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Thank you.

It's the place.

There's a sign in that hole in the wall that says it is.

You just ain't here yet, huh?

I haven't seen anybody but you since I got here an hour and a half ago.

That coffee ready?

It just started boiling. It'll be a couple of minutes.

I rode straight here like I was rearing these rocks.

Now that Jess draws a pretty good map, don't he?

Seems to.

Wonder what he's got in mind.

I've been wondering that myself.

At the Western Gazette?

Yes, it is.

Newest one?

I don't know. I didn't look at the date when I bought it.

I got my picture in the newest one.

Full page.

Then this is the newest one. I noticed it.

Yeah?

It's early Sunday, ain't it?

Yes, sir.

Full page.

It's a very attractive likeness.

You got an idea how many people see this here magazine?

Whole country.

Why, it tells you it's sold in Europe.

Oh, I've heard that.

You want any place?

Here and there.

But I never have my full page picture in the...

Western Gazette.

Yeah, not many of us do.

Just a couple, two of us. General Custer, me.

Someone coming.

There is?

Yeah.

One man leading his horse.

What color boot?

Where's Jess?

He ain't here yet.

But this is the place.

How long you been here?

Me? A couple of hours.

I just got here for you.

Somebody's been behind me since noon.

Two of them.

Well, uh... I come in from the east.

I've been riding north.

I don't know if they knew I was ahead of them or not.

Who's that, Jasper?

I don't know.

I thought you did.

No.

He's mean -looking, ain't he?

Yeah, ain't he?

I think I'll stay saddled till I know who was behind me.

That Jasper is a pretty good map, don't he?

It's got me here

What's in there

just a hole in the wall with it with a sign from Jess saying this is the place

Riders

Two horses.

One of them shod, one ain't.

Sounds like light ponies, light riders.

What color boots?

Riding north.

They'd be the ones behind me.

Yeah, they're coming in pretty fast.

More like someone in a hurry to reach you out far than someone trying to sneak

up on it.

Just the same I'm staying in the shadows till we know for sure who they are.

As my Uncle Beauregard used to say, some men are afraid of the duck and some are

afraid to leave it.

Hey, buckskin!

Hey, how the heck are you, jolly boy?

I'm fine. Hey, a long way from Dodge, ain't you, boy? Oh, a long way. A mile's

long indeed. Let me take a look at you.

Hi. Hello, kid.

Hey, Wolf!

We're a long way from you, major boy.

Yep. Finally figured out who that Jasper is.

Oh?

It's Wolf McManus.

Hey, what about his jets? He ain't here yet.

Oh, this is, uh, this is Irma, Wolf.

Little Irma.

Irma, meet up with Wolf McManus.

Hello, Wolf. I've heard of you. Come on down, Sugar Plum. We're here.

Sit here, kid.

We're going to have us a little party. Ah, hands off, buckskin.

Marry this one.

Oh, yeah?

Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Curran. It's all right.

Come on, boy. Have a little red eye.

Tina! Looks like we're going to have a sit -to after all, huh?

Wolf, little red -eyed.

What's Jess gonna say about the girl, kid?

What do you mean?

Jess never liked mixing women and business.

Well, this ain't no woman.

This is my wife.

Jess has got a wife, too.

But he don't go hauling her around on jobs. Can't help it.

Where I go, Irma goes.

No matter whether Jess likes it or not.

I can't say I like it either, kid.

Oh, come on. Cool down, Wolf.

Jess got a home to keep his wife in.

Herman and me, well, we only been married a week, and we settled.

Hey, you know what we done, buckskin?

Wrote a debut to a judge right next door to the sheriff's office.

And I was married while the sheriff was sitting outside.

We signed our real names, too.

How's that for a nerve boy, huh?

Women can sure make men do fool things.

Hey, kid.

You, uh... You seen the New Western Gazette?

No.

Ain't that time to read books, boy?

Yeah, you better take a look at this one. Come on.

Oh, uh, hey, fella, you mind if we borrow your magazine?

