"Pardon their dead and you've had your day of vengeance." "Now you want Sarah Gibbs for a headstone to her husband's grave?" "Is that what you want?" "Mule and me" "Seen fields of trouble" "Mule and me" "Seen fields of pain" "Mule and me seen" "Fields of trouble" "Lord, show me your" "Harvest day" "You hear me, don't you?" "I'd answer you." "I'd listen to you, if you say to me," ""Where you hurt?"" "So now you listen to me, mule." "We got a long ways to go yet." "Miles to go, and a body to take." "Miles to go" "And a body to take" "Can I help?" "I can't rightly say as you can, but you're welcome to try." "See, I told this old mule to get me to Dunbar." "But he knows too much, and he just lay down." "Dunbar?" "You going there?" "No, I'm headed back to San Francisco." "He'll get better, won't he?" "Not never?" "We been through a valley of days, this mule and me." "Because I wouldn't wish to know he was suffering." "There isn't any use trying to dispose of the carcass." "The coyotes will just dig it up again." "That don't matter to him none now." "Neither good nor bad." "There's no sun to burn him." "Nor wind to shiver him." "Never again." "But for a man, it's... it's different." "It oughta be different." "When a man comes to his end, he oughta be buried, buried proper." "Words said over him." "No matter what he was born to." "I don't mean to presume on you." "I got a gold piece here I've had for a long time now." "I just keep it to myself to think on it at nights." "And I just hand it over to you if you take me into Dunbar." "Now what's in Dunbar that you're going to?" "Aaron." "That's my man." "I come this way to take back what they leave of him to me." "It's all lettered down here." ""Notice of determination" ""and sentence in the trial of Aaron Jedidiah Gibbs" ""before the provisional circuit court of Dunbar, Oregon." ""Be it hereby known that the aforementioned prisoner shall be" ""hung until dead" ""on the fifth day of June at an hour and site to be chosen" ""by the constituted authority of the above stated jurisdiction." ""Pursuant to the nature of the prisoner's crime" ""and to known and specific requirements of public order," ""no person or persons of any condition whatsoever shall be allowed contact of any degree with the prisoner."" "That "no person." That don't mean me." "Sure that don't mean me." "You mean they wouldn't let me see him?" "They wouldn't even let me say a word to him?" "Well... we'll see." "Mister?" "Well, the only other thing I got is a comb that Aaron once carved for me." "The $10 will be... more than adequate." "Go." "What's he want?" "Got us a standing rule regarding gun handlers in this town." "Oh, what's that?" "Meal, bed, and they keep right on moving." "What are you here for?" "You hanging three men here this afternoon?" " Yep." " What time?" "2:00." "The wife of one of them is here to see him." " Gibbs' wife?" " That's right." "Well, rule is that nobody can see any one of them." "Except at the hanging, of course, which is open and public." " Why?" " I'll tell you why." "Fourteen good, honest men lying under that pit." "Mister, they had wives, children brothers." "None of them got to say goodbye to any of 'em." "The three that killed 'em don't deserve nothing better than what they gave." "Jim," "Terman's rock crew oughta be coming up about now." "I think it'd be a good idea if checked the changeover tent, see if there's no bottle passing going on." "You do this for me, Jim?" "Go on." "Jim's brother Frank was down in number three when Gibbs and the other two set off the dynamite and tried to grab the payroll." "I saw Jim's leg." "That was a cave-in a couple of years ago." "Frank shinnied down an open shaft hole and dug Jim out, brought him up to the top still alive." "And I think even a sort like you could understand how a man might feel about his brother, especially when he owes him his life." "That's right, Marshal." "But I can also understand what a wife would feel for her husband." " Well, if it was up to me..." " It is up to you." "Take a look at those folks out there." "The only reason that Gibbs and the other two are being hung today instead of torn limb from limb three months ago is that I sent for the state ranchers." "And even with them here, we just barely missed having a lynching." "If it had been an ordinary gunplay or something like that, it might have been different, but these folks are keyed up about this and have been for quite some time." "Marshal, your job is to see that punishment is carried out, not vengeance." "At 2:00, you're gonna send a man to his death." "You." "Not your deputy." "Not those people over there." "You!" "I don't want any more trouble in this camp." "You saw how Jim Harden took to the idea." "Is it your deputy you're afraid of?" "I told you that..." "Don't tell me anything." "You come over here and tell Sarah Gibbs." "Come on." "All right, all right." "I'll arrange for her to see him." "Marshal, you sure you want to do this?" "We all know what that court order said." "Just open up, Ed." "And don't let anybody else in." "Coming all this way not knowing he was alive, it seems different." "Before, it was just a cold lump inside." "Now I don't know if I'll be able to face him." "Open it up for me, Ed." "Well, the marshal just said not to let anybody else in." "But I guess he never meant you, Jim." "But you just stay put." "I don't have any intention of going in there." "But you'd better take that gun off