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Jeb?

Jeb, where are you?

Oh, are you all right?

I'm all right.

I brought you some things,

some Manoli meal and beans and a good canteen.

Is that what kept you, getting those things?

I came as soon as I could.

I brought you a map too.

Look, if you work up north of the Glorietas,

you can hit the skin road.

- If I work north? - Yes Jeb.

What about you, where will you be?

I'm not going with you.

I knew it, as soon as you came in,

by the look on your face and the way you walked.

You've always been like that,

able to think with my thoughts and feel with my feelings.

But there's something that keeps us apart.

Oh Jeb, what happened to us?

Why did everything go wrong?

I don't know all of it, but I know some.

I've been thinking and figuring,

this is where it started,

this is where it's going to end.

You see that rise?

He'll be coming over that,

he'll come killing.

Come out, or we'll come in after you.

You hear it?

Jeb, honey, there's no one out there?

You're imagining it.

Not imagining, remembering,

putting together what happened,

what I guess must have happened.

Thor, it's all coming back strong and clear

and there's an answer in it.

There's something about me that explains everything.

Jeb, I don't understand?

I'm gonna make you understand.

I've got to, before they get here.

Do you know why I came to this place?

No Jeb, but it's not a good hideout.

They're sure to trail you here.

I came for another reason.

I was here before, long ago, I was a baby then.

I was scared the way only a kid can get.

I was in a dark, cold place.

I had my eyes closed to get away from some bad dream,

the same dream I've been having all my life.

I've never understood.

There were boots running, flashes.

Daddy, Daddy?

But my father wasn't there.

Instead, a strange woman was lying on the floor.

She crawled toward me.

That was the first time I saw your mother.

Get up, son.

No, Jeb, you can't go to sleep now.

Get your clothes on son, we're going away from here.

- Who is that? - That's Jeb Rand.

Now, pay attention Adam, and Thor,

this is Jeb, he's going to live with us.

Come on now, help your sister.

They've gone, every danged one of 'em.

They've moved away somewhere.

Grant, if you ride with that arm, you'll lose it.

I'll find them, if it takes me

to the end of my life.

The idea that I was hiding or running away

never quite died out.

It should have,

I guess, because the next seven years

I wasn't hiding.

Your ma was taking care of all of us,

and I was growing up with you and Adam.

Going to school, helping to build the house

on the new place we moved to,

Having the whole outdoors for a playground.

I had about stopped having nightmares

until one day, when I was about nine or 10.

Look Jeb, a little black chick.

I found him under the house.

What's the matter with you?

You know what's the matter,

you shot that colt.

Shot what colt? Are you crazy?

Ma!

Jeb, stop!

Stop!

Mom, Mom, they're fighting again, Ma.

Now, stop that fighting boys.

Stop that fighting,

now stop it.

Stop that fighting boys.

Thor, pump some water.

Now stop it, come on boys,

Now stop that fighting, come on.

Stop that then, Adam, Jeb.

- Now, what's it all about? - He shot the colt.

- I didn't. - You did so.

You mean somebody shot our colt?

Said it was his, he said I couldn't ride it,

but I rode it anyway.

He took a shot at it, or maybe me, I don't know.

But anyway, he killed the colt.

No, somebody may have killed him, but it wasn't Adam.

He's been here all morning, greasing the buckboard.

You say somebody took a shot at you?

Who could it have been, Ma?

Well, I don't rightly know.

Matter of fact, there were some deer hunters hanging around.

Yes sir, they asked me if they could hunt

down on the south fence and I told 'em, yes.

You go and get your supper off the stove

and no more fighting.

You gonna see those men, Ma?

That's right, you put that wheel back on.

So you found us.

You covered up your trail pretty well.

As soon as the boy told me somebody tried to kill him,

I knew it was you.

Being a lawyer hasn't done your shooting any good, Grant.

Yeah, maybe losing this some years ago

didn't help any either.

You owe me for a colt.

Doggone critter was too lively.

When he crow-hopped, he spoiled my aim.

You can't start it all over again, Grant, I won't let you.

You're getting kind of uppity, ain't you?

He's a Rand.

I knew it the first minute I laid eyes on him.

He brought to mind that you was married to my brother.

And the score still isn't settled for his death.

And you lost a brother, I lost a husband.

I don't want any more vengeance for him.

I never figured that you would.

That's why I swore that I'd kill every Rand on earth,

and he's the only one left.

How in tarnation did you get him?

Let's say the Lord gave him to me.

Let the boy alone, Grant, he's innocent.

That night ended it for him.

A night like that don't have an end.

What happened to him there will make him do things just,

just like spirits were whispering in his ear,

saying, kill, kill, you've got to kill.

Spirits may talk to you, but they won't to him.

I don't believe in your spirits.

Yes, maybe not, but someday you'll wish

I hadn't missed my shot today, down in the draw.

That's one day that'll never come.

