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Here you go, boys.

Have a pull.

A squirt of that tarantula juice'll make your beard stiff

and your belly quiet.

Boys, I'm gonna drink to

the best gal a ole range stud ever sired.

When you reckon she'll be getting in, Mr. Sanderson?

Tomorrow, I judge on the Wichita stage.

It'll be a great thing for the missus, her coming home.

You betcha it sure will be.

If this news don't make her grin

and wiggle there ain't nothing will.

You want us to stick around tonight?

No, no they ain't no use in that.

Y'all chase on into town and get yourself an noseful.

I'll be here.

Be back before sun up, boss.

Ha, let's go.

Lavinia?

Lavinia, I gotta big surprise for you tonight, honey.

What is it, you been drinking again?

That's hardly a surprise.

No, no don't be getting mad at me, now.

Cora's on her way home.

Cora, you don't mean that?

Telegraph office in Dodge

got a message out of St. Lou.

She'll be a getting in tomorrow most like.

Ain't that fine?

But her schooling, the fall term.

Well, maybe she decided to sit one out.

Well, she can go to school anytime.

Not to Vassar she can't.

You don't understand, she can't just decide all on her own

to pack up and leave.

They won't permit that.

What do you mean they won't permit it?

I'm paying them people

a war bag full of gold eagles for their trouble.

I don't even count the small fortune

I sent to help pay for that library they're trying to put up.

My daughter takes a fancy to coming home,

they better permit it.

Oh, whatever suits her fancy.

That's right, isn't it?

Oh, that's typical.

And how like you to think

that you could buy anything in the world

with your money, including a fine education,

which you can't even appreciate.

Now you listen to me, my money ain't no different

than anybody else's.

They didn't have no shame in taking it, I can tell you that.

I may not be no red rose for what I know out of books,

but your ole man, the governor of the state,

was hotter than a June bride to see you coupled to me.

And you know why?

Because he know'd for copper bottom certain

I could tear a life out of alkali or Comanches

and not go belly up or blood short in the doing.

You make my father's name a shame to me.

Oh, Lavinia...

don't make us talk like this.

There just ain't no sense to it, honey.

I know I ain't no prize as a husband.

If you could just sometimes think back

on how it was when we was young.

You cared for me then.

Didn't ya?

Yes, I did.

But I can't remember why.

Because you won't let yourself remember, that's why.

I know I disappointed you in a lot of ways,

but I ain't had all I might of wished out of you, neither.

I've told you over and over,

all I wanted from you was a civilized life.

A few friends who could talk about something

besides the price of cattle

and the possibility of an early snow.

There's more to life than this ranch.

Then you shoulda gone searching for it

a long time ago.

You think I've lived this way because I like it?

I might as well be dead.

The way you live you might be better off.

How dare you.

How dare you talk about the way I live.

What about the way you live?

Spending your days and nights with those tank town tramps.

Look at you.

You're nothing more than a drunken bawdyhouse bum.

Go on, go ahead.

That's the way you do things isn't it?

You either hit them or fight them.

I hope he drinks himself into a stupor.

Hello?

Who's there?

Who's there?

You might not believe this, Kitty,

but there have been times, a good many times,

when I missed Dodge so bad I just ached.

Well, I know your folks'll be happy to see you.

But I think you could have picked

a better time to come back.

You mean all that Indian nonsense?

Well, I'm sure that's all it is.

Bunch of sorry reservation renegades.

What could they possibly do?

It's not just a local disturbance.

The word from the forts is

that it could be a major uprising.

It may have already started.

Oh now, Kitty, my father knows Indians

about as well as any man, I think.

Papa would tell us if you'd give him a good repeating rifle,

he'd take on any dozen Kiowa

and leave nothing but feathers and beads.

And that was when the tribes were still strong.

Desperate people are capable of desperate things.

From what I've heard they're nothing more

than trading post loafers now, capable of little more

than intoxication and camp following.

Hardly cause for alarm.

I beg to differ, young lady.

It is often the most degraded who are the most dangerous.

I beg your pardon, sir,

but I believed our conversation to be private.

I apologize for intruding,

but the fact is I just couldn't sleep.

And after what you said, I couldn't pretend to either.

Allow me to introduce myself.

I'm Cicero Wolfe, attorney-at-law.

I'm Kitty Russell.

My name is Cora Sanderson.

