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Easy, easy, girl, easy.

Easy, easy, girl, easy.

What make you come sneaking up on somebody like that, huh?

Keep still.

Hmm.

You got a cactus spike in you a mile long.

I'm not gonna hurt you now. I'm not gonna hurt you.

Easy, easy, easy.

Yeah.

That's a devil's toothpick.

[ horse approaching ]

What you hanging around here for?

Get, get! Now move!

That's the third time you've checked that gun.

Just making sure.

Oh, I know how you feel, Jess,

and I don't blame you one bit.

But if we catch up with them,

there will be no gun play

unless they give us no choice.

What kind of choice did they give Mike and Daisy,

and everybody else in the bank?

It might have been worse.

It was a miracle Mike was the only one hit.

I'm not interested in how bad it might have been.

Just knowing Mike's back there

more dead than alive is enough for me.

This one is dead, Jess.

Shot in the back.

So is this one.

[ groans ]

No, wait a minute.

Any water in that canteen?

We should have known it was too easy.

The logs on that fire

must have been burning a couple of hours.

Just hold it.

You ain't going nowhere.

Mitch.

Where's Mitch?

He do this to you?

He shot Crole down

and turned his gun on me, laughing.

Where's he headed?

I don't know.

Look, mister!

Take it easy.

The man's fading fast as it is.

His name.

What's his name? Mitch who?

Just Mitch.

He talked me and Crole into robbing the Laramie bank.

He said it would be a piece of cake.

That why you shot up the town?

Not us.

Mitch did it.

You get him, mister, for me and Crole.

I'll get him, but not for the likes of you.

You got no notion where he's headed?

He never talked about any town.

He, he did say...

he bought his horse in Chloride.

Chloride.

At least that's something to go on.

No, it's not much for sure, Jess.

A man named Mitch with a horse from Chloride.

A man who'd just as leave

back-shoot his own kind as innocent people.

I'll find him.

Well, most likely he rode off in that stream

and you don't know which way.

Might not even be headed for Chloride.

I got to find him, Mort.

When I get to thinking about Mike

with one of their bullets in him, I got no choice.

Yeah, I know, and I can't go with you.

It's Colorado territory

and besides we left town in such a hurry,

I haven't got no one covering for me.

Well, I didn't figure you could.

You tell Daisy and Slim for me, huh?

Sure.

Here, Jess, take this.

It might carry some weight.

I'll forward a warrant to Chloride naming you deputy.

Thanks, Mort.

Look in on Mike, huh?

We've been praying the worst of it's over.

It was awful close there for a while, Mort.

He's a fighter and he's young,

he'll make it.

I wish Jess knew that, Daisy.

His insides are all tied up in knots.

Do you think I ought to ride for Chloride?

Oh, it might be for nothing, Slim.

Better wait till we've heard.

He ought to make it by late today.

You think that Jess has been riding all night?

Yes, ma'am, I think he did.

Jess would have walked or crawled if he had to.

He was thinking about Mike.

There's not much could stop Jess now.

His temper isn't long enough to measure.

Kind of feel sorry for anyone who gets in his way.

Unless it's a man named Mitch.

My horse needs tending to.

Say that again.

Hey, you must have rode him a long way.

Look, I ain't asking for no sermon.

My horse needs taking care of quick.

Cash in advance, house rule.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

Jamie, customer.

Back yonder.

Is there something I can do for you?

Yeah, there sure is.

My horse, he pulled up lame.

I keep my vet supplies in here.

I reckon we better wash him down first off.

If you will unsaddle him.

Sure.

And when you get through with him,

I could sure use that brush and some water myself.

A man who looks after his horse

before he thinks about himself

is usually a pretty good man.

HANSON: Jamie, fetch us some more suds.

Wait a minute.

My horse is in petty bad shape.

Just keep working on him.

Mister, he's my boss.

Right now my horse is more important than his beer.

At least to me he is.

HANSON: Jamie, you hear me?

You keep working, I'll handle it.

Shake a leg, Jamie.

You get it.

He's busy right now.

You trying to tell me how to run my business?

I reckon it adds up to that.

Jamie!

Stay where you are, Jamie.

Mister, I paid in advance. I want my money's worth.

The man wants his money's worth.

Maybe we should see he gets it.

You've got an awful big mouth, mister.

What about you, mister?

You picked your spot yet?

