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Daddy!

Daddy!

Hi, Dad!

Daddy!

- Hi there, monsters. How are you? - We both got a hundred in spelling.

"I" before "E" except after "C."

And work before fun, except after school, huh?

- Hoo-hoo! Children! - Whoa!

- Ezra. Louise. How are you? - All right.

- Here. - Thank you. Oh!

Hello, you little angels. Well!

- Darling! - Ezra.

Ray.

I, uh, I thought you were gonna have this seeded last week.

Well, that was the plan. It just didn't work out.

Well, the weather won't hold forever, you know.

Well, it's not only the weather, Ezra, I... I just...

I brought something for you. It's in the back.

Come on. Let me show you what your Uncle Ezra got for you.

Cornmeal!

Things ain't so bad I can't put food on the table, Louise.

Louise, you didn't happen to mention to Ezra about me getting a loan, did you?

You know Ezra. He...

He won't talk about those things outside the bank.

Yeah, I know Ezra.

Thank you for your kindness, Ezra. Much obliged.

A man has a responsibility for his relatives.

- What do you say? - Thank you very much, Uncle Ezra.

I just might drop in on you at the bank tomorrow, Ezra.

Any time between nine and three.

See you, Ezra.

Why do you want to talk about money with Uncle Ezra?

Well, you see now, if a man wants to grow things,

wheat or kids, he got to have himself a mighty chubby pocketbook.

Are you going to get some money from Uncle Ezra?

I'm gonna try, darling. 'Bout all I can do.

Now, you two get inside there. I still got work to do.

Race you.

- Quit that. - What?

Well, every time you get that badge on, you strut up and down the street

like a big banty rooster with a stiff neck.

All right, you ornery old bat. There you go again.

- Just pick, pick, pick, pick. - You're some deputy.

If you can't handle somebody like Drew Naramore in a simple fistfight,

I don't know how Matt can pin that badge on you, leave town...

- Whoa, whoa! Wait, wait! Hush! Hush! - And go away...

Simple fistfight, my foot.

He winged me up side the head with a singletree when I wasn't looking,

- that's what he done. - Yeah, that's your story.

- Well, it's true. - Well, I'll just give you

a medical fact. If he had winged you up against the head

with a singletree, like you said, you'd be dead.

All right, Mr. Smart Aleck.

Now, which is it you're gonna chew at me about?

Wearing the badge and a-deputying for Matthew,

- or my hard head, which is it? - Exactly.

- Exactly what? - Your badge goes to your hard head.

Simple fistfight, my foot.

- Go ahead. - Well, I can wait until you're done,

- Ezra, I... - I can listen

and count at the same time.

- Well, this... this is important... - Well, so...

All right, all right.

- Let's hear it. - I imagine that Louise

- mentioned this to you, did she? - No.

Well, Ezra, I'm asking you for a loan. It's... it's all wrote down there.

For seed and fixing up the place.

It'll only take one good crop, and I'll be...

Before I read this, Raymond, I would like to explain

that my first responsibility is to the bank.

The fact that you're my brother-in-law has no bearing on this matter at all.

Well, Ezra, I'm not asking you for no favors.

Good.

So...

There's no collateral.

Well, it's not as if I was asking you for a million dollars, Ezra.

- I'm sorry, I truly am, but... - Well, don't shut me off, Ezra.

We already hold the mortgage on your farm,

and I can't possibly loan you any money

if you don't have any collateral to show.

Well, I got a good name in Dodge.

Well, you... you had a good name in Dodge, Raymond. But...

Well, I'm sorry, but in the past four years,

you've been arrested a number of times for public drunkenness.

And I simply have to take that into account.

Well, now that's not exactly so, Ezra.

Marshal Dillon did lock me up three times, I'm not denying that.

But it was just to let me sleep a bit.

And there weren't any charges against me.

And all three times was on Karen's birthday,

and a man just don't lose a wife like her

without paining some on days like that.

But the fact remains that you don't own anything,

and if you don't own anything you don't have any collateral,

and if you don't have any collateral, the bank cannot lend you a cent.

