"It's certainly a novel approach to the part, I must say." "What do you think?" ""but I am so far in blood" ""that sin will pluck on sin!" "Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye."" "Or still a bit too thin on the sauce for richard?" "Hmm?" "Well, uh, perhaps a bit." "Curtain's at 8:00." "Thank you." ""oh, it offends me to the soul" ""to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow" "Tear a passion to tatters."" "Telegram, mr." "Paladin." "Mr. Gravely again." "He crazy." "Make you go hunting with him." "Hey boy, I wish somebody'd send you some mail sometime" "So you wouldn't have to read mine." "No." "Your mail make me practice good "engrish."" ""engrish"?" "Mm-hmm." ""see today's dispatch regarding indian killing." "Come immediately." "Gravely."" "Hey boy, get me a copy of today's dispat" ""hitherto, peaceful hawani indians" ""yesterday raided a hunting party" ""led by william gravely, esq.," "Killing one of the party before being driven off by gunfire."" "Very dangerous hunting in indian country." "Well, hey boy, you had better pack the saddlebags." "All ready to go." "Now you hunt murderer, not just only "buffaros."" ""buffaros."" "Well, I'm afraid so, hey boy." "We are civilized men in a barbarous country, no?" "I say, you're a bit of a roughneck, aren't you?" "What are you people afraid of?" "Indians." "Countryside's alive with screaming wogs." "They killed one man already." "This is the gravely party?" "You've heard about us?" "I never did like the ruddy fellow anyway." "I like him even less now he's lying down on guard duty." "Antoine, get up." "You're fired." "He's not a wog." "Can't you see that?" "Now, go back and wash up." "Wog?" "Indians." "Savages." "How can you tell I'm not some other sort of a "wog"?" "No, you're not a wog." "You're a gentleman." "Always tell." "Speak french fluently." "With a bad accent." "I'll say one thing for the wogs." "They're ruddy efficient when it comes to a bow and arrow." "Look." "Poor old roddy was sitting on the cliff looking for buffalo" "And a wog stuck him with an arrow from across the wadi." "Hundred yards, I'd say." "Good shot with a rifle." "Poor old roddy never got a word out." "Toppled off the cliff." "Dead before he hit bottom." "Roddy was a friend of yours." "Oh, not really." "Distant cousin." "I wonder." "I've never hunted with a bow." "Do you suppose I could learn?" "To stick roddy with a bow and arrow at 100 yards?" "It might take some time for you to learn that well." "What?" "Oh." "Oh." "Uh..." "I suppose you think I crossed off roddy lightly." "Not so." "Always hanging about, roddy." "Children together." "Parents both dead, you know." "I do sort of miss him, now you mention it." "I say, will you stay for dinner?" "We have an extra sitting since roddy died." "Thank you very much." "By the by, my name's trevington." "Paladin." "Certainly an interesting camp." "It's unfortunate you've had this trouble." "At first the indians seemed contented enough" "Just to ride about, shouting and waving." "Then all this business." "Omenda, the sherry, please." "Where's gravely?" "Guy?" "He's off scouting buffalo for tomorrow." "Fine sack." "Imported himself from Spain." "Travels rather well." "Ah, charity, my dear." "This is my sister." "Charity trevington, mr." "Paladin." "It's a pleasure." "Paladin." "How very odd." "Charles, we won't wait for gravely." "Mr. Paladin's taking roddy's place at the table." "You've asked him for dinner?" "I've asked him to join our party." "He put down that frenchman as though he were a boy." "We need a good chap with the wogs about." "He hit antoine?" "I'm not accustomed to being held at gunpoint..." "Nor to being addressed in the third person." "I say, you make a business of it?" "You're that friend of gravely's, aren't you?" "I was supposed to come on this expedition," "But other business prevented it." "So now you've just come wandering through tribes" "Of hostile indians, just by chance," "And happily drop in for dinner." "Madame, in the last 100 miles, I've seen exactly three indians," "And they turned and ran at the sight of me." "They ran?" "You're just the chap we need." "Name your price." "Since mr." "Paladin is staying for dinner..." "Omenda?" "Will you show this gentleman to my bath tent?" "I'm sorry if I seemed inhospitable, mr." "Paladin," "But charles does have a habit of inviting stray people," "And we have had a difficult time." "We shall wait dinner for you." "You're very kind." "Where's antoine?" "That cheeky lout." "I'd like to give him the boot," "Pay him off tomorrow." "Tomorrow." "After we're done with the shoot, my dear." "Might need him in the a.M." "¶" "Short history of the borges." "The women behind napoleon." "Care and cleaning of guns." "Poisonous mushrooms and strange tortures of southeast arabia." "Ehh." "all right!" "All right!" "I know he's in his birthday suit!" "Behold his worship in his bath!" "Gravely, will you tell me what this is all about?" "I've been a guide man and boy for 20 years," "And I thought I knowed how to run a hunting trip." "But