He's a good boy, I love him like my own son.

What makes you think that boy loves you?

Well, I'll go back to Santa Fe.

I swear I think I'll leave that Rand alone,

let him grow up, just to see what happens to you

when he's big enough to start asking questions.

Don't forget your money for the colt.

Thanks for reminding me.

This will help me bring him up.

Did you you find them, Ma?

Did you talk to them?

Them? Why, sure I did.

It was them deer hunters, all right, they shot the colt.

Put the team up, Adam, and feed them.

You help him, Thor.

Come in the house with me, son,

I want to talk to you.

Jeb, how much do you remember about coming to live with us,

about the night I brought you here?

- You must remember something? - Not much.

You can tell me, Jeb.

I get mixed up when I think about that.

I remember flashes, and boots running.

You know your parents are dead,

that's why I took you in.

- Yes ma'am. - But you don't remember them?

No ma'am.

Sometimes I try to think about it.

I don't know, my head hurts.

It gets all blurred.

Sometimes, the Lord protects us

by letting us know only what's needful.

What you don't remember doesn't matter.

You belong here with us now.

Don't ask questions of the past, it has no answers for you.

Grow up strong in the love that's here for you.

As long as you love in return, nothing can happen.

And you do love us, don't you, Jeb?

I'm sorry I started the fight.

Well, son, after today,

you boys won't have anything to fight about.

Adam, Thor, come here.

Now, pay heed to me, you children.

I'll have no more arguments

as to who owns what on this ranch, colts or anything else.

Everything we have, or ever will have,

belongs to you three from this day on.

You mean, everything has to be that way?

Yes Adam, have you any objection to that?

Not for Thor and me, but I have for outsiders.

There are no outsiders here.

You three are together, you yourselves

are the best and finest thing there is, a family.

You promise not to forget that.

I mean all three of you.

All right, Thor, stop scratching.

Go in the house and get some coal oil,

put it on those chiggers.

Adam, you find the sheep scissors,

I'm gonna cut yours, and Jeb's hair tonight.

Jeb, we've always called you by your right name, Rand.

Would you like to use our name instead?

If you don't mind, I'd like to use my own name, Jeb Rand.

Alright Jeb.

You know how it was after that,

Ma's idea worked

like she wanted, pretty near.

Anyhow, we seemed more like a family,

we were close, the four of us.

That lasted for a long time.

It lasted until that day I rode into town.

Detail halt!

Right face!

About face!

Order arms!

What's all this shouting and drum beating about?

Ain't you heard?

The territory's fighting Spain,

and it looks like we're going to have

a real shooting war too.

- Hi Jeb. - Morning Doctor.

Hello Prentice, it's quite some excitement

- you've got around here. - Sure is,

gotta beat them Spaniards.

Sure wish I could fight, but Dad won't let me.

Meaning I won't lie about his age so he can join.

I fought in one war,

he don't know what he's staying out of.

Here's your mail, Jeb.

- Thanks Ben. - That dress

and petticoat Thor sent for came in.

Hope it's what she wanted, I've been keeping it for her.

She'll be obliged to you.

I'll tell her I saw you.

How's my credit Ben, I need some tobacco?

Never heard anything wrong

with the credit of the Callum ranch.

Thank you.

- Mr. Rand? - Yes?

I heard him mention the Callum ranch.

I'm a state provost down here to supervised recruiting.

See, every outfit around about here is sending in

a quota, one man apiece to fight the Spaniards.

I was sort of interested to see

if anyone was coming in from your ranch?

Well, I guess this is what you mean, sir.

- Came a little late. - Some of the outfits

are sending in every danged rider they've got.

Except the aged and unfit.

Well, we'll let you know tomorrow which one it's gonna be,

me or my brother Adam, is that soon enough?

I guess so, unless you'd like the pleasure

of riding home tonight and telling the folks

you've just joined up?

Fill this out and sign it,

hand it in when you report.

If I'm the one that reports,

if not, Adam will have to do it.

Give me two.

Provost seems bound and determined

to get you into this war.

Sort of appeared that way to me too.

Who is that fellow anyway?

What's his name?

Heck, I figured you knew him.

Ain't he some kind of kin of yours?

No kin of mine, I have no kin.

Well, his name's Callum, just the same.

There's a whole slew of 'em up north.

Halt. Order arms.

The recruits are ready to be sworn in, is that right boys?

Yeah.

Raise your right hands.

Repeat after me, I as citizen of the United States

do solemnly swear.

I as citizen of the United States

do solemnly swear.

That I will bear true faith and allegiance

to the United States of America.

That I will bear true faith

and allegiance to the United States of America.

Is that package for me?

Yes, the dry goods you ordered.

Oh good, maybe it's my dress.

- Hey Adam? - Hello?

When you finish up there, come on in the house.

I got some business to talk over with you.

Alright.

What is it?

