"Now, ain't you ashamed of yourself?" "Acting like that?" "All we's after was a horse." "Now it's gonna be different." "You want the gun?" "Go on, reach for it." "Go ahead." "You got us wrong, mister." "She stole that horse out of our camp, and we-we's just trying to get back our own." "With a knife." "Oh, we's just gonna scare her a little, is all." "Sure, mister, she's a real wildcat." "The knife is mine." "You ain't gonna take that squaw's word over mine, are you?" "Well, even from here an idiot can see that's an Indian pony." "It's never been shod in its life." "Let's go, Lou." "You ain't a hard man to keep in mind." "And I'm gonna give it a lot of thought." "Well, don't kill yourself trying." "And give this to your friend." "Which way do you ride?" "I have a very important appointment." "Just outside the small pueblo to the south." "Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles." "Ah, Los Angeles." "I am called Taymanee." "Well, that's a lovely name." "Now, Taymanee, you get on your horse and ride back to your village before you get into more trouble." "You have saved my life." "I belong to you." "It is the custom." "Now, wait a minute, Taymanee." "That is a custom of your people." "It is not a custom of my people." "I am Yosemite." "And the Yosemite live by the old ways." "Oh, and among the Yosemite, living by the old ways... does a squaw misbehave?" "Now, you get on that horse and ride back to your people." "Now." "Now, I want you to stop following me." "I want you to stop annoying me." "I told you I have a very special engagement at Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles." "It will be cooler by the trees." "I've heard your people sing by the fire many times." "My mother sings." "Not tonight your mother doesn't sing." "She weeps." "She does not weep." "Taymanee, all mothers weep for their lost children." "Tonight your people are putting ashes on their faces, saying prayers for the dead, the lost." "Still, they would be ashamed if I broke one of the old ways." "Well, I suppose I could tie you to a horse, head the horse in the right direction, be your conscience for you." "Tied to a horse." "There are other ways to die than of shame." "All right, all right, Taymanee." "I'll find some other way to get you home." "Put it down." "Who sends you paper that smells?" "A woman." "Is she beautiful?" "Beautiful?" "Oh, yes, she is beautiful." "She has big medicine." "Do you go to meet her now?" "Yes, I go to meet her now." "And I go without you, without the benefit of your company." "No matter how pretty you make your words, I will not" " go away." " You are impossible." "You are a disgrace to womanhood." "Good, but I will not leave." "Well, go to sleep." "You do all this for woman who writes on paper that smells?" "I do all this for a woman who I respect." "Taymanee, you're a woman." "Well, you're almost a woman." "So you must have some understanding." "Now, I appeal to that understanding, to that fine, sensitive..." "No!" "No what?" "No, I will not leave you and she alone." "I will sit down and nothing can make me move." "I will carry you into those bushes and leave you there sitting." "Francine." "Wh-Who is that?" "Oh, uh, uh, that is Taymanee." "I-I was just getting rid of her." "Well, do not let me stop you." "Well, thank you." "I'll see you directly, Francine." "Chéri?" "Now, you get on that horse and you don't stop riding and you don't look back until you reach your people." "You understand?" "Paladin?" "Francine." "Francine." "No, no." "Chéri, it must be exactly as it was before." "You understand, n'est-ce pas?" "Exactly as it was before?" "Exactement." "Well..." "All right, Francine." "Whoa." "Ooh, chéri." "Oh!" "Francine..." "Is it the same?" "Time has indeed stood still." "Oh... no, no." "A year is a very long time, chéri." "It took great courage to write." "I was afraid you had forgotten me." "And I was embarrassed." "Were you embarrassed the first time?" "No!" "No, I was frightened." "I was terrified." "But that time it just happened." "This time I have planned the whole thing." "I am... how you say..." "I am a hussy." "You sparkle like champagne." "Ooh, champagne." "Darling, ooh-la-la!" "It will explode with all that bumping!" "Chéri, there it is." "Ah." "Oh!" "Oh, this is it!" "There it is, Francine." "Just the way it was before." "No!" "No, Paladin!" "It was over there." "Francine, this is the place." " Oh, oui." " Mmm." "Oh!" "Is she singing?" "No, she is not singing!" "Paladin, just