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Look over there in the corner.

[ indistinct talk ]

I don't know which one of those two I hate the most.

Well, maybe we ought to pay our respects to the lady.

They'll probably take it out of my paycheck.

Sandy...

it's been a nice, quiet day, let's keep it that way.

Want a drink, Millie?

She's staying right where she is, Blayne.

I don't remember asking you.

Don't push it, Bill.

It might be more than you can handle.

[ Bill scoffs ]

You know, I never was worried about him.

And I'm getting to be a lot less worried about you.

Won't you ever learn

that it takes more than a big mouth

and a few dollars to impress Millie?

Oh, you want to be impressed?

I'll be glad to oblige.

All right, ease off, both of you.

This has been coming on for a long time, Jess.

I will settle it once and for all.

Sit down, Sandy.

You poking your nose in again, Harper.

One more word out of either of you,

and I'll drag you both down to Mort Corey's office.

You haven't got a badge to back you up this time, Harper.

You're supposed to be the one with the sense in the family.

Why don't you use some of it

and get your brother out of here?

Now go on, all of you, move!

Now, like you said, we're gonna settle it once and for all.

Oh, Sandy, don't.

Bill, please.

Sam, can't you stop 'em?

Anytime you're ready.

Up to you.

Stop them, somebody!

You did it, Bill.

Nice work.

Why, he was dead before he hit the ground.

One day it'll be the same with Jess Harper.

Go on inside, Millie.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna do some settling of my own.

Please, don't start it again.

Hold on, Jess.

Blayne finally shot it out with Sandy Forester.

MORT: Hold it.

It was a fair fight, sheriff.

Couldn't somebody have stopped him?

Somebody tried,

but got hit over the head

by one of these two-bit gunslingers.

I only wish I knew which one.

Let it ride for now.

You're under arrest.

Hold on, sheriff. You heard Benson.

You stay out of this or I'll pull you in, too.

I'll get dad, Bill.

You've got no call to arrest me, Corey.

No call?

You just killed a man.

I got no call to explain what I did either.

Why, you young toad,

you're hardly dry behind the ears yet,

you talk like you think you're a man.

Man enough to stand up to somebody

who just tried to killed me.

And I'm beginning to think

I'm man enough to settle for what you did to my father.

Get moving.

I want to see you in my office.

And the rest of you take Sandy's body to Doc Collier's.

Now!

I'm sorry I just can't get all that worked up

over what happened.

Your son just killed Sandy Forester.

Doesn't that mean anything to you?

From what everybody tells me, Bill wasn't at fault.

You act like you're proud of what he did.

I never backed off from any man in my day.

My boy's shown he's got the same kind of fur on him.

Fine with me.

Maybe he won't be as lucky as you.

Maybe he'll end up dead.

I said you couldn't hold him if that's the case.

I don't see any reason for any more talk.

Talk never did reach you, did it?

I got to meet Frazer over at the bank.

You and Larry wait for me.

We'll ride out to the ranch together.

Don't you walk too tall, boy.

There'll always be somebody wanting to try you on for size.

Much obliged for the advice, sheriff.

You know something?

All of a sudden you don't worry me at all.

I can't help feel this is partly my fault.

[ sighs ] There wouldn't have been any fighting if it hadn't been for me.

It's not your fault, Millie.

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

If not over you, somebody else.

What was that he said about your not worrying him anymore?

He's been trying to get to me for 5 years now, Mort.

You stopped his father when he was a top gun.

Does that kid think he can outdraw you?

Why don't you ask him what he thinks?

I knew he was a hot-head,

but I didn't think he was still packing a grudge against you.

Well, he still is and each year it gets a little worse.

It never ends.

Like father, like son.

Come on, I'll walk you home.

Don't worry about it, Mort.

I won't let him push me into anything.

I never thought he'd push Sandy Forester

into anything, but he did.

Well, I'm not Sandy Forester.

That's just what's worrying me.