As a soldier in the volunteer army

of the United States of America for a period of two years,

unless sooner discharged by-

Yes, the first company's leaving in the morning.

I told 'em we'd let 'em know by then.

It's not fair, why can't they get soldiers

from the big ranches where there're plenty of riders?

Can't be helped, Sis, them Spaniards has to be beat.

I won't let either of you go.

I'll ride in town and explain to them,

we need both of you here.

Well, you can only keep one of us at home, Sis.

But you can help pick which one it's gonna be.

That's a job I don't want.

Should we tell Ma or decide without her?

Decide for ourselves, I say, tell her after.

Well Ad, what do you say?

How are we gonna settle it?

I'm agreeable to anything you suggest.

Alright, I'll draw numbers with you,

run you a race or cut cards.

That would be your way of deciding it,

this isn't a game, it's serious.

I'm serious.

How about a toss? That's the quickest.

That's fine with me.

Then let me toss it.

Flip it high.

It's tails, Ad goes.

Heads, it's Jeb.

It's heads, Jeb, you're the one.

It was a fair toss.

So be it.

Well, there's no use stalling around any longer.

Adam, will you cut out a horse for me?

Sure.

I'll get going tonight.

Better go to Ma now, and tell her.

Don't let anything happen to you, Jeb.

Couldn't stand that, if anything happened to you.

Nothing's gonna happen, Ma.

I'll come back.

Why sure, I know you will.

One of you had to go, perhaps it's best this way.

Goodbye Jeb.

Goodbye Ma.

- Goodbye Jeb. - So long.

- Come home, Jeb. - Until I do,

maybe you'd like this for a keepsake.

I guess it sort of slipped outta your hand.

Right through the window too.

It didn't slip, I threw it.

I don't blame you.

You wanted to keep Adam here so you lied about the toss.

I wanted to lie, but I didn't.

If I had, it would've been to keep you here, not Adam.

You felt that way too?

Same way I felt.

I was supposed to be your sister.

That's how it's been ever since we were kids.

Only I stopped being your sister,

and you've never been my brother.

I had to go on every day, pretending,

watching you all day, letting you touch me.

At night, going in my room, lying there thinking about you.

I wish I had lied.

I wish I'd cheated about the toss and kept you here.

- Wait for me. - You know I will.

I'll leave him at the Ace High livery stable,

you can pick him up in the morning.

So long, give them Spaniards heck for me.

I'll do that.

C'mon!

- Feel any better? - I feel all right.

Well, I don't know whether you were lucky or not,

you were sure dreaming something.

I've heard a lot of fever chatter my time.

Don't bother with 'em much when it's concerned with war,

but yours was different.

Seemed to come from way back somewhere when you were a kid.

What'd I say?

Something about boots, flashes of light.

Somebody hurt or killed.

Does that mean anything to you?

I don't know, but you gotta tell me what I said, Doc.

Every word, I wanna know.

Don't upset yourself.

Your fever's gone and the nightmares with it,

wherever they came from.

That leg is gonna get you home.

Home?

Stage is in.

No, no, provost wants to pay for it.

Oh, thank you sir, for the treat.

It's a pleasure to treat a man

who takes so little interest in today's occasion.

See, personally, I too, have small interest

in a doggone hero.

Oh, we think a great deal of Jeb out at the ranch.

Too bad they don't have a brass band

for a good cattle tally.

Understand you've been doing a fine job out there?

I don't believe I know your name, sir.

It's the same as yours, Callum.

I'm the prosecutor at Santa Fe.

We're kin, you know?

I'm glad to make your acquaintance.

Listen to that.

The ladies deprecate killing,

but my, how they admire a war hero.

Jeb, you know, comes by his instincts naturally,

he inherited them.

Is that so?

I don't believe I ever talked to anyone

who knew Jeb Rand's kin folk.

Sometime, take a little ride for yourself

up into Glorieta township,

and see what the records have to say

about a family named Rand.

Good luck.

For this meritorious and exceptional action,

I now award you the medal of honor

of the United States of America.

It's good to see you, Ma.

My, you're looking fine.

- Hello Thor. - Hello, Jeb.

- Welcome home, Jeb. - Thank you Adam,

glad to be home.

Come on, ride up here with me.

Let's get on out to the ranch.

Once you're sleeping in your own bed

and eating at your own table, Jeb,

maybe you'll forget all about the killing

and shooting the general talked so much about.

I don't have to forget it, Ma.

Never think about it.

Hup.

I was saving this for Thanksgiving.

I guess we're having a kind of Thanksgiving anyway.

Thank you.

Welcome to my son, Jeb.

Thank you, Ma.

To you, Jeb,

and you must drink to me.

It would be fitting to have some music.

Remember boys, "Londonderry Air?"

Why, you used to sing it.

Yes, Jeb, you'll find changes, and good ones too.

We got four new sections

of the richest filaree you ever saw.

