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Harrod!

Harrod!

Got trouble?

What's the matter, Makesha?

- Harrod, the boy. - What?

He is sick.

He is so hot.

Fever, it feels like.

Harrod, help him.

No way in the world I'd let something bad

come on that boy.

Chances are he'll be fine by the night.

Be fighting me for my share of stew.

But if he's not?

Harrod, if he's worse, what will we do?

I heard about this doctor in Dodge, name is Adams.

No.

Since when you been tellin' me what I can do?

We've been here a couple of years,

ain't never caught me yet.

This is not Dodge.

No one comes here, no one sees you.

They've been seeing me at the tradin' post.

Ain't nobody ever said one word.

A few more years,

and they will forget they are looking for you.

They will not put up your picture anymore.

We can live without fear, without the gun by our side.

Chances are he's gonna be fine by the night.

But if he's... If, if, if.

If the Great Spirit had said if all the time,

would never have been no world.

Now, you stay with the boy.

He looks for you.

Any better?

Yes, yes, I think he's better.

Hotter than before, it seems to me.

I want no white man's medicine.

The boy is sick, Makesha.

I do not trust them.

He needs a doctor.

He needs somebody who knows what he's doing.

This Doc Adams, he's old and he's smart.

Maybe the best in this whole territory.

We wouldn't want nobody less.

Harrod, do not go to Dodge.

It will mean your life if you go.

And if I don't, maybe his.

I'll be back as fast as I can.

Hi, Newly.

Doc still out at Jake's?

Well, you know Doc.

He'll be there if there's one chance to pull him through.

Yeah, and maybe if there isn't.

How about you, you been busy?

Oh, the usual run.

Colds and rheumatiz, aches and pains.

I did set a man's arm this morning.

He tried to break a horse

and broke his arm instead.

Want some coffee?

Oh, no, no thanks.

I'll head out and see if Doc needs anything.

If he does, I'll be hollering for you.

I'll be here.

I'm lookin' for Doc Adams.

Doc Adams isn't here.

I'm taking care of his office for him.

He be gone long?

Kinda hard to tell.

Could be gone all night.

You his partner or something?

Name's O'Brien, Newly O'Brien.

Help out in his office sometimes.

What's the trouble?

I got me a sick boy.

What's wrong with him?

So hot you can hardly put your hand to him.

Why didn't you bring him in the office?

My wife don't like to come into Dodge.

I need to take Doc Adams out to my place.

Doc Adams won't be goin' anywhere

for a while, he's with a dying man.

Well, I got me a living kid

who needs him more.

You know about kids?

I know some.

Then you come.

All right.

Whereabouts do you live?

I'll leave Doc a note.

No.

What do you mean, no?

I mean what I said.

Now, let's go.

Not without knowing where I'm goin'.

I said, let's go, now.

You won't be needing that rifle.

Come on, Doc.

Makesha, put that down.

Makesha, I said put that gun down.

- Who is this man? - A doctor.

This is not the one you promised.

He is not old and wise, he is too young.

Doc Adams is out of town, ma'am.

My name's Newly O'Brien.

He works with Doc Adams.

He makes good medicine, too.

We got no choice.

Leave him be, you'll only hurt the boy.

I love my son, too.

If I didn't think he could help,

I wouldn't have brought him.

Ma'am, I'm gonna do the best I can, believe me.

There's no rash showing. That's the first thing you look for.

No broken bones, as far as I can tell.

Has he been throwing up?

No.

Well, wouldn't be the colic, then.

You know, it's cold in here.

It's best to keep this little feller warm.

He's too hot already.

Sure he's hot, that's fever.

Put a chill on top of that,

and you're really asking for trouble, ma'am.

I say you do not stop hot with hot.

Why don't you listen to him?

He knows what he's doing.

Knows more than us.

Teething seems to be over.

Good color, gums are firm.

Would you bring that lamp over here, please?

