Texas Page #6

You've told me enough.

Why don't we move in there

and break up that drive?

You act like you got a private reason

for not wanting to.

I have. Money.

Money?

Did you fellas ever try figure out

what you're getting out of this?

- $45 a month.

- But we got a promise of a lot more.

You can't spend promises.

Look, we're rustling.

Somebody's making big money

out of the cattle we rustle.

Yet we take all the risks.

Ain't we entitled to some of the profits?

Maybe we are,

but Lashan would never stand for that.

I don't think he'll have anything

to say about that.

Wait a minute.

Lashan's a friend of mine and I'm not going

to stand by and see anybody do him dirt.

Hold that, Comstock...

and let Danny finish

what he was going to say.

None of us ever expects to have

more than $50 apiece in our lives.

But if I tell you how we can have

$2,000, $3,000, maybe $4,000 each...

who would you listen to, me or Lashan?

- I'd listen to you.

- So would I.

- Me, too.

- I thought Lashan was a friend of yours.

Well, he's $50 worth a friend, not $2,000.

Then we're all agreed.

- Sure.

- Yeah.

Go ahead.

We don't bother those cattle at all.

We let them go right on into Abilene.

- What are we gonna do?

- I'm working on that.

- What's the matter? Lose something?

- No, of course not.

Abilene's only about

10 or 12 miles from here.

- I ought to be back before dark.

- Think it'll work?

Can't help it.

This is the only road running south.

They gotta pass this way. See you later.

Kind of slick, ain't it?

- Who's the cattle buyer around here?

- I am.

I'm with that herd coming up from Texas.

You might like to know

we're bedded down 10 miles out.

Be here in the morning.

Don't tell anybody else about it.

I want them all.

First come, first served.

I'll come buy them right there.

How many heads you got?

- Seven thousand.

- I'll be there in an hour.

Bring the money with you.

Windy, I been looking for you.

- They got through.

- How do you know?

A cowboy just rode in.

Says they're bedding down 10 miles out.

Parkhill and the others are going

to buy the cattle.

We got to hurry. You find Red and

get the horses, I'll go pick up some money.

- Are they coming?

- They took it hook, line, and sinker.

They ought to be here in about

a half an hour.

- Got any more coffee there?

- What's this?

- Must be them.

- They sure didn't lose any time.

- Looks like they're anxious to do business.

- So are we, better get mounted.

What is this?

Hello, Windy, what are you doing here?

- Where's them cattle?

- About five or six miles further on.

- Why? You aiming to buy them?

- Yes, and if I don't get there first...

I'll have to pay three prices

for the lot of them.

- What's so funny?

- Windy, we're gonna give you an even break.

One price for the whole herd.

Hand over that money.

I ain't gonna argue. Hand it over or I'll blow

you off that horse and pick it up myself.

You sure you're not making a mistake?

- Come on, where is it?

- It's in my saddlebag.

- Pretty cute little trick.

- Ain't it?

- Just wanted to make sure.

- Think this up all by yourself?

Yeah. Come on, get off your horse.

- What?

- Get off!

How're we gonna get back to Abilene?

That 7,000 head of cattle you just bought...

will be along here first thing in the morning.

Just pick out the ones that fit your legs

and hop aboard.

That dirty little polecat can't do this to me!

Why didn't you do something?

All right, Mr. Ramsey, there's your check.

I'll take all the beef you can bring up.

We'll be back. The trail's open now.

- There's no stopping us.

- Good luck to you.

This calls for a little celebration.

Sure does.

You boys go on down to Bullshead.

- See you there soon as I cash this.

- We'll be there.

I've known for a week

something was wrong...

- but I couldn't do nothing by myself.

- This is wonderful.

It was my idea to get the railroad here

to haul in the beef.

I fought to bring in the first herd.

Now the town's full of cattle...

and not a single head of them is mine.

And just to make it perfect,

I'm out $20,000 on the deal.

You got to blame Doc Thorpe for that.

He hired Thomas.

This country ain't so big, but what

I won't catch up with him one of these days.

- What are we going to do now?

- You do what you like.

I got to be the first to go down

and congratulate the cowboys...

on getting through to Abilene.

You already bought

what you wanted. Let's get out of here.

- What's the matter, scared?

- No, but this is Windy Miller's town.

We're crazy to be here.

We're asking for trouble.

Maybe you should've gone back

with the others.

I was just saying how crazy...

Go and see if the blacksmith's done

with our horses.

I'll meet you as soon as I pick up the saddle.

We're going to walk smack-dab

into something.

- Finished?

- Almost.

You by any chance one of them Texans

who brought up the cattle?

Yeah.

I thought nobody but a Texan

would buy a fancy thing like this.

Hurry it up, will you?

Listen here, young feller, nobody

ever done good work by hurrying yet.

And I ain't gonna spoil the looks of

this saddle by doing a bad job of engraving.

Looks all right to me.

Then your eyesight's bad,

because I ain't finished the "E."

Out of my light.

Come on up, fellows. It's on Texas!

No. He hasn't got that much nerve.

Maybe not,

but he's in the saddle store right now.

I'll see you boys in a couple of minutes.

You must think an awful lot of this Mike...

to give him as costly a saddle as this.

There you are. Take it away.

- Anything extra?

- No, Mike's thrown in.

What's your hurry, Tex?

I didn't expect to see you so soon.

I want that money back.

Sorry, Windy. It's too late.

I wouldn't if I were you. Drop it.

Don't bother to come back to Texas

'cause I'm taking over.

Come on, Danny, get off the street.

Windy Miller.

When I tell my grandchildren about this,

they won't believe it.

What are you doing in Abilene?

Where'd you get money for the saddle?

I told you my Uncle Rodney died.

You're not fooling me.

You held up those cattle buyers.

Think what you like.

I see the answer to a lot of things folks

back home have been wondering about.

You fell on one side of the fence

and I fell on the other.

- It's too late to argue about it.

- I won't argue, but...

Don't give me a lecture on morals.

You saved my life and I saved yours.

That makes us even.

And what I do from now on

is none of your business.

Yes, it is, because I happen to be in love

with Mike, too.

I never said anything to her...

because I knew how she felt about you.

That was all right with me up to now.

- So?

- You can't have her.

I don't think you'll have much to say

about that.

I'm saying it now.

Danny, we gotta get out of here.

Somebody just killed Windy Miller

and we'll get blamed, sure as shooting.

Got him smack-dab through the heart.

Sorry it had to end this way, Danny.

Remember what I told you.

Look at all the decorations.

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