The Ballad of Lefty Brown Page #3

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That right there...

Is why nobody's

written about you.

Why don't you...

hey. Get your head on.

Shut up.

Listen. What you're

gonna do, Jeremiah,

you're gonna go back to the

horses and keep them calm.

I ain't going back

to the horses, tom.

Listen to me. I need you back

there keeping them calm.

There's gonna be a

lot of gunfire,

and I don't want the

horses spooked,

so you go back there, okay?

Lefty...

You go in the back way.

I'll go in the front.

You figure on going in there?

Yeah.

It's what we do.

And remember...

Brown hat, so you

don't shoot me.

How long we have to

wait around here?

Sh*t.

I ain't leaving this

chair 'til I win one.

I wasn't talking to you.

Sh*t, we ain't got

nowhere else to be.

Let me take one card.

What you got?

The boy's talking to you.

All right. I'm all in.

Go. Now.

Marshal harrah?

Mr. crobley.

No one said nothing about

you being here, marshal.

Kid, don't.

Stop.

St-stay back there.

D-don't.

Kid, don't.

Don't do that.

Blondie, you in there?!

You best step out right now.

Jesus. Jesus.

Marshal...

Please don't let him kill me.

How is it you know this fella?

Your name crobley?

Now that's far

enough right there.

Be careful now.

Old man there's jumpy

on the trigger.

Please, don't shoot.

Just shut up.

Is that kid still alive?

Yep.

All right.

I'm asking you for a fair trade,

one for one.

Well, sh*t, that depends

on who this feller is.

You... answer him.

But... I'm Mr. Thaddeus

William crobley.

Shut up.

That the money?

There any more?

Th-that's it. That's all of it.

Let's split it up!

Don't be greedy.

What about the boy?

He's bleeding out.

We're leaving.

Where the hell you going?

One in front and one behind,

ain't that the way

it's supposed to be?

Hyah.

You best get off

of that Colt slow.

I'm feeling a tad bit jumpy.

All right.

Yep. Hey, kid!

You seen the kid?

Nope.

Tom, did it even occur

to you to look?

God damn.

Tom?

No, tom's a mite bit busy.

Reckon you're gonna

have to put up with me.

Lefty.

Yeah?

I should have stayed

with the horses.

Lord.

Now listen here.

You got a bullet in you.

It's gonna have to come out,

so I want you to

bite down onto that.

All right.

Think about that.

Lord, I can't find it. Dang.

Hang on.

I can't get at it.

I can't...

got to get it out.

Kid, I gotta get it out.

I got it. I...

I got it.

I got that sum-b*tch.

I got it.

You can just rest now.

Frank bains.

Been looking for you.

While I was looking for you,

found your brothers...

Andy and Dan.

Left them hanging in a tree.

Now you're gonna get hung,

either by lefty or a judge.

Don't doubt that.

So why don't you tell me

about your acquaintance with Mr.

Crobley.

If i recollect correctly,

I became acquainted with Mr.

Crobley

'bout a couple hours back,

while you were cowering behind

that dirt pile out there.

Sh*t.

He bring you this?

That's a lot of money.

What happens when the

rest of your gang

find out that you

ran off with it?

I ain't too worried.

They ain't the smartest lot.

Crobley was the governor's man.

Heh.

So that's why he don't

look like no outlaw?

Whose money's this?

Why you kill Edward Johnson?

Aw, come on, marshal.

You know a man's gotta

make his name somehow.

Tell me!

Tell me!

Was it the governor?

Did Jimmy bierce...

Pay you...

To kill Eddie?!

Hey, marshal, when

I get to hell,

I'm make sure i pay your

wife a little visit.

When did this come?

Fella came by an hour back,

governor's man all the

way from bannack.

Is he still here?

What is it?

Salvation.

Am I gonna die?

You are not gonna die.

Now looky here.

I grabbed you one of these.

I thought that you might

want to look at it

while I was getting squared up.

Would you read it to me?

Read it?

Just my eyes ain't so

good in the dark, but...

I could tell you about Edward.

Well, let's see. One time,

he was crossing the

desert, and...

were you with him?

Me? No, I was laid

up with a bullet.

I ain't walked straight since.

What happened?

Well, I was saying...

you know, just like I was

saying, he was crossing this...

no, what happened to you?

What happened was...

well, that's not gonna

be near as interesting.

Now, see, I ain't thought

on it for a while.

There was a stagecoach,

and it was heading east,

and Edward was supposed

to ride shotgun on it

on account of a bandit.

His name was small no...

no, that weren't it at all.

It was split nose Hopkins.

He was a terrible sight

to lay your eyes on.

And Edward happened to

be out of the territory.

He gave me the job.

Sure enough, half

a day travel out,

Hopkins and his gang,

they ambushed us.

Like we were?

No, it was different.

I let off a couple shots,

and we high-tailed it.

We gave 'em a hell of a chase.

We almost got away, too,

except that we found ourselves

closed up in this

hellacious box canyon.

Lord, those walls was steep,

and three days, we waited,

trapped up in there,

and they waited for us, too,

'cause they knew that we

didn't have any food.

Well, I reckon that I'm a fella

that can wait like

the best of 'em.

But then, all of a sudden,

I grit my teeth,

and I could wait no more.

And I dragged myself

up them sheer walls.

I damn near fell twice to

my death, but I made it,

heh. Hopkins, he missed it,

on account of he

never looked up.

Well, I just...

Charged around behind him,

and I surprised old split nose

with a barrel full of buckshot.

Me, i...

well, that's...

When I took one in the leg.

And, it just...

it just gave me

terrible pain and...

but them fellas, they was...

Giving some wild shots, and i...

I pulled up the growler.

It's the handiest thing i own.

Grit my teeth...

I can't wait no longer either.

All right, then, kid.

All right.

Aww.

There you go, boy.

There you go. There you go.

What the hell are

you doing, tom?

I'm leaving.

No. Here, you had a bad night.

There ain't no

reason to leave us.

Lefty... don't you lefty me.

You're forgetting you got

that badge on your chest.

If Edward was here, he'd

say it means something.

You just sober up now.

I'm gonna go get that kid.

I'm gonna go get blondie here,

and you is gonna help

me load him back up

to the ranch in one piece.

Lefty...

Tom.

Hey, tom.

Hyah!

Where are you going?!

Where are you going?!

I got...

there's...

i...

what am i supposed to do now?

Is it his gang?

Could be. I ain't sure.

I am.

Why don't we get off this road,

go back the way we came?

It'd take a day longer that way,

and that's a day you ain't got.

A fool and his fool.

You still breathing

back there, wild bill?

Do you think tom might

have gone to get help?

That maybe we

should have waited?

From the way old

tom was looking,

I'd guess that he was

headed towards a drink.

That's far enough.

Now, I reckon there's two of us

and one of you.

Sh*t.

Hand 'em over.

Yeah, yeah.

Boy, you, too.

Howdy, frank.

Take these damn

things off of me.

I figure before we

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