I guess any kinda cattle talk's kinda boresome

after you've been away from it for a while.

Like a fellow said to me today,

"they don't play brass bands for cattlemen."

Speaking of cattle Jeb, you're entitled to read this tally.

You'll find all the operations in here writ down,

clear and legal.

Oh, I don't have to read Ad, I can trust your tally.

Well, it's there for you to see.

I've got your share all marked off,

I call it the Rand share.

Sit down, Ad, won't you have some more coffee?

No thanks.

Well, it's been a big day.

One day is the same as another to me,

I gotta be in the saddle at sun up.

- Goodnight Ma. - Goodnight son.

- Goodnight. - Goodnight Adam.

I'll finish up these few things, Ma.

- Now Thor, you needn't- - You go along.

Well, all right, I'm all tuckered out.

Goodnight, Jeb.

Goodnight Ma.

All these trips to town tire me out.

Jeb.

You know something?

- What? - There's a moon out.

Wait, I'll get my shawl.

Jeb?

Jeb sweetheart, is something wrong?

Thor, we ought to go away.

- We will. - I mean, right now, tonight,

let's hitch up a horse and not tell anyone.

We'll wake up a preacher over in town and make him marry us.

You know I'll marry you.

What are we waiting for?

I want you to come court me.

I know that seems silly when we grew up together,

but I wanna pretend we didn't.

That's why you've got to come sparking me.

Do you mind?

You can get dressed up real fashionable, so will I.

I'll have two chairs out in the gallery.

I'll bring out some lemonade, we'll sit there and talk.

You can ask me if I'll let you smoke and I'll say yes.

I'll have a piece of sewing.

What will we talk about?

Oh, sort of parlor talk.

The words will be like stitches we're sewing,

pulling our lives together.

After a while, you can hold my hand.

You're not supposed to kiss me till you bought a ring.

Oh Jeb, can you understand?

Can you see it my way?

Thor, I've never belonged here.

I don't know why.

I always have a feeling something's after me.

It's a bad feeling I can't explain.

Lots of times I'm happy, but it's still there.

Thor, I've gotta be with you.

We've got to have a chance,

let's get away before something happens, please sweetheart.

We're gonna get married, Jeb.

We're not gonna spend the rest of our lives

doing crazy things because you think

something's gonna happen.

We're not gonna run away at night

like a couple of stagecoach robbers.

I love you Jeb, but if we're gonna get married,

can it be the way I say,

please sweetheart?

I only hope it turns out that way.

After that I had to be alone and think things out.

We hadn't really quarreled

and yet, somehow we had.

It seemed as if we couldn't understand each other anymore.

One day I rode up in the butte country,

came straight to this place just as if I'd known the way.

There was something in my life as ruined as that house.

That house was myself.

I'd seen it a million times before,

the fireplace, the trap door.

Out back there was some cattle bones.

And then as I walked around the side,

I came on some unmarked graves.

All of a sudden I couldn't breathe.

If that house was me,

what part of me was buried in those graves?

Some folks has me beat,

when there's work to be done

that's the time they decide to go riding

all over the countryside.

Honey, I was worried about you.

We didn't know where you were.

I'm sorry, I just took a little ride.

How long since you've had something to eat?

I don't know, but I'm not hungry.

I'll fix you some coffee.

That'll be fine,

right now I wanna see Ma.

You got no more sense than a duck.

Well, I had sense enough to come home.

Why, Thor was fit to be tied, worrying over you.

I was sort of worried myself, I got halfway lost.

I strayed away up in that rimrock country,

up Bear Paw butte way.

Bear Paw butte?

Now, what crazy thing made you do that?

You and Thor have a nip up?

Thor had nothing to do with my going.

I wanna ask you something Ma.

I've been wondering about that old ranch up there.

Well, a paddy goat couldn't live in that range.

A burro would starve.

People lived there once though,

you know the ranch I mean?

I just remember, seems to me there was

someplace up there long ago.

Seems to me I've been there before?

Ma Callum, does that ranch have to do with me?

Don't ask me questions, Jeb.

Did I come from there as a boy?

Is that where you took me from all those years ago?

Is that why I remember it?

I told you not to look backward, look ahead.

I obeyed you, I've lived like you said.

All my life I've known I didn't really belong here.

I couldn't love, I couldn't return your kindness.

Is there something the matter with me?

I wanna understand, Ma, you've gotta tell me.

There's nothing the matter with you, Jeb.

That ranch might mean more to me than it does to you,

anyway, I get upset talking about it.

A person's gotta find his own answers.

We're alone, each of us, and each in a different way.

I won't be alone, I'm gonna marry Thor.

I want you to.

But when you do, you've got the future to live for.

I've got the past to live with too.

My children will have to live with it.

Now stop vexing me, Jeb Rand.

I'm giving you my daughter for your wife,

isn't that enough for you?

Doesn't that show you that you're loved?

