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Wonder which is gonna wear out first, you or that saddle.

I can't figure anybody heading for the flats west of the river.

There's no crossing there.

If it was an "anybody."

Hot enough today to stir up some dust devils.

That was trail dust. That wasn't no dust devils.

Think I'm gonna have to get you a pair of eyeglasses, old man.

- "Old man," is it? - Yep.

Who's complaining of the saddle sores?

Just 'cause your seat's as hard as you head,

that don't mean the rest of you ain't going downhill.

Hold up. Hold up.

Let me tell you something about the law, boy.

They ain't gonna tag two days behind.

Not when they can ride into the nearest town and telegraph ahead.

Probably a wild mustang you've seen back there.

Not a horse and rider.

Maybe going through Kansas is making me edgy.

We should've stayed in them back hills.

Man: If we'd have stayed in them hills another week,

you and me both would be looking for new horses to ride.

We're doing pretty...

Who was it?

Moses Reedy.

Oh! I should've known!

- That dirty... - Take it easy.

How bad is it?

Shoulder one, that one can be dug out.

The other one went clear through. It's bad.

- I'm taking you to Dodge. - No. I ain't going.

What, are you crazy? There's a doctor in Dodge.

- No! - What do you mean no?

- You wanna die out here? - Not Dodge.

Look, you want the wolves to scatter your bones?

You want Moses Reedy to get you again?

Get up! Dodge is only six hours from here.

With any luck, you won't even make it.

Come on!

Get up.

Just pretend it's my cooking.

You survive that, you can survive anything.

Well, I'd been fishing all afternoon,

and that cork started bobbin', and what do you think happened?

Here came Festus and that mule and they...

That's the end of a beautiful visit.

- Doc, can I talk to you for a minute? - What about?

Well, it's kind of a medicine problem.

The office is closed, except for emergencies.

Well, this here is kinda.

Uh, maybe you better listen to him, Doc.

Oh. What is it?

Well, I got this here thorn back...

well, kinda back in my upper leg there.

You're just in time to inaugurate my new policy

of charging double after office hours.

Doc, I ain't got no money.

Oh, I know you haven't got any money.

But I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna take that thorn out for you, and then I'll take your note for 30 days.

And if you don't pay me when it's due,

I'll put that thorn right back where it was.

Luke. Luke.

Let go, Luke. Let go.

- Where are we? - We're in Dodge.

Come on. Let me help you down.

Can you stand?

Come on. This way.

Come on. You gotta walk to the lobby.

You have to, Luke.

Easy. Here we are.

How am I doing?

Not good.

That ride didn't help none. I gotta get you to a doctor.

- No. - You're gonna die if I don't.

I'm gonna die if you do.

I can feel it coming.

You're too cussed mean to die of nothing except'n old age.

We're in Dodge City, ain't we?

Yep.

- Let me have some more of that whiskey. - Here, here you go.

It's right here. I got it right here.

- These bullets is killing me. - I got it here for you.

I promise you something, Luke.

I'm gonna find that Moses Reedy,

and I'm gonna kill him just like he tried to do to you.

I promise you.

Had enough?

Yeah.

I got something to tell you, boy.

You tell her I didn't wanna come to Dodge.

- You tell her you made me, you hear? - Who?

She's only...

six, seven years old when I left here.

I forget.

Must be more than 20 now.

What are you talking about, Luke? Who?

Last time I heard, she's usin' her Ma's name.

So nobody would know I was her pa.

You got a daughter? Here in Dodge?

You go fetch her for me, will ya?

She probably won't come, but...

you tell her...

you tell her how much... I want to see her.

She'll come. Don't worry. She'll come. What's her name?

Cathy.

Her ma's last name was Allen.

She wrote me once when I was in prison.

She told me she was a schoolteacher.

I'll find her, Luke.

I got... you gotta get to a doctor, Luke.

- No! - That's much more important.

No. No.

I just... I just wanna see...

my little girl.

Mister, do you know where Cathy Allen the schoolteacher lives here in Dodge?

