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You have asked for an answer and I have given it.

Now you will help me.

I'm sorry, I won't help you fight a war that's over and done.

It wasn't even yours to begin with.

You said you would help me if I told you the truth.

I said I might.

I've decided not to.

You can spare a minute from hating gringos now and then try a little

Try to remember what I told you.

But if you can't and you'll last long enough to buy that land...

You better have all the mirrors taken off the walls before you move in.

From the entertainment capital of the world, produced for television by Warner

Brothers.

These are the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico.

Not too many years ago, they were in Old Mexico.

No, we didn't move them.

We just bought them.

Los quiero volver locos a los gringos.

Gringo, puerco, degenerado.

Es típico de todos los gringos.

Careful, senorita. I understand just enough Spanish to know when I'm being

insulted. That is a very strange horse you ride, senor.

But I don't need a good one bad enough to steal it, even one with a saddle, so

it's safe for you to put that away.

You are heading to the mining camps?

Are you?

Yes.

We are going to Riverhead Camp, senor.

Well, that's the nicest thing I've heard about the place.

I was bringing a load of goods up there, but I broke a wheel and had to ride

this noble hard -boned beast.

Would you care to go on with us?

I couldn't have said it better myself.

The largest of the New Mexico gold camps, overflowing with gold -happy

prospectors, all hoping to strike it rich.

Some of them will, but most of them won't.

If I were a sporting man, I'd lay my money on that auctioneer there.

His true calling being poker. A noble profession a wise man keeps hidden in a

mining camp.

All right, gentlemen, there it is, a thing of beauty, size 7 1⁄2, a big hat

a big head. Now, who'll start the bidding at $25? Gentlemen, $25.

Who are you trying to slick, mister? Well, I can buy that headpiece at

for 20.

Is that a fact, sir?

Sure is saying.

All right, gentlemen, do I hear $22 .50?

$22 .50, gentlemen.

I said 20.

Sold to the handsome Hagler.

Step right up, sir, and pour out your gold, sir.

The sun's done it.

I'm out of... Hey, hey, lookie there.

A woman. A female woman.

Señores, I have come to dance for you.

they don't bring back the supplies, but you ride into town with a bit of fluff

that runs off all the customers.

When did you start worrying about customers?

What did you do? Trade the wagon and supplies for her?

Of course, not a bad trade at that.

Remember, I saw her first.

Gracias, gracias.

You are very kind.

Worth their respect in my poke. Let's see some more.

There will be more later. I will be here as long as you want.

Covers it pretty well.

Covers it?

She doesn't like us one little bit.

We're gringos.

But she's obviously got something in mind for us. I wonder what.

Senorita.

I'm John Wilson.

I own the only building in town here.

You and me got some things to talk over.

We have?

For certain.

A jewel like you needs the right setting. An elevated stage and a roof

head.

We'd do right well together.

The ones with the real dust work in the daytime.

You can't dance in the street at night.

You offer this roof to me for nothing?

Don't you worry your pretty little head about finances.

We'll settle on something.

What was that you said about seeing her first?

Even the sellers are buying tonight.

Must be 15 or 20 in here I've never seen before.

Heart lovers to a man.

All

right,

boys, let's hear the silent sound of Goldust being bored. The young lady

deserves it. Now, what do you say?

whiskey, Faro Bank, Dyson, poker till dawn.

Just name your game and spend fast. You don't want to throw the bartenders off

pace.

All right, don't stop, boys. Paint that gold pan the right color.

Where are you going, Red?

I'm just going to make a little donation to the senorita. Just drop it in the

pan.

I'm feeling real generous tonight. I want to make sure I get credit for my

contribution.

Sorry, Red. The back room's private.

Since when?

Since it got to be her dressing room. She wants it that way.

I think this will change your mind, don't you?

Give him a cigar, my friend.

Drop a good -sized pinch of that in the pan, put the rest of it in his pocket.

You are pleased with business, senor?

Never better.

You wouldn't have to dance to be an attraction, but you dance real good.

Raul will bring the gold dust in a moment.

Fine.

Gina, I got something else to talk about.

Yes?

You've never been in a gold camp like this before, have you?

No. It isn't like any other place you've ever been in.

No. It is much more profitable.

That isn't what I mean.

A mining camp like this is a jungle.

A woman like yourself needs somebody to look out for her.

I can take care of myself, senor.

I have done so since I was ten.

You're the only woman in a town with no law.

You got any idea what that means?

Señorita? Bring it in, Raul.

Why don't you go out front and enjoy yourself?

Drinks are on me.

Está bien.

