Cimarron Page #6

in the next issue of the Wigwam.

- Oh, that's not...

- Went for smokes, I guess.

Now, now you stay here.

I come back in a moment.

I just get changed.

There you are.

Everybody's looking for you.

Reporters from New York

and every place.

They want to get some pictures of you

receiving the checks.

I got them.

Here, darling.

Your reward money.

I don't take money for killing a man.

Then what was your reason

for going in there?

I felt responsible.

What about your responsibility to us?

You risk your life for everybody else,

any hopeless cause that comes along...

...but you tear up a check that could

give Cim a little security for once.

You'd give our boy security

by killing another man's son?

Yancey, I'd give anything to have kept you

from going through what you did...

...but it's done now, and we might as well

be practical, just for once.

Why don't you tear up our bills too?

All of them.

I don't care. Why should I?

Scrape the grubby ends together

day by day.

Go ahead. Tear them up.

You wouldn't care

if I took that money, huh?

How can I understand a man like you?

- Don't you know that we have a child now?

- Yes, yes.

He needs some money

for some education.

He needs some money

for some advantages in life.

Oh, but what does that matter to you?

That was his money you tore up.

What is that in you that?...

That hunger, whatever it is, to be there

in the middle of any excitement?

You don't know the meaning

of responsibility, do you?

What is it you want?

- Did it occur to you that you are wrong?

- Just wait...

No, no.

Everybody else is on the wrong side.

It's that I don't know

what it is you want.

- I just want to be like everybody else.

- Yes, all right.

Well, perhaps you and I, we just...

Maybe you didn't think of this.

Maybe you and I see things differently.

Yes. I guess we do.

Know something else?

I don't know, maybe...

Maybe you picked yourself

the wrong man.

And for you?

Am I the wrong woman?

I...

I can't please you.

I just can't please you, Sabra.

Son, I hope that someday,

when you get to be an old man...

...you'll be able to tell your grandchildren

that you saw the day...

...when this town became civilized.

- You understand what I mean?

- Yes, Daddy.

Yes, and that the things

that are happening out there now are just...

They just can't happen

and won't happen.

And there's something else,

and this is even more important.

You listen to your mother.

Because she's the only one

who makes sense around here.

You just don't doubt that for one minute,

no matter what any...

What anybody says to you.

Now, there.

Let's make out we don't see her.

Now, look at our nice horse.

Our horse.

Yes, our horse.

Here you go. Fix him up.

And I says to myself:

"If I can only get that land,

oh, I've got to get that land.

If I can get it, then I'm sure

that most of my problems, they'll be...

Well, they'll be solved, you know.

Some way. "

Then I got to thinking

that even if I had gotten the land...

...it wouldn't have solved

most of my problems at all, really.

Depends on what your problems are,

I guess.

I guess so.

Well, you got the land,

it didn't solve all of your problems.

I don't think. Did it?

It solved one thing, though.

It kept you from getting it.

Dixie.

Listen. Listen, now.

Did I ever tell you, did I ever say to you

that we were gonna get married...

...and that we

were gonna live here together?

- Did I ever? Did I ever s?...

- No. No.

I never did.

You never actually

said you wouldn't, neither.

I thought about you a lot, a whole lot.

I love you.

No.

You came here to bring the papers, and

you brought them, thank you very much.

Just leave the bill on the table.

A little breeze feels kind of good, huh?

Skimmeroot.

Do you feel better now?

Yeah.

I never could resist a little old hill

to holler from.

Any time you wanna borrow my hill

to holler from, you just holler away.

As long as I got it.

You do much?

- Hollering?

- Yeah.

Or don't you need to?

Me? I'm done hollered out.

Any ideas?

Oh, yes.

Sure, I've got a lot of ideas.

But a man just can't wear two hats.

No.

Not at the same time.

Well, what do you figure

on doing now, Dixie?

Well, I don't know. Go back

to what I ran away from, I guess.

You know,

there's not much else I can do.

Of course, uh, if I had a man...

Oh, come on, now. Come on, here.

You never tried real hard

to get a man, Dixie.

Because all you'd have to do

is just bat your eyelashes...

...and you'd cause a stampede.

That's a fact.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know,

a man can always, uh, buy a new hat...

...if the one he's got don't fit him.

If he wants to.

Who do you think you're fooling?

Yourself?

You're not fooling me.

I know you, I see all the signs.

You left me and you're gonna leave her.

It's just a question of time.

And when you got those jumping meemies

of yours like you always do.

I can see it right now on your face.

There ain't no family,

no conscience in this world can hold you.

And you know it, don't you?

Tell me to my face I'm wrong.

Maybe you don't know me

as well as you think.

Time for school, children.

Everybody in.

School's starting.

Last bell, children. Inside.

I wanna go to school, Daddy.

Oh, you do? Oh, it won't be long

until you'll be old enough.

- And then you'll cry to stay home.

- No, he's not gonna cry. Are you, son?

- No, Daddy.

- No, you bet you're not.

Now, well,

you look like a real little lady, darling.

You better hurry.

Don't want to start being late the first day.

Come.

Well, I hope she does better

than I did in school.

I was kicked out of class the first day...

...for hitting the teacher

with a hard-boiled egg.

- I bet you did.

- That's a fact.

- Daddy, look.

- Huh?

They don't want me.

The school board has considered

your request on behalf of that Indian girl.

By unanimous decision,

your request has been denied.

Meeting is adjourned.

You don't expect me

to keep quiet about this, do you?

You can do what you want, Yancey...

...but I gotta tell you,

all you'll do is make enemies for yourself.

If you love the Indians so much, you ought

to make your living from the Indians.

You start printing nonsense about this

and I'll pull out all my advertisements.

- So will a lot of other people I know.

That's right.

Good. Good.

Let's keep our children's blood pure

and their heads empty.

Yancey, Yancey.

- Yeah?

Telegram from the news service

just come in the depot.

What do we have here?

How about that?

Sabra?

How about that?

"President Cleveland proclaimed the opening

of the Cherokee Strip, September the 16th. "

- The Cherokee what?

- Six million acres of land.

That makes that old puny run we were on

just look like a Sunday school picnic.

What are you talking about?

Honey, uh...

Honey, don't...

- Please don't say no, yet.

- No.

I don't want to hear it.

Come on. Don't say no until...

Usually, we have a chance...

- We can discuss it, darling.

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