Fort Dobbs Page #2

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and turn out to be all

together something else.

If he'd caught you

stealing that horse...

Why are we stopping?

Your mother.

She's falling behind.

She walks good, but she

ain't much on a horse.

How much longer we got to go, Mr. Davis?

Oh, we ought to be in Dobbs

some time tomorrow.

My dad, he's gonna meet

us there, ain't he?

Ain't he?

That depends.

No, it don't.

He will get through.

It takes more than a few

Indians to stop my dad.

You wait and see.

Chad!

Yes, sir.

A while back before I ran into

you and your mother, I...

...found a man.

He had been ambushed and

had an arrow in his back.

Yes, sir?

You go riding up over that

ridge without looking first

the same thing could happen to you.

Now, go back and ride

with your mother.

- But...

- Just do like I tell you.

What is it?

Stay alert on your horses.

If I make it across the flats

to those rocks,

you and the boy come across.

And if I don't...

You see that long peek,

ride for it and don't stop

until you come to the river.

It'll take you a couple of days out of

the way, but runs on down to Dobbs.

You're thinking to leave us, Mr. Davis?

I've thought about it.

But I can't.

I keep thinking how you'd be looking

after the Comanches get through with you.

I told you an extra gun

might come in handy.

- I' told you to ride for the river.

- I only thought I...

I'd appreciate if you don't

think at all, Ms. Grey.

It won't happen again.

Well, I'd like a good argument

as much as the next fellow, but

I think we ought to get up

to this higher ground

in case of them Comanches

is gonna try again, huh?

Hey, son...

Let's go catch Mr. Davis's

horse for him.

Yes, sir.

Here you are, ma, I'm

gonna go help Mr. Davis.

All right, son.

You have a good little boy, Mrs. Grey.

Yes.

You sure make good coffee, ma'am.

Thank you.

You know I always did say if I had

to take up with a woman she's...

got to be good cook first, and

then be good looking second.

But I never did have

much good luck with women.

Well, I ran with a few of them

now and then, but nothing serious.

Up until that time down in Bigsby,

about a half year ago.

There was a girl who claimed

right out she wanted to marry me,

and told everybody.

Everybody except her husband.

Well, it came about that close or he'd

hit me in the back with a shotgun.

It makes me shiver,

every time I think about it.

It taught me once lesson, though.

You always check the brand first,

That way you'll know if you run

somebody's else's stock, you see?

- Would you like a little more coffee?

- Yes, ma'am.

How long have you known Mr. Davis?

Oh, a long time.

You know Mrs. Grey, it might

sound kind of silly to you,

but I've been thinking and I've

made up my mind about something.

I'm gonna keep looking for a woman

and she's gonna be just like you.

Same color hair,

same kind of eyes,

all, all the same thing all.

But I ought to have look pretty far

to find one near as handsome.

Oh, it troubles me alright, but when

I get my heart set on something...

Say, like a good bredded horse,

I just know that I don't live with

myself if I don't get my hands on it.

It is not only what pleases me,

you know what I mean Mrs. Grey?

You're gonna talk all day, Clett?

Somebody ought to be standing guard.

You are right.

Who is? You start, huh?

You've never seen one of

them before, have you?

It's a new Henry.

15 shells and one in the chamber.

Brass framing, ready to fire,

"Gordon Sonny" and shoot always.

And the mules are carrying

100 more just like this.

I figure I'd sell them in Santa Fe

over to the Comanches, up there

they will bring up a piece of money.

If I get through.

- And if you don't?

- Well, I'll make it.

One way or the other, huh?

You're meaning what?

The Comanches pay gold for

the rifles, don't they?

You think I do things like that?

I know you would.

Yes, sometimes I don't like him.

I hate him.

You do?

He killed my husband.

Mrs. Grey?

I couldn't sleep.

That's is good, I'm glad.

You know, it makes

some lonesome night.

It's a shame, isn't it?

This country isn't safe

when it is dark.

Mrs. Grey?

Huh?

Your husband, how come

he stood up to Gar?

He didn't.

He shot him in the back.

This man got to have a pretty good

reason to shoot him in the back.

You were that reason, Mrs. Grey?

No.

You are traveling with him.

I had no choice.

You have now.

We could be in Dobbs this morning.

You mean you take us there?

That depends, ma'am.

A man can do an awful lot

of things for a woman like you.

What are you doing?

Gar has already done

one man in the back.

You don't think I'm gonna take a chance

something like that happen to me,

unless you're willing to give

me something in return, do you?

Turn her loose, Clett.

It might be better all around

if you just pack up and move on.

Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?

That way you would have her

all yourself every night.

Is that why you killed her husband?

Get up.

I ain't gonna quarrel you, Gar...

Not at all. You can have her.

He said he was gonna

take us to Fort Dobbs.

I got to make sure that

Chad and I get there.

You can't wait to

turn me in, can you?

Why didn't you have Clett

shoot me in the back?

Like you shot my husband, huh?

I left a man dead man

in Largo, Mrs. Grey...

But I didn't kill your husband.

Hey, Gar!

There's gonna be a next time.

Chad!

Chad.

Chad!

Chad...

He can't be far, he's on foot.

He must have heard us last night.

Yes, ma'am.

What are you gonna do?

He's been lying to, Mrs Grey, but

finally I'm gonna tell him the truth.

How do you tell a boy

you killed his father?

How do you tell a woman

you didn't?

Chad?

Just let me be.

- Listen to me there's something I didn't...

- My dad is dead. You killed him!

You're wrong, Chad.

Wrong was I was not

telling you the truth.

Go away.

Not until you know how it was.

The man I was telling you about,

the one that the Comanches ambushed,

was your father.

My dad could take care of himself.

He could have got through.

He died trying.

You killed him.

He was dead when I found him.

Dead because he didn't want to

leave you and your mother alone.

You're lying.

I heard what my ma said.

You shot him.

Why?

I didn't kill your father, Chad.

I am telling you the truth, boy.

I don't believe you.

All right, have it your way.

But that's no reason to run off and

leave your mother like you did.

When we get to Fort Dobbs,

who's gonna take care of her?

I will, I will take care

of her, but I don't need you.

I hate you and I'm gonna

keep on hating you.

And someday I'm gonna kill you.

Just like you did to my dad.

In the back.

Mrs. Grey, we'd move out

any time you finished eating.

We're finished.

You'll make it alone from here.

Where are you going?

I told you that. They likely waiting

for me when I got there.

They wouldn't have to know.

I'll tell them.

Take care of your mother.

Goodbye, Ms. Grey.

Goodbye.

Chad?

Give me the gun, Chad.

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