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00:13Mailman's coming.
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00:34Why do you want to kill men when there's no need to?
00:37You close his eyes,
00:39you close his mouth.
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01:45John Baskin?
01:46That's right.
01:47I'm Randall.
01:48Oh, glad to meet you, Mr. Randall.
01:50This is Sam Jarvis, one of our riders from up north.
01:52Hello, Jarvis.
01:53Well, it didn't take you long to get here.
01:55Well, sooner you go after a man on the run, sooner you get home.
01:57This man might not be on the run.
02:00Another one of our riders was killed last Monday.
02:02This telegram arrived just before you did.
02:04And the mail box was stolen.
02:07He's the same man that killed your other men?
02:09Might be.
02:10Along the same stretch of trail.
02:12Here, I'll show you.
02:15You see, the trail runs north from Tucson to Flagstaff.
02:19There's a mail stop a little over halfway here at Tipton.
02:22Mining town.
02:23Both men were killed in that rocky area just south of Tipton.
02:26Did you get a description of the thief?
02:28No, nothing.
02:29Nobody's seen him.
02:31Didn't even hear a shot.
02:33Well, there must be some trail signs here, something.
02:35Yeah.
02:36Footprints, plenty of them.
02:38Men, mules and moccasins.
02:40But both holdups took place on the main trail.
02:42And nobody can make anything out of signs like that.
02:44You haven't got much to work on.
02:46That's why we're willing to pay you to do the job, Randall.
02:49Let me show you something. Excuse me.
02:51This package contains a 15-carat diamond worth $20,000.
02:56Now, you can see that it's addressed to Rufus Teller, Tipton, Arizona.
02:59Teller's a crazy miner that struck it rich.
03:01The old fools have been drinking and bragging all over town that this ring's coming.
03:04We think his loose talk cost our rider his life.
03:07You see, this was supposed to go out on last week's trip.
03:09But it got delayed.
03:11I wired Denver to have Sam come down,
03:13deliver it on next week's run.
03:15I want you to patrol the trail ahead of him.
03:17Our company is willing to pay $1,000 for that mail robber, dead or alive.
03:20I might as well tell you, Randall, I think it's a waste of money.
03:23I never needed a bounty hunter yet to help me deliver mail.
03:26You got anything special against bounty hunters?
03:28I've never met one you could trust from here to Sunday.
03:31Well, then maybe we'd better start over.
03:37I'm Josh Randall.
03:47Let's go.
04:18Ah, a stranger on the trail.
04:21Carrying a cut-down carbine on his belt.
04:27A bounty hunter.
04:29What's his name? Uh, uh, Randall.
04:35He's probably scouting ahead for the rider.
04:38So maybe we ought to fix it so that mailman
04:41doesn't have to worry about us.
04:44So maybe we ought to fix it so that mailman
04:47take the wrong fork.
05:14Let's go.
05:38Here he comes.
05:45Oh, what's he stopping for?
05:48He's checking his bearings.
05:53Well, there goes your diamond. He's turning back.
05:56No, he's not.
06:06You move up on him. I'll keep him pinned down.
06:14Fire!
06:15Fire!
06:16Fire!
06:17Fire!
06:18Fire!
06:19Fire!
06:20Fire!
06:24Fire!
06:29Fire!
06:33Fire!
06:34Fire!
06:38Fire!
06:45I think I saw him.
06:47Get some water.
06:49There ought to be a canteen on his horse.
07:15Not a gunshot.
07:17Halfway up the mountain.
07:19I'll take that canteen and go after him.
07:22No, Frank, let him go.
07:24Bring the mule and get me out of here.
07:26Where to? Tipton?
07:28It's the only place we can make without more water.
07:30Frank, you got to go back to the mule.
07:32I can't.
07:33I've got to go back to the mule.
07:35I've got to go back to the mule.
07:37I've got to go back to the mule.
07:39I've got to go back to the mule.
07:41I've got to go back to the mule.
07:42I've got to go back to the mule.
07:43Frank, you got to go back to the fork, change those trail signs back.
07:46I'm not going anywhere without that diamond.
07:49You're not going after it without water either.
