Sugarfoot Page #5

ain't he?

So just soothe yourself down,

Sugarfoot.

Don't fret yourself into no lather.

Look there.

Come on, kick your heels

in that critter.

Come on, let's get out of here!

Stint!

What did you do that for?

They're getting away.

We'd better worry about

getting away ourselves.

Them soldiers don't know

which from the other,

and they're kind of mad

it seems as though.

You know, a fella ought to try

everything once.

Now I can discover how it

feels to be an outlaw.

Nonsense.

- Yeah?

Them cavalry boys think we're part

of the gang that attacked them.

Me and you is murderers,

that's what we'll be.

We attacked and shot down

a United States army.

And if we get took, we'll be hung.

Stint's the man they want

and he's getting away.

Yeah, going lickety split. And them

army riders will never catch up to

him neither.

He got plenty experience during

the war.

I don't know how you feel,

but I've got to get him.

I've got to capture Stint.

- There's no use killing our animals.

If they was to bog down,

we would be in a fix.

Now listen, we know where this

Jacob Stint's heading

Prescott.

- Yeah.

There ain't a crack or cranny in this

whole territory I ain't poked into.

I know Arizona like

it's the palm of my hand,

and I just don't see how he's gonna

get back to Prescott

without passing through

Bell's Canyon.

Maybe you do.

- I don't know the country.

Well, you will before you get home.

Now seems to me, if you want to

lay hands on Stint,

the thing to do is to wait for him

where he's got to be.

- Right.

Let's get to Bell's Canyon first.

If the Injuns don't get him,

we'll be there waitin'.

Squat behind this rock

and send them flapping their wings

to kingdom come.

Easy as rolling off a log.

I'm taking them to Prescott alive.

They'll be no good to us dead.

Well, that's a horse of a

different colour.

I didn't come to Arizona to

hide away with a price on my head.

We didn't ride to La Paz to help

Goodhue throw the blame for that

massacre on the ranchers.

There's no way out of it. Stint or

his bearded friend must talk.

Well, they'll be kind of reluctant.

I got mine.

Here, let me tie him up.

Maybe you ain't so handy with knots.

When you tie a fella,

tie him for keeps.

A man can be mighty disconcertin'

if he can get a hand free.

Well, we're going red whiskers.

We're going to him how?

What have you got in mind?

Remember that skeleton

you showed me?

We ain't Injuns. White men don't

torture white men.

In La Paz white men were murdered

without the chance of lifting a

You've seen me through so far.

Fly-Up-The-Creek, I'm obliged.

There's the road.

You're at liberty to ride.

I calculate I'll stay, but...

it goes against the grain.

This man is going to talk.

If you stay, you'll have to do as I

tell you, so make up your mind.

I'll stay, but... maybe I won't sleep

so good when I remember it.

Put something in Stint's mouth.

Ought to be snakes in these rocks.

You know how to catch one?

Sure.

Didn't want to be catched,

but he's a good 'un, and rattlin'.

What's your name?

I asked your name.

- I'd answer polite, if I was you.

Billings.

- Ever heard of a man named Goodhue?

None of your business. But I never

heard the name. Never.

Stint recruited you

- Never heard of no Stint.

Stint hired you to go to La Paz.

- I've never been to La Paz.

Not never in my life!

- How much did he pay you?

How much to hide behind houses

and shoot down unsuspecting men?

- Nobody hired me.

Never seen this here La Paz.

- What's your price for murder? $100?

I never done no murders.

I'm a peaceable, hardworking man.

Let me go and I'll give you what

money I got in my poke.

He hired you to attack the wagon

train and escort.

No such thing!

You're a blasted liar!

I saw a skeleton once. It was a man.

Close to it was another skeleton,

that of a rattle snake.

The Indians tied the man down so

that the only thing he could move

was his head.

Then they fastened the snake, so

that when it struck

it could not quite reach the man's

face if he strained his head back.

Does this sound inviting, Billings?

That ain't no way to talk to a man.

Why don't you go after him?

You're doing the talking.

Did Stint send you to La Paz?

Get your snake ready. I've given

this man plenty of chance to talk.

You're foolin'. You ain't gonna set

that snake onto me!

Ain't gonna set

no poisoned snake onto me!

Billings

- What?

This is your last chance.

Talk, or we'll be riding away.

Take it away! Get it away from me!

I'll talk. I'll tell what we done.

I'll tell what you want me to know,

only get it away from me, mister!

How much did Stint pay you?

- Fifty dollars.

How were you to earn it?

- It was to bushwhack the wagon train.

To shoot into 'em, make it look like

ranchers by the things we hollered.

There were six of us.

Four got killed.

Stint and me, we got away.

- Who hired and paid you?

Stint.

- Who told you what to do?

Stint.

- Would you repeat this in Prescott?

- Yes.

No ranchers were involved in these murders?

- No, no. Let me go.

Kill that there snake

and let me loose from here.

Kill you snake, then get our horses.

Don Miguel,

I have another shipment for you.

What happened?

- Well, I'll tell you, judge.

Weren't nothin' much. These here

fellas kinda started a little fracas.

And that, er...

Such a change is in your face.

Is it true what Fly-Up-The-Creek's

saying about Stint?

Have Billings sign his name to what

he confesses.

Sugarfoot, you've done your part.

Reckon we're under obligation to you.

Get a rope!

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

Gentlemen, wait a minute.

These men must live. They must give

evidence against themselves.

They will hang, but they must not

hang before they speak.

Boys!

Sugarfoot caught his meat. He has

the right to cook it how he wants.

Leave it to us.

- Let us handle these men.

We'll see them safely in custody

before the boys get too joyous and

change their minds.

Sugarfoot!

- Hmm?

- Sugarfoot!!

Wake up.

Get on your pants.

Jacob Stint escaped. Someone slipped

him a gun and he killed a guard.

Him and Billings grabbed a horse

and disappeared.

We're getting up a posse to join the

soldiers from the fort.

Here comes the posse!

Here comes the posse!

Stint made good his escape.

We lost his trail a few miles out

While that man lives I'll never say

goodbye to you in the morning

without being afraid you won't come

back to me at night.

Always be at the back of my mind.

He's gone, and while he's gone

we shouldn't let him interfere

with our lives.

We can't go on fearing tomorrow

while today slips past us.

When will you marry me?

Whenever you're ready for me.

We could marry now. I have the wagon

and mules. I can earn our daily bread.

But it isn't enough.

I wouldn't be satisfied.

It would satisfy me for a beginning.

Very little would satisfy me.

Well, we've got to have a

house to begin with.

Can you afford a house?

- I have a little money.

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