If you stay in Riverhead long enough, somebody's going to claim you.

That's how things are.

Somebody who's big enough and tough enough to stand up and say you're his

make it stick.

When I take a man, he will be of my own choice.

I hope you're not as innocent as you sound.

You won't get a choice.

Then I will go on to the next camp.

There isn't any next camp.

Not as good as this one.

We're business partners already, and I'm respected in this town.

If I tell them you're my girl, nobody's going to bother you.

Nobody?

Your share, senor. One half.

Now, if you will excuse me.

You didn't hear anything I said.

Let go of my arms.

I'm not hard to get along with.

I'll let the word out that you're my girl, but it won't have to be true.

We can work out our problem later between ourselves.

We have no problem.

But perhaps you are right, it should be said.

But we will wait until someone does try to claim me, as you say, before we do

anything.

If I didn't know better, I'd think you could take care of yourself.

Senor Maverick.

Mister, you got the wrong door.

Sorry, I just dropped by to pay my respects to an old friend.

I was just going to my tent.

Would you be so kind?

My pleasure.

Buenas noches, Senor Wilson.

Good night, Miss Wilson.

Preguntale a las estrellas si no de noche

me ven llorar.

Preguntale si...

to introduce myself, senorita. They call me Gentleman Jack Darby.

As Mr.

Maverick's employer, I feel that I should warn you about... Warn her about

yourself later, Darby, at the moment I'm seeing the lady to her tent.

Would you say that I'm intruding, senorita? I would not think of it.

she's so polite.

I'm afraid that I don't know your name, senorita.

Elena Grande.

I will be quite safe now.

Buenas noches.

Buenas noches.

Old friend, it'd be nice to have a heart -to -heart talk with you if you had

one, but since you haven't, I'll just say stay away from her. I'm going to

enough trouble with that saloon keeper.

I'll try, Bart. Believe me, I'll try hard.

But even now, I see myself going down to dismal defeat.

Hold on to the thought. It's a good one.

Believe me, partner, if it were anyone else, I'd step aside gladly.

But there's something I've kept hidden from you.

I have a blind, unreasoning passion for Latin women.

Whenever I see one, something comes over me. I change.

I become deceitful, cunning, unscrupulous.

And then after you change?

Maverick, you're not kind.

Let's get some sleep. We still have to go after that wagon in the morning.

Sold!

And now, gentlemen, what am I offered for this pair of rubber boots?

Five dollars.

Well, do you realize that my partner and me rode through 600 miles of hostile

Indian territory just to bring these necessities to you gentlemen?

Ten dollars.

Oh, now, this is good rubber. It's pure para from the jungles of South America.

And it'll stretch as well as far as John Wilson stretches a bottle of his

whiskey.

boys. Same time tomorrow for more of these fantastic bargains. Hey, how come

only auction an hour a day?

Well, it's simple, friend. If we auction any more than this, it wouldn't be an

auction. It'd be a store.

Maybe you'd like to stay open long enough to take a bit in the whole wagon

You're not afraid of a little friend of competition, are you? It's healthy for a

growing community.

Five thousand for the lot.

Now, that sounds almost tempting.

There'd be a condition.

Oh?

Your next wagon load you'll take farther upriver.

There's other camps.

Well, uh, we kind of like it here, sir.

We thought we might parlay these two wagons into the second building in town.

Well, I got started myself with a wagon.

Well, then you can understand our pioneer spirit.

There's more to it than that, isn't there?

Well, as a matter of fact, there is, Mr. Wilson.

We've both fallen in love with your Spanish dancer.

So you can see there's just no point in talking a deal.

That makes it even smarter for you to talk a deal.

Not you, too.

Ain't that a crying shame?

Might be at that.

We'd better start playing poker tonight, otherwise we'll be losing money.

Partner, I think we've waited long enough.

Want to keep her, we got to show we like her.

Evening, gentlemen.

Evening. Don't you boys ever do any gambling?

No, now and then.

Got something for everybody at Wilson's?

Poker, maybe?

I don't think so.

Those boys look pretty sharp.

Friendly poker game might take your minds off your big romance.

Matter of fact, I might even sit in myself.

Oh, we... It's not our game.

Call.

Raise two.

It's too bad we're playing table stakes, Maverick. This hand could get

interesting.

If you want to change the rules, it's all right with me.

It's exactly 1 ,400 there.

I think that'll run the pot.

Can't call with talk.

And I'll raise you $600.

I'll put up my Blue Rock mine for a $5 ,000 raise.

You can call with those goods of yours, if you've got the confidence.

