A Man Called Sledge Page #4

one way to get out of here.

That's to take the guards

and bust every cell open.

If you don't,

you can stay here and rot...

...or wait till they hang you.

Now, what do you want?

Start them.

Open it up, I'm in for a hanging.

When that black hood comes over

your face, you think of me.

Get them out.

What about the wolf?

You might as well turn him out,

they're gonna kill him anyway.

Come on, Ward!

Let's open up them other cell blocks.

Come on.

Let me out!

Let me out!

Let me out!

Let me out!

Get back!

Come on, get back!

Okay. Okay.

Make sure those cell blocks

are open, Ward.

Right!

Take these shells.

Let me get this.

Don't kill him, I need him.

The combination, what is it?

The combination, what is it?

Come on!

They're breaking out of the prison.

Beetle, watch that tunnel.

- Where's the warden?

- They killed him.

What do we do now? Them

gold riders will be coming in here.

- They must have heard the shots.

- Joyce and Guthrie will hold them.

Hooker, put the old man in the cell.

- Please, don't put me in there.

- Get in there.

- Sledge, I can't stay in here.

- You hear me good, old man.

You said you heard that combination.

You can remember.

- I can't remember. Please let me out.

- You sold me on this claim...

...and you'll pay off

or I'm gonna leave you in here.

Bice, turn that tumbler.

Shut up, old man, and listen!

- That's one.

- Turn another.

Come on. Come on. Slow.

Come on, Bice.

Another one.

The next one.

Right.

Slow. Easy. Easy.

That's it.

- Turn the handle!

- Turn the handle.

- They're riding in. I can hear them.

- Come on, Sledge.

You're gonna have a long time

to remember, old man. Let's go!

Sledge! Sledge!

Sledge, wait a minute!

I remember.

I remember they turned it twice.

Come on, Sledge, forget it.

Look, now try it!

- I told you.

- Sledge!

We gotta get out of here.

Here we go.

All right, let's go. Come on.

Sledge!

We'll rest the horses here.

Put the bags on the ground here.

Divide the rest.

How much you figure each of us got?

I don't know.

But I can remember

when we never dreamed...

...of splitting this much up

among the bunch of us.

Well, that ain't exactly a split, sonny.

Sledge got double.

Wanna play a few hands?

You trying to get some of my gold?

Joyce.

The man cheated me.

You didn't have to kill him.

I'd have made up his gold.

Stand up, you murdering

son of a b*tch.

Guthrie. Now, Joyce was cheating.

He didn't have to die for it.

That was the old man's right.

I won't side with you.

You could have had my life

any time you wanted it.

I would have died for you, Sledge.

I would have.

He killed Joyce

and you say he's right?

His life wasn't his anymore.

It belonged to the man

who caught him cheating...

...and if you don't know that,

you better learn it.

- Come on, I'll help you bury him.

- You bury him, Sledge!

That old man

that none of us ever knew...

...took Joyce's life.

And he took you too.

So you bury him.

Hate don't belong in a card game,

but, old man...

...I'm gonna take every grain of gold

you got in front of you.

This game is over.

You just gonna go?

What about us, Sledge?

You just gonna leave us?

There's a cupful of gold left up there.

Split it up any way you want.

Couldn't you give us some more?

He ain't gonna give you

any of his gold.

He'd just as soon

leave you here to die.

You're dead already, old man.

Your life's in those sacks

and I'm taking them.

For the rest of your miserable life

you'll never forget it.

So you take your share out of that cup.

It ain't no share.

It ain't nothing.

And it ain't gonna keep us

from getting what's ours.

We're going after Ria.

Sledge!

Sledge!

We know you're here!

We thought we'd set up

a little deal with you.

You give us half of what you took us

for at poker and we'll call it even.

What do you say?

Old man!

Old man! I got Kehoe!

- Did you hear me?

- Kehoe.

If you want that gold,

you'll have to come and get it!

Hooker! Did you hear that?

Kehoe, he got him.

The odds are getting shorter.

- And our shares are getting bigger.

- We don't know where he is.

We don't have to know.

He's coming to us.

You just keep that carbine ready.

How long we gonna wait?

The people will be coming back soon.

Well, the waiting's over.

Sledge!

We got Ria!

And the deal's changed.

All the gold

or she's gonna join Kehoe.

You're bluffing. Let me hear her.

- Call out to him!

- You'll kill him anyway.

I'll never help you.

You don't and I'll turn Bice

loose on you.

Just make her call out, nothing else.

Sure, Hooker, don't worry.

Being in here does funny things

to some people.

Come on, I haven't got all day!

Sledge sure knows how to pick them.

Sledge!

There's a fountain in the square.

Bring all the gold there, and now.

You hear me, Sledge?

You wanna save her,

you bring the gold to the square.

Ria! Ria!

She's all right, Sledge.

You just bring that gold to the fountain

and we'll turn her loose.

After this, I'm not asking no more.

It's coming down!

We done it. We done it!

Bice, once we get that gold,

I'm gonna kill you.

It's coming. It's coming.

Bice, you get up there and fire at him.

Hooker, let's go.

Damn it, the gold. Get the horses!

It's all the old man's fault.

- We didn't need the gold...

- Ria.

...to be happy.

Bice.

Bice.

- He got Bice.

- Maybe the other way around.

No, you'd hear Bice yelling it

at the top of his lungs if it was.

We got all the gold!

How do you figure we'll keep it

with Sledge alive?

- We're gonna have to take him!

- All right.

I'll work back up the same way.

Just be sure you come behind him.

You can't travel very fast

with that gold...

...so you just remember

you got a partner.

Well, just one partner suits me fine.

Come on.

Old man, get ready!

Just you and me now!

Hooker?

Hooker?

The gold...

...I hid it.

You kill me, you'll never find it.

We didn't need the gold to be happy.

Hurts.

My claim is yours now.

I will it to you.

You'll never find the gold.

It's nothing but a dream.

Nothing but a dream.

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