Smith! Page #4

OI' Antoine, he go,

Walter Charlie go, everybody go.

- Now you got a hay contract with me.

- Why you don't go, Smith?

- We come back real quick.

- You can't do that.

What if the weather breaks and it rains?

I'll lose my whole crop.

- It stay hot, Smith. Don't worry.

- [horn honking]

- Well how about that?

- You can't go, Smith.

I know I can't go.

What am I gonna say to your mother?

[sighing] Oh, boy.

[sighing] It's not what you're

gonna say to her, Smith.

It's what she's gonna

say to you's what matters.

[sighing]

Norah?

Norah, you can't sleep in the barn.

[Norah] I'm not sleeping. I'm thinking.

Oh...well.

And I don't need

any help from you, Smith.

All right. I admit it. I'm...

I'm a terrible rancher always

getting mixed up with the Indians,

and I disappear for days

and nobody can find me. And I...

I don't even send for one lousy

Department of Agriculture bulletin

even though they just cost a quarter.

You know. You said it.

Just like you said.

Aw, come on in the house, huh, Norah?

- You left something out.

- What?

You wanna go to that trial

of Gabriel Jimmyboy.

Did I say I wanted to go to any trial?

- Why...

- You don't have to. I know you.

- Oh, you know me?

- You bet I know you.

- You do, huh?

- Yes, I do, huh.

Come here. Come here...

That's not going to get you anyplace.

It used to.

Well, we're not

talking about "used to."

Make up your mind.

Wanna go back to your mother

or you wanna go back to the house?

I mean, your mother lives

1,785 miles away from here.

She's already told you

it was a mistake to marry me.

- I should have listened to her.

- Why didn't ya?

She said, "Those good-looking ones,

they haven't got any sense."

They'll sweet-talk you for the rest of

your life, you'll end up with nothing.

I always did admire your mother.

Yeah, I sure did.

- Aw, you're not good for much, Smith.

- Mmm...

- Are you listening?

- Yes, of course.

And all those female idiots in

the village tell me how lucky I am.

Mmm...

Oh, Smith...

why did I ever get stuck with you?

I don't know.

You get anything yet?

There won't be anything on the radio.

The trial isn't that big.

Yeah, I guess you're right. I'll finish

this up and then get on with the hay.

- [engine roaring]

- [Norah] Oh...

Look what's happening to us.

It's Young Alexander!

Now look, Smith. We've got

an entire hay crop to bring in.

Let's not get bogged down

with an Indian powwow.

Probably just coming to say hello.

- Hello, Young Alexander.

- Oh, conesta!

- Hello, this place.

- Now you see?

- Conesta.

- Conesta, Young Alexander.

- How goes it?

- Don't go good, Smith.

OI' Antoine,

he send me to talk to you.

He's up at Williamstown,

at the trial, isn't he?

Yeah. Yeah, he go there.

That trial, she start yesterday.

He's gonna speak for

Gabriel Jimmyboy, isn't he?

Maybe. Maybe not.

That old man in jail.

If I jail?

Very bad, I think.

What happened? Did Walter Charlie

get Antoine into some kind of trouble?

No. Walter Charlie wait

for OI' Antoine in court.

OI' Antoine go to wrong court.

- He go inside, look for Walter Charlie.

- The wrong court?

Somebody call for

Indian named "Abraham."

- Yeah?

- OI' Antoine, he say, "Yes!"

That judge, he call OI' Antoine

up and speak with him.

"Abraham," he say, "These policemen

tell me you get drunk last night."

Oh, dear.

OI' Antoine, he forget speak English.

All he say is, "Yes."

That judge, he got

OI' Antoine in jail for five days.

Well, somebody's gotta

get him outta there.

He's gotta speak

for Gabriel Jimmyboy.

What I think, Smith. You pay $10,

OI' Antoine get out of jail.

Me?

Everybody know

he break that horse for you.

You supposed to pay him $20.

Ten and I've already given it to him.

[Smith sighing]

What for you don't pay him

all that money, Smith?

OI' Antoine, he shamed.

He ain't never been in jail before.

- What about Gabriel's lawyer?

- Lawyer, he little squirt.

He never try case in big court before.

- OI' Antoine say, "Go find Smith."

- [sighing]

- Smith, you can't go.

- I know I can't go.

- But you're going.

- Who said I was going?

You'll go.

Ah, stop talking like that!

I got my hay crop to get in.

You'll go aflYWaY-

All Indians say, "Find Smith."

OI' Antoine has to speak for Gabriel.

- Gabriel's life depends on it.

- All right, go!

Go and don't come back!

I'll cut every single

stalk of hay myself...

...with the scissors!

- What's this?

- My disaster fund.

Seventy-nine... and change!

Norah, listen, this is

the money for your trip.

It's going for a trip.

You're going to Williamstown,

and you're gonna get OI' Antoine

out of jail and stay for the trial.

Take it, Smith,

before I blow my top.

Smith, if you say something nice,

so help me, I'm going to clock you.

Thanks, Norah.

Well, somebody has to take care

of those... those children.

Guess we're just gonna have to take

our chances with the hay?

- She stay very hot Smith. Don't worry.

- Well, I won't be gone long.

Besides, Albie'll be here

to watch out for ya.

No. Albie'll watch out for you.

What?

It's time that he saw how

the world moves. Take him along.

- Hey, Albie!

- [bell clanging]

Come on, get dressed!

We're goin' to Williamstown.

Gabriel, a lawyer-client relationship

is strictly confidential.

You can say anything you want.

Anything!

- OI' Antoine speak for Gabriel.

- OI' Antoine, yeah.

That's just the point.

Who is OI' Antoine?

Why wasn't he in court today?

- Oh...

- He come this place by and by.

By and by? Huh.

They're gonna convict you before...

Oh, I'm sorry, Gabriel.

I'm sorry. [sighiflg]

You're chicken, huh?

What?

You don't talk good

to that judge, I think.

Gabriel, that judge

doesn't like it when this lawyer

has to keep asking for an adjournment

because his principle witness

hasn't shown up.

- Don't you understand that?

- Sure. You're chicken.

Well, you're not even telling me

what Antoine knows!

I mean, did he see the fight?

Was he in that room with you

that night or what?

- He don't tell me what he know.

- You heard the principle witnesses.

They saw Sam Hardy lying on the floor,

dead. And you climbin' out the window.

- Now, isn't that the truth?

- How I know the truth?

Sam give me house bottle of whiskey.

How am I gonna remember all that?

Well, Gabriel.

You and I had better pray...

that your OI' Antoine shows up.

[sighing] 'Cause I don't know

how to ask for another adjournment.

I just don't know.

Well, you talk pretty good here.

Why you go to that court

and talk chicken?

- Albie...

- Hmm?

- Now what'd I tell ya, huh?

- Don't do any good, Smith.

The closer we get to Williamstown,

the more I get to thinkin' about it.

Will they let

Gabriel Jimmyboy go, Smith?

Well, that's up to the jury.

Antoine'll speak for Gabriel.

Antoine'll tell 'em how it happened.

Well, you gotta remember

that Antoine's an old man,

and he gets things

kinda mixed up sometimes.

- But Sam Hardy went for Gabriel first.

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