Just hold it up here so I can see.

You come on something?

Some spots in his mouth.

Spots, what does that mean?

Could mean the first sign of measles.

Measles?

Is this bad?

Yes, ma'am, if that's what it turns out to be.

Just take it easy, little feller.

How's the fever?

It's up some.

You still guessing it's measles?

No guessing anymore.

He's starting to cough, that makes it pretty sure.

You'll see the rash on pretty soon.

Can't be.

How in God's name could he catch the measles?

Ain't never been off this place.

Nearest neighbor is ten miles or more.

I wouldn't say friendly.

Standoffish, more like.

Wait a minute.

- Was a wagon. - A wagon?

Last week, family headin' west.

Had trouble with their wagon.

We give 'em supper, and they stayed the night.

Was there any children with 'em?

Yeah, a little girl about six.

Took a real shine to the baby, kept playin' with him.

Was she sick?

I wouldn't say sick, exactly,

except her ma mentioned she'd been feelin' lowly.

That's coughing's getting worse.

If we don't stop it, it could turn into pneumonia,

and that's bad.

But you will stop it, yes?

I don't know if I can.

How come?

The only way I know to hold the coughing down

is with laudanum.

- So use it. - I don't have any.

So what will we do?

Take him into town.

No, I will not take him to Dodge.

Ma'am, you asked me, I'm just trying to help you.

I have seen the white man's help.

He helps the Comanche only to die.

Look, ma'am, I know how you feel,

and I don't hardly blame you.

But you gotta think of that little boy right now,

what's the best thing for him.

I have said it. I will not take him to Dodge.

Then I guess it's up to you.

No, you will not go, Harrod.

Makesha, this sickness could be bad.

Then let this one drive it out.

You have said he makes good medicine,

let him make it here.

Must be something you can do.

I can dig out a bullet or set a broken bone,

but I can't make laudanum out of thin air.

Doc Adams keeps it on hand.

All you have to do is bring the baby into the office.

You will not touch him.

You will not make us go to Dodge.

Look, we all want the same thing for the little boy,

to make him well.

All you have to do is bring him into town.

No, no, I will not.

I will kill you first.

Makesha.

Then let your husband bring him in.

I have told you this, too, I've told you no.

You better talk some sense into her.

Maybe the coughing will stop.

Not likely, not without laudanum.

At least let me go into town and bring some back.

No, Harrod.

You're gonna stay here,

do the best you can.

You can go on and kill me,

but it's not gonna help your baby any.

Maybe I can't shoot you.

But if that baby dies while you're gone,

you're gonna remember that for a long time.

Having you here is better than not.

I got chores to do.

Makesha?

Well, any better?

I do not think so.

Harrod, let us take him to my people.

To the medicine man.

Dahoma's good at what he does.

But this is something he ain't never seen before.

Believe me, ain't no way he can help that boy.

He has saved your life.

When I found you near the camp, you could not walk.

There was no strength in your blood,

and when you spoke, the evil ones had your tongue.

That was mountain fever, that's all.

You were like dead.

You had passed halfway into the other world,

and only Dahoma said you would live.

He burned his leaves and he rubbed you with his grease.

Seven days I sat by you,

not knowing light from dark,

until you moved, until you opened your eyes,

and I knew the Great Spirit had sent you back to me.

Wasn't Dahoma's medicine that made me well.

It's 'cause I had somebody to love.

Then do this for me.

Let me take the boy back.

I can't.

Dahoma makes good medicine for Indians,

but measles is a white man sickness.

Then we must put the boy's life

in that one's hands?

Let's give him time.

These are unclean.

I will go to the water.

Cough's tearing him apart.

Any way to change your mind?

Her mind.

She ain't goin' nowheres near Dodge.

She hates us that much?

Got good reason.

Seen her ma and her pa and most of the camp

cut down by soldiers.

Drunk and nothin' better to do,

just whiskey and meanness mixed half and half.

