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Bring the pack horses.

Get that stuff out of the wagon.

As soon as we water the horses,

we'd better get on up to that number five tower.

Hey, Darol, isn't that someone in the water?

Sure is.

He's still alive. Well, you know who he is?

He owns the uranium mine. His name's Perez.

Wonder how he got here?

I don't know, but we better put him in a wagon

and get him to Doc Harding as quick as we can.

Al, get a horse. I want to keep working on him.

What's the matter, Shanghai? Whose car?

I call you in, Mr. Rogers. Two men like to see you.

He says very important.

How are ya, Roy?

Hi, Mr. Rafferty.

Shake hands with Mr. Linden from our main office.

How are you? How do you do, sir?

What brings you out here?

Another little job for you.

I'm pretty busy right now, but let's sit down and talk it over.

I've been telling Mr. Linden about you,

and he agrees that you're the man to handle the case.

A mine owner near Coronado, named Perez,

was found unconscious in a nearby lake.

He'd left his mine a short while before

with a wagonload of high-grade uranium ore

for the Coronado warehouse.

Uranium ore? Yes.

Investigators are satisfied that his team ran away

and the wagonload of ore fell into the lake along with Perez.

Perez was still alive when they found him.

They took him to the office of Dr. Frank Harding,

but he died before regaining consciousness.

So Perez died before he could tell where the wagon went into the lake, huh?

And now somebody wants your insurance company to pay off

for the missing ore.

That's right, the new owner of the mine.

And that's where you come in, Rogers. We don't mind paying a claim.

We just want to know some more details.

All right, I'll take the job providing I can do it my way.

It's a deal.

And the same financial arrangements as the last job you did for us?

All right with me.

I'll be into your office and get all the details.

And a small advance.

So long. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Hi, fellas. Hi.

Who takes care of the garage? I do.

What can I do for you?

There's a slow leak in the right front tire. I'd like to get it fixed.

I guess we can take care of that.

Ah. Been driving long? All night.

Which way you heading? Coronado.

That's about three miles straight ahead. Business?

Looking for a job.

I'll ride my horse on in and be back to pick the car up later.

Okay, fella.

Hey, Pete.

Get out there and check that license plate and check it close.

Kinda fussy, ain't ya? Chief's orders.

Gotta watch every stranger around here for the next two weeks.

Never can tell what they're doing here or who they're working for.

Our deal is too important for any slip-ups now.

The chief might not like it, Pete, and neither would I.

Okay.

Help.

Oh! Doc!

Please, Dr. Harding, this is killing me!

It's terrible.

Can't you give me an antiseptic or something to kill the pain?

But it's only a chest plaster, Sparrow.

I don't care what it is, it's skinning me alive.

Now I know how a chicken feels.

Oh, I've removed lots of these, and I've never lost a patient.

Please, Doc!

Well, if it's that painful I'll get some alcohol and we'll soak it off.

Gee, thanks, Doc.

We sure soaked her off, didn't we?

I'll pay you later.

Well, Roy, glad to see you. Same here, Doc.

You just saved me a lot of trouble.

He talked me into soaking it off,

and I'm kinda sissy about those things, too.

Say, pick him up and put him in a chair

while he's still unconscious, so we can finish the operation.

All right.

Come on, Sparrow, the worst is over. Sit down here.

Well, Roy, when did you get into town?

Just a while ago.

I had a bad cough, and Doc Harding just took off...

Hey, Doc, what you are doing?

Putting on another plaster.

I want you to keep it on until you get rid of that cough.

Don't worry. This I'll keep till they bury me.

Where's my clothes?

Well, Roy, it must be 15 years since we've seen you. Here on a visit?

No, as a matter of a fact, Doc, I'm looking for a job.

Job? What about the ranch?

Blizzards cleaned me out. I'm flat broke.

Gee, that's rough.

Bennett was saying he needed another hand

to help the Sagers on the power line.

You remember them, don't you, Roy?Sure do.

Say, that's not a bad idea, Sparrow. Did you ever know Bennett?

He owns the Coronado Power and Light Company, doesn't he?

That's right. How would you like a job on the power line?

Anything to help me pay my debts.

I'll see what I can do. Thanks, Doc.