Sure.

Hey.

Here, open up.

Hey, now.

Full page.

And it's colored, too.

Yeah, you know, they sell that book in Europe, too, you know. Look at that,

Sugar Plum.

Someday you and me is going to have history about us like that.

Won't that be a thingamabob, huh?

Hey, mister, I know you.

I'm sorry, I don't recollect. Oh, you don't know me, but I know you.

Now, how could that be?

Ain't you a play actor, or wasn't you?

No, I'm not, and I wasn't.

Sure you was. When I was 15, my pa took me to Virginia City to see one of them

stage play acts.

It was you, wasn't it?

No, ma 'am, it wasn't.

Sure it was. I assure you it was not.

What was this actor's name?

Oh, I don't recollect, but, well, he was the hero, and he wore a big cape and

tight stockings instead of pants.

It was you.

No, it wasn't me. Of course it wasn't him, Irma.

What a Virginia City play I could be doing out here in the wilds of Montana.

Well, I reckon you're right, but it sure did my heart glad to see you run them

buzzards through with that soap.

But it was not me.

It wasn't him, Irma. But I... We've had a long, hard ride.

I think it's time we got some sleep.

Don't have to break my arm.

Since Kid has the lady with him, I reckon he'll have to sleep in the cave.

Well, that's real neighborly of you, Wolf.

I see it didn't hurt you none to be nice to the lady, did it? Yes, it did.

Because if you hadn't brought the woman around, I was going to sleep in there

myself.

Let's go, Sugar Plum.

Let's look over the hotel.

Let's have him caught.

Yes, sir.

That wolf seems to be a real mean fellow.

I guess one day I'm just going to have to kill him.

Morning.

Good morning.

I hope you have a strong constitution. This water's like ice.

I never wash much in the wintertime.

Where's your husband?

Still asleep.

You know, you don't look so much like a play act in the daytime.

Campfire's always flattered me.

I didn't say that.

Maybe I, uh, think you look better.

I think we'd better get back.

Do you know Jess?

I never met him in person.

What's his last name?

Come on, now. Don't tease with me.

I'm not teasing you, honestly. I'm like that about names. Sometimes I... Why, I

even forget the last names of my best friends.

Come on, you're teasing with me.

Where's Irma?

Oh, she went out to get some water for coffee.

Where are you from?

All over. I travel a lot.

And you look like one of them men who has a sweetheart in every town.

Oh, I miss a town here and there.

And you look like a man who ain't too particular whether or not his girls

already have husbands. Am I right?

You're wrong.

I... have a very high respect for the vows.

Come on, you can tell me the truth.

I ain't no angel myself.

Now, Mrs. Curran, this time I think you are teasing me.

You know why, mister.

Draw.

What's the idea?

He went out of the water by himself.

She followed him.

This is personal, Buckskin.

Give me the gun.

Nope. I got another reason.

Give me the gun, Buckskin.

Kid, I rode a long, hard way to get here.

But I figured maybe just make that ride pay off.

Now, whatever he's thinking of, I'd say he needs every one of us. Else we

wouldn't be here.

Now you know why I don't like women around when there's work to be done.

I'm sick and tired of you insulting my woman, Wolf.

Don't start on me, kid.

I don't waste any time bluffing. I'll just blast your head off.

All right.

The ride are coming.

Walking over.

Give me the gun box, kid.

If this is business, I need it.

Look at this fine gathering.

Buckskin, wolf.

And... How do you do, sir?

How do you do, sir?

And a lady.

Now, who is this?

Belle Star, perchance?

No, sir.

Though folks have said that I look a lot like her.

Yes, sir, you do.

An expiating image of Lady Star.

Hello, kid.

This is my new bride, Judge.

Oh, man, ain't that Jessica DeShindig figured out.

Baby of the best gunslingers that ever straddled a horse.

Now a man who can talk a body to death.

Yes, sir.

Jess must really have a big plan.

Yes, I imagine guests must have had a really big plan in mind.

What do you mean, must have had, Judge?