Millie?

Millie!

How about that drink now?

Would you please just leave me alone?

What's the matter? You've seen a shooting before.

Why don't you go back there and wait for your father?

You're not blaming me for what happened, are you?

Forester started it all.

Come on, Millie.

Harper, I was talking to the lady.

If you're looking for trouble, I'll be glad to give it to you.

[ grunts ]

[ horse neighing ]

Get him, Bill.

I'm gonna kill you.

Trying could be your last mistake.

I don't think so.

I'm not half over the hill the way my father was

when you gunned him down.

I was a deputy then.

Your father was breaking the law and he knew it.

If it makes you feel any better, go pin a badge on!

I'm not gonna fight you with a gun, Bill.

You draw or I'll drop you where you stand.

What's the matter? Are you afraid of me?

All right, back off!

Both of you.

He's a little out of your class, isn't he, Harper?

You better keep a tight rein on him.

He's gonna need it.

You're a coward, Harper!

You turn around and face me!

I don't want to look at that yellow streak up your back!

Easy now, son.

No saloon girl is worth two gunfights in the same day.

That's not why I want Harper, and you know it.

Well, that's enough of that kind of talk.

Jess...

It's all right, Millie.

He's just trying to see how tall he can get.

Like Mort said, somebody's gonna try him for size,

but it won't be me.

About all those things he said to you?

They don't prove anything, except what a jack-fool he is.

Now you go on inside and don't worry.

I got to go back to the ranch.

Aunt Daisy, may I have another piece of pie?

I'll tell you what, Mike, you ask me again

when you've got all your homework done.

I'll go get my books.

Mike, do it in your room, huh?

But I want to sit in here with you.

Now go on, tiger.

Jess and I'll look in on you later.

Maybe it's none of my business, Jess,

but don't you think you'd feel better

if you talked it out.

What's there to say, Daisy?

Blayne's been doing all the talking.

He got everybody thinking

I'm so scared I'd run up a tree.

Anybody who knows you knows that's not true.

Yeah, but after a week of talk

I wouldn't blame anybody for wondering.

Oh, Jess, you've done exactly right so far.

By avoiding him, by not paying any attention to what he says,

you've prevented a useless gunfight.

In a week or two, there won't be anything more

for him to talk about.

I wish it could be that simple.

Well, it could be, if old man Blayne

would just sit down on those two young hellions of his.

Ever since their mother died he's let them run wild,

especially the older one.

Anytime you're ready.

You just give me a few days, then you'll see some speed.

You draw that as smooth as butter.

That's just slamming back the hammer

as you clear the holster that does it.

Well, I'm sure glad you ain't mad at me.

Harper's the one I'm after now.

Hey, Bill, let me use your gun.

Let me show you how fast I can do it.

Harper's mine, little brother.

Besides, you'll be wearing one of these soon enough.

I'm gonna be wearing one at Willow Springs, Bill.

No, you won't.

Bill, I--

I agreed you could come with us

as long as you do what I say.

Oh, come on, Bill, if I don't have a gun I can't--

You shouldn't be sounding off like that.

Why, nobody can hear us.

Well, Mose is in there.

He's deaf in one ear,

and he can't hear out of the other.

Hey, Mose.What's wrong with you?

Hey, Mose.

Yeah?

You hear what Larry and me just said?

I got better to do than listening to the likes of you.

Now you listen to this.

When you stop at the Sherman place on your morning run,

I want you to deliver a message to Harper for me.

You really like to make trouble, don't you?

You tell that yellow-back cowboy,

I said that if he ever comes into Laramie,

he's not gonna be leaving.

Unless they carry him out in a pine box.

Hi, Millie.

Bill, will you leave me alone?

Oh, that's a mighty high horse

you've been riding the last few days.

I'm busy.

But I'm a customer, I got money to spend.

Then why don't you spend your money someplace else?

You'd take Jess Harper's money, wouldn't you?

