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I tell you, Charlie, there ain't nothing a couple of old buzzards like us couldn't do

with all that gold.

How come nobody's ever worked this mine if it's such a good strut?

Because they couldn't find it, that's why.

Charlie, I'm talking about the lost Baldwin mine.

The one that's supposed to be up on Outlook Mountain?

The one that is up on Outlook Mountain.

Henry, you're just joshin' me.

Old Henry Shannon never joshes about gold.

You know where I got this map?

From old man Baldwin himself.

The one that made the strike?

Did you know him?

Know him?

I helped him pack up into Outlook Mountain the first time he came down for supplies.

Of course, he always went in alone after he got near his diggin'.

But I kept the map.

And I drew in the last part where I figured the mine to be.

I'm the last person ever to see old man Baldwin alive.

He never came back.

And now I'm ready to put my own hands on all that gold.

But I figure I'll need a little help.

That's why I'm offering half of it to you, Charlie.

Well, that's nice of you, Henry, but I just couldn't go off prospecting and leave the wagon train.

Do you mean to sit there on that log and say that you would rather ride back and forth across this wild, uncivilized country,

fightin' Indians, bein' hungry, thirsty, and workin' for the rest of your natural life?

Why, with half this gold, you could buy your own wagon train.

Maybe a hundred of them.

Yeah, but I signed on to go all the way to California, Henry.

I don't think Mr. Hill would just like me to up and leave.

Well, it'll be a day or so before we get close to Outlook Mountain.

You've got a little time to think it over.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

And Charlie, any time a man starts thinking about gold, it gets so there ain't room in his head for much else.

Ha, ha, ha.

You'll go with me, Charlie.

Ha, ha, ha.

I'll bet my pants he was on that.

Ha, ha, ha.

Ha, ha, ha.

Fifteen, two, four, six, eight, and a pair make ten.

Well, Henry, I guess that entitles me to another turnip.

Try to remember this time. A turn is one swally, not eight.

What's the matter? Don't you trust me?

I thought I'd find you around here again.

Give me that jug.

You know, it's not bad enough that you're not doing any work anymore, but to go sneaking off and drinking while the sun's still up.

Drinking sweet cider ain't drinking.

Sweet cider?

Well, it was a week ago. Maybe it's working a tiny bit now.

Well, that's a lot more than I can say for you.

What about that ripped canvas? When are you going to sew it up?

I'm going to sew it.

Yeah, but when?

Well...

And you know that double tree's busted, and you're going to wrap some wire around that.

And our harness is cracked because you haven't cleaned it.

The supply wagon's got a...

Now, hold on, Sonny. You just hold on.

Sounds to me like you're fixing to work poor old Charlie here from the death.

Yeah.

Well, Mr. Henry Shannon, as long as you see fit to get into this,

I might mention to you that poor old Charlie here hasn't done a lick of work since you decided to travel with us, and that's better than a week ago.

Well, if you're aiming to fix the blame on me, you're as right as rain, Sonny.

Charlie and me have come to be real good friends, and I don't like to see any of my friends get killed by forced labor.

Forced labor?

Why, a fellow his age ought to take it easy. It ain't healthy for a man to spend his whole life working.

I found that out when I was just a young fellow.

Yeah, I'll just bet you did.

To tell you the truth, except for paying a little gold now and then, I am dead set against work of any kind.

Well, I don't know whether this will fit into your plans or not, but when poor old Charlie here signed up with this wagon train, it was to work, and that's what he's going to do.

Oh, I wouldn't push Charlie too hard, Sonny. He might just decide to retire from wagon training.

Oh, is that so?

Tell him, Henry.

He might decide to buy his own train. Maybe this one. Then you'd be working for him.

Well, that makes it different.

It sure does.

Mr. Wooster, I'm terribly sorry that I spoke so harshly to you.

Oh, that's all right.

Until you do buy this wagon train, I would appreciate it if you could find the time to do a little work around here.

And don't have me come looking for you again because I've got my own work to do!

Yes, sir.

Gee, I'm sorry, Henry. I guess we'll have to finish another time.

There ain't going to be no other time, Charlie.

What do you mean, Henry?

