"No matter how noble your cause, Gavin, I can't let you condemn a boy to death." "So we'll wait until one of us makes a false move." "Now, this secret panel opening out of your chamber..." "Do you follow me?" "Oui." "This leads into the passageway here, down this way, and there is access to the street." "And thus, you have all of the privacy you need for your comings and goings." "Oh, you are clever." "Formidable." "You, uh, plan a trip to the Riviera soon, Monsieur?" "Excuse me." "Mr. Paladin." "I'm sorry, Mr. Paladin." "I wouldn't if it wasn't urgent." "I'm from the State Department, and it's top secret." "You ever hear of an Irishman called Gavin O'Shea?" "Dublin Underground?" "Brave man, silver tongue?" "He's in this country now, recruiting and raising money for the Fenian Brotherhood." "We want you to find him." "Unofficially, Mr. Paladin, he has to be told certain facts." "The Irish situation is a political hot potato." "And this being an election year, we can't afford to mess in and lose votes." "But these boys have to be stopped." "From what?" "Invading Canada." "Hey, boy." "Show this gentleman my rooms, please." "Excuse me." "This way, please." "It cannot be tonight." "Vouloir, c'est pouvoir." "You can believe there's a will, and I already know the way." "And then I rode to the top of the mountain, and I looked down into the valley, and it was green, and I thought of home." "But it was a though that God had reached out and used His green thumb and blessed this valley." "And I knew it was from here that we would mount our attack." "For it is the right of the Irish people to decide the Irish destiny" "It is for us to be sovereign and indefeasible." "And it is the usurpation of that right that has given rise to our wrath and to enable us to strike a blow for freedom." "For when foreign peoples and governments will rob us of our heritage and our noble tradition, then will we fight for the right of men to be free." "And, from you, from you, the descendents of Ireland's children, we ask not your lives." "We ask only that you supply us with money and guns and ammunition to enable us to strike a blow for the right of men to be free." "And every dollar that you raise will be an Irish life that may be saved." "Now, may the blessings of the sweet spirit guide you." "Hooray for Ireland!" "Yay!" "Well, Danny?" "Are you willing to go through with it?" "I'd die for him, Michael." "There ain't nothing I wouldn't do." "Come on." "Come on." "Aye, I appreciate you." "Bless you, sir." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you very kindly." "Bless you." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "I appreciate it." "Aye, I appreciate you." "Bless you, sir." " We'll raise the money." " Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you very kindly." "God bless Ireland." "'Tis a pleasure." "Aye, lad?" " We heard you speak over in Copper City." " Oh, yeah." "My brother Danny and me..." "we want to join up with you." " My name's Mahoney." " Oh, it's a fine Irish name." " Michael Mahoney." " How are you, Michael?" "But I'm only asking for guns and ammunition." "You're offering me your young life." "Danny and me want to join you." "Well, it's that way." "For all those reasons you said." "We can help." "I know we can." "Wait." "Will you wait?" "Just stay here for a little while, that's all I'm asking you." "They say, "The spell of the tongue is the most dangerous spell of all."" "And yours is a silver one, Gavin O'Shea." "Well, it's not the words that contain the beauty." "It's the cause that they describe." "You're well-spoken yourself, sir." "Who is it you'd be?" "And it's your cause I want to talk to you about." "In the name of it, you're sending youngsters like that off to their death." "Well, whether I am or not, you're lucky 'cause it 's not your affair so it won't be on your conscience." "I'm not as lucky as you think." "It is my affair." "Ah." "Then you'd be one of those undercover chaps." "Can we talk?" "Well, there's aught that you can say that will change the course of history." ""Anything but history, for history must be false."" "You'll get nowhere quoting an Englishman to me." "That was a tactical error." "I shan't repeat it." "Well, come along, then." "I'll listen to your dark secrets and dire predictions." "Now, The United States Government expects you to launch your attack through the New York section of the St. Lawrence River sometime in June." " Oh, do they now?" " Mm." " Bless you." " Oh, bless you, ma'am." "But judging by your present position, I'd be much more inclined to expect you to go through Niagara and attempt