"Mr. Paladin, that's $20 bill." "Unfortunately, no, hey boy." ""all currency on the bank of denver" "Beginning with the serial no. 5 is counterfeit."" "You have any?" "Yeah." "I go look." "I spend quick before everybody read newspaper." "Well, be sure you plead ignorance to the right people." "it's the only money I have." "I don't understand." "It can't all be counterfeit." "Somebody already plead ignorance." "It's lady you had supper with last night." "There must be some mistake." "I got this money at the bank." "sorry." "The news was in the papers." "Add the lady's bill to mine." "George wilson's the name." "Morning, jenny." "I pay my own bills, mr." "Wilson." "Can I give you a check?" "With the proper references, ma'am." "Matthews," "I'll vouch for miss lake." "Why, thank you, mr." "Paladin." "Save yourself the trouble, jenny." "This is real." "Mr. Wilson, I don't like anything about you" "And I like your money least of all." "Just leave me alone." "But, jenny, I'm only trying to..." "Friend, she doesn't wanna know you." "How much is it, matthews?" "Over $300, sir." "Jenny, perhaps a bank..." "I can't." "My stage is leaving in ten minutes." "Money's the least of my worries." "What about that man?" "I don't know." "He just doesn't know when he's not wanted." "Three days." "He's been like a shadow." "Well, he looks harmless enough." "Hmm." "Harmless but boring." "He's probably bought a ticket to the same town I'm going to." "Perhaps on a different stage." "Thank you, miss lake." "You know, I hardly ever travel without my father." "And here I am," "Cheated by a bank, pursued by a maniac..." "I do hope you're right about his taking a different stage." "Well, suppose I make certain that he does?" "Would you?" "I'd be so relieved and..." "And so grateful." "Matthews?" "Yes, mr." "Paladin." "That gentleman's room number?" "Room 312, sir." "Thank you." "I have a message for you, wilson." "Come in." "Miss lake's leaving on the 3:00 stage." "Which one are you taking?" "Same one." "Any particular reason aside from the obvious one?" "What does that mean?" "Well, that she is pretty." "I came to deliver her message." "She doesn't want you around." "Message accepted." "Now, get out." "What would you like to do" "While we wait until her stage has left without you?" "I don't intend to wait." "Get out." "Now, you're being ridiculous about this." "If I thought you weren't earnest," "I wouldn't let you out that door." "Well, I suppose I had better leave" "Before you find out how earnest I am." "You think he'll be all right?" "Certainly he'll be all right." "You think I'm a plumber laying him out with a piece of pipe?" "Just under the right mastoid." "He won't even have a headache." "All right." "Let's go." "I'm sure you did a good job." "Good?" "You'd say the mona lisa was a pretty postcard." "It's a masterpiece." "Sorry, matlock." "A masterpiece." "You did it again." "She'll be in mexico or canada before we get outta here." "All right." "Open it up." "Oh, mr." "Paladin." "You're in wrong room." "Hey boy, you have a very firm grasp on the obvious." "Miss lake gone?" "Oh, everything fine." "Mr. Wilson with her?" "Oh, sure." "He very happy." "Hmm." "You want something?" "The saddlebags, hey boy." "Come on." "Now." "Giddyap." "Hold up, driver." "Whoa." "If you're lookin' for a ride, mister, we got no more room." "You will have." "Now, wait a minute." "I'm takin' this man's place." "Wilson, get outta there." "Now, just a minute." "This man insists on giving me his seat." "Get his bag down." "Come on, wilson." "Get down." "That's two miles to the nearest ranch..." "And 20 miles to orange city, and you can start walkin'." "You can't force a passenger off." "This man's accompanying this woman against her wishes." "That's right, driver." "He won't leave me alone." "The seat's yours, paladin." "I'll catch up." "In case you have any trouble," "This will help you find me." "I said I'd catch up." "Tie your horse." "We ain't got all day." "Well, this is delightful." "He had a friend." "Friend?" "I didn't get a chance to see him." "He hit me from behind." "Aw, paladin." "Does it hurt?" "No." "Whoa." "Ho!" "It's a slide." "Everybody helps." "Everybody out." "Jenny, it's gonna be a while." "You stay in outta the sun." "It's hard work." "Ah, it's the great outdoors." "West." "Invigorating." "No?" "You don't feel it?" "Feel what?" "Right here, under the ear." "This, uh..." "This lifting gets you right there." "Doesn't it?" "No." "Can't say it does." "You're a tough one." "It's got me so I wanna roll up and die." "Pain up and down the whole back of my neck." "Well, that's good enough, gents." "Thanks very much." "Price we pay for pioneering." "she's gone!" "Here, miss!" "Where are ya?" "Blasted women." "She'll make us late." "Jenny!" "Jenny!" "Here are her tracks up to here." "Two horses." "They pull her up..." "And they went off that way." "You mean she met somebody out here?" "Or somebody grabbed her." "Grabbed?" "Hmm, you mean abducted." "You have a taste for melodrama." "Well, she's got company." "She's safe, and I'm late." "Let's go." "I'll take my horse, driver." "Suit yourself." "This is a job for a sheriff." "Well, friend, if you find one, you send him right along." "Are you alone here?" "You are abrupt, sir." "You're a dangerous-lookin' man." "You understand if I don't answer till I know more about you." "I was concerned about a woman." "Got off a stagecoach I was on a mile back." "Perhaps she was runnin' from you." "Is that possible?" "She was in trouble, or so I thought." "A