Valdez Is Coming Page #2

You'll be like a turtle.

- I don't remember asking you here.

- I got tired riding fence for Mr Malson.

I figured you could use another gun.

You couldn't even hit a sitting-duck n*gger.

She never smiles.

If she was my woman...

I would make her smile.

Vamos!

- Going riding?

- You bastard.

Why don't you cut him loose?

He's only trying to help a poor woman

who's lost her husband.

So am I. I'm helping one already.

One poor widow woman's enough.

- Jim would have used this on you.

- Are you thinking of it?

You're a damn fool to worry about anything

except the way I treat you.

I treat you all right, don't I?

Sometimes you're human. Sometimes.

We'll deliver the guns to Nogales soon.

Would you like to come along?

Aren't there any whores in Nogales?

Sure, lots of them.

Lots of priests, too.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Priests marry people, don't they?

- I'll hold you to that, Frank.

- I reckon you will.

I swear, you sure are

one dumb son of a b*tch.

When that pole busted,

where did you think it was going to go?

It's your old amigo you tried to bash

with your shotgun butt.

You remember that, don't you?

You killed the wrong coon

and was going to take it out on me.

Cut me loose... please.

You must ache some

from that stooping over.

You know, I didn't like you trying to hit me

with that scatter-gun.

It made me sore, I'll tell you.

Cut me loose... please.

- How did I get here?

- You crawled.

I heard the dogs.

Oh...

- They nailed me to a cross.

- What cross?

Somebody cut me loose.

Somebody stabbed you in the back.

No.

- No, a tree did that.

- What kind of a tree does that?

- Where's the Indian woman?

- She take her wagon and go.

All right. You take me home.

Gracias, Diego.

That's far enough!

It's not true. The constable from Lanoria?

Last time I saw you,

you had a cross on your back.

- I get tired of it.

- Somebody found you, huh?

- Somebody.

- You had luck with you that time.

- Friends?

- Sure. Like you and me.

We talk a while,

we have a drink of whiskey.

What you think about that?

I think I see many guns.

You come up here to talk

and you bring all those guns.

This little thing? It's for rabbits.

That's what you come here for,

to hunt rabbits?

No, I come to ask you

to do something for me.

- Because we're friends?

- That's right.

I want you to go see Seor Tanner

and tell him Valdez is coming.

I think somebody else go.

Listen. I've been here all day.

There's no somebody else.

There is just you in front of me. That's all.

You sure of that? You bet your life on it?

- Or yours.

- No.

What kind of talk is that with two friends?

You want me to tell something

to Mr Tanner? All right, I'll go.

Put the rabbit gun down.

You wait here. I'll go tell Mr Tanner

what you say, then I tell you what he say.

I be here.

Don't move.

What... what do you put in that thing?

I told you. Something for rabbits.

Listen, I'm going to get your horse

and put you on it.

I can't... I can't ride.

Sure you can. Ride to Seor Tanner

and tell him Valdez is coming.

You hear what I say?

Valdez is coming.

But listen, my friend,

I think you better go quick.

- What else did he say?

- That's all.

Just, "Valdez is coming."

Go out and get him.

Where? He could be anywhere.

Well, God damn it,

you got people who read sign.

Si.

Well, send them!

We go to Nogales tomorrow.

We go to Nogales when I say we go.

- Nothing.

- How many men you got out?

A snake couldn't crawl through.

I suppose Nogales is off.

Delayed.

Seor Valdez seems to be

making a fool of you without my help.

You sound like a wife.

That's right.

So let's wait till it's official.

Good night, Frank.

You are a b*tch.

What is bothering you?

Valdez is coming. That's what bothers me.

Que?

Valdez is a foolish man,

but why he warn us he's coming?

Come to bed, cario.

Maybe not so foolish.

Valdez says he's coming.

We go out to meet him.

Maybe that's what Valdez wants.

Que?

You son of a b*tch!

$100.

$100.

It's in the safe.

Get it.

The candle.

Put the gun on the floor. Slowly, please.

Goddamn it, don't shoot!

You look for somebody?

First you drop the guns.

Then you turn around.

We found him, Mr Tanner.

- Was she with him?

- No, sir.

He said to give you a message,

tell you he's got something to trade now.

For you to come with $100.

Come where?

- They were three of your best, you said?

- My very best.

- You still want to go to Nogales?

- You want Valdez?

I get him now.

You should have stay where I leave you.

Where are you taking me?

Up.

You will be home soon enough.

Frank Tanner knows where to find me now.

- He'll come.

- S.

- He won't come alone.

- I think so, too.

You're a fool.

- I already said no to you once, boy.

- But I got more to offer this time.

- Like what?

- I heard you were looking for Bob Valdez?

- I'm listening.

- There's a man who'd know where he is.

Who?

The greaser who brought him into town

after you run him out. Diego Luz.

What is your name?

Gay Erin.

Mrs James C Erin.

Fort Huachuca?

Yes.

The black man I kill,

he don't kill your husband.

I know.

You're going to marry Frank Tanner?

What does it matter to you?

I want to know if he will pay for you.

Let me go and I'll get the money.

No.

What difference does it make

where it comes from?

It makes a difference.

- Where's Valdez?

- I don't know.

- Where does he hide in the mountains?

- I don't know.

Nobody here knows.

- You touch her, you better kill me.

- We can do that.

I don't know where is Valdez.

Man, who you think I put first? Him?

That's a nice-looking girl.

I like a little more up there. Or maybe

first one of the day it would be all right.

Shoot her first.

You hold on to yourself

if you can and you say...

what Valdez is doing in the mountains.

I don't know.

You're his friend. You helped him!

You took him to Lanoria to get his guns.

I hope he puts one round into you,

you rotten son of a pig.

- He don't know.

- We wasted enough time here.

Fix his hands

so he won't be so helpful next time.

Burn the place down.

Valdez could see the smoke a long way.

Burn the place down!

They're friends, ain't they? He'll come.

Leave me and two men.

You'd come

to your friend's burning house?

- Sure.

- You wouldn't.

But Valdez... might.

For the cold.

Mr Frank Tanner. He know your husband?

You think Frank Tanner

killed my husband?

- He could.

- He could but he didn't.

- Where are you going?

- To feed the horses.

Seor Malson's horses.

I saw you come across the pasture low.

Not low enough, if you saw me.

Low enough.

The one by the house did not see you.

- What they do to you?

- What you see.

- I'm sorry.

- Is not your fault.

Mr RL Davis bring them.

Listen, if you see that one,

give him something for me, huh?

- You're a good friend. The best.

- I tell you something, friend.

When they start in on my girl,

if I know where you are, I tell them.

Where's Valdez?

Maybe I'd take him alive, huh?

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