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Hold it right there, mister.

You're gonna let that female go.

We ain't got no call to be killing her.

Now get out of here. No, Bart, no.

Now listen, honey, if there's some way I could use you, I would, but there

isn't.

Now get out.

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Brothers.

All right, Mayor.

I'll see you.

Somehow I didn't count on your having that third ace.

Had enough?

For tonight, but I'll try again tomorrow.

No, you won't.

I beg your pardon?

We got a rule.

No gambling on Sunday.

Science. You're leaving town tonight.

I couldn't afford to do that. After all, sir, you've won more than $700 from me.

Surely I'll get a chance to get even.

What for?

You ain't got much more than $20 left.

Less than $20.

Well, then.

Don't make much sense for me to risk my 700 against your 20, does it?

Correction, Mayor. My 700?

Not no more.

Anyway,

in case I was tempted, we got another rule.

No professional gambler allowed in town on Sunday.

Tell me, how long has that rule been in effect?

Just thought of it. But most of the town council's right here.

How about it, gents?

All those in favor, raise your hands.

Rule ratified.

Well, five minutes more and it'll be Sunday.

That's just about how long you've got to get out of town.

Tell me, sir, does this rule apply to all professional gamblers or just to me?

Oh, what's fair for one is fair for all.

Any professional gamblers who ain't out of town on Saturday by midnight is

subject to jail and a $20 fine.

Time's just about up.

Since it is so close to Sunday, may I propose the Bible text for tomorrow's

sermon?

I was a stranger and ye took me in?

Now, what's your business, mister?

My business?

Well, I just rode into town for a friend to do game cards, boys.

I'm sorry, uh, Mr. Maverick, wasn't it?

You had to be penalized under a law that was made for me.

Well, cheer up. One of these days they may refer to it as the Gentleman Jack

Darby law.

Thank you, sir.

My mistake was in assuming a man is a sheep because he looks like one.

Somewhere along the way, the mayor turned into a lion. Yeah, but we profit

our mistakes.

True. You profited by mine. Didn't cost you a cent.

Still, I don't want you to feel you owe me anything. Well, I appreciate that.

On the other hand, it seems only fair that you should advance me a small stake

out of the money I saved you.

It does?

Say, uh, $500?

I'll pay you back, of course, out of my winnings when I get to Crescent City.

No, I'll be lucky to get into a game myself. You see, I've only got $12.

Oh.

Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I hope I haven't embarrassed you. Not at all.

I shouldn't try and collect that reward if I were you, sir.

I hadn't even thought of it.

Actually, I'm quite innocent. Of course, I don't expect you to believe that.

Thank you.

It's all a tragic mistake.

But I don't intend to let it go uncorrected. If it takes the rest of my

I'm going to clear my good name.

Which one?

Well... Shall we move along?

But in separate directions, if it's all the same to you.

Oh, and we were getting on so well.

Surely you're not going to let a little thing like this come between us.

No, a little thing like that.

Well, I'll put it away.

If I have your word as a gentleman, you'll give me no cause to regret it.

From one gentleman to another, you have it.

After you, sir.

Who's the idea of coming up behind a man like that? Sorry to have startled you,

sir. But obviously the only reason I came up behind you is because your back

to the door. Oh, well, all right. Forget about it.

I'm a little jumpy, that's all.

You would be, too, if you were in my boots. Well, I'm not in your boots. What

seems to be the trouble?

Them.

That's what.

The plumbers.

Alvy, Rafe, Clem, Luke, and little Jeb. All in town at the same time.

Plumbers? Yeah, one's bad enough. Two's terrible.

Three is disastrous.

Four is a calamity. But five... Well, if there's such troublemakers, why don't

you just go over there and arrest them? Put them in jail. In jail?

That's about the only place in town where it's safe.

Well, Sheriff, you seem to be in luck.

Oh, glory be, they're leaving.

Uh -uh. Oh, but little Jed.

Well, he's the best of the lot.

What I mean is, if we were talking about people, he'd be the worst.

But talking about plumbers, well, he ain't so bad.

Now, what do you want?

Well, sir, I'm a little embarrassed to say.

