The Desperate Trail Page #2

Where are you gonna get the money?

You want your freedom,

you gotta have money.

You partner with me

and you're gonna have plenty of it.

Fine. What's your stupid idea?

Okay-

Six days from now...

Wells Fargo's gonna be

bringing in $75,000.

Now, with half that money...

You can buy all the cattle you want.

Where's the bank?

- You just trust me, okay?

- Right.

That's all there is to it?

We're gonna need a grubstake

if we're gonna, you know...

You play any poker?

Poker? I thought you said rob a bank.

The best way to get money out of a bank

is to put money in the bank. Get it?

Fine. I partner with you,

I get my money, and I'm gone.

That's a deal.

- Jack Cooper.

- Sarah O'Rourke.

One thing, partner.

This here's a business relationship.

I sleep alone. Get it?

I do, too.

Good.

Wells Fargo's offering $2,500 bounty

for the man and woman who've clone this.

They can be alive, they can be dead.

I'm moving out of here in 10 minutes.

Anyone who comes with me has

that reward. I don't want a penny of it.

What the hell have they done exactly?

You and him done all the shooting.

They robbed the stage, didn't they?

And they run off my wife.

God's gentlest creature

up and run from me...

After being influenced by them criminals.

And, by God, they done this to me.

Like as not you deserved it.

What did you say, mister?

You did deserve it.

But a good boy from Gatesville didn't.

That woman shot that boy to death

as cold as you please.

Some of you gotta have families.

You want that kind of people

roaming these parts?

- Who's coming with me?

- That reward.

All's we got to do is go with you?

You ain't gonna get that money

for doing nothing.

I'll deputize you, and I'll work you hard...

But I'll do the killing.

Seems to me like the only thing

you're good at killing is my windows.

You, funnyman.

Come here.

Have you got a safe in this shithole?

It's in there, but it's busted.

I thought so.

As Marshall, I'm confiscating

the contents as evidence.

Marshall, you can't just come in here and--

That boy took $2,500 off that stagecoach...

But he rode out of here empty.

I reckon it's sitting in your safe right now.

That's crazy, Marshall.

And you can't prove nothing.

You know what proof is, mister?

Proofs you lying on this floor

with a bullet in your head.

You want to keep that money?

Then come with me.

Otherwise, I'm gonna shoot you for

withholding evidence and petty larceny.

Well, what'll it be?

I get part of that reward, too?

If you live.

Call.

Let's see them.

Well, I got three dunces.

That's deuces.

Sorry, Mr. Honey,

but I'm afraid your "dunces"...

Can't afford passage

on this "boat" of mine.

Thank you very much.

You've heard of the luck of the Irish?

Well, tonight, my friends, you've seen it,

Mother of God.

It's your deal. Try to keep the faces down.

Ante up, boy.

Okay-

What are we gonna play here?

What shall we play? How about...

Seven Card Draw?

Why don't we keep it to Five Card Draw?

We're traditionalists, you see.

Deal.

Why don't you rein in

on that there, sonny?

Your luck might change.

Sir, if you had a wife like mine

you'd be drinking, too.

Here we go.

Oh, sweet heaven above...

Would that be herself, now?

She's a lovely, handsome woman.

I'm thinking maybe you're not

man enough to handle her.

I think maybe you should

keep your opinions to yourself, sir.

He's a terror when he's roused.

What in Sam Hill are you doing, Phineas?

You promised me you weren't

gonna do this no more.

Arrabella, my little flower.

Don't you "little flower" me,

you no good drunk.

How much you lose this time?

He's still got his shirt on.

But it would seem that

she wears the trousers.

Room enough for me

in them trousers, ma'am?

I've a mind to squirm in.

Why don't you shut your filthy mouth?

Why don't you get the hell out of here...

So your husband can lose in peace?

Why don't you try and make me?

Dear, we don't wanna ruin the game here.

It's going really well.

I believe I will try and make you.

Hold on!

What the hell you got under there?

Why, you cheating son of a b*tch.

Excuse me, ma'am. What happened here?

- They was cheating.

- All of them?

All of them. Ain't that right?

Right as rain, ma'am.

All right.

Go on, sweetheart. Gather up your money

and let's get out of here.

Thank you. It was nice playing.

You, too, my friend.

- Who's there?

-It's me. Your partner.

Well, ain't you fancy.

You don't think it looks good?

You worry about the way you look

more than most girls I know.

Is that how you're spending my money?

It's our money.

Besides, it's an investment.

And, I got you a little something, too.

What is it?

Why don't you shake it up and see?

It's a sort of start for your cattle ranch.

Like it?

Thanks.

So what do you need money so bad for?

You said you're a farmer?

Well, I am. Or I'm gonna be.

In the meantime,

you just rob people, right?

Sometimes you gotta do

some wrong to do some good.

Yeah? What the hell did you ever do

that was so good?

You don't know me.

Maybe I've done a lot of good.

If you're feeling so guilty,

maybe you ought to...

Go out and find that Marshall

friend of yours...

And get yourself hung.

What do you think you're doing?

My experience with safes

in the last few days...

Have led me to doubt their efficacy.

- Cut the professor talk.

- Safes ain't safe.

- Yes. So why do you get to carry it?

Because I got the duster.

Look, a partnership is based on

mutual respect and a sense of trust.

Well, I trust you, Jack.

I'll just take my share now.

- Oh, Jesus God, woman.

- Now.

- All right.

- Come on.

All right. Here you go.

Better put it someplace safe.

Like where, Mr. Mastermind?

You might try your bloomers.

Nothing else will be getting

in anytime soon.

Nothing of yours, anyway.

So who's them boys in the daguerreotype?

Just mind your own

business and I'll mind mine, okay?

Don't have to piss your britches.

I'm trying to make company.

God, you're so rude.

Okay. it's myself and my brother,

if you must know.

Yeah?

And where's that poor soul-suffering fella?

He's dead.

Feel better now?

We were boys...

And we were playing back East. And

he dove in front of a wagon to save me.

He was a brilliant boy.

He was a brilliant scholar.

He was gifted in the natural sciences.

I couldn't hold a candle to him.

I'm really sorry.

If you need me, I'll be downstairs

laying in supplies.

I'll go with you.

That's a good idea.

Maybe you can be of some assistance.

- God knows how.

- What's that?

I said it's time to go now.

We supposed to sleep in this shithole?

Try the livery, if the horses will have you.

Speakes, I lay claim to that reward.

But they're here. I've seen them.

- Where?

- At the General Store.

I've seen them come out of the saloon

broad as daylight.

Katrin, give me Michael,

and get out of the wagon.

I've got to push the wheels back...

And I needn't be lifting

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