My pleasure, ladies.

I've practiced the law for a good many years now,

Miss Sanderson, and one of the things I've found is

that the most trouble comes

from those who have nothing to lose.

Is that a fact, sir?

I'd always been led to believe that rabble-rousers

might make a considerable stir in a country

that had no law or a very weak civil authority,

but surely in a nation such as ours

they could never prevail.

Because we are strong, miss?

Oh, I agree they couldn't win,

but not that they couldn't make an effort.

The American Indian is a complex human being, Miss Sanderson,

capable of very strange things.

Complex, perhaps, but raw and ignorant and wild.

And in a civilized society, sir,

the primitive will never win out.

And which society is truly civilized, Miss Cora?

Not surely our own.

Good night.

You're illegible to sign up here

- and what this here paper says is - Festus.

That you're a fixing to join up

with the Dodge City militias

and you ain't a fixing to quit

til the here fuss is over with.

- Festus. - What is it Burke?

Festus, where's the Marshal?

Well, he's out yonder at the Sanderson place, I reckon.

- Well, I... - So just if you wanna join up,

step up here and put your mark on this here paper.

Festus, look telegram from Fort Scott.

The uprising isn't just around Dodge.

Those renegades are raiding all over Western Kansas.

This is serious, Festus!

Burke, what in the pea soup

do you think I'm a doing all this for if it wasn't?

The wires was down from Wichita all last night, Festus.

And we just now found out Miss Kitty is on that stage.

Now you fellas just keep on a signing here

and I'll be back directly.

Festus, where you going?

Well, I'm fixing to ride out yonder

and meet the stage if you'll quit pestering me

and let me go.

The stage is coming.

The stage is coming in.

Doc, Doc, Miss Kitty's coming in

on this here stage according to Burke.

Well, that's what the telegram says, Doc.

Whoa, whoa.

Have any trouble on the way, Brewer?

Saw what looked like a big fire at the Caroll place,

but we came through clean as a bone.

Miss Cora.

Oh, Festus.

- Miss Kitty. - Hello, Festus.

I sure am tickled to see you back.

I just been a fretting about you.

Am I ever glad to be home, oh god.

Oh, Festus, how are you?

Glad to see you. Let me help you.

Oh, Doc Adams, how good to see you.

Cora, thank you.

Cora, there's something I must tell ya.

You know...

renegade Comanches have been rampaging

all over Kansas, and while your father was away

they raided your place.

Cora, your mother's dead.

Oh, my god.

If they get to the north side of the river

what's up the near bank?

Well, there's a bunch of dry coulees

that run north and east

and six miles or so beyond that you hit the forks.

And the south bank?

The country flattens out, drops off to near desert.

Forage would be better

- on the north side. - Yes, sir.

The line of the raids tapers off near the forks.

Seems like if they be running, they'd run west.

What do you think, O'Brien.

Well, Comanches wouldn't leave forage

if they could help it.

Not unless they had a good reason.

Lieutenant, form the men in a column of twos.

Put four men out on individual point half a mile apart.

Sir.

We'll keep to the north side of the river.

Yes, sir.

Form columns of twos.

Four men, regular men on point, half a mile apart.

Maybe we'll catch them at breakfast, O'Brien.

Yes, sir.

Forward, ho.

Dr. Adams?

Yes, Cora, I'm right here.

What happened to me?

You collapsed. You're under mild sedation.

You're all right, you're all right.

My mother?

She was, killed?

How?

Why?

Well, Cora, it was part of a general uprising on the reservations

and your mother was one of the victims.

- I don't understand. - And I don't either.

There isn't much I can say to make things any easier for you

except perhaps that you have to be strong.

You have to accept things as they are,

you can't change that.

And go on and live your life.

If it's any consolation to you,

the Calvary's trying to run those renegades down now.

Hold fire, no firing, no firing.

Come on, give it up there.

Give it up there.

Take them out of there.

Take them out, Sargent.

Renegades.

They're Kwahadi Comanche they're not from around here.

Probably split off from the main raiding party.

Sir, look at these.

And Captain, look at this.

I don't reckon they made this on no reservation.

Lieutenant, can I see that?

What is it, O'Brien, what's the matter?

This watch is from Dodge.

It belongs to Bear Sanderson.

Lieutenant Briggs, see that those men get mounted,

the women with them.