Of course, I realize that it's my duty to tell you.

This man still want it?

Gentleman Jack Darby.

Do you know where he is?

Yes. But you see, Sheriff, we've become very close friends. And frankly, my

conscience is bothering me.

Now, you look here, mister.

If you know where Darby's at and you don't tell, that's the same as aiding

abetting a fugitive.

It is? Yes. Now, where is he?

Where's the money?

The money?

You mean to tell me that you'd accept money for turning in a friend?

Yes. Oh, I see.

Well, we don't advance no cash here.

This reward's offered by the Missouri Surety Company, and they ain't buying no

pig in a poke.

First, they've got to send an agent down here to make sure I've got the right

man. It may take, oh, two, three days before I get an okay to pay off from the

main office.

Oh. Well, I'm sorry. I'm afraid I couldn't possibly wait that long.

Now, you hold on.

Where do you think you're going?

Oh, Sheriff, this man is one of my closest friends.

Well, if I didn't need the money right now, I wouldn't be turning him in at

Well, I appreciate that, but them and the laws.

Besides, think of the embarrassment hanging around here for days waiting for

that reward.

With him staring at me out of those big, sad, bewildered eyes. Oh, no, I

couldn't do it. I couldn't possibly face it. Now, wait a minute.

In a special case like this, sometimes I can make an arrangement.

Now, for example, I could advance you half the money as soon as I'm sure I've

got the right man. Then all you've got to do is sign over the balance of the

reward to me.

Now, how about it?

$500 is better than none.

$750.

$600.

Done.

Now, don't you think you can bamboozle me. It so happens that gentleman Jack

got a lady friend working right here in Crescent City. Oh, I know. That's why he

was coming here.

By the way, Sheriff, you know, of course, that Darby keeps all his

papers in the lining of his boot.

Oh, yes, sure.

You'll find his discharge papers from the Army of the Confederacy, a picture

his white -haired old mother, and various pictures of assorted young

Good. Well, I'll round up a few deputies, and we'll go after him as soon

tell us where he is. First, Sheriff, suppose we resolve our little deal into

writing. I'll sign the reward over to you, and you give me a letter that says

you're buying Jack Darby from me for $600, payable on delivery.

Do you think that'll stand up in court?

I don't think it'll ever have to, Sheriff.

All right, Darby. Throw down your guns. You're surrounded.

Hold your firemen.

Don't take no chances.

This fella's full of more twists than the corkscrew cyclone.

Where is he? Where's Darby?

Never mind that, Darby.

That gun of yours ain't gonna do you no more good than a bent pea shooter. You

take a notion to use it.

I mean you.

Grab it.

You made a mistake, Gent.

I'm not Darby. My name's Maverick. Maverick, we know what you're calling

yourself. Check his boots.

Hey, those aren't my boots.

To my darling gentleman Jack, from his Judy, in memory of a happy summer.

My, my. She's a fine -looking woman, too, ain't she? Yeah, let's see.

With love to a natural man, Jack Darby, who made the long winter seem short.

Well, you're quite the heartbreaker, ain't you?

Summer and winter.

I guess so.

Here's one from his poor old ma.

To my pride and joy, John.

The sunbeam that shines in a mother's heart.

It's beautiful.

Oh, ain't you ashamed?

Of what? I don't even know the woman.

It's a pretty contemptible skunk who'd deny his own mother, Darby. Especially

when she's so fond of you.

Here's his discharge papers.

John Darby, Captain.

First Kentucky Rifles.

All right, Captain.

Let's march.

Saddler's horse.

How do you spell your last name, Darby? M -A -V -E -R -I -C -K.

That don't even make sense.

She's here, Sheriff. Good. Bring her in. Now we'll get the straight of this.

Oh, Jack.

Jack, my darling.

So they finally got you. Oh, you poor misguided, impetuous boy. The name's

Maverick, ma 'am. M -A -V -E.

How's that again, honey?

I do declare that I have never seen this boy before in my life. Cindy, are you

trying to tell me this ain't Darby? Certainly not.

I don't know who he is.

Well, you changed your tune quick enough, didn't you?

Oh, heavens to Betsy.

You see, darling, it's just no good.