You got no right coming in here, beating up my friends.

Well, where do you want me to take them to beat them up?

You just name it and I'll try to oblige you.

Now get them out of here.

I got a horse to take care of.

Sheriff sure is gonna hear about this.

Well, you send him over.

He's just the man I want to see.

I sure hope that don't get you in a mess of trouble.

Who with, the sheriff?

I don't think so.

I ain't got nothin' to hide.

You ever been in Chloride before?

Nope.

You ever meet Sheriff Shaw?

Can't say as I have.

You in trouble, mister.

Real trouble.

SHERIFF: You ain't got much to go on, Harper.

Not enough to be as highhanded as you've been acting.

JESS: Well, it seems Chloride's kind of a highhanded town

if you ask me.

Now nobody is asking.

And you keep spouting off, son,

I'm gonna slam the door on you so fast,

you won't even hear it shut.

Well, I'm sorry, sheriff.

Maybe this will explain things.

This belongs to Sheriff Mort Corey of Laramie.

He gave it to me.

He'll be sending a warrant after.

Well, we don't get mail here regular, son.

Some mines shut down and Chloride is near off the map.

Maybe a lawman gave this to you

or maybe you just took it.

That mean you won't help me?

Means I don't know a man named Mitch.

Now most anybody could have bought a mount in this town.

People living here will sell about anything they got.

You got any objections to my looking around some?

Not as long as you do it nice and easy.

But until that warrant comes,

you are just another drifter as far as I'm concerned.

Don't you forget it.

Mister, you sure are making friends fast around here.

Well, I'll tell you, Jamie.

I didn't come to Chloride to run for mayor.

[ horse neighing ]

What are you doing working in a hole like this?

Plenty of big outfits could use a man like you.

Maybe I just like it here.

Oh, don't hand me that.

Nobody could like working for that lame brain,

unless you have some spunk to get out on your own.

Spunk?

Mister, when you're born with a harness on you,

you don't just shuck it off all at once

and pretend you're a racehorse.

Get finished with his horse, Jamie,

there's other work to do.

I'll do it.

Jamie, I want to thank you fixing my horse up.

If you like, I'll buy you a steak for dinner.

You sure earned it, even though he got the money.

Well, thank you very kindly,

but I usually eat out at my cabin.

Food is pretty bad in this town.

Besides, it saves you from having to hand it out to me

through the backdoor of the saloon.

Whatever you want to do.

I'll see you.

Hey, ol' chap.

How you feelin', huh?

Better?

Tyler is gonna be here in a few minutes, now don't.

Who's afraid of Tyler?

I am.

Come on now.

He's crazy jealous.

There doesn't seem to be much future around here.

Well, we got to wait, that's all.

When we get far enough ahead,

then we can leave this town for good.

That 2,500 from the Laramie bank

ought to be a good starter.

Mm-mmm.

I want more than that.

You set your sights pretty high, don't you, Nona?

Why, what's the matter, Milo?

Don't you think I'm worth it?

Tyler does.

[ door opening ]

Hi, Tyler honey.

Where you been?

I've been looking for him.

I'm gonna crack your head open

and find out if you've got an ounce of brain.

Don't ever do that to me.

Milo, don't!

Come on, put it away, now!

Did you hear something, honey?

I heard plenty from a man named Harper.

He and the Laramie sheriff

found those two drifters you left as decoys.

One of them was still alive.

He's dead now but he talked enough to get Harper here.

I'll just stay out of his way.

Yeah, I suggest you do just that.

He's already beaten up Neeley and Croft

and he wasn't even trying.

Well, listen, maybe we better make sure they don't find him.

No.

The Laramie sheriff knows he's headed this way.

Oh, you can handle it, honey.

You always have before.

Sure, but we never had anything like this before.

Now we've got to discourage Harper

from hanging around Chloride,

do it in such a way that it doesn't tie Milo in.

Tyler, maybe I could be of some help.

Yeah, maybe you could.

Maybe you should after all.

I got into all this just to make you happy,

to buy you the fancy trimmings you figure you needed.

Well, you don't expect me

to hang around this hick town

without any fancy things to wear, do you?

Now what are you two gonna do

about this hothead that's trailing me?

Nona and me will take care of him.

Now you just stay out from underfoot.

Maybe you can tell me what's going on around here, Jamie.

Everybody think I got the plague or something?

