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Not very long now.

All right, Doc.

Boney, Festus wants to talk to you.

Mr. Lathrop, I know it's bound to hurt you to talk

but what happened?

Robbery.

Why do you don't just went ahead

and give him what he wanted?

I did.

But I...

Just take your time now.

I only had a dollar and 87 cents

in my pocket.

He done this to you for a dollar and 87 cents?

Right. Now the most importantest thing,

did you see who he was?

Woolfe.

Rance Woolfe.

You mean the one that Matthew had

locked up for knife fighting?

Well, just don't you worry none, Mr. Lathrop.

I'm fixin' to make him answer to the law.

The wayward brother has come home for a visit.

Well, Rance.

Just like a bad penny.

Always did have a way of making a man feel welcome, John.

You're welcome, Rance.

You're welcome to water for you and for your horse,

and then, I'm gonna hold the gate open for you

when you ride out.

I ain't done nothing to you.

Not this year, you ain't.

You ain't gonna have the chance.

Who you running from, Rance?

I ain't running.

The horse is beat and you look worse.

I can't think of anything except the law

that would make you stick with anything

long enough to work up a sweat.

I'll take the water.

Then you best be on your way.

I don't want Buck Henry knowing you've been around.

Pretty proud of that boy, ain't ya?

Proud enough.

He can get by without socializing with his thievin' uncle.

He's a hardworking boy.

I don't want him getting no ideas from you.

He's such a hard worker,

why ain't he here helping you now?

Today's Sunday.

In case you didn't you.

There's a girl over in the next valley he's got his eye on.

Couldn't hardly wait to get over there.

That reminds me of when you and I were his age, John.

Seems we used to do the same thing.

Well, Buck Henry's got a right.

He's full-grown, strong as a bull.

What did you do this time, Rance?

Nothing.

Had some hard times, John.

I suppose.

Say, you wouldn't have anything for a traveler

harder than that water, would you?

I guess there's a little rye in the kitchen,

but then I don't want to see nothing of you but your back.

Do you hear me, Rance?

Yeah, I hear you, brother.

All right, Mr. Smart,

what if I do marry you?

You gonna take me to St. Louis

and buy me a big house,

and a carriage, and fancy clothes?

Nope.

Well, then what are you gonna do?

Nothing.

Nothing?

Nothing fancy.

You don't have to tell me that.

You don't know nothing fancy, you farmer.

Brian Scoby said he'd take me to St. Louis.

I'd take you to China if I don't have to marry you.

Oh.

This is the laziest tumble bug I ever saw.

Won't move but an inch at a time.

You're the laziest beau I ever saw.

Why anybody else I said that to would

run down to town and hit Brian Scoby with a board

to prove he was a better man.

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

Well, a woman likes to know she's cared about.

I could whip Brian Scoby.

Bet you couldn't.

All right, I can't whip him.

You quit that!

You say things like that just to make me mad.

Yep.

Give me a kiss.

No, gotta come and get it.

Oh, do I have to?

Just got comfortable.

Buck Henry.

Well, that's more like it.

I was beginning to wonder if you'd move for anything.

Come back here.

No you don't.

I think it's time I got home.

Pa will be after you with a shotgun.

Well, I'd get settled anyway.

Lord, I never heard of a case like you.

Leave the scattergun be, John.

Man shouldn't have to take from his own,

but you don't seem to be in the mood for giving.

Now, I gotta have food and money.

Pa always said there was a whole lot of snake in you, boy.

I'll see you in hell before I...

You always was mule-stubborn, John.

Pa said it'd get you killed one day.

I guess he was right.

He was right about both of us.

What did you have to bring that thing along for?

I thought I might pick me up a rabbit.

Pa's got a taste for rabbit stew.

It's the least I can do, I guess,

leaving all the work to him.

Seems like your pa might take Sundays off anyway.

Well, we went down to services this morning.

He thinks that's enough recreation in the spring

when the plowing's gotta be done.

You two are gonna rot away in that cabin

like a couple of old skunks.

Uh-huh, Pa figures there'll come a day.

Day for what?

The day when I take it all over.

He says he's just gonna sit back in the sun

and watch his grandkids play in the dirt.

You'd better get yourself a woman

before he starts talking about grandkids.

Guess I'll find me one.

If not here, then maybe there.

You just quit looking over there.

What is that for?

That's enough for one day.

I don't wanna be giving you too much of a good thing.

Besides, I gotta get back and help Pa.

Honestly, Buck Henry I hope your hair falls out.

Now don't you go fooling around with Brian Scoby now,

you hear?

Farmer!

John, I know you don't get rich off a dirt farm.

Seems you should've done better than this.

Pa's dead.

You killed him, ain't that so Rance?

