The Virginian Page #5

Ain't that enough for one gathering?

Not by a long sight!

What do we do with them?

Hang them now?

No, we'll take them down to the

cabin by the oak.

- Maybe we'll catch the rest of them.

- Come on, boys.

I'm plumb out of tobacco. Any of you

fellows got the makings?

Well, she's breaking.

Be daylight before you know it.

Boys ought to be showing up

anytime now.

Wouldn't look for them until morning.

When are you going to do this thing?

Sunup, I reckon.

Keep quiet!

We fooled you fellows good a couple

of times! Thought you'd lost our trail.

You can't beat that doubling back

in the water!

I learned that trick off an Indian.

Funny how you pick up a thing, ain't it?

You never know when

it's going to come in handy!

Dollar and a half you owe me, Pedro!

Alright. I'll pay you tomorrow!

I'll be glad when this is all over with.

It ain't over for me!

I'm heading for the Tetons.

- Hunting?

- Yeah, hunting.

There's only one hombre responsible

for this and that's Trampas.

And I'm hunting Trampas until I find him!

Here's some of the boys now!

We ain't caught hide nor hair of any

of them, boss!

I told you there wasn't any more of us!

Come on, let's get this thing over with!

It's a pity to waste that loyalty

on a skunk like Trampas!

Come on, boys!

Let's get going!

Come on! Let's go!

Little low, Joe.

Take it up a bit.

Please, I don't want to die!

Aw, shut up Jim!

Take your medicine with grace!

Ask him for a drink.

Maybe that will help you.

Nebrasky...

You can have this.

Don't worry, I didn't steal it.

Don't forget to wind it, keep the stem

side up and it'll always run.

It's good for $4 in any regular saloon.

Thank you, Steve.

You can have my saddle, Honey.

Thanks, Steve.

Honey! That's a heck of a name!

Got a pencil?

I guess we can get the horses now, boys.

You got my gun, ain't you Honey?

I want you to keep it with this.

And give it to...him.

After it's all over.

I wish it was Trampas

instead of you, Steve.

I don't want to die!

Alright, bring them on, boys.

You boys got anything to say?

You don't want to say anything?

Steve wanted to you to have this.

There's a note inside the holster.

Sure is a lot of quail this season.

Be quiet, you son-of-a-gun!

You'll get me shot someday!

How is he?

He's still unconscious, but the doctor

says he's out of danger.

He belongs in a hospital! School-marm's

house ain't no place for him!

- What'd they bring him here for anyway?

- His horse brung him here!

- Funny, ain't it?

- No, it ain't funny!

He's been hanging around here so much,

the horse thought he was home!

Here you are at last!

Where'd you have to get that medicine?

A saloon?

No, had to wait while Doc mixed it up.

About time you showed up, Honey!

If we had to depend on you, he'd

be dead already!

Don't scold him, Mrs. Taylor.

It's a long way to town.

You boys have been just wonderful!

If it hadn't been for you Miss Molly,

I reckon we'd have lost him.

You wait outside with the other boys!

I'll be wanting to use you later!

You quit your worrying, dearie.

He's coming along fine!

Why don't you close your school this

afternoon so you can get some rest?

You've been here every minute

that you ain't teaching!

And you ain't had the right kind of

sleep since he's been sick.

- I'm alright! I'm not a bit tired!

- I know better!

No one can do 2 jobs at once

without getting tired out!

Except me!

Nonsense!

Recess is over now.

I have to be going back.

- Thank you, boys.

- Alright, Miss Molly.

- Honey, have you seen Steve around?

- Steve?

Oh, Steve ain't with the Box H no more!

I thought it was funny he hadn't

been around!

If you see him,

tell him his gun is here.

He must have borrowed it from Steve

before he got shot.

I'll sure tell him if I run across him!

Gosh, Honey!

I meant to warn you about that!

I wish I had a woman that thought

as much of me as she does of him!

Come on!

Let's see if some of that liquor's left!

- What are you children doing?

- We're playing rustler!

That guy's a cattle thief,

and we're lynching him!

You can't play like this!

You might hurt each other!

- He said he would!

- He said he'd be Steve!

Steve?

Sure! Steve wasn't afraid when they

strung him up!

He didn't whimper at all!

Steve strung up?

What are you talking about?

Judge Henry's foreman had to string him

up because he was stealing cattle!

- You mean hanged him?

- Sure!

Is it true?

Is what true?

That Steve...has been hanged?

- Who told you that?

- The children.

How do them kids know?

Then it is true!

You might as well know. Don't know why

you weren't told in the first place.

Steve was strung up with the rest

of them cattle thieves.

Did he do it?

Somebody had to do it! He was in

charge and it had to be done!

That's our kind of law!

Don't you realize that's murder!

No use talking about it. Crimes are

ranked different in different countries.

Out here, stealing's the meanest,

lowest thing a man can do!

That doesn't justify killing!

And Steve was his friend...

It ain't a question of friends or enemies,

it's a question of right and wrong!

If we didn't hold a rope and a gun over

them outlaws, you couldn't teach at all!

Our lives wouldn't be worth nothing!

Do you think I'll teach

my children that?

Teach a new generation

to approve of murder?

Where you come from they have policemen

and courts and jails to enforce the law.

Here, we got nothing. So when we have to

we do things our own way!

Do you think it was easy for him

to have to hang a friend?

It was harder for him to do it

than for us to bear it!

And there he is! Because of lawlessness,

someone took a shot at him!

And you can't tell me it was Indians!

I suppose this country's destroyed

every human feeling in you...

...and in him.

I suppose in time, I'd feel that way too.

But I won't!

Then why don't you go back

where you come from?

I will, as soon as he's well!

I won't stay here any longer!

Alright, go on back home!

You don't belong here!

We don't want your kind! Go back East

where the living is soft and easy!

Sit on silk cushions and get hired girls

to wait on you and drink your pink tea!

When I married Taylor I drove an ox team

1000 miles to this very spot!

I fought Indians with my father's rifle

and him lying dead across my knee!

I killed a Sioux squaw with her own axe!

And you were talking...

This is a new country we're building,

and there ain't no room for weaklings!

Men or women!

Go on back East!

And I will say, "Good Riddance!"

Now you listen to me!

My people built a country in

New England too.

And they fought and died just as bravely

as you Westerners!

Do you think you're the only people

who ever fought Indians?

Did you ever hear of the

Cherry Valley Massacre?

My Grandfather Stark was killed

at Cherry Valley!

And my Grandmother walked 90 miles on

foot to get help to save the survivors!

Don't tell me I can't do anything

when it's got to be done!

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