Deliverance Creek Page #2

You know what I'm doing here?

I'm drafting up

Etta Mae's freedom papers.

You know why?

'Cause she can't

work the fields no more?

I'm freeing Etta Mae

because she is loyal.

But you...

I'm never freeing you.

Kessie?

Master Edward,

what are you still doing up?

Looks like someone's

feeling better.

But shouldn't you be

in bed, Edward?

I'm not tired, daddy.

Look.

Master Edward.

Oh, Edward.

Come on, Edward.

It's time for bed. Now.

Go on. Clean it up.

Yeah, in your dreams.

Morning, miss Gatlin.

Hattie.

I've been a Barlowe

for some time now, duke.

Oh, you'll always be

the Gatlin sisters to me.

- Pray for me, won't you, Hattie?

- If you think it'll help.

Hey, give me that.

- Mind your manners.

- Yes.

He came home, and...

- Morning, Jeb. Miss Crawford.

- Deputy cooper.

How you doing?

I can't wait for tonight.

One, two, three.

All right,

what are we gonna eat?

We should make

a pie every day.

Oh, pie.

Caleb, go take your brother

and sister to the barn, please.

If it's food you want,

I'll fix it.

All right, then...

I'll have a steak,

kidney pie with the crust

just ever so slightly burnt.

Jasper!

Hey, little sis.

Ooh!

The hell was that for?

Scaring me and the children

half to death.

What are you doing

in these damn uniforms?

You hurt?

It's not my blood.

It's Toby's, Belle.

I'll tell Caleb

to go fetch doc Burton.

You're gonna have

to help him, Belle.

No one can know we're here.

Get!

Come on!

It's safe.

Come on out.

Five?

My sister's root cellar's

not gonna hold more than three.

I mean, or I could

come back in the morning

and take them straight

to the next pickup.

One of the Higgins boys

spotted me

coming back from

the schoolhouse this morning.

Those Higgins boys

work for Indian john.

- That's right.

- Who's Indian john?

Slave bounty hunter.

He's a white man,

but he dresses like an injun,

scalps like one.

I'll take them all.

No, Hattie. They won't be able

to hide behind the shelves.

These folks were here

before us. They should go.

But please take my boys now.

Together they barely

add up to one man.

- Huh?

- Pa, please.

- Go on, son. I'll wait here.

- No, pa, please.

You can get me in the morning

when they're safe.

Maybe by then,

their ma'll be here.

I got it.

You did good, little sis.

Don't congratulate me yet.

I still got to stitch him

back up now.

So...

You seen Harlan?

He's dead, Belle.

You certain about that?

Crossed paths with Ren

right after we left bloody bill.

He fought with Harlan

at Palmito hill.

No one from the creek

survived except Ren.

Well...

May he rest in peace.

You don't need to play the

grieving widow with me, Belle.

Go burn those

union jackets now, you hear?

You let her go.

That's my sister.

What's going on here, Belle?

Hattie?

Come here and give

your big brother a hug.

Jasper.

You got big.

What are you doing

bringing these men here?

You heard the lady. Get.

Stop scaring all my kin.

Hey, runt,

put these on the fire.

Don't want to leave

no evidence.

What is this? You desert?

You're looking at my own

personal regiment.

Started with Quantrill,

rode with bloody bill,

and now it's just us.

Were you with Quantrill

when he raided Lawrence?

You murder all those

women and children?

You a Yankee now, Hattie?

She is no such thing.

You forget about daddy

being hog-tied...

And hung...

By those very same Yankees

you seem to love so much?

Hell, just the thought of it

makes me want to ride across

that river and kill some more.

Those were innocent

women and children.

Whose fathers and husbands

and sons murdered our daddy.

That's enough, jasper.

Hattie, you come with me.

Help me fix something

for these men to eat.

Good to see you, Hattie.

You best watch yourself,

Hattie.

Belle, they're

in the root cellar...

slaves.

Throw

another jacket on, runt!

- Whoo!

- They're not safe here, Hattie.

They find them, they're gonna

kill 'em just for fun.

Come on, now.

It's not safe.

We got to get you out of here.

You can't let jasper

and his gang stay, Belle.

These are just little ones.

Is that their ma and pa?

Get in. Their pa

is back with the Spencers.

Why didn't they all

just stay there?

Because bounty hunters

are after him.

You are making me sick

with worry, Hattie.

Did Ben Crawford

put you up to all this?

'Cause I don't like it.

You need to go tell Nate

I'm not coming.

Just don't say why.

You be careful.

I hoped I'd never set eyes

on you again.

And I hoped you'd be

fat and ugly by now,

so I guess we're even.

Ah.

I don't know why

you're so mad at me.

You're the one that ran off and

married that old son of a b*tch.

And when the preacher said,

"does anyone here object?"

You were nowhere to be found.

We was just kids, Belle.

Now that we're all grown up,

did it ever occur to you

that maybe it wasn't my idea

to become Mrs. Harlan Barlowe?

You rest up now, Toby.

We should ambush 'em,

do what we're good at...

hit 'em from the trees,

get in and out

before they know

what's hit 'em,

kill half of 'em before

they even know they're dead.

We robbed a bank

in daylight.

Yeah, mayb...

How's Toby?

Well, fever's down.

I was gonna suggest you cheer

us all by playing the piano,

but it does seem to be missing.

Times are tough.

You were born with that beard,

weren't you?

Why shave it off now?

What'd you do, jasper?

Roy...

Robbed a couple saloons

in Kansas.

Now you think

you're ready to rob a bank...

Hmm?

That's what I've been hearing

your men whispering about?

Six union regiments

are getting their pay

in deliverance...

Coming by stagecoach

filled with solid gold.

When?

I'm still working on that.

Hell, jasper, now,

that is the most important part!

Well, it's coming, and when

it does, I'm robbing it.

Well, not while

you're staying here you're not.

- No.

- Come on, Belle.

I can see you're struggling.

And from the looks of it,

you've been struggling

for quite some time now.

Bank trying

to take your ranch?

Where'd you get that?

It's just Crawfords

thinking they can take

with one little piece of paper

what's rightfully mine.

So then why don't you

help us rob 'em blind?

What I don't understand

is why you

have to work so hard

to keep this here ranch.

With the money from the bank,

you can take your kids,

start fresh somewhere.

Maybe I want to start

my life over here...

In deliverance.

You got yourself

a fella, Belle?

Is that what changed you?

We're robbing that bank...

With or without you.

Whoa, whoa.

Come on.

Wasn't expecting you

until tomorrow.

That shipment needs

to go out tonight, duke.

I wish I could help you.

Really, I do, but it's...

it's jimmy's night off.

Isn't there something

you can do to persuade him?

You're very persuasive.

Ask him yourself.

He's in the bar.

You just tell me

when you want me to stop, okay?

Then again, you might not

want a drunken ferryman

in charge

of your precious cargo.

Can they stay the night,

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