"I hate you!" "Well, you shouldn't." "Oh paladin, I loved you." "I loved you so." "You lied to me too, woman." "Now go back to your fiancee." "Are you sure?" "I'm sure." "Hey boy..." "Mr. Paladin, all is finished?" "All is finished, hey boy." "But to know her was a liberal education." "That's paraphrased but attributed to lady hastings." "" couple assaulted, husband murdered."" "" james bryson, a cattle rancher," "" was found robbed and brutally murdered."" "" his wife, also a victim of the murderer, benjamin coey," "" is recovering from her terrifying experience."" "" law enforcement officers have been unable to apprehend coey," "" who has already killed two of the posse."" "" the brothers of mrs." "Bryson," "Joseph and william gage, are with the posse."" "Well, hey boy..." "Benjamin coey." "That sounds like a man I'd like to know." "It's hard to tell." "To the north and on to the main side." "Close." "Mr. Paladin, another day." "This is only the beginning." "It's been a long drought." "I hired you for the trip." "I think it's almost over." "He's got to sleep sometime." "I go back to the way station." "You keep the money, I'll keep my life." "John..." "I didn't earn it." "You brought me close enough." "If you see him, kill him." "Don't try to use those." "He's killed three men already." "I don't know joe gage." "But he's contracted to pay me $500 for my services." "Just to try." "He'll pay me $1,000 if I bring coey in alive." "Take the $500, paladin." "Just you try it." "I'll kill you right there." "Now, easy by the handle." "Throw it out here." "Turn around." "Come on!" "All right." "I didn't kill bryson." "I wouldn't do that to his wife." "Put your hands up on the saddle." "Come on, get 'em up there." "Why don't you just shoot me now, mister?" "Joe gage and his brother won't wait to say hello." "You can depend on that." "You'll get your trial, coey." "I tried to tell you, you should have killed him." "It would have saved you a lot of trouble." "How far is the county seat?" "About 60 miles." "A trial's a waste of time, paladin." "I'll need horses, four of them." "All he needs is a rest." "This will be over in a couple of days, wait." "Wait for what, friend?" "Joe gage and his brother?" "You get paid whether he goes back pig or pork." "Give him to joe gage." "He has a right to him." "I'll pay you whatever the horses are worth." "Whatever you think's fair." "No." "I won't put myself behind the rock and a hard place," "To save him for the hangman." "He's not worth making an enemy of joe gage." "Yeah." "When's the next stage?" "When it comes." "When the storm stops." "She wants to know if he's the one." "yeah, he's the one." "That's a lie!" "Get him out of my sight." "I found james bryson's wife after he left." "Get him out of my sight!" "Where?" "That room." "We'll scrub it down after he leaves." "Paladin..." "Some of my sioux friends saw you bring him in." "Joe gage will come." "Don't fight him." "On the bed." "You're going to chain me to that?" "I'm not an animal." "I asked you before..." "Why don't you just kill me?" "You get your trial." "And then they hang me." "There's only one thing wrong with that." "I didn't kill him." "I never saw that woman in my life." "Coey..." "They followed you from the house." "They never saw the man who did it." "Only the woman saw him." "She'll see you." "And she'll say." "And they'll believe her." "Want some water?" "And some food?" "What is it?" "It's a rider." "Probably one of the gages." "I'd guess it's the younger brother." "Will." "Will don't matter at all." "Joe's the one." "Joe's the one that's going to kill me." "Coey, what do you want for breakfast?" "Eggs or oatmeal?" "Eggs." "Some bacon, if that indian has any." "All right." "Paladin?" "Let me eat outside." "I can't breathe in here." "I'd stay as far away from that indian as possible, were I you." "And there also is will gage." "Just take this thing off." "Let me get up and eat at a table." "All right, come on." "John..." "Stay out of it." "I don't want him dead." "Where's will gage?" "Will..." "I didn't do it." "I swear to you, I didn't do it." "You know I wouldn't do nothing..." "Will!" "For god's sake, will!" "don't!" "Will!" "Coey, get up out of there." "Get up!" "Now you come on." "Just move easy." "All right, you hold it right there." "You will gage?" "You draw down on this man again," "And I'll kill you." "All right, coey." "Go ahead." "I'm an innocent man." "You want something to read?" "I can't read." "You read much?" "No, I used to." "Now mostly newspapers." "Even that." "It's like a kind of magic." "Sit on your