They got you dead to rights.

I am sorry if I failed you.

You did all you could.

You ain't gonna be cross with me now, are you, darling?

Oh, he is, too.

I know that look, Miss I.

Now, see what you've done!

Informer! Turncoat!

Traitor!

That's what I call positive identification.

Well, here you are, $600, cash in the barrel head.

I'll take my piece of paper.

Somehow, I just don't feel right about taking it.

Oh, well.

One of these days, and it won't be long, call

my name and I'll be gone.

Fare thee well, oh honey, fare thee well.

I got a man, and he's long and tall,

moves his body like a cannon.

If I had wings like Nora's dove, I'd fly

up to the river to the man.

Of course I am.

Sit down and deal.

Now, see here, my friend, if a man couldn't quit till he was losing, very

men would play poker.

There ain't no slick -haired, cold -footed, quick -fingered, card -sharp

stepping out of no game with more than $2 ,600 and mostly my money. Nonsense.

You must learn to gamble for pleasure, never for profit. Enjoy a game of cards

for its relaxation, its pleasant associations.

Never play to win.

I don't play to lose, mister. Now, I suppose you just sit down and deal

nail your yellow hide to the wall.

I hate to break up the game, gentlemen, but if you would stand clear until I get

out that door with my winnings.

And now, sir, if you'll just step back.

Do you think you can make that door in just three steps, mister?

Because that's all you've got.

Just three steps.

And I'll kill you.

That's one.

That's two.

You can still start backing up.

So can you, my friend.

No, I don't suppose you can.

Not now.

Not in front of all these people.

Sad, the situations we find ourselves in.

Just for the lack of common courtesy.

plumber boy. Good riddance, too. It was self -defense. Pure and simple.

It'll make no difference when the plumbers get the story.

You'd better get yourself out of here big and pronto.

With pleasure. After I retrieve my winnings, you, sir, would you pass the

Uh,

Cindy, would you run over to my hotel and start packing my things? No time for

that now. We'll have to leave just as we are.

We? Why, sure, I'm going with you.

Sorry. I told the sheriff of the theater for you.

When he finds out he's got the wrong man in that jail... You have a point there.

You will be going with me.

Here's your winnings, mister.

But if you want to spend them, you better grab yourself a large head start.

Thank you, sir.

Do you have writing materials here?

Sure. Paper and pencil? What for?

I'd like to leave a little note for the sheriff.

Don't bother.

I'll tell him it wasn't your fault.

Just the same, I feel I owe him an explanation.

All right, but you're wasting precious time.

What do you got to say about this?

My dear sheriff, the prisoner you are holding in jail at Gentleman Jack Darby

not Gentleman Jack Darby at all, but a man named Maverick.

The girl who identified him is, as you know, a personal friend of Gentleman

Darby, and for that reason, she is now with yours truly, Gentleman Jack Darby.

Well, isn't that what I told you? Just read that P .S.

P .S.

$600 you advanced to me is quite safe, and I will see that you are repaid at my

earliest convenience. Sounds fair.

Now, this ain't my first day in office, Darby.

I figured this friend of yours is sorry for what he did to you. This is his way

of making up for it. But it won't work.

You're staying right here till that agent from the jury come to get you.

That could take days. In the meantime, Darby's getting away. Aren't you even

going to go after him? Don't have to. In the first place, he ain't Darby. In the

second place, he happened to kill one of the plumber boys before leaving town.

The rest of the plumbers will take care of him.

But you can't let him do that, Sheriff.

After all, you've got an investment to protect, $600.

No, I'm protecting my investment, all right. By hanging on to you, Darby.

I'm sorry to hear about little Jed.

We just bet you were, Sheriff.

Happened you'd been on the job, he wouldn't be dead no how.

So we just dropped by to tell you.

If that pink -eyed, sheep -headed, shirt -waisted killer gets away from us,

we're coming back for you, Sheriff.

So now we told you.

Is that it? Just came over the telegraph. But you ain't gonna like it.

see it.

Well, if that ain't a straw to bust anybody's hump.

Darby!

Take a look at this.

Bank teller confessed to embezzling three weeks ago.