Bennett's a big man around here.

He just took over the Coronado Mine after the owner was killed.

Man by the name of Perez.

Died right here in this office.

Yeah, I read about it.

Hello, Craig?

You still looking for a lineman?

Yeah, I still have a job open.

I got a very good prospect for you right here in my office.

What do you know about him?

You know how careful I am about the men I hire.

All I have is your recommendation.

He's no stranger to me. I've known him for a long time.

One of the most reliable men you'll meet.

Name's Roy Rogers.

Send him out to the repair crew on the north power line.

If my foreman okays him, it's okay with me.

Right. I'll send him right out to the Sagers.

And thanks a lot, Craig. Goodbye.

Right, Doc.

Hurry up!

Okay, Foy, I got her all hooked up.

Work's fine!

I'm too busy in the morning saying hi to the sun

Shouting howdy to my neighbor keeps me on the run

I'm smiling from my hat to my shoes

And I've got no time for the blues

Got a job that keeps me going and the hours are long

But to pass the time of day I sing a cowboy song

Hi, Pam! Hi, fellas!

Work, work and I've got no time for the blues

It's spring all the year

From June right through to May

No time to shed a tear

Every day's a holiday

If you find somebody frowning brother, just set him straight

Tell him that he better change his ways it's getting late

Hi, partner help me spread the good news

That we've got no time for the blues

Work, work, work, work, work, work

And we've got no time for the blues

Hey, Pam, thanks for bringing us the pay envelopes.

Speaking of work, Mr. Bennett's just hired a new lineman.

Who is he? I don't know.

I'll probably find out when I get back to the office.

And I've got to get back to that office.

You know, Mr. Bennett. Work, work, work.

Can you get those donkeys out of the way for me?

Sure, Pam.

Say, Pam. Yeah?

Don't you think we better send somebody in with you?

Are you kidding?

You know, there's no police force along these power lines here,

so you better lock all of your doors and roll up your windows.

And don't pick up any hitchhikers.

Don't worry!

Great, just great!

Two million acres of ground and you have to pick a spot like this.

Next time I see you I hope you're on a plate.

Oh, fellas, that crack about the plate I didn't mean it. Honest!

Shoo, shoo, boys.

Good afternoon, ma'am. Having trouble?

Something I can do for you?

No!

Are you sure about that?

You don't look like you're out for an early morning stroll

just for the fun of it.

You know, those shoes weren't made for walking on gravel roads.

Would you like a ride in the rumble seat?

No!

Do you live around here somewhere?

No.

Shall I call a taxi?

No.

Oh! Oh, my ankle. Oh!

Now maybe you'll let me help you.

Look at my purse.

Will you pick up those things and hand it to me?

Sure, miss.

Hey!

Good morning, Miss Reynolds. What can I do for you?

Could you loan me a nickel, please?A nickel?

Hurry, it's important, I have to make a phone call.

Sure, your credit's good.

I guess.

Thank you.

It's for you, Mr. Bennett.

Hello? Pam, why aren't you here at the office?

I was threatened by a desperate-looking stranger.

No, I don't know who he is, but he looked like a criminal.

Where are you now?

I'm at Ross's store.

But he has my purse, and it has some of the company's money in it.

Look, I took his horse and the car's still stuck out there.

Here he is now, Mr. Bennett! What'll I do? He's followed me!

Yes, there are three of them here.

I'll see if I can get Ross to hold him.

Hurry!

Ross.

Say, that looks like the guy that stopped to get his tire fixed this morning.

Yeah, the one we're checking on.

You better be careful, cause he'll shoot to kill.

That's him all right.

I'll get his attention and you two guys grab him.

Step aside, miss.

Where do you think you're going?

I'm trying to find the owner of this.

Get in there!

I'm sorry, miss.

So am I!

Get in there! Fight. Don't let him do that to you. Get away from him.

Bring him back here, boys, and we'll tie him up. Hurry up!

Look if you'd quit helping, we could do better.

Oh, yeah? Well, you listen...

Come on, boys. Yes, give him that. Hurry up!

That-a-boy, Ross! That's it, you got him now!

Don't let him do that to you. Get him, Ross!

That's the man, Mr. Bennett!