Cathy Allen? Well, now, Mary Crowley's the schoolteacher.

- She lives at Ma Smalley's. - No. Cathy Allen's her name.

Now I remember a Cathy Allen...

but she wasn't no schoolteacher.

Far from it.

Hey, Doris!

Come here!

- Yeah, what do you want? - Someone here wants to talk to you.

Evenin'.

- Uh, the fellow... - Thanks for the drink.

Huh, it's kinda expensive, isn't it?

I'm working.

Wow... that's really expensive.

Look, what do we do, play dice, talk?

Uh, I've been told that you know Cathy Allen.

I did. She's dead.

- When? - You a relative?

No. Her father's dying.

- He wants to see her. - Father?

I didn't know she had one. I mean, she never mentioned him.

How did it happen?

She was working here about the time I come into town.

Some dude-eyed drummer come in, all flash and white teeth,

and promised her love forever, or some such.

So she went off with him Hays City.

Last I heard,

she got caught between a drummer and some kid cowhand she liked

and wanted to marry.

Drummer killed her.

She's buried over in the Hays cemetery if that's any help.

Nothin's gonna be any help.

Except for that old man to see his daughter.

What am I gonna tell him?

She wasn't no schoolteacher at all.

Just some saloon girl

running around with a lot of different men.

Until one of them killed her.

That's what I'm supposed to tell a dying man that's been like a father to me?

So lie.

Tell him she was a schoolteacher that married

a fine, upstanding Baptist preacher and went off to Colorado or something.

- Thanks for the drink. - Wait.

I sit, I drink.

Rule of the house. Can you afford it, bucko?

Yeah. I can afford it.

Bull!

How well did you know her?

As well as any one of us knows anyone else.

Maybe a little better.

We didn't like the same type man.

Tell me something about her, so as I can tell him.

Like what?

Like... how'd she look?

How'd she fix her hair?

If he's her father, he knows all that.

He don't know that. He ain't seen her since she was little.

She was, uh, kind of ordinary.

Brown hair, mousey.

Eyes were, uh... I don't remember.

Brown, maybe.

Little big in the hips.

I don't know. She was just a girl girl.

She had a funny laugh, when she laughed...

Wasn't all that often.

When she got tickled, it was kind of funny.

It was kinda of like...

I'm not helping you much, am I?

Listen.

Listen, Doris, when I came in here,

I had $31. Now I got 29.

I'll give you 20 of it if you come back to the hotel with me.

Your mind sure scutters back and forth, don't it?

Luke ain't seen his kid since she was little.

He ain't gonna know that you ain't her.

- Oh, no. - It's important.

Look, I can't pretend to be somebody I'm not.

- Wouldn't work. - Doris, listen to me.

There's an old man over in the Dodge House, and he's dying.

He ain't gonna see the sun come up tomorrow morning.

Ain't gonna have a hot cup of coffee,

and he's not gonna pull his boots on no more.

He ain't gonna laugh at nothin' either.

He's not gonna have anything like that no more.

And he never asked me for one single solitary thing.

All the time we've been traveling together,

he never asked me for nothing.

All he did was give to me.

I owe that old man.

I'm not a play actress. I can't do it.

I can't think of nothing else to do.

Sorry.

Being sorry's not gonna do nobody no good.

That old man is gonna die sad.

That's the worst of it.

Make it 25.

Cathy.

- She wouldn't come? - Get up here.

Drink this.

That's it.

Enough?

Easy.

She's coming.

She had to get herself fixed up, you know.

I mean, it's late.

Middle of the night. I had to wake her.

Tell me, what'd she say when...

when you told her I was here?

She said, uh...

"I wanna see my papa."

Those are exact words.

- "I wanna see my papa." - Oh.

- That's nice. - Yep.

When do you think she'll come to see me?

Oh, any time... about now.

I got to get a shave. I need to get cleaned up.

Stay down. You're all right. Get down.

Well, your hair could use a curry comb or something.

There.

