The Missing Page #2

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all branded in a day?

- You want Dot to stay for company?

- Brake, you said I could go.

You promised.

Mama, you promised too.

Oh, I'm fine.

He won't be coming back.

This will help the cramping.

The calves are more important...

...than hearing your voice

come out of a machine.

Well, I guess you never had anything

but this. So why should I?

Come on, let's get going.

You sure look frilly

to be working cattle.

I'll keep an eye on them.

- Just be home before dark.

- All right.

All right.

Easy now.

That's right.

Dot?

Dot?

Darling?

Get! Get!

Dot?

No!

No!

Dot!

Oh, Lord. Darling.

Mama, I'm cold.

- I'm here, darling. Are you all right?

- I'm cold. I'm cold.

- Mama, I'm cold.

- Darling, where's Lilly?

- Emiliano.

- Yeah, I know.

Darling, where's Lilly?

Emiliano and me...

...we was in the arroyo.

We heard shots from where Brake

and Lilly was.

He told me, "Stay down"...

...Emiliano did.

"Don't move. Stay down."

He went to see...

...but he didn't come back.

I waited like he said,

but he didn't come back.

Brake was screaming, Mama.

He screamed so long

I wanted him to stop.

I know. I know it.

- I know it.

- Then he did.

Then someone rode away with Lilly.

I wanted him to stop!

I know it. I know it.

Darling, did you see who?

Who took your sister?

He wore a hood.

He was Indian.

I'm sorry for your loss, ma'am, but I'm

afraid you got the wrong fella in mind.

I've had the man you're describing

in jail since last night.

Sold himself a lion's hide

and got quite a drunk on.

Unacceptable drunk.

He did say he was staying out

by your place, though.

There's been raids like this

on people here lately...

...in Arizona and New Mexico.

Some Apaches jumped the reservation

at San Carlos middle of last month.

We've been getting communications

about them near every day.

To Fort Bowie.

From me.

Possible your hostiles

attacked local ranch.

Two dead, one girl missing.

Named...

Lilly Gilkeson.

Lilly Gilkeson.

Stop.

This takes just a moment.

The device is truly a miracle.

And now you'll hear your voice back

as clear as day.

- Ladies.

- My name's Louise Dewey.

My name's Louise Dewey.

To Sheriff Purdy...

...of Chloride.

Believe hostiles...

...headed northwest...

...toward Colorado River.

Fourth Cavalry...

...will pursue...

...in due course.

Well, there you have it.

I'll send the undertaker out...

...for the remains.

- You're not going after them?

Not under the present

circumstances, ma'am.

With the fair in town, I need

all the men I have right here.

If you don't follow now,

their trail will get cold.

The Army is handling the situation.

They have Apache scouts.

Takes an Apache to catch an Apache.

If someone doesn't go now,

my daughter may be dead.

Ma'am, I am elected to keep vigil

over this town of ours.

Just one or two men, sir,

that's all I'm asking.

Ma'am, I am sorry.

Seth, I need a word with you.

It was the Indians did it.

Now, ladies, I will not authorize

fireworks until a water wagon is here.

Ma'am, that's the drunkard

from last night.

What would you like me

to do with him?

Let him go.

I don't care.

Mama?

Darling.

I want you to ride to the Handys'...

- No. No, I won't.

...and stay there till I get back.

I won't stay behind. I'll follow you as

soon as you're gone, you know I will.

- Darling...

- I'm not... You can't leave me, Ma.

I'm going with you, Mama,

please, I am.

- Now, you hear me, Dot...

- I'm not staying behind.

Wherever you put me,

I'm coming after you, Ma.

You know I'm not gonna stay put.

I swear to God, I won't stay put.

Hush, hush.

Hush, now. It's all right.

Hush.

The Army's headed

in the wrong direction.

Seventeen horse tracks.

Three shod, one outrider,

two cavalry horses.

Six horses were tied together...

...carrying light loads.

Probably young women, children.

And their captives...

...those are being led along...

...like packhorses.

They're headed south.

Not north.

Probably trying to make it

to the Mexican border.

The Apaches sell a lot of girls

over there.

Top dollar.

Can you track them?

You can track them. But if you catch

them, you'll wish you'd stayed home.

I don't wanna catch them.

Keep me on the trail till I get the Army

down to Fort Selden to catch them.

You wanted to give me money.

Do this instead.

Taking this child out there is foolish.

I know my daughter.

- Leave her behind, she'll just follow.

- No way to care for a girl.

What would you know about any of it?

I'll be just fine, thank you.

Come on, now.

Pretty moon, Anne.

Old Bob Hadley was supposed

to stop by tonight.

God.

Mama, I'm afraid in my room.

It's just your fever giving you

bad dreams, honey.

You want Mama to sing you a song?

Your man didn't keep his rifle

very clean.

If he wanted to marry you, though,

I guess that's something.

He's not all bad.

- Did you ever marry?

- Dot's father was my husband.

He built the ranch with me.

The notion of it was better

than the doing, I guess.

What about the other one's father?

Didn't get much of a look at him.

Maggie?

What you're doing,

you're doing for your own soul.

Because what you've done,

you can't undo.

You can all move now.

Sir...

...do you suppose it's safe for me

to be on my way now?

Mister, I don't suppose nothing.

You're theirs now.

They captured you.

Could you help me, please?

Go into the cave.

Bring picture-maker. Go!

Take them.

You're heartless.

I see you gentlemen are engaging

in a little frontier recreation out here.

No, these girls are going to market.

We ain't supposed to sully

the merchandise.

I can smell him from here.

I see you share a fondness for

the photographic arts like myself.

Where did you find

this squashed penis?

We captured him as a gift for you.

Sir, may I have the honor of posing

you with your captives, please?

He wants to take your picture.

Please, please.

That's perfect. Now...

...very still.

- Help us. Help.

Please help us.

Look your best.

Lord, protect us.

Stay behind me.

- Indians.

- Yeah.

But not the way you're thinking.

Is there time enough to give

these men a proper Christian burial?

Dead's dead,

one way or the other.

I asked if there was time.

Yeah.

There's time.

Get in.

You must be the pride of your people.

And you of yours.

Prepare to dismount!

Dismount!

The two on the porch

have expired, lieutenant.

Ask him why he murdered those men.

I didn't murder anybody.

They were dead when I got here.

What are you doing in here?

My granddaughter was stolen two

days ago. I trailed her to this place.

What's her name?

You don't know your

granddaughter's name?

Well, her sister's name is Dot.

We found two horses with a bunch

of women's property in them.

Hang him.

- Other side!

- There he goes!

I didn't kill anyone!

- I said, I didn't kill anyone!

- Come out and show your hands!

- I am looking for my granddaughter!

- Then you tell me her damn name!

- I don't know her damn name!

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