Albuquerque Page #6

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All right. I'm gonna stand here

until they let you out...

if I have to stand

till I'm a little old lady in a shawl.

I'll be a-sittin' here

a- knittin' and a-waitin'.

Hello, Mr. Juke.

Hello.

Oh, there you are.

You come down here, young lady.

I want to have a talk with you. Don't

you know your pappy's lookin' for you?

You better skedaddle home.

No, sir.

Not until Mr. Cole gets out.

Well, he's getting out.

I got the papers from the judge.

The sheriff's going in

to turn him loose.

You'd better go in and keep an eye on him,

Mr. Juke. I don't trust that old sheriff.

Aw, don't you worry none about

him, honey. I'll take care of him.

Run along now,

Heh heh heh.

Good-bye, Mr. Cole!

Come on, Clara. Reckon Mr. Cole

won't be needin' us now.

Come on.

Juke just bailed you out.

I'm warning you, better keep a

checkrein on that temper of yours.

Never mind the blabber. Give him

his gun and we'll get out of here.

Where'd that bond money come from?

It was sort of a community affair.

Huh? Ted, Celia, Dave, Pearl

- we all had a hand in it.

We? Yeah. Borrowed

some money on my mules.

Not Damon and Pythias? Well, we had

to get you out of jail, didn't we?

Well, I sure wanna

thank all of you.

Good way to prove that

is to get outta town.

Otherwise your friends

will lose $5,000.

'Course, it isn't your money.

Never mind.

Come on.

Well, I guess we won

the first round, Cole.

You know,Juke,

it don't take a smart man...

to figure that my uncle's

getting a bear trap ready for me.

All you gotta do

is stay awake, son.

A man's only got so many fights to win, so many

dreams to dream, so much loving and hating to do,

and usually old age

catches up with him...

before he can correct

any mistakes he's made.

What are you gettin' that? My biggest

mistake, old-timer, was ever leaving Texas.

Aw, you can't say that, Cole, now.

Eating time for the patient.

Is that all I get? Food and medicine

are measured out in doses for invalids.

Yes, but I wasn't

shot in the stomach.

If you'd taken one step farther down,

you would have been. You were lucky.

You know, bullets aren't the only

thing that can tear you apart.

Disappointment in people

can smash you too.

You're in love with Letty,

aren't you?

I was. I guess we both

picked the wrong person.

We have realities to face, Ted.

Good news, folks.

Well, I finally got all the drivers.

I had to pay 'em double when they heared

it was Angel's Roost, but I got 'em.

We start the big climb

at sunrise.

What about Cole?

Did you get him out of jail?

He's out, all right.

Out of town, probably.

Out of town?

Yeah.

He said it'd be better for all hands

if he lit out.

Made a lot of mistakes here,

he said.

Goin' back to Texas,

I reckon.

Somethin's gotta be done about this.

Oh, Myrtle.

Myrtle.

So the big Texas hero

is crawlin' outta town.

I don't aim to fall into

any ofJohn Armin's traps.

I reckon Celia Wallace

would like to see you turnin' tail.

But don't you worry. I'll be

callin' on her after you're gone.

Get up and fight.

Oh, man. If that's the way they fight

in Texas, I'm staying in Albuquerque.

As I was saying, Miss Tyler,

you were brought here

for a special purpose...

and you failed completely.

I don't think there's anything more

to say to you...

except that here's your ticket

on the next stage.

The sheriff will see you

to the depot.

I can find the way. I want to make

sure that you get there safely.

I don't need any protection.

You'll need a lot of it if you're

in this town after that stage leaves.

Come on, sister. I'll bet this isn't the

first time you were escorted out of town.

Take you hands off me!

He busted his peace bond. From the

looks of you, that isn't all he busted.

Hold the jokes, Linton.

Go on, Murkil.

Well, you-you told me

to pick a fight with him. I did.

All right, Sheriff.

It's your move.

I'll seeJudge Martin and get a

warrant for him for attempted murder.

That'll hold him in jail without bail

just as long as I wanna keep him there.

Until you get tired of feeding him,

then leave the jail door open and

shoot him off his horse getting away.

I changed my mind, gentlemen.

I'm not leaving Albuquerque.

I'd advise you

to change your mind back again.

No, you're going to change yours.

If you arrest Cole Armin

and declare his peace bond forfeited,

I'll let out a yell

that'll be heard in Washington.

And I have plenty to yell about,

including my own part in it.

You're fixin' for a spell

in jail, aren't you, lady?

I'll have company.

Murkil!

You ain't gonna let her

get away with that, are you?

Yeah. You're the boss.

What are you gonna do?

Life in jail...

if we can't stop her.

You got more than her to stop.

That Wallace outfit's gonna try

the Angel's Roost run tomorrow...

and they got the toughest hombres

in New Mexico driving.

They ain't gonna stop at nothin'.

So they're gonna

try for the high one, huh?

It's suicide. He might

make it. He's an Armin.

Yes. He might.

Get word to Matt Wayne.

But there ain't no sense

in you leaving, Cole.

The Wallaces need you,

and they're mighty fine folks.

That's why I'm leaving.

Yes, but you don't have to.

I'll have more witnesses than you can

get into Fred Martin's courtroom...

that you was nettled

into that fight.

Now, wait a minute, Dave.

It isn't that fight.

I'd still be under bond,

and next time...

I'd kill Murkil

and maybe Armin.

Hey, mister! We're shoving off

for El Paso. You coming with us?

Good-bye, old-timer.

Good-bye, Mr. Cole. I feel awful.

Cole! Cole Armin!

So long, Dave.

Cole! Wait up there! Wait!

Hold that coach, driver! Cole!

Cole, I mean, you ain't going

no place. What's all this?

Ask Letty.

Don't ask me how or why,

but there'll be no further actions

by the sheriff on that peace bond.

What's that?

You heared her.

Look, fella. I'm pulling out.

You leaving?

No, he ain't! Git a gettin'.

Come on, son.

Hyah! Hep! Hep!

Hey! Giddyap!

Good luck, Cole.

I'm bettin' on you.

I hope you win, Dave.

I gotta. I'm gonna send Myrtle

to college with those winnings.

All right, folks,

here's some easy money!

Murkil's laying 10-to-1 that

Wallace's outfit don't make the run!

I'll bet $ 10 they do

make it! It's a bet.

Here you are.

I'll take 100 of that.

All right. I'll bet you 2-to-1

they don't even get up there.

I'll take that too.

All right. Alice.

Put me in for 20.

I'll bet you 20 they don't

get down. 10-to-1 they don't.

I'd give a $ 1,000

to be on that lead wagon.

Juke will bring 'em through.

Why didn't you go down to

the gate and wish 'em luck?

Somehow it didn't mean as much

as I thought it would.

Well, after all, you know, Cole

wouldn't have been much help.

He can't drive. It was his being

here that made the difference.

I'd feel better

if he was with them.

Yes. I know, Sis.

Strange, isn't it, how one person can

become so important in your life...

that without them

nothing seems to matter.

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