Keep them under close guard.

We're heading into Fort Dodge.

Yes, sir.

This scum just might have a few things

to explain to Mr. Sanderson.

They killed her, I heard.

Bear, I'm sorry.

Ashes to ashes.

Ain't that it?

Just ain't right, you see.

Not her.

Not this way.

If it'd been me, there wouldn't be no grief to it,

no shame.

I come to Kansas lower than the Red River

and meaner than smallpox

and I got what I got because I took it.

Mostly from the Indians.

And I did killing and injuring to 'em.

Them people hate me.

They got a right.

You see, Matt, time went on by.

Towns growed up, folks got different.

They got them an army first,

who whooped the Indian one time for good.

And then after that they thought he'd just lie down and die.

They never knowed him.

Not like me.

Very few have.

Then they put him on scrub reservations

and fed him maggot beef.

Commenced to call a man we'd been killing "brother".

You never know people.

They had to have peace out here.

Land can't grow without it.

You ain't gonna get no peace from an Indian

lessin' you kill him.

This here is the price for learning that

and I paid it.

Bear, it was a few that did this.

You can't blame this on a whole people.

Can't live with them is what I'm saying to ya.

Can't live with them living.

I ain't saying it's right, I'm just telling ya how it is.

We're gonna find the ones who did this

and they'll answer for it.

They'll answer for it all right.

They'll answer to me.

And when it take them I'll do for them myself

what I always done,

gut them out and feed them to the wolves.

That's not the way to do it.

They'll pay just like anybody else pays within the law.

You'd stand again me on this, would ya?

I'd have to.

Then that's how she'll swing.

Mr. Sanderson!

Marshal!

Marshall, I come up as quick as I could from the fort.

I've been riding with the Calvary patrol

down across the Cimarron.

We run into a couple of renegade Indians

and took them captive.

Tell it.

They had your gold watch

and some of Mrs. Sanderson's jewels.

I'll need you to identify them.

You need me?

I need them.

I'll be a coming for 'em.

Here they come.

They got the Indians.

They'll bring 'em in.

They're the ones that killed Bear's wife.

You're going to hell.

They're gonna hang 'em for sure.

I want them men.

They're going to jail, Bear.

They don't need jailing, they need killing.

That'll be decided by a court of law.

There's gonna be no killing here.

No killing here?

I'm telling you they's been killing here.

Them cutthroats is raging like a storm of fire

all across the country and you say no killing?

I'm saying the killing's been on the wrong side.

And I'm gonna change it now.

Hold it right there.

You men listen to me.

The Calvary's on the way in right now

with reinforcements to put down this uprising.

These men are gonna be tried in a court of law

and if they're found guilty, they'll hang.

In the meantime, nobody takes justice into his own hands,

not you or anybody else.

That's the way it's been around this town.

That's the way it's gonna be.

Just stay out of the way.

Now, listen to me.

All of you.

Them murdering savages killed my wife.

I'm gonna see them burn in hell for it.

And any man that ain't with me is again me.

I'm on your side, Bear.

You don't reckon he'd haul off

and do something silly do you, Matthew?

I don't know, Festus.

Right now he's hurt

and he's not used to being hurt and taking it.

Do you think him and his boys'll

try to hit the jail, Marshal?

Oh, I don't think so, Newly.

Not right away, at least.

Of course he's got his blamed ole ears flayed back

and his eyeballs pooched out and a rolling around

like you was some squared off blood enemy

when you been friends for the biggest part of your life.

Well, he's after revenge, Festus.

He doesn't care who gets hurt in the process.

Maybe we'd oughta just collect him

and slap in the cooling box for a spell

til he simmers down.

Well, I guess after they're indicted and tried,

he'll feel better about it.

I'm not so sure, Newly.

Did you have a chance to talk to those prisoners?

Yes, sir.

Both of them are Kwahadi, they're Southern Comanche.

They claim they've never been north of the river

until the night before we caught them.

What about the raids?

They said they didn't know nothing about it.

But they seen a Kiowa party from Choke Cherry Creek

and they said they had full pokes and blood in their eyes.

Now, this story checked out

because a squadron from Fort Hook

had run them down later in the day.

Well, of course, what would they say?

You don't expect them to fess up

and put their necks in the ringer, do ya?

Well, it's pretty hard explaining

why they had Bear's watch, Festus.