Real pretty. That's it.

Oh, that's... What am I gonna say to her?

Say whatever you like.

You won't leave us alone, will you?

No. I'll be here if you want me.

Hello, Papa.

I'm Cathy.

Cathy...

how are you?

Fine. How are you?

I mean, are you all right?

I'm all right.

Been a long time, ain't it?

Yeah.

It has, hasn't it?

Ma talked about you a lot.

- Did she? - Yeah.

What'd she say?

Oh, just that... she missed you a lot.

And, um, you know.

You had a rough time, huh, didn't you?

Yes, but we made out.

I, um, became the schoolteacher here.

Make $14 a month.

Come sit down by me.

Sit down by me.

Cathy... I just want you to know...

I'm awful sorry for everything.

Being sorry don't help nobody.

Somebody once told me that.

What's past is gone forever.

I had to keep running.

I had to.

I always loved you and your ma.

I hurt when she died.

She had a nice burial.

A lot of people turned out.

There were flowers.

I don't guess she ever got nothing

from that old farm I left, did she?

Farm?

Farm. The old farm.

No, no. No, no, no, Papa.

Kinda never amounted to much.

When she died,

I sent some money back to the bank here at Dodge...

Pay the taxes so you wouldn't lose it.

I just kinda

moved away from the farm, though.

Not wanting to be there alone with Ma gone.

I don't wanna be here.

Get back there.

Tell him you love him.

Go on.

Papa.

I love you.

Turn your back.

Go ahead. Turn your back.

- Austin. - Yeah.

Help me.

What?

My money belt.

What you want your money belt for?

What do you need this for?

What's this?!

Cathy...

here's $300.

I know it don't make up for nothing,

but I want you to have it.

I wanna know... I wanna know where that come from.

Cathy...

Where'd that come from?

I saved it.

You saved it?!

You mean all the time we've been together we've been miserable and had no money

and no place to stay or nothing and you saved $300?!

I saved it for my little girl.

Papa, I don't know what to say.

Say "no thank you." That's what you can say.

Papa, I do owe a lot of bills.

It's yours.

Papa...

thank you.

You're tired now.

I'll come back after you've rested.

No. Don't leave just now.

You sleep.

I'll be back in a little while.

You promise?

Promise.

You sleep.

- You're not planning on keeping that. - He gave it to me.

You wanna give it to me or do I dig for it?

You do, I'll scream clear to the Rio Grande.

Start screaming.

I'll tell your old gent.

What then? I swear I will.

I'll tell him that she's dead and that she worked at the Bull's Head.

He gave the money to me, and I'm gonna keep it.

There's nothing you can do about it.

All right.

You keep it, but you're gonna earn it!

You're gonna nurse him and wash him.

You're gonna wash his back for him if he wants you to.

For $300, I'd do a lot worse than that.

You bet you will.

You'll be his daughter, and you'll make his last days happy.

The way he looks, that can't last long.

Get in there and start earning it.

I-I don't think these britches gonna work.

They ain't the right color.

It says right here in the paper,

six of them...

Look, I can't stand it anymore.

- I'm going for Doc. - No.

You're just gonna let him die suffering like this?

- Won't be long. - How do you know?

I thought you were a friend of his.

I'm the best friend he ever had.

Going by the law, don't you understand?

Law or no law,

what do you think he'd do if it was you?

Look, I gotta go tell Bull I won't be coming back tonight.

- All right? - Go on.

I told you, mister.

They're too tight.

- Come in. - Sorry to bother you, Doc.

- It's all right. - A friend of mine rode in

with his broken arm, I figured you'd take a look.

- Sure. Where is he? - Dodge House.

- Room 12. - All right.

- Luke Dangerfield. - Yeah.

Shot up bad.

We make a deal, Doc?

Deal? I don't know what you mean.

He ain't going anywhere.

You patch him up and don't call no marshal up here.

I don't want Luke dying in jail.

Well, he won't die in jail.

You go down and tell Marshal Dillon that Luke Dangerfield is up here.