All right, break it up, break it up!

Now, what's this all about? He...

Uh, Mr. Bennett, this is Roy Rogers.

He's the man you hired this morning.

Turn him loose, Ross. Yes, sir, Mr. Bennett.

I'm sorry this happened,

but I was only trying to help the young lady.

Oh! So that's how it is.

Pam!

What are you doing back there?

Well, nothing, I mean, that is, I lost my purse.

Of all the lame-brained escapades I've ever heard of, this takes the cake.

As if I didn't have enough to do without my secretary

causing more trouble than the Battle of Gettysburg!

Well, Mr. Bennett, the Sagers told me to be very careful about strangers.

They didn't tell you to have them beaten to death.

Now get back to the office.

Yes, sir.

Miss, I'd like to thank ya for this.

And before you go, could I have the nickel you owe me?

Here, pay your debts.

Here's the nickel and I'm sorry.

Lady, you've been sorry all your life.

Just a minute.

I want you to be at my office at 6:00 in the morning

to put Rogers on the payroll.

6:00 in the morning! I can't get up that early.

If you can't, maybe I can get somebody who can.

Oh, oh, I'll be there.

I'll see ya at 6:00, ma'am.

Remember the story about the early worm?

Yeah, he got the bird.

You're on the payroll now. Sign there.

Here's your advance. Advance?

Sure, you're a cowboy, aren't you?Yes, but...

Well, I just thought I'd beat you to it.

We never had a cowboy go to work here without asking for an advance.

In that case, I'll take it.

I'm sorry you had to come to the office so early.

Oh, it's all right. It's not your fault.

It's that old crab Bennett's idea of getting even with me

for causing that trouble yesterday.

Well, good morning. Hi, Sparrow!

Sure bright and early, isn't it?Plenty early.

You all ready to go, Roy? Sure am.

Beautiful morning out, Pam. Why don't you come and go with us?

Oh, you know how Mr. Bennett is about being on time,

and I might not get back.

Come on. You said yourself what a nice morning it was.

Well, okay, but I better be back here by 9:00.

Hear the bells of Coronado

Softly ring across the desert sand

Sleepy town of Coronado

Nestled deep in western wonderland

Along about evening

Millions of stars

Bring a cover of blue

Shadows are creeping

Roses are sleeping

They wait for the morning dew

And the bells of Coronado

Bring me back across the Rio Grande

And the bells of Coronado

Bring me back

Across the Rio Grande

Say, I've got to be getting back to the office. Thanks for a pleasant ride.

See you boys back there!

So long, Pam. Good bye, Pam.

Say, where does this power line run to?

Over near the lake, on up to Deer Valley.

That's close to the Coronado Mine, isn't it?

That's right. What do you say you and I ride over there?

Can't, Roy, I got work to do and so have you.

Could the boss of the power line gang get along without us for a little while?

Sure, Roy, we'll cover for ya. Just don't run into Bennett.

Thanks. Come on, Sparrow.

Sparrow, I'm going to have to trust you with some information.

I didn't come to Coronado looking for a job.

I'm here as an investigator for an insurance company,

trying to find that missing uranium ore.

Boy, you better not let Mr. Bennett find that out.

It's more than just Mr. Bennett.

If what happened to that ore wasn't an accident

then somebody else is interested.

Somebody who would go as far as murder to get their hands on it.

But why? It isn't worth that much.

Maybe not to the government,

but to some unfriendly power without a uranium supply,

it'd be worth a fortune.

Roy, I think you've been reading too many detective stories.

Maybe so.

Can't you read? Didn't you see that sign on the gate?

We work for the Power and Light Company.

We're here to check your transformer and meter.

Check them then and get outta here.

That's what we intend to do.

Bring on the wagon.

Another shipment?

That's right.

We're taking it to the warehouse in town.

I'm riding as guard to see that it gets there.

Get that wagon rolling!

Well, that's funny.

I've never seen either one of those two fellows before.

I come up here to check the meter all the time.

Where is everybody?

There's usually eight or ten miners working here.

Hey, anybody here? Where is everybody?

Hello in there.

Hey, it's the miners!

Cut them loose, Sparrow, then follow me.

Okay.