Go away from me with your doubts and your Bear Paw butte

and your crazy long rides.

Leave off vexing me.

You told me once not to question you,

but the questions keep coming back.

If you won't answer me,

I'll have to look somewhere else for the answer.

Going out Jeb?

I thought I go and see if Mr. Dingle's faro game

is still as crooked as ever.

- Good idea. - What'd you say?

I said it was a good idea.

How'd you like to take two or $3,000 along,

stake you in the game?

Maybe one of us is crazy but I don't seem to follow you?

The tally book would've made it kind of simple

if you'd taken the trouble to read it.

That's why I gave it to you when you came home.

Only now, we got this year's crop added.

Two or 3000 would be no more than your share of the profits,

a third to each of us, the way Ma wants it.

That's mighty generous, more than I deserve,

- least ways expected. - Thanks.

Here's something else you don't know.

All the time you were in the army,

we've been banking money for you.

$1,500.

Just one thing wrong with it, Jeb,

that money came out of the ranch and you didn't earn it.

I've been working my share and yours too,

I don't aim to keep on doing that.

I never asked you to.

No, but you never tried to help me either.

Your foot's been well for a month

and you've been drawing that money for lying in the shade.

I was lucky if I didn't have six of my riders

stretched out alongside you, playing pitch.

Oh sure, I know you were a hero once,

but I've had my belly full of that too.

You don't pay off in medals around here.

It was too bad I came home at all.

If I hadn't, you'd have had the ranch and the tally money

and my share of everything, all yourself.

You know this share and share alike

doesn't set any better with me than does with you.

I'm thinking the same way you are.

This ranch isn't big enough to hold the two of us.

There's a way we can settle that.

Jeb, you promised me there'd be no trouble.

I want to hear what he has to say.

How can we settle it?

I'll buy you out.

Suppose I don't wanna sell?

Then you buy me out.

Now, you know I can't do that.

Adam, please.

Jeb, don't say anything more.

Won't you do that much for me?

Thor, you keep outta this.

Well, what's your notion if you don't like mine?

When I went to war, we settled with a toss.

I kept this.

Maybe if it suits you, we can spin it again.

There might be some luck in it for me this time.

I'll toss you, my share against yours.

One of us stays, one goes.

Oh, you can't, or you either.

It's wrong and crazy.

Ever since we were little we've all been here together,

the three of us.

This is no way to change it if it's gonna be changed.

- One toss. - You wanna spin it?

Adam, I beg you and you Jeb, don't do it.

- Winner take all. - One toss.

- Call it. - Heads.

Might have known that cartwheel was bad luck,

I'll be riding in town.

I'll hire a rig tomorrow and come back for my things.

No you won't, you ain't got no things,

excepting what you're wearing.

And this.

Tomorrow I'm coming back,

you're coming with me.

If he tries to stop me, I'll kill him.

Ma will never let you do this.

Maybe she'll have to.

Then I'll go with him in the morning,

when he comes, I'll be ready.

You'd never, not if it meant leaving the ranch.

The ranch isn't everything to me, it isn't a husband.

How can a ranch be a husband, you're talking crazy.

It's been a wife to you Adam,

because you don't have a wife.

You just have the ranch.

Well, I don't belong to it.

You can take me off that dog-eared tally book

you carry around.

You hate me then?

I love you.

I always thought the three of us would never be apart.

Three, three,

you're always saying that.

But why does he count?

It's you and me.

Now you're the one that's talking crazy.

I want a home of my own.

Grant Callum knew him, knew his people too.

Told me to look up the records in Glorieta County.

- And did you? - Sure I did,

and I found something.

A family named Rand did live there once,

I found out enough for me,

the reason why I'll never let you marry him.

I don't care what your reason is.

You're talking like a back fence gossip.

Do you think that kind of talk means anything to me?

Nothing in the world can change the way I feel.

I always knew you cared for him.

I guess I never knew how much.

Looks as if we're gonna have to set things right.

You'll go after him then?

You'll ride in town and bring him back?

I'll do it, I'll ride in town tonight.

Mr. Dingle, can you take this man's I owe you?

Yes, I'll take it.

- Now, throw him out. - Yes.

Wait a piece.

Hey, you can't do this to me,

keep your hands off me, will you?

Get off me.

What's the matter Jake,

don't you take money in here anymore?

Any money you put on this bar is counterfeit.

I'm saving you for the wheel.

Did you run into a fellow who nearly convinced you?

He tried.

You know I flipped this dollar twice with Adam,

I lost both times.

Last time I went to war, this time I left the ranch.

You left the ranch? You mean that?

Maybe you played into a cold deck?

Well, I guess it's all for the best.

Oh sure, a man's luck is bound to change sometime.

But you appear lucky to me.

Don't you want some action for this dollar?

It's kind of a keepsake.

Ah, well, many a man's been down to his last dollar

before the change does come.

I guess you just want this dollar.

