Virginia City Page #7

- You can take a look at this.

I'll have no yellow-livered Yankee

in my house unless it's a dead one.

And I got a twitchy finger, so get.

Well, do you still want to argue?

No, ma'am. I never argue with women.

And certainly not a woman with a gun.

I'd do something for that twitchy finger

if I were you...

...it even makes me nervous. Good day.

So the Union forces retreat, huh?

Yes, sir. The third battle of Bull Run.

Hey, come back here,

you little ragamuffin.

Here he is, sergeant.

Let me go.

- Answer my questions and I'll let you go.

- I can't tell you anything.

You know every rebel in town,

you run errands for them. Where's Irby?

- I don't know and I wouldn't tell if I did.

You're lying.

- I'll wail that tar out if you don't talk.

Go ahead, you're big enough.

Hold on, sergeant. Let the kid alone.

- Yes, but...

- I said, let him alone.

Come on, partner.

We're not fishing

for Southerners your size.

Yeah, well, I was fishing for you.

- Miss Julia sent me to find you.

- She did?

- What are you fellas butting in for?

- What?

If I had my way, I'd whip that little

copperhead until he couldn't stand up.

If you don't find her on the stage,

you'll find her in her dressing room.

I see.

- Thanks. Here's something for your trouble.

- No, thanks, I don't want it.

Hey, you don't like Yankees much,

do you?

No, I don't.

Well, I think I know how you feel.

When I was a boy in Ireland,

I felt the same way about Englishmen.

But you can change.

Well, thanks all the same.

So long.

Come in.

- Darling, did you send for me?

- Yes.

- The boy said it was urgent.

- It is.

Come over here, Kerry,

and sit down by me.

What is it?

Oh, I'm worried about you.

Half of Virginia City knows who you are

and why you're here.

Why didn't you tell me?

Well, it's part of my job

not to talk too much.

- I would have told you at the right time.

- Oh, there'll never be a right time.

I know these Southern people,

I've lived among them.

They'll kill you

before they'd give up their gold.

You can hardly blame them for trying.

But they're gonna have

to improve their aim first.

You mustn't go on with the search.

Please. For my sake.

But I must go on with it.

This job's gotta be finished.

But what can you, one man,

hope to accomplish against hundreds?

You can't stop them, Kerry,

the whole Union Army can't stop them.

I love you, darling.

I'm so afraid for you.

I love you too, Julia.

But I won't run out

and leave them a clear field here.

I couldn't do it. Don't you see?

This means too much

to too many people.

Does it mean more than...?

Than you and me?

It's the only thing that does.

All right, if that's your decision.

I'm sorry, darling.

I want to help you.

I can tell you where to find their leader.

- Who? Irby?

- Yes.

He's in love with one of the girls here.

She saw him less than an hour ago.

- Where is she? Where can I talk to her?

- She'd be afraid to talk to you.

She said that Irby's ready to make a deal,

give himself up tonight if you come alone.

- Then he must know he's beaten.

- Yes.

Where is he?

There will be someone here tonight

to take you to him.

I see.

How do you know you can trust that girl?

She wouldn't lie to me.

She knows I love you

and what your life means to me.

Darling, that's enough for me.

Goodbye.

Tell Carson City to watch the south road,

stop all travelers, hold for identification...

- What happened?

- It's a raid. About 50 of them.

- We don't know who they are.

- Looks like Murrell and his men.

Close the gates, mount the parapets,

a hundred rounds to each man.

We only have a skeleton force,

the rest are on patrol.

Burke, go and get them,

bring them back as fast as you can.

Lieutenant, assemble what men we have.

We'll hold them off

until the reinforcements come.

Wayne...

- There it is.

- Oh, wait a minute.

Well, what are you two bloodhounds

trailing me around for?

We wasn't trailing you.

We was kind of moseying around

sort of accidental like and here we are.

- I don't need you, get out of here.

- We thought it would...

- Sure. You know, just in case...

- Oh.

All right, wait here.

I'll be back in 15 minutes.

Here it is, sir.

The door's unlocked,

he's in there waiting for you.

Oh, thanks.

Irby?

- You alone, Bradford?

- Yes.

I got your message.

What is it you want?

There isn't much I can expect, is there?

Not much more than you gave me

in Libby Prison.

So now you're gonna collect

for that tunnel?

I'm gonna have to collect

much more than that, Irby.

There can be no deal before you,

your friends and their gold...

...have been put safely away

until this war's over.

Even then I can't guarantee

that they won't hang you as a spy.

You Yanks

always did drive a hard bargain.

But this time I have an idea

we're going to trade on my terms.

Really? What might they be?

I prefer your company

to your life, captain.

I had quite an argument about that

with my friends, but I finally won out.

Don't move your hands and turn slowly.

I hated to do it this way,

but you had to know sometime...

...and tonight you moved

a little too fast for us.

You're going back home with us,

an escaped prisoner of the Confederacy...

...back to Libby to lower-west

and the sentence you ran away from.

I see.

Well, this was a very clever little trap.

Some consolation to think

I'm not the first man...

...who was ever fooled by a woman.

But you haven't got a chance

of getting out of this town, Irby.

There's a squad of cavalry on every corner

and they'd shoot you down on sight.

I only came here to give you a chance.

I took my chance

and we won't have to wait much longer.

Fall in. Column of twos.

Back to the garrison.

Tie him up, we gotta move fast.

Bring him along.

Where do you suppose they're off to?

Hey, ain't them 15 minutes about up?

- They sure are.

- Well...

- Kerry!

- Hey, Kerry!

- Kerry!

- Hey!

It's locked.

Kerry.

- Kerry. Hey, Kerry.

- Kerry.

- Kerr...

- Well, he ain't here.

You don't reckon that sawbones

operated on Kerry, do you?

What are you talking about?

Boys, we're ready.

Wagons, forward!

Watch your wheels, boys,

sandy territory ahead.

Bradford, I'll make a bargain with you.

From now on,

it's gonna be a rough trail and hard riding.

If you give me your word

you won't escape, I'll untie you.

Well, thanks, Irby.

I think we'd better leave things

the way they are.

I don't wanna make a promise

that I might not be able to keep.

Suit yourself.

Kerry.

I'm sorry this had to happen.

Sorry? What for?

Everything turned out

the way you planned it, didn't it?

It was the last thing in the world

I wanted to do.

Well, you're the only one in the world

who could have done it.

Boy, if your smeller can pick out

a wagon track on them rocks...

...you ought to have been born

a bloodhound.

Shucks, I can trace a fly

across that dirty neck of yours.

Look.

Come here.

Well, them sure ain't rabbit tracks.

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