"So you wanna tal k to this Huntoon?" "I was told he was here." "He' s here." "What do you want with him?" "I am looking for a relative." "I was told he-- Huntoon worked with him." "Do I know you?" " No." "Do you know this Huntoon?" "No." "What ' s the name of this relative?" "Daniel Caine." "Danny Caine  Al Meader Joe James  and Huntoon." "Supposed to be working a gold claim together  back up in the mountains someplace." "This Huntoon took an axe to Joe James." "And you want to tal k to him." "Please." "He wants to see Huntoon." "Open up." "He ' s going inside?" "Open up." "Huntoon, you got a visitor." "You know my brother Daniel Caine?" "Mary' s my sister." "What?" "You knew that...." "You another one for the gold, ain ' t you?" "You and Al and Danny and all that gang." "Please, you must help me." "I must find him." "Danny Caine' s your brother?" "Y es." "My" "My" " My brother." "Please!" "Help me." "I ' m sorry." "I ' m sorry." "Please, I mean you no harm." "If you could only tell me where you last saw my brother." "I don ' t know." "He ' s up in the mountains." "Could you show me where?" "Sure." "Sure." "I ' ll show you." "You get me out of here, and I ' ll show you." "Danny Caine and Al." "Sure, sure." "You get me out of here, I ' ll show you." "I ' ll take you there." "This is you, Mr. Caine?" "You ' re under arrest." "You ' ll be held pending notification of the Department of State." "Sgt." "Bedford?" "Y es, major." "This man is to be treated li ke any other civilian prisoner." "Why' d you wal k into a place li ke this?" "It was necessary." "He ' ll be all right here, major." "Right, Huntoon?" "I ' m holding you responsi ble." "Let ' s move it out." "Huntoon, you touch this man  and I ' ll have you skinned alive with a bullwhip." "Do you understand?" "Mr. Caine, you are now a federal prisoner." "The rules are simple :" "You do what you ' re told to do when you ' re told to do it  and you ' ll get along fine with me." "Huntoon, any disturbances and you ' ll go back on the wall  after discipline." "What you doing in here?" "I came to tal k to you." "Nobody ever came nowhere to tal k to me." "You want the gold, don ' t you?" "I do not care about gold." "You want the gold." "You can have the gold." "I want Al, and I want Danny." "If you ' re Danny' s brother, I should kill you." "I could." "Why shouldn ' t l?" "I have done you no harm." "Yeah, I wish you were his brother." "Yes." "Danny Caine  and his friend Al Meader  killed Joe James?" "No." "No, no." "Danny would do anything that Al said." "And Al killed Joe James, and Danny said I done it." "But I didn ' t kill Joe." "I wouldn ' t kill him." "He was real good to me." "But I killed some other guys." "I did." "I do not believe you are a killer." "Y eah, well, they laughed at me, and I ' ll kill them!" "And if you laugh at me, I ' ll kill you too." "Why would I laugh?" "Look at me." "Look at me." "Look at me." "Look at the world you live in and this pool of fish." "There are twelve fish  twelve worl d s." "But only on e p ool." "M any." "Th e on e you see  th e on e I see  an d th e worl d of each." "Th e worl d you live in i s mysteri ou s, excl tin g, un kn own." "An d min e i s ol d er, famili ar an d calm." "You will never kn ow my worl d, or I yours." "Never?" "C an you see wi th my eyes?" "Thin k wi th my brain?" "But, master, you are on e wi th th e universe." "So am I." "We are on e  yet we are n ot th e same." "T en milli on livin g thin g s h ave as many di ff erent worl d s." "Do n ot see yoursel f as a center of the universe, wise and good and beautiful." "Seek, rather, wisdom, goodness and beauty  that you may honor them everywhere." "Mr. Huntoon?" "Do you mean it when you say you can lead me to my brother?" "Sure." "Sure." "You thin k I wanna hang?" "You get me out of here, I ' ll take you to him." "Sure." "If you have possessions here  gather them." "We will leave tonight." "Why didn ' t you yell for help?" " I tried, but I couldn ' t make a sound." "Will you please tell me how they could not only escape from the post stockade  but manage to get out of the post compound as well?" "No, sir." "T wo men chained together." "You cannot put out water with fire." "What you tal king about?" "Stones will not break chains." "My foot hurts and I ' m hungry." "Back at the fort, they' d be feeding me now." "Come." "I ' m boss." "We go where I say!" "I ' m boss." "Yes." "Will you take me to my brother in your own way?" "You thin k I ' m