Well, then I'm asking you personal.

Please.

Please don't make it any more unpleasant than it already is.

- Ezra... - I don't have the money.

It's as simple as that.

You're lying in your teeth.

No man has ever called me a liar.

Well, you're a liar, and I'll call you a liar if you're a liar, and worse!

That is my personal financial statement.

Now, if you'd care to look at it, you'll see that I have obligations

- that preclude... - You just forget it, Ezra.

You can't afford to give me none, and I can't afford to lick your boots no more.

But if you ever get yourself robbed, don't expect no sympathy note from me!

Here's a penny.

Now, you go over and see what Mr. Jonas might have in his candy counter

that's of interest. I'll be back directly.

Oh, yeah, that shipment came in three days ago.

I think maybe you'd better take an inventory again, Sam.

- All right. - Miss Kitty.

- Ray. - How's my credit running?

- I'd like some whiskey. - Sure thing. Sam.

- Sure. - I'll pay you when I can.

No problem.

Yeah, no problem.

Because we don't have any "collaberal," that's why?

Yeah.

What's that?

It means something valuable what you get money for.

We own Porely, and he's valuable.

Yeah. Come on.

What do you two want?

Are you deaf? I said what do you want?

Children...

Stop it, you beast! You brute! Get him off of me!

- Bad dog! - Ah! Help, help!

Don't! Don't! No, Porely!

Bad dog! Bad dog!

- Mad dog? - How dare you!

Get down, Porely!

- Oh, my files! - Ezra!

- What in the devil?! - We'll get them, Uncle Ezra!

I don't know, Mr. Bodkin. I was just going over the files here

and... and these children brought this monster in here to assault me.

Isn't that your niece and nephew?

Yes, they are. That's true. But, you see, I was... Oh!

I was just going through the files, Mr. Bodkin...

Uncle Ezra, when we're done, can we talk to you about...

- Let's go, Annie. - But we haven't asked about...

Come on, Porely!

I don't understand children.

Well, who does? Put that stuff away.

Yes, sir.

But that's stealing.

Maybe he woulda lent it to us anyway.

I don't think even Porely's worth that much.

We did a bad thing, I bet.

- Huh, a singletree. - Yeah, singletree.

That's what he hit me with and I'm getting tired of you and Doc

a-hoo-rawing me about it too.

- Let's get out of here! - Come on!

- Well, what's going on here? - Nothing, Marshal.

Hold it!

You dropped something.

We got it for our Dad.

You got to tell him pretty soon.

I will, just waiting to finish the dishes, that's all.

That's it.

Maybe there's some more on the bottom.

We finished the dishes, Dad.

- Okay. - I'll wash this cup for you.

Mike.

Dad, Mike wants to talk to you.

Oh. What is it, Mike?

About going to the bank and not getting the money.

Now, wait. Whoa up there, little fellow.

Now, people your age are supposed to worry about catching frogs

and flying kites, not about making money.

That's my department.

Boy, I never saw two such glum faces in all my born days.

You two look as sad as the people in the cornbread story.

- What cornbread story? - Well, for heaven's sake.

Haven't I ever told you that story? Well, I'll tell you.

It's a bedtime story,

and if the two of you just get yourself into bed, I'll tell it to you.

Now, it's not lost.

It's, uh, it's just misplaced, that's all.

It's probably someplace very obvious.

But it's not lost. It just can't be lost!

All right. All right. Let's see. Let's just see now.

Miss Flanner took it out of the vault when we first opened, yes.

And she gave it to me to double check.

So I... I didn't get to it until around 11:00.

Then I sat down at my desk,

and I started to count it when...

when Ray Jarvis came in. That's right.

And I, uh, I put it away in the file

and then we talked about his loan and he left.

Then...

No.

I went to the filing cabinet while he was still here,

but I had my back turned to him.

He could have...

We've been robbed!

I don't give two hoots in Hades what you're saying.

I just know that Ray couldn't have did what you're saying he done.

I am saying that he had the opportunity to take that money.

And if I understand Ezra correctly, he also had a motive.