07:51You can't live on that mountain.
07:52I'm keeping that canteen here.
07:56Throw your gun over, Frank.
07:58Now!
08:02I thought we were partners.
08:04There's only water for one.
08:06I can't ride for more. You can.
08:09Hey, take the cutoff at the forks.
08:11I got to get you back to town before anybody knows that rider's lost.
08:14You load up on water and get back here.
08:16One question.
08:18What's to bring me back?
08:20The diamond.
08:22I got to spot the canteen on a rock.
08:25When that rider gets thirsty,
08:27you'll come down for the water and I'll finish him.
08:29I don't like it, Dixon. Not at all!
08:31You don't have to like it!
08:33Now get on that mule or I'll kill you.
08:38Give me one drink for the road?
08:40Sorry, Frank.
08:42You'll ride faster thirsty.
08:44Now keep going.
08:59You find the express rider?
09:00What happened?
09:01Where's the mail?
09:02I'm afraid the mail won't be coming in tonight, folks.
09:04The express rider left his last relay station on time.
09:07I covered the whole trail, most of it twice.
09:09He's just not out there.
09:10The horse, the mail and the rider.
09:12They just disappeared.
09:13Now you listen here, Randall.
09:15My diamond ring was in that mail pouch.
09:18Worth $20,000.
09:20Well, now I've heard that teller.
09:22And the way you've been talking, so has everybody else within 50 miles.
09:25Including the mail thief.
09:26But the Continental Express guaranteed delivery.
09:29If you hired out to him, what are you doing here in town?
09:32Because it's got to be reported to the law.
09:34That's why.
09:35While that thieving mail carrier gets a 50-mile start.
09:38Are you accusing Sam Jarvis of running off with your diamond?
09:41I never knew a horse or rider to just disappear off a main trail.
09:45Unless it was on purpose.
09:47Now you listen.
09:49Wherever your diamond is, Sam Jarvis is either protecting it or he's dead.
10:06Sheriff, you mean to tell me you ain't going to hit up a posse?
10:09Mr. Randall's getting paid to find that mail pouch.
10:11I'm paid to police the town.
10:13My budget don't include deputies.
10:15Then I'll find somebody to ride out with you, Randall.
10:20If I have to pay him myself.
10:26Mr. Randall.
10:30My name's Elder Boone.
10:32My name's Elder Boone.
10:34I'm leader of the gospel wagon train.
10:36We're camped five and a half miles out at Sunday Springs.
10:39I'd like to have a little talk with you, if I may.
10:41I'm glad to know you, Elder.
10:43I'd like to have that talk, but I've got a lot to do right now.
10:45Please listen. It'll only take a moment.
10:48In that stolen mail pouch,
10:50there's something a great deal more precious to us than diamonds.
10:53You see, my congregation has crossed this wild country to settle at Sunday Springs.
10:57We're building a church.
10:59And our bishop has sent us holy water from the River Jordan to dedicate it.
11:03The flask containing that consecrated water was entrusted to the express company.
11:07And it was due on this run?
11:08Yes, it was.
11:10You see, we had a telegram.
11:12May God have mercy on that thief, Mr. Randall.
11:15And may he grant you the will and the strength
11:18to bring that consecrated water home to us.
11:21Elder, I'll do what I can.
11:24Randall, I found your man for you.
11:28This is Frank Parrish, the smartest mountain goat in these mountains.
11:32Next to me, that is.
11:34He's gonna ride with you as my personal representative
11:37to see that you don't disappear along with my diamond and that mail rider.
11:41You know this man, sir?
11:43Sure, everybody knows Frank Parrish.
11:45He's been prospecting this territory since the Apache days.
11:48Why, he knows every trail and ledge.
11:51Since I'm too lame to go with you, Randall,
11:53Frank is the best guide you can get.
11:56If you want to ride along, I got no call to stop you.
11:59I'm leaving in a half hour.
12:00Fine, I'll be ready.
12:22Beats me, Josh.
12:23No sign for the whole 30 miles between town and the relay station.
12:26You say this is the only side trail there is?
12:28That's right.
12:30Buzzards.
