Deliverance Creek Page #3

somewhere in the saloon maybe?

All my guests

are the paying kind.

The only reason I agreed

to our arrangement tomorrow

is I think...

I think you may be the one

truly good person I know.

Myself, well,

I'm bound to burn in Hades.

But the way I see it,

sometimes you can beat the odds.

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, what is it?

Oh, god.

They hung Levi Spencer

and his wife...

slave bounty hunters.

I said that I would come back

for their father,

- but they're just children.

- Shh, shh, shh.

They're in my wagon now.

You got to stop this, Hattie.

It's not a game.

How many are there?

Four.

Two are just children.

They can stay.

I'll dump whatever whiskey

we have left,

hide them in the barrels

in the morning

and get them across as planned.

But then that's the end.

You hear me?

What are you doing up?

I had a bad dream.

Well, you know what?

You're still dreaming.

You know you can fly

when you're dreaming.

Okay?

Are you and the kids

all right?

Yes, we're fine. Hattie really

shouldn't have said anything.

I never saw Hattie.

And you never showed...

who are those men, Belle?

That's my brother jasper

and some men he served with.

So that was your brother

I saw you with in there?

- He's been shot.

- Yes.

That's not jasper.

That's a friend...

From when we was kids.

Come on, get the kids up.

I'm taking you with me.

I'm not leaving my ranch.

Well, I'm not just

riding off and leaving

you and the kids alone

with a bunch of killers, Belle.

I know this is hard

for you to understand,

not being from deliverance.

This ain't got nothing to do

with which side of the war

I'm on here, Belle.

I've known all about jasper

and his Gatlin gang

long before

this war ever started.

You're not staying.

Well, see,

that's not your say.

Can you imagine

how it would look?

You out here alone with them?

It's a small town, Belle.

There's no secrets here.

Go on, Nate.

You want to share

any of those secrets with me?

I know who you are, Belle.

Then you know I don't need you

to protect me.

Fine.

If that's what you want.

All right.

Keep 'em moving.

Serve 'em up when they're done.

I'm going to town.

I'll be back in a tick.

I don't bite...

Unless it's breakfast.

I got those spurs from my pa.

If you like 'em, try 'em on.

Go ahead.

Come here.

Boy, look at that.

You got sausage fingers

just like me.

Give me your foot.

So, uh...

Uh...

What was my mom like as a kid?

She was hotheaded.

She was brave.

Hell...

This here at least is the third

time she's saved my life.

- Really?

- Yeah, really.

Time before this,

I was right about your age.

It was before duke cleaned up

the whorehouse.

- I was living there with my mama.

- What was it then?

It was a dirty,

run-down whorehouse.

Anyway, this old cowboy...

he comes in after the roundup,

and he's all flush with cash

and liquored up,

and, well, he liked

this one whore named Sadie

because she had this reputation

for having this

famously powerful cooch.

You know what?

I got a better story for ya.

Come on.

No, no, I couldn't

tell you that one.

- Oh.

- I should let you rest up.

If you need me, just holler.

What do I holler?

Caleb. Caleb, sir.

Nice to meet you, Caleb.

- How old are you, boy?

- 12.

12, sir.

I should take these off.

No, no, no,

I want you to keep those.

Nah. I couldn't.

Yeah, you can.

I'll make you a deal.

If fen ever I have a boy,

I know where to find 'em.

Excuse me, ma'am.

Have you seen either

of these two men around town?

No. I'm sorry.

I haven't.

Thank you.

You need to leave now,

jasper.

Union soldiers everywhere

looking for you.

- Is Toby able to ride?

- No way he can stay on a horse.

Let's put him

in the root cellar.

The rest of you

need to ride on.

- Let's go, fellas.

- All right.

- Mount up.

- Mount up.

Yah!

Yah!

- What's going on, ma?

- Go. Go, go, go.

- What's going on?

- Up you go.

It's just like hide-and-seek.

You just got

to be quiet to win.

Okay? Okay.

What can I help

you gentlemen with?

We'd like to search

your property, ma'am.

What ever for?

We're searching

for bushwhackers, ma'am.

They're not here.

Well, we've been told

that they are.

May I ask what brought on

this accusation?

Why would you be burning

union regimental papers

and union officer insignia?

Why do you think

I burned them?

Because I'm ashamed.

It's no secret my husband

fights for the confederates,

as do many men

from deliverance.

In the letters he sends home,

he includes little mementos

for his sons.

I won't even

let the children see them.

It's shameful.

She's a bald-faced liar.

Everyone knows her husband

hasn't written in years.

Let's go, men.

Please.

Oh.

Can't you see

there's nobody in here?

Please stop this.

Stop, ma'am.

- You're scaring my children.

- Stay down.

Stay down.

One's coming down now!

No! That's my son!

Oh!

Caleb. Caleb.

Ca... Caleb, baby, Caleb.

Caleb. Oh...

No.

Caleb. Caleb. Cal...

What have you done?

The lord as my shepherd,

I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down

in green pastures.

He leadeth me

beside the still waters.

He restores my soul.

He leadeth me in the paths

of righteousness

for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the

valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil...

I'm leaving.

But first I'm gonna

ride over there,

and I'm gonna kill

Jeb Crawford.

You ride over there

all shot up,

barely able to sit in a saddle,

we may as well dig

another hole next to Caleb,

'cause you won't be

coming back alive.

I want to kill

all those Crawfords

for what they took

from you, Belle.

What they took from us, Toby.

He was your son.

Caleb was your boy.

I think

you must've known that.

Think you knew it the moment

my daddy made me marry Harlan.

I think you knew it

when you took up

with that girl from Carthage.

But I know you knew it

when you saw him.

He looked just like you, Toby.

He was your son.

Harlan didn't know it.

I think you did.

I love you.

You hear me?

Nate brought that for you.

Is he still here?

He left hours ago.

I don't understand.

They came together.

How'd Moses get separated

from our boys?

This is my sister's ranch,

and her root cellar

only holds a few people.

Moses insisted

Hattie take your boys

along with an elderly couple

who'd been waiting.

We don't think

they killed Moses.

But we are fairly certain they

took him back to the plantation.

What's a Crawford doing

on my property?

I'll wait outside.

He's nothing like the rest of

the Crawfords, and you know it.

Blood is blood.

Put the gun down, Belle.

This is the mother of those

two boys that were here.

This is Kessie.

Kessie,

this is my sister, Belle.

She don't look

like a runaway.

Kessie forged

her own freedom papers.

- She came by stagecoach.

- Negro can't read or write.

She can, Belle,

and she can talk, too,

so please address her directly.

How'd she get the money

to come by stagecoach?

She forge that too?

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