dumb, don ' t you?" "Down there I ' m dumb, but up here this is my place." "And you better not be fooling me, Caine." "Why would I be?" "We made a bargain." "Bargain?" "You gave your word?" "Just li ke the rest of them?" "I can give you a squad." "They' d get in the way." "lt took four men to get Huntoon locked up." " I can handle him." "Bedford, don ' t endanger yourself unnecessarily." "You are retiring in a couple of months." "The Army' s choice." "I have a reputation." "Huntoon is dangerous." "He' s a madman." "He' s not smart enough to be crazy." "The state department wants Caine." "They want him back alive." "Do what you have to do with Huntoon." "I plan to." "I want meat." "Eat this." "Salmon berries up the hill, pine nuts." "And then your an kle." "It ' s good." "The white part." "You sure act li ke an Injun." "That feels good." "How' d you find out about this stuff?" "I listened." "We gotta get shed of them irons." "I know a place we can go, a trapper." "Anvil ' s in the barn." "We ' ll cold -chisel it." "You know this man?" "Johnson?" "He just lives here." "Come on." "Figured they' d have hanged you by now, Huntoon." "Would ' ve been the best thing that ever happened to you." "Busted out, huh?" "Might be they got a reward on you." "Might be you too." "Just take it quiet." "I ' ll turn you in alive, but not him." "Don ' t let him near me!" "Don ' t let him near me!" "He killed her." "Why don ' t you let me kill him?" "He' s crazy." "I didn ' t kill her." "Who died?" "My sister Mary." "She went out in a blizzard to get some wood when I was gone." "You dumb ox, I tried to tell you, I wasn ' t even here!" "Where is evil?" "In the rat  whose nature it is to steal grain?" "Or in the cat  wh ose n atu re i t i s to ki I I th e rat?" "Th e rat steal s." "Y et for h i m, th e cat i s evi I." "An d to th e cat, th e rat." "Y et, master, su rel y on e of th em i s evi I." "Th e rat d oes n ot steal." "Th e cat d oes n ot mu rd er." "Rai n fal I s, th e stream fl ows, a h i I I remai n s." "Each acts according g to i ts n ature." "Th en i s th ere n o evil for men?" "Each man tell s himsel f th at wh at h e d oes i s g ood." "At I east f or himsel f." "Grassh opp er, a man may tell himsel f many things." "But is a man ' s universe made only of himself?" "If a man hurts me and I punish him  perhaps he will not hurt another." "And if you do nothing?" "He will believe he may do as he wishes." "Perhaps." "Or perhaps he will learn that some men receive injury but return kindness." "You will not hurt Huntoon." "Huntoon will not harm you." "Caine!" "No." "No, Huntoon." "No!" "He killed my sister." "No." "He killed my sister." "He killed my sister." "He killed my sister." "How do you do it?" "What?" "Control that animal." "He controls himself." "He could ' ve killed me." "Listen, let me give you a tip." "Now, you two busted out of that stockade." "That means Bedford will be after you, and he ' ll get you." "He ' s the best man-trapper I ever seen." "So you get out of here, both of you." "Go so far back up in those mountains he ' ll never see you." "He just wants the Utes to get us." "You got a chance with the Utes." "You got none with Bedford!" "You leave me li ke this, I ' ll starve." "Bedford will find you." "Hey, listen." "Don ' t trust Huntoon." "He ' s an animal." "He ain ' t right in the head." "I know." "Flour ' s got bugs in it, and the bacon ' s moldy." "Why do you want it?" "Well, we gotta eat, don ' t we?" "We have been eating." "Oh, no." "We need that gun." "Why?" "Well, just because." "Your wound will not heal for weeks." "You cannot shoot, and I will not." "Leave it, Huntoon." "Well, where we ' re going is...." "He' ll tell Bedford." "What can he tell him that he does not already know?" "I ' m not going any further." "I ' m not going any further." "We must keep going." "We must." "No." "No, I gotta rest." "Up there." "Only a little way." "Let me see." "It' s no good." "There' s Utes up there and Bedford ' s coming." "You promised you would take me to where you saw my brother." "We got no guns." "We' re gonna run into Utes for sure." "Then we will run faster!" "Come." "When we are higher, there will be healing herbs." "Come." "Y es." "Them weeds?" "There is infection." "These will help." "Injuns use weeds." "I never thought they did no good." "Above the ridge, can you see?" "Fire?" "Them' s Utes." "You know these hills?" "I know them real good." "It is necessary." "Now..." "...we wait." "No, we