I'm pulling out tonight. This train is about as close as it's going to get to Outlook Mountain.

It's too bad, Henry. I'll miss you.

You don't have to miss me, if you don't want to.

Oh, Henry, as much as I'd like to go with you, I can't.

I couldn't go off and leave Mr. Hale or Bill either. He's my best friend, you know.

Ain't I your friend, too?

Sure, Henry, but we've only been friends for a week.

Bill and I went all through the war together. We're old friends.

I understand.

All right.

The only trouble is, I'm going to have a hard time living long enough to spend all this gold by myself.

Oh, Henry, you'll live a long time. I'll see you later.

I don't know, Sturgill. There's a thousand other guys just like you.

They're always talking about that big strike just over the next hill.

But when they get there, it's just another hill.

I think we're wasting our time.

So what do you think we're doing here?

Nobody's on the train's got enough money to make it worth the effort to get it.

Besides, that Chris Hale is keeping a pretty sharp eye on us.

You really think there's a lost ball in mind?

I know there is. I've heard about it for years.

Now, you take my word, there's enough gold to make it worth gambling on that old coot.

Then why don't we just grab his map?

Because chances are, he's the only one who can read the markings on it.

Yes, sir. You take my word for it.

Old man Shannon's going to lead us straight to that strike.

You know, Charlie, I've put a lot of stew away in my time.

But I want to tell you, this batch here takes the cake for being downright insipid.

Really? I'm glad you like it.

You know, I thought it might be a little bit watery.

I doubt if you could have made it any more insipid.

Did you hear that, Bill?

You didn't know I could make insipid stew, did you?

Oh, yes I did, Charlie.

You know, I think it's real nice of you to keep cooking this way

since you're going to be running this train real soon.

Of course, it's good in one way because then maybe we can get a new cook, huh?

If my cooking is good enough for Mr. Hale, why ain't it good enough for you?

Well, Charlie, if I didn't have to spend a couple hours sleeping tonight, I'd tell you all about it.

You ain't been poisoned yet, have you?

No, but I've been feeling kind of puny lately.

You don't look puny, and besides, you're an awful smart aleck.

Well, I can't be too smart or I wouldn't risk eating this stuff.

Doggone you. You think you're funny, don't you?

Always riding me about my cooking, and I'm getting tired of it.

Well, Charlie, next thing you'll be threatening to quit

and then you'll have to back down and eat your words again.

Maybe next time I won't.

By golly, if you don't sound like the fellas fixing to buy this outfit and run it all by yourself.

It just so happens I could if I wanted to.

Well, you got a great big stack of money someplace I don't know anything about?

There's a lot of things you don't know about.

Has old man Shannon been talking to you about a big gold strike?

It just so happens I could be half owner of the lost ball and mine if I wanted to.

Did the old man promise you that?

The doggone tootin' he did, and he knows right where it is, too.

Oh, sure, he knows where it is, too.

It ain't no laughing matter.

I can go out and leave this train and get me a fortune anytime I want to.

Big fortune.

All right, you'll be laughing out of the other side of your mouth when I do up and leave.

Charlie, you know the amount of work that you've been doing

since that old man put those get-rich-quick ideas into your head.

I doubt I would even notice when you're gone.

But I want you to promise me one thing.

When you get rich and take this train over, please let me pick out the cook.

Hey, wait a minute, where are you going with the coffee pot?

What's the new cook gonna use?

A little rough on him, aren't you, Bill?

Well, Chris, if you don't get rough on him once in a while, he thinks you're mad at him.

Well, you've known him longer than I have.

You know, sometimes an old horse, no matter how gentle he is,

will buck his pack off if you load him too heavy.

You know, come to think of it,

I've never seen him throw that coffee pot down like that before.

Mr.

Mr.

That's just why I moved it.

A fellow being waked up out here sudden-like

almost always goes for his gun first thing.

Any reason that isn't a good idea?

Some innocent fellow might get shot.

Like me.

Well, what's an innocent fellow like you doing

creeping up on somebody in the middle of the night?

It's always safer when you're the only one who knows where you are.

Well, now that we both know where you are, what do you want?