me." "I made up my own mind." "I know how you feel, Jim." "Do you know?" "You never worked the mines." "You never been pinned down there under a mountain of rock." "You think Frank didn't want to say a last word before he died?" "You think he didn't wanna know somebody cared?" "But you're gonna let the man that killed my brother have that." "Is that what you're gonna do?" "Well, Jim, I had an old yellow dog once, went rabid on me, near tore my arm off." "But I tossed him a piece of meat to chew on before I killed him." "Now if I can do that much for an old yellow mongrel," "I can certainly do as much for a human being." "Not yet, Marshal." "It ain't 2:00 yet." "Look." "Look." "I said look." "I said look!" "See, it ain't 2:00 yet." "Tell him." "Tell him it ain't 2!" "Tell him!" "Help, help!" "But it ain't 2 yet!" "I could have showed you if he hadn't broke my sundial." "First?" "You gonna put me up to the rope first?" "See?" "What did I tell you?" "You promised us hanging." "Now you're gonna turn us over to that mob of miners, ain't you?" "Jim!" "Now, if they can wait it out, so can you." "Now you stay here with 'em, and I want 'em walking when it's time." "How long, Marshal?" "I gotta know." "You thinned down, Aaron." "You well?" "Why'd you gotta come here, wife?" "You shouldn't have come." "I guess I won't to get to finish it now." "Maybe you'd like to have it." "A keepsake." "Aaron?" "What you done to get you into this?" "I'll tell you what they done." "They buried my man under that slag out there." "That's what." "Down there where I'll never even see what's left of his face even." "Lord, I swear," "I never meant to kill no men." "We just set off that dynamite to close off the pulley till we could get clear with the payroll." "I never knew it would cave in on all them men." "I swear." "I never knew." "Now hold it!" "These two people have got less than two minutes left in this whole world, and it belongs to them, not you." "No matter what he's done." "Now you back off!" "You say about this to Mr. Peters." "And he'll see that you get work in the sorting shift." "I'll see." "Ain't nothing much now to say." "It's all been said very insightful." "Pity." "Gibbs?" "Time?" "Time now?" "It's time." "Jim, bring 'em on out." "Seems like a long walk off." "Move 'em on out." "Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me." "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies." "Thou anointest my head with oil." "Aaron!" "Aaron?" "Put me into the earth next to my boy, Sarah?" "Surely, for this and mercy will follow me all the days of my life." "I will live in the house of the Lord forever." "Man runs from trouble, only finds trouble waiting around the corner for him." "It's hard for a man to go to field working after he's known better." "Used to drag home at nights with his hands cracked open to the blood." "But when the boy come sick, he'd pick him up in his arms just as gentle as any woman could." "He loved the boy." "Just like a man loves to poke his head up and smell the sun." "I think I'm gonna be burying him where he asked to be." "I'll bring your buggy up." "Miss Gibbs will claim the body." "You mean haul him off?" "I don't know." "The law gives her that right." "Maybe." "But I ain't giving her that right." "And neither are they." "I just wanna give him a Christian burial." "Put him next to his own flesh." "Maybe you can tell me some way to get my brother up out of that pit and bury him Christian." "Ned, your boy Tom was in number three." "You got a headstone for him someplace?" "Your husband was down there." "You got some place for the kids to put flowers on him?" "Well, I say they don't deserve no better." "I say they get dumped down the sluice pit." "Harden." "These three men are dead." "You can't frighten them anymore." "Now what do you want?" "You want her?" "You wanna haul her away?" "Hang her up on those gallows?" "Is that what you want for a head marker for your brother?" "Get me them bodies up here." "Do you hear me?" "We gotta dump 'em down the sluice pit." "I owe that to Frank." "You see that." "I could have gone down there with..." "Jim, we all know you couldn't with that bad leg of yours." "That's right, I couldn't." "But I can see that they get what's coming to them." "Now get me them bodies up here!" "Harden." "My leg." "What about your leg?" "It's crushed in the cave-in, a year ago March." "You been using that to cadge drinks and sympathy ever since." "People been nice to me, sure, but that ain't my fault, is it?" "My leg and what all, you know I couldn't go back down to the mines." "Harden, it's no crime to accept help from your friends when you need it." "But I'll tell you something," "I think that accident was the luckiest thing that ever happened to you." "I'll tell the whole world that I don't think you were much of a man before the accident because you aren't much of a man now." "And the only excuse you've got is a sprung leg." "Now hold on." "You ain't got no call to talk to me like that." "Harden, you tell me one thing." "You think you're the only human being in this whole world that ever had to fight hardship?" "He didn't mean much to nobody, except myself." "I guess we oughta take the other two out to the burying hill." "I guess that'd be the right thing to do now." "Don't you think, Marshal?" "Yeah." "Oh, Lord" "We're coming home" "Oh, Lord, coming home" "Oh, Lord" "We're coming home" ""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"