can ' t wait." "Bedford ' ll find us." "You need time." "We will wait." "You hungry?" "I ' m always hungry." "I been hungry all my life, as far as I can remember." "What do you remember, Huntoon?" "Mary." "Mary never laughed at me, never." "It was the rest of them." "Did you give them cause to laugh?" "Well, I didn ' t mean to." "Perhaps you gave them cause to fear." "I ' m dumb, and I can ' t figure people  but I ' m big enough to make them stop laughing at me if I catch them." "If you plant rice rice will grow." "If you plant fear fear will grow." "If it hadn ' t been for that Chinaman, I would ' ve killed him." "You say he' s worth more than for Huntoon?" "That Chinaman did keep that big dummy from killing me, though." "Say, how much are they offering for him?" " $ 1 0,000." " $ 1 0,000?" "Dog!" "That' s gonna be kind of tough on you, though, ain ' t it?" "What is?" "Well, I know you ' re coming up to retire." "How much pension you gonna make?" "$ 20 a month, 25?" "Something li ke that." "Well, that ain ' t hardly enough to live on." "I mean, that ' s pretty poor pay for 20 years ' hard work, now ain ' t it?" "Now $ 1 0,000...." "Well...." "Course, you being federal, you ain ' t entitled to collect the reward, now are you?" "Which direction did they go?" "Now, sergeant." "Now, listen here." "What if I was to turn them in and collect the $ 1 0,000 reward  keeping, say, a third for my trou ble?" "They head up the mountain on foot?" "Yeah, yeah." "Now, look. 6 or $ 7000 would go a long way  to stretching a paltry $ 25 a month, now wouldn ' t it?" "I been drawing Army pay a long time, mister." "Well, then it ' s time you got practical." "Now, you going after an animal li ke Huntoon and that Chinaman, all I say is :" "Why do it for nothing when you could pick up an extra 6 or $ 7000..." "...just by listening to common sense?" "lf I was you  I ' d head back down to the flat till the Utes calm down up here." "Army can ' t protect you this far out." "I thought you said you needed meat." "Well, that stuff you been getting  it ' s all right." "Was the deer afraid of you?" "It was a deer." "I don ' t know what a deer thin ks." "You know." "Let ' s get some more of them berries." "Good." "I could find stuff li ke this." "You can do many things." "But I don ' t know nothing." "The deer was afraid." "Yet the deer knew you came to help it." "You know things, too, Huntoon." "No, I don ' t." "I can ' t read or write or nothing." "You know pain." "You know fear." "You know the laughter of the wind and the perfume of the earth." "I li ke it here, nobody around." "I owe that Meader a killing." "Why?" "For what he done." "Li ke they always done to me." "What of yourself?" "Do you not owe for what you have done?" "You want me to go back so I can hang?" "I would not ask that." "First you say one thing, then something else." "Now I don ' t know what you want!" "Ask not what I want  but  what path you yourself have chosen." "If we find Danny, I won ' t kill him." "Me and Joe James done the digging." "Nuggets big as your thumb." "Danny is not here." "How do you know that?" "No one is here." "No, Meader' s here." "All that gold, he ain ' t going nowhere." "He' s here." "No." "He' s here." "I know he' s here." "That ain ' t fair." "Ain ' t fair." "It ain ' t fair, them Utes." "Rest." "I guess they got your brother." "No." "Meader was alone when he died." "How' d you know?" "I know." "You stay now." "Where you going, Caine?" "T o bury him." "Caine?" "Where ' s Caine?" " I don ' t know." "He brung me here, and he left me." "You ' re not smart enough to be a liar." "Where is he?" "I told you." "We' ll wait." "He' s gone." "I got shot." "T ake me back with you, Bedford, and get me a doctor." "Look." "You ' ll live." "We' ll wait." "I ' ll kill you if you try it." "Them' s mine." "I dug for them." "Meader and Joe James is dead and Danny Caine ain ' t here." "And them' s mine, Bedford." "What you gonna do now?" "Don ' t make a sound." "Watch him." "Where you going now?" "T o find some sign of Danny." "Keep him here." "Why don ' t you shoot me and get it over with?" "Yeah, my back still hurts from his whip." "Huntoon will not hurt you." "So Al Meader really did kill Joe James." "I told you that." "Well, I believed you." "T rou ble is there ' s a warrant out for you." "If I don ' t bring you in, somebody else will." "They' ll hang you." "Shut up!" "I don ' t want you, Huntoon." "I want that Chinaman." "Well, you don ' t