Unconquered Page #6

Get behind me, Abby.

Now start for the door.

Art. Jake.

Coming, boss.

I'll get him.

I'll put a hole

through the first thing

in this room that moves.

Slave stealing means hanging.

You've got the right neck

for it, Mr. Bone. Get your

hand back on that drink.

Garth will be

looking for you.

That's the idea.

That one was for Dan McCoy.

There's another one

here for Joe Lavat

if anybody wants it.

Get that rifle

and get him at gunpoint.

We'll get him, boss.

Where to?

Fraser's forge,

and don't pick my pocket

on the way.

Hello, John.

Chris, what are you

doing here?

You must have been traveling

on a broomstick.

Sit down and let your breath

catch up with you.

I thought you was on a job

for Colonel Washington.

I am.

Well, what happened?

An Ottawa.

What's that?

A lady.

Thank you.

Did you bring her here

to get shod?

Well, she cast a shoe.

John Fraser.

Yeah.

Where's that pressing iron

you were heating for me?

Scalping's too good for you.

Standing there

lollygagging with every Tom...

Land o'mighty, Chris!

Well, Half-Pint.

Let me look at you.

Pretty.

Oh, Chris.

Right in front of

my own husband.

What'd you come here for?

King's birthday ball?

I didn't know he was

having one, but I came

to dance it with you.

You're the biggest liar

ever crossed the Alleghenies,

except my John.

Chris, you're making me dizzy.

Stop prancing

and tell me the truth.

Well, I tell you I came

to trap a skunk.

Appears to me

you trapped a chipmunk.

I beg your pardon,

Mistress Abigail,

I want you to meet

the love of my life,

Mrs. John Fraser.

Your servant, ma'am.

Well, she's nice-mannered.

She's the wench

from the tavern.

Garth'll nail your hide

to the barn door for this.

He owns everything

in that tavern. What'd you

bring her here for?

To give her a bath.

Save us, what next?

What for you want

to give her a bath?

Because she's dirty.

Look at her hair,

look at her clothes,

look at her...

Well, look at her.

She's stolen goods, Chris.

Ain't your place to wash

other people's belongings.

Scrub her clean enough

and even Garth won't know her.

You're just plumb crazy.

Where's that luggage of mine

you brought from Peakestown?

She can't go to the ball

looking like that.

The King's birthday ball? Me?

He is crazy.

I believe you're right.

You're gonna be scrubbed

so clean that you're gonna

look like new.

Not by you, I'm not.

Now your back.

Oh, stop wiggling, child.

I have soap in my mouth.

Well, keep it shut.

Skin's real pink

when you get down to it.

More water.

This ought to fit.

She's about Diana's size.

I won't go to the ball.

You can't drag me around

in your wife's old clothes.

Washing a slave girl

ain't gonna stop

no Injun bust-out.

Washing this one might.

Hey, what's this?

I don't know.

It's nothing for a bachelor.

Where's that water?

Bachelor? He's not a bachelor.

Oh, yes, he is,

and he's gonna stay one.

You didn't get married?

No.

My uniform's

in the other trunk.

Where is it, John?

In here.

He didn't get married.

Lucky escape for

some woman. Stand up.

Chris, the whole frontier's

just ready to bust wide open

and here you are

traipsing around

with a little...

John, did you ever catch

a bear with honey?

Mr. And Mrs. George Carter.

I'll be right back, Carl.

All right, Sara.

Name, please.

Not me. Everybody knows me.

All right, sir.

Howdy, Carl.

I'm ready.

I'm hankering for a dance.

Oh, hello, Sally.

Having a good time?

Oh, Captain Ecuyer.

Every lady in Pittsburgh

is simply perishing

for a dance with you.

My dancing was ended

by an old wound.

In the heart, Captain Ecuyer?

Unfortunately,

a trifle lower.

I left my dancing days in

Switzerland. Captain Steele

dances for me here.

I'll hold you to that, sir.

Look.

That's a vulgar noise,

Captain, but I agree with it.

Captain Christopher Holden,

Mistress Abigail Hale.

Abigail Hale?

Why are they staring so?

You look like Venus

emerging from an emerald sea.

What a heavenly gown.

What an ngel in it.

How would I look

in a dress like that, Jim?

You'll never know, Ma.

How do you do?

I know you by reputation,

Captain Holden.

What brings you

to Pittsburgh?

A lady from London, sir.

Mistress Abigail Hale,

Captain Ecuyer,

Commandant of Fort Pitt.

A charming breath of England

to sweeten our wilderness.

My second in command,

Captain Steele.

Captain.

Your servant, ma'am.

I'm sure we've met before.

I think not, Captain,

I've been very

closely guarded.

We crossed the Atlantic

on the same ship. She was

allowed very little freedom.

You're still a riddle to me,

Miss Hale. Perhaps this dance

will help solve it.

I'll solve this one,

Captain.

Outmaneuvered, Captain, huh?

John Fraser, I believe

you're going to faint.

Get me to the punch bowl,

Mother.

Fine feathers certainly

make a difference.

In this case, the bird

improves the feathers.

You're quite a burst

of plumage yourself,

Captain Holden.

You mean birds of a feather?

No, you think I'm a thief.

And you thought

I was a liar.

I've seen that

girl somewhere.

Must have been heaven.

Post number two.

11:
00 and all's well.

Post number three.

11:
00 and all's well.

Post number four.

11:
00 and all's well.

Post number five.

11:
00 and all's well.

All's well, isn't it?

Too quiet.

You seem to be

watching for something.

Watchfulness isn't

a bad thing, Abby,

when you are at the edge

of the end of the world.

Why? What's there?

Forests and savages.

The end of the present,

the beginning of the future.

The beginning of the future,

Captain Holden?

Chris.

Why did you really come

to Pittsburgh, Chris?

The moonlight is turning

your dress into green fire.

It wasn't to set me free,

as it?

And the stars are

dancing in your eyes.

Did you come through

500 miles of wilderness

to tell me the stars

are dancing in my eyes?

Can you think of

any better reason?

A woman only thinks

what she wants to.

And you want to think

I came to set you free?

Maybe no one has the right

to own anyone else.

Men and women weren't

made to be bought

like yards of cloth.

At the tavern,

you said you owned me.

I do.

But you want to be free,

don't you?

I wonder...

Hey, you're ruining

the ordnance.

I'm not sure I want

to be free of you, Chris.

Why do you say that?

Because you've taken me

out of a horrible nightmare.

Because you've given me

kindness and happiness

and understanding.

Abby, listen to me.

It wasn't kindness

and understanding that

made me bring you here.

No? Why did you bring me?

Because I know

Garth will follow.

Garth?

When he sees you here

like this, he'll try

to take you back,

and then I can do

what I came to

Pittsburgh to do.

Kill him? Is that it?

Yes, that's it.

And I'm the bait, staked out

like a deer to draw a tiger.

That's true, isn't it?

Yes.

And you said the stars

were in my eyes.

They were there.

Because I thought...

Oh, it doesn't matter.

Everything that you've done

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