1 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:28,976 Stop worrying, Mr. Williams. 2 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,080 Nothing will happen to you. 3 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:31,060 The law's on your side. 4 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:15,536 Maybe we ought to give Blue Boy some sulfur 5 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,510 and molasses, Pa. 6 00:01:17,540 --> 00:01:18,546 Well, I think the doc will know 7 00:01:18,570 --> 00:01:19,536 best what to do for him, son. 8 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,490 He's a pretty sick colt. 9 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:22,600 I hope he does. He will. 10 00:01:22,630 --> 00:01:23,570 It's his business. 11 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,420 Doc sure must know his business, taking care 12 00:01:34,460 --> 00:01:36,530 of people and horses, both. 13 00:01:36,550 --> 00:01:37,580 Stop fretting, Mark. 14 00:01:37,620 --> 00:01:39,540 He must be on a call. 15 00:01:39,570 --> 00:01:42,560 Let's see if the marshal knows where he is. 16 00:01:42,580 --> 00:01:45,430 Do doctors have to go to school for a long time, Pa? 17 00:01:45,450 --> 00:01:46,536 As a matter of fact, they do, Mark. 18 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,596 Doctors, lawyers, judges, they all have a lot of schooling 19 00:01:48,620 --> 00:01:49,560 to do their jobs. 20 00:01:56,590 --> 00:01:58,530 What's wrong, Micah? 21 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,440 A man got bushwhacked outside of town. 22 00:02:00,470 --> 00:02:01,556 Doctor's seeing what he can do for him. 23 00:02:01,580 --> 00:02:02,610 Bushwhacked? 24 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,630 That's all open country. 25 00:02:05,420 --> 00:02:06,490 That's the puzzling part. 26 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,590 The shot seemed to come out of nowheres. 27 00:02:08,620 --> 00:02:11,460 The two deputies were taking him over the Silver City 28 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:12,760 to be a witness in a court trial. 29 00:02:16,460 --> 00:02:18,480 Not much medicine can do for a dead man. 30 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:20,140 Might as well open the jail door right now 31 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,560 and let Slade out. 32 00:02:21,590 --> 00:02:22,610 Slade Burrowes? 33 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,100 That's right. 34 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:26,590 Oh, Deputy Phil Rogers, Lucas McCain. 35 00:02:26,620 --> 00:02:28,440 His son Mark. 36 00:02:28,470 --> 00:02:29,486 Pleased to meet you, Mr. McCain. 37 00:02:29,510 --> 00:02:31,470 You were talking about Slade Burrowes. 38 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:33,450 That's the gunslinger, isn't it, Pa? 39 00:02:33,470 --> 00:02:34,510 That's right, son. 40 00:02:34,540 --> 00:02:36,560 You've heard of him, same as everyone else. 41 00:02:36,580 --> 00:02:38,550 Judge Marx at Silver City's been trying 42 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:41,420 for years to get a case that'd stand up against him in court. 43 00:02:41,450 --> 00:02:43,420 He had one, till he got killed. 44 00:02:43,450 --> 00:02:45,400 Oh? What did he have on him? 45 00:02:45,430 --> 00:02:47,610 A month back, Slade killed a man near Silver City. 46 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,396 But he claims he was visiting his brother in Arizona 47 00:02:50,420 --> 00:02:52,450 Territory at the time. 48 00:02:52,490 --> 00:02:53,970 This man was a witness to the killing. 49 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,430 Well, that's the same man, all right. 50 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:04,550 You know him? 51 00:03:04,580 --> 00:03:06,400 Micah, you remember last month, 52 00:03:06,430 --> 00:03:08,630 when I was over in Silver City on some cattle business? 53 00:03:09,420 --> 00:03:10,420 Well, I remember, Pa. 54 00:03:10,460 --> 00:03:12,600 That's the time I stayed overnight at Hattie's. 55 00:03:12,620 --> 00:03:14,500 That's right, son. 56 00:03:14,530 --> 00:03:16,536 Well, I saw this man riding with Slade and another rider 57 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,590 out near the Landon Ranch. 58 00:03:18,610 --> 00:03:22,560 That's where the killing took place, the Landon Ranch. 59 00:03:22,590 --> 00:03:24,410 Well, the third rider, I seem to recollect, 60 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,550 was an older man with a beard. 