Well, they ought to be along any minute now.

We won't even have to make this one look like an accident.

Yeah, it'll just disappear. Nothing like having your own driver.

Hold them off. We've only got about a mile to go.

Sparrow!

Couldn't fight back, Roy. Didn't have a gun.

There's probably somebody on down the road waiting for this wagon.

We'll take a short-cut into town. Come on, climb on up here.

Let's not kid ourselves. They should have been here long ago.

Maybe we should check up at the mine.

No.

If anything's happened, we better not be here.

Let's get back to the store, let the boss worry about it.

Whoa!

Pam! Sparrow's been hurt.

Get him over to Dr. Harding's office.

I'll take this load of ore to the warehouse.

What happened, Sparrow? Did you fall off again?

No, I wish I had. I've been shot.

Ho-ho!

Here's a load of ore from the Coronado Mine.

Didn't get lost this time, huh?

Not quite.

Where's the sheriff's office? Right down the street.

Check this in for me and I'll be back to see ya later.

Okay.

Boy, do I feel gay.

Is he suffering much, Doctor?

He'll be all right, no bones broken.

I had to give him an anesthetic.

Hmm. Pentothal sodium. He'll come to in a minute.

Oh, doc, don't touch that plaster.

I'm not gonna hurt you, Sparrow.

Tell me what happened?

We were at the mine.

The miners were tied and gagged.

Roy went after the wagon.

Why did Roy chase the wagon?

They were stealing the ore.

The insurance company didn't like that.

What insurance company?

The one Roy works for.

That's why he's here,

to try to find the missing uranium.

They think he works

for the Power and Light Company.

But the joke's on them.

Boy, would I like to see Mr. Bennett's face

when he finds out that Roy's been working on his claim

with an insurance company.

The patient's getting along splendidly.

I had to give him a little something to put him to sleep

to get the bullet out.

What is this about the insurance company?

He means I've been working undercover on your claim.

I meant to tell you later, but now you know.

Rogers, there's some things I can't understand.

Like being tricked and lied to.

You came to me and said you were up against it and wanted a job.

Well, I gave you one.

All you wanted to do was investigate my claim and spy on me.

You're obviously trying to implicate me in this robbery.

So that your insurance company won't have to pay off.

Well, I got news for you, you're fired.

Well, that isn't fair!

Mr. Bennett, it was Roy who brought the ore down from the mine.

You shut up or you're fired, too!

Craig, don't you think you're being stubborn about this?

Roy's a brave, young man

and deserves a lot of credit for doing a fine job.

Well, after this, he'll do it on his own time.

Sheriff, I'll be at my office. I want to see you.

Pam, come on! Yes, sir.

I'm sorry, Roy. That's all right.

Sheriff, there was nothing accidental about Perez's death.

Or the missing uranium ore.

I think you better notify the Federal Authorities immediately.

That's just what I intend to do, Rogers. Thanks.

Hey, Roy.

Did I hear Craig Bennett fire you, or was I dreaming?

You weren't dreaming.

Well, I wonder how he knew that you was working for an insurance company?

Maybe a little bird told him.

Ouch! Does it hurt pretty bad?

Oh. It's this chest plaster.

Sorry things turned out the way they did, Roy.

I wish you'd have come to me first.

You know, I'm not gonna give Bennett a chance to fire me.

I'll resign right now.

Right now, you're gonna rest here for a couple of days and take it easy.

I don't want any infection in that wound.

You know when I was coming out of that sodium whatchamacallit,

I got an idea.

I know who's back of all this and why they're doing it.

Who? Craig Bennett.

If Bennett's taken over the mine, why would he wanna take the ore?

Well, just like Roy says,

any foreign country that hasn't got uranium

would pay an awful lot of money for that ore.

So, Bennett steals it from himself,

makes it look like somebody else did.

Any man who'd do that is a traitor

and I can't believe it of Craig Bennett.

Well, I can. Bennett's been a man that played for big stakes.

It's everything or nothing for him.

That's a pretty serious charge you're making, Sparrow.

Murder's a pretty serious charge, too.

Hey, Roy! Which way you heading?

To the Power and Light Company's office.