Yeah, that sure is.

I'm going over to the telegraph office.

Keep an eye on things here will you, Newly?

You bet.

Matthew, supposing you was to go right to ole Bear

and just tell him to keep his nose clean?

When he finds out that we actually mean business, why...

All right, boys, I don't want you hanging around here.

Let's break it up and move along.

Well, go on. You heard him.

Go on, scat, get about your business, now.

Matthew, I sure don't like the looks of things at all.

Neither do I.

It just shouldn't have happened.

It's my fault it was for leaving her alone.

I swear to God, Cora, if I'd a known what...

Papa, please.

Stop hurting yourself with it.

I ain't dodging what I got coming to me.

Never have and never will.

I loved your momma, Cora.

Well, she never took to me like I done to her.

So, I went off at times and worked, drank a little.

Too much is how she seen it.

But I loved her.

Like I love you, lady.

Everything I done, everything I made here,

I done for you and her.

I know, Papa.

She knew it, too.

The biggest spread in all of Kansas we had for a home

and that ain't all.

What I done for this territory.

This wasn't no state when I come here.

Wasn't nothing but 19 kinds of misery.

When just closing your eyes was like offering up your soul.

And I fought and stuck on like grim death til I had

what I had to have and helped the other folks

settle this territory.

Now whadda I got?

You tell me.

Papa, what do you want?

What are you saying?

Well, I'm saying the law denied me.

Denied you?

You haven't given it a chance, Papa.

I want the ones that done it.

And I want them and I'll have them.

You do have them.

They'll be punished for what they've done

if you don't somehow prevent it.

It's the law and lawmen that prevents it.

What I want done to them doesn't need no courts or juries.

Papa, listen to me, please.

If you try and deal with these men the way you want to

it won't work and you'll only destroy yourself.

Myself be damned.

You think I care what happens to me now?

What about me, Papa?

Do you care what happens to me?

Howdy, Miss Kitty.

Hello, Festus.

What's it like out there?

Well, town's simmered down some

from what it was this morning.

Course, it couldn't be no more exciteder

than it was neither.

Where's Matt?

He's went over to the telegraph office.

I reckon he's still a messaging.

More trouble?

I don't know, Miss Kitty.

We sure don't need no more, though,

not with the two renegaders locked up down yonder.

Hi, Matt. Matt.

How are things out there?

Oh I got a problem, Doc.

- What? - More raids?

No, as a matter of fact, the Army's got those raiding parties

pretty well pinned down.

It's Bear Sanderson.

Ugly business.

It's stupid, he shouldn't a done it.

Yeah, that's putting it mildly.

You know the thing is people think an awful lot of him

and not only in Dodge either.

I know he's well thought of all over the state.

I just got a telegram from the State Bar Association.

There isn't a lawyer in Kansas

that's willing to defend those two Indians.

What'll do if you can't find somebody?

Well, I don't know.

Every day I keep those two locked up

then things are liable to get hotter.

No question about it.

They gotta be tried and right away.

You know I had a thought.

It's a possibility but it might work.

There was a man on the stage, his name was Wolfe.

Cicero Wolfe, I think.

He said he was a lawyer from back East somewhere

and he was on his way to San Francisco to start a practice.

Well, he's from out of state,

he sure wouldn't know Bear.

Or anybody in Dodge or in Kansas for that matter.

Yeah, if he's just a traveling on through,

then he could just dust on out of town

when the chivalry is over, couldn't he?

Well, he can't leave town, anyway,

the Army's got the whole town blocked off.

Sure wouldn't have anything to lose

in the state of Kansas.

Nothing except his life.

Don't you understand, sir, I can't possibly tell you

when they'll be another stage.

Now, if it were in my power to I would.

But I just don't know.

Now the federal authorities have closed down

all lines of transportation until the uprising is over.

Come now, you mean to say

that if I chose to buy myself a horse

and ride away alone, I wouldn't be allowed to?

That's right, mister.

Name's Matt Dillon.

I'm the Marshal here in Dodge.

Cicero Wolfe, sir.

Well, he's right you see there are no stages leaving,

no trains.

Nothing until this Indian thing is settled.

I'm supposed to be in San Francisco

by the end of the month.

Well, what a man can't eliminate or change he must accept.

Mr. Wolfe, I'd like to talk to you for a minute

if I could.