61 00:03:26,580 --> 00:03:29,560 That's Elijah Mattern, the man Slade killed. 62 00:03:29,590 --> 00:03:31,630 Mr. McCain, you've just cut Slade Burrowes Arizona 63 00:03:32,420 --> 00:03:34,480 alibi clean out from under him. 64 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:35,576 Looks like you're our new witness. 65 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,430 Now, look here, Deputy. 66 00:03:37,470 --> 00:03:38,790 You're rushing things a mite fast. 67 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,566 Why, he can place Slade near the... near the Landon 68 00:03:40,590 --> 00:03:41,596 Ranch right before the killing. 69 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:42,620 So could he. 70 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:44,500 Look what it got him. 71 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,420 Lucas, you wanna get mixed up in this? 72 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:52,570 When's the trial set for? 73 00:03:52,610 --> 00:03:53,550 This Friday. 74 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:02,490 I'll be there. 75 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,410 Well, there's nothing more I can do. 76 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:05,530 I'll see you gentlemen. 77 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,510 Son, let's go outside and tell Doc about Blue Boy. 78 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:11,630 Mr. McCain, Carl and I'll give you 79 00:04:12,420 --> 00:04:14,570 safe conduct to Silver City. 80 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,510 Well, if it's all the same with you gentlemen, 81 00:04:16,530 --> 00:04:19,580 I'll get there by myself. 82 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,620 We come to town to get Doc, But now 83 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:23,540 my pa's gonna be a witness. 84 00:04:23,580 --> 00:04:24,510 Witness? 85 00:04:24,540 --> 00:04:25,580 What for? 86 00:04:25,610 --> 00:04:27,570 Well, he's gotta go to Silver City. 87 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,450 What he knows is gonna hang Slade Burrowes. 88 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:31,530 Mark, where's Doc Burrage? 89 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,490 He's getting his hat and coat, Pa. 90 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:34,530 So long, Freddie. 91 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,400 That sure is something, your pa being a witness 92 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,430 against Slade Burrowes. 93 00:04:39,460 --> 00:04:40,566 You shouldn't have done that, son. 94 00:04:40,590 --> 00:04:41,570 What? 95 00:04:41,590 --> 00:04:44,490 Boast in that way about me testifying. 96 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,600 But everyone's heard of Slade Burrowes. 97 00:04:46,630 --> 00:04:48,420 And you're gonna see he gets strung up. 98 00:04:48,450 --> 00:04:49,590 Hold on now. 99 00:04:49,620 --> 00:04:50,596 I don't know whether I'm going to do anything of the kind. 100 00:04:50,620 --> 00:04:51,620 I saw something. 101 00:04:52,410 --> 00:04:54,420 It's up to me to get up in court and say so. 102 00:04:54,450 --> 00:04:55,566 I've always told you to tell the truth. 103 00:04:55,590 --> 00:04:57,460 That's all I'm gonna do. 104 00:04:57,500 --> 00:04:58,590 All righty, It's let's go. 105 00:04:58,620 --> 00:05:00,430 Oh yeah, Doc. 106 00:05:00,460 --> 00:05:02,500 Mark, you jump in the back and let Doc sit up there. 107 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:07,496 You wanna take care of this for me, Mark? 108 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:08,450 Sure. 109 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,550 Lucas McCain's one of the best liked men in North Fork. 110 00:05:17,580 --> 00:05:20,510 He's gonna make Judge Marx mighty happy. 111 00:05:20,550 --> 00:05:22,580 Sure, if he gets there alive. 112 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,460 The main thing, Mark, is to keep him warm. 113 00:05:35,490 --> 00:05:37,090 Try and stop him kicking off the blanket. 114 00:05:44,410 --> 00:05:46,600 What is it, Doc? 115 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,540 That's a pretty sick colt. Chance he won't pull through. 116 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:51,880 Blue Boy's pretty special to Mark. 117 00:05:55,460 --> 00:05:56,160 Come here. 118 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,590 Mark can get over losing a horse, but losing a father 119 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:06,510 is something else again. 