"Going to school is a child's work, Moriarity." "You say he'll work for me?" "I say he'll go to school." "Now, get out of my way." "Good morning, Hey Boy." "Paladin, you've been out all night." " I have." " Is she pretty?" "Beautiful." "But she talked too much." "That big difference between East and West." "Oh, very important." " Read this one first." " Hmm." "Well, $100." ""Nine more of the enclosed await you if you will come to the town of Last Gasp to protect the desperate Tom Wilson."" "Last Gasp?" "In mountains, 40 miles from Marysville." "How do you know?" "I know many things." "You go?" "Yes." "If only to get away from your confounded inscrutability." "Bet your money." "Come on, boys." "You can't win unless you play." "Brandy?" "Whiskey." "Where do I find Thomas Wilson?" "In the graveyard." "Now, how and when did that happen?" "Squashed to death." "By man or beast?" "By Moriarity, though I don't rightly know what you'd call him." "He's over there." "You fixing to kill me?" "Any reason I should?" "Tom Wilson told everybody he hired a gun to take care of me." "But he didn't wait." "He come at me with a knife." "Nobody hollered when it was over." "I'm not hollering now, Mr. Moriarity." "Wilson offered me money to protect him." "The deal was never made." "The matter is closed." "So why are you hanging around?" "What are you waiting for?" "Moriarity, you cost me $900 by killing Tom Wilson." "I figure the least you can do is give me a chance to win it back." "Yeah." "You bet." "And up." " You ain't looked at your cards." " That's right." "That the way the action goes where you come from, city boy?" "That's right, country boy." "You're frogging me." "Call me." "Find out." "I put what I got in." "You meet the bet or you get out." "Do you want to call this hand off?" "You ain't cutting me out of what I win." "Meet the bet." "I'll put up my silver strike." "You can work it for a month." "I prefer money in its finished form." "Well, it's worth more than you bet." "Lots more." "You wouldn't fool a city boy, would you?" "Now, why would I?" "Well, it doesn't matter." "I'll take your silver strike." "I get all the proceeds for one month." "That right?" "It's a deal." "Three queens." "Two pair." "I thank you." "And you will let me know where the silver strike is in the morning?" "I'll show it to you tonight." "Rudy." "Aw, now, Moriarity..." "Rudy." "Let me have cash for these." "Thank you." "This is Silver Strike Moriarity." "Any relation?" "My son." "And you got him for a month." "You can work him any way you want." "Or I ought to say any way you can, which ain't likely to be much." " Now go on." "Get outta here." " Stay where you are, son." "You ain't going through with this, are you?" "I won him." "I'll keep him." "Well, when you get to know him better, you'll change your mind." "Won't he, son?" "Keep your hands off me!" "Silver, where do you work?" "The stable." "The mine." "Shoveling, sweeping." "I work where they got dirt." "What if you refuse?" "Pa clouts me." "What do you think of that?" "I don't think." "I just stay out of his way." "Well, if you're going to do a day's work tomorrow," "I think you'd better get a night's sleep tonight, hmm?" "How'd you get your name?" "I was borned on the day Pa staked a mine." "Where's your mother?" "She left." "She couldn't stand the crumb." "How old are you?" "10 or 11." "Have you ever been to school?" "Once when Pa wasn't looking, I went to see what it was like." "Did you like it?" "The crumb teacher throwed me out." "Oh, boy." "Well, Silver, what kind of work would you like?" "In the mine." "You get my earnings." "What I grab, I keep, all right?" "Well, you could get caught." "Is it a deal?" "We'll see." "Wa-hoo!" "Hey." "You're over there." "Hey!" "Hey, the mine ain't this way." "We're not going to the mine." " Where we going?" " Oh, to school." " Oh, no." " Oh, yes." "First, we're going in there." "A haircut, a bath, and a de-lousing." "I'd as leave tangle with a polecat." "Out." "Here." "Take the day off." "All I wants the use of the facilities." " It'll be extra for what's broke." " Agreed." " There's water in the tub." " Thank you." "Look, you ain't giving me this." "And I ain't going to school." "And that's a warning, crumb." "Which do you want first?" "A haircut or a bath?" "Let me go!" "Hey, let me go!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "You're squashing me." "Stop!" "Up, up, up, up." "Well, now..." "Let me go!" "Let me go!" " Let me go!" " This won't hurt a bit now." "Ooh!" "Ohh!" "Hey!" "Hey, what do you think I am, a cow?" "Hey, stop that!" "Let me go!" "Hey, let me down!" "Let me down!" "Let me down!" "Let me down!" "Let me down!" "Let me down!" "Put me down!" "Thank you." "Let me down!" "Let me down!" "Let me down!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Now, since you're so demure," "I'll take this, and this and this and this with me while I burn the rest of your old clothes and try and get you some new ones." "Meantime, you might see if you can do any good for yourself with that and that." "Is he in the tub?" "Sure." "Took to it just like a duck takes to water." " Well, what do we have today?" " Mulligan stew." "Very good." "We'll have two and one beer, one milk." "Two beers." "One beer and one milk." "Nope." "Silver, you will have milk, won't you?" "Yeah." "Milk." "Milk." " You aiming to send the boy to school?" " You heard." "Well, he ain't going." "Wasn't part of the bargain." "Now, wait a minute." "I'm entitled to work this boy any way I want for 30 days." "Going to school is a child's work." "He'll go to school." "I don't read." "My father never did." "And you consider that an accomplishment." " He'll think he's better than me." " Why shouldn't he think he's better than you?" "Why shouldn't a child have it better than his father?" "You should have got out of that game when you was ahead." "You don't have to be afraid, boy." "He's not going to use that gun, because he didn't go to the school I did." "That's a school that teaches you how to kill a man before he can get his gun out of the holster." "He'll kill you now." "All right, Silver." "Let's go." "How's about teaching me how to fight, city boy?" "Well, maybe I will some day." "Not without them guns, you won't." "Well, it's lucky for me, then, that I'm armed." "What's the matter with you, gunfighter?" "You still sore because you didn't get your money from Tom Wilson?" "No, Moriarity, you're sore because I might put ideas in this boy's head." "He might realize that he doesn't have to work to keep you in poker money." "Looks like you lost the kid, Moriarity." "Now you'll have to go to work." "Kid, get over to the shack, put your work clothes on." "One side, Moriarity." "The boy's going to school." "Over me." "Silver." "Thank you." "You done killed him." ""You killed him," not "You done killed him."" "And it's only temporary." "I have brought you a new student." " This is the Moriarity boy, isn't it?" " Yes, it is." "Well, you got him clean, I'll say that for you." "It's a step in the right direction." "Mr. Moriarity is a staunch defender of the right to be ignorant." "Does he know about this?" "You don't have to worry about him, ma'am." "Moriarity won't bother the boy no longer." "Ain't that right?" "Oh?" "You see?" "She don't want me." "Do you really think you can educate him?" "I think you can." "You've never tried teaching school in a place like this, have you?" "No." "All right." "I'll do what I can." "Well, Silver, it's up to you." "If I go in there, can I learn to whip my dad like you did?" "You go in there, you'll learn an even better way to solve your problems." "Better ways?" "And I wish you very good luck." ""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"