- Exactly. - Well, golly Bill,

Ray wasn't the onliest one in that bank this morning.

You must have had a hundred people in there.

- I know that, but... - And we're just gonna see

if you can't remember who they was and we're gonna get us up a posse

and we're gonna go out and talk to every last one of them.

You mean to say that you're not going to question Ray about this money?

Well, of course I'm gonna question him about the money.

Looks to me like you ain't gave me no choice.

Festus, if anybody else would have said anything like that to me,

I'd drag him off that mule and dig a post hole with his head!

All I done was to ask, Ray.

Well, fine then! You got your answer!

Well, all I done was to tell you what I've heard from...

Don't you see, Ray? I got to get up a posse.

What wouldn't you be willing to go along and help us out?

Well, if I didn't, Ezra'd be telling everybody in Dodge I'm guilty,

if he hasn't already.

Well, why don't you just saddle up then and join us in town.

We'll see you in town directly.

Mike! Annie! Come here quick, will you?

You're gonna have to get your own breakfast.

I gotta join up a posse.

Some rotten lowlife has gone and robbed the bank in Dodge.

But you said... you said the bank ought to get robbed.

Mike, you ought to know better. A man gets steamed up,

he's liable to say any dumb thing.

Some ways, stealing is worse than murder.

Killing's quick.

Stealing, you bleed a man slow.

You take away money that a man's saved, you take away part of his life,

a part that he just can't never get back, a part that's gone.

No, I'm saying that, as far as I'm concerned,

they can throw away the key when they find out whoever did it.

You two be good now, you hear?

Let's go, Annie.

Come on, Porely. Here, boy.

Whoa. Mike, Annie, what are you doing here? Why aren't you in school?

- It's a holiday. - It is? What holiday?

Thanksgiving.

Come here, children.

Come on, Porely.

All right, fellas! Water them down! Get yourselves a little rest for a spell!

I wonder what Louise is doing here.

Ray, I'm sorry to tell you this,

but I found Mike and Annie out along River Road.

They were playing hooky.

Hm.

Thank you, Louise. I'll handle this from here on out.

It seems to me that a man who won't teach his children to stay in school

probably wouldn't hesitate to rob a bank.

Playing hooky isn't exactly a hanging crime, Mr. Thorpe.

Maybe. But I never did it.

I can believe that. I pure can believe that.

Festus! Festus!

That dog! He has the money that was stolen from the bank!

Come on, Porely.

Come on, Porely. Bring it here. Thattaboy.

If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times,

that going to school is the most important thing for you to do!

Ray, come out here. There's something you ought to see.

Look, Festus, whatever it is, it can wait...

Ray, come here a minute.

I had to get you out here, away from your young'uns,

- 'cause I got to arrest you. - Arrest?

For robbing the bank.

- You don't have any evidence. - Oh, yeah, we do, Ray.

Your... your dog come around the corner of the house with this envelope

in his mouth just a minute ago. See there?

Well, I'm not guilty, Festus.

- Ray, just don't cause no trouble. - I just ain't guilty now, fellas!

- I ain't guilty! - Dad!

- He didn't do it! - Now, stay here!

Everything will be all right. Your Uncle Ezra and I will...

- Dad! - Children, stop!

Let him go! Daddy!

Don't hurt him! Don't hurt him! Don't you hurt my daddy!

- Listen to me, please! - You gotta!

- Daddy! - Daddy!

- Daddy! - Daddy!

And he will stay out. At all times, he will stay out of this house.

A dog in the dining room.

Well, eat, children.

Michael, soup is meant to be eaten silently.

Yes, sir.

You know, I'll bet you can't guess what we're going to have for supper tonight.

I'll bet it's something you've never had before.

Don't you want to guess?

All right, I guess I'll just have to tell you then.

Liver and eggplant.

Festus, will you please stop beating yourself?

You had plenty of reason to put Ray in jail.

Oh, Miss Kitty, I had plenty of evidence,

but all the evidence in the world don't make up no good reason

why a feller like Raymond ought to get thrown in jail.

Does any of you think that he done it?

