True Grit Page #8

he'll not pay you. He's your boss.

He's no idea of paying me.

He left me knowing I'd be caught.

If you let me go now,

I'll keep silent about you for two days.

I can do better.

I can shut you up forever!

All right, Chaney. That's enough.

Get your hands up.

- Get over there.

- Everything's against me.

- You hurt, Mattie?

- I'm the one that's hurt!

- Where's Rooster?

- Below, in a place we can watch.

- Where's Little Blackie?

- Rooster's got him.

Get over there and stay over there.

Watch out, he said

there are snakes in that hole.

Where's the girl?

In wonderful health the last I saw her.

I don't know now.

Answer for her now. Where is she?

Rooster! Make a run for it!

I got Mattie. Chaney, too!

Will you give us the road?

I have business elsewhere.

Farrell, you and your brother

stand clear.

I got no interest in you today.

Stand clear, you won't get hurt.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

You think one on four's a dogfall?

I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned.

Or see you hanged at Judge Parker's

convenience. Which will it be?

I call that bold talk

for a one-eyed fat man!

Fill your hand, you son of a b*tch!

- Shoot them!

- Too far, moving too fast.

No grit? Rooster Cogburn? Not much!

Well, Rooster...

I'm shot to pieces.

Hurray for the man from Texas!

Some bully shot!

Damn you, Bo.

First time you ever give me

reason to... cuss you!

Help me!

Help me, I'm in the pit!

There's a snake down here

and a skeleton.

There'll be another one before long.

A little spindly one.

How do you like it?

Help me. Help me.

Please help me!

Are you saying you don't like it?

Baby sister!

- Are you down there, sis?

- Yes, hurry! I'm in a bad way!

All right, hold on.

I'm gonna pitch you a rope.

Slip it under your arms and tie a knot.

I can't! I'm caught

and my arm is broken.

There are snakes down here.

It's in here now!

Hang on right here.

When you need a damn Texan,

he's dead!

I ain't dead yet, you bushwacker!

Hang on!

I want Papa's gun.

- I want the other gold piece, too.

- You sure you don't want the snake?

- No. But I want the gold piece.

- Forget it.

But it's mine and I want it!

That Texican... saved my neck twice.

Once after he was dead.

We'll have to do something

about this snakebite in a hurry.

Hold this arm up, little sister.

- We can't leave him like this.

- I'm the one that's leaving him.

If I don't get you a doctor,

you'll be deader than he is.

- Little Blackie can't carry us both.

- He'll have to. He's all I could catch.

Stop it!

We must stop, he's played out!

Stop it! You're killing him!

Hold it!

Fling them guns into that creek!

I'm borrowing this wagon off you.

Boots! Finch!

Boots!

Boots!

Am I addressing

Marshal Reuben J Cogburn?

You're addressing him, Chen Lee

and General Sterling Price.

Well... l'll not ask which is which.

But I'll identify myself.

I am lawyer, J Noble Daggett.

- I'll be damned!

- What?

Well, you're not...

exactly what we expected.

You're a little... You're shrunk!

I'll tell you frankly.

I fully intended to have you jailed,

and I'm just the man who could do it.

But when Mattie told me the straight

of the matter, I had second thoughts.

I still think you showed

poor judgement in this affair,

but you're not the scoundrel

I took you for.

You have my thanks and,

with certain reservations, my respect.

How nice! How is sis?

Gravely ill, I'm afraid.

But still able to direct her affairs.

She commissioned me

to pay you the balance of the $75 due.

- She didn't ask for a receipt, did she?

- As a matter of fact, she did.

You will find that it also covers

an additional $200...

...for saving her life.

Well, I will be damned!

She says that when she goes home,

she wants you to take her there.

Poor child does not know

how ill she really is.

Lawyer, J Noble Daggett,

are you a betting man?

On occasion.

All of this and General Price,

that she makes it back to Yell County.

Oh, no!

No, sir, no, sir!

Why didn't you look up

La Beef's girl in Waco?

I did the best I could.

I took the boy home

to be buried in his ranger's suit.

No girl showed up.

I don't believe there was one.

You were too busy

collecting the reward.

I was just a little busy. They forgot

how much the reward was.

- I had to help them remember.

- I can imagine how you did that!

This is what I wanted you to see.

Papa's marker was

not what was ordered.

I had to make

that fool of a stoneman change it.

Some day, Mama will be here.

And my brother

and his family over there.

And that is for my sister

and her family.

And I will be here,

on the other side of Papa.

It's comforting to know

where we'll meet eternity.

I would like you

to rest beside me, Rooster.

Now, sis, that place

should be for your family,

your husband, kids...

You have no kin.

I don't count Chen Lee and the cat.

Where would you end up?

A neglected patch of weeds?

I might just take you up

on that offer, sis.

Excuse me

if I don't try to move in too soon.

I think it's only right

that you have Papa's gun.

- It might keep you alive.

- I'm not so sure about that.

Almost got you killed

when it misfired once!

Because you loaded it wrong

in a state of drunkenness.

- I ought to get you to show me how.

- I will.

- Trust you to buy another tall horse.

- Yeah...

He's not as game as Bo, but Stonehill

says he can jump a four-rail fence!

You're too old and too fat

to be jumping horses!

Well, come to see

a fat old man some time.

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