120 00:06:06,530 --> 00:06:09,410 Whoever gunned that witness will be after you next. 121 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,440 I told 'em I'd go, Doc. 122 00:06:11,470 --> 00:06:13,500 What you have to say isn't that important. 123 00:06:13,530 --> 00:06:15,430 You didn't actually see anything. 124 00:06:15,460 --> 00:06:18,560 I saw Slade Burrowes. 125 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,410 What happens to Mark, something happens to you? 126 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,530 A man lives by certain principles, Doc. 127 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,400 You take those away, you might as well be dead. 128 00:06:27,430 --> 00:06:29,600 Well, sometimes principles have to bend a little. 129 00:06:29,630 --> 00:06:33,510 You start bending principles, they're not principles anymore. 130 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:35,860 Like the fellow who says he wants to be a little dishonest. 131 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,610 It just can't be done. 132 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,560 You're a darn fool, Lucas. 133 00:06:40,590 --> 00:06:42,510 Well, thanks, Doc, for coming out. 134 00:06:45,460 --> 00:06:46,560 Mark's a fine boy, Lucas. 135 00:06:46,590 --> 00:06:47,520 Real fine boy. 136 00:06:59,570 --> 00:07:01,010 What have you got for lunch, Freddie? 137 00:07:01,430 --> 00:07:03,400 A couple eggs, bread and butter. 138 00:07:03,430 --> 00:07:04,470 Cake. 139 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:06,590 Trade you a tomato for an egg. 140 00:07:06,620 --> 00:07:08,540 Sure. 141 00:07:08,580 --> 00:07:09,610 Know what my pa says? 142 00:07:09,630 --> 00:07:11,420 What? 143 00:07:11,460 --> 00:07:12,570 That your pa's going to Silver City, 144 00:07:12,590 --> 00:07:15,530 testify against Slade Burrowes. 145 00:07:15,570 --> 00:07:17,460 What about it? 146 00:07:17,490 --> 00:07:19,440 Says he's never gonna get there 147 00:07:19,470 --> 00:07:21,500 anymore than that last witness. 148 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,510 Nobody's gonna bushwhack my pa. 149 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:27,400 Your pa's no different than anyone else. 150 00:07:27,430 --> 00:07:29,470 Well, I know my pa, and if he says he'll get there, 151 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:30,450 he'll get there. 152 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,470 He'll get there in a pine box. 153 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:33,456 That's how he'll get there. 154 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,470 You take that back. 155 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:36,660 I'm not taking anything back. 156 00:07:40,410 --> 00:07:41,130 Come on, fight me. 157 00:07:52,460 --> 00:07:53,620 Ah, good to see you, Lucas. 158 00:07:54,410 --> 00:07:55,480 Hi, Toomey. 159 00:07:55,510 --> 00:07:56,590 Say, this is a nice working hinge. 160 00:07:56,610 --> 00:07:59,440 Well, the least I can do for that Slade Burrowes witness 161 00:07:59,470 --> 00:08:03,550 is not to slam the lid on him, put it down gently. 162 00:08:03,580 --> 00:08:06,580 Hinges are a lot better than getting nailed in. 163 00:08:06,610 --> 00:08:08,490 Saw your boy Freddie in town yesterday. 164 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,500 He's growing faster than the beanstalk. 165 00:08:10,530 --> 00:08:13,430 Your boy Mark's Freddie's best friend. 166 00:08:13,460 --> 00:08:15,430 Look, Lucas, while you're gone, the rest 167 00:08:15,460 --> 00:08:17,500 of us, Jenkins, Crown, March, and me, 168 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:19,580 we'll look at the ranch for you. 169 00:08:19,610 --> 00:08:22,460 Well, I'll only be gone a couple of days. 170 00:08:22,490 --> 00:08:23,536 Well, we just want you to know that we'll 171 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,460 keep an eye on things. 172 00:08:25,490 --> 00:08:26,430 Sure, Toomey. 173 00:08:26,460 --> 00:08:27,400 I know what you mean. 174 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:32,140 There you are. 175 00:08:37,550 --> 00:08:39,590 Afternoon, Hattie. 176 00:08:39,630 --> 00:08:43,540 Well, if it isn't the town hero, Lucas McCain. 177 00:08:43,580 --> 00:08:45,610 Now, don't you start on me, Hattie. 178 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,520 I just stopped by to see if you'd take care of Mark for me. 179 00:08:48,540 --> 00:08:50,600 Of course I'll take care of him. 180 00:08:50,630 --> 00:08:52,510 But you make me sick! 181 00:08:52,530 --> 00:08:53,480 Huh? 182 00:08:53,510 --> 00:08:54,620 You heard me. 183 00:08:55,410 --> 00:08:57,520 All day long, I see people here in this store, 184 00:08:57,550 --> 00:08:59,510 but that don't mean anything. 