The Blue Rock mine, what makes it worth $5 ,000?

I was taking $200 a week out of it. Ask anybody in camp.

Yeah, that's right. Sure was.

You said was.

How come?

Got my men working something better.

Taking over $400 a week out of my Sweetwater claim.

But I guarantee plenty of ore in the Blue Rock.

You prove there isn't, and I'll buy it back for 5 ,000.

Jack, if I call, you're in for half.

You're playing the cards, Bart.

Looks like you're called, Mr. Wilson.

I hate to see grown men cry.

There it is.

Lovely set of diamonds.

Five, to be exact.

A full house does beat a flush, doesn't it?

Well, looks like you got yourself a mind.

Get the papers made out.

By the way, do you boys like trout?

Morning, gentlemen.

I've been expecting you.

Good morning. Good morning. I did not want to disappoint Senor Wilson.

He wanted everyone to be here.

I wanted to turn the mind over to you legal -like.

Some of the folks come along to kind of wish you luck.

Follow me, gentlemen.

Cheers, boys.

The Blue Rock Mine.

Like I said, if you can prove the ore isn't there, I'll give you the $5 ,000

cash. If you'd had the best hand and you'd taken our goods against this...

Flooded mine, Wilson.

I'd have broken your back if I hadn't gotten to him first.

Well, you can try any time, but it didn't lie.

You put up $5 ,000 to pump her dry, and you've got a mine that you can sell for

about $5 ,000.

It is lovely, no?

And moonlight is lovely, too.

But you didn't ask me along to look at the scenery.

No, I did not.

John Wilson made fools of you and your friend.

Everyone in camp is laughing.

Well, I know a couple who aren't.

It would be very simple to get back at him.

Would it?

Si. And make a profit at the same time.

You have some money, no?

A little.

That and a floating mine.

Which is worth nothing the way it is.

If you agree to my proposition, there will be much gold for both of us.

You just hit a very rich vein.

What's your proposition?

We build a cantina. Sell whiskey, round tables. I will dance.

If I leave Wilson's, the men will leave Wilson's.

I thought I was the one that's supposed to be mad at him.

Oh, I feel nothing toward him. It's his only business.

Will you do it?

I can't seem to think of a good reason.

Maybe you can come up with one.

The best, senor.

Money.

Money can't buy you friends.

Money can't buy you happiness. Money can't buy you peace of mind.

Confederate money, that is.

You're joking with me.

And I want very much to be serious.

Then let's be serious.

You want that canteen pretty bad, don't you?

Why do you say this?

Because you didn't flinch.

Do the women usually flinch when you kiss them?

No.

But you wanted to.

Señor? Elena, love, your hatred for the gringos is something beautiful to

behold. But what's behind it?

Will you build the cantina? Why the vendetta?

That is my business.

You just asked me to join it.

And will you? The cantina will make much money.

You will build it, yes?

I might.

If you answer my question first, what happened? Why all the hate?

I do not hate green... Americanos. You got it all wrong.

I know how you feel. I'm just trying to find out why.

In fact, I insist.

All right, senor.

I will give you your answer.

My name is not Elena Grande.

It is Elena de Galindez.

You have heard the name?

I think I have.

At least I've heard of the Galindez Rancho.

One of the big land grants.

Not the biggest, senor.

Only the most beautiful.

It was the home of my family.

That was a long time ago.

It was yesterday.

I was born there.

The only good years of my life were there.

My father and my brothers died there when the... when the Americanos came and

took the land.

That was still a long time ago.

I don't know how you lost the rancho. You probably don't know either.

They're just a little piece of history now.

The land belonged to the Indians once, too.

That's just a little more history.

My father was not even buried on our land.

They put him in a little plot of ground in a place he did not even know.

I stood before his grave and swore I would live for only one thing.

To take money from the gringos. To buy back our land.

To take my father and my brothers home again.

How old were you then, Elena?

Ten? Eleven?

There will be much money for you, too.

Did you ever stop to think how long it will take you to get the money to buy

that land back?

Yes.

Seven more years.

Maybe eight.

But no more than that.

You're quite a girl.

But not even you could take eight years of kicking your heels through a hundred

filthy mining camps and boom towns.

Not without ending up a bitter, ugly old harridan. You have asked for an answer

and I have given it.

Now you will help me.

I'm sorry, I won't help you fight a war that's over and done.

It wasn't even yours to begin with.

You said you would help me if I told you the truth.

I said I might.

I decided not to.

I'd spare a minute from hating gringos now and then try a little thinking. Try

to remember what I've told you.