The man that ruined my father's life.

Why don't you grow up?

You know what your father was.

Never mind about my father.

Now how does it feel to have a boyfriend

who's a coward clear through?

Everybody in this town knows Jess is twice the man you are.

But even if he wasn't, I still couldn't stomach you.

Looks like young Blayne is kicking off his heels

when I come in.

[unintelligible]

just bought a round of drinks for the house.

Well, I can't arrest the boy for that.

Look like you've had a hard day.

Like all the rest, a little extra thrown in.

You know John McClain?

The stage line agent at Willow Springs?

I just got a telegram.

His station was held up late this afternoon.

Nearly got himself shot

and one of his handlers was killed.

Does he know who did it?

Four of them, I ask.

Got away with over $500.

Guess Jess and I have been pretty lucky.

No trouble like that now for a long time.

I came over to tell you to keep your eyes open.

They're headed in this direction.

They just might try again,

your place being isolated and all.

Thanks, Mort, for the warning.

As I'm through,

I'll walk back to the office with you before I ride home.

I've got to finish my rounds first.

You better go on ahead, Slim.

You want a way to flush Harper out?

You know it.

We tromp on Sherman some, Harper comes running.

He would at that.

Well, what about the sheriff, Bill?

Let's find out.

By the way, how is Jess?

Like a tea kettle with a tight lid.

Never knew he had it in him to take all of this stuff.

Yeah.

I'll see you later, Mort.

Looks like our lucky night.

Yeah. He's heading for the stage.

Be sure to kill him, though.

He's bound to tell Sheriff Corey.

Aw, we don't know nothing.

We were just having a friendly little game of cards

over at the hotel.

Get him back!

You know what to do with it.

Right.

Come on.

Slim!

Easy, Mort.

I think a couple of my ribs are busted.

Who did this to you?

I can make a good guess, Bill Blayne.

I'll find out soon enough.

No.

If my guess is right,

they probably did this to get Jess in town.

I'll settle with him before Jess ever knows about it.

Look, I can't prove it was Blayne.

Besides, his friends would back him up.

Anyway you got to ride to the ranch.

What for?

If I showed up looking like this,

remember that tea kettle?

Tell Jess I had to go to Cheyenne.

Last minute business.

That'll give me a couple of days to mend up.

And tell him to look out for the ones

who robbed the Willow Spring station.

And what about Blayne?

We can settle with him later.

I got to get you to Doc Collier's first.

Can you make it?

If I don't move I can.

Come on, boy.

Heavens, Jess!

We've got enough chopped wood inside

to last until doomsday.

Yeah I know, Daisy.

It's better than just sitting around.

Of course, it is.

But if you catch cold out here

you won't be much good for anything.

I'll be in in a minute.

Jess, look,

I know it's eating you up not to face that boy,

but it must be because you know in your heart

it would be wrong.

The problems can't all be solved with a gun.

Someday that might be so.

This could be that day for you if you'd let it be.

Okay, Daisy.

I saved a piece of pie for you.

I was hoping you would.

[ horse galloping ]

Sounds like somebody is in a big hurry.

[ glass shatters ]

What in the world?

It's Slim's gun belt.

Slim's?

Who could have taken it away from him?

I don't have to guess about that, Daisy,

and neither do you.

What are you going to do?

You don't have to guess about that either.

I can cut across the south section

and beat him back to town.

Oh, Jess.

That day you were talking about, Daisy,

it hasn't come yet.

Where's Bill Blayne?

Well, he was here a while ago, but he left.

What about Slim?

He's all right.

All right?

He'd have to be dead or close to it for them

to take his gun belt.

Jess, I told you he's all right.

He's at the hotel.

Well, Doc Collier came by a little while ago and told me.

Jess?

Harper.

[ knocking ]

What are you doing here?

I came to thank the ones that delivered your gun belt.

I'll thank them myself in a few days.

They won't be around then.

Didn't you see Mort?