185 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:02,500 Come nighttime, I go home, what have I got? 186 00:09:02,530 --> 00:09:06,480 Nothing but a cat named Penelope that meows and claws 187 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:09,450 up my best overstuffed chair. 188 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,510 I got nothing and nobody. 189 00:09:11,530 --> 00:09:13,496 And there are a lot of other folks in this town that 190 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,440 are just as lonely as I am. 191 00:09:16,470 --> 00:09:17,596 Yet you don't find them gallivanting 192 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:19,500 off, risking their necks. 193 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:20,700 And they got nothing to lose! 194 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,490 And then there's you. 195 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,610 You got a fine son, and yet you just can't wait to let somebody 196 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,850 use you for target practice! 197 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,450 Everybody in North Fork's got me as good as buried. 198 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,530 Well, you can't fight what you can't see! 199 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,520 Loneliness is just about the hardest thing 200 00:09:41,550 --> 00:09:43,620 a person has to live with. 201 00:09:44,410 --> 00:09:46,530 I'd give anything to have that boy of yours for good, 202 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:50,550 but I happen to know how much parents mean to a kid. 203 00:09:50,580 --> 00:09:51,520 I should. 204 00:09:51,550 --> 00:09:54,400 I never had any. 205 00:09:54,430 --> 00:09:56,530 A man has certain principles, Hattie. 206 00:09:56,550 --> 00:09:57,590 I'm a woman, Lucas. 207 00:09:57,620 --> 00:10:00,570 Don't you talk to me about principles! 208 00:10:00,610 --> 00:10:03,480 Principles never tucked a boy into bed at night. 209 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:05,560 Or principles never washed behind his ears 210 00:10:05,590 --> 00:10:07,410 when he needed it! 211 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,600 But they're the only things that make a boy into a man. 212 00:10:14,510 --> 00:10:15,470 Thanks, Hattie. 213 00:10:30,460 --> 00:10:32,570 Mark, Mark? 214 00:10:53,450 --> 00:10:54,580 He's no better, Pa. 215 00:10:54,610 --> 00:10:57,460 He might not get better, son. 216 00:10:57,500 --> 00:10:58,860 You may just have to face up to it. 217 00:11:02,470 --> 00:11:05,400 I don't want you to go to Silver City, Pa. 218 00:11:05,430 --> 00:11:07,530 I know you don't, Mark. 219 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:09,410 Freddie's pa said you won't come back. 220 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:15,600 I say I will, Mark. 221 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,800 Now, let's get you to the well and get that face washed, huh? 222 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,450 Nice looking wooden kimono you got there. 223 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,456 Well, I figure a man deserves a little consideration when 224 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,580 he dies. 225 00:11:40,610 --> 00:11:42,600 Most of 'em get little enough while they're alive. 226 00:11:42,630 --> 00:11:45,420 Amen to that. 227 00:11:45,450 --> 00:11:47,500 You just riding through, Mister? 228 00:11:47,530 --> 00:11:50,410 No, I got some business to tend to in North Fork. 229 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,356 Good luck to you, Mister, during your stay here. 230 00:11:52,380 --> 00:11:53,320 Thanks. 231 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,626 World looks awful big and lonely at night, doesn't it, 232 00:13:47,650 --> 00:13:48,350 son? 233 00:14:13,860 --> 00:14:14,860 Mark, where are you? 234 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:15,600 I'm in here, Pa. 235 00:14:30,990 --> 00:14:33,940 Mark. Look, Pa. 236 00:14:33,970 --> 00:14:35,830 Blue Boy's eating. 237 00:14:35,860 --> 00:14:37,000 Well, that's fine, son. 238 00:14:37,020 --> 00:14:39,890 Say, whose horse is that outside? 