Bandolero! Page #3

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Get back there!

You know what they did,

so if you're going with me, be ready.

When we come on them, shoot to kill.

Hyah!

Hasn't been one of your

good days, has it?

Well, I wouldn't exactly say that.

- Can I help you?

- Yes.

Yes, I'd appreciate it very much

if you'd fill these up with money.

But you're the hangman...

No. Now, you see,

you're wrong about that too.

And I don't really feel I have time

to explain it all to you...

...so just do as I say,

and you'll stay healthy...

...and everything will be all right.

Just fill them up.

Get in there.

That's it.

It's a tough worid, isn't it?

We ain't got no time.

You ain't planning to waste

none of it around here, are you?

Well, if you wanna cross that border

with no grub, go ahead.

And take the kid with you.

Hurry up. Take as much as you can.

You didn't have to do this.

I didn't do it, he did it. And if he

hadn't done it, I'd have done it.

Dee.

Robbie, take her to cover.

Leave me alone.

Now.

They got that Stoner woman!

I almost shot her.

Yeah, I know.

Pass the word, Roscoe.

God help the man that hurts her.

Right.

How does a man become

an animal like you?

Don't shoot the Stoner woman.

Don't shoot the Stoner woman.

You gonna let her stop you?

You can't ask...

I haven't asked anything, Carter!

Who in the hell's that?

- Johnson, they're getting away!

- Don't you think I know that?!

Don't you, by damn,

think I know that?!

Roscoe!

Go track them as far the border.

Wait for me there. I'll be along.

Yes, sir.

Come on.

I want 10 volunteers.

Ten good horses, 10 good guns.

No clerks, no storekeepers.

We'll outfit at the Stoner ranch. The rest

of you, take care of the wounded...

...and go on back to town.

- You going across the border?

- That's right!

After them or after her?

Hey, sheriff! He robbed the bank!

Who did?

- The hangman.

Mrs. Stoner, you're gonna be with us

until we don't need you no longer.

Then you can go on home.

Hmm?

Have you no plan, laddie?

- My plan is to stay away from a rope.

That's a dandy one, that is.

Indeed it is.

She sure is pretty.

She's not pretty, she's beautiful.

Beautiful as something real fine.

Something you can't never have,

no matter how bad you want it.

Looks to me like we got her.

- You ain't got nothing, kid. Forget it.

- I don't mean nothing.

That's right. You don't mean nothing.

Shh. Listen.

Dee, you gone plumb loco?

Get down, Mace. Help yourself.

It ain't much.

It's just like a woman I once had...

...back in Kentucky: Warm and free.

Why, it's the hangman.

- Hey, what's he doing here?

- That ain't no hangman, Pop.

- That's nobody but my brother.

Your brother?

Mace, this is Pop Chaney.

That's his young fine son back there

who's studying for the ministry.

Babe Jenkins.

- Robbie O'Hare.

Hi.

Mrs. Stoner.

You all right, Mrs. Stoner?

- Hey, you!

- Pop.

Apologize for what happened to you,

Mrs. Stoner.

You can go home in the morning.

Mrs. Stoner goes home

when I say she goes home...

...and she ain't going home

in the morning, Mace.

When I ain't got no blood-in-the-eye

posse running up my backside...

...then she can do what she wants.

Until then, she stays.

So you never harmed

a woman or a child, huh?

She's harmed? She ain't harmed.

You sure put her in a good position.

I'd like to have my gun back, Dee.

Robbie.

Still picking up after your brother.

Mama would be proud of that.

Seen Mama lately?

Not since the funeral.

Mama's dead?

I buried her six weeks to the day

after Appomattox.

It was raining.

- She didn't suffer?

- Only in her mind.

- Because of me, you mean.

- You're the one who said that.

I killed her. That's what you mean.

You never did her any good, Dee.

That's what I mean.

The day she found

you joined Quantrill...

...she started going downhill

for the last time.

And when you fellows burnt

Lawrence, Kansas...

...after that, she never spoke

another word. She just...

...sat by the fire...

...and didn't say anything.

Hey, Robbie. Here's a mama for you.

One boy goes with Quantrill,

the other goes with Sherman.

One helps burn down a town,

the other helps burn down a state.

The one that burned the town

is the one that done in his mama.

Sherman was war, Dee.

Quantrill was meanness.

Well, what about this big sheriff

and his bunch?

Think he's gonna cross the border?

A South Texas sheriff who once

rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest.

A man who was made a fool of

in his own town.

He'll cross it.

If there's something

you know that we don't...

...I think you'd better tell us

what it is. You're with us.

Whatever happens to us happens to you.

Maybe even more so.

The country we have been through

between here and the Rio Grande...

...is patrolled by the federales.

From here to south

is the territorio bandolero.

Well, what's that,

"territorio bandolero"?

Bandit country.

They kill every gringo they can find.

- You don't look too worried.

- I am not a gringo.

Well, there's a town called

Sabinas just south of here.

- It is a three-day ride.

- We'll be safe there.

The sheriff won't follow us

that deep in.

He will follow.

What makes you so certain?

Because you have something

he has wanted for a long time.

- What's that?

- Me.

Four, maybe five hours.

This is the first time I have been

in my country since I left.

I always knew

I would come back again...

...but not quite this way.

How'd you come to marry

your husband, Mrs. Stoner?

He bought me, Mr. Bishop.

He found me in the backroom

of a cantina.

He liked me, and he bought me.

He gave my father five cows

and a gun.

It made my father the richest man

in our village.

Did you ever come to love him?

No.

But he was kind to me.

He was considerate.

And he took me from something

I never felt a part of.

He gave me a home.

Now here I am.

Well, from the looks of you, Mrs. Stoner,

you have a long way yet to go.

- Want some coffee?

- No.

Excuse me.

Mace, if you're ever alone

with Pop and his little boy...

...don't you turn your back on them.

- I know.

I can't decide which of us

they hate the most.

- Oh, it's you.

- I think you're right.

Mace, I ain't had a chance to tell you,

but it sure is real good to see you again.

And sometimes I think back

to how it used to be with you and me.

- You remember when...?

- Dee, that was yesterday.

Now, let's talk about today.

All right. What about today?

Now, why do you ride

with men like these?

Oh, I don't know. I just got used to it,

I guess, through the years.

You know, you begin to go one way

and keep on going that way...

...pretty soon, there's no other way.

You really believe that?

No, I guess not.

You sure are pretty.

- Pretty.

A pretty woman ain't good

for nothing but smelling sweet...

...and laying around the house.

Just so pretty.

Is it after a little kiss you are, Babe?

Oh, he's a great kisser, ma'am.

He's the best damn lady-kisser

in the whole of Texas.

Leave the woman alone.

Oh...

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