I started not to ride out here at all.

Three hard days with no monetary benefit.

Then I got to thinking.

Friends of mine sitting on cold Montana rocks with the winter breathing

down their necks.

Waiting.

Waiting for something that's doomed never to appear.

Judge, are you trying to tell us something?

Yes.

Four days ago, I was in a town called Laramie.

I saw Jess gunned down in the street by a marshal named Troop.

Dan Troop.

Yeah, I've heard of that Dan Troop.

And his deputy.

Yeah, so have I.

Maybe you and me better take a ride through Laramie, buckskin.

Yeah, maybe someday if I happen to be riding that way.

Kid, I never go looking for trouble.

And I never ride a mile out of my way to miss it either.

That's a good set of rules to live by, buckskin.

You might learn from them, kid.

I never trusted that letter from Jess to begin with.

I've always been a loner.

Because it was Jess, I rode a long way.

For nothing.

And it's just as far back as it was here.

So I reckon I might just as well get started.

Just a minute, Wolf.

I agree it's a long ride out here.

We've all had a long ride.

It's a pity the journey had to be in vain.

I don't know what Jess had in mind when he penned those letters.

Something gigantic, I imagine, considering the effort he put into it.

Can you make that a short sermon, Judge?

I want to get an early start.

And it's an even greater pity that all this talent should be assembled and then

let it separate without having served some useful purpose.

I figured you had something up your sleeve, Judge, when you rode in here.

I didn't believe that business for a minute about your fretting about us

on these cold Montana rocks.

What's brewing under that fancy hat of yours, Judge?

Kid, you've got an evil mind.

Or about, I imagine, by some 18 -odd years of close association with

I'm still waiting to hear what you've got to say, Judge.

I don't come directly to the point.

Why should we return from this meeting empty -handed, like a pack of hound dogs

that have failed to treat a fox?

If the fox is the new to this, we can at least divide a rabbit.

You mean we should go ahead and pull a job without Jess?

Precisely.

Judge, I kept my mouth pasted up for quite a while.

Now I figure it's my turn to talk.

We're all going to pull a job just as soon as we leave here.

All of us. That's our business, right?

Well, I think any one of us can catch a rabbit without having to divide it up.

So why should we all pack together just to catch a rabbit?

To get a bigger rabbit, buckskin.

Perhaps an amber rabbit or the more nearly the proportions of the fox we can

ever have.

You realize that together we represent...

One of the strongest forces this side of the entire Federal Army.

Look at it.

Look at me.

All right, Judge.

I'm looking.

You smirk.

At the same time, you must admit that my adventures in crime have given me a

reputation in nine states.

I have never spent one day behind lock, key, or bars.

Oh, I'll allow you that.

must have some small value.

Now, let's look at you.

Buckskin Charlie King, a two -gun desperado, whose smiling visage, even

today, is published in one of our great nation's prominent periodicals. And

here's Kid, the legendary Kid, the idol of every small boy who has riddled his

first wooden pistol.

And Wolf, Wolf McManus.

A one -man gang.

A man so feared that mothers frightened their little tots into reverent

obedience by the mere mention of his name.

And, uh... And I don't believe I know your name.

Maverick.

Maverick? That's right.

I don't think any of us know this bird.

Texas, sometimes I'm known just as Red Dog.

Oh, yes. Red Dog.

As I was saying, never before has such an array of talent been gathered

into one compact group.

Surely we can't let it disunite without paying it proper honor.

What kind of a job you have minded?

I know a town.

A rich new town.

Rich, but so far unrobbed.

It supports a bright new bank with perhaps a half million in silver coins

sleeping in its virgin vault.

Yes, sir. A half million in silver coins sleeping in its virgin vault.

Just why are you so generous?

How come you haven't nabbed that silver coin for yourself?

Because I'm not a gunfighter, Wolf.

Even if I were.

Even if I were as good as you.

This job is too big for one man.

It needs the talents of a group.

Well, if one man can't do the job alone, you won't mind naming this town.