I'll get busy and see what I can do for him.

Go on. Do as I told you.

- Is he any better? - Same.

The doc's with him. I'm getting the marshal.

Count me out.

What do you mean "count me out"?

You got his $300, remember?

- I figured I earned that. - Well, figure different.

I feel kinda creepy talking to a guy thinking I'm his daughter.

I don't care how you feel.

Don't cross me.

- Austin. - Right here, Luke.

Can we ride out?

Don't worry about anything.

Cat... Cathy. Cathy.

Still here.

Go to sleep now.

Doris, there's something I don't understand here.

What's your part in all this?

Let's just say I have an interest in it, Marshal.

How come he called you "Cathy"?

Had more than one name in my time.

How's he gonna do, Doc?

Well, he's pretty tough.

I'd say if he gets plenty of rest, reasonably good.

You mean he's gonna live?

I said his chances were good.

Thanks, Doc.

Matt, I'm gonna need somebody to take care of him up here.

That's her job. She's being paid for it.

All take those, Festus.

You and Newly will have to stand... Take turns outside the door.

- Sure, Matthew. - All right, let's go, Austin.

What for? I'm not wanted for anything.

We'll find out.

Doris, that's laudanum

in that little bottle on the table.

When he wakes up, I want you to give him a couple of teaspoons.

- I'll be back in a couple of hours. - All right, Doc.

- How long will it take? - Shouldn't take more than a day or two.

- What about Moses Reedy? - What about him?

What about the bounty?

Well, it was his bullet drove Luke in here for help.

If he comes to claim the reward, he'll be paid.

I don't figure on giving him a chance to spend it.

Well, if I were you, I'd think about that.

I'd think about whether it's worth your hanging.

You've sure come a long way back in two days.

I feel like I come a long way back.

You're supposed to leave the skin.

I never done this before.

You ain't gonna do it to me again, that's for sure.

Quiet so I can get your lower lip.

What are you gonna do with it when you get it?

- Cathy. - Mm.

You don't even hate me a little bit, do you?

For what?

For leaving you and your ma.

Why did you?

I don't know.

I do.

You're one of those restless people.

You just couldn't stay anywhere for very long.

Most people, they don't understand that.

They think that everybody's got to be like they are.

Rooted in the ground, hard and fast, like an oak tree.

You talking about me or yourself?

You, of course.

Thanks, Festus.

The deputy out there is seeing you stayin' in here.

Gonna open these?

Hey, what's this here?

It's like Christmastime.

Oh, these is nice.

Oh, you shouldn't have bought all this stuff.

Mm-hmm.

- Like these? - Oh, them's nice.

Look at that biggin' there.

Get in here.

Oh, that... Oh, yeah, that's awful nice.

Did you get this for me to go dancing in?

The boy's worth a new dress.

He sure is.

- Marshal let you out, did he? - Yep.

Surprising the number of sheriffs that don't know my name.

That's a good way to keep it.

Luke: Well, howdy.

How are you?

You look like a buryin'.

Goin' or comin', I can't tell.

Cathy bought me the outfit.

Got me some extra duds over there, too.

Oh.

Well, if you don't need me no more, guess I'll go get some sleep.

You run on along.

Austin here will walk you home.

Oh, I got some things I gotta attend to here.

Cathy, that old farm out there,

what kind of shape's that in now?

Uh, I haven't been there in a long time.

Well, the way land prices is going up around here,

that place oughta be worth quite a bit by now.

Austin here is an old farm boy.

Why don't y'all take a ride out there tomorrow and have a look-see?

Why?

Well, so we'll know how much it's worth.

Maybe the old house needs fixing up before we sell it.

And?

- And what? - The money you get for selling it?

Well, it ain't gonna do me no good in jail.

I'll see Cathy gets it here.

Thank you, Papa.

- Good night now. - Good night.

Well, I might just walk her home after all.

Luke,

the marshal says that Moses Reedy can claim that bounty money if he wants to.