There's a question I'd like to ask you.

Why certainly, Marshal.

Burke.

That's what we're up against.

A very difficult situation.

Mr. Wolfe, if you'd take this case

it would solve a lot of problems.

Of course.

If I don't?

Then those two men go unrepresented.

It could blow this town wide open.

And me, Marshal, what about me?

Well, I'll do my best to protect ya.

I have no guarantee there isn't some risk.

It's not the risk I'm concerned about.

I have my own affairs, you see.

Well, this trial won't take long

and you can't leave town anyway.

I'm afraid that I have to refuse.

Is it because of what they are?

Mr. Wolfe, let me tell you something.

The law and lawyers exist to defend men just such as these.

I know that, Marshal, believe me I do

and my refusal is not made lightly.

I know you're a man who can understand

when I say that I have strong personal reasons

for not taking this case.

Strong enough to risk the lives of two men?

You build a pretty strong case yourself, Marshal.

You see I built my whole life around the law

as I think you have.

And if I've learned one thing in the process,

it is that there are times when even the most dedicated man

must recognize his, call them limitations.

Must rule himself out in a given case.

It would be a grave mistake, a dangerous mistake

for me to involve myself in their trial.

I must say no.

Mr. Wolfe, when I met you

I was hoping you would be the man to take this case.

Now, I just hope you can live with the fact that you didn't.

Good day.

Would you ask him if I might speak with him,

please, Howie?

Of course I will, Miss Cora.

Oh, will you sit down for a moment?

Thank you, I'll wait outside.

Miss Sanderson.

Mr. Wolfe.

I don't know quite how to begin to explain

why I've come here to see you.

You would needn't explain anything.

I have a favor to ask of you.

- I hope I can help you. - I hope you will.

You know, of course, that I lost my mother.

Yes.

They have captured the men...

Would you like to sit?

I can only hope that those who are guilty

will be punished as swiftly

and severely as the law allows.

That's why I've come to you.

Mr. Wolfe, you don't know my father, but he's a violent,

passionate, self-willed man.

Perhaps you can understand that a man who fought to take

this country from the Indians,

who spent his entire young life trying to survive

against their vicious depredations would become so.

He's obsessed with hatred for these men

because of what they've done, but beyond that,

because of what they are and have been to him.

I can understand.

And perhaps because of what he represents

he's a great power in Kansas.

A symbol.

Exactly, someone the people of the state

rally to and respect.

Therefore, the men who are his enemies

are the enemies of Kansas.

Yes, you amaze me with your perception, Mr. Wolfe.

Excuse me for it.

And now these men who have been jailed,

he wants them for himself.

And not for the impersonal, finical,

anesthetic treatment of a court of law.

That's right.

And I'm afraid that he will get them or die trying.

And that's why I've come to you, Mr. Wolfe.

To ask you if you might see fit to take their case.

I know the Marshal asked you and you refused.

But I wanted to add my request to his.

You would ask me, let me understand,

to take a case that no other man will touch,

forgive me, in order intentionally to lose it?

No, no it's not a question of that.

What then?

Well, those men are murderers.

And guilty before they're tried.

Those animals have no valid claim to even appear

before a true court of justice.

You do yourself an injustice by saying so, Miss Sanderson.

There are no men so low they do not have that right.

None who are not innocent until proven guilty.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, I...

Please, try to understand.

I'm at the end of my resources.

I don't know where to turn, what to do.

I'm truly afraid of what my father

might do if you don't help me.

I sympathize with you, believe me I do.

Well, then please will you take the case?

I'll see that you're paid very handsome...

Miss Sanderson it is not a question of money,

I cannot take the case.

- Why? - Because...

Because it would not be fair,

not to the men on trial and not to you,

because, you see, if I take a case, I take it to win.

And those are the reasons you choose to give?

They are real and legitimate.

No, I'm sorry.

They're false.

I think I'm beginning to understand you, Mr. Wolfe.

You are one of those very practical men,

whose morality is contingent upon his own convenience.

One of those more interested in comfort than in law.

Who is so indifferent to justice that he won't take the time

and trouble to see it done.

Goodnight, sir.

We want those Indians, Dillon.

Yeah.

Come on, send 'em out, Dillon.

Listen to me, those Indians are in jail,

that's where they're gonna stay.

Nobody's getting them out.

