Lawman Page #6

he's a friend...

there are a lot

of reasons.

I wanted to

because of you.

Because there's nothing

soft in you, Jered,

there's nothing forgiving.

Even this damn land

doesn't hold a man down

as hard as you do.

What made you

change your mind?

It wouldn't make

any difference.

You'd kill him

or go after him,

or he'd kill you.

I didn't want that.

The sword of Gideon.

How do you see yourself,

Jered?

What are you

asking, girl?

For me to let

Adams go?

Forget about Price,

Bronson and the rest?

Would that be

so terrible?

You know

I can't do that.

You hold

the law too high.

You always did.

Would it really

make any difference

if just once...

you can't play with

it like that, Laura.

There is no

"just once."

Next time

it might be a friend...

or money in your hand...

or maybe you get scared...

and then it becomes one more

"just once."

Soon you don't know

who you are.

You can't break

the rules, Laura.

Oh...

the rules...

I forgot

about the rules.

You think they

change the killing.

Because you never

draw on a man first,

you think

that really matters?

Do you know what

they call you, Jered?

"The widow-maker."

I have a harsh tongue,

Jered Maddox,

and then Im always

saying Im sorry,

and there's no use

your being out there...

wanting to be

in here and...

me in here wishing

that you'd come to me.

oh, you

took a damn long time...

how did you

get here?

Huh?

This place, I mean.

After canyon city,

there was tombstone.

Then I went north

to Ellsworth.

That's where

I met Hurd,

and he brought me

here.

Why do you stay?

I've used up

too many places.

Besides, I owe Hurd.

He's kind and tender...

when there's time

to be kind and tender.

He left you here.

He's frightened.

Terrible thing, to

be frightened, Jered.

You wouldn't know.

You don't leave a man

like him much.

Come back with me.

Would you quit?

I've thought about it.

and all you've got

is a gun and

not enough ground

to throw over you.

Come back

to bannock.

Laura.

I've always

loved you, Jered.

But I would rather have

this dead land and Hurd Price

than the cold waiting

that Id have with you.

Do you still carry

that whistle thing?

You mean the flute.

Do you?

In the saddlebag.

Play me something.

Any free land

around here?

I asked you

a question, mister.

Only high up.

South of the river

there's some for the buying.

Good land?

Men like you

don't buy land, Maddox.

You don't buy it,

and you don't work it.

Can't I handle this

myself, Mr. Bronson?

No.

Find Crowe?

Quit.

Rode out earlier

with his stuff.

This locks in

with you, Hurd.

You gonna ride

with us?

A man's got to stand

sometime!

I'll just get

my things.

Get Price an animal!

Whoa!

Hyah!

Hyah!

Hyah!

You need some breakfast.

I hear you might

have trouble

from the citizens.

Harris.

Seems he's trying to

throw a lot of sand.

What does a man like

that want, Lucas?

A name.

He hungers for the name

in bold, proud letters.

When Maddox comes back,

you could have

big trouble, cotton.

If Maddox comes back.

He'll come back.

He might need help.

I tell you, Lucas,

if I had somewhere

to run to, Id run.

But I don't,

so Ill stand.

And the storekeeper

and his friends?

I don't know.

You knew Maddox

from before?

You never said.

From where?

Claremont,

canyon city,

san Acoma.

Friend?

Used to be.

And now?

There's been trouble

between us.

I killed a man

in san Acoma.

Maddox called it

against me,

posting me

out of town.

He called it wrong,

but...

that's how

it stayed.

Harris and his friends

don't have the tail

for gunplay.

Such a man was this,

our brother

Marc Corman,

who now

we bury here.

Amen.

Amen.

Better get him

to a doctor.

Who is that woman?

Corman's widow.

Murderer!

Tell moss and Cobden

to meet at my store.

How? That's what

I wanna know, Luther.

The next time he steps

into the street.

You and moss,

upstairs.

Totts, Hersham, and me

here in the store

and out in the alley.

You mean cut him down,

just like that?

Just like that.

Does that bother you?

We're not gunfighters.

We can't do it straight out.

It's not as if

it was murder,

him a killer

and all.

More like

a hangin'.

He's standing on

the neck of this town,

that's for damn sure.

What's the matter,

Cobden?

I got no taste

for it.

Ah. I had you down

for a man.

You talk

a big noise, Luther,

but Maddox put water

between your legs

once before,

and I think maybe

the mold is set that way.

Ryan?

Be right out.

Doc says Adams can't

travel for a few days.

He's busted up inside.

When he gets better...

let him go.

Tell him he can go

back to his land.

The others, too.

Tell him it's finished.

I'm pulling out.

You?

What happened out there?

Nothing happened.

A man like you

doesn't let go that easy,

not for no reason.

I guess I just

looked around me.

Anyway, soon

there'll be no more towns

like bannock,

towns that need

a gun like mine.

I guess yours is

the right way, cotton.

Sit out the years.

Find a nice, quiet town,

one that pays

a better house toll.

Don't do it

my way, Maddox.

Quit clean.

Buy you a drink?

No, thanks.

Bronson just rode

into town.

There's 4 of 'em.

Who's he with?

His son Jason,

Choctaw Lee,

and Hurd Price.

I'd say you bought

more than you can chew

this time.

You figure you've got

a say in this?

I wouldn't want to see you

get it in the back.

We've done...

too many towns.

You don't owe me, Lucas.

Well, let's say

I need the action.

You and I sit at the

same table, Jered.

The virtuous

need us, but, hah!

They don't like

the smell.

Maddox?

Damn fools!

I'll go out

and talk to them.

Leave it be.

A man gets caught

in his own doing.

You can't change

what you are,

and if you try,

something always

calls you back.

Cotton?

I can't.

I got no stomach

for that kind

of shootin' anymore.

Which one is

Hurd Price?

The one on the end,

next to the old man.

Watch Lee,

on your right.

He's the gun hand.

Crowe!

Please let me talk

to 'em, Maddox.

Jason and me were

never in bannock.

We went to Abilene.

Hear me out.

Jason and me

are friends.

I'll kill you if

I have to, Maddox!

No need to, son.

Whoa!

Aah!

Oh! Ow...

there's been enough.

He's going.

He killed Harvey.

You can't let him go!

Maddox!

It's over, Jason.

I don't crawl.

He'll kill you.

Get your hands

off of me!

I'm not afraid

of him!

Harvey would walk

fire for you.

He's my son, Maddox.

Don't beg him!

Oh!

Ohh... ohh...

ohh...

ahh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Ahh...

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