Calamity Jane Page #4

and Caamity had the idea

we shoud ive together...

and sort of chaperone each other.

You chaperone Caam? And she....

This ought to be interesting.

We're mighty gad you approve.

And, r. Hickok,

pease fee free to drop in any time.

Thank you kindy, ma'am.

Fee it, but don't try it!

-Come on in, Bi, ' get you a drink.

-No thanks.

f fet any higher, 'd be fying!

Harry, come here.

want you to do something for me.

[Sow banjo music]

[Sings ove baad]

We, there she sets. Just where eft her.

won that cabin

from a Kansas feow in a poker game.

A week before he died of ead poisoning.

Bi was in that game.

He ost everything but his fiings.

-Let me hep you down.

-Thank you.

Do you disike r. Hickok

as much as you pretend to?

Disike Bi? e and Bi are thicker

than fies in a Pawnee camp.

We're ike the seven-year itch

to each other, but it's fun scratching.

That Bi Hickok is about the best friend

ever had.

Of course, my sparky taste....

That kind of runs to bue uniforms

and shiny buttons.

-Like second ieutenants wear?

-Like second...

ieutenants wear.

ake yoursef right at home.

[Shrieks]

CALATY:
Be carefu.

You and me wi batch it here

as cozy as two bugs in a banket.

Excuse me.

reckon it needs a itte airing around here.

Ain't used the pace much,

it's too onesome.

ike to bunk out in the open

under a wagon or something.

know one thing we' have penty of:

Home cooking.

Just hand me a sack of four

and bacon grease....

Looks ike we're out of water.

t's right handy though,

get it from the creek down there.

That's one good thing about this pace.

No, guess there's nothing good about it.

'm sorry, Katie.

-t wi be a right, Caam. Fine.

-No, it won't.

t ain't fit for a dog, et aone a ady.

didn't know it ti you came in here.

Just ike didn't know how far

from being a ady was ti saw you...

in that dressing room in Chicago.

What do know about nice things?

ain't never had any.

Come on, ' drive you back to the hote.

'm staying right here.

n this rat's nest?

We can fix it. ake it rea nice.

A it needs is a woman's touch.

A woman's touch?

[Sing spirited song]

t's up to me? ' bet $40.

Howdy, Lieutenant. Care to take a hand?

Not now, thanks. You see...

'm ooking for....

No, not now.

t's up to you, Bi. Ca or fod?

-Where are you going?

-The same pace the Lieutenant's going.

Ony 'm going to be there first.

A right, a right, 've got ears.

'm coming.

-'d ike to see iss Brown.

-You and every other rooster in town.

She's not staying here.

She moved in with Caamity.

aybe 'd better have a sign painted.

With Caamity?

[Sow instrumenta music]

[Approaching horse]

[Adventurous instrumenta music]

KATE:
Where are you going, Caam?

Herb Potter's got tick fever,

he's at his cabin by himsef.

He needs some doing for him.

No shoes?

can't wear shoes across the creek.

Bi.

-Heo, Katie.

-Lieutenant.

Say, that's a right smart harness

you're wearing.

You just keep on getting prettier and....

-Here.

-They're very nice. Caamity oves fowers.

-The Lieutenant never cas without them.

-Wait.

brought them for....

Where is Caamity?

Up the hi visiting a sick prospector.

Won't you come in?

That's Caam,

just can't resist a distress signa.

-This ain't Caam's cabin.

-t sure doesn't ook ike it.

We fixed it up a itte.

Sit down and ' make you some tea.

KATE:
t won't take ong.

Say, Lieutenant,

don't they need you back at the Fort?

They' manage.

thought you had a poker game going.

There's aways a poker game going.

With the Cheyennes on the war path,

foks woud fee a heap safer...

if you sodiers didn't gaivant around

so much, wasting taxpayer's money.

Nice of you to think of the taxpayers,

after the money you cost them in funeras.

Oh, dear.

'm a out of wood.

' have to go out and chop some.

-' do it.

-Here, et me.

- hate to troube you, Bi.

-No troube at a, ma'am.

Katie.

t was very thoughtfu of you

and r. Hickok to ook in on us.

Deadwood is that kind of a nice town.

mean, everyone's so friendy and nice.

After the foo made of mysef

the other night...

the way they forgave me and et me go on.

Anyone coud forgive you anything, Katie.

Not anything, Lieutenant.

And not Caamity.

don't know what idea you have

about Caamity and me, but--

t's not my idea, it's hers.

She's in ove with you.

But that's ridicuous.

We're friends, good friends.

She even saved my ife.

-But you can't beieve that and she--

- ike Caamity, Lieutenant.

She's been very good to me.

woud no more think of coming between

her and the man she oves....

The man she oves? Katie, swear--

Fancy that, it was there a the time.

Danny, beieve me--

-Here we are. t didn't take ong, did it?

-Not ong enough.

The shaw, it fe....

Let's have tea.

They've got a new commander at the Fort,

Genera Stark. He says he knows you.

Yes, served under him in Virginia

during the war.

They're having a ba in his honor

Saturday night. thought you--

've been invited mysef.

kind of hoped you'd go with me, Katie.

She is going with me.

t's customary, Lieutenant,

to et the ady choose for hersef.

-Coudn't the four of us go together?

-What four of us?

We, you, Bi, me, and Caamity.

Caamity?

She's been invited, too,

and if she doesn't go, won't either.

She's been expecting you to ask her,

Lieutenant.

e? Why me? tod you how --

That's a right smart arrangement.

Settes everything.

Caam goes with the ieutenant,

and you go with me.

Over my dead body.

Get a itte respect in your voice

when you tak about Caam...

or it might just be that way.

-She's a mighty fine gir.

-Gir?

-You shoud be proud to take her.

-You woud be, woudn't you?

sure woud.

Wait! ain't gonna be stampeded

into no fast shuffe!

know what you're thinking, both of you.

Caamity's fine on top a stagecoach

or behind an oxtai but...

not ady enough for socia appearances

with distinguished gentemen.

We, she ain't beautifu.

Caamity's not beautifu? You boys

have a big surprise in store for you.

There's ony one way to sette this,

and that's to draw straws.

The ong straw gets Katie,

and the oser takes Caam.

s that a right with you, Katie?

Draw, Lieutenant.

won!

-' have the prettiest gir at the ba.

-Don't bet on it.

Bi, keep your eyes on that door.

Caamity!

fe in that dangbasted creek!

[Bi and Danny augh]

Gosh amighty, ook who's here.

What brought you

to this neck of the woods?

njun troube?

They came to ask you to go to the ba.

Both of you?

That's pum fattering.

-Ony can't go with both of you.

-t's a right. We drew straws.

You did? Who won?

did, Caam.

You did? We, that's fine, Bi.

That's mighty fine.

Ain't no one 'd rather tag aong with.

Try to get yoursef ceaned up

by Saturday, and ' ca for you.

heard te it' be a pumb fancy affair.

Sodiers in dress uniforms,

adies in fancy gowns.

've never been to a big shindig ike that.

reckon ' burst my corset strings

in the pride of just being asked.

' fix you some tea.

Danny.

Ask Katie to go, Danny.

know you want to take me, but ask her.

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