All right, go ahead and take it.

Hey Jeb, you won.

- Let it ride. - Oh no,

too many angles to this game.

I'd rather play poker.

You've had a run of good luck Jeb,

why don't you pull out?

Oh, once more.

Oh brother, luck's sure riding on your shoulder.

Probably clean this place up.

Oh, I've got a feeling you're through.

Well, I've got about $1,500 here

that says you've got a wrong feeling.

Joe, get me a new deck.

Well, there it is.

And I'll tell you what I'd do with that money if I were you.

Don't tell me, let me guess.

Well, I'd buy into this business.

I'll sell you a piece of it.

- You don't mean that. - Yes I do.

- You know why? - Why?

Well, because people trust you,

and I'm just honest Jake Dingle.

You know, I might take you up on that.

I'll be looking for a business by-and-by.

Well, you think it over and let me know.

We'd make a great combination, you and myself.

And if you do come in,

I'll teach you how to handle cards,

it don't hurt anything.

- Goodnight. - Goodnight partner.

And take good care of that money.

Adam?

Now, let us continue.

I disagree with the learned coroner.

I still maintain we're a legal body, properly impaneled.

Sit down Grant,

this is my hearing, I don't need no county prosecutor

to tell me how to run it.

Furthermore, since it so happens,

said prosecutor's name is Callum.

Well, I wouldn't wanna say it's prejudice

'cause I'm clean-minded, I am.

It's my duty to see the law administered,

regardless of family or anything else.

Gentlemen, I swear from the bottom of my heart

I never felt more like quitting my job than right now,

because I well know what this case may cost a family.

A sorrowing mother and sister,

who have already lost one son, one brother.

If my guess is right, may lose another to the law.

Miss Callum, on the night in question,

did you witness a quarrel between your brother and Jeb Rand?

Yes I did.

And did you hear the accused

utter any threat with regard to Adam?

Yes.

You may repeat what you heard.

Jeb said he was coming back next day to get me,

to take me with him and marry me.

He said if Adam tried to stop him, he'd kill him.

Thought you fellers might like a spot of tea.

Now, sir, now here's the size of it.

Here's two men that had no use one for each other,

all that's been testified,

but that ain't what we're here to decide.

It looks like Jeb shot him down like Grant said.

Hold your horses, I'm against that.

Grant's word against Jeb, the way I see it.

Well, Jeb never was no murder.

I figure there's plenty of doubt on both sides.

The heck, you say.

Nobody could get along with Ad Callum.

Well, let's get something done,

I gotta get home and look after my stall.

Shut up!

You fellers saw the general pin a medal on Jeb.

He weren't decorating no ambusher,

but a man that fought fair and square for his country.

It don't stand to reason that a man that shot down

a dozen fellas in battle would shoot down

his own brother without giving him a chance?

If he had to drill him, he'd do it right.

Uh, uh, uh, and if he'd done it right

then it ain't no killing, but a lawful fight.

And hereabouts we ain't so danged uncivilized

a man can't win a lawful fight

without getting his neck in a noose for it.

Pass the tea.

Can I speak to you before you go Mrs. Callum?

I know you don't hold with the verdict of the jury,

but it was fair.

I never murdered Adam.

You'll be shorthanded at the ranch.

If you'll permit me,

I'd be happy to come back and help you out.

I make this offer most sincerely.

Get away from me Jeb Rand.

I know how you must feel about me,

but I was hoping that in time I could change that.

It's too late to change anything.

Mother, let's go.

No, I'll have my say.

You may have cleared yourself in there, but not with me.

For me, you're walking up the gallow steps.

I built that gallows, I tied the noose.

All the love I had for you is dead.

Stay out of my sight.

If you cross my section line,

I'll set the dogs on you.

Is that the way you feel?

You'd made pretty clear how you felt

so that fall I put in with Jake.

I found out how dull gambling could be

when you stood on the other side of the table.

Once or twice that year I got some news about you.

How you'd been sick,

how you were living out at the ranch and not seeing anyone.

I watched for you to come into town, but you never did.

It was fall again before I heard young Prentice,

the storekeeper's son was taking you and your mother

to the dance.

Would you like a glass of punch?

- I'd love it. - Excuse me then.

Yes.

And now ladies and gentlemen,

the next will be the varsoviana.

May I have the pleasure?

Please go away.

Better dance or people will look at you.

I'd rather have people look at me

than dance with somebody I hate.

What a coward you are.

A coward wouldn't have come here to dance with you.

Now, hold it, hold it.

Alright folks, that's enough of a slow dance.

Here's a chance to swing your lady

so get your partners for a chicken reel.

Hooray!

Uh, uh, you saw Thor dancing with Jeb, didn't you?

Well, yes.

Come on son, let's you and I have a little talk.

Now, he forced her.

Jeb Rand, the man she hates most in the world,

forced her to dance with him.