No. I reckon they just think what Mr. Hanson's been telling them.

Hanson? Your boss?

Yeah, him.

Croft and Neeley, them two fellows you tangled with.

Well, they been saying you a gunslick,

that you running around for nothing but trouble.

Well, I'll tell you, they're part right.

That's why you can't get a room in a hotel.

Why you can't get in the barber shop

and nothing else around here.

How come you know all this?

Well, I've been watching.

Why?

Well, I guess I just don't like

to see nobody get treated like that.

Come on over to the livery stable,

I'll find you a place to sleep, if you want.

Okay, Jamie, thanks.

If I don't wind up in jail tonight, I'll be there.

Jail?

Yeah.

Because right now I'm going over to that saloon.

If I don't get a drink or something to eat,

I'm just liable to rearrange their furniture some.

See you.

Give me a beer.

All right, there's your pigeon.

I'll get things started outside.

Now you just keep out of sight.

All right. I just wanted to see what he looks like.

Well, you've seen, now vacate.

I found him sneaking around out back.

What are you doing here at night?

I didn't finish my work.

I figured I'd sleep here in the hay.

How come you didn't ask me about it?

Well, I didn't reckon you'd care.

Well, what are you doing with this horse saddled up?

You can't take him out now, his leg is hurt.

Well, now listen to the big man.

You hear that what he said, Neeley?

I've been having a little trouble hearing lately.

Uh, won't you have him move a little closer?

Get a little closer, Jamie.

I'm fed up with your nosing around here.

You're fired.

If you want to stay healthy,

you forget what you've seen here.

Do you hear?

Now grab that line and let's go.

You know, I met a man named Mitch once.

Never knew his last name either.

Where, here in Chloride?

Mm-hmm, few months ago.

He's a drifter like.

He had quite a roll though

but he wouldn't spend a nickel of it unless he had to.

However, I did manage to get my share.

Now what do you mean by that?

Well, this Mitch before he left,

he bought a horse from a passing cowboy.

Now him, he was a real spender.

You ever see this Mitch again?

Mm-mmm.

And if I did, it'd be too soon.

You couldn't tell me what he looked like, could you?

Let me see.

Well, he had kind of brown hair,

taller than most, mean faced.

No, don't!

Don't move, Harper.

This shotgun goes off real easy.

Put his gun up on the table, Nona.

Kil, he wasn't doing anything.

No. No, and he ain't about to either.

You might be a big man where you come from, loudmouth.

But you're gonna find out you don't go around here

beating up on innocent folks and pestering our women.

Mister, you got it all wrong forward and back.

But I ain't arguing with that scatter gun.

Good.

Then let's get outside, come on.

I told you to bend the barrel, not break it off on him.

Well, you can't hurt a hardhead,

he'll come out of it.

Yeah, if he didn't bleed to death.

All right, tie him on his horse and head him towards Laramie.

Everything is all right, boys.

Old George has got a little mad.

This far enough?

It'll do.

Make sure he's tied tight.

We don't want him falling off close to town.

The sheriff's sure anxious to get rid of the saddle tramp.

I wonder why.

It don't bother me nothing.

After what he'd done to you and me in the livery,

I'd have sooner trigged that shotgun

as to wrap it around his head.

Way he's losing blood I don't think it'd make much difference.

Come on, hurry up before he's comes to.

Not much chance of that.

Well, that does it.

All right, let him go.

Ha! Ha!

Let's go.

Easy, boy.

[ whistles ]

Mister, you sure need patching up.

I better get you out of here first.

Something tells me somebody is waiting around to finish off

what them other two started.

Here, easy, easy, easy.

Now you stay put.

I should have known.

You were part of it.

It make you feel any better?

I don't know.

[ sighs ] I ain't thinking so clearly right now.

[ scoffs ] Yeah.

I don't doubt that none.

I got the bleeding to stop.

You better keep a compress on it though.

Where you been?

I hid out your horse.

I tended him some too.

My horse?

It seems to me,

it seems I was tied on him or something.

I don't know, it's pretty hazy.

You just need a little rest.

You'll be all right if we can keep that wound closed up.

I'll tend to it.

Wait a minute, Jamie.

My being around here ain't gonna do you no good.

It's liable to get you in trouble.

I better...

I better be moving.

It's up to you.

All right.

Hey, come on, easy.

Yeah, easy.