Doesn't she understand we all aren't like that?

You yourself, she married you.

Always one to break the rule.

I don't know why myself.

Well, somebody's gotta bring him in.

She doesn't have to go along, you could do it yourself.

I can't.

Why not?

I just can't, that's all.

If this baby dies,

you have nobody else to blame but yourself.

You, sitting high and mighty-like.

You got no cause to say that to me.

Well, if you won't bring him in, it's true.

I just can't.

You haven't told me why not.

'Cause I'm wanted.

Wanted?

They got a poster on me.

Yahoo!

Well, looky what we got here.

That ain't no job for you, honey, washin' clothes.

I can show you a lot better.

What's your name, squaw?

You from around here?

Round and round she goes,

round and round and round.

Yahoo, ha!

Harrod!

Harrod!

Makesha?

Harrod!

All right, that's enough!

Get on your horses, and get out of here!

What are you doin' way out here?

Move!

We was only funnin'.

That's the God's honest truth, Deputy.

Deputy.

No badge, no nothing.

Lettin' on like you was a doctor.

I never said I was a doctor.

Just as good.

Said you'd been workin' with one.

That's the truth, I have.

Whenever he needs me.

Yeah, he just calls you in off the street

and says, "You wanna be the doc..."

I've been studying medicine with him for months now,

all in my spare time.

And playin' lawman the rest.

You never told me you was a deputy.

There wasn't no reason to.

No more than you tellin' me you were wanted.

I come here lookin' to find a sick child,

not a man with a poster on him.

I'm not even wearing a gun.

You got one now.

Might as well say it.

You thinkin' to take me in?

Right now, I'm not worried about you.

I'm worried about that baby in there.

When you get him well.

Just like I figured, his spots are starting to show.

First thing you know, he'll be covered with 'em.

Don't suppose you ever had the measles?

This is bad for him.

It could be bad for you.

Clean blanket, please.

But then you were exposed at the same time as him,

chances are, if you're not showing any signs by now,

you won't.

Cover him up.

What will you do to him?

Keep the fire going so it'll keep the chill down.

Not to the child, to Harrod.

- I don't know. - He's a good man.

There is nothing but kindness in his heart.

It is wrong to put him in prison.

But you will not listen.

It is wrong what you say.

You are a man of the gun.

He lets me do nothing.

He does not even let me hold my own son.

He's got his own way, he's a doctor.

He's a man of the law.

You have told him they are looking for you.

I must have been yelling real good.

I hear you when you are quiet, too.

I know when you are happy,

and when there is sadness in your heart.

I never was no good at hidin' my feelings.

I know how much you worry for us now.

Harrod, he will take you to prison.

It is in his blood,

it is in him like the fever is in the boy.

This is his work, this is his life,

to find a man like you and take him to prison.

Not if I read him right.

Why would he give me back that gun

if he's thinking to take me in?

He does not need the gun.

He sure ain't takin' me in without it.

He knows you are here.

He will come back, and bring others with him.

We cannot let him go back.

You tell me how we're gonna stop him.

No, we need him for the boy.

When the boy is well.

We need you.

If he takes you, there will be no life for us.

It is that one, or us.

You must kill him, Harrod.

I'll need some fresh water.

I will go.

It is better for me if my hands are busy.

I can't do miracles.

How did you get tangled up with the law?

I'm a long story.

I don't know as though we're goin' anywhere.

About three years ago,

we'd just been married a while,

livin' with her people for the time.

You needed some money, and you took it.

I never took nothin',

not in my whole life.

There's a ranch up there,

about 20 miles north.

I got me a job with them.

She used to ride up to see me every week.

Just, I wasn't lookin' for her that day.

What happened?

I was late comin' in.

Some hands came in off the trail.

They didn't know she was mine.

Never seen her before.

You seen those hidecutters today.

There's always some around like that.