I'm looking for someone.

An old fellow, a prospector, bringing supplies this way.

This way covers a lot of territory.

You always this unfriendly?

Nope.

Just when somebody slips up on me in the middle of the night.

Trouble is, you never can tell who that might be.

Might be a fellow unfriendlier than you are.

Could lead to an argument.

He might even have a fast gun.

Now, you take me.

Chances are, I've got about as fast a gun as you ever saw.

You'd have to have to beat this.

Kind of a good thing I've got a friendly gun.

Kind of a good thing I've got a friendly disposition, ain't it?

Yeah, it is.

You know, that's how an innocent fellow like you stays healthy.

Ah, morning.

Already?

Sun will be up in a half hour.

Charlie!

You haven't even got the fire started yet.

Ah, you danged old goat.

Who, me?

No, not you, Chris.

I guess old Charlie's out pouting someplace.

You sure he just doesn't want to make us eat your words for breakfast?

Ah, hello.

Howdy.

Don't think I've seen you before.

No, sir. Just rode in.

Oh.

Maybe he's one of the fellas who dropped by to wake Bill up.

No, sir. Looking for someone.

Thought maybe you might have crossed his trail,

since he's bringing supplies back this way from Ortonville.

Ortonville?

Well, he passed through there about a week ago.

What's his name?

Henry Shannon.

Old kind of fella.

Might be seen in the company of a pack mule or two.

I think Bill Hawkes here can give you any information you want about Shannon.

I asked you before.

You didn't mention any names.

Well, have you seen him?

Have we seen him?

We've had him on our hands for the last week.

I sure am glad to hear that.

Why?

Huh?

Well, I don't know why anybody would be looking for him on purpose.

I don't quite understand what you're getting at.

Well, to put it in plain words,

he's put so much fancy into Charlie Wooster's head

that I can't get a lick of work out of him.

Charlie's probably down there with the old codger right now.

And if you're acquainted with old man Shannon at all,

you know what I'm talking about.

I know him pretty well, Mr. Hawkes.

He's my grandpa.

Your grandpa?

I'm Duke Shannon.

Well, when it comes to relations,

I guess a fellow's got to take what he gets.

I think I ought to tell you, Mr. Hawkes,

I don't take much to folks talking about my grandpa like that.

And if you keep on doing it,

I'll have to get up off this box and fight you.

Well, now, if you'll take that old man out of my hair,

I won't fight you.

I'll shake your hand in gratitude.

Come on, I'll show you where he is.

Oh, good morning, Mr. Hawkes.

Morning, Anthel.

You're up kind of early, aren't you?

Believe I am.

Isn't this where Henry, uh, Shannon was camped?

Believe it is.

Looks like he pulled out.

Believe it does.

Did you see him leave?

No, I didn't.

I wonder where that old, uh, gentleman disappeared to.

Home, more than likely.

Or up into Outlook Mountain.

That's the reason he went to Ortonville in the first place.

Pick up supplies for a prospecting trip up there.

See, Grandpa and me, we live right at the foot of Outlook.

He goes up there all the time.

Well, right now, I'm not concerned about where your grandpa went.

I'm concerned about who went with him.

Oh, I believe I can help you with that, Mr. Hawkes.

But you said you didn't see him leave.

I didn't see him.

I heard him.

Woke me up cussing them mules.

Both of them.

Both of the men, I mean.

Honestly, I don't know who's the noisiest,

old Henry or that Charlie Wooster.

I knew it, that gall-danged old goat.

I warned you about that once, Mr. Hawkes.

Don't split your britches, Buster.

I'm talking about that other old goat, Charlie Wooster.

Last night, he got his nose a little out of joints,

and now he runs off like a little kid.

I get my hands on him, I'll...

Ethel, did anybody leave with Henry and Charlie?

Don't believe so.

How about those fellows who were camped next to Henry?

You sure that they didn't leave at the same time?

Mr. Sterkle, you mean?

Yeah, there were three of them.

Don't believe they did.

And you're sure you didn't hear them leave?

Real sure.

I saw them.

Now, why didn't you tell me this in the first place?

Well, you didn't ask me until just now.