No.

I want you to go back to the ranch.

After my business here.

Right now!

Blayne's got to be stopped one way or another, Slim,

before something like this happens again,

maybe to Mike or Daisy.

And if he wants to face me, he can do it right now.

He's not the chancy kid I thought he was,

not if he can do this to you.

Listen to me.

The Willow Spring station was robbed.

One of McClain's hands was killed.

Mort told me that the ones who did it

are headed this way.

With you here that means Daisy and Mike could be in danger.

Now would you get going?

Nice try but no dice.

I'm telling the truth!

Either you go back, or I'll do it myself somehow.

Take it easy.

Are you leveling with me?

Yeah.

If you want Bill Blayne that bad, you can have him.

But right now we should get back to the ranch.

It seems like they've busted up everything but your temper.

All right, I'll go back.

Thanks for coming, pard.

Harper!

I figured you'd be coming to town tonight.

I got no time for you now.

Well, you better make time.

I don't want anybody saying that

I didn't give you a chance to draw.

You're bound to die hard, boy.

But I'm not gonna be the one that does it.

I'm gonna tell you just once.

Put that gun away.

This is for my father.

And so with each of us must we abide

in the mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.

Mr. Blayne...

We'll settle this, Mr. Blayne. Don't you worry.

You won't do anything.

You leave him alone.

What, just like that you're gonna forget it?

After what he did, you're gonna forget it just like that?

I won't forget what he did.

But I'll be the one to decide what's to be done about it.

Looks like it's all over.

Don't you count on it.

First my pa, and now Bill.

Oh, no, it's not over with, it's just started.

Oh, Jess, stop punishing yourself.

You did everything humanly possible

to avoid a fight with that boy.

Well, it looks like I didn't do enough.

That wasn't your fault.

Look, I sent two of my deputies out to watch the place for you,

in case the ones who robbed Willow Springs try anything.

Why don't you take off for a few days and unwind?

It'd be fine, Mort,

if I could leave what's eating me here in town.

Harper!

Ha!

You don't know how lucky you are to be alive.

So are you, but you aren't gonna be long.

Not as long as I can do something about it.

Oh!

I don't believe it.

I don't care whether you do or not.

I'm just telling you keep him away from me.

I don't want to kill him anymore

than I wanted to kill his brother.

But if he comes gunning for me again,

it's gonna end up just the same.

Now I've had it with you Blaynes.

Boy.

Boy, what kind of a fool are you?

Maybe you forgot what Harper did to you.

And maybe losing Bill doesn't do to you

what it does to me, Pa.

Now maybe you better think again.

I'm not making the same mistake with you

I did with your brother.

I'm drawing a line, and you're gonna toe it.

Now you make up your mind to that once and for all.

He killed my brother, Pa, and I'm gonna kill him.

Now you listen to me.

Whether we like it not Harper was justified in what he did.

Bill's gun was near empty.

Harper fired one shot, at the most two.

So you just forget about revenge.

And we'll both try to forget

that Bill got no more than he deserved.

Pa, he died trying to get even for what--

for what Harper did to you.

Don't you think I know that?

Can't you see I'm trying to tell you Bill was wrong?

Why?

Why, because Harper half crippled you?

Now we've been all through that a dozen times.

I've got nobody but myself to blame for this and you know it.

Sure.

Because Harper had a badge on him when he--

when he shot you.

That makes everything all right?

Well, if he hadn't I'd be long dead.

And Harper could have shot me

someplace beside the hand, you know.

Now you listen to me.

What happened 5 years ago is over and done with.

I tried to tell your brother that,

but I didn't tell him often enough or hard enough.

Well, now he's dead.

And I'm not gonna have the same thing happen to you.

It's not gonna happen to me. It's gonna happen to him.

Do I have to break your other arm

to make you listen to me?

Do you think there's anything you can do

to bring Billy back to life?

Maybe not, but when I mend I am gonna get--

You're gonna do nothing!