this trevington's got a natural talent for it." "Music with dinner, champagne." "I wish I'd thought of it." "What's this about the hawanis killing trevington's cousin?" "That's it." "I paid 'em regular for years to stage these raids." ""just hoop it up," I says to inahata." ""ride around the camp twice," ""fire off 200 rounds of ammunition, 50 arrows," "And get out."" "Everything went fine." "Yeah, but..." "But this." "You sure it was the hawanis?" "I've ridden with them." "I know inahata." "Who else?" "I know their arrows when I pull them out of a feller." "Say, uh, they know why you're here?" "No, and let's keep it that way." "I don't know what that inahata thinks he's doing." "I tried to find him." "He's hid out somewhere, I guess." "Afraid of the cavalry." "Meantime, we been guarded in here" "And doing some hunting by day" "Till we can find a safe way to get this mob out of here." "You know, indians on a warpath make a hash out of all this." "Gravely." "Yep." "All right." "Mum's the word." "I'll see you at the table." "Omenda, more champagne." "Charles, we have guests." "I know we have guests, my dear." "I'm not a child." "Of course not, my dear." "Mr. Paladin, will you have some more wine?" "And don't change the subject." "I won't have you correcting me in front of my friends." "Do be calm." "Well, if one must go hunting," "This is certainly the way to do it." "Yes." "Of course, charles is making gravely a rich man." "Nothing wrong about that, is there?" "I don't complain about you being rich." "Why do you begrudge me my little bit?" "Because nothing has gone right on this incredible trip." "No buffalo, the indians killed roddy," "And the price of everything is going up and up." "Ma'am, are you insinuating something?" "Nothing at all." "Except that if I wanted to swindle a very rich..." "And very stupid english lord," "I should maroon him in a wilderness" "And charge him a ransom to get out." "You know, I could suggest something, too." "If I were a little sister that wanted to keep the trevington title in the family," "I'd see to it that cousin roddy turned suddenly dead." "I ask you, paladin," "Which are the hunters and which are the beasts?" "I'm a simple man, although little sister calls it stupidity." "All I ask is, up in the dawn," "A good straight shot at my great humpbacked beast." "He and I understand." "Drink to it?" "Antoine!" "Where are you, you filthy beast?" "What are the signs for tomorrow, antoine?" "Very good." "You get the buffalo tomorrow." "Antoine, my friend," "Did you have enough to drink?" "Are you happy?" "You come to sleep, monsieur, my lord." "And in the morning, we'll get lots of buffalo." "Night-night!" "Charming pair." "You understand them." "I wish you'd explain them to me." "What did gravely mean about the trevington title?" "What does it matter?" "He obviously doesn't believe the hawanis killed your cousin." "No, I suppose he thinks that, uh," "I or my brother or antoine killed him." "Why would they kill him?" "I haven't the faintest idea." "I would kill roddy, I suppose, because if charles died," "Roddy would inherit the estates and the title." "You see?" "I have nothing to hide." "Yes, I see." "Omenda." "That girl is persian?" "No." "Arabian." "I saved her life when I was there." "She'd had her tongue cut out and was left to die." "A barbarous country, arabia." "A highly civilized one, too, in many ways." "Cruelty can be a form of refinement, you know." "And I see you have strength of mind enough" "To make your own decisions." "I'm flattered by your attention, mr." "Paladin." "I would hardly suppose that a rugged man of the west" "Living by his wits" "Would be interested in the mere mind of a woman." "Meeting a womanly woman with an unwomanly mind" "Is a very stimulating thing." "I see you know how much I chafe" "Against woman's subdued position in the world." "If all women had your strength of mind," "Their position would be considerably different." "You could be the head of a country," "An industry, great estates." "You're a very perceptive man." ""show me the books a man doth read," "And I will name his crying need."" "Who said that?" "I did." "What books do you imagine I read?" "Oh, shelley," "Treatises on lace-making," "Books on pet birds, perhaps." "Now you're teasing me." "You know me better than that." "I noticed your books in the bathtub." "And what do you think is my crying need?" "Power." "You want power, estates," "Money." "I have all those things." "Only through your brother." "And you want a title you can't have" "As long as your brother lives." "And when he marries," "The title and everything that goes with it" "Passes to his children." "Omenda usually prepares me a hot toddy in my tent." "Will you join me this evening?" "I think not this evening, thank you very much." "Good evening, miss trevington." "Come on, gravely." "Get up." "Ah!" "Oh, that woman gives me the nerves." "Well, I guess so." "Gravely, were you just angry" "Or did you mean what you said about the estate?" "I meant what I said." "English law gives the estate to the male