- So? - So I figure him coming in,

doin' the claimin' if he knows you're in Dodge.

I'm gonna find that Moses Reedy, and I'm gonna kill him

just like he tried to do to you.

You want me to give you some advice?

Marshal already give it.

Oh, just hold on there, if you would.

That little brain of yours is sure working away, ain't it?

What's that supposed to mean?

You buyin' him clothes with some of that 300.

You're really thinking about the farmland.

- So that's how you figure, huh? - That's not. That's how you figure.

What time you bringing the carriage around tomorrow?

- Huh? - I live here.

Top floor in the rear.

Call for me right after breakfast.

- We'll go and look over my property. - No, I ain't...

Oh, better find out where it's located, too.

No wonder she left here to work in a saloon.

- Austin: What's so bad about it? - You got eyes.

Austin: I guess you don't.

What's the trouble, no trail hands pawing you out here?

Who said I let trail hands paw me?

I can just picture it.

Get up at light, work till it's dark,

six kids crawling all over you, and your back aches.

My ma did it.

She did a lot more laughin' than she did cryin'.

How's come you left the farm?

I don't know.

Rode out and wanted to see things for myself, I guess.

I'm gonna fix this place up.

Sell it on shares to some family.

How much you figure it'll bring?

You ain't getting a smell of it, so don't worry about it.

It's gonna be an income for Luke, in case he goes to prison.

In case he goes to prison? Where else you think he's going?

If we break out of Dodge, maybe we'll be riding again.

Maybe you'll end up in jail right along with him.

Maybe.

But I owe him to try.

Yep, I figure about $300 a year for a piece of land like this.

Something you keep forgetin'... He's turning it over to me.

Yeah, but you ain't taking it.

You intend on pushing me around?

Nope. Don't have to.

I figured it out.

You like him.

Like him just about as much as I like him.

You're wondering right now what's gonna happen

when he finds out you ain't his daughter.

Yeah, he'd probably think I did it just for the money.

Well, you did at the start.

$25 I give you.

Maybe not.

Maybe it was the way you looked

when Bull gave you only a nickel change from a dollar.

Like you ain't never been in a saloon before,

buying for a girl.

Well, maybe I ain't accustomed to it. So what?

I kinda thought to myself,

"He never had a girl before."

I mean, a real girlfriend.

Did you?

Yeah, I thought that.

Well, not much doubt about you having plenty of men friends, though, is there?

Whatever I did, I'm not ashamed.

I had nothing, and I was nothing.

Maybe I still ain't.

But whatever I am, I earned my own way.

Sorry.

What's left after I bought the clothes.

It'll help Luke.

Good lawyer maybe.

Hey, Deputy.

Heard Luke Dangerfield's in town, bad wounded.

That's right.

My name's Moses Reedy. Maybe you heard of me.

Yeah, I heard of you.

I put a bullet in Dangerfield. I come to collect the bounty on him.

You're gonna have to talk to the marshal about that.

- Where's he at? - He's up the street. I'll go get him.

I'll wait up at the saloon.

What's the matter, Reedy?

Can't you find no friend to drink with you?

- I don't know you. - Don't recognize faces, huh?

- Just backs, is that it? - I never seen you before.

Well, you're gonna see me, Reedy, 'cause I'm the one that's gonna kill you.

Man not wearing a gun shouldn't talk like that.

Well, I'll tell ya how it's gonna be, then.

You and me is gonna meet each other again.

And when we meet, you look and see if I'm wearing a gun.

And when you do... I want everyone here to hear this...

When you do, you got the right to draw and fire first without being invited.

You get that split-second difference, Reedy.

You wait that split second, and you're a dead man.

Enough out of you, Austin.

Marshal, I come into town for my money, $3,000.

It's my bullet in Dangerfield. I run him to ground.

I'm sending a wire off to Hays for confirmation.

Should be a check for you at the bank in about an hour.

You remember what I said about that split second, Reedy.

Wet-eared kid.

As soon as you get your money, I want you out of Dodge.

You and Austin hittin' it off?