It doesn't make any difference what we think,

or you either, for that matter. A judge and a jury is gonna decide it.

Well, I'll just tell you one thing.

I ain't gonna be a-deputying for Matthew no more.

- Oh, for heavens sakes. - Oh, Festus, you can't mean that.

I mean it! I mean it. No more. I ain't gonna do it.

I'd just rather take over old Doc's job here.

Whoa! Wait a minute. You'd rather do what?

Well, it's a whole heap better to be a-patching folks up

than it is a-tearing them apart like I did.

A whole heap better.

Whoa.

Evening, Miss Thorpe. Mike. Annie.

Evening, Festus.

You all come to see your papa, did you?

- We sure did, Festus. - Oh, that's nice.

Ezra didn't think it was the wise thing to do. He relented.

Well, it blame sure is the right thing to do,

and that's a whole heap better than wise.

- My daddy didn't rob the bank. - Well, Mike...

Me and Annie did.

They've been telling me that all day.

Lord love you, boy. That there does you proud.

Well, it's so. We did rob the bank.

All right, Annie. Now, you... you all run in and see your papa now.

- Come on, sweetheart. - You don't believe me, Festus!

Mike, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll talk on that later.

You go on in and see your papa.

Just go right through that door over yonder. He's right in there.

Hi, kids.

We... we snuck you a piece of pie, Dad.

Oh. Well, looky here now.

That's just about the nicest-looking piece of pie I ever saw.

- Dad? - What, Mike?

We got something to tell you, Dad.

Right nice evening, ain't it?

Mr. Haggen, what will happen to Mike and Annie

if their father's found guilty?

Well, Miss Thorpe, you and Ezra,

you being their closest kin, I reckon they'd be staying with you.

That doesn't seem quite fair.

Well now, if you feel like maybe that's putting you and Ezra out

a-keeping them young'uns, maybe we can...

Oh, I didn't mean it was unfair to us.

I meant it seems so unfair to the children.

Liver and eggplant.

I believe you, Mike, but you're not to tell another soul, you hear?

- But Dad, it's true. - I know it's true.

But if I was to tell that to a judge,

he'd just think that I was using the two of you.

But we'll tell him we done it.

I know, honey, that'd just put us right back where we were.

Three church mice without a church to go to.

This way you're gonna have somebody to tend for you.

Better house, better clothes.

Better everything, I imagine. You understand what I'm saying?

Now, I want you to go back with your aunt and your uncle

and I want you to do everything that they tell you to do.

It's getting late, Ray.

- You get along now, kids. - Goodbye, Daddy.

Goodbye, Daddy.

Festus?

You know that lawyer you were talking about,

the Josephson that you were gonna see tomorrow?

- Yeah? - Well, when you see him,

you tell him that I'm gonna plead guilty.

The chances are he'll get a much lighter sentence this way.

Five, maybe six years, at the most.

Five or six years?

Now, don't jump on me, Louise. I don't make the laws.

Dad's going to jail for us and we'll have to live here with them.

- Do you want to do that? - No.

But Dad said we had to do everything they told us.

All they told us was to brush our teeth and sleep tight.

They didn't tell us we had to sleep here. Come on.

It will be quite a change for us, but we'll just have to adjust.

You make it sound as if the children were two unruly house pets.

Well, that's not altogether unfair, is it?

Ezra, they're my brother's children.

Oh, of course they are, Louise. I know that.

And I will do my best to maintain an even temper, Louise. I promise you that.

That's like a turtle solemnly swearing never to fly.

- What? - Oh, I'm sorry.

I should think so.

No, by heaven, I'm not sorry.

What the devil is the matter?

- I want a drink. - Louise!

Are you going to forbid me to have one?

No, no, you're an individual. You're capable of making your own...

Oh, Louise. Louise.

Why didn't you forbid me to have one?

I'll tell you why.

Because you don't care enough to get mad, that's why.

- But that's not so. - You don't know how to get mad.

Or if you do, you're... you're too afraid to let it out.

And if you can't let anger out, then you can't let anything out, including love.

Well, I just try to be a rational man.