survivors." "As long as there are any." "If trevington died while roddy crane was still alive, he'd get it." "But as things now stand, she'd get everything." "I was just sore." "Trevington told you how crane was killed." "How could she shoot an arrow 100 yards?" "That lousy inahata." "When I get my hands on him," "I'm gonna make the deerfield massacre look like christmas caroling." "How could inahata have..." "It's gonna be lousy for business." "I know it." "help!" "Help!" "Paladin, if I hadn't leaned over to take my shoes off," "The ruddy wog would've pinned me to the tent pole." "Mr. Paladin." "Do you still think our hawanis are friendly little indians?" "Bill." "What?" "I don't know." "The hawanis used to be fighters." "Just because they ain't killed anybody in 10 or 12 years don't prove a thing." "Get my horse." "At this hour?" "We know they're out there." "Would you rather I wait until they're gone?" "I hope he doesn't do anything rash." "Hey, paladin, put that away!" "What do you expect?" "Arrows in the night." "Sneaking around behind people." "Listen to me, paladin." "You tell those fool white men to stop making trouble." "They're all time shooting." "Riding like wild indians." "Drinking firewater." "They're dangerous." "We hawani keeping out of way." "Gravely's looking for you." "Tell gravely our agreement is off," "Unless his white men behave themselves." "Gravely thinks that you killed a white man named roddy crane." "He was killed with a bow and arrow." "Hawani have not killed any white man" "For 17 years." "16 years." "That's an enviable record." "Hawani are not interested in killing." "Only interested in making money." "We have a very good business now." "Pretending to be indians on the warpath." "Roddy crane was killed with a hawani arrow." "You got?" "Mm." "Souvenir arrow." "We make them for sale." "Tell gravely price on arrows is going up, too." "Gravely buy any arrows this trip?" "No." "French man, antoine, buy." "How many?" "Three." "Three." "One in roddy crane, one in the tent," "And thank you very much, chief." "Tell gravely if he wants arrows for killing," "Let us know next time." "We'll make apache arrows." "Back from the indian war so soon?" "Where are they?" "Have some breakfast?" "Where are they?" "They've gone, of course." "Charles is meeting his buffalo." "Antoine?" "With him." "Gravely?" "With them." "It wasn't the indians after all?" "Not unless antoine has indian blood." "Omenda, get me a horse." "I told you before." "This ain't the way I learned to hunt buffalo." "Be a good chap and humor me." "It's the way I shot water buffalo in india, african buffalo in africa," "And I see no reason to shoot american buffalo less comfortably." "What makes you think american buffalo are gonna cooperate?" "They ain't used to being driven." "You'll think of something." "What you're paying me," "There ain't nothing else to do but try." "Well, antoine, all we have to do is wait." "Give me a hand opening this." "There's a good chap." "Didn't you bring any glasses?" "What is the matter with you?" "Not me." "It's you." "Me?" "What are you talking about?" "I'm afraid you may be about to inherit the trevington estates." "There they are." "Buffalo." "Antoine!" "Antoine, give me a hand setting up this blasted cannon." "You're not going to shoot with that ridiculous weapon, are you?" "Not so ridiculous." "Monsieur roddy was killed at 100 yards" "With this instrument." "Antoine." "Put down the rifle." "Well, congratulations, old boy." "Jolly good shot." "I never would've believed it." "What is the matter with you?" "Why can you never be serious?" "Serious?" "I was never more serious in my life." "I suppose you're going to kill me with that thing." "Not very sporting, you know." "Point-blank range." "Don't do it for charity." "She's..." "Do not say her name, you pig!" "You want me to whine and beg?" "I won't." "You'll have to kill me as I am." "Antoine, you haven't got a chance." "She's not worth it, you know." "She's just a machine, antoine." "She's nothing but a cold-blooded machine." "As a frenchman, you should've recognized that." "We were just in time." "What were you waiting for?" "He's dead." "He'd stopped." "He wasn't gonna shoot." "How were you to know that?" "I'm satisfied you shot a defenseless man." "Why?" "Why?" "What's the matter with you both?" "Why are you both staring at me?" "He killed rod" "How did you know that, my dear?" "Well, it's obvious, isn't it?" "How'd you get him to do it?" "Threats?" "Bribes?" "He was in love with her." "Didn't you know that?" "Poor thing, paladin." "She's always thought that I wasted the family money on hunting and drinking." "There are worse things I could've done with it." "By the way, what are your laws on this sort of thing?" "Charles." "They very seldom hang a woman." "I suppose she'll have plenty of time to think about it." "I imagine they'll be just." "Paladin, will you take care of her?" "I'll look after antoine." "¶ "have gun, will travel" reads the card of a man ¶" "¶ 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 ¶"