They come on an Indian girl alone,

it's like a pack of wolves with a newborn calf.

Figure they can do that they want,

put their lousy hands on her,

and ain't nobody gonna call 'em for it.

And you did.

They whipped me,

but I learned this big fella good.

I never hit nobody with an ax handle before.

Did you kill him?

I didn't think so at the time.

We didn't wait around to find out.

We just high-tailed it out of there.

How did you find out you were wanted?

I was workin' up near Blakeman for a while.

One day, I saw 'em put a wanted poster up.

Murder, they called it.

Didn't seem to care that there was five against my one,

not sayin' what they was trying to do to Makesha.

That's when we came down here

and bought this place to farm.

Can anybody prove what you just told me?

Only her.

What about those cowhands?

You think they're gonna talk up for me?

I want you to tell me straight out.

Do you think he maybe could die?

He could.

You wanna change your mind about goin' into Dodge?

I ain't done outside yet.

Ma'am, water please.

I got my mind made up.

First light tomorrow, we take him into Dodge.

No.

I can't do nothin' else.

He only wants to take you to Dodge

so he can have the money they promised for you.

No, ma'am, wait a minute.

I don't know if you'll understand this,

and I'm not so sure if I do myself,

but I don't think I can tell anybody about your husband.

You see, there's an oath doctors take.

They find out something while they're treating a patient,

they're sworn not to tell anybody about it.

But you are not a real doctor.

You've said so, you've taken no oath.

No, I haven't.

But I figure if I'm acting as a doctor,

I'm carrying a doctor's responsibility.

Meaning?

You go back to Dodge with me,

you're helping to save a child's life.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm not deputized,

and you're not wanted.

You're that little baby's father, and that's all.

We better get some sleep.

Be startin' real early.

Makesha!

Her horse is gone.

Where do you think she'd go with the boy?

She was asking me to take him back to her people,

to a medicine man.

Camp's at the Little North Fork.

Well, it won't be there for long

if she takes that baby in there.

Measles are worse than smallpox to the Indians.

They have no immunity against it.

We got to catch 'em before she gets there.

Do you think we've got a chance?

Baby's gonna slow her down some.

Depends on how much start she's got.

There she is.

Makesha!

I need Dahoma.

Makesha.

Dahoma, when I was young, I was sick.

And you made me strong.

I have come to you again.

You are sick?

My son.

The dark spirits have come into him.

I ask you to take him and make him well.

No, don't touch him!

Stay away from him. Don't go near him.

Do like I say!

You touch that baby, and you could die.

Do you know this white man?

I know him well.

He is a man of the gun.

She twists the truth.

She does not say the rest.

Harrod, you turned against your wife?

Only in this.

She speaks a lie.

You are not a man of the gun?

The law, I'm a Deputy Marshal.

I have told you, Dahoma.

I do not twist the truth.

You left something out.

He's also a man of medicine.

He learned from an old and wise man in his town.

He comes only to help.

Makesha, did you ask for his help?

I did not.

I asked for his help.

He is white, he does what he wants.

What I want is to keep you from killing your people.

Take my word for it.

This baby has a bad sickness,

what we call the measles.

If you touch him, you and the others could die.

He could turn this whole camp into a death trap.

He lies.

You have the white man's medicine?

I've got some.

Enough to see the sickness in this child?

That's right.

But not enough to drive it out?

Almost enough.

I will drive the evil out.

Don't, you don't know what you're doing.

Might do to hear him out.

He ain't askin' so much.

A wise man listens to his son,

and we have made you one of us.

What do you ask?

Just don't nobody touch him.

Let us leave with the baby

before you all become sick.

Take the child to my tent.

If I was you, I wouldn't do that.

Goriko, he's my friend.

He coughs again, the dark ones are still with him.

It is the smoke.

The smoke does not make me cough.

You are older and stronger.

It touches the lungs and will make them well.

It does not make him well.

