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Please don't let me disturb you, gentlemen. I'll only be a moment.

Mr. Randall?

Josh Randall?

Yes, ma 'am. I'm the mother superior of the convent of the Sacred Heart at the

edge of town.

Perhaps you know our convent.

I'm pretty much a stranger here.

But you do know about the capture of Lon Kidder?

Oh, the killer the sheriff brought in yesterday.

Did you know that Kidder's outlaw friends have taken one of our orders

No, I didn't.

Sister Grace, one of our novitiates, is in their hands.

She's only 17.

Word has been sent that Sister Grace will be killed unless Lon Kidder is

released.

There's nothing I can do. The man to see is a sheriff.

I've spoken to him.

Oh. He says there's nothing he can do.

I'm truly sorry, ma 'am.

I realize that you and Sister have been being paid for whatever you do.

That's what I've been told.

We have no money. We have nothing to offer but our prayers.

Well, I'm out of $80, ma 'am. Now, prayers aren't going to buy me a new

chips.

Think a moment, Mr. Randall.

There's nothing I can do.

You can find a way.

Your deal.

Hello, Sheriff.

Oh, hello, Josh. Be with you in a minute.

What's the matter? You got nothing better to do for entertainment?

I spoke to the Mother Superior.

Kind of late to be taking up religion, isn't it?

Said she saw you, too.

She couldn't see things her way.

Well, item one, he's a confessed killer.

You don't turn them loose, that nun dies.

If I give him up for the nun, then every bandit in the territory has a license

to rob and steal.

If caught, all they have to do is take a nun from the convent as ransom for

their own hides.

You think maybe Kidder and his bunch are bluffing?

They don't bluff.

If my deputy was here, I'd send Kidder to Tucson for safekeeping.

I'll be glad to oblige. I'll take him to Tucson.

County can't afford an extra deputy.

I don't want any pay.

No? Why not?

Civic -minded, that's all.

You don't have any funny idea about exchanging that nun for him, huh?

You want Kidder in Tucson, that's where you'll be. Now, if I borrow him along

the way, you've got no objections, do you?

No. Once he's in Tucson, I'm off the hook.

Swear me in.

If he don't get to Tucson, you've got a wanted poster out on you, too.

Swear me in.

Where are we going?

Tucson.

Suppose I don't want to get in that horse.

Look, it don't matter to me whether you get on that horse or across it. You're

going to Tucson.

I've killed men for using kinder tones to me than that.

The only difference now is you haven't got a gun. Now, which way do you want to

ride that horse, mister?

Remember, any detours better be short and to the point.

Yes, sir.

I'll see you now, yeah?

Right.

Mitten Junction?

Why?

You know why.

Well, now, I got a slow brain.

Well, you can tell me.

I want you to take me there.

Why? I'm trading you in for a nun.

Donna, that's the first bit of sense I've heard since I've been in these

That's a trading post.

Make some noise.

Hey, Wilson.

Garth.

Wilson, Garth, it's me.

Lorne? Yeah, Lorne Kidder.

What are you so skittish about?

Who you got with you?

A deputy.

Tell him to drop his gun. He's covered.

You got the nun in there?

She's here.

Bring her out.

Tell him to drop his gun.

He won't do it. Bring her out.

He won't do business unless she's okay.

Yes. On the ground.

Flat on the ground.

Get on the horse.

Hey, what about these?

That's your problem.

get me, I'll get kidder.

So, for a nun, you're pretty good on a horse.

Horses and I are old friends.

You all right now?

I'm fine, thank you.

The, uh...

They didn't harm you?

No.

They said they would if their friend wasn't brought to them.

I was surprised when you came.

Why?

The law's not a thing of emotion.

I didn't believe they'd release a criminal.

A criminal for you?

The law made a sharp bargain.

That's very kind of you.

My pleasure.

I'm Sister Grace.

I know.

Well, what's your name?

Josh Randall?

Joshua.

In the Bible, the man who fought and won the Battle of Jericho. Were you named

after him?

No, ma 'am.