Now, you listen, kid.

Ain't that so?!

Hello in there!

What's been going on here?

Who are you?

Festus Haggen, deputy marshal from Dodge City.

You wanna tell me what happened?

My pa got shot.

That's what happened.

You the one that done it?

No.

Who done it then?

I'll take care of him.

You caught you a bullet your own self, I see.

It ain't much.

I'll be all right.

You know, I been tracking a killer here,

Rance Woolfe the name,

for purt nigh a week now, I reckon.

Near beat a friend of mine half to death

there in Dodge City.

What is your name, son?

Buck Henry Woolfe.

Buck Henry Woolfe.

Rance Woolfe.

So, that's the way it is, huh?

Yeah, that's the way it is.

Well, I heard he had kinfolks up this way.

I'd be obliged if you'd give me a hand

with Pa's burying, deputy.

I was carrying him, but I must've passed out.

Well, here, you just sit right down.

First thing I'm fixin' to do

is take you back to that little town

there in the valley and get that head looked at.

And I'm gonna be the one to go after Rance Woolfe.

Let's get my pa buried, we'll talk after.

We'll send some folks back to pick him up.

I ain't moving till he's in the ground proper, Deputy,

on the place here,

and you'd better get clear on that.

He would've wanted the same for me.

Buck Henry, I can't...

You can help me or not.

But I just couldn't leave him here this way.

Now, I ain't going till it's done.

All right, but quick as we get done

you're headed for town.

Right now, see if we can't wash some

of the blood off of that noggin of your'n.

I'm sorry I ain't more of a help, deputy.

I keep getting dizzy.

I think maybe a meal and a night's sleep will see me right.

Well, I'll tell you something.

You're just blamed lucky to be alive and kicking.

Bullet been one inch to the side,

you wouldn't have been sitting there jawing with nobody.

What do you figure to do now?

You got other kinfolks here about?

Nope.

I'll stay on here.

It's my place now.

Me and Pa always figured I'd take it over.

"Come a day," he used to say.

Day come a lot quicker than we thought.

You and your pa was pretty close, wasn't you?

Yeah, I guess.

Folks always said so.

My ma died when I was born.

Him and me hung on here together.

He never did marry up again, huh?

Yep, but she took off after a couple of years.

Couldn't take him, I guess.

Pa was as hardheaded as they come.

He got it in his head that he'd never

find a woman to match my ma,

and he never gave any of them that came after a chance.

It'll be lonely around here now.

We didn't pay much attention to religion

except for Sunday services

and Pa said that that was mostly for appearance.

He always kept the Good Book around, though.

He even read it sometimes.

I didn't have no proper coffin for you, Pa,

and I'm sorry for it.

This won't keep you warm, I guess,

but there may be some comfort in it.

Buck Henry, now you ain't eat a bite.

Go ahead now eat something to help get your strength back.

I guess you ain't changed your mind

about letting me go out after Rance.

He's a killer, Buck Henry.

I don't care what he done, boy,

this here's a job for the law.

Why Rance would cut you up

and hang you out to dry before you could bat an eyeball.

He's purty nigh did it already.

He killed my pa, deputy.

Now, the way I see it, I got a duty.

You got a duty to get that noggin healed up

and take care of your pa's place here.

Sounds to me like that's what he'd be wanting.

You didn't know him.

He was a proud man.

Now, I know what he'd have expected of me.

More coffee?

Yeah, I reckon you can hot her up a little bit.

Kid, it don't make no nevermind what you think,

I'm telling you how it's got to be.

These here kind of things they've gotta be

left up to the law officers, don't you see?

I sure give you enough chances, Deputy.

You're about as stubborn as Pa was.

Now, come first light and it's me going after Rance.

Good morning, Mr. Brodie.

Good morning, Buck Henry.

Hurt yourself did you?

Nah, it's nothing.

I got some business to attend to for a few days,

I was wondering if you could go over

and water the stock while I'm gone.

I'd be pleased to.

You know, it ain't too often a man gets

a chance to do the Woolfe family a favor.

How's your pa?

He's dead.

He's dead?

Shot down yesterday afternoon.

I don't know what to say.

There's nothing to say.

It's done and he's buried.

Only one thing left to do now,

and I'm the one to take care of that.

Who done it?

Rance.

Rance.

Yeah, John always did say that Rance

wasn't worth the powder it'd take

to blow him all to hell.

Listen, I don't like the idea of you riding out alone.

You just say the word and I'll go along with you.

I guess it's my affair, Mr. Brodie.

Well, you take care, boy.

Joanie's down at the house doing some washing

if you wanna see her.

Thank you, I'll go down there.

I got me a Deputy Marshal tied up in Pa's bed.

