Coroner Creek Page #5

Chris!

- What's troubling you, Andy?

Get on your horse, I'll tell you on

the way back.

I got a funny feeling it ain't good.

- I'll tell you on the way back.

I can't understand why Chris didn't tell.

All he said to me was that -

Where were you, Leach? I told you to

watch the cattle in the canyon.

I didn't figure on no fire. I knew

Miles' outfit wouldn't rustle

our cattle so didn't see the sense in staying.

- Nobody asked you to make sense of it.

Leach isn't to blame, you didn't tell him

it was fire you were afraid of.

You were afraid of fire, weren't you?

- Maybe.

If you told me it was fire you were

afraid of I would have stayed.

When I give an order I don't want to

to explain it, you follow that order.

All that cattle lost,

maybe you'll tell us who did it.

Might have been one of Miles men or

even Miles himself, can't prove

anything unless Leach saw anything.

I didn't see nothing.

- You would have if you'd stayed like Chris told you.

- It wasn't Leach's fault.

It was too, Miss Harms.

- Sorry for your bargain, Della?

All you brought us is trouble.

He brought you Feserley Canyon.

Tip Henry quit the country

and lost the homestead

and you got back your old range.

If I remember rightly,

I told you I'd go lightly.

Hey, what are you all dressed up for?

I'm checking out too.

- No, you're staying, Andy, she needs you.

Not me and Leach both she don't.

- You belong here, you're as much a

part of the Box H as that post there.

Oh, I suppose so. But I'm not

letting you ride out of here alone.

Rode in alone.

Drifting?

- That's just about it.

Soon as I've finished a little bit of

business in Coroner Creek.

One thing I never will forget, the

way you walloped the dickens out of

that Ernie Combs that morning.

We done alright, didn't we?

- You did, Andy.

Well, so long. Take care of things.

- Sure, Chris.

Better get out of these town duds

and into my working clothes.

Chris, I'm sorry for what I said

a while ago.

I was so upset.

Will you forgive me and stay on?

I'm not letting you down, I'll find

the man that set that fire and you'll be paid

back for the cattle you lost. There's

nothing more I can do here.

Yes, I know.

You think more of your personal

battle with Miles than you do with

my loss, don't you?

If you put it that way I do.

But remember this, you've got to face

losing as well

as winning and if you can do that

you'll be alright.

I'll be alright. I know what it

means to win.

I know what it means to lose too.

Good luck, Della.

Come in.

That's alright, Miss Harms, I

shouldn't have let myself be caught

mid-stream like this.

Andy, I have a job for you.

I want you to go up and take over

Tip Henry's shack and homestead

Feserley Canyon for us.

Is that an order, Miss Della?

- Yes it is.

Oh, Andy, I'll send Leach up later

with provisions.

Yes, ma'am.

Homestead, Feserley Canyon?

Where are you going, to a powwow?

That'll learn you.

When you're told to sleep by

the fence sleep by it, I reckon.

Hi, Danning.

I had an idea you'd show up here.

- Why?

Younger Miles rode into town, was

asking for you. That's why I'm waiting.

Well?

- Just to warn you to keep awake

and stay out of the open.

Is that one of Miles' orders?

- Wait a minute

I don't want your advice,

save it for your boss. And if you

see him before I do you can say

I'm looking for him.

Alright but Younger Miles ain't in

town on Sunday for no church going.

There's something peaceful about

a church bell, isn't there, Dad?

I don't know. Something ominous about

the way it sounds today. There's an

unhealthy air about the whole town.

Jack, has Younger Miles been in here?

- No, I ain't seen him all morning.

Come on, boys, drinks are on the house.

- How come?

Because Miles ain't here.

Morning, Chris.

Oh, good morning.

Abbie, this is Chris Danning.

How do you do? I've been hoping I

would have a chance to talk to you.

If you'll excuse me.

- Certainly.

I owe you an apology for a couple of

raw remarks I made.

I accept your apology. Although it

was your right to say what you did.

I don't think any man has that right.

Although at the time I thought it

would serve my purpose.

You know, in a way I'm grateful to

you, Mr Danning.

- Grateful, how?

Miles is a cruel man but he always

checked himself before he went too far.

It wasn't until you came to town

that he began to lose control.

Well, I hope things will be better

for you now.

They will be, now that I've left him.

Kate, I'll meet you at the church.

I'm very pleased to have met you, Mr Danning.

- Thank you.

Kate, I'd like to have my room back.

What happened at the Box H?

- I quit the Box H.

You quit? But why?

Falls Canyon was fired last night and

Della's prime bunch of two year olds was wiped out.

How could you leave at such a time?

Well, I can help her more by finding

the man that did it and making him pay.

Miles?

- That's why I'm in town.

That's a job for the law, isn't it?

The law? In this town, where the

sheriff's working for Miles?

- Not any more.

O'Hea's against him and wants to

fight him. Why don't you join the

sheriff and fight with him?

No, Kate, Im sticking to my own way.

Kate!

I'm sorry.

I wish I'd known you before.

- Why?

Because there's a better side to

you. You're letting your hatred for

one man destroy it.

You seem to know a lot about it.

I know all I need to know.

Except the beginning.

I even know the ending.

There only be one ending.

But it's beyond that that's

troubling me the most,

not just the killing of Miles,

you're wondering whether it will

bring you freedom and the peace of

mind you always thought it would.

You don't think it would, do you?

- I can't give an answer to that.

You'll have to get it over with and

find out for yourself.

Who you got there?

- Andy West, he's been killed.

When did it happen? How?

I came up on him at Tip Henry's

homestead, he said he was planning

to take over.

He pulled a gun on me, it was me or him.

He got it.

He's telling the truth.

I saw it all.

Tell the sheriff what you told me.

- Well, I...

- Tell him!

I saw him kill Andy.

- He's a liar, O'Hea.

- Shut up.

Now, Leach, just what did you see?

- Well I was riding up to Tip Henry's

shack to take Andy some grub.

Just as I was coming into the

clearing I saw Stew and Ernie,

I heard him tell Andy to get.

Andy started to go and Stew shot him

in the back.

- You dirty little...

- Shut up, Stew!

O'Hea, if you let them ride out of here...

- They're not riding anywhere.

Get off them horses, both of you.

- What for?

- I'm arresting you.

We wrote all the way in to give Andy

a chance to be buried decent!

You ain't arresting us for protecting ourselves.

And neither is anybody else.

You heard what the sheriff said.

Get in there!

Alright, Ernie, inside.

You must have forgot what side your

bread's buttered on, O'Hea.

You know, Danning, it feels good to

get up off my knees.

I know what Andy meant to you,

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