Darby cleared.

Reward rescinded. Thank you for your cooperation, Missouri Surety Company.

what do you know? He was innocent.

Innocent? Now you look here.

Between the two of you, you took $600 away from me for nothing.

You call that innocent?

Between the two of us? Sure.

Everything is clear to me now.

He takes my $600 to play poker with, builds it up to $2 ,600, and then skips

town. Now, I'm supposed to let you go so you can catch up with him and spit the

profits. Well, you'll stay in port until I get my $600 back.

You're right about one thing, Sheriff. I do want to catch up.

But about that money he won at poker, I figure I earned it. Right here in your

jail. So I'll tell you what I'll do.

If you let me go, I'll give you $600 back right now.

Don't worry. I'll get it back from Darby.

You'll pay it back with what?

I always keep a little mad money tucked in the lining of my coat, Sheriff.

And I'm mad.

Say, have you got change for a $1 ,000 bill?

It is a $1 ,000 bill.

Yeah. Well, now I think I can arrange to have that change at the bank in a

jiffy. Yes, sir.

Here, let me unlock this door, Mr.

Maverick.

Take my word, mister, you'd be better off going just hours away from what he

took. Ain't nothing between here and Deadwood but three days' ride, four puma

boys, and 3 ,000 unfriendly engines.

Are you sure you want to go after him? Yep, I'm sure.

Smell that food a mile away, Maverick.

And these boots of yours are killing me.

Good. That's what I've been wanting to do.

Oh, I know.

I'm afraid I owe you an apology.

That's not all you owe me, Dobby.

Oh, how's that?

$2 ,600.

That's how much you made on the time I spent in jail.

I want half.

If you weren't holding that gun on me, I want it all.

Well, now, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid every penny of that money has already

promised. Actually, I'm still $2 ,400 short.

You see, I'm trying to raise an even 5 ,000.

Oh, but you mustn't concern yourself with that.

I'll manage to raise it somehow once I reach Deadwood.

I thought you'd be there by now.

How'd you get behind me?

Well, I lost my horse. It seems that there are four brothers who are even

annoyed with me than you are.

They nearly caught up with me last night when I was sleeping.

Had to crawl off through the brush.

Had to leave my horse behind.

Now I'm afraid I'm going to have to take yours.

Tell me your secret, Darby.

How do you go through all this and stay so neat?

You gonna kill me? Kill you?

Well, certainly not.

We're friends.

Now, can I trouble you to raise your hands?

Have to search you for concealed weapons, you know.

Of course.

Help yourself.

What's this?

Four hundred dollars?

You told me you only had twelve.

Just no good, I guess.

Well, we'll just add that to what I already owe you. After all, it'll just

waste out here in the wilderness, and I can be putting it to very good use in

Deadwood. Of course, I'll give you a strict accounting of your profits once

get there.

Try to think of it this way. Your money will be working for you. I wouldn't have

it any other way.

Now, if you'll just sit down, make yourself comfortable, buy that tree over

there and clasp your hands behind it.

You gonna tie me up?

Well, I'll be leaving you a rifle. I wouldn't want you to use it on me.

Well, that's very good of you. I always feel a lot safer standing off Indians

while I'm tied to a tree.

Will you stop worrying? I'm taking care of everything.

Believe me, you'd be much safer here than you would be with me.

with those feathers in your hair. Didn't have time to change. We had to leave

Crescent City all of a sudden. You and Darby? Yes. Now, hold still, and I'll

you loose.

Is this what he meant?

That he was taking care of everything?

Jack's a real gentleman. You didn't think he'd leave you out here all by

yourself, hog -tight and helpless.

Not him. And he left you here to protect me.

Well, now, doesn't that work two ways?

He told me to stick close to you, and you'd be sure to get me back to Crescent

City, safe and sound.

Oh, he did, did he?

Well, it happens. I'm going the other way.

After him?

But you can't. Not now.

It's so much closer to turn back, and his fans like to go home. Well, thanks

everything, but you see, I really don't think I owe you anything.

I'm not quite the gentleman that Jack is.

Now, if you want to tag along with me, I'm on my way to Deadwood. But don't

especially welcome.