Why don't we have any children, Ezra?

What?

Well, you... you know that we can't afford to have them right now.

Ezra, we can't afford not to have them.

I'm... I'm just... I'm just trying to be logical, Louise.

Yes, dear.

You've always been logical.

I suppose you are about the most

logical man... I have ever known.

Festus! Festus!

Ezra, what in the tarnation you so fussed up about?

Those children ran away.

I just started up to bed about ten minutes ago,

I looked in on them and they're gone.

Well, you go over to the livery stable and wake up Ed. I'll wake up Ray.

Why are you gonna wake him up? Just a minute.

You're... you're not gonna let him out, are you?

Well, of course I am.

Ray? Ray. Get up and get cracking.

Your young'uns ran off from Louise and Ezra's place.

We need you to help find them.

That's absolute madness to let him out.

The first time you turn your back, he'll be off into the hills.

If he does, it'll be a-looking for them young'uns.

Why'd they run off? Did you do something to them?

Of course not.

Well, if you did anything to them, Ezra, so help me I'll tear your head off!

Raymond, you want me to unlock this here door, or don't you?

All right.

Behave yourself and let's get going.

Annie!

It's the marshal.

But, Mike, he don't know we done anything.

Okay.

Hi there, Marshal Dillon.

What are you kids doing out here? You're a long way from home, aren't you?

Well, sure. That's because we're gonna visit our aunt in Chicago.

Visit your aunt in Chicago? Does your pa know about this?

Well, uh, he's the one what sent us.

What's your aunt's name?

- Pearl. - Sally.

- She's got two names, see? - Uh-huh.

Well, uh, I'd offer you something to eat,

but I guess you're probably in a hurry to get started, huh?

- Well, maybe just a bite or two. - Can Porely have some too?

Oh, I guess we could spare him a little.

All right. Now, you fellas go on and feed and water your horses,

and get some vittles for yourselves and come on back.

We'll be leaving in about an hour, all right?

Yes, sir.

Raymond, I want you to quit fretting about them young'uns.

We're gonna find them. I promise you that.

We'll find them. Come on.

- Matthew. - Hello, boys.

Am I glad to see you. Did you know that Ray's young'uns...

Yeah, Ray. Your kids are right in there.

- You mean you found them? - Yeah. They're... they're asleep.

Matthew, I don't know how in the world you done it,

but you sure took a heap of fretting off of me.

With them young'uns running off and all them other things,

well, I's just about frazzled plumb down.

What do you mean?

Well, you know Raymond,

he ain't just in there a-visiting them young'uns, Matthew.

He's gonna have to stay.

I mean, I just don't see as there's anything else I could have did.

No, I guess not.

And them little young'uns, they just like to busted my heart, Matthew.

Do you know what that little feller done?

He come to me and he told me that they stole that bank envelope,

him and his sister.

Wait a minute. You mean this money was in an envelope?

Yeah. About so big.

Now, when was this? Along about last Tuesday?

Tuesday morning.

And then them little old tykes a-coming over

and trying to take the blame for it.

Festus, I'm gonna tell you something.

Those two little tykes are to blame for it.

Matthew, how could you even think a thing like that?

Festus, I saw it. I was out in front.

They came running around the corner, bumped right into me

and dropped this envelope right on the boardwalk.

Well, Matthew, if you seen them, why...

Festus, I saw it. And let's just leave it at that.

Festus, you mind if I get a cup of coffee?

Raymond, I don't give a hoot if you go clean to Kansas City

and get yourself a bucket of champagne. Matthew just told me you didn't do it!

That's right, Ray. I saw Mike and Annie with the bank money.

- Did you really, Marshal? - Sure did.

Festus, the horses are all taken care of, and... and as soon as the...

- Oh, hello, Marshal. - Ezra.

Huh. Well, anyway, we can leave in 15 minutes or so.

- Well, we... we ain't gonna... - No need for that.

You can tell the men to go home, Ezra. I found the kids.

- You did? - He did.

Quick as they get done taking theirselves a little snooze there,

well, Ray's fixing to take them on home.

