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Yeah.

There's another one over by the church.

Any use in arresting them?

Forjust standing around?

All I'd do is get another one.

The jail isn't big enough

to hold all of them.

As a matter of fact,

they'd like to get a few in jail.

Remember that.

Seor Chance. I've been looking for you.

I have a message for...

What you have here?

The package you've been waiting for.

Just in time, seor.

- Carlos! Carlos! Where are you at?

- I'm over here.

You keep it. Consuela, she comes now.

If you break the dishes, you'll see what

happens. Every day is the same thing...

Carlos. Oh, Seor Chance.

I just ask Carlos if he's...

Carlos, what is wrong?

You look like the cat

who swallows the chicken.

What have you been doing?

What have I been doing?

I've been talking to my friend the sheriff,

that's what I have been doing.

We have important business.

You say I look like the cat

who eats too much.

Consuela, look at me. Am I fat?

- I did not say you are fat.

- Please, Consuela, do not say more.

You already say too much.

Me and my friend

will make our business alone.

Come, seor.

The thing is if he ate the chicken or not.

I'm going to see.

You take chances, my friend.

Because I know woman.

She will be mad or she will be sorry.

If it is mad,

she will be much pleasure to make right.

And if she is sony,

it will be the same pleasure.

You do not have women.

So you do not know, seor.

But me, Carlos Robante, I know.

Wait till I show you

what is in this package.

Then you tell me

if I do not know about women.

If I had bought this myself, seor,

everyone in town would have known.

And it's not the sort of thing that Consuela

would like to have known by everyone.

You see?

And they're not beautiful, seor?

Can you make the picture

how she will look?

You sure you want me to do that?

No. No, seor.

Do not make the picture.

It is best for me to do it.

I beg your pardon, gentlemen,

but I'm looking for a...

Those things have great possibilities,

but not for you.

What are you doing here?

Until I saw those things, I was looking

for a towel. I'd like to take a bath.

- Didn't you come in on the stage?

- That's right.

Why aren't you on it?

Whoever heard of a stagecoach

having a bathroom?

Chihuahua! I forgot.

I start to tell you and I forgot.

- The stage, she did not go.

- Why?

- Something happened with the wheel.

- Where's Jake?

Near the corral.

- He must fix the wheel before he can leave.

- That's just fine.

Hey, sheriff, you forgot your pants.

You reckon they'd try anything tonight?

Could be. Nathan Burdette's smart.

Don't underrate him.

That ain't no kind of answer.

How or what he'll do, I don't know.

- Your guess is as good as mine.

- Well, what I wanna know is when.

I wish he'd hurry up and do it.

Have a bottle of beer, Dude?

I'm full of beer.

It doesn't do any good.

It'll start working on you tomorrow

or the next day.

Stumpy-

We're gonna take a turn

around the town.

- You be all right?

- Of course I'll be all right.

Then get in there where you belong.

I'm going. I'm going.

But you remember one thing:

When you come back,

you holler before you open that door.

I'm liable to blast you

just for the heck of it.

We'll holler.

You got any particular reason

for going out tonight?

Usually do.

Don't wanna do anything different,

they might think we're scared.

Well, aren't we?

I just can't take it sitting in there.

You mean you saw I couldn't take it.

Don't set yourself up as being so special.

You'd think you invented the hangover.

I could sure take out a

patent for this one.

Take that side.

- Good evening.

- Yes, sir.

Hold it, Dude. Stairway.

Don't shoot, sheriff.

Just getting a little air.

I'm getting jumpy.

I'll walk along with you

and hold your hand.

- Get back over there where you belong.

- Yes, Papa.

- Carlos.

- Seor Chance. I been looking for you.

- It is very bad, seor.

- What's wrong?

- Your friend Seor Wheeler.

- What about him?

He is a good friend

and he wishes good for you, so he talks.

He talks to people. He talk to everybody.

He say, "Why they don't help you?"

That you should have some more help.

He's right, Seor Chance.

But is no good to say such things

to the wrong people.

- You tell him.

- Is he in there?

Si, I think.

Chance, he's over there.

- The queens full.

- That's good. Beats me.

Spare a minute, Pat?

Good evening, sheriff.

- Deal me out.

- Evening.

- You two know each other.

- Yeah.

No, thanks, Carlos.

- Chance, I've been wanting to talk to you.

- You've been talking too much, Pat.

- What do you mean "talking too much"?

- Anybody that...

sides in with me right now's liable to find

themselves up to their ears in trouble.

Is that why you haven't asked

for any deputies?

Give me a new deck of cards.

I'm not having any luck with this one.

I was talking about why you haven't asked

for any new deputies. You could get some.

How about my drivers?

You could use them.

Suppose I got them, what'd I have?

Some well-meaning amateurs.

Most of them worried

about their wives and kids.

Burdette has 30 or 40 men,

all professionals.

Only thing they're worried about

is earning their pay.

No, Pat, all I'd be doing is giving them

more targets to shoot at.

A lot of people'd get hurt.

Joe Burdette isn't worth it.

He isn't worth one of those

that'd get killed.

Then what are you gonna do?

All you got for help's that old man

down at the jail and this...

Borrachn's the name, Mr. Wheeler.

I'll go outside so you

can talk more freely.

Wasn't good, Pat.

- Let's sit down.

- Yeah, I know.

I shouldn't have said it.

I meant nothing by it.

But I'm so used to stumbling

over that fellow.

I don't think I ever saw him

standing on his own two feet...

without something

to help hold him up.

How long you been coming here?

Going on two years.

If you'd have come through three years

ago, you wouldn't have stumbled over him.

Dude was good.

He was my deputy.

Best man with a gun I ever worked with.

That's pretty hard to believe, Chance.

- What...?

- A girl.

Just a girl that came through on the stage.

She was no good,

but couldn't tell him that.

I tried and he damn near killed me.

Anyway, he was hooked.

Went away with her.

Six months later

he came back without her.

That's when the Mexicans

started calling him Borrachn.

- That's Spanish for...

- Yeah, I know.

He told me.

So for two years he's been drinking...

all he could buy, or somebody'd

buy for him till last night.

And how long do you think that'll last?

I don't know.

So in the meantime,

you have to take care of him, huh?

He's been doing a pretty good job

of taking care of me.

I'm supposed to be your friend too.

Why don't you let me help you?

Deal me in.

- You're not good enough.

- I don't know! I'm as good...

If you're so good,

why did you have to hire Colorado?

- No, thanks, Pat, you keep out of it.

- Hey, that's an idea.

- What?

- Ryan. Colorado you call him.

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