to take Fort Erie." "Now, why would the Irish invade Canada when it's with England we're having the quarrel?" "Because you consider that a direct blow to British power." "You expect help from the United States and from Canada, and, O'Shea, it won't happen that way." "Will you be telling me what the United States Government has done to stop us so far?" " Nothing." " And why not?" "Is it because the English helped out the Confederacy, and the boys in Washington aren't too soon to forget?" " That's a fair assumption." " Uh-huh." "Are you also aware of the competition between the political parties for the Irish vote?" " I'm well aware." " Mm-hmm." "And that on your shores, we have assembled 18,000 comrades-in-arms of the Fenian Brotherhood, most of them veterans of the recent war against the southern states?" "I know." "Then how can you be doubting that the Irish flag will be waving over Canada?" "And until such time as the British despots give back Ireland to the Irish, then only will we return Canada to the domination of the British." "You want to make a trade." "Aye." "It's the devil's own bargain we're making." "Well, it won't work that way, O'Shea." "You wax as eloquent as you like, but it will not work that way." "We cannot be stopped." "They've already stopped you." "Look here." "They've confiscated all the arms you had in depots here along the St. Lawrence." "They've arrested your leaders, and they're guarding the St. Lawrence right now." "Your battle is going to have to be won in your own country, not in mine." "As an officer in the Irish Army, it's for me to say where we will fight, and it's for the good Lord to say where we will win." "Well, you can't fight at all without guns." "I'd rather die fighting them with my own bare hands than go on living and not fight them at all." "And the boys and men under your command?" "They're going to die because of your fanaticism?" "Oh, it's "your fanaticism" that you call it, that my own mother and father were flung into a cart full of corpses and then conveyed to the great ditch in a church yard when the famine raged throughout the land?" "And is it fanaticism that you call it when my own brother was arrested and hung in Tralee" " for speaking out against the enemies of the people?" " I am not talking against your cause." "I am talking against the ideas of boys and men dying in a battle that couldn't possibly be won!" "If it is for dying that I can give courage to the living, then..." "I'm ready, sir." "O'Shea, send him back to his mother." "He has no cause... only hero worship." "There's a line shack about two miles outside of town on the East Road." "Danny will meet us there." "Oh, please, Mr. O'Shea." "I have volunteers waiting to hear you speak." "And they have money... all the money you need." "Only you have to get out of here." "Before I come, Michael," "I want you to know that we've got one chance in a million of winning." "That doesn't matter now." "We have to get going." "And you'll probably lose your young life in the bargain." "Please, Mr. O'Shea, let's go." "All right." "Ride on." "I'll follow you." "God save Ireland." "Oh, boy." "Don't make me do it." "I got to stop him." "Stay back!" "Hey, whoa." "That's just a boy." "Him and his brother robbed the bank, mister." "On your feet, kid." "What'll they do to me?" "Depends on whether or not you got the money." "Well, then the chances are you will hang." "Hurry it up, will you?" "I gotta lock him up so I can go after the other one." "Sheriff, I've got to stop this bleeding." "Can't your deputy lock him up?" "My deputies are busy." "Look, that's good enough, ain't it?" "I don't catch the one with the money, he ain't gonna live anyhow." "Oh, whatever happened to justice in this town, Sheriff?" "Don't you say anything about justice to me, mister." "This is the third holdup this year." "The town is ugly, I'm telling you true." "Even good folk get mean when their life savings have been took." "I'll be lucky if they don't string me up." "I'll get your money, Sheriff." "You sound like you know where they went." "If you do, you better tell me." "I'll get your money, Sheriff, and I'll go alone." "Not if it means you're going to hurt Mr. O'Shea or Michael." " I'd rather die first." " You may get that chance." "Any one of us may get that chance before this day is over." "Somebody's coming." "Danny?" "Is that you, Danny?" "Paladin." "I'm alone." "Where's my brother, mister?" "Tell me." "What happened to Danny?" "What do you think happened to him when you left him in there alone?" "I didn't leave him." "He knew where we were headed." "I told him we'd