Your agent, Mr. Roy Rogers,

who's investigating my claim against your company,

has acted in a thoroughly unbusinesslike manner.

He's resorted to trickery and evasion.

I thought I fired you. Now, get out of here.

You're under arrest, Mr. Bennett.

Are you crazy?

No. I signed a complaint.

What's the charge?

It's a very serious one, Mr. Bennett.

Better come with me.

I don't know what the charge is, Rogers,

but if you don't make it stick,

I'm gonna cause you plenty of trouble.

All right, Sheriff, I'm ready.

Take care of the office, Pam. Yes, sir.

Roy, Mr. Bennett can get awfully rough.

I hope you know what you're doing.

I hope I know what I'm doing, too.

How's Sparrow? He's fine.

See you later. Okay.

Hey, guess what? Bennett's in jail.

Rogers filed a complaint this afternoon, charging him with the murder of Perez

and stealing the uranium ore.

Five will get you eight he's out by now.

Ain't no jail in this county big enough to hold Bennett.

If they want a million dollars bail, he's got it.

That check on Rogers was on the nose all right.

An insurance investigator.

After what he's done to Bennett,

I got a hunch there's gonna be one insurance investigator less around here.

Hey, it's the chief.

Put out the light.

Sure, boss, sure.

I thought you'd get in touch with us

after what happened out on the road this morning.

Well, what's done is done.

I just contacted the other side.

We've gotta get that second shipment of ore

before we can fulfill our part of the deal.

It's in the warehouse under guard.

Rogers and Biffle brought it into town.

That's because somebody bobbled!

Now it's up to you to get the ore out of there.

There's an electric burglar alarm

connected with the sheriff's office, Chief.

Do as I tell you and you can forget about that electric burglar alarm.

Now, you divide into two groups.

One will ride out to the power line

and the other head for the warehouse.

Come in!

Hi, Sparrow! Hello.

Hi, Sparrow. How you feeling?

Good. Gee, this is swell. A party.

That's right. It was Doc Harding's idea.

Come on, fellas, let's get this stuff in the kitchen, huh?

Hey, everybody's here.

Who's supposed to be watching the phone at the office?

I'm supposed to be, but I didn't wanna miss the party.

And besides, where Mr. Bennett is, he won't be checking on me.

Do you suppose he's guilty, Roy?

Well, if he isn't...

Let's forget about it for now and have a good time.

Where's Doc Harding?

He went out on a call.

Somebody at the other end of town got hurt. But he said he'd be right back.

Let's help with the refreshments.

Okay, this is where we split up, Jim.

Al, you and Kenny come with me.

Give us about a half hour to get to the warehouse.

Sure thing.

Save a smile for a rainy day

Keep a laugh to chase the clouds away

Keep a rainbow in your pocket Sprinkle it with morning dew

Four leaf clovers in a locket Good luck will follow you

Keep the sun shining in your eyes

Life is fine that way

You'll find there's nothing to it

All you got to do is do it

Save a smile for a rainy day

Save a smile Save a smile

For a rainy day

Keep a laugh Keep a laugh

To chase the clouds away

Keep a rainbow in your pocket Sprinkle it with morning dew

Four leaf clovers in a locket Good luck will follow you

Good luck?

Keeping the sun shining in your eyes

Life is fine that way

You'll find there's nothing to it

All you got to do is do it Save a smile for a rainy day

You folks seem to be having a good time.

I'm sorry I was late. I had to set a broken arm.

Well at least you got here in time for refreshments.

I'll get you some, Doc.

This came here for you this afternoon, Roy.

Thanks, Doc, I've been expecting it.

Here are you. Oh, thank you.

What in the world is that?

It's a Geiger Counter.

Used to locate radioactive minerals such as uranium.

When you put these earphones on

you can actually hear the effect of the atoms

given off by the radioactivity in the minerals.

Why, it's just like a radio. Except there's no music, just static.

When you get close to it with this tube, it registers right here.

Say, it sure is popping now. Listen.

What?

That's funny.

The counter's registering 58.

Probably something wrong with the machine.

We gotta couple of minutes yet.

Don't have to worry about that burglar alarm.

With the power off it won't work. Just work quietly.

Be out of here with that ore before anybody knows what's happening.