It was after Henry and Charlie woke me up.

I got up to see what all the commotion was about.

And like I said, I couldn't see them,

but I could hear them going off in that direction.

And it was then that I seen Mr. Sterkle

and his friends light out in the same direction, I believe.

But they didn't leave at the same time.

It was a few minutes later.

What kind of a fellow was this, Mr. Sterkle?

The kind you wouldn't want to let get behind you.

And he's behind Grandpa and Charlie?

After the gold mine, no doubt.

You know about that?

Oh, lambsakes.

Everybody in Earshot knows about that.

Why, their whispering's louder than most folks' yelling.

Where are you going, Mr. Hawks?

To get my horse and get Charlie and bring his friend back

before Sterkle tries to kill him.

Well, I was figuring on the same thing.

Thanks, but I travel a lot faster alone.

I was thinking the same thing, too.

I'm about as good a tracker as you'll find, Mr. Hawks,

and that's what it's going to take to find him.

I was figuring an older fellow like you

might have a little trouble keeping up with me.

An older fellow?

So I figure I'll get my horse and go it alone.

Hey, wait a minute!

I don't know what's worse,

those two old fools that are being chased

or that younger fool that's chasing them.

Well, if you ask me, I think you're both fools

to think that anybody can catch up with them.

They've got a 10-hour head start.

10 hours?

Well, you didn't ask me that.

Chris, I have to talk to you.

I know. I've been standing here for a while.

I know you're a little short-handed,

even with both Charlie and me here,

but somebody has to go after him.

Well, that young fellow Duke's already on his way.

Yeah, but he's just a kid.

Sterkle's got two men with him.

He can't do it alone.

What if I said I couldn't spare you?

Well, I was in hope she wouldn't say that.

Well, with Charlie gone,

you probably wouldn't be any good here anyway.

Go ahead.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Well, he ain't so far away from the train.

The fellow couldn't walk back.

Catch up with him if he was a mind joke.

Are you talking to yourself or me?

I was talking to a fellow

who's got a face on him

longer than either one of them mules.

Well, how do you expect me to feel

after being told I wasn't even wanted on the wagon train?

Now, is that sure enough what Bill said to you?

Well, same thing.

Said if I was gone, nobody'd miss me.

Maybe it was Josh again.

Yeah, and maybe he wasn't.

The way he laughed.

I bet he ain't laughing so loud now

with nobody to cook his eats for him.

No, I'm gone now, I bet you.

I hope he starves to death.

Come on, Henry, let's get moving.

The quicker we find that gold mine,

the quicker I can buy that wagon train

and Hawks will be working for me.

They must have stopped here for a rest.

I just spotted them.

They're not more than 10 minutes ahead of us.

Well, we'll wait here a while.

We don't want to get so close to them.

They know we're following them.

Let's go.

I've been waiting for you, Duke.

What held you up?

There ain't nothing held me up.

I've been moving as fast as any tracker could.

What beats me is how you could have caught up

without me knowing it.

There's a lot of tricks that us older fellas

know that you young ones don't.

I figure we make a lot better time

with the two of us tracking.

As long as we're out here for the same reason,

we'll travel together.

Makes sense to me.

We can't waste any time.

If we don't catch up with those two old goats

before they get to that mine,

we'll end up digging a couple graves.

Yeah, I figure Circle won't bother them

until they've served their purpose.

Well, I hope you won't have any trouble

keeping up with me.

Let's go.

There she is, Charlie.

This is the place where I last saw old man Baldwin.

Maybe we'd better take another look at that map

just to make sure.

No need to.

I ain't apt to forget this place.

25 years is a long time

to stretch a man's memory, you know.

Well, it ain't been more than a month.

Month?

You told me it'd been 25 years

since you knew Baldwin was up here

looking for that mine.

Well, it was.

But I've been back here almost every year since.

Henry Shannon, are you trying to tell me

this ain't the first time you've been up here

looking for that mine?

Well, I never said it was.

Why, from the very first day

that old man Baldwin sent me down that mountain,

right from that very rock,

I've been coming back,

trying out different ways from here,

except for a spell.

Now, when my grandson was a baby,

it got kind of hard to get away then.