Now suppose you let me worry about my own troubles, yeah?

Yeah.

How about your job?

Ain't you-- Ain't you supposed to be working?

Me and that job parted company last night.

On account of me?

No, on account of your horse.

But I'm glad of it.

I oughtn't have been working for a man who treats horses like that no how.

I'll tell you something.

He didn't do this to me for nothing.

Jamie, I got a feeling,

the man I'm looking for is in Chloride right now.

Yeah, you might be right at that, Mr. Harper.

But we'll talk about it later.

Jamie.

Jamie.

Easy.

You call me Jess.

Yeah, sure.

Sure, Jess, I'll do that.

Just because you have a key

doesn't mean you don't have to knock.

Nobody else ever does, do they?

Did you find Harper?

No, he never showed.

He never showed?

They took him 5 miles out on the road.

I saw them come back.

Well, I waited for him half the night.

Even checked the road on the way back.

He just ain't there.

Well, did you look for tracks?

Maybe his horse strayed or he came to.

No, I didn't look for tracks.

I figured I'd see him if he was around.

Oh, Milo.

Look, we have got to be sure.

Tyler is running scared, we're not.

He'll never even know about it if you can stop Harper

before he gets back here or gets to someone else.

Now you find him.

Right now?

I just got here, Nona.

You sure take good care of that gun.

Well, it's part of getting ready

for something I want to do,

something I got to do.

What's that?

Kill a man.

Well, that's what you're here for, ain't it?

I'll kill him if I have to...

but you know why I will.

Why do you want to kill a man?

For the law.

Because, fact is, most of my life,

I worked for a man named Claypool back in Virginia.

Dr. William Claypool.

Old doc was pretty good to me.

He gave me more education

than folks like me got right to expect.

I used to get up on his rig

and go out with him on his calls.

At first I didn't know what he was doing really.

After a while I got to listening

and watching and learning.

Pretty soon I was doing it too.

Old man taught me everything he knew.

Well, you mean you know doctoring?

Well, horse doctoring, Jess.

Old doctor cared the best jumpers

and show mounts and sprinters in our county.

Maybe as if he did before the war.

He must have been right in the middle of the action.

Yeah, smack dab.

Well, anyhow, one day me and old doc

was trying to hide his best pure bred jumper,

when a union officer spotted him.

Well, Jess, that man killed old doc Claypool

and he stole that horse.

That's the kind of war it was, Jamie.

One big crime to cover up thousands of little ones.

Yeah.

Well, I swore I'd even things up for old doc.

One day I will too.

That's how come I taught myself how to use this thing.

That's how come I got my supplies

all stored out here,

guns and ammunition.

That's how come I taught myself

to shoot a gnat off a boulder at 100 yards with this thing.

And I had him too, Jess.

I had that man that murdered old doc.

I had him right here in my sights.

And then I-I couldn't pull the trigger.

You know something, Jess?

I ain't never killed nothing, nothing.

I'm a trained killer

and I ain't got the guts to kill nothing.

You can try taking it to the law.

Me? Take it to the law?

Well, Jess, that man I'm after.

Well, he is the law.

At least he is in Chloride.

Sheriff Tyler Shaw.

Shaw.

Maybe he--

Hey, easy.

Here, come on.

Here, I've been keeping you listening

when you should have been sleeping.

Yeah.

I'm sorry, Jamie.

Sorry I caved in.

My brains, whatever is left of them, keep rattling around.

I'll be all right.

And I'm gonna go check on the horses.

It ain't likely that nobody be dropping in,

but you better hold onto this for this comfort anyhow.

Better take these.

MILO: Starting your own stable now, Jamie?

I just found him.

He was running around loose.

You're lying to me, Jamie.

You're gonna tell me where Harper is

or do I have to pound it out of you?

I don't believe you can pound hard enough.

You took that beating for nothing, boy.

Drop it.

I said drop it.

You do that to him?

He wouldn't tell me where you were.

Should have known I'd find his cabin.

That's one you're gonna pay heavy for, mister.

Not in this life, Harper.

I think I can see a fine way of getting you off my back.

How'd you know my name?

Why, the good sheriff told me.

He claims you've been saying

some pretty mean things about me.

You.

You're the dirty back shooter.

The gunslick that cuts kids down.

Shut up!

Get on your belly.

Now!

Hands behind your back.