If you can't and you last long enough to buy that land, you better have all the

mirrors taken off the walls before you move in.

Got some good news for you, Chiquita.

The men are waiting and I am not ready.

They can wait for this.

You've been bringing a lot of extra business into my place. You know that,

you? I have?

I've decided virtue ought to be rewarded.

We're not going to split your take anymore.

From tonight on, it's all yours.

Well, I guess I'd better announce you to the house.

little shimmy dancer de luxe.

Fire down now.

Loosen up those folk strings and prepare to be generous to a folk.

We're about to be treated to the greatest little Spanish cooch dance

Cleopatra.

I give you the first lady of Riverhead camp.

I heard them both say there was a love with her. Come on, Davies.

Nobody

does

that to me, Maverick.

Nobody.

I'm unarmed, Jack.

Except for your mouth.

You called me a liar when I told you Elena said she didn't want to see you

again. Did you say it or didn't you?

Now you clear out.

You take half the goods in the other wagon and pull out.

If you don't...

And now, gentlemen, I have here one of those newfangled contraptions you've

heard so much about. A coal oil lamp.

All right, now, who'll start the bidding, please?

Five dollars.

Yes, sir. Now, you've all heard enough about this lamp to know that if it ever

works, it'll burn brightly up to three weeks on just one fillin'. Seven fifty.

don't guarantee that, however.

You never can tell about these new inventions, you know.

Ten. Now, don't get reckless, friend.

I want to be completely honest with all of you.

I don't have any coal oil to go along with this lamp.

$15. What good is a coal oil lamp without the oil?

$20. $25.

As a matter of fact, I don't know if there's any coal oil in the whole camp.

I don't think there is, Bart. I think we drank it all last night.

Going once at $25.

$27 .50. $27 .50 once?

$30. $30.

Do I hear another bid?

No, sold to the reckless and foolhardy gentleman for $30.

Just pour your dust in the scale, friend, and I sincerely hope you don't

night.

Hey, auctioneer, where is your partner?

Well, I don't know, but you mean my ex -partner. And now, gents... We've been

looking for him for over an hour.

Why? Because he disappeared, that's why.

Well, he probably left camp.

And left all his goods behind?

You aren't trying to be funny, are you? And what reason we have?

Seeing that he told you to get out of town if you didn't want to get killed.

That looks pretty odd, don't it?

Sure looks strange to me.

Why'd that Darby fill her up and leave anyhow?

He sure weren't scared of none.

It's worth looking into, boys.

Mr. Wilson, I got something you ought to hear.

All right, go ahead and say it. It's about the auctioneer, the one that ain't

around no more.

That's just what the boys were talking about.

Well, it's no harm in telling them, too.

I was walking by the dancer's tent.

Heard her talking to that guitar player.

Telling him she took a walk last night up toward the blue rock.

And she seen a man dump something into the mine.

Something that looked like a body.

Did she say who the man was?

Sure did.

She said she could see him real plain.

It was this maverick fellow.

We gotta look into this right away.

These boys want to ask you a question, Chiquita.

You might as well tell them the truth because they already know the answer.

Then why do they ask it?

I heard you telling your guitar player you know what happened to that

auctioneer, Darby.

You could not have understood what I say to Raul.

I speak to him only in Spanish.

He heard you telling how you saw Maverick throw a body down that Blue

shaft. I did not say such a thing.

She's calling me a liar.

Listen, you... Senores!

If you touch her, it'll be my pleasure to kill you.

It's a scattergun you got there, mister.

One is somewhere else.

After you, senores, have departed.

I heard what she told you about seeing Maverick. You gonna try calling me a

liar, too?

You might as well tell him, Pedro.

Her name is Raul, senor.

And there is nothing... What'd she tell you?

What'd she see?

Wait! Well?

What will you do to Senor Maverick?

Well, we only had three hanging since this camp started.

All three of them got tried first.

Tell them what they want to know.

The senorita told me she sees Senor Maverick.

See them do what?

Drop a body into the Blue Rock mineshaft.

Yes, I did say it to Raul, but I was not truly sure.

It could have been anyone.

Well, who else would it be?

He is the only one that was mad at Darby.

That is why I was so sure.

But now I am not.

Maybe you just don't want to be sure.

Are you Wilson's woman or Maverick's?

about these women.

You sure ain't a help in this trial much neither.

Step down.

Maybe you better step up here now, Maverick.

I reckon you know how bad off you are.

You got anything to say for yourself?

I got plenty to say.

I didn't kill him. I don't even know if he's dead.

And neither did any of you.

A man don't just up and run off leaving a thousand dollars worth of goods

behind.

