Last Train from Gun Hill Page #3

that warrant. I'd kill you.

- I can take care of myself.

- Yeah, you can!

I know how to handle a gun, and I ain't

running away. I'm going in to town.

- Take Beero and Skag!

- I don't need bodyguards.

Think you're up against some field hand?

It's Matt Morgan. Do as I say.

And don't you do a thing till I get there.

Beero! Skag! Get in here!

- What'll happen to Lee?

- He'll be drunk in an hour.

I gotta tell you something, Pa.

It wasn't Lee's fault.

He'll be drunk in an hour.

If Matt finds him, he'll be dead in two.

I just hope that eases Matt's hurt.

I'm looking for Rick Belden.

Do you know where I can find him?

- What do you want him for, Marshal?

- To talk to him and Lee.

- Never heard of them.

- Maybe you got the wrong town.

No, I got the right town.

- Maybe I'm talking to the wrong people.

- That's the only kind we got.

Before we're through,

you're gonna have two less.

That's right nasty of you, Marshal.

We heard talk about an Indian girl...

Hereabouts we don't arrest a man for

killing an Indian. We give him a bounty.

What'll it be, Marshal?

Whiskey.

It's none of my business,

but I've some free advice...

- Get out of town?

- That's right.

- How much?

- It's on the house, just like the advice.

You wouldn't know where to find them?

If they was standing right next to you,

I wouldn't tell you. I've got a family.

Yeah, I can understand that.

Isn't anybody here not afraid of Belden?

Sure, the graveyard's full of them.

I'm not afraid of Craig Belden.

- What are you doing in a place like this?

- I was raised in places like this.

That makes two of us.

They're saying

you're gonna get yourself killed.

- Is that what they say?

- It's what they say.

Just like Jimmy.

A fella I used to know. Just like you.

Always wanted to make everything right.

He had a heart as big as a house

and a brain the size of a pea.

You don't know where Rick Belden is?

No.

But I know where I'd look.

- Where?

- That gin mill across the street.

It's called Charlie's Place,

but Craig Belden counts the cash.

Thanks.

If any of the girls try and tell you how

wonderful you are, don't believe them.

I know, I used to deal there.

Just like Jimmy, stubborn as a mule.

Next time you see Jimmy, say hello.

We seem to have a lot in common.

Maybe more than you know. He's dead.

They shot him down in the street.

Six, deuce, pair of fives...

...ten, three.

- You're high, Charlie.

- $5.

I'll call.

- Six. Where you going, Rick?

- I'll be back.

- He's fixing to get scratched again.

- Pair of tens.

- Can't a girl get some sleep?

- Sorry. Don't make any noise.

Rick, what are you doing up there?

Will you let him alone, Skag?

Come on, Rick! We're fixing to shoot

a little red dog. We need your money!

All right, everybody up.

Just keep away from those guns.

All right, on your feet.

All right, one at a time. In there.

Start moving.

Morgan, you must be out of your mind.

Get in there.

I need one of your jail cells

until train time, Sheriff.

The cells are all locked.

I wouldn't know where to find the keys.

Pretty bad bump you put on that

boy's head. Mr Belden ain't gonna like it.

He's got plenty of time to handle it.

Evening train ain't due for six hours.

You'll never get him on it.

You've been lucky so far, Morgan.

The tough part's still ahead.

You'll turn this into a shooting gallery!

Get out!

- I want a room.

- Not here. Mr Belden's the owner.

You're breaking the law!

I am the law.

Morgan's got your boy, Mr Belden.

Don't worry, I've never killed

an unarmed man in my life.

Or a woman.

He got him, Mr Belden.

He's up in that far room.

He jumped us. Rick was upstairs.

Morgan came down with him, out cold.

Cover the place.

Rick! Can you hear me?

Yeah, Pa!

- Are you all right?

- Yeah, Pa!

Matt!

- Matt! I wanna come up!

- You got something to say, say it!

I told you to leave town!

Are you tired of living or just plain crazy?

I've got 20 men down here!

You turn Rick loose!

You know the answer to that.

He's cuffed me to the bed!

- Matt, now, this is your last chance!

- You through?

All right. All right, you called the turn.

Do me a favour, will you? Try walking

in front of that window again.

Hey!

No!

Pa, make them stop! He's got the bed

in front of the window! Pa!

Hold it!

- Aren't you gonna do anything?

- Why don't we rush him?

- After all, he's only one man.

- That's my son up there.

That's better. Not so noisy.

You're a goner, Morgan.

I know my old man.

Only way you'll get out of here's in a box.

Just so long as I got you with me,

that's the main thing.

- He can't stay holed up.

- Sooner or later, he'll have to come out.

- Charlie!

- Yeah?

- Get Doc Rainey, huh? Where's Skag?

- He couldn't make it back.

Why don't he have sense and quit?

He don't stand a chance in hell.

Rushing him don't do no good.

- Where are the other men?

- Over at the Horseshoe.

No, you wait. Soon they'll be stampeding

in here to get liquored up.

Killing, blood, a good gunfight,

makes them thirsty.

You'd think they'd be buying already.

Two men dead.

- Three. You're forgetting Skag.

- That wasn't a man.

But Matt Morgan. You've got to admire

somebody with that much guts.

OK, OK.

You look kind of lonesome, missy.

Not since I was 12 years old.

Like to buy you a little drink.

Later, missy, later.

- Hey, you think Morgan'll really make it?

- No. I wish he would, though.

- I'd love to see Craig's face.

- Yeah.

I'll tell you,

if Morgan does manage to get the kid

out of here, it could really hurt Craig.

Probably the only thing that would.

- Where are you going?

- My room.

What? In the Harper House?

The hotel where this Morgan's holed up?

You going in there?

- Why not? I live there.

- She's just pulling your leg.

She may walk in that lobby,

but not up them stairs.

- You know you're not going in there.

- Would you like to put money on it?

I got $100 that says I not only go up, but

walk into Morgan's room and talk to him.

- I'll take half that bet.

- How about you, big mouth?

Well, of all the stubborn women,

you take the cake. All right.

- Who'll hold the bet?

- Put it in the cash register.

Linda!

Why didn't you come back to the ranch?

- So you could beat me up again?

- What did you expect after all I heard?

Rick told you those things. Rick hates

me. He always has and you know it.

When he tells you lies about me,

why believe him?

Why couldn't you just once believe me?

- 'Cause he's my son.

- What am I? Nothing?

- You know better than that.

- It's not gonna be that way any more.

- What are you talking about?

- Ten days I lay in that hospital.

Every day I swore that we were through.

I was through with this town and you.

But you came back.

You told me something once.

You said you'd marry me.

- Will you marry me?

- We can't discuss that now.

- You know how Rick feels...

- Rick! Rick!

- I've got my answer.

- Where are you going?

The hotel. To get a job,

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