Look at that.

Almost let it slip by.

Cathy,

I know I ain't ever been good for much of nothing,

but let me do one good thing in my life...

Give you some advice.

Grab a hold of Austin and hold on.

He's a good man.

Take that $300 I give you,

start a new life.

- Cathy... - I'm not Cathy, I'm Doris.

Doris Prebble, and I work at the Bull's Head Saloon hustlin' drinks.

I know you ain't Cathy.

I don't know just when I knew.

Maybe when I got to feeling better.

Seeing good again.

Do you know what happened to her?

She...

married a Baptist preacher and moved to Colorado.

I'm glad.

No, she didn't.

She's dead.

I'm so sorry, but she's dead.

If you knew all this time, why didn't you say something?

Because... maybe I needed you.

The same way maybe you need me.

- Howdy, Festus. - Hold on there, Austin.

I ain't gonna carry no gun into Luke's room, Festus.

Well, I know it wouldn't make a lick of sense,

but then I got my orders from Matthew, you know.

Just felt better having a gun.

Youse fixin' to take this in to Luke?

You oughta be ashamed of yourself, Austin.

Stupid idea, I guess.

- Luke, Moses Reedy's in town. - Austin.

He's collecting. He's waiting for a voucher right now.

Austin...

- Doris and I have been talking. - Doris?

You know, Luke.

Yeah, I know.

And I know why both of you done it.

And I'm thankin' you.

He knows you ain't his daughter. Why don't you get?

Don't need no saloon tramps hanging around now.

- Boy, don't you talk to her that way! - No. No.

You lost whatever brains you had.

It's all right.

It's all right, Luke.

Good-bye. I'll see you later.

- You never talk to her... - I had to get rid of her fast...

I had to get rid of her fast so the law won't blame her for nothing.

- Wha... - Look, I got these at the Bull's Head.

- Can you ride? - Ride?

Austin: Two minutes Moses Reedy's coming out of that bank.

- I aim to face him down. - You can't get away with it, Austin.

You think any jury in the world's gonna convict someone

- that kills Moses Reedy face to face? - That ain't what I mean.

Don't you understand?

- You can't kill a man and not be changed. - There's more to it.

There's a horse saddle in the alley behind the hotel.

As soon as the shootin' starts, there's gonna be a lot of confusion on the street.

- Everyone's gonna go out there... - No, don't try it.

- Don't try it. - That's when you get down them back steps,

and you get on that horse and you ride.

- Do you hear me? You ride. - Don't try it, Austin.

- I'll meet you later in Indian territory. - No.

I'll see ya, Luke.

Good luck.

All the way in, Deputy.

Get back behind that desk, and stay there.

- Drop the gun, Luke. - Shoot him, Marshal.

Go on, drop it.

- Go and see if you can find Doc. - Yes, sir.

You could've got away, Luke. You could've got away.

But... but you couldn't.

Better get him up to his room.

I wouldn't advise you try spending any of that money in this town.

I ain't that crazy.

I'll be back to see you tomorrow, Luke,

unless you try to get out of that bed again,

in which case, I'll send the undertaker.

I'm obliged to you, Doc.

Why don't you two get together

and get that old farm in shape out there

so if I ever get out of jail,

I'll have a front porch to rock on?

Well, it's not really up to me.

I guess.

You guess what?

I guess you've probably had worse offers.

Well, don't just set there.

It's your time to walk him home... That game leg and all.

Git. Both of you.

All right, Luke.

- Howdy, Marshal. - Luke.

You sure put a big price on my head in Kansas.

Well, you were a pretty tough customer when you were younger.

How long you think they're gonna give me this time?

I don't know. It's hard to say.

Well, I figure I'm gonna live about 100 years.

That'll still give me time to teach my grandkids

how to ride.

Well, I'll tell you, I think that'd be a pretty good bet.

You said I had "worse offers."

Better ways of saying things, I guess.

Might try saying them straight out.

Sorta find you pretty.

That's not too bad for a start.