- Anders Dorn: One last deal - that watch against your whole stake.
- Bat Masterson: That a watch? Looks like something you'd hang in a church steeple. It's no use to me.
- Anders Dorn: But it's three hundred years old! It was carried by the Spanish explorer De Laron.
- Bat Masterson: Colonel, that wise old watch ought to tell you when it's time to quit. Your luck's run out.
- Anders Dorn: Is it really my luck? Or is it the way you handle cards?
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- Narrator: The town of Little Paris, Arizona Territory - October 1878. The hands of an antique watch moved second-by-second to one of the climaxes in the life of Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.