Why, I guess not.

As a symbol of our trust among ourselves, I'll name the town.

It's a little town not a hundred miles south of here.

Called Little Spur.

Little Spur, huh?

I just rode through there last week.

What about a buckskin?

Oh, it's rich, all right. It's boomtown.

Half buildings, half tents.

Liquor's $4 a glass. Milk's even more.

Did I call it correctly?

That Little Spur Bank.

It's built right into the side of a solid red rock bluff.

It's only got one door.

There's always a regiment of rifles keeping it covered.

Now, Judge, I don't see how anybody's going to get to that bank.

How about it, Judge?

If it were an easy job, that silver would be jingling in my saddlebags right

now.

This job requires a group like ourselves to accomplish.

You know what you plan?

No, buckskin. You didn't really think I'd expose my entire hand at this time.

I don't know who's in the game.

Believe me, I have a plan, a good one.

I perfected it on the ride out here.

When do we get the details?

The day we arrive on Little Spur.

We'll talk for half an hour, and then each man will take his proper place

according to the plan.

Then in an hour, we'll be dividing some half a million silver coin, give or take

a thousand or two.

Bye, Granny's Judge, I'm with you. Deal me in.

Good boy, kid.

Might even find a use for that charming wife of yours.

Not for a full split, of course.

She ought to be worth at least 500 to us.

Honey?

Count me in.

I'll have Bell Star wondering who I am. Sure you will.

Buckskin?

Why not?

I got no plans for a week or two.

Well? What would be my share?

Half a million sounds big, but what would be my share once it's divided?

Well, if we're all in it, your share's an amount to about 100 ,000.

All right.

Like you say, it's a long ride up here for nothing.

Red Dog.

I'm out.

Ask why, sir?

More reasons than one.

Like Wolf, I work better alone, and I, too, rode through Littlespur.

That bank is unrobbed because it's as strong as a rocky mountain.

I'm afraid I'd want a lot more details before I went in on a plan to loot that

fort. Ah, let him go if that's the way he feels.

Gives me 25 ,000 more apiece for us.

That is the way I feel.

Just a minute, Red Dog.

What's on your mind?

Would you mind dismounting, sir?

We'd like to talk.

Talk, you said?

My friends and I have just had a small conference.

We've just made the startling discovery that none of us has ever met you before.

What's so startling about that?

I've never met any of you before, and I'm not startled.

Jess must have had a particular job in mind for each of us when he sent for us.

Buckskin here, his talents run to guns, mine run to talk, posing

as others on occasions.

What do you suppose Jess had in mind for you?

Guns or talk?

I don't know. I'm pretty good with both.

Also, I'm something of an expert with the deck of cards.

Your deck or ours?

It makes no difference.

They all look alike to the average eye, and each a little different to mine.

You do have that look about you.

Thank you.

Anything else on your mind?

As a matter of fact, there is.

You heard us planning to relieve a certain bank of half a minute in coin.

Now, we don't like the idea of anyone not in our group riding around with that

information.

I have no interest in the bank, or you, or your plans.

But we can't be sure of that, can we?

Come to the point, Judge.

You ought to be grateful to me, Red Dog.

I have a solution for this whole problem, wherein no one will be harmed.

One of our group is all for killing you outright.

What is your solution, Judge?

You will stay with us until the job is completed.

You will not participate in the actual mechanics of the robbery, nor in its

rewards.

Once the job is completed, you're free to ride on.

Unless you want to argue about it, then ride on out now.

There's an old saying I find applicable at this point. My uncle Beauregard was

the first to say it.

But since then it's been used so often, you might say it now belongs to the

world. What saying is that, sir?

If you can't lick him, join him.

If I must ride with you, I might just as well participate in your venture.

Oh, no, you don't. I told you he'd say that, Judge.

Yes, you did, kid.

No, Mr. Red Dog, we've already voted on your speculation.

We neither need nor desire you.

you aren't suggesting that I go along with you as your prisoner.

You might find that predicament more desirable than its alternative.