How'd you feel if you hung me and he came back for those goods?

You ain't supposed to be asking the questions, boy. I am. I'd be pretty

to kill him, wouldn't I? Right after having a fight with him? You're still

asking the questions.

Now, we ain't saying that you done it premeditated.

Sometimes a fella gets riled up and kills without even thinking.

Why, it might even have been an accident.

I didn't kill him.

Jed, seems to me like the first thing we got to do is prove there was a killer.

Like he says, maybe Darby ain't dead at all. We don't have no body.

That's right.

Ain't no body, ain't no killer.

That's the law.

You got a point there, boys.

Better to wait till we bring up the body and then hang.

The way I figure, we can bend some pipe up and lower it down on a rope.

Then whatever's there, we'll find it.

Now, hold on. Wait a minute.

First thing, it wouldn't do any good. It'd be a waste of time.

Now, Maverick's smart enough so as he wouldn't have waited that body and just

let it sink.

There's four laterals running off that main shaft.

The body would have floated into one of them. It could drag all month and not

find a thing.

I say hang him now.

Quiet down.

Quiet down.

We ain't going to decide nothing with everybody trying to talk at once.

Now, you got anything more to say?

You bet I have.

I think Darby disappeared just so this would happen.

That only explains what she's seen.

She doesn't know what she's seen. It's all.

That's your opinion.

You got anything more to say?

No, I guess I don't.

You boys ready to do some mulling?

Yeah. All right.

Everybody else sent me and the jury.

Here's what we decided.

Now, it looks to us like Maverick probably done a killing.

But we don't have no body, and without it, we don't figure we can hang him.

That's it, flat out.

Now, wait a minute.

Can't turn him loose. He's guilty.

This assures we're all here.

Maybe so, but we ain't gonna hang a man on maybes.

Now, when Maverick said that Darby could have done this out of spite...

Sort of set me a -thinking.

She saw him dumping the body into the Blue Rock.

You give me a few days and I'll prove he's a killer.

I'll get that body and I'll hang it right under your noses.

Well, how are we going to do that, Bilson?

You said yourself... I know what I said.

Now, how about it? Will you hold him for five days?

But you know we ain't got no jail.

I'll keep him right here in my saloon. I'll feed him and I'll foot the bill for

guarding him.

I was willing to spend $5 ,000 to buy you out, mister.

I'd be even happier to spend $5 ,000 to bury you. All right.

You got yourself a prisoner for five days.

Ports adjourned.

Can you spare one of those cigars?

Yeah.

Thanks.

How's Wilson doing?

Oh, it won't take much longer.

He's got 30 men in the mule pump green in them shafts.

Half the towns of the Blue Rocks he would find.

You know, I just thought of something.

Yeah?

What if Wilson finds the body? That still doesn't prove I did the killing.

He seemed pretty anxious.

How do you know he didn't put it there himself?

You're still trying, ain't you? One thing for sure.

If they do find the body, it's going to be a double funeral.

We thought you were dead.

Yeah, we just about hung your partner.

You boys sure pulled off a neat one. Now, what gives you all an idea like

I just went hunting.

Hello, Maverick. Say, I got myself a pretty good -sized buck. Why don't we

it up for auction at $5 a pound?

Jack, seeing that Mr. Wilson was kind enough to drain the mine, why don't we

just give up auctioneering?

Uh, folks, since the new partner in the Blue Rock, Senorita de Gal...

Grande will no longer be dancing for Mr.

Wilson.

Why don't we have a big party?

Barbecue, dear, and free whiskey for everybody.

What do you say?

We're going to have to figure a way to keep some of these boys sober. We need

them up at the mine.

I couldn't join the party, folks. I had some work to do.

You can't get away with it, Wilson. It ain't fair.

Oh, I'm giving it back to them just the way they got it.

And there's nothing they can do about it. You have no right.

This is our claim.

That's right.

But the dam was mine. I built it, and I blew it up.

All you've got to do is build yourself another dam.

Of course, that'll take quite a bit of money.

something to celebrate.

Wilson! I always knew you were a good fella.

Everybody back to the party. We're giving away two wagon loads of goods and

having a blowout that...

That's quartz gold.

Our little claim has suddenly changed into a big claim.

I could sell my part of it and have enough money to buy a rancho Galindez?

No doubt about it.

I disappoint you, I know.

I'm sorry, but I will buy back the rancho.

I must.

Who's disappointed?

Not me.

No?

You didn't flinch.

And what's more, you didn't want to.

Tell me, my very good friend, what is a gringo?