How long, Dahoma?

The hours pass by.

The Great Spirit does not reckon time.

The Great Spirit has no need.

He lives forever.

Makesha.

The child is so young.

There is no sin in him yet.

Why does he hurt, why is he punished, for what?

These things, my daughter, we cannot know.

If he has evil in him,

let the pain come to me,

and if he has no evil in him,

then the Great Spirit has no justice,

and it is all a lie.

Makesha, you will be punished.

I am punished already.

My son is sick.

I gotta talk to you.

He don't look no better to me.

Dahoma says it takes time.

Dahoma ain't the one who's sick.

He's a good man, he makes good medicine.

I remember when I was small...

When you was small, you didn't have the measles.

Makesha, the boy could die.

He will not die.

I come to ask you this last time.

Give the boy back.

Let Newly take him into Dodge.

No.

Dahoma ain't never seen the measles before.

His medicine can't help the boy.

You show yourself to me.

You have a white heart.

You think Comanche medicine is bad.

I think you'd better listen to me for a minute.

Something happens to that boy, it happens to us.

To me, and to you, too.

Turns out you maybe could have saved him.

Turns out you held his life in your hand,

and it was closed so tight you never give him a chance.

I could never forget that.

He'd always be lyin' there between us.

That would near kill me, too.

Now, you think on that.

You do nothing for him.

I am praying, Makesha.

I'm burning these sweet leaves.

It is like throwing straw from a cliff.

Your praying and burning do not help.

His life is running out of him, old man.

He will die.

He will not die.

You give me only words.

Make him cool again, give me a sign that he will live.

Make him cool!

I will make him cool.

Makesha's wrong.

This whole camp could come down with a bad sickness.

Makesha's not wrong.

She does not lie.

I'm not saying she's lying.

She just doesn't understand.

She understands that Dahoma can cure.

All right, if you won't listen to me,

what about Harrod?

You told me he was like your own blood.

Do you think he'd try to trick you?

Do you think he brought me here except to help?

What's going on out there?

They take the child to the river.

What for?

For the holy bath.

To take away the sickness.

Hold on!

She spoke the truth,

you are a man of the gun.

I'll take the boy now.

I will not let you.

You have no right.

I got the right to stop a killing.

You put that baby in the water,

and you'll kill him for sure.

You might as well stick a knife in him.

You'll bring on a chill, and the first thing you know,

he'll have pneumonia and die.

The Great Spirit has blessed the lake for us.

It will heal the child.

You're talkin' religion, I'm talkin' medicine.

White man's medicine is for the white man.

Comanche medicine is for the Comanche.

The baby takes his life from both.

His blood is mine, too.

It is the mother's right

until the child is grown.

You got your law, we got ours.

Now, give me the baby.

You are one against many.

You have no chance.

Makesha.

Would he give up his life if he didn't care for the baby?

Would he be so sure?

Makesha.

I beg you, bring him back to me.

Well, I tell you, I think he's gonna be fine.

The cough's let up, and the fever's down.

He'll be all right, I think.

Just keep him on the syrup as well, you see.

Oh yes, I will.

Keep him warm, too.

Don't you worry, Doc.

Is there some reason Makesha didn't catch it, Doc?

Newly, when He gives you a little help,

you just don't ask questions.

Be right with you, Doc.

It is hard to say thank you.

Then don't.

- You ever need me for something... - I'll holler.

I'll try to get out tomorrow and check the baby.

Doc, suppose someone was sick and called on you

and found out they were wanted?

Would you turn 'em in, do you think?

Well, I've had that happen

a time or two in my life, Newly.

I think it depends on the circumstances, you know.

What you feel your obligations are under your oath.

Now, if the man's a menace to society,

I don't know about that.

I just don't know.

You know, that fella back there,

he just don't seem like a criminal to me.

I wasn't necessarily talkin' about Harrod, Doc.

Well, neither was I.