I do declare, you're the most contemptible and disreputable man.

You're a bit of a mess yourself.

Oh, you carpetbagger.

Whatever possessed a man like Jack Darby to make friends with the likes of you?

Ma 'am, I just don't know what I ever did to deserve it.

But how about yourself?

You must be a real good friend being left out here in the middle of Indian

country, all alone except for the likes of me.

Oh, how could you ever understand him?

Well, that boy's in real danger, what, with them plumbers a -chasing after him?

When they got our horses, why, he simply flat -out refused to take me any

further. He was thinking of me, first and foremost.

You really think I'd let you drag me back to Crescent City? For your own

if you weren't such a stubborn pig -headed mutilator!

It's white men with extra horses.

Shh, don't make a sound. Them's our horses, and that's plumber boys.

What difference does that make? They're not looking for me. They don't know who

they're looking for. They never saw Jack Darby. All they know is that he's a

gambling kind of man, sort of like yourself, and that he's traveling with

And they sure enough know who I am.

So he's counting on that, too. Oh, yes.

But he was thinking that if they caught up with us, I could tell them who you

really are.

Maybe they wouldn't believe me, Jack said.

But at least they wouldn't kill you till they got us back to Crescent City to

make sure.

He was willing to gamble on that.

He was willing to gamble?

Uh -huh.

Of course, it sounded lots better the way he said it.

But I've been thinking it over myself.

And I think they'll kill you.

You wouldn't be just telling me that to keep me from getting hoarse.

Oh, what do you take me for?

Fibber? Oh, no, ma 'am.

Your trouble is tripping over the truth.

Hey!

I seen the girl.

Let's go get him.

Albie, you work around behind him.

Clem, you move in.

Luke, you and me will cover Clem.

Jack had it all figured out, huh?

I don't blame you for being mad. I'm beginning to lose confidence in that boy

myself.

Now, Luke, you're going to kill the plumber boy yourself.

Try talking your way out of that.

Not against him.

Looks like they left your horses behind.

Well, let's go get them.

Well, if I know what to do, they'll be back to get them.

Then they'll start looking for the two riders that belong to them.

I guess I know the shoe.

We've got to start running, Cindy.

Going that way.

We're going to keep running until we drop or they catch up with us. Do you

understand?

All right, now let's go and you stay right close behind me.

So don't fall out the... Punch. Punch.

Punch.

What does that mean, do you know?

Looks like one of them's getting hungry.

Keeps rubbing his stomach.

I think he's trying to talk the other one into stopping here for supper.

Yeah,

that's what it is. Down with the horses.

They'll probably sleep out here, too.

Now what are they up to?

I don't know, but I think they're talking about girls.

Indians? I thought all they ever did was fight and hunt.

Some of them hunt for girls.

Well,

like I always say.

East or west, folks is folks.

True. And like I always say, it takes all kinds. Like your friend, Gentleman

Jack, for instance.

Him? He ain't no friend of mine.

Not now.

How'd you get mixed up with him in the first place?

That's a long story.

Well, we've got time.

I want him to get sleep before I try for those horses.

Well, I never told you this, but I come from the South.

Louisiana. New Orleans.

Come from a family that wasn't quite poor enough for rich folks to ignore.

Just poor enough for them to look down their noses at us.

Well, sir, I come west and went to work in a dance room.

Just one reason.

To make money.

Are there other reasons?

Well, I needed that money for something.

Picture myself going back then and styling.

Send all them rich folks' eyes to bug out.

Their eyes would really bug out if they could see you now.

Not the same way.

Nothing.

Dream of that gun, that cotillion ball, all dolled up and fit to kill.

I'd be wearing a diamond tiara and a white silk dress and a lorgnette.

You and your son?

No, indeed.

But you can get a snootier look through a lorgnette than any other way.

Looks like you've given this a lot of thought.

You bet I have.

I'd be needing me a big black bugger with red wheels and four snow white

to pull me up to that door.

Not two, but four.

Well, sir, I got the whole thing calculated down to the last penny.

I'd be needing just $4 ,975 to get me to that bar.

Cindy wouldn't be short for Cinderella, would it?