who is this, uh, this child of nature?" "Well, her name is Taymanee, and it should be Pestilence!" "What is she doing here?" "Well, she belongs to me she believes." "How quaint." "Now, Francine, it's a, it's an old custom." "It's a, it's a very old tribal custom." "Hmm." "Darling, I know these old tribal customs." "Now, Francine, uh, I saved her life, she believes, and it's an old custom, it's a very old tribal custom that that life belongs to me, and she's very difficult to convince otherwise." "Hmm." "Well, just tell her to go away." "Go away, Taymanee." "I stay." "Uh..." "Francine, I think you're right." "I think our place..." "is over there." "Adieu, darling." "Lou." "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "Now we're gonna do a little hunting... for turtledoves." "They drove your horses away." "Who?" "!" "The men you saved me from." "This is just another of her quaint little tricks to ruin everything." "Now get rid of her once and for all?" "I would be very happy to, but there were two men!" "Oh?" "Hmm!" "Get off!" "Oh!" "Get off!" "You don't fool me, you little savage, you!" "Francine." "Francine." "Oh, let go of me." "Francine, you just lost your accent." "Yeah." "Well, it's fake." "Like my name." "Like me." "Like everything about me." "It's all one big lie." "Just one big fake." "Your voice and your beauty, those aren't fake." "Those aren't a lie." "Yeah, well, they weren't enough." "And I'm tired of touring companies and second-rate hotels and make-believe romances." "Well, I guess maybe we were indulging in make-believe romance." "And I guess perhaps we're both just a little too old for it." "Hey, Romeo!" "You step out where we can see you, maybe we'll let the ladies go!" "He's going to kill us!" "Francine." "We ain't fooling, Romeo!" "Come on out!" "Francine, he'll kill us if you don't keep quiet." "I'm gonna try and get around behind them." "No." "No!" "Don't leave me, Pal!" "You're gonna be safe right here with Taymanee." "No, no, don't go!" "I'm gonna try and go out there and save your life and ours." "No, he said he'd let us go if you..." "Now, you listen." "That man was lying, Francine." "Now, you stay here with Taymanee and you keep quiet!" "Let's go, come on." "You want to die, all right!" "To bring death to Paladin is another thing!" "Do you love him?" "What I feel does not matter." "For three years I've been traveling through this country, and I have hated every inch of it!" "I've seen violence and brutality, but until today I-I never knew what it could be like." "That which is strange is always frightening." "Taymanee." "Be quiet." "I can't!" "He almost killed me!" "He still may." "Come on, let's go." "What about him?" "I ain't hankering to face him close-up." "You yellow belly." "The women... we get them, he ain't gonna be in a very good bargaining position... if he's still around." "Now come on." "Move, girlies." "Oh, Pal..." "Paladin!" "Your hero's two miles away by now, running as fast as he can for Los Angeles town." "You lie." "Say, that just leaves us two couples, don't it?" "All cozy like." "Oh, let go of me." "He wouldn't leave us here!" "Let..." "Then where is he, beautiful?" "Right over here, friend." "This weren't my idea, mister." "You let me, and I'll git." "All right, you git." "Now, friend, you've got just about two seconds to make up your mind." "I made a mistake and I'm admitting it, so..." "It's all right, Francine." "It's all over." "It's all right." "No, Paladin, it's not all right." "Taymanee tried to save me and I didn't even help her." "Fear is worm that can live in heart of smallest tree." "Or in the heart of the mightiest." "Paladin, I..." "I tried to trade your life for mine." "You know, Francine, you are really remarkable." "You told us..." "you told Taymanee and me that your life was all lies." "And you have just faced as difficult a truth as anyone would ever have to face." "Do you think I could change?" "If you want to." "Oh, I want to." "Thank you, Paladin." "Uh..." "Taymanee... would you be good enough to come back to Los Angeles with me?" "You saved her life." "Now it's yours to protect." "And that is a very, very old custom." "Perhaps we have all faced a truth here today, Paladin." "But as soon as I see her safely in city I will find your trail again." "And I will find you no matter where you are." "Well... happy hunting." "Taymanee..." ""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" "Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?"