The Hunting Party Page #3

A real skinny knife.

Charlie Ferguson had a piece of lead

in him for 20 years. Never hurt him any.

Doc, how do you say knife?

Skinny knife.

Otra navaja.

I don't want you

pokin' around in there, Frank.

Hell, I ain't dead yet,

God damn it.

Hold still, Doc.

I nearly had it.

I don't want you

messin' around with my guts!

Yeah? Well,

you're not drunk enough yet.

Hog, where you goin'?

Come back inside.

I'm gonna get me a woman.

They're all hid up.

Come on back.

Well, I'll just dig me one up

'cause I need it!

Don't you like that old guitar music?

Come on! Let's get on back.

Sh*t! You'd think a town this size

would have some whores.

Hey! I gotta have me a woman!

Whore!

You're supposed to be

my goddamn friend and...

You're cuttin' my goddamn liver out!

Hold still or I'm

gonna tear something.

Oh, Frank,

just leave the goddamn...

Almost had it.

Well...

Oh, no!

Sh*t. Hold it!

Ain't you a pretty little thing?

Yeah... oh, yeah.

Get right up there.

You're gonna like this.

Yes, sir.

Come on, now.

Don't be like that!

- Look what I got for you!

- Frank!

- Come on out of there!

- Frank!

Cut out that goddamn screaming!

- Frank!

- Come out of there!

Get... get over here!

Now, God damn it,

we're gonna...

Oh, sh*t, Frank.

You bastard!

Oh, you bastard!

Bastard!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Frank?

Where will we go?

California, maybe.

Frank?

What's gonna happen to us?

Oh... you know somethin'?

I might end up

one of the biggest ranchers

out of Lincoln county.

And...

And I might even learn

to teach at school myself.

Why don't you teach people

not to steal... other people?

You know, back there someplace,

I thought maybe...

...I could have something

to tie onto.

And...

And aim for something a little better

than what there was.

And so, for a start,

I decided...

...I was gonna learn to read.

You smell like a horse.

I'm Brandt Ruger.

The woman's husband.

Brandt Ruger.

She's a...

...hell of a woman.

Which way are they heading?

Frank sure...

picked a good looker for hisself.

Are they going through Mesa

or toward the valley?

I Believe...

Mesa.

Mesa.

He's gettin' at it real good.

She likes it.

Let's go, Brandt.

- She likes it!

- Let's go, Brandt.

Look, we can cut across and get there

before Calder does. Come on.

Come on, Brandt!

First time, he forced her.

Then she got

where she kept wanting it

more and more and more...

I hope that doctor has

plenty of mescal on hand.

I'll go see

if there's a doctor.

Frank!

Brandt!

Give it up!

It doesn't make sense anymore!

Brandt?

You saw.

Let her go!

Brandt!

Brandt!

Owney.

Doc?

Doc?

How ya doin'?

Feelin' horny some.

Take your gun out, Frank.

Slow.

Take it out.

No!

You got

damn near everybody killed.

Now, Crimp's gonna ride back

and find that man...

and tell him

he can have the woman.

We're gonna get $10,000

like we ought to.

Will you quit hittin' me in the side

of the head with that damn gun barrel?

Stop it!

I'll do whatever you want!

I was gonna let you

get your ass outta here...

but what I oughtta do

is blow a hole in ya.

You sh*t-eating bastard!

I can't make it, Frank.

It ain't much further now, Doc.

A little more than a day.

We get to the mountains...

...up there in the trees.

His rifle ain't no good out there.

I can't.

We can hold out there, Doc.

Hell, we're gonna make it.

No.

Frank, please, listen.

Listen.

Ain't no good

stringing it out like this.

The pain is...

Frank...

Your gun, huh?

Sh*t...

You gotta get me

out of this misery.

I'll go...

get you some mescal.

Frank.

I'll...

go get you some mescal.

Take your mind off things.

Ease the pain a little.

Now, don't you go away,

you horny bastard.

'Cause I'm gonna be right back.

Doc!

Frank?

Frank?

Remember you said something

about California?

Let's go.

Now.

Well, we got

a pretty good spot right here.

Game.

And there's only one way in.

- And Owney and Crimp, they won't...

- No.

Frank. Us.

Wherever you want.

But just us.

There's only one way outta here.

Desert.

Nobody ever goes there.

But he couldn't follow us.

Frank?

Kill us.

Kill us.

Kill us!

Kill us!

Kill us!

Please.

Please!

Please?

Kill us!

Kill us.

Kill us...

Melissa.

Melissa.

Plum trees.

I like plum trees.

The kind when the leaves

are a kind of...

purple.

We had plum trees.

And... grapes.

We had grapes...

...along the back.

You think they have grapes

in California?

I wanted a boy.

And then a girl.

Plum trees

are nice in the spring.

They probably got...

more... trees...

...and orchards...

...in California...

...than almost anywhere else.

Here.

Come on.

Don't worry.

I'll get us out of here.

I promise.

Oh, hell.

It's the craziest idea

anybody ever had.

Taking somebody.

When I was a kid,

my old man, he...

Well, that son of a b*tch,

he could read.

And I wouldn't.

I wouldn't.

You understand?

I'm so...

goddamn sorry.

We had apples.

And... and in the spring,

there were blossoms.

And the leaves

were soft, sort of.

They blew in the wind.

And the blossoms were white.

Did you ever

In your long-legged life

Dream of a long-legged sailor

With a long-legged wife?

I dreamt of my mother

Frank?

Yeah?

If we can just get a little...

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