understand him." "He ' s different." "He wouldn ' t hurt nobody." "Now, why do you thin k I ' m after him?" "Well...." "Hey, you remember what they did to President Lincoln?" "Yeah, you know how somebody killed him?" "President Lincoln, yeah." " It ' s called an assassination." "Assass" "That ' s what Caine did." "He killed a member of the Chinese government." "No, he never told me" "He knew you wouldn ' t stand for it." "I mean, him killing a man li ke President Lincoln." "No, I wouldn ' t." "Huntoon." "Help me take him, and I ' ll let you go." "I ' ll tell them I killed you, left your body for the wolves." "And that bag of gold, 1 0 or $ 1 5,000, it' s all yours." "Well, I already got the gold." "Yeah." "But when I tell them that I killed you, nobody will ever run after you again." "I can do that." "Nobody else can." "You ' ll have all that money." "You ' ll never need anything again." "All I could ever want." "Y eah." "But Caine out there checking that mine  he could kill us both and take all that money for himself." "No, he said that he' s just looking for his brother." "No, he' s lying." "All that gold." "Wouldn ' t anybody?" "Wouldn ' t you?" "We have little time." "You do not trust me?" "I ' m sorry, Caine, but you ' d turn me in just li ke the rest of them." "The cobweb is made of silken thread so fine  a puff of breath d estroys i t." "Y et to th e spi d er, i t i s a secure h aven." "Still to me, only a cobweb." "Wh en th e win d bl ows, a f eath er d an ces in i ts wake." "But th e f eath er, mu ch weaker th an th e win d, can d o n o oth er." "I s thi s th e way of men?" "Th ere are stron g an d weak." "You d o n ot see." "Whi ch i s stron g er?" "Th ese board s or your arm?" "Th e board s." "Stri ke th e board s  u sin g your arm as a weap on." "Y et th e board s resi sting g d o n ot en dure." "C an th e weaker be th e stron g er?" "See th e way of li f e as a stream." "A man fl oats, an d hi s way i s smooth." "Th e same man turning g to fi gh t up stream exh au sts himsel f." "T o be one with the universe, each must find his true path  and follow it." "My friend." "What a hard path you have chosen." "President Lincoln, you...." "Caine." "President Lincoln." "T wo other things." "Huntoon, I gave you my word." "You ' re free." "Leave it!" "You promised me!" "I ' m giving you your life!" "I ' ll tell them I killed you, but don ' t actually make me do it." "lt ' s my gold." " Now, listen." "That ' s my payment  for 20 years of chasing animals li ke you." "What did I ever get for it?" "Now, go on!" "Get out of here before I change my mind!" "That ' s my gold, Caine." "It' s my gold." "Ain ' t it my gold?" "lf you send him out there alone, he will die." "And he' ll hang if I take him back." "I ' m doing more for him than I ever done for anybody else." "He cannot run." "He is sick and weak." "And there are Indians coming." "You ' re lying." "I saw them." "They' re coming this way." "I gave him my word." "Now, you ' re gonna come with me." "He' s nothing but an animal anyway." "Sgt. Bedford, we must go." "The Indians will have heard the shot." "You ' re lying." "Look at this." "Look at this." "You are as we are now." "You have no gun." "You are the pursued, not the pursuer." "You just go on." "You just leave me alone." "Who is the animal here?" "Huntoon or you?" "No one knows you there." "Perhaps you can make a new life." "Well, they' ll probably laugh." "A strong man is always needed." "Mary' s gone, and you ' ll be going too." "There ' s nobody left." "I ' m gonna stay here, Caine." "Master, the silent one." "He is not one of us, yet he remains." "The river seeks its own level." "It will not fight the rock." "It flows around it." "The rock becomes a refuge in the river." "But here he is understood." "What if he were outside?" "Is there an outside?" "Who understands the silent one more than a sparrow or a kid?" "Though nature has clouded his mind and silenced his tongue and twisted his body it gave a magic to his hands." "This the creatures know." "Is it not a gift more precious than fame or beauty or the riches of a king?" "Y eah, the animals don ' t laugh, and you showed me how to get that food and there' s a lot of work to be done." "Work?" "Yeah, I saw a beaver dam that was overrun with plaster tailings." "And the deer, you know, they sometimes starve in the wintertime." "They don ' t know how to find food." "When a man finds his way  heaven is gentle." "Good bye, Huntoon." "[ ENG LlSH]"