Think I'm sort of silly, don't you?

Nope.

Maybe I am. All the same, what I've been aiming for is even $5 ,000.

A thousand, that's the amount the Derby wants.

Is that the connection?

Yes. You see, I've been working in the self -serve saloon now for most of three

years, saving my money.

Still a long way from that $5 ,000.

About halfway, matter of fact.

Then Jack come along and he showed me how I could double that money in less

30 days.

Don't tell me. By giving him the money?

To invest in sure -fire mining stock.

Because he's going to make a profit, too.

But he promised to give me that money in time to go to the cotillion ball this

year. That's next month.

Don't look like I'll ever make it now.

What happened to the money?

Oh, Jack had a terrible string of bad luck.

Them smart stockbrokers took him for every penny.

No matter what you think about Jack, though, he's a real gentleman.

He's still working to raise that $5 ,000 the worst way.

Oh, he sure is.

He feels like he owes me that money.

Not just 2 ,400 he took off me.

Full 5 ,000 like he promised.

There's one thing I learned about Jack.

He won't cheat you out of anything he can owe you.

Well, I reckon there's just one gentleman, Jack Darby.

No, not exactly. There are two.

The other one's named Dandy Jim Buckley.

Is he?

Never mind. We got enough trouble with just one of them.

Yeah. I reckon the two of us wouldn't be out of here if it wasn't for him.

That's the only nice thing he ever did for me.

Say, Nance, guess I was wrong about you.

I just bit you from the side.

Texas, ma 'am. That's the right side, sure enough.

Bart, do you think we'll ever get out of here?

I don't know.

But if we do, I'll help you get to that ball one way or another.

Just in case we do.

I'd like to give you a proper thanks.

I'd like to give you a proper welcome.

Thank you.

Darby's here.

Where?

That's my horse.

Bart, you going to kill him? Why should I? I like that horse.

You know who I mean.

Well, no, Cindy, not if I can help it. Maybe if I talk to him. Uh -uh, he

to you at a 2400, remember?

He's only into me for a thousand cash, plus what he owes me for a night in

One horse, couple of days fighting off the Sioux and the plumbers.

No, honey, this time I'll do the talking.

Bart, he's awful slick and awful quick.

You best be careful here.

Sure. You ride on to the livery stable and try to unload these plugs for

whatever price you can get.

I'll see you later at the hotel.

Bart, don't be long now. You're taking me to that ball, remember?

That's a date.

I'll raise 200.

Well, gentlemen, if I take this one, I'll have my 5 ,000 and then some.

How about it? Anybody care to place a little side bet that I don't walk away

from this hand twice as rich as when I sat down?

I'll take the bet, Darby.

Maverick, you couldn't have turned up at a better time, partner. What did I tell

you? Your money's been at work for you. Why, we've doubled your investment.

We've done better than that.

Oh.

Then I presume that you'll be taking charge of our funds for a little while?

From now on.

You see, I'm representing Cindy's investment, too.

She's here?

No, thanks to you. Now, play a handout, Darby.

Well, sir, I'm afraid you'll have to pay to see my cards.

You're too sure of yourself, friend.

Oh, you're a very lucky man, Maverick.

Uh -uh, Darby.

A hat full of money in the hand is worth two in the face.

I'll take it in bills.

Well, for the third time, I'll be very happy to give you my personal draft.

Cash out, partner.

You're a most distrustful man.

Yeah.

No trouble.

No trouble at all.

right there mister you're gonna let that female go we ain't got no call to be

killing her

now

get out of here no bart no listen honey if there's some way i could use you i

would but there isn't get out of here

Wouldn't intrude on your fight for the world, Maverick, but these gentlemen are

after me.

Thanks all the same, Darby. Like you'll want them too.

I always pay my debts.

That's why they call me Gentleman Jack.

Get a doctor, quick!

Where can I get a doctor? Just around the corner.

All right, where is he?

Where are they? Right in that way. Double.

But don't worry. He don't need no doctor.

Yeah, but he will. Where can I buy a horse?

Uh, I mean, who'll lend me a horse?

It's all spent.

So I see.

Don't you worry. I'll get it back again. So will I.