Here, bite down on that.

I'm gonna try to set this arm of yours.

Looks like it'll mend all right,

and we'll go and see what Doc Collier thinks.

He didn't have to bust it.

No, he didn't.

He could have shot you.

And I'll tell you it'll be a long time

before he throws down on anybody else again.

I took him home to his father with a busted arm.

Either Blayne is gonna take care of that boy

or the law will do it for him in the cell.

Or the same thing happens as before.

Now I mean it, Mort.

I've had all I can take from them,

and I'm not forgetting about what they did to Slim either.

I got a pretty good idea who it was,

Clay Benson and his friends.

I want you to stay away from them, Jess.

Why?

I've got good reasons.

I got a telegram yesterday from John McClain of Willow Springs.

He read in the paper

about Bill's funeral and saw Bill's picture.

What's that got to do with--

He said that Bill was the leader of the bunch

that robbed his station.

And the man who got killed got it

because he pulled Bill's mask off.

McClain got a look at him, too.

I'll guarantee you Benson, Cliff, and Jenks were in on it.

I've already had a little talk with them.

Now I suppose they can prove they were someplace else.

I've got to go along with it for now, but I'll nail 'em. I just need time.

You give me 5 minutes alone with one of them--Jess, that's my job.

I want you to stay clear of them.

I mean it.

Evening, Mr. Blayne.

Benson.

Me and the boys dropped over

to see if there's anything we could do.

Oh, that's nice of you and I appreciate--

We heard what Harper done to Larry.

Well, Larry is lucky to be alive.

First Bill, then a youngster like him.

He'll be after you next.

Now you know better than that.

We know you'd be better off with Harper gone.

Now, there'll be no more gunplay.

All right, Mr. Blayne, anything you say.

But I know how I feel when I see the man

who killed my best friend walking around.

The whole territory would be better off

without Jess Harper in it.

Well, that's nobody's concern but mine.

I don't want him shot.

Now we weren't figuring on anything like that, Mr. Blayne.

But seeing as to it he'd leave Laramie

would ease your mind a little, wouldn't it?

Like Pa says, ain't nobody's concern but ours.

You're still figuring on trying him again, aren't you?

After all I've said to you.

You answer me, boy.

It's gonna be him or me, Pa.

There ain't nothing you're gonna be able to do to stop it.

All right.

All right, you go ahead.

If you can drive Harper out of town, do it.

The further the better.

Pa, you can't--

Be quiet, boy.

Leave it to us, sir.

Now, Mr. Blayne,

I know it's not the time to bring this up,

but, well, we were backing Bill in some card games.

And, well, the last few didn't turn out so good.

Yeah, you'll be needing some. Keep the money.

Well, it's just a loan, you understand,

till we find some work.

Oh, forget it. You were Bill's best friends.

No, sir, it's a loan, and we'll be paying it back.

Thanks.

We'll take care of Harper.

I don't want to know about it.

I just want him well out of Larry's reach.

They're going after Harper, Pa,

with your money in their pockets.

They're just gonna drive him out of town, that's all.

Oh, Pa, you don't believe that any more than I do.

I believe I'd do most anything to see

you don't wind up like your brother did.

Well, the longer Harper stays in there talking to Millie,

the quieter the street's gonna get.

We'll do the same as we did with Sherman.

I just as leave, kill him.

Comes to it. We just lie until.

Did Blayne send you?

Let go of me!

And you robbed the Willow Spring station, too, didn't you?

Talk or you're gonna grow fish gills!

You better start talking!

I can last longer at this than you can.

Jess, turn him loose!

Mort, he's one of them.

I told you to stay out of this.

You better stop him!

Jess, you cool off or I'm gonna lock you up, you hear?

I told you to leave them alone.

So what do you do? Start a brawl.

I didn't start anything!

All right, you handle it the way you want you.

Let them go free as birds.

