River of No Return Page #3

That it wasn't just luck.

- What can he do about it now?

- Maybe try to get to Council City, too.

Might get there first,

which'd be bad for one of us.

How much do you want

for your horse and gun?

Money? What would I do?

Plough that field with a silver dollar,

then throw it in some Indian's face?

I gotta get there. How much d'you want?

Why don'tyou wait till I get

that field seeded, and I'll take you?

- I can't wait.

- Well, I can't go.

It isn't there, Calder.

Go on outside.

Go on, you got a kid out there.

Harry, what are you doing?

I'm taking the gun, Calder,

and I'm borrowing the horse.

Get it.

Get it and no one will get hurt.

Mark, go ahead. Do what he says.

- No.

- Do it.

This'll only take a few days,

then we'll be back.

- Take the boy with you.

- Boy? What for?

Indians, Weston. You've got the rifle.

Take the boy with it.

I can't do that, Calder. I'm in a hurry.

This can mean a fortune to me.

- It can mean his life.

- Get some food in a bag.

Let the boy get it.

Saddle the horse.

Harry, we don't have to do this.

It's just a few days.

- It doesn't matter that much.

- Yes, it does.

Four or five days might not

make any difference to a farmer,

but they do to me.

I'm not stealin' anything.

I'm just borrowin' it.

You'll get paid plenty for the faith.

A fistful of money in the hand's as good

as a fistful of wheat in the ground.

(Mark) Matt! Matt!

- (Kay) Look out, Mark, the gun!

- (gunshot)

Matt! Matt!

- Come on, let's get outta here.

- You've killed my dad!

- He'll be all right. Get some water.

- Come on!

- We can't leave him like this. He's hurt.

- He didn't have to be.

He didn't have to get us off the raft either.

- I think I'll wait here for you, Harry.

- What do you mean, "wait"?

I mean what I said. I can't leave them

like this. I can't leave the boy.

You'll get to Council City twice

as fast without me, won'tyou?

Yeah. Yeah, I guess so.

Then you can have the claim filed

and be back here all the sooner.

You go ahead, Harry. I'll wait here.

You won't take long, will you?

Not with you here. You knowthat.

Stop worrying. He'll be all right.

It'd take more than the wooden end

of a rifle to kill him.

He's got a head like a boulder.

Hey, wait a minute.

What do you think you're doing?

- Have they gone?

- The man's gone. She's staying.

She didn't wanna leave us.

- Why not?

- Because you were hurt.

- She told him she had to stay...

- He leftyou here to take care of me?

Look, maybe I don't like what he did

or the way he did it, but he'll be back,

and you'll be taken care of.

That's nice.

Everybody's gonna take care of me.

So are they.

Well, we'll have to get outta here.

We'll take the raft. Come on, son.

- How can we take the raft? You said...

- That doesn't count. We got no choice now.

You better getyour junk.

- Come on, Kay.

- Let's go.

Just a minute. Hold this.

Mark!

(Matt) Mark, hurry up!

(Indians whooping)

(whooping)

Matt! Look!

It's all right, son. At least we're not in it.

We'll build it up again.

Wouldn't they have done it anyway?

- Against a rifle?

- Wouldn't they?

Not so easy.

All right, hang on.

If things keep on this way,

I'll be using up a good camisole.

Next time, don't try to be so brave.

When you get hurt, yell.

- It just stung, then I forgot it.

- Listen to him!

Keep still a second while I tie it.

- I don't need this.

- Keep still.

Well, I'm gonna see what I can do

with this in the river.

The country's crawling with Indians,

and you're going fishing?

There are lots of ways to die.

Starving to death is not one of my favourites.

He does that for good luck.

He'll need it to fish that way.

I oughta go out and hunt myself.

There should be some berries around here.

- Where?

- Oh, up along there.

I'll pickthem. You stay put.

Now, stay put.

(rustling)

What do you think you're doing?

Berries. I'm gathering berries.

Not bad. I didn't think you were the type.

Even my type gets hungry.

- Wanna show me your fish?

- I left 'em in the river.

Take some. Go on, take some.

- Give some to the boy, huh?

- Glad you reminded me.

I never would have thought of it(!)

(Kay) Catfish are waitin' for the hook

Old Lady Blackbird

flirts with the scarecrow

Scarecrow's wavin' at the moon

Old Mr Moon makes hearts everywhere go

Bump, bump

With the magic of June

When Mr North Wind

Blows on the breeze

Old Father Christmas

Trims over trees

Down in the meadow

Snow softly gleams

Earth goes to sleep

And smiles in her dreams

Kinda small fish, aren't they?

There's an old saying:

"A small fish is better than an empty dish."

Say, you got quite a stock

of those old sayings.

Where did you ever learn a song like that?

I didn't go straight from

the cradle to a gold camp.

Why did you ever go there at all?

I had to live. At least, lthought so.

I had to get money to get out.

When I met Harry, he wanted the same thing.

Then he won the claim.

It was our big chance.

A chance for both of us to get away.

- Where?

- Out of the lives we were both living.

To someplace where people

live like human beings.

That's in heaven.

We weren't thinking of

going quite that far with it.

Well, you're both on the short cut.

You're going after him, aren'tyou?

Yeah, that's it.

Butyou said no one could go down the river.

You said it'd be suicide if he tried it.

He's not trying. I am.

There's a difference.

You're not gonna give him

a chance, are you?

Sure, I'll give him a chance.

Same chance he gave me...

and him.

Next time you try that,

I'll forget thatyou're a woman.

I doubt that!

Just take my word for it. Fool.

- Do you know whatyou're doing?

- I think I do.

Do you know how long we'd last out here

without that raft? Without the rifle?

The whole country alive with Indians?

Just how many kinds of fool are you?

I'm notyour kind.

What are you? Weston's kind?

You love that rat so much, you'd risk all

our lives just to keep me from getting him?

You couldn't understand.

I just don't see it.

Treating you the way he did.

I'll tell you.

I'll tell you how he didn't treat me.

He didn't treat me like a tramp.

He treated me like a woman.

So he made a mistake. If you had lived like

he has all of his life, on crumbs and bones,

maybe you'd do a crazy thing

if you had a chance to make a fortune.

Maybe you'd do a foolish thing yourself.

I wouldn't leave a kid to die... or a woman,

even if she was a tramp.

I suppose you never made a mistake.

You're too perfect. You never made any.

None that I didn't pay for, like he will.

All right. You know so much about him.

But he knows aboutyou, too.

He knows all aboutyou.

If he made a mistake with you,

at least it wasn't murder.

- What do you mean?

- You know what I mean.

He knew who you were. He knew where

you came from and whatyou did.

He knew you killed a man

and went to prison for it.

And why you went to prison:

because you shot him in the back.

Go get the stuff on the raft.

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