Ain't that a way to put it. Ain't that, Judge, a thing about with words, honey?

Ouch.

Would you give me your gun, sir?

Butt first, please.

Relax, gentlemen.

I am going to draw, but very slowly.

Brilliant decision.

I figured he'd play it this way.

Men like Red Dog have also been known to conceal entire guns upon their persons

or their horses.

Gage had better check his bedroll and saddlebags while I examine his apparel.

Sure.

I do hope we meet again sometime.

Isn't that a lovely little thing?

Oh, it's never been fired.

Oh, it's beautiful.

Where'd you purchase this?

I won it on a train ride between Durango and Dolores.

Judge? Yes, kid?

This Jasper's toting around 14 packs of cards.

There's an abandoned homesteader's dwelling a few miles ahead.

I suggest we camp there.

No roof on it, but it has four walls and a fireplace.

Good. I'm about froze to the core.

Well, hurry up, honey.

I'm hungry enough to eat the nails out of the floor.

It's salt in the saddlebag, and you know where the floor is.

Ain't she a thingamabob?

If you'll kindly extend your hands, I'll try to make you comfortable for the

evening. You'll tie me?

Unless you'd rather one of the others did it.

Is this really necessary?

I think so.

Who are you, really?

Like I said, the family name is Maverick.

Like I said, I never heard it before.

Unlike I pretended I never heard of Red Dog either.

I'm a frequent visitor to all parts of Texas.

And whether you realize it or not, you owe me your life.

Thank you for the time being.

I'm glad you're aware of my prerogative to change the situation at my own

discretion. You'd best be honest with me.

How'd you get involved in this to begin with?

Same as you and the others. A letter from Jess and a map.

Don't try to bluff with a man who can see both sides of the cards.

You never got any letter from Jess that much, I know.

There's only one way you could be sure of that fact, Judge.

How's that?

The letters must have been sent by you.

Am I right?

You're a smart man, and I never give direct answers to smart men.

You may be right.

you be so foolish as to confide in the others?

I won't.

I haven't quite figured your angle yet, Judge, but one thing I'm sure, you don't

really intend to rob that bank a little spur.

Is that too tight?

Yes. Good.

It'll work loose in the damp air.

Whatever your plans are, I'm sure you could use the services of a smart man.

Especially one who can use a gun to a good advantage.

You're not classing yourself with those others.

No. But I am better than your class.

How about it?

You need some help.

Company coming.

You've got him hog -tied.

Let's just say we've got a precautionary hobble on him.

Poor little thing. How can he eat his supper all helpless this way?

Mama Irma will help. No, I can manage all right.

I'll be a good boy.

Mama will have to spank you.

What do you think you're doing?

How dare you hit me?

About time someone taught you who hit it is family.

Aren't you going to stop him?

It's his woman.

I wouldn't do that.

Cops night.

Think you were going someplace?

Thanks for your help.

We'd better skidoo. There might be another light sleeper in that bunch.

We? I can't take you with me.

You've got to. Kid would kill us both now.

Yeah, take my horse to saddle. Oh, who needs a saddle? Give me a leg up.

Hey, the horses!

Let's get out there.

What happened?

Red Dog tried to run off the horses.

I hit him when I heard somebody behind me.

On the turn, he hit me with something.

Yeah, they got the horses all right.

Two.

Two riders, they're going fast.

Van Irma's with them.

Being as the rest of us are here, I vowed safe that your assumption is

Have they got our horses?

Only here, too.

And ours must be nearby.

There's mine over there.

I'll get the horses and we'll go after them. Wait here.

canyon yep what are you doing if we stay here we'll be trapped

we are trapped i'm not an indian

so if i can hear them they really must be near you heard them i heard them what

do we do now my first instinct is to climb and i have a very high regard for

first instinct on foot i don't think the horses will make it those rocks are a

mile high Do you have a better suggestion?

What do you think?

I think they're on foot for two rather obvious reasons.

Let's get off and see where they started.