239 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:40,950 Oh, that's Brad's. 240 00:14:40,990 --> 00:14:42,890 He's washing up out back. Brad? 241 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:43,910 Brad who? 242 00:14:43,930 --> 00:14:44,940 I don't know. 243 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,990 He's the one who fixed up Blue Boy. 244 00:14:47,030 --> 00:14:48,820 Brewed up something special for him. 245 00:14:48,860 --> 00:14:50,010 Oh? 246 00:14:50,030 --> 00:14:52,970 Awfully early for a stranger to be up doctoring someone else's 247 00:14:52,990 --> 00:14:54,010 horse. 248 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:55,960 He didn't come this morning, Pa. 249 00:14:55,980 --> 00:14:58,890 He slept in the barn last night. 250 00:14:58,930 --> 00:14:59,990 Oh. 251 00:15:00,010 --> 00:15:01,840 A man usually comes at the door to ask when 252 00:15:01,870 --> 00:15:03,020 he wants a night's lodging. 253 00:15:03,810 --> 00:15:05,800 What's the difference, Pa? 254 00:15:05,830 --> 00:15:07,006 Look how he's helped Blue Boy. 255 00:15:07,030 --> 00:15:09,850 Brad's my friend. 256 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,890 You act in haste, son, you repent in leisure. 257 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:14,820 What's that mean, Pa? 258 00:15:14,850 --> 00:15:18,870 It means it's best to make friends slowly, son. 259 00:15:18,890 --> 00:15:19,840 Good morning. 260 00:15:19,870 --> 00:15:21,930 Good morning. 261 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,800 I'm Brad Davis. 262 00:15:23,830 --> 00:15:26,820 I told Pa about how you helped Blue Boy, Brad. 263 00:15:26,850 --> 00:15:28,486 Well, I sort of have a way with animals. 264 00:15:28,510 --> 00:15:29,440 Yeah, I guess you have. 265 00:15:29,470 --> 00:15:31,510 We're grateful to you. 266 00:15:31,810 --> 00:15:33,466 You grateful enough to give a hungry man 267 00:15:33,490 --> 00:15:34,646 some breakfast, Mr. McCain? 268 00:15:34,670 --> 00:15:35,766 I... I sure could use some. 269 00:15:35,790 --> 00:15:36,570 Hey, me too, Pa. 270 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,030 Well, that makes three of us. 271 00:15:38,150 --> 00:15:39,100 Let's go. 272 00:15:45,890 --> 00:15:48,216 You got a good-sized spread to tend here alone, Mr. McCain. 273 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:49,140 Alone? 274 00:15:49,170 --> 00:15:51,990 There's two of us. 275 00:15:52,020 --> 00:15:54,000 Where are you heading for? 276 00:15:54,030 --> 00:15:56,910 Well, I thought I might find some work in Silver City. 277 00:15:56,940 --> 00:15:59,810 Heard in town you might be heading that way yourself. 278 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,020 Pa's gonna be a witness. 279 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,810 I told you not to go boasting about that, boy. 280 00:16:04,830 --> 00:16:06,110 When are you leaving, Mr. McCain? 281 00:16:06,810 --> 00:16:08,840 Maybe we could ride together. 282 00:16:08,860 --> 00:16:10,980 I don't rightly know, Mr. Davis. 283 00:16:11,010 --> 00:16:12,840 Come on, Brad. 284 00:16:12,860 --> 00:16:15,830 Let's see if Blue Boy will eat something. 285 00:16:15,850 --> 00:16:17,870 Thanks for breakfast. 286 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:19,936 You've gotta leave for school in 15 minutes, Mark. 287 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:20,930 Yes, Pa. 288 00:16:20,950 --> 00:16:21,970 He's a good boy. 289 00:16:21,990 --> 00:16:22,940 I think so. 290 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,940 You like your pa a lot, don't you, Mark, huh? 291 00:16:34,970 --> 00:16:35,950 I sure do. 292 00:16:35,980 --> 00:16:37,990 I love him very much. 293 00:16:38,020 --> 00:16:40,020 Well, your father is a brave man. 294 00:16:40,810 --> 00:16:42,890 I know, but I wish he wasn't going. 295 00:16:42,930 --> 00:16:45,870 Hey, I thought you were mighty proud of him. 296 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:49,960 I am, but, well, something might happen to him. 297 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,850 Well, do you love anyone, Brad? 298 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,840 Only person I've got's a brother. 299 00:16:54,870 --> 00:16:56,906 Well, you wouldn't want anything to happen to him, 300 00:16:56,930 --> 00:16:57,790 would you? No, Mark. 301 00:16:57,830 --> 00:16:58,870 I sure wouldn't. 302 00:16:58,990 --> 00:17:00,890 He looks out for me. 303 00:17:00,910 --> 00:17:01,810 I look out for him. 304 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,950 Oh, that's Micah, our town's marshal. 