All right, get the boys in the truck moving.

It's been a good half hour.

In a few seconds, it'll burn itself through

and the whole valley will be in darkness.

Hey, there's something in here that registers strong.

Why, of course, Roy.

It's the radium needle I use to treat my patients.

Hey, what happened? Who turned those lights out?

There goes that fuse again.

Just hold everything and I'll fix it.

Hey, Roy, the lights are out all over town.

There shouldn't be a power failure on a night like this.

Yeah, but there is and I'm supposed to be on duty.

Come on, fellas, let's go see if we can find it.

Pam, you better wait here till the lights come on.

See you later. Okay.

If Mr. Bennett ever finds out the boys were up here giving me a party...

Where'd they all go? Troubleshooting.

I tell you young folks, I'm not so sure,

but what the old-fashioned ways aren't best.

If a thing like this gets out of order, you can fix it easy.

But when a town blacks out, everything goes dead.

Lights, heat, refrigeration, telephones, radios, burglar alarms.

Why, a whole town is just helpless.

Put up your hands! What are you doing in there?

Come on, come on. Hurry it up, hurry it up.

We gotta get out of here before that power comes back on.

Hey, Al, get up to the transformer and turn the power off.

Foy, I've got a hunch this wasn't an accident.

Say, Foy, did they ever have an inquest on the body of Perez?

No, he died in Dr. Harding's office.

Doc signed the death certificate.

No inquest, huh?

There's gonna be. I'm gonna get a court order.

Good morning, Doctor. Good morning, Ross.

I have a grocery order for you.

How'd everything go?

Like a 21-jewel watch.

Packed train's all loaded and ready to move at any time.

Good, I just talked to the other side.

The plane will drop in at the contact point exactly at noon.

Come up to my place later for the payoff.

I'd like to have seen Rogers' face last night

when he discovered the uranium was missing

after he put Bennett in jail.

Don't sell Rogers short. I think he knows more than he says.

If he ever gets close to me again,

I'll make him feel like a clay pigeon at a county fair.

Wait till the ore is delivered then you can do as you like.

Look, Chief, I want you to do me a favor.

It's awful important, take Jim with you.

I don't need a bodyguard.

I know, I'm not sure about him yet, but...

Here comes somebody. Take him along with you.

I'll go get him now.

Where's Doc Harding? He's not here.

What'd you find out at the autopsy?

Perez died of strychnine poisoning.

Strychnine? Well, how could that happen?

Doc Harding gave it to him. Doc Harding?

Yes, the same doctor who gave you the pentothal sodium.

How do you feel? Swell.

See, you weren't hurt bad enough for an anesthetic.

That stuff he gave you is used as a truth serum.

He wanted to make you talk.

That's how he found out that I'm an insurance investigator.

Well, why would he wanna know?

Because he's the brains at this end of the uranium smuggling outfit.

Well, I'll be doggoned.

Boy, I sure had it figured wrong.

And all the time I was blaming Bennett.

Everybody else did, too. You see, Sparrow,

Bennett knew that I was connected with the insurance company.

We both suspected Dr. Harding, but we couldn't pin anything on him.

That's why Bennett and I framed that jail deal,

so that Harding would continue his activities.

Roy, that trick sure fooled everybody.

Say, Roy, I've been fooling with that Geiger Counter

and there's no reaction around the desk this morning.

What?

Dr. Harding must have taken his radium needle with him.

I've got news for you, Sparrow.

He wouldn't leave a radium needle in this desk.

If he sat close to it long enough,

the radiation from the needle would eventually kill him.

He knows too much about it to take a chance like that.

There's sure nothing here.

Hey, maybe it's one of them books.

This thing sure pops when you get near them.

Hey, you're right.

Hey, a safe!

Did Doc Harding say where he was going?

Go to the jail. Tell Bennett we have all the evidence we need.

Have the sheriff release him and get them both back here to make the arrest.

I sure will, Roy.

What's the matter, Roy, did you lose something?

I'm glad you showed up, Doc.

You can save me a lot of trouble if you'll unlock this safe.

What's in there is none of your business.

Yes, it is.

Because when the sheriff arrives, you'll be under arrest

for the murder of George Perez.

