The Far Side of Jericho Page #4

I can try.

Yee-ah!

Let's see if we can't

put these pieces together.

What pieces?

Pieces of buckskin the boys

left us. Don't say gang.

It's only gonna

be bad news.

At least they were

thinking of us.

They must have used all my rouge and mascara

drawing up

these scribbles.

Hell. I know what that is.

How can you make

any sense out of this?

Me and Little Jemmy

did it there once

comin' back from a stage

job outside Wickenberg.

Yes, I know

the place.

They say this Apache god, El Monster Man,

cut off his giant prick so he could run.

And he left it right there

in the mountains. Here.

Now there's this big

pecker-shaped rock

right next to a cliff

where the Apache don't go.

But me and the boys used to hide

up in the caves there after jobs.

You did jobs?

I got bored. Hell. She went along, too.

Shot the fingers off a

ray-man on the El Paso stage.

So, I haven't just married and

then widowed by a thiefin' murderer,

I'm running

with 'em, too?

Don't get your

back up, honey.

Frank never killed

anything but a winning hand.

It was the other boys

that made the money

when they weren't looking

at your ass in them pants.

Do you know the way to

El Monster Man's pecker?

Bridget could find

a pecker in a blizzard.

It keeps

a girl warm.

Maybe they hid the money in that cave.

Let's go get it.

Damn right.

If you expect me to be a

part of this wild goose chase,

I remember you saying something about

signin' over your pieces of the ranch.

Sure, take it. I don't wanna go back anyway.

You took my whiskey. You

might as well take my ranch.

The hang man. Oh, my God, I'm saved.

What happened

to you, my son?

Goddamn.

Women!

I know by bad

experience

that the gates of Hell

reside between their legs.

It looks like they took

everything but your nuts.

Where's the

senator's stallion?

The women

took it.

Thank God I

found you, boys.

Please, just give

me some water.

You should've held

onto the Arabian.

No!

Jefe. You want me to bury him?

We're all

God's creatures.

Leave him

to the coyotes.

Maxine!

Bridget!

It's that hangman and a bunch of Mexicans!

Ride!

There!

Go get 'em!

Yee-ah!

What's that f***in'

hangman doing here?

Same thing we are!

Ride!

Let's get

outta here!

Vmanos, amigos!

Get the women!

Whoa!

There they go, Peacock!

Earn your money!

Come on!

Come on.

Ah!

Sounded like

a buffalo gun.

That damn Peacock always

rode the biggest mule in town.

He's got the

trail blocked?

I don't see how we're gonna

get him out of the way.

It's gonna take more men than we

got here to move this damn thing.

Sure is stuck

like a cork.

If we don't

move the mule,

it's another day's ride before

we can get out of this canyon.

Why don't you lead your horse around

that goddamn mule and go after them!

Maybe after dark. That was

that buffalo gun up there.

Makes sense,

Van Damm.

All right.

After dark.

J ust get that

thing outta here!

Ol' Peacock was

a powder monkey.

I bet he's got a few

sticks of dynamite in there.

Jefe.

Jefe!

Roberto won't make

it through the night.

So?

Someone has

to take him home.

He's my sister's boy.

I'm sorry. I know how you must feel,

and you've been

with me a long time.

My village has been good

to you for many years.

I wanna go home.

We made

a lot of money.

Sent a lot

of people to hell.

You've been

my right hand.

I'd be obliged if you'd stay with me.

To the end!

And this might

be the end.

Jesus, you scared me.

I thought you was the

Apache comin' after me.

Are you gonna

eat that?

Why? Do you

want some?

I'd rather suck on a

wino's sock than eat lizard.

I couldn't find

a rattlesnake.

What the hell are

you doin' out here?

I thought you

were town trash.

I was a captive,

and I got away.

I've been running for my

life just like you, ladies.

Them red-hot n*ggers were gonna

hang me over a fire for fun.

How'd they get you?

Took a ride

on an ore wagon.

J umped on the back. They

hit us outside of town.

They didn't care

about the gold.

What they wanted

was the mules.

They wanted the mules to

eat! Can you imagine that?

Then they took me

as a play pretty.

Damn Apache. They got a different

sense of humor than we do.

You look like you could

use a drink, little fella.

Yeah.

So, where you

ladies headed?

Right to the very top,

to this big rock.

Hey, well, uh, I can

show you the way up there.

I know the way.

Trail up it's on the other

side. It's hard to find.

Maybe you could loan me

a piece of horse flesh.

I don't remember inviting you,

kid. We don't need your help.

Come on. Can't I go with you?

The Apaches don't like goin' up there.

Maybe he does know the

easiest way to the cave.

Hey, I'm your boy.

You better be.

All right.

This way.

Hey, you know, when we get

back down here when it's safe,

I think I'm gonna head up to the

rims 'cause I got a cabin up there.

You ladies can head down

south towards Tucson below.

Looks to me like you ride like an I ndian.

That way.

Over to the left.

There's a good place

to camp on top.

We got plenty

of water.

I never been up

there after dark.

I've been.

It's just a place.

The Apache

they say that, uh,

the spirits of the dead

come to life up there.

Why don't you

lead the way, kid?

Be happy to.

Honey bug?

Who's the girlfriend?

I ain't nobody's

girlfriend, ma'am.

As a matter of fact,

I'm almost a virgin.

Yeah.

Me, too.

What are you

doing here?

I don't know.

We just gotta be here, I guess.

You're a pair of f***in' ghosts

and you don't know why you're here?

We gotta go now.

But you just

got here!

Pick up the stick.

What?

Pick up that

goddamn stick.

You pick it up.

Pick up the f***in' stick

and go kill 'em all!

Go to hell!

Well, I can

see the deer.

And I can see

the pumas.

But who are those

guys in the funny hats?

Looks like the missing

corner of our map.

Hey! What the hell

are you doing here?

Go back down there and take

care of that $20, 000-horse.

What does it mean?

A round spot

next to a tree?

It reminds me of something

but I'm not sure what.

They were probably

drunk when they drew it.

Who knows what

the boys meant.

Oh, Maxine.

I need a drink.

Claire, you promised. We've

got to keep our wits about us.

Hey, ladies!

I know where it is.

There goes our

$20, 000-horse.

Hell. We'd have to go to

Texas to get the money anyway.

All those old

pictures up there.

People long before the Apache or the Navajo.

This place almost makes

you feel like prayin'.

I'm sure goddamned praying. Everybody

in the goddamn county's chasing us.

Don't forget that

sneaky renegade kid.

I never liked

the look of him.

What makes a kid

like that go bad?

Why the hell would the I

ndians wanna capture him?

He's more I ndian

than white.

Maybe they raised him.

Old Man Berryhill fell off his

folk's wagon when he was a nubbin.

He was raised

by the Quati-Comanche.

I never met a nicer guy in my life.

'Til that guy in a dress

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