Now, move along.

Then we'll come in and get 'em.

Yeah.

Back off.

Break it up.

Move off.

Back off, all of you.

Before somebody gets blown in two.

I'm to gonna tell you again.

Now, break it up and move off.

Go on.

It's open.

What do you want?

I came to talk to you, Bear.

Talk then, get gone.

You're letting me down.

I don't believe you said that.

I said it and I mean it.

You trying to provoke me, Matt?

You want some trouble?

You're the one that's making the trouble

and you know it.

Why, damn you, man.

You got a high riding brass coming in here,

baiting me to my face.

And you got yours, trying to buck me in front of my town.

Your town?

Whose town?

When you come here a runny nose punk

with nothing on but a piece of tin

to cover your virgin heart, who backed ya?

What man stood up for ya?

Dug in behind ya and told the politicians

and the buttermilkers and the Texican hell wreckers

who it was gonna be?

A man who knew good from bad

and bad from worse named Sanderson, now where is he?

What's happened to him?

You wanna know what happened to him?

You did.

You and a bunch of your town posies turned him rogue

and run him maverick with your barbed wire

and your lady rig rules.

Then he's not the man I thought he was.

Now cut loose of it, Bear. Talk sense.

I came here to ask your help.

I had a lynch mob in front of my jail tonight.

If you wanna you can cool that town off right now.

If you don't you can blow the lid off it.

It's up to you.

Talk to me, mister.

They roughed up your gal and you took off that badge

and went after 'em with fire in your eyes.

And I wouldn't have spit in your eye if you hadn't.

Yeah, I did that and I was wrong.

But at least I went alone.

I didn't rouse the whole town to murder on the way.

Bear, if you come into Dodge on the prod

and you try to face me down, I'm gonna have to kill ya.

Come down to that, has it?

It's gone as far as it can go.

Matt, you know a lot of men, don't you?

How many you know ain't afraid of you and your hogleg?

I took on everything there was when I was bullin'.

And I buried a right smart of lead chuckers

that thought a angel was sitting on their shoulder

and lightning and mercury lived in their gun hand.

And I learned a big thing,

watching 'em bleed away to brew meat.

A man don't die but once.

Now, some red, rabid hog is down

and killed my Chantilly woman.

If you think I'm afeard of dying,

then you ain't got no sense at all.

Now get out of here.

Mr. Wolfe, let me tell you something,

the law and lawyers exist to defend men just such as these.

Mr. Wolfe when I met you, I was hoping you'd be the man

to take this case.

Now, I just hope you can live

with the fact that you haven't.

I'm afraid I'm at the end of my resources.

I don't know where to turn or what to do.

I'm truly afraid of what my father

might do if you won't help me.

Come in.

Mr. Wolfe.

What can I do for you this time of night?

I'd like to ask you a favor, Marshal.

What's that?

I'd like to see the prisoners.

All right, they're right in there.

Marshal, what you said the other day was sound and true.

The law, if there's meaning in it,

exists to defend just such men as these.

I have reconsidered, I will take this case.

But I know the moral climate.

Your town and your state are looking for a sacrifice,

a speedy conviction, a brisk public revenge.

You prevailed on me to take this case.

And I must warn you I will fight it with all my skill,

which is considerable.

You must bear that responsibility.

And there is perhaps a heavier burden still,

which you must shoulder and bear alone.

How do you suppose your good public will react, sir,

when they discover, as they will,

that the man who represents your renegades

is himself a half-blooded Cherokee.

Marshal.

We are ready.

There's one thing, Mr. Wolfe.

Yes.

You and I both know you don't have much of a chance.

There's one piece of evidence

that everybody seems to have missed.

I wanna make sure you don't.

And gentlemen of the jury,

I intend to prove, beyond all possible doubt,

that these men are not guilty.

Order.

Order.

Order.

I intend to show to your satisfaction

that the case against my clients is a sham

and a pretense.

That it is not a real case at all.

But rather a tissue of moonbeams and horsefeathers

based entirely on imprudent speculation.

Without any sound basis and evidence whatsoever.

And ladies and gentlemen,

I have the painful duty to show as well,

and believe me, I would rather not

that this whole indictment is the kind of conveniently

and irresponsibly trumped up slander which

would never have come to trial if the two defendants

had been white men instead of Indians.

Order.

We will have order in this court.