Are you out of your mind? No.

I had Perez's body exhumed.

We just got the coroner's report.

He died in this office because you poisoned him.

It's funny, nobody but you ever questioned the death of Perez.

It was the weakest link in the chain.

Come on, Doc, unlock the safe.

Might as well.

The uranium ore sample you were looking for in my desk is in here.

I imagine that this sample was compared with the ore

Perez was supposed to have lost in the bottom of the lake.

It'd be pretty much the same, wouldn't it?

I imagine so, but the ore would still be in my desk

if you hadn't brought in that Geiger Counter.

But you're not going to do anything about it.

Take my advice, you'll turn around slowly.

You don't expect me to fall for that old gag do you?

For old time's sake, I'm gonna make it easy on you, Roy.

I'm gonna mix you a drink that will put you to sleep.

A long sleep that nobody can disturb.

I brought you into this world, and I'm gonna take you out!

Don't shoot, Doc. Someone may hear it.

I think I can handle it.

Nice work, Jim. Thanks.

Here,

give Rogers one of these pills. It'll melt in his mouth.

Tie him up and we'll get out to Dry Lake.

We can be out of the country before anybody suspects a thing.

Hello?

Yes, yes, he is.

I see.

Are you absolutely certain?

That's very interesting. Thank you.

What's new?

Just this, my young friend.

Now I know why Ross wanted me to take you with me.

You've been working for the Federal Government right along.

Somebody's been kidding you, Doctor.

You can't lie out of it now.

I suppose you figured on getting out to Dry Lake with me

and making a clean sweep of it.

There's only two people who know the contact point and three's too many.

Too bad, but your little scheme just fell through.

You're right, Doc. But you don't want to be a traitor.

Why don't you play smart and give yourself up?

There's too much money involved.

Do you think I'd stop at one murder now?

Now turn around.

It couldn't have been any other way. Jim Russell.

Glad to know you, Jim.

I didn't have a chance to tell you I was working for the government,

until we were rolling around on the floor down there.

Even then I thought you'd knock me out before I could.

I've been trying to discover their contact point for months.

Now I know it's at Dry Lake.

But I'm afraid we haven't time to stop them.

All we can do is try.

Sparrow will be back here with the sheriff any minute.

I'll leave a note telling them to bring the posse out to help us

as fast as they can.

They can't miss this.

All right, come on, come on, look alive there. Hurry it up!

Okay, boys, there they are.

Well, we got the ore for you. How about the money?

But, uh, where is Dr. Harding?

It's all right, I'm working under his orders.

Oh, in that case.

All right, boys, load it up.

Listen, I think we'll have a better chance if we split up.

We'll delay them until the posse gets here.

I sure hope Sparrow found that note.

Yeah. Wait for my signal.

The place has been wrecked.

It's Doc Harding!

Hey, Roy! What happened to the Doc?

He's shot!

Hey, Roy, where are you?

Dr. Harding promised there'd be no interference.

Shut up, will you!

You don't think this was our idea.

Now look, we're nearly loaded.

I'll hold them off until you can get this thing out of here.

You'd better. All right, hurry it up!

He's nowhere around.

Yes, the body's here.

We don't know where Rogers is.

If you need me later, I'll be over at the jail.

The coroner will be right over.

Meanwhile, we'd better go back to my office and wait.

Hey.

"Sparrow, have the sheriff get a posse and ride out to Dry Lake

"as fast as possible. It's very urgent. Roy."

Well, let's go!

Come on down, follow us.

Turn those pack horses loose. We don't need them anymore.

Run them across the lake towards them. They'll cover you.

We're just about loaded.

It's a posse. Clear out.

Take off as fast as you can.

Drop it and get your hands up high.

Why don't you come on down, Ross?

Come up and get me!

Roy, be careful!

Don't come any closer.

I'll touch that high tension line.

It'll kill the both of us!

I've got a gun!

Hear the bells of Coronado

Softly ring across the desert sand

Sleepy town of Coronado

Nestled deep in western wonderland

Along about evening millions of stars Bring a cover of blue

Shadows are creeping

Roses are sleeping

So long, Roy, don't forget to come back!

And the bells of Coronado

Bring me back across the Rio Grande