kidnapping'." "What a shocking' thing, sir." "Did I say kidnapping?" "I merely said I was worried." "I can understand that." "Well?" "Hmm?" "Oh." "Uh, I haven't seen her..." "Or anybody else." "Sir." "My name is carruthers." "And mine is paladin." "Your wagon just about wiped out all the tracks I had." "Now, here." "That's my gold." "That's a wagonload of gold?" "Why, it's dinnertime." "You will join me?" "A man alone, sir, just feeds himself." "Two men together..." "Dine." "Well, it'd be a pleasure." "Just let me tie my horse up here." "These are rough country people around here, mr." "Paladin." "Rougher than I care for, so I'm..." "Takin' my wagonload of gold and I'm leavin'." "Some may accuse me of softness, but it's my nature." "Run from evil." "Mr. Carruthers, I do not believe in mysteries" "Like ladies disappearing from stagecoaches" "Or old gentlemen with wagonloads of gold." "Mmm, mmm." "Try these pickles, sir." "They're fine." "Mr. Carruthers, no pickles." "Since I arrived here," "You have been deliberately trying to stall me." "When you thought I was leaving," "You made a move for your pistol, quite casually, of course." "Your wagon happened to wipe out the only trail I had to follow." "Sir, I can explain if you'll just be patient." "Now, uh, when they fired on fort sumter, sir," "A thrill ran through my soul." "I said, "a call to the colors."" "Mr. Carruthers, you are an old and not-very-clever liar." "is he dead?" "He's dead all right." "Wallet's gone." "Well, uh, I-I don't wanna get..." "Oh." "I don't wanna get mixed up in any killing'." "Who is he?" "The name's matlock." "He was on the stagecoach." "Said he was gonna get the sheriff." "What's that?" "Telegram." "Say anything?" "It says, "herewith a copy of wire sent by suspect" ""to orange city before departure." "On schedule." "Not alone." "Move out."" "Mm-hmm." "Y-you understand that?" "Well, it's police language." ""suspect." "on schedule." "Not alone." "Move out."" "Sir, you can do what you want to, but I'm gettin' outta here." "Oh?" "paladin!" "Paladin!" "Jenny?" "Jenny." "Jenny?" "Oh!" "Don't move, paladin." "Lady, what are you up to?" "This is a secret service badge." "So it is." "Paladin, you set a kind of world record in sheer obstinacy." "Well, anything for a lady in distress." "Bill!" "We haven't got time." "Wilson will be coming with the sheriff." "Let's get going." "I'm sorry, honey." "I know your old man must be a disappointment," "But I couldn't do it." "Shoot a man while I'm dining' with him." "Bill will do it." "First, we've gotta get that machinery to the mine shaft." "It's too bad, mr." "Paladin." "Jenny and the boys did their best to shake you," "But you just wouldn't shake." "Then when that fella in the shack followed you in..." "You got rid of wilson and matlock for us." "We couldn't get rid of you." "Jenny, that's the trouble with the secret service." "They're too secret." "Well, now, is that your gold?" "Let me see that." "Bank of denver, serial no. 5." "Hmm." "Beautiful, isn't it?" "Sorry, mr." "Carruthers." "Oh, that's all right, son." "My artwork has such a short life." "Lately, the secret service's been right on our heels." "We hardly get a good run of money off the press" "Till word gets around it's counterfeit and we have to begin all over again." "Shame." "You really do find work in spite of the pressure." "I was main responsible for the beauty of confederate currency." "Look here, sir." "Look at that shadow under jeff davis' eye." "Papa!" "Miss jenny." "That'd be wilson and the sheriff." "Go ahead, papa." "Sir, I want you to know this is a sad moment for me." "It really is too bad, paladin, but..." "I just couldn't risk taking a chance on you." "This is the secret service man's gun." "Use it." "Over to the shack, mister." "Come on." "Hurry it up." "Now, stand there." "Here, grab ahold of this knife." "that's him, isn't it?" "Hold it, paladin." "Matlock's dead." "You can find him in the shack." "You'll find his badge on that man over there." "That's billy wheeler." "And that's joe." "You must've had a real massacre." "The old man and the girl are on their way." "I can't get over it." "That old man and the wheeler boys" "Were the most peaceful farmers in orange city." "All that time they was doin' this." "Wilson, how come you didn't arrest jenny in san francisco?" "We'd hoped she'd lead us to the old man." "Thank you so much." "giddap." "Hyah!" "Giddap!" "Jenny, I am sorry about bill," "But it looks like your troubles are almost over." "I underestimated you, paladin." "How much?" "Well, I'm usually paid before I do a job." "Got rid of wilson for nothing." "I'll give you a thousand to forget about me." "Well, now, that's not quite as lovely as your father's work," "But the United States treasury does stand behind it," "And it will pay my expenses for coming on this wild-goose chase." "Paladin..." "Paladin, honey..." "All right, driver!" "Why have we stopped?" "You're under arrest, miss carruthers." "Miss lake-carruthers." "You mean you took my thousand dollars and then do this to me?" "Miss carruthers..." "Miss lake-carruthers?" "You paid me a thousand dollars to forget you." "And, ma'am," "It's done." "Mr. Carruthers." "Hmm?" "Oh." "I didn't get a chance to thank you for dinner." "Oh, uh, my pleasure, sir." "Most delighted you happened by." "All right, slim." "¶ a knight without armor in a savage land ¶" "¶ his fast gun-for-hire heeds the calling wind ¶" "¶ a soldier of fortune is the man called ¶" "¶ paladin ¶" "¶ paladin, paladin where do you roam ¶"