I was getting her some punch-

You're escorting her this evening, aren't you?

- Yes sir. - Would you bring her here

so that she could be insulted?

No sir, I wouldn't let that happen.

Well, it's happened.

What are you gonna do about it?

Pardon us gentleman.

Mr. Callum, all this started long ago.

It isn't my fight.

Then you're not the man I took you for.

I'll do what's right.

If you let him get away with it,

she'll never speak to you again.

Did she say that?

If she didn't, she's thinking it.

And there's something else she's thinking of,

it's the death of her brother.

Mr. Callum, sir, I'm not much good with a gun.

Maybe you'll have some help.

Go up the alley.

If he's in the Honest Wheel,

you'll find him in the back room.

Shoot through the window.

No sir, I can't do that.

But I'll make him come out to me.

What's the matter Jake, couldn't you find any partners?

You found one you shouldn't have, Thor.

Young Prentice is coming over after you for it.

Prentice?

He's on his way over here now.

Get the drop on him Jeb, go on out front.

First Adam, now Prentice.

Man, you gotta get going.

I don't wanna get the drop on him, Jake.

What are you gonna do?

Step out in the alley and make myself scarce.

- Mr. Rand. - What do you want?

I've come because of what you did to Thorley.

Now, go on home Prentice, I don't wanna hurt you.

Defend yourself Mr. Rand.

I wouldn't try that if I were you, Grant.

Let's get him in the office.

I did it for Thorley.

I'm sorry Prentice.

It was self-defense, just as they said.

Yet he was one more part of the mystery of people hating me.

Now I saw the boots of the pall bearers, flashes of light.

I had that feeling of some lost and awful thing

come over me again.

I wasn't sure whether killing Prentice was my fault,

whether it was due to some badness locked up in me.

But I was sure of my love for you.

That was the only hope and the only answer.

If love could come out of all this,

we might still have some chance, we might live.

Right then, I knew I had to have you.

I'd have to climb across two graves to get you,

but nothing in the world would hold me back.

Who's that coming?

It's Jeb Rand.

He's coming to call on me.

Jeb Rand, calling on you?

I knew he'd come.

I've been expecting him.

You have no right to expect him, much less to see him.

I'm asking him in.

I'm sorry to have kept you waiting,

won't you come in?

Thank you.

It's kind of you receive me.

Please sit down.

Thank you.

Would you like some coffee?

I don't wanna put you to any trouble.

Oh, it's no trouble,

we were just going to have some.

I'm sorry we have nothing else to offer.

In this house, all we have is a little wine,

that's just for Christmas and holidays.

Seems to me I remember something about that wine.

That's a music box Ma had sent from Santa Fe.

I know, it plays the "Londonderry Air."

It's an old fashioned tune.

Some people don't care for it.

May I smoke or would that annoy you?

No, of course not.

This is a sampler I'm making, I'm not very good at it.

Here we are courting,

just the way you asked me to, long ago.

It was all different, you sitting there,

me smoking, you sewing.

Just like any ordinary people.

It's worse than fighting and yelling in the street.

Don't you want your coffee?

No, thank you.

Perhaps later.

Why don't you sit down in the comfortable chair?

Company always uses that one.

I tried to figure out what crazy game

you were playing with me and I couldn't.

But I knew I'd play it out with you, right to the end.

- Am I seeing things? - Well, I declare.

Good night Jeb.

I'll see you tomorrow?

Of course.

Thor.

Thor, come here.

- What is it? - Come closer.

Turn the lamp up.

That's right, I wanna look at you.

I haven't changed Mother.

What have I taught you

that showed you how to bring dishonor on us?

I've brought you no dishonor.

Jeb gave me this tonight,

I'm going to marry him, Mother.

What's in this that I don't understand?

Do you love him then?

I have only one thought every minute of my life,

how much I hate him.

But you wear his ring?

If I were a man, I would've killed him long ago,

after Adam's death.

Then he killed Prentice and came courting me.

All of a sudden killing wasn't enough,

I had to have more, much more

to use up all the hate I have in me.

Thor, I'll sell this place, I'll go away.

I won't stay here and see this thing happen.

Perhaps that may be best,

you go away for a while.

We'll be together again soon.

No woman ever lived who could go through

with what you are planning.

No woman but me,

because it's taken all my life to teach me what he is.

He put shame and grief on us.

And now, he'd like to squeeze out

the last drop of it by having me.

He wants me, and I'll marry him.

That moment when he thinks he has me, he'll lose everything.

'Cause that's when I'm going to kill him.

- For richer, for poorer. - For richer, for poorer.

- In sickness and in health. - In sickness and in health.

- Until death do us part. - Until death do us part.

What made you do that?

I don't know, such fine young folks,

and nobody at the wedding.

I have a surprise for you, I bought you a house.

Alright Charlie.

Well, now you've seen it, that's why I sent for you.

Being as we're all Callums here,

I don't have to tell you what we're going to do about it.