Don't forget to cut him loose when you go down there, okay?

Buck Henry!

You got a place here.

You remember that.

I will.

If I ain't back in a couple of weeks,

the stock and place is yours.

I left the paper in the house.

I don't want it going to the state for taxes.

Buck Henry?

What on earth are you doing here on a weekday?

And what happened to your head?

Scratched myself in my sleep.

I was gonna ask you to run off with me,

but seeing you looking like that, I changed my mind.

Oh, you wait.

Joanie, I come by to tell you that

I won't be visiting for a while.

What?

I got to be away for a while.

See, Pa's dead.

Pa, how?

He was shot down.

It happened yesterday.

My uncle Rance did it.

I'm so sorry.

It's done being sorry don't help none.

The only thing that helps now is setting things straight.

Would it matter if I didn't want you to go?

I knew you wouldn't want me to before I got here.

Joanie, I didn't come for advice

I come to feel you close to me.

Oh Buck Henry, I'm so sorry.

You're shivering.

Someone walked across my grave, I guess.

Bye Joanie.

At least that plain knucklehead

kept me worried about one thing,

sending somebody back here to cut me loose.

Well, he's a honest boy.

And he's after my daughter Joanie, you know?

Well, if I was you I wouldn't go out

and buy no rice till I bring him back here alive.

He's out there after a killer, his own uncle.

I know it.

You know it, and you just stood there flat-footed

and let him go?

Well, you're a law man and you didn't

have much luck in stopping him.

I'm just a farmer.

Hey listen, how about you and me riding

up to the place and having a bite to eat?

Oh, I ain't got no time for that!

I'm high-tailing it out of here trying

to keep that scamp from getting his head blowed off.

My daughter Joanie could fix us up

some biscuit and eggs in no time at all.

Your facing a long trail on an empty stomach.

Well, I can run them two down without

no vittles in my belly if that's what I gotta do.

The onliest thing I can't figure out

is why you're so all-fired bent on slowing me down.

Looks to me like you're trying to lose

your daughter a husband.

Well, all I know is that Buck Henry

deserves a chance to try.

That's all I'd ask for myself.

There ain't one of you up here

that understands that this is business for the law.

It's pure old dee amazing!

Give me a whiskey.

You there.

You talking to me?

Would you be a poker player?

Glass for the lady here.

Maybe.

Right now I have some other things to take care of.

I am at your service.

C'mon, Musket!

You can't do this now!

All right, you asked for it.

You know what Pa'd do.

Ma'am.

Who are you?

A deputy U.S. marshal from...

You look like you can handle mules.

Well, I reckon I can.

Well, then get down here and get this one to move!

I can't be standing around here like this!

Whoa, whoa!

Now, it wouldn't hurt you none to quit being

so short with your elders.

Besides, what in the tarnation are you doing

way out here in the middle of no place?

This here ain't no country for a girl

all by her own self.

I'm looking for somebody.

Maybe you've seen him.

He's 18, his name is Buck Henry Woolfe.

And you gotta be that there Joanie, ain't you?

How'd you know that?

Well, I know a heap more about that

whole outfit than anybody needs to know.

Now, that don't change things a bit.

You're getting on that mule

and you're turning around and you're heading home.

Not if the mule don't move.

Well, before you learn a mule anything

you gotta know more than the mule knows.

Go on, get in your saddle.

Now, look here mule.

You see this here stick?

Much obliged, deputy.

Wait a minute!

You're supposed to turn around and go the other way!

Must be the blamed air up here that makes them

all so dadgum stubborn.

Tell you they're all just plain silly in the head.

C'mon Ruth.

The only way I'll go back now is if you take me.

Then you'd never catch up with him.

The next town we get to

I'm fixin' to find some folks to put you up

till I can get back and fetch you home.

Now, this here ain't no time for no she-male

young'un to be tagging along.

Don't you understand why I got to get to Buck?

Whoa.

Course I can see how you feel,

but think how everybody else would feel

if you was to get yourself shot.

Well, your pa's probably done fretted himself sick

'cause he went back to the farm and found you gone.

I ain't gonna stay behind!

Look here, missy, you're gonna stay behind

even if I gotta throw you in jail.

Jail?

That's what I said and I mean it.

Ten.

And again.

I call you.

Pair of kings.

Two pair, nines and fives.

Hey!

Have you had enough, my friend?

Deal the cards, lady.

Having yourself quite a run of luck, ain't you?

Luck has nothing to do with it.

Don't you ever get tired of looking at a man?

It's my pastime.

You don't have to sit there.

Well, I'm gonna sit here, mister,

till I get all my money back, you hear me?

Why don't we get it over with, my friend.

Five cards.

All up, for what you have left.

You deal the cards, lady.