12:31They're waiting for something to die.
12:52Horse prints, and they're fresh.
12:54Come on.
13:21Come on.
13:38Hey, cover!
13:52Throw your gun out! There's two of us here!
13:54Come on out with your hands up!
14:22Sorry to do that, old friend.
14:25That'll teach you to pull a gun on your partner.
14:28Now, where's that diamond?
14:31Hey, Frank!
14:33Come here!
14:38Footprints leading from that dead express horse
14:40riding up here to the steep pitch.
14:42I don't know Jarvis.
14:43I figure maybe he took that mail pouch on up there with him.
14:46Pretty steep pitch.
14:48I figure maybe he took that mail pouch on up there with him.
14:50Pretty steep climb. We can't use the horses.
14:52Oh, no, no, no. We'll time off down here.
14:54Listen, you better leave that rifle here.
14:56Why?
14:57Well, it weighs about 15 pounds.
14:59If Jarvis is injured,
15:00we're gonna have to pack him down off that mountain.
15:02That extra weight won't come in handy.
15:04You're taking your gun.
15:05I've dragged this piece up pretty steep trails.
15:07I don't feel real dressed without it.
15:19Come on.
15:40Blood.
15:42He's been wounded.
15:43Couldn't get very far.
15:49Come on.
15:53Jarvis?
15:58Hey, the mail pouch.
15:59He hung on to it.
16:01Yeah, you remember that, too.
16:03Your friend Teller called him a thief.
16:05When you get back to town,
16:06you tell him how Jarvis died.
16:08I'll tell him.
16:10What about the diamond?
16:12I'm looking.
16:14Ruvis Teller, Tipton, Arizona,
16:16from Jackson Company, jeweler, St. Louis.
16:18$20,000.
16:20Wrapped up in a little paper box.
16:23Let's see it.
16:25That ring was given to the express company sealed up,
16:27and that's exactly how we're gonna give it back to Ruvis Teller.
16:30I think we better bury Jarvis and ride on back to Tipton.
16:46Come on.
17:16Come on.
17:46Come on.
18:16Come on.
18:46Come on.
19:16Come on.
19:46Come on.
20:16Come on.
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21:21Frank?
21:23You better give it up while I still got some water left.
21:26Water?
21:28You've got water?
21:37About enough to get me back to town.
21:40Randall,
21:43I'm burning up.
21:45Is it just worth swallow?
21:47What's it worth to you, Frank?
21:50For a drop to drink?
21:52Would you trade $20,000?
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22:16He done it.
22:17He done it.
22:18That Josh Randall's done it.
22:19He done brought back my diamond.
22:21Look at her.
22:22My chimney beaters.
22:23Ain't she a beauty?
22:32The Lord heard our prayers and brought you safely home,
22:34Mr. Randall.
22:35Blessed be the name of the Lord.
22:37Where is the water?
22:40Well, it's right over here, Leroy.
22:42What's left of it?
22:44It's been opened.
22:45There are only a few drops left.
22:46Yeah, well, you see, sir, I was...
22:47I was home.
22:49I'm John Baskin,
22:51inspector for Continental Express Company from Tucson.
22:54You, uh...
22:56You say that you and your congregation
22:58were praying for Mr. Randall?
22:59Well, of course, but we...
23:01Well, and I reckon the good Lord was listening.
23:03You see, that robber left Mr. Randall
23:05out at the mountain to die of thirst.
23:08He found your flask in the mail pouch.
23:10Saved his life.
23:12Yes, that's real miracle water, Elder Boone.
23:14Sent by God's mercy to save life.
23:17Now, those last few drops will doubly consecrate our church.
23:20Mr. Randall, how can we ever...
23:22Mr. Randall?
23:24He figures he's the one should be thanking you.
23:29He asked me to give you this.
23:32It's a bank grant for $1,000.
23:34Mm-hmm, Randall's reward for bringing in that bandit.
23:36Well, why? He risked his life. Surely that's enough.
23:38Well, he just didn't think he'd enjoy spending it.
23:41You see, if it hadn't have been for that Jordan water of yours,
23:43he wouldn't have been here to collect it.
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