Then you ain't got no more idea now

where that gold is than you had 25 years ago.

I know an awful lot of places where it ain't.

You old faker.

You bamboozled me into leaving the wagon train

and walking out on my best friend.

Hold on.

I did not bamboozle you.

I told you I knew where the Baldwin mine was.

And I do.

I don't believe you.

You lookie right here.

Now, the last time I was up here,

I stayed so long I ran out of grub,

so I had to go down the mountain.

I followed a creek,

knowing that old man Baldwin

had to have water for his pan.

And I found the place where he'd been getting it.

You did?

Yes.

There was a path.

Came right out to the creek?

And stopped.

And it was cut so deep,

I knew that it had been used regular and often.

Now, all I had to do

was to follow that path straight to the mine.

Did you?

No.

Well, why not?

Well, I told you I'd run out of supplies,

so I just went on back down the mountain.

I went over to Ortonville,

and I got me a good load of supplies for a long time.

I wanted to stay a while and work the mine.

I'm a patient man, Charlie.

I've waited a third of my life for the day

when I could lay my eyes on that mine.

And I figured a few more weeks wouldn't hurt me.

But now it's getting close.

Yes, sir.

It's getting close to the time

when I'll be standing right in the middle of my gold mine.

She won't be able to hide from me much longer.

This time, I got her cornered.

This time, I'm gonna see my gold mine.

You'll see it too, Charlie.

Yeah, we'll see it together, you and me.

We'll see it together.

Go ahead.

Let's go.

Circles found them all right.

I can see the tracks of three horses

laid right over Grandpa's and Charlie's.

Yeah, we gotta move faster.

I'd say we were doing pretty good.

We cut that ten-hour lead they had on us down to about five.

Five hours, five minutes, what's the difference?

We gotta get to them before they find that mine.

Come on, get on.

Come on.

There she is, Charlie.

That's the creek I was telling you about.

Ain't much further now.

You just head up the stream, then you come to the path,

and then you follow that street.

But Charlie, just pretend like nothing's wrong.

Don't turn around and look whatever you do.

Look at what?

We're being watched.

Oh.

We'll fox them.

Yeah.

Come on.

Follow me, and don't look back.

Yeah.

Come on, Pete.

Come on, Pete.

Come on.

Come on, Jim.

Come on, Jim.

Follow me.

Come on.

I tell you, we've lost him.

He's down three miles up this creek,

and we haven't seen a sign of him.

I know that, Sterk.

But I seen him heading up this way.

Well, you're so sure about it, you go on ahead and find him.

It's dark a little while.

I'm gonna wait here.

Well, all right.

I'm beginning to wonder if those two old codgers

didn't get wise to us following them,

and they just vanished out of sight.

They're not that smart.

Neither one of them.

Who says we ain't?

Stay right where you are, unless you want to get

a whole boat plumbed through you.

Unfasten them gun belts and drop them to the ground.

Henry, wait a minute.

There was three of them.

Where's the other one?

Why, that's right, Charlie.

All right, sonny.

Where's that other varmint?

Where do you think?

Standing right behind you.

You've got to do better than that, Mr. Stryker.

We ain't that dumb.

That I told you to drop them gun belts.

All right, then.

We'll just wait till the element shows up.

All right, old man.

Now, where is it?

Where what?

I don't know what you're talking about.

The map.

I want it.

I'm not going to give it to you.

Leave him alone!

Now, I'm not going to say it again.

I want that map.

You can't do that to Henry.

He's worked on that map 25 years.

You just can't take it away from him.

You want to try and stop me?

It's all right.

It's all right, Charlie.

It's all right.

I'll, uh, I'll let him have it.

He'd only take it away from me anyway.

No wonder you gave up on this map so easy.

It doesn't go any farther than where we are right now.

The rest of the map is in my noodle.

He'll have a hard time getting that.

Wait a minute!

Now, you're going to tell me where that mine is.

I ain't going to tell you nothing, mister.

Let me get it out of him, Mr. Stryker.

I'll handle it.

Why don't you go ahead?

Let him beat me up.

Maybe he'll knock me out.

Maybe he'll knock me out.