Sure don't, you'll get yourself in trouble,

- and us too. - Yeah.

Times have changed since all this started, Grant.

You can't ride herd on the law no more.

You telling me about the law?

No, sir.

You thinking like him, that you're not going?

That's right.

I think we're all going.

When I heard about the auction,

I figured it'd be better for me to buy it

than see it pass on to strangers.

Allow me?

I know it's the custom to carry the bride in,

but perhaps we can let that go.

I always figured when I got married

I'd have all the trimmings.

You may notice some changes.

There's some fixings I brought here from Kansas City.

Mighty pretty place you've got here.

Charlie, would you take Mrs. Rand's bags

into the front bedroom please?

I sure will.

Come in.

You're very beautiful.

Thank you.

I hope you'll be comfortable here.

In this house, it takes very little

to make me comfortable.

I brought you some wine.

It's customary, I believe, to drink the bride's health.

You're very gallant.

So you know.

You and I are much alike.

There are times when I can read your thoughts

just by asking myself what I'd do if I were in your place.

I know that's an irritating quality in a husband.

But it may help to make things easier for you.

Don't come any closer.

You sure this is all right?

Prentice missed because the light was bad.

Adam was too anxious.

Glad you don't suffer from those handicaps.

No, I don't.

Do you know why you missed me?

Because I hate you so my hand shook.

Your hand shook, not because you hate me.

Put the gun down, Thor.

Oh, Jeb, hold me, hold me.

Jeb, what is it, what's the matter?

I've gotta leave you, there are men outside,

they wanna kill me.

It's all Grant Callum's doings.

I don't know why, but he's wanted me dead

ever since I can remember.

Oh, take me with you.

No, I can't,

but we can be together in a little while.

There's an old ruined ranch up by Bear Paw butte.

- Meet me there. - How do I find it?

Take the trail through a rimrock canyon

across the county line.

Oh, I'll be there.

Looks like he jumped

clean off this bluff here.

Or he just outrun us.

Let's give it up.

I got a hunch I know where he is.

Russ, go fetch Thor Callum,

and bring her to Bear Paw butte.

It's all gonna happen again,

but I don't care now.

I know there's one big answer I've always looked for,

why I was alone?

Why everything went wrong?

Why I had hate in me instead of love?

There was a black dog riding my back and yours too.

I guess we've lost our chance,

but there's nothing we can do about it now.

Oh, but there is.

We've got to get away from here, both of us.

Jeb Rand, we know you're in there, come on out!

We'll give you two minutes.

Are you hurt?

I remember now.

Those dreams I've been having ever since I was a kid.

The flashes were gunfire,

and the man shooting was my father.

My sister lay on the floor dead,

and my brothers were dead too.

The boots and spurs, they were my father's.

And he was hit, I saw him fall.

I knew he'd been killed.

I was too scared to yell

so I just stayed there.

And a man came in, Grant Callum.

He was dragging a woman with him.

She was your mother.

He told her to look at her Rand now,

I remember those words, "your Rand."

He asked her if the love she'd had for him

was worth what she had done.

And he threw her down and dragged my father out.

Jeb, darling, how horrible.

It must mean that my mother-

One minute, come out or I'll come and drag you out.

- Come on. - I won't.

You're doing this for me because you're afraid I'll be hurt.

I don't wanna live without you, we've gotta fight.

We're coming out, don't shoot.

Throw your gun out.

Put your hands up.

Oh, I told him to fight.

He'd die fighting if he had to.

Let me go.

Oh Mother, you won't let them do this.

So Grant, you're gonna have it your way at last.

I told you I'd wait until he was grown.

Well now he's growed and he gets his legacy.

Only, it's made out of hemp.

He earned it just as his father earned

the lead he got when he stole my brother's wife.

Then it was Jeb's father, you loved him.

Yes, only she forgot she was married to a Callum.

Bring a horse here, get me a rope.

Jeb told me about the feud.

Now I understand the part I didn't know.

It all started because of your love, your guilt.

That's why you'd like to see Jeb hang.

You don't know what you're saying.

This is not of my asking.

You never gave Jeb a chance.

You never told him the truth so he could protect himself.

I was trying to protect you.

That's a lie, you were ashamed.

I paid for what I did.

I gave the boy a home, I took him in.

Did that pay for all the killings?

For the way my father died, and Jeb's father?

Well, it didn't, you loved his father.

Or are you ashamed now, to remember how you loved?

No, I loved his father.

You failed him Mother.

And you failed yourself.

You lost the man you loved.

He died here, but my man won't unless they kill me too.

I'm sorry Jeb, for all the wrong I did you,

forgive me.

You didn't have to ask me that,

you've given me back my life.

Oh, Mother.

I told you once, Jeb, never to look back, look ahead.

I tell you that again now.

We couldn't then, but now we can, and will.

Take your wife home, Jeb.