Well, they get off here all right.

And they headed up these rocks.

Yeah, and there'll be no trail to follow up there.

But they won't be traveling very fast.

Let's all spread out and start climbing.

Whoever sees anything or hears anything gives a yodel.

And we all join up.

Plan sounds as good as any.

Sure seems peculiar being on this end of a man, huh?

Kid's horse are down there.

I'm surprised they would be.

What are you doing? We'd better keep climbing.

As you pointed out, they're down there. If we can hear them, they can hear us.

Kick one stone loose, they'll be all over us.

This is just silly. Keep your voice down.

It's just plain silly. We can't shoot it out with the whole crowd with just one

gun between us.

I just hope they miss us.

We'll come up one at a time.

Irma!

Beat me, will you?

Stay where you are.

dog just shot my husband.

He made me come up here, but I have him covered now.

Aren't you sweet?

Shut up.

This is Boxkin.

I'm the only one up here with a gun.

Bringing them on down.

Why don't you get back there?

His woman shot him, and she tried to put a frame on Red Dog. I was above her the

whole thing.

You can smoke a cigarette, mister.

Why? That's how much time you've got left before I settle with you.

Nobody hits me and lives.

But Red Dog...

Gentlemen.

I suggest we get the kid's horse up there and strap him on it. We wasted a

of daylight.

Do what?

Strap the kid on his horse.

What for?

We can't leave him here.

Why not?

Well, we owe it to the kid to give him a decent burial.

He'd like to be buried in a town. He would like that.

Judge, we can't ride in a town with him across the saddle.

Or his picture's probably on half the posts in town.

Not to mention ours.

Well, near the town then. What's wrong with burying him right here? He won't

know the difference.

You know, Judge, I can't make you out all at once.

I can.

What do you mean?

The kid is worth a thousand dollars dead or alive.

How would you like to clear that up?

Sure. Jess sent letters to everyone.

But how many of you really know Jess's hand when you see it? How do you know

judge didn't send those letters?

That's ridiculous. You can't talk your way out of... You keep quiet.

Go on, Red Dog.

Why would he do that?

Because if he signed his real name, no one would show up.

The judge saw a chance for a fast turnover in ready cash.

The bank?

The bank was bait. He was going to sell you.

Sell me?

Everybody. Everybody he sent a letter to. You're worth 5 ,000.

The kid at least 1 ,000. Wolf, 3. Well, there's 9 ,000 showing without even

digging around.

Shut him up. He's a slick talker. Now, Judge, just why did you want to lug the

kid along with us?

Because he's my friend.

Was Jess your friend, too? He was ambushed outside of Brownsville, Texas,

month. Did you lure him into that trap?

No, I didn't even know... Didn't know what, Judge?

That Jess was dead?

I told you he was shot in Laramie three days ago.

He was shot last month.

Smoke a cigarette, Judge.

When it's burned out, I settle with you.

Now, Wolf.

You heard me.

All right, mister.

It's your turn.

Wait, I'm not even armed.

You think that makes any difference to me?

Redonk!

Have my gun.

I'll have mine, too.

And the little one.

I was getting attached to this one.

Well, guess I'll be right along.

But needless to say, I won't mention what direction.

Hey, woman.

You want to ride along the ways with me?

Go on, get the horses.

I never could figure out why I got a warm place for women like her.

Or men like you.

Well, so long, Judge.

I'll leave you with two of your prizes.

Your day hasn't been a complete loss.

I wanted to deliver them alive.

Red Dog.

Is it true that Jess was killed in Brownsville a month ago?

Judge, I'll tell you the truth.

I don't know who Jess is.

Is that a fact?

It's a fact. Don't even know his last name.

Care to tell me?

No.

As a minor effort to even the score with you, I'm just going to let you go on

wondering who Jesse is.

Two out of five.

Riverboat, ring your bell.

Fare thee well, Annabelle.

Luck is a lady that he loves the best.

Nice to see New Orleans.

Living on Jackson Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.

Maverick is a legend of the West.