Why don't you go ahead?

Let him beat me up.

Maybe he'll knock me unconscious.

Then you never will find out.

I guess maybe you're right at that, old-timer.

You're daring to, aren't I?

Yeah.

Wait a minute.

What are you going to do?

Keep your hands off me!

No, no.

Charlie don't know where the mine is.

It's in my head, not his.

I wouldn't tell you if I did know it.

I don't!

Oh!

God dang fool.

Can't you understand nothing?

Charlie don't know where the mine is!

Shut up!

No!

No!

No!

No, don't!

Don't!

Don't hit him again!

You're the only one who can stop him.

And you know how.

Oh!

Oh!

All right, don't hit him again.

I'll tell you where the mine is!

I'll tell you where it is.

We shouldn't try to go on much farther, Mr. Hawks.

We're going.

But you can't read the tracks without a lantern.

There's tracks.

Look right there.

Look at them.

I said look at them!

Sure.

You can see tracks.

But without a light to read what they say, they're just marks.

Marks that could have been made by anybody or anything.

We could wind up following the wrong trail and lose more time than if we waited for daybreak.

We're not waiting.

Some rest would do us both good.

We're both plumb tuckered.

I said we're not waiting.

It's just like I said, Mr. Hawks.

It's too dark.

What is it with you, boy?

How come you want to quit all the time?

I don't want to quit, Mr. Hawks.

I got just as much reason to find them, too, as you have.

Maybe more.

A man can only push himself so far and so hard.

After that, he's just fooling himself into thinking he's doing any good.

All right, you stay here.

Quit.

But I'm going on.

I'm no quitter.

And I'm getting a little tired of your cussedness.

I don't blame Charlie Wooster for running out on you.

It was probably your bad temper that drove him to it.

I guess you had to hit out at something, didn't you?

And I reckon we'll both feel a lot better if we get at it.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Your granddaddy teach you how to fight, too, son?

Not good enough, I guess.

It's good enough for me.

I consider it real friendly of you, sir,

if you see to it that nothing happened to my grandpa.

I guess you already know how he took me and raised me

until the day he died.

He's all the family I got left.

Oh, I know he can't stay around forever,

but he's just got to keep on living till he finds that mind of his.

Oh, it's not the goal he's after.

He's not a greedy man.

I doubt if he'd know what he's doing.

I doubt if he'd know what he's doing.

He's not a greedy man.

I doubt if he'd know what to do with a lot of money if he had it.

It's just a dream of his, that's all.

Why, outside of raising me,

I doubt if he's thought of much else besides finding that mind of him

for longer than I've been alive.

It'd be kind of a shame to let something happen to spoil that dream for him now,

don't you think, sir?

Mr. Hawks and me, we can help him if you'll let us.

And that brings up another thing, sir.

I'm sorry about fighting with Mr. Hawks.

I should have known what was ailing him all along.

I don't know if he'd admit it,

but he was just plumb worried to death about Charlie Wooster.

You see, he loves that old man,

same as I do my grandpa.

And I'd be much obliged to you if you'd sort of look out for Charlie, too.

Thank you, sir, for listening to my troubles.

Amen.

Amen.

You know, Duke, I ribbed Charlie about his cooking all the time.

Everybody does.

We'd kind of miss it if we didn't.

The other night I wrote him a little bit too hard

and just wasn't the time to do it.

You know, it wasn't your granddad's fault that old Charlie ran off.

Like you said, it was my own cussedness.

Yeah, I ran Charlie off, Duke.

But that's no reason for me treating you the way I did.

But I want to thank you for knocking a little sense into my head.

I can tell you one thing, Mr. Hawks.

I'm not going to try it again.

Why don't you start calling me Bill, huh?

Bill, come here.

There's one of Grandpa's boot tracks.

Yeah, and Sterkl's tracks partially on top of it.

Now look at that one.

Yeah, that makes it different. They were all here at the same time.

I don't think Sterkl would have shown himself till he got to the mine.

No, your Grandpa and Charlie probably found out

that they were being followed and tried to fight him.

That's Grandpa for you.

Right over there is where they had the scuffle.

Yeah, and I'll bet I know who won.