305 00:17:09,970 --> 00:17:12,210 Guess he wants to know when Pa's leaving for Silver City. 306 00:17:35,980 --> 00:17:37,980 Something wrong, Brad? 307 00:17:38,010 --> 00:17:39,810 No, no. 308 00:17:45,730 --> 00:17:48,700 Deputy Rogers figured it out and sent word over to me. 309 00:17:48,730 --> 00:17:50,010 That's how it must have happened. 310 00:17:50,220 --> 00:17:52,326 Whoever did the killing used a rifle with a telescope 311 00:17:52,350 --> 00:17:53,310 mounted right on it. 312 00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:55,300 That's quite an idea. 313 00:17:55,330 --> 00:17:58,230 I've heard about such guns, but I've never seen one before. 314 00:17:58,260 --> 00:18:01,270 A lot of 'em were manufactured back East, during the war. 315 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:02,860 Sharpshooters used 'em to pick off enemy 316 00:18:02,910 --> 00:18:04,940 officers a half mile and over. 317 00:18:05,270 --> 00:18:07,806 Out in this part of the country, they're scarce as hen's teeth 318 00:18:07,830 --> 00:18:08,590 now. 319 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:10,280 Well, at least I know what I'm up against. 320 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:11,300 You're still going? 321 00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:14,330 Well, a telescope's not much good at night, Micah, 322 00:18:14,350 --> 00:18:16,210 unless you're looking at the stars. 323 00:18:16,250 --> 00:18:18,280 Oh, you're going after dark? 324 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:20,220 Yeah, tonight. 325 00:18:20,250 --> 00:18:21,570 Micah, I want you to do me a favor 326 00:18:21,590 --> 00:18:23,290 and take Mark to Hattie's in the morning. 327 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:24,636 That way, I'll be in Silver City, 328 00:18:24,660 --> 00:18:25,980 and nobody'll know I've even left. 329 00:18:32,230 --> 00:18:33,310 Don't worry about the boy. 330 00:18:33,350 --> 00:18:34,240 Much obliged, Micah. 331 00:18:42,230 --> 00:18:43,250 Visitor? 332 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:44,640 No, just a stranger riding through. 333 00:18:51,210 --> 00:18:52,330 See you tonight, Lucas, boy. 334 00:19:23,380 --> 00:19:25,340 About time for school, isn't it, Mark? 335 00:19:25,370 --> 00:19:26,386 Go on, boy. Get your lunch. 336 00:19:26,410 --> 00:19:27,350 Go on. 337 00:19:35,250 --> 00:19:37,320 Something troubling you, Mr. McCain? 338 00:19:37,350 --> 00:19:39,210 Well, that's a pretty big rifle boot not 339 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,466 to have any gun at all in it. 340 00:19:40,490 --> 00:19:42,300 I sold the gun. 341 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,420 A man can always do with a little extra money. 342 00:19:45,210 --> 00:19:46,210 Maybe you didn't sell it. 343 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,370 What's that supposed to mean? 344 00:19:49,390 --> 00:19:52,400 I saw the stock of a rifle in that boot this morning. 345 00:19:52,420 --> 00:19:55,260 I don't think you had time to sell it between now and then. 346 00:19:55,290 --> 00:19:57,210 You're a very observant man, Mr. McCain. 347 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,250 Like I said, he's a nice boy. 348 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,260 You wouldn't want any harm to come to him, 349 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,320 so let's get him off to school. 350 00:20:06,350 --> 00:20:08,536 You'll stay a while and look after Blue Boy, won't you, 351 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:09,350 Brad? 352 00:20:09,380 --> 00:20:10,430 Sure he will, son. 353 00:20:11,220 --> 00:20:13,410 He's our friend, isn't he? 354 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:15,860 Now, you better get going. 355 00:20:15,890 --> 00:20:17,600 I don't want you to be late for school. 356 00:20:17,630 --> 00:20:18,670 Bye, Brad. Bye, kid. 357 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:24,996 Come back and see us again, Brad. 358 00:20:25,020 --> 00:20:25,870 I sure will, son. 359 00:20:29,650 --> 00:20:31,740 You handled that very smart, Mr. McCain. 360 00:20:36,830 --> 00:20:38,750 Now, there's no reason why this can't go back 361 00:20:38,780 --> 00:20:41,740 where it rightfully belongs. 362 00:20:42,170 --> 00:20:46,170 It's a Lyman Special, 10 power scope, 363 00:20:46,190 --> 00:20:51,030 full windage, elevation knobs. 364 00:20:51,060 --> 00:20:54,010 Optics are the best made in Europe. 365 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,056 I don't think there's more than three 366 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,360 like it west of the Mississippi. 367 00:21:00,180 --> 00:21:02,190 You don't need a telescope at this range, Mister. 