Ace, king, gambler man.

I can see.

Pair of threes.

The game seems to be over.

You got all my money, mister.

I need that money!

You're a bad poker player, my friend.

And you drink too much when you shouldn't.

Your luck, your money, and your welcome have just expired.

All right, time for you to ride on out of here!

I'm hit!

You'd better ride, my friend, while you can!

Hey there, boy.

Pete, give me a hand.

Watch that step.

Get him over there on the table.

Straighten that other table up to it.

Easy now, boy.

Get his leg up there.

It's a bad one.

Put something under his head.

Oh, you're the one that started all that commotion.

That wasn't a very fair fight you set up out there.

I didn't come to fight him,

I came to kill him.

And I still aim to.

Take it easy, boy.

I don't know what he did to you,

but I trust it's worthy of what you have in mind for him.

You hit him.

He's hurt badly.

Now, you can take that for whatever satisfaction it is

and quit while you're ahead of the game.

He killed my pa.

Well, that's a different problem.

Steady now.

Well, at least the bullet went through clean.

Rita, hand me that whiskey.

And I'll need some bandages.

Last petticoat went up to my knees.

Stings does it?

Well, that'll clean it up better than

anything else there is around here.

Rita, see that he drinks the rest of that.

Deputy, is that a town up ahead?

Blame sure looks like it, don't it?

Hold steady now.

Let's say it's a small service, son.

In light of your intention to go out there

and let your friend finish the job.

Easy.

Easy, easy.

Give me your hand.

Why are you helping me?

Why are you doing all this?

Let's just say, I owe you one.

I had an opportunity to do you a big favor,

I let it go by.

One more thing you'd better understand, boy.

That bullet hole... You lose any more blood,

you'll never stay in that saddle.

I'm obliged to you.

All of you.

Figure I'll have myself a drink.

Hey, mister.

I'm looking for a fella, a killer.

Just wondered if you seen him pass by this way.

He's 30-35 years old, six feet tall,

kind of a quick-tempered scamp.

I think I saw your man, deputy.

He rode north tonight.

There was another one, his name was Buck Henry.

There was a boy.

Is he all right?

Where is he?

That young man of yours

is quite a rarity in this world, girl.

One who knows exactly what he wants from it.

I found that cause for a fit of meditation.

But where is he?

He stopped long enough to take a bullet in the leg,

then he took off after the killer.

You could've stopped him.

Perhaps... but there are certain issues

in which a man, of good conscience,

may choose not to intrude himself.

Now, this here boy, was he shot bad, was he?

Not so bad as the gunfighter.

The gunfighter, by this time tomorrow, is a dead man.

But there's a reasonably good chance

that he could kill your young man before then.

Much obliged.

Miss Joanie, now it's just too slow for both of us.

You gotta promise me something

that you'll stay right here

and wait for me till I get back.

Now, will you promise?

You'll catch him?

I aim to try, Miss Joanie.

Now, mister, I'm fixin' to leave this here

young lady here with you

and I don't except nothing to happen to her.

You sit down here next to me, girl.

Do it.

Let this soldier be on his way.

You and I will just sit together for a while.

Just don't you forget what I told you.

You can set your heart at ease, deputy.

Satan closed up shop a long time ago.

Buck Henry.

Buck Henry!

I didn't mean to kill John!

Just happened, you hear me?

It just happened!

I told you, boy.

Buck Henry?

Is that you, Pa?

I wanna go home.

Girl.

There's a room upstairs.

Why don't you get some sleep?

I couldn't.

Try, when you wake up,

I'll hire some responsible citizen

from this disreputable community to escort you home.

I ain't leaving till he comes back.

You do as you're told, girl.

Oh Buck!

But the deputy.

Oh, he went on.

Said he had to get home see about a friend.

I never thought I'd see you again.

Your leg.

Oh, it's all right.

He fixed me up.

Made me rest till I get my strength back.

Bartender, a bottle of elderberry wine

and three glasses.

From what I hear,

you're gonna be black and blue and kind of sore for a while

but you'll be all right.

Well, thanks, Doc.

Don't mention it.

Marshal, I'm sure glad you got back.

We haven't heard a word from Festus

it's been almost a week.

Oh.

Feels more like a month.

Well, for heaven's sakes.

Festus.

Mr. Lathrop it sure is good to see up and around.

Well, I'm sure glad to see you, Festus.

What happened?

Yeah, what happened, Festus?

Well, I'll tell you that there

Rance fella Matthew,

he ain't never gonna hurt nobody again.

I...I

Tell you something, Matt, I think that

old mule's gonna need a little rest, yes sir.

You know, by golly, I was doggone worried about him this time.

I sure was.

Now, don't go tell him I said that.