I had a feeling we were going around corners,

so I had Jeff take a look.

What do you think he saw?

The mine?

What do you think he saw, old man?

Trees and rocks, I reckon.

He saw the creek.

The same one we left at sunup.

What are you aiming to do?

Well, now, what would you do in my place?

Keep following you around and around in circles?

That doesn't make much sense, does it?

It doesn't make much sense for us to take you to the mine.

Do you think we don't know you're going to kill us when we get there?

Well, isn't this better than right now?

Maybe it is. Maybe it ain't.

It'll give you a little time.

Never can tell what might happen from here to there.

I might get careless.

I might even change my mind.

It ain't likely.

Still a chance.

What do you say, Charlie?

Wouldn't you like to look around and see if the mine is really there, Henry?

Yes. Yes, I sure would.

I think it would do me a heap of good just to know that I haven't been wrong all these years.

Yeah.

All right, mister.

We'll take you to the mine.

Good.

Looks like he stopped here for a while.

I tell you, Bill.

That circle and those fellows got their hands full with Grandpa and Charlie.

Yeah, they're leading them a merry chase, all right.

Come on. They can't stall them forever.

Look, Charlie.

Yeah.

There she is.

The lost Baldwin mine.

Just like I said.

I wasn't wrong, was I, Charlie?

You sure wasn't, Henry. You sure wasn't.

Why don't you wait and let the old man enjoy it for a few minutes, huh?

Hmm.

Old man, I wouldn't go in there.

Old man.

Come out of there.

You can't see in there without a light anyway.

What are you gonna do?

You don't have to kill him. He ain't gonna do no harm.

Ah, shut up.

If you don't keep your big mouth shut, you'll be first.

Keep an eye on this old buzzard, Clay.

If he makes a move, shoot him.

Hey, Sturgill.

What are you all doing in there?

Why don't you answer me?

Hey, Sturgill.

You all all right?

I want to find out what's going on in there.

Where's Henry? What'd you do to him?

Why don't you go in and see?

Henry!

Henry!

What's going on, Sturgill?

Blew out of your mine or something?

There's no gold up in there. Mine's completely worked out.

Baldwin must have worked it for years and then went down the other side of the mountain.

Probably why it wasn't seen again.

Move the animals back. You better take care of yourselves, too.

Let's go.

It was dynamite. No doubt about it.

It's over there. Come on, Duke.

Never dig their way out of that.

Some gold, stretch.

Oh, quit your bellyaching. We got a couple of mules out of it, didn't we?

Bring them along. Let's get out of here.

Let's go.

Maybe we're too late.

We'd better not be.

Let's turn the horses loose.

We're coming after you.

Sturgill, where are they?

Bill, come on.

Get the shovels, Duke.

Come on, Henry.

Oh, boy.

Easy now.

Henry, I don't know whether to blame old man Baldwin for causing us to come up with this mine...

or thank him for digging that escape hole in the back.

I was right, wasn't I?

I always knew that I'd find my gold mine someday.

And I did, didn't I?

You sure did. That is, if you can call that a gold mine.

Don't you think we ought to go down the hill and see what old Sturgill's doing down there?

I think I'm going to stay here for a little while.

I reckon I'd better rest up a bit.

All right, Henry. Just get your rest.

I'll go down there. If they're down there, I'll chase them off. Don't you worry about that.

What are you fellas looking for?

What do you think, you old goat?

Charlie!

Oh, Bill! Put me down! Put me down!

Where's Grandpa, Charlie?

Grandpa? You mean Uncle Henry?

He's up on top of the hill there resting.

Grandpa! Grandpa!

Charlie, how'd you get out of there?

You know, I thought I saw you for the last time for sure.

We'd been digging and both of us knew that we could never get through that pile of rock in time.

You know, just look at those blisters.

Yeah, just look at them.

I knew you'd come, Bill. I never doubted for one minute.

You know, a man can always depend on his good friends.

I knew you wasn't mad at me all the time.

Did you hurt your face with a rock or something?

You know, Charlie, you left the train because you were pouting like a little kid.

I did not.

You caused me an awful lot of trouble trying to find you.