By the time they find the two of you,

they won't even know who you are.

Much less what happened to you.

Sheriff from Laramie will be here soon.

Well, you just let him come.

Why is he covering up for the likes of you?

He gets a cut, I get protection.

He likes to buy play-pretties for Nona.

Doesn't know she's already got one.

That she-cat that set me up at the saloon?

That's our little sweetheart.

I'm gonna take this other lantern for outside.

Be a fast fire, you won't burn slow.

Either of you try to get out this door, I'll be waiting.

Jamie!

Jamie, wake up!

Come on, untie me.

Did Milo Gordon do this, Jess?

You call him what you want to call him.

I call him Mitch.

He took the guns.

He's outside waiting for us.

We don't have much of a chance.

We do if I can get you loose.

Hey, come on.

Give me a hand.

Me and old doc Claypool

used to run a station on the underground railroad.

One thing he taught me was to always keep a backdoor.

Come on.

That old gent knew what he was doing. Where to?

Right to a thicket out back, come on. You go ahead.

[ coughing ]

Here, Jamie.

Reckon my horse is in good enough shape to get me to town?

I reckon he will if you go easy on him.

Last time I checked him, he looked pretty good.

But you ain't got a gun, Jess.

Your head still hurting?

I can't help that none.

It's something I got to do.

I'm trying to make up my mind to go along with you.

It's up to you, Jamie.

So far we've both been beat up, slugged, knocked around.

We know we're after two no good outlaws.

So the law, the real law is on our side.

I got my reasons.

And I reckon you got yours.

I'll tell you something,

the way I feel right now I don't need a gun.

Look, you've been used to

acting like that all your life, Jess.

This is something kind of new to me.

Now that ain't so.

You only feel that way

because old Abe signed a fancy piece of paper.

You've been free all your life.

Inside.

Old Abe Lincoln said something else on that piece of paper

besides the slaves was free.

He said, "I do hereby enjoin upon the people

so declared to be free

that they abstain from all violence,

unless necessary in self-defense.

And I recommend to them that in all cases when allowed,

they labor faithfully for reasonable wages."

Now that's what he said.

More of us ought to know it like that.

But you got to stop acting like a second class citizen.

Would you say you've been working for a reasonable wage?

No.

But taking in a crooked sheriff like Shaw

is acting in self-defense,

not only for ourselves but for everybody.

I reckon I could do you some good,

if you don't mind me going along.

I'd be proud if you would.

[ horses neighing ]

Those dumb critters sure are restless this afternoon.

Nice going, Jamie.

Looks like we got us some guns.

Yeah. But I still don't feel none too good about it.

That make you feel any better?

Just fine.

Now let's go.

Well, we're gonna have to make a stand.

It's the only way out of it.

They know too much.

A busted up cowpuncher and a stable hand,

easy pickings.

Well, I hope you're satisfied.

Jamie, when the shooting starts,

you take cover over by the saloon.

Is that what you're gonna do?

I figure on hitting the dirt if I have to.

That's good enough for me.

You better let me handle Harper.

Jamie is more your style.

Shaw, throw your guns down.

I won't be telling you twice.

I'm tired of waiting. Now.

Is he...?

No, they're both alive.

But I hear prison hospitals have bars just like cells.

Well, I still say you ought to think about staying in Laramie.

We could use another veterinarian, and I think you'd like it.

Well, I'm sure I would, Slim. I maybe heading back this way

but right now all I can think about

is all that new land west of here

that I ain't ever seen yet.

Old Jess here has about convinced me

that I can do most anything I want to

if I set my mind to it.

Yeah, that's right, Jamie.

As long as you got sense enough

to be scared of the same things I am.

You scared of what?

Well, getting married and being left of foot.

Oh, Jess only means he hasn't found the right girl yet.

In other words, the one that will have him.

Here's your lunch, Jamie.

Thank you, ma'am.

Well, I sure want to thank all of you

for your hospitality and everything else.

Thanks.

Say, where is Mike?

I don't want to leave without saying goodbye to him.

Always around some place.

Goodbye, Jamie. Good luck.

Same to you, little fellow.

I thought maybe you'd like to have a friend along.

Come on, I'll show you.

Well, Mike, are you sure you want to part with him?

I know you will take good care of him.

And you know I've got five more like him in the barn.

Well, thanks, Mike.

So long, everybody.

You'll be hearing from me.

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