But I'll tell you this, if it happens again,

you're gonna have cause to do more than just lock me up!

And you can count on that.

Pa, you--

you're taking care of that gun like you're gonna use it.

Just habit.

Why don't you call them off, Benson and the others?

Subject's closed.

Pa, I'll give you my word,

I'm gonna keep out of Harper's way.

What made you change your mind?

Couple of things.

One thing you never did was lie to me, boy.

Are you sure you can keep your word on that?

Sure, Pa.

I-- I know what it's been doing to you.

I know it's been killing you.

It's killing you every time you--

every time you think about

turning those three loose on Harper.

Pa, I know you did it for me.

And I just ain't worth it.

You are to me, son, and much more.

Now if you think you can keep that promise,

there's nothing I'd rather do than

ride into town right now and stop them...

if it's not too late.

You've got my word.

Good.

There's something else, Pa.

You're never gonna know unless I tell you,

but I just got to.

All right.

A couple of days before-- before he died,

Bill and me and some of the others,

we went to Willow Springs.

We were gonna--

[ horses approaching ]

Out of the way, boy.

I want to see your pa.

I'm glad you're here.

Is that so?

I want you to forget about Jess Harper.

That's the very reason we come over here.

You didn't kill him?

Well, not yet, but soon.

Well, I want you to leave him alone,

I've changed my mind about him.

Larry here has given his promise--

It's gotten kind of personal now, Mr. Blayne.

That's right.

We don't care why you changed your mind.

We're going west,

and we're gonna need some spending money.

Then you're wasting your time talking to me.

I'll ask you again real nice if that's what you want.

You put that gun down.

[ cocks gun ]

I said real nice.

Money is right there in the desk.

I seen Bill dip into it a few times.

We're in kind of a hurry.

You'll regret this.

Yeah, we'd regret it more leaving town with no money.

I'll have the law on you before you're 10 miles away.

It's not likely, not unless you want to tell the law

all about Willow Springs.

What about Willow Springs?

Oh, your son Bill and the rest of us.

Him, too, even though he just held the horses.

So we put the tap on the station agent

for some money.

And Bill killed one of his hands.

He told me he was just scaring him.

Billy killed?

So you tell Sheriff Corey about this,

and we'd have to tell him about the rest.

You're a liar.

Leave him be!

On our way through town

we'll give your respects to Harper.

Come on, boys.

How many has he had?

None.

He's been staring at the same one since he came in.

Mind if I sit a spell?

Go ahead.

What are you doing,

waiting on that stuff to evaporate?

I'm sorry, Mort.

You're planning to stay in town all night, Jess?

I shouldn't have popped off at you like I did.

Stay at my place if you like.

Front door will be open anytime you decide to turn in.

Uh, take them boots off, though.

I'm a light sleeper.

Thanks, Mort.

Goodnight, Millie.

Goodnight, Jess.

BENSON: Harper!

A man's lucky if he finds out

he's a fool before it's too late.

You sure it's not too late?

The only thing I'm sure of is

we all got to die sometime or another.

I don't want anybody dying on account of my problems.

I feel the same way.

This problem is good part mine.

You sure you ain't making no mistake, Mr. Blayne?

Could be.

You'll be making your last one if you touch that gun.

I guess that finishes it, Mr. Blayne.

A little late.

Not too late for Larry.

Yeah, at least not for Larry.

Well, now...

mighty domestic.

I get along just fine without your wisecracks.

Well, if you're not careful,

somebody is gonna up and marry you.

Slim, would you hang-- Oh, Jess, you're just in time.

Will you hang these up for me?

Oh, Daisy, I got--

If you want any dinner you'll have to help.

I've been house cleaning, way behind today.

You were saying?

Very funny.

And he got Benson and all of them,

all by himself with a little help from Mr. Blayne.

You said he was a sissy cat.

You'll see.

Slim, where's Jess?

Right over there.

Jess, this here is Tommy Bartlett.

Will you show him how you...

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