I got blisters on my feet from trailing you and I got blisters on my hands from digging for you.

What are you going to do?

Just what you would do to any little kid that runs off, I'm going to blister you.

Bill, now you can't do this. Cut it out, Bill!

And you know something, Charlie? This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.

Well, let's go do it then.

Bill! Cut that out! Bill! Somebody will see! Now you quit that!

Cut it out, Bill! Now you quit that! Let me out!

How does that feel, huh?

Cut it out!

Duke! Duke!

I've got to take care of Grandpa.

What's the matter with him? The driver and I left him. He wasn't hurt or nothing.

I'm sorry.

Don't be, Bill. Grandpa wasn't.

He found what he was looking for.

Nothing left for him to do. No place to go.

He's still got a smile on his face right now.

I kind of think this is where he'd like to stay.

Let me have that, Bill.

I'd kind of like to be the one to do that.

Bill, I was thinking maybe...

You was thinking that maybe you'd like to go back to the wagon train and join up with us, huh?

Well, how'd you know that was what I was going to ask you?

Well, I did know, but I was in hopes you would.

You know, we could use a fellow like you.

Well, there isn't much to keep me around here anymore, and I'll be needing a job.

I'd just be glad to have you on board.

Well, I'll be glad to have you on board.

Well, I'll be glad to have you on board.

Well, I'll be glad to have you on board.

Well, there isn't much to keep me around here anymore, and I'll be needing a job.

I just gave you one.

I'd think twice about that if I was you, Duke.

Oh?

You have no idea the amount of work he makes me do.

Why, even your own grandpappy accused him trying to kill me off forced labor.

And he's got a big bull with him, too.

Good morning, Bill.

Good morning, Duke. Get a good night's sleep?

I don't suppose I ever got a better night's sleep in my whole life.

You came near running the legs off of me.

Off of you?

Well, you know, Duke, when you called me an older fellow, I figured I might as well make you eat your words.

Nah, I was only kidding.

You know, I don't think I could have gone much farther myself.

Bill, I want to thank you for everything you did for me and for Grandpa.

I mean, help me find him and all.

I woke up feeling real good about everything.

Ah, that's all right. Forget it.

Sure is a good feeling to wake up knowing everything's all right.

That you got a place to stay and friends and a job.

Job?

Well, yeah. I sure hope you didn't forget you gave me a job with the train.

No, I didn't forget, Duke.

Look, there's something I gotta do. I'll see you pretty quick, huh?

All right.

You seen Chris yet this morning, Charlie?

Nope.

You know what we did yesterday?

We did a lot of things yesterday, but just which thing are you talking about?

Duke Shannon.

Shannon?

You know, Charlie, we had no right to give him a job.

Who do we think we are anyway?

Without even thinking what Chris is gonna say, we just signed him up.

You know, if Chris doesn't go for this, we'll be paying Duke's wages ourselves.

Wait just a minute. What do you mean, we?

You signed him up. I had nothing to do with it.

I distinctly remember telling him not to take the job.

And you're not gonna stick me with half the blame either.

Well, good morning, boys.

Good morning, Mr. Chris.

Hi, Chris.

Heard you come in last night.

Yeah, we came in.

Everything worked out.

Tell me about it after breakfast.

Yeah, I'll tell you.

Bill will tell you, won't you, Bill?

Sounds like somebody else was with you.

Somebody else?

Yeah, another voice.

Another voice?

Sounded like three of you.

Did you hear that, Bill? He said it sounded like three of us.

I heard him, Charlie.

Chris, there's something I have to tell you.

Duke Shannon came back with us.

Good.

Good?

I've liked the cut of that young fellow ever since the first time I saw him.

I was thinking of giving him a job.

You was?

He'd have it.

That's exactly what I told him, Mr. Chris.

Wasn't it, Bill? Wasn't it?

Morning.

Oh, good morning, Duke.

Good morning.

Sit down, sit down.

Smells mighty good.

Well, it should smell good.

This is my insipid coffee, you know.

Insipid?

Sure.

I do say it myself.

My insipid coffee is almost as good as my insipid stew.

Right?

Absolutely.

Right.

Right.