wait for him." "What happened?" "Mister, is he dead?" "He's all right if they get their money back," "They don't get their money back, they hang him." "I'm sorry, sir." "Can you be forgetting that the money would buy guns and ammunition to save the lives of Irishmen?" "Well, that's why Danny and me did it." "We tried." "We wanted it to work." "It did work, Michael." "I don't understand you, sir." "I mean, with them having Danny and all, why..." "In the life of every man, there comes a supreme moment when his soul stands stripped naked, and with a single gesture, he is revealed to himself." "Now do you understand me, Michael?" "The Spanish call it "the moment of truth."" "And this is my moment, Paladin." "It is the moment I must decide if the life of a beautiful, quixotic boy shall stand in the path of everything that I was born to do." "O'Shea, it's not your decision to make." "In my darkest hour, you brought this bag to me filled with money that would save the lives and give freedom to thousands." "Now, for the life of one lad, you'd have me hand it back." "Oh, soon as I get Danny out, we'll ride to Niagara and meet you." "We'll fight alongside you, sir." "We'll die for you glad." "No." "You wanted to be joining a cause, Michael, without even knowing what the cause was about." "You heard my voice, but you never heard my words." "Goodbye, lad." "He's a saint." "Oh?" "You know, he gave me a bad turn there for a minute." "I thought he wasn't gonna part with the money." "Did you ever have one of them there "moments of truth"?" "Look in the bags." "Oh, Danny!" "Danny, what've I done?" " What are you going to do?" " Just stay back in there." " I'd sooner come along." "I can handle myself." " Aw." "Oh, look, if he's trapped, he'll give up." "He ain't crazy." "He ain't out to hurt anybody." "Michael, I am no longer interested in watching you swing from one sentimental extreme to another." "Now stay there!" "All right, O'Shea, that's far enough." "Now, there's no reason for bloodshed between the two us." "You give us the money that will stop the hanging of Danny Mahoney, and you can go your own way." "Sorry I am for the boy, Paladin." "But one boy's life is not to be bargained for many lives." "The men in your army risk their lives as a matter of free will." "That's not the case with Danny." "It's a war that we're in, Paladin." "And I'm not responsible of the innocents standing in the way of our victory." "It's an unfair war that's being waged in a land with which you have no quarrel." "How many innocent Canadians are going to be killed defending their own homes?" "Well, then, let them not resist us." "Let them instead see the justice of our cause, and we'll light the way for them to free their own children from the domination of the British." "And although me own heart may break with each life that's extinguished, it's to me own that I owe my loyalty." "Too long has my country waited." "I used the word "fanatic" before, and I'll use it again, O'Shea." "You've lost reality." "You can't win." "Canada will fight, and The United States will intercede, and that's reality!" "My reality is the Irish Free State, and there is no other." "We'll wait, then, Gavin." "I will not let you condemn a boy to death." "Why can't he listen?" "Why can't he do what's right?" "Why does he have to kill my brother?" "Because he's come to that point in a man's life where the world is no longer his to do with as he pleases." "I suppose it comes to all men sooner or later, Michael." "He just wants to see his dreams realized during his own lifetime." "Give me the money." "Please give me the money." "Oh, I ain't gonna shoot you." "I just want to..." "I just want to get Danny off, and I want you to go on and do what you have to do." "We believed in you, Mr. O'Shea..." "Ma and Danny and me." "There's ballads on you." "My pa used to know them in the old country, and he used to sing them to us when we were just little kids." "Give me the money, Mr. O'Shea." "It weren't mine to take." "I don't want you killed anymore than I want Danny to die." "All right, Paladin." "Drop your arms, or this boy's death will be on your conscience as well as it is mine." "The word "fanatic" came from your lips, and there was no denial from mine." "All right." "And I will take both the horses." "And you'll have to take me word of honor that as soon as I get to my destination," "I'll return Michael to you." "Now..." "Your gun, please, Mr. Paladin." "Éire go Brach." "What did he say?" "He said, "Ireland forever."" ""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?" "Paladin, Paladin, far, far from home"