The Far Side of Jericho Page #5

tried to jump his claim.

What guy

in a dress?

Some a**hole Scotsman.

Old Man Berryhill took him out

to the desert,

tied him to an anthill,

slashed his eyelids open.

Comanche way.

That's all he said.

I had a Comanche

wet nurse.

Finest woman

I ever knew.

Damn it, can't

you two be quiet?

Want a drink?

No, thanks.

Don't leave me out.

If you saw

what I saw,

you'd be drinking laudanum if you had any.

Bet you saw

Cash again.

Bastard won't even leave

me alone when he's dead.

Come on, Claire.

It was me he raped, not you.

It's the only way Cash could

do it. Beat you, rape you.

You always knew,

didn't you?

I saw.

'Course Cash told me.

It was his favorite story.

He said you were always

flopping your ass in his face.

I did not. I was happy with Jemmy.

Jemmy didn't do

anything, either.

He just watched

while Cash and...

Goddamn it.

Give me that

bottle back.

Oh!

Maxine?

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

Stubbed my toe.

It's really you.

Have you been

following us?

U p on the ridge? With your

daddy's 50-caliber Sharps?

Deeper.

Dig deeper.

See? I was a schoolteacher.

I'm good for something.

That's it, all right. I

hate to say this, ladies.

That looks like the cottonwood

that fell over

by the Glory Hole

outside Jericho.

Jericho?

Maybe the Glory Hole's where

they buried the loot, d'ya think?

They had to have hidden it somewhere

when they ran out of the country.

Question is, do we head for the border

or do we go back around he

mountain down to Jericho?

Why can't we just

go down and around?

There's no water. And everybody's

down there waitin' for us.

If we could find that money, I'd go to

Frisco and open up a French restaurant.

I'd go to Boston, or do whatever I wanted.

You're forgetting

it's not our money.

They sure as hell are chasing

us like it's our money.

Claire's right.

We deserve it.

So do those people from

Dutchman's Flats who earned it.

I don't care.

I ndians.

They're getting away.

You don't have to prove

you're not a white boy.

When you were at Atinawa, you

were my son. Now I'm not sure.

I'm proud to be your son,

but the money will buy us guns

and the Malasuertes

will be famous again.

Do you think

they'll go to Jericho?

They don't know sh*t from

wild honey, but yeah, I do.

We'll get there first.

You don't really care about

the money, do you, old man?

Hey, you're muddyin'

up the water!

You idiot. Do you wash your

feet in your wife's dishpan?

Goddamn it. You smoked up all of my tobacco.

F*** you, Parks.

Well, boss, looks like

your posse's disappeared.

I'm not the sheriff.

It's not my posse.

They're an aimless bunch of

goat turds who lost their sand.

Were better drunk.

Where the hell do you think they're going?

There's only two ways off this hill.

Yeah, I'm gonna go across

the mesa on to the salt flats,

or bush right back to

the dry fork at the Verde,

all the way to

the Wells Fargo road.

Can you get

ahead of them?

Maybe I could cross the

Medajo Pass onto the flats.

Catch 'em there.

What's keeping you?

Or I could catch 'em at the crossin',

but I'll have to kill two

horses to get in front of them.

Maybe I could,

maybe not.

Depends.

On what?

You know.

And it depends

on how hard they are.

All right.

Take what you need.

I'll be right

behind you.

Easy boy.

Easy. Easy.

Sorry, boy.

Madame du Bois,

I presume?

They said it was you, Bridget.

But I hardly believed it.

It's me, ma'am,

in the dirty flesh.

Still jacking off Mexican

kids in two holers for pennies?

That's how I got my start in Tascosa

and she never let's me forget it.

Last time I saw her, she was

ass over tea kettle out the door.

Last time I saw you, ma'am, you

had a well and a dozen girls.

Things change.

Could we stay the night, rest our horses?

Of course. Navajo girls

will take care of them.

Thank you, ma'am.

There's only enough water for the

stock and your face and your hands.

But there's enough

for one bath.

Who wants the bath?

Let Claire have it. She's

had the hardest haul.

Thank you.

A drink, ladies?

Thank you.

Could we leave some stock and supplies here?

We have to cross the mineral

flats to get to Jericho.

We've gotta ride light and

carry as much water as we can.

Of course.

What's all the

sweepin' about?

Waitin' for

a breeze.

And here it is.

Sorry, girl.

Are you hungry,

my dear?

I could eat a horse.

U nfortunately,

I'll have a double order and a large mescal.

What are you gonna do, stay

here to get married or what?

I might just.

Now that I'm about to

be a lady of means again.

It's not our money.

After all we've been through,

why do you wanna give it back?

We could still buy our way out of this mess.

You mean you could buy your way out.

First, you take our

shares of the ranch,

and now you wanna

take our money.

You sound like those Thornton a**holes.

Was it something

I said?

Her ghost

chased her off.

I'll tell you something.

If we do get that money,

I am never gonna

fork a saddle again.

Here's to ya, ladies.

You can have the money.

Give me the mining claims.

What makes you think

we've got the money?

Why are you runnin'?

Because you're

chasin' us!

Yeah. And you can't run far enough

or fast enough to get away from me.

Cut a deal with me.

I'll lead the others

down a blind canyon.

Let them starve

to death.

If you don't, Van Damm and that

preacher will be here in the mornin',

and you ain't gonna like

what's gonna happen.

Let us think

about it.

Hey, honey.

Come outside with me.

I need to talk to you.

I n your dreams.

Come outside.

Leave her alone.

Look under

the table, dipshit.

If I pull the trigger, it will

take you three hard weeks to die.

No need for gunfire.

You think hard, 'cause I'm not going away

until I get

an answer.

Thanks.

You're very welcome.

Good night, ladies.

Hope your friend is sober

enough to ride tomorrow.

She's startin' to be more

trouble than she's worth.

You're getting

pretty hard on her.

Maybe I shouldn't

have come back.

Maybe you shouldn't have left

in the first place, Maxine.

Hey, honey!

Where're you goin'?

Come on over

and have a drink.

Please yourself.

Yee-ah!

Damn.

Maxine!

Damn!

I can't believe she didn't wake you up.

Well, I guess that last

mescal was just one too many.

Do think she'll make it

all the way to Jericho?

If she keeps riding that animal as hard

as she is, she won't make ten miles.

Hope she doesn't get to

the money before we do.

She'll be okay if we find her

before she runs out of water.

Aren't we there yet?

You wanna go back?

Claire!

She won't be far.

Stop feeling sorry

for yourself, Claire.

Remember the horse you

killed. We could have all died.

And you just wanted to get

all the money for yourself.

I would have

left your share!

I just wanted to get

my part and go!

Where?

I don't know

where I was going.

J ust wanted to get

out of here.

I can't do

anything right.

I can't go back

to teaching.

I can't even

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