do you got? Circle to the right. I'll stay here. When I yell, all of us hold down at them at once. Ah, right. We'll have them where if they don't surrender, we can blast them to glory. Hurry up now. I'll count to five. That'll give you time, Migo. I'm on my way. Whatever that gentle P out there. Sure, man. Just look at him going like a wild cat. Where's the sheriff and Tunnel? There's Tunnel. Well, here's for stop him gun and start the recent gents. Or you can say goodbye to living right now. Gets worse. Come on, T. Take their guns. Yeah, you shoot enough, make trouble now got the whole kitten caboodle out. Larry, you are one grass fool. If you do not try to cheat me, this thing is going to happen. Oh, my arm. I didn't cheat you, Pedro. How many times do I have to tell you? I sent you that cast by Clem. Clem? Then why you not say so? Didn't I try to when you went for your gun? Yeah, bro. It was not Clem. I see. It was a mask man. I bet detain your Willie mask from you. He's here. No bring cash. That you keep money for yourself. That you think me a big coward would not dare to ask for the cash. A maskman shows you that. See, you thought I sent him Daisy. You two line up with your par so I can search you good before we start for the Caliban. T. You hear that? Me here a mask man. Got these two outfits to scrap and tricked in to save our lives. Not from the whole ranger living and raising Ned with crook T. With him riding again, there ain't nothing can stop us. Sheriff. Put these coyotes and their horses. Let's get going. Mount you Pol. I'm aching to get the rest of their part. Who can beat us now? The lone rangers on our side.

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