Ray is gonna take them home? What's going on here?

Ezra, you got yourself robbed by a mongrel and two kids.

Porely knocked some papers out of your hand,

and Mike saw the envelope with the money in it and took off.

I'm sorry.

Well, why did you confess?

I just been getting pushed so hard lately,

I didn't know what else to do, that's why.

You don't believe that?

Got a witness, the best there is.

- Who? - Me.

Well, I... well.

Now, it doesn't seem to me that a man can be a fit parent

when he teaches his children to be little sneak thieves...

Ezra, you say one more word about my...

I have been out to that farm and seen those children so dirty that you...

Not half as filthy as the inside of your money-grubbing skull!

Marshal, there is no point in avoiding the issue that this man

cannot raise those children properly.

Ezra, I've heard all I care to from you about me and my kids.

Now, where was you when I needed help, huh?

Don't push me.

Where was you when I asked you personal for help, huh?

- Don't push me, Ray. - I'll tell you where you was.

You was out biting rattlesnakes and killing the poor things, that's where.

- Don't push me, Ray! - Get out of here!

Get out of here, you...

Festus, pour me a cup of coffee, will you?

Now, Matthew?

Look at all this mail stacked up here.

You don't know what's going on out yonder, Matthew.

A lot of noise. Why don't you close the door.

- But Matthew... - Festus, close the door.

Marshal. Marshal, do you know what's going on out there?

Oh, yeah, Burke. We know all about it.

- Two men out there, they're really... - Burke, we done know about it!

- Here's your coffee, Matthew. - Thank you.

- Here, stop that! - No! Leave them alone.

- He's gonna be hurt. - I know!

It's not logical at all, is it?

Whoo!

Old Ray's tearing him up like a sow's bed, Matthew.

The funny thing is neither one of them know how to duck.

You know, old Ezra surprising. I'll tell you, he is.

Ezra! Ezra, are you all right?

Yeah. I lost my tooth.

- Oh! - My gold tooth.

Oh. Here comes Ray, Matthew.

Marshal, I've come for my kids.

They're right in there, Ray.

Oh, thank you, Louise.

I, uh... I'm sorry you had to see that.

Why? You were magnificent.

- I was?

You were like a... a wild bull, Ezra.

A wild bull?

I've never seen such...

Well, such... Well, still waters, you know.

In all these years.

Wild bull, huh?

- Good day, Marshal. - See you, Ray. Mike, Annie.

I want you all to take care of yourselves, you hear me?

We will, Festus.

- Oh, Ray? - Louise, let me handle this.

- Oh now, Ezra, don't you think... - Louise.

Doc.

Ray?

Ray, I... I would like to invite you and the children out for Sunday supper.

I think we've got a few things to talk over.

- I can't think of one. - Now, don't be stubborn.

Do you mind standing out of the way?

There is the matter of the farm and of a loan,

it comes right down to it, and there a few other things too.

A loan?

It... it will have to be a strictly personal loan.

I mean, I have my responsibilities to the bank.

Oh, Ezra.

Well, shall we say around 5:00?

It'll gives us time for a drink or two before supper.

Well, why don't you come to my house.

There's more room for the kids to play there.

Oh. Well, that could be arranged, I suppose.

- Louise? - Oh, absolutely, dear.

- It's a deal. - Good.

Well, Louise.

Wait a minute, Daddy!

Bye, Marshal, thank you!

Come on, Porely!

I don't know when I've ever seen anything quite like it.

I'll bet you that that is almost as good as Drew Naramore

whamming you up against the side of the head with a singletree.

- Oh, there you go with it again. - With what again?

Oh, a-twisting things around so you'll get a chance to pick, pick, pick.

I'll swear, Doc, if a day was to ever go by

when you didn't find something to hoo-rah me about,

I'd know blamed well you was ailing.

- Is that a fact? - But don't you quit.

- Oh? - No, you keep it right up

because I want to see you keep feeling as good as you can

- for as long as you can. - Well, thank you...

Because as ornery as you are when you're feeling good,

I sure wouldn't want to be around you when you're a-feeling peaky.