Angel and the Badman Page #6

I know that sometimes they separate.

Are you ever going to run down

and let me talk ?

No, Quirt, thats what you were afraid of that I

tie myself around your neck ..

...and when you get tired you

couldnt get rid of me ..

I made up my mind that if you come back

I will tell you this.

...whatever you want,

Quirt, you can be...

If I go away you go with me.

If I go away,

Thee go away.

I used to be an Indian fighter.

See you cant help walking up soft on people..

Morning missy...

This young man doing any trouble

since I was here last?

A fellow over Castleway lost a big herd

of cattle a few days ago.

Well, missy... Cat got your tongue?

Why ask her?

You know I have been traveling.

You look at my coral

to see how my horse shaped up ..

I did just that...

You sure covered a lot of country.

Its a rightly weary animal..

I just want to see with the young lady

live for you.

I was going to..

You have been over to Castleway?

I have been to Rinrock

and I got witnesses to prove it.

Witnesses! For instance ?

Randy McCall, Christine Taylor.

Thats what I call witnesses?

Who else?

Lila Neal, I suppose

She would make a good alibi witness for you.

Randy, Christine and Lila...

...there's three to draw to

So Lila saw you there too?

Yes.

Come here, junk head...

You hay jumper...

Guess its a mystery here, Quirt.

...but I am patient..

...thats what hangs all you fellows

in the end.

...I am patient.

Lila?

You talked about her

when you were in delirious.

There is a sight

I never thought I would see.

Quirt Evans behind a plough.

The pony walks as soft as you do.

I taught him

Oh, I figured you should have heard him.

...except you have been thinking too hard.

Havent you got some real important business

to attend to?

Some place else.

- Sure.

But I always liked to keep you tracking

about your whereabouts.

You know, Quirt...

...I always figured I would use a noose rope

hanging around you...

Kind of respected it.

You never took the best of things....

...and all your men went down

looking at you.

go on and mind your own business.

I usually do.

Its a shame that things dont always turn out

the way it should.

Now that little girl... she would marry

some young fella ..

...who would know what to do with that plough...

Why dont you kick up that horse

and move on?

Some young fellas that can raise a lot of grain.

...the cows, sheep, the kids..

..kind of a fella

that she would always know where he was..

Do I have to run you off?

Well now I tell you.

I have never have been run off no place yet.

...where I aim to stay.

it so happens that I gotta be gone.

No, Quirt...

...you dont rate a new rope with me.

look...

...is there is a lot of fooling around

non sense have to go with it

..I am not going to stand for

a lot of dressed up and jabber up people

...looking at me,

just because I am getting married?

Quirt, come along.

oh, yes or no?

- come along.

Those are black berries?

Alright

Alright.

Havent we have enough Quirt?

Never did like black berries...

Now I know I was right.

..Its too much work

- I will get some.

Look out there is a wasp on the petunia!

- dont kill it.

Well its alright to for you to trust a wasp

and people but

...he might have known that I dont trust him

and decide to take the first bite.

And incidentally thats not petunia,

thats a daisy.

Thats a petunia.

Petunias, daisies,

daisies, petunias.

Quirt Evans.

Oh nothing.

I just like the sound of it.

Quirt. Where did you ever get such an odd name?

Fellow who raised me

gave it to me.

He found me somewhere along

a big cattle track.

Folks had been bushwhacked by the Indians,

I guess..

He was a big fella. Cattleman.

...swang a wide loop in his younger days

I think.

Wide loop?

He wasnt too careful

whose calf he threw his rope at..

Most of the old cattlemen were like that

He raised me. Quite a guy.

His name was Wall Ennis.

He was down in a gambling place...

...a fellow grabbed his gun-arm just as he drew.

He was murdered.

Stop it.

Then what?

Well I just danced around place to place.

Quirt Evans.

I dont see any gun.

- I know him, he has got a gun alright..

...I know him ..

Well, what are we waiting for?

Nothing I guess.

lets find a saloon.

You dont have to be worry about Penny, mother.

Oh, I cant help worrying,

Johnny.

Get that doctor,

Burn out the robe both ways.

Drink?

Its amazing...

...the various uses to put man in alcohol.

Each different individual

A stimulant, depressant or anodyne

Just now I am using it for anodyne

Get to the point.

Practice of medicine...

...is one of the most infuriating

profession known to man.

It takes 30 years of experience

to teach you...

...and then in the final analysis

there is nothing to do but stand and watch.

She has her elusive moment

You better speak to her

...I am not trying to argue you out

of anything.

Maybe you would better stop and think.

She wouldnt like this, Quirt!

...I am not arguing for or against

her point of view.

...I know to her, the worlds worst tragedy

would be

if you should kill a man.

...of course you could argue logically

That she wouldnt know whether

you killed him or not.

I think she would know.

Any discussion has to have

at least two participants.

Of course you can refuse to answer me.

I felt cynical....

...it would be a good opportunity to observe

what we are about to see

...a perfect example of

'An eye for an eye'.

Unfortunately I cant quote chapter and verse.

...I am too tired to be cynical.

Father, father, come upstairs!

Penny, you are very ill,

you must not be moving about.

Mother, I got to go ..

you must get back into bed.

- But he needs me.

This is insanity. I told you

to keep her in bed

You want to commit suicide?

If you dont stay under those covers young lady...

There is no fever.

You must do what the doctor says.

- mother, please.

I cant understand it.

I cant understand it at all.

There must be some logical

scientific explanation

I am too old to start

believing in miracles.

You know if you two hadnt had me covered

I will never let them harm the Jeffrey

pistol with me...

Wait till Quirt Evans hear about this...

...well, it was Dodge City 7 years back.

...when the Earps were gunning,

where me and Quirt...

Come here.

- Yes, Mr. Evans.

Laredo Stevens?

He is in the Golden Eagle,

and the pistol eating Hondo is with him.

Take him a message.

Hey, how the boys are doing?

- Celebrating?

Good, why not?

Sure you get that excited

when you make a big win like this?

Why get excited... sometimes you win

and sometimes you loose.

Dont get excited, gentlemen.

I aint looking for trouble..

I am just a carrier of a message.

- Yeah? What is it?

He said you to come out in the street..

...he his waiting for you.

- Who says?

Quirt Evans.

What is this, a joke?

Quirt Evans is...

Take a look out at the streets

See, who it really is.

Jack, take a look at the street.

Its a tall armed man with a black hat standing.....

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