britches and travel the whole world." "Reading maketh a full man, or so they say." "I've known joe gage a long time." "He won't stop halfway." "I think you know now that I won't stop either." "You'll get your day in court." "You're a good man, paladin." "But I don't believe you." "It's your privilege." "You'll run." "You'll back away." "It won't make sense not to." "You'll ask yourself why." "Why die because of a man like me?" "And it just won't be worth the trouble." "Can I get you anything?" "Whiskey?" "I'll get your whiskey for you, coey." "You give him the gun?" "I gave it to him." "It's a mistake." "Could cost him his life." "] here, have some coffee." "My wife makes good coffee." "I couldn't follow that." "She says you look like a good man, a brave warrior." "She doesn't understand why you're going to die" "For a man like coey." "You feel that way too?" "He'll die." "What difference could it make here or there?" "He could be innocent." "Give me five minutes with him." "You'll know." "He wants some whiskey." "Will you sell me a bottle?" "I'm short." "If he wants it, I don't want to give it to him." "Still torturing the white man." "Paladin..." "Let him die for what he did to those people." "I like to understand a man always." "Why?" "Coey gets his day in court." "It's a thing I believe." "Enough to die for?" "" thrice armed is he that hath his quarrel just," "" and four times he that gets his fist in fust."" "That's an old english proverb." "Tell mr." "Gage if you can..." "The only way he'll see ben coey die," "Is to watch him hang." "I won't give him away." "Three days, paladin." "Three days." "I'm tired of sitting here and waiting for joe gage" "To come and kill me." "And I didn't do anything!" "Get me out of here!" "Easy, coey." "It's my neck, not yours!" "If I understand joe gage correctly," "It's my neck as well as yours." "If you're not guilty," "You have nothing to be afraid of." "Well, coey..." "Your waiting's over." "That's my brother." "That's right." "You sit still and let me talk to him." "Sure, if you want me at your back." "Put him away for me, will you john?" "You the gunfighter?" "I'm the man who took ben coey for you." "Never did like your kind," "But I thank you for taking him." "I thank you for taking him alive." "Here's your $1,000." "Now just show me where he is." "He's not for sale." "Our deal was $1,000." "You want more, mister?" "I told you he's not for sale." "Pick it up and live." "I don't know what makes you tick," "But pick it up and live." "This thing explodes, your brother dies first." "You count on that, mr." "Gage." "He can't kill us both, joe." "What's that man to you?" "I'll pick up the money in the county seat." "After I've earned it." "My sister's being brought here." "We'll wait 'til then." "If she says he's the one," "I ain't gonna risk a gunfight with you." "I'll use a shotgun." "Won't be enough of you left to bury." "Back here." "Let's have the wrist." "Coey, guilty or not, you'll get your trial if I live." "Did you do it?" "I told you." "I'm going to ask you again." "Might make my job easier." "You can't beat the both of them, paladin." "I'll give you my benediction." "Pass it up." "Just say I did it." "This is the man that took him." "Mr. Gage, I want your gun." "You alone." "And the woman." "Hello, beauty." "mr." "Gage..." "The storm is just about over." "I will be taking him in now." "Come in." "I saddled your mounts." "Thank you." "I do need two more." "I won't sell them to you." "Did you give him the shotgun?" "He asked for it, I gave it to him." "Paladin, you are a fool." "Joe gage has a right to him." "John..." "Your party or you just going to watch?" "Just watch, mister." "That's all." "It's not my party." "All right, coey." "Come on." "I'll go out first." "You try to run..." "You breathe heavy, and I will kill you." "I don't think you're going to live that long." "Come on." "You stand by the horses." "That's far enough." "He ain't hardly worth the trouble, any way you cut it." "In a week, you can see him hang." "Let it be that way." "With my own hands, gunfighter." "If I live." "$1,000 more, it's all I got." "I'm giving it to you." "Now walk away from him." "You're a fool!" "Walk away from him." "I told you he's not for sale." "I hope you know what you're dying for." "That's a blessing few of us get." "That's all the farther you'll go, mr." "Gage." "Then here." "Right here!" "This thing you talk about." "This justice." "You think it was worth it?" "Worth all this?" "If I didn't," "I wouldn't have done it." "¶ 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?" "¶"