368 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:03,220 What are you waiting for? 369 00:21:08,210 --> 00:21:10,210 Now, let's get to the barn and get you saddled up. 370 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,176 I'd rather have them think that you set out for Silver City 371 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,080 and got it on the trail same as the first witness. 372 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:19,166 What's Slade paying you for this, Mister? 373 00:21:19,190 --> 00:21:20,210 I don't kill for money. 374 00:21:20,230 --> 00:21:22,170 I got feelings, same as you. You got your boy. 375 00:21:22,190 --> 00:21:25,100 I got my brother, Slade. 376 00:21:25,130 --> 00:21:28,050 Brother or no, he's not much of a man to kill for. 377 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,320 I couldn't agree with you more. 378 00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:32,090 He's just downright mean. 379 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:34,110 That's one part about this that I don't like. 380 00:21:34,140 --> 00:21:36,060 Leaving that nice boy of yours without a father 381 00:21:36,090 --> 00:21:38,060 just for the likes of my brother. 382 00:21:38,090 --> 00:21:39,170 But he is my brother. 383 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,230 He looks after me. 384 00:21:41,020 --> 00:21:42,090 I look after him. 385 00:21:42,110 --> 00:21:43,230 It's an old family custom. 386 00:21:44,020 --> 00:21:44,986 Anyway, that kid of yours will grow 387 00:21:45,010 --> 00:21:46,056 up with or without you, McCain. 388 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,100 All kids do. 389 00:21:48,130 --> 00:21:49,170 And so that's how it is. 390 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,200 Now get in the barn. 391 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 We'll get you saddled up. 392 00:22:00,030 --> 00:22:00,730 Go on. 393 00:22:01,010 --> 00:22:02,140 Get your saddle over there. 394 00:22:11,100 --> 00:22:12,040 Brad! 395 00:22:55,170 --> 00:22:57,060 What brought you back, Mark? 396 00:22:57,090 --> 00:22:59,110 I got to thinking about what you said, Pa. 397 00:22:59,140 --> 00:23:00,160 What I said? 398 00:23:00,190 --> 00:23:02,130 Yeah, outside, when I was leaving for school. 399 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,170 Oh. 400 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,040 Oh, I was just trying to get you out of the way 401 00:23:05,070 --> 00:23:06,110 so you wouldn't get hurt. 402 00:23:05,930 --> 00:23:09,840 Before you told me "make friends slowly." 403 00:23:09,870 --> 00:23:12,850 Then you said, Brad's our friend. 404 00:23:12,870 --> 00:23:14,830 It just didn't add up. 405 00:23:14,860 --> 00:23:17,880 Well, I'm mighty glad it didn't. 406 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,010 Did he kill the first witness? 407 00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:21,960 That's right, Mark. 408 00:23:21,990 --> 00:23:23,960 Life sure is funny, Pa. 409 00:23:23,990 --> 00:23:26,840 How's that? 410 00:23:26,870 --> 00:23:31,900 How he can be so good to animals and so mean to people. 411 00:23:31,930 --> 00:23:34,010 That's a sign you're growing up, son. 412 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,890 What do you mean? 413 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,010 Well, Mark, the older you get, the more questions 414 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:40,560 don't have answers. 415 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:49,700 Oh, Lucas. 416 00:23:52,710 --> 00:23:54,810 Hattie fixed you a little something for the road. 417 00:23:55,610 --> 00:23:56,626 Keep it to the side of the saddle. 418 00:23:56,650 --> 00:23:58,650 It'll keep the soup from getting cold. 419 00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,630 Thanks, Micah. 420 00:23:59,650 --> 00:24:00,810 Take care of things, huh. 421 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,800 Mark and I got fishing plans for sun up tomorrow. 422 00:24:03,830 --> 00:24:05,780 Well, that's fine. 423 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,790 Goodbye, son. 424 00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:08,710 Bye, Pa. 425 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,620 I'll be back in a couple of days. 426 00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:17,630 I know you will, Pa. 427 00:24:17,660 --> 00:24:20,610 And don't forget to wash behind your ears, huh? 428 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,660 I will, Pa. 429 00:24:21,690 --> 00:24:22,630 Good boy.