My uncle, Josh.

He fought all his life against the bottle.

He lost.

You feeling all right now, ma 'am?

I'm fine, thank you.

You think you can make it back to Conner by yourself?

Alone?

Well, I'm sure I could.

Why aren't you returning with me?

Well, I thought as long as I'm out in these hills, I'd do a little

Well, does it have anything to do with me?

Well, you're not interested in gold, are you?

No. Well, then it's got nothing to do with you.

I'm hungry.

Well, I've got a little meat here.

Not much.

Here you are, ma 'am.

Like this?

Don't you cook it?

No.

Well, I'd like it cooked.

Well, there's not much around here to make a fire with.

Well, that's easy. I'll show you.

You don't understand.

You don't want to make a fire, do you?

Bring hostile Indians down on our necks.

The Indians haven't been hostile around here for the last ten years.

Oh.

Actually, the law didn't release that criminal, did it?

You gave him up.

I don't know why, but you gave him up and now you have to go back and get him.

That's why you won't build a fire and that's why you won't come back with me.

No, ma 'am.

I'm just going to spend the night here. Tomorrow morning I'm starting for

California.

I thought you were going to prospect around here.

Look, lady, I've got a man...

Sister Grace, I've been appointed a deputy. I've got a job to do. It doesn't

include letting a man go on it for murder.

But it's dangerous for you.

Besides, somebody might get killed. Now, that's a sin.

Well, when I want a sermon now, I'll go to church.

Well, I wish you'd do that, too.

I could have told you they'd be gone. Well, why didn't you?

You were rude.

All I did was... Yes, you saved my life. Now, I'm trying to save yours.

You wouldn't know where they've gone.

I do.

Where?

They spoke their plans in Spanish.

They didn't know I was a student of Spanish.

Where did they go?

To Mexico.

That's a big place.

First they have business in a place called Mission Junction tonight.

I won't tell you where that is unless you agree to what I say.

I'm listening.

Well, we'll go to the sheriff together and we'll tell him where Mr. Kidder and

the others are going to be.

Then a great many men can go and persuade Mr. Kidder to give himself up.

I don't think Mr.

Kidder is going to be so easy to convince, but why don't you go along and

the sheriff what you told me?

Thanks for the information.

Well, what are you going to do?

Didn't your mother ever tell you it's not polite to follow a stranger?

Well, you saved my life. You're not a stranger.

You want us to stay friends, don't you?

Please go back to the convent.

Tell me where you plan to go.

Mission Junction.

That's not fair.

I thought I told you to go home.

I thought you agreed to my plan.

What kind of man are you? Are you anxious to use that thing?

Isn't there enough killing out in the West without you adding to it or getting

killed yourself?

Mr. Randall, please don't go. I don't want a nice man like you to... Look,

Sister Grace.

Sister Grace.

We've got our own private hell out here in the West. And as long as there's men

like Law and Kidder, it's going to stay that way. Now, you've got a job to do.

And I've got a job to do. Now, we have to do it in our own way.

Now, the best way for you to help is to go on back to the convent.

If anything happens to you, it'll be because of me. I can't have that on my

conscience.

Maybe you're right.

Maybe we should do things your way.

It's a mission church.

What do you know?

I'd like to pray for my deliverance. Would you come with me?

Why not?

Going to do.

Now, listen.

Kidder and his bunch are out there and about ready to bust in that bank. Now,

I've got to stop them.

And I mean for you to stay here.

No.

Look at that.

It ain't every day a gun misfires.

Some days are just lucky.

Are you all right, child?

Yes, Mother Superior.

Thank you.

I knew you wouldn't fail us.

Joshua.

Mr. Randall.

It's your scarf. You may remember you used it to teach me to talk less.

Thank you.

Will you come to see us?

When I'm around.

Well, don't forget your promise.

What was that?

Come to church someday.

Did I say that?

Almost. You said if you wanted to hear a sermon, you'd come to church.

Well, a sermon is what one hears in church.

Next Sunday, Joshua?

Maybe.