"I broke a curb strap." "They're on the wall there." "Hang on." "I'll be with ya." "Tom gallagher's havin' a shootout with kramer." "Hey, he's hurt." "Kramer's hurt." "Somebody's finally showing some courage." "He's got a brother, gallagher does." "You know that?" "I expect he'll be sorry to hear about your arm." "Probably come himself to tell you how bad he feels." "You still haven't got the kind of guts to finish the job." "Come on, doc." "Give me a shotgun." "Hold this in your arm before you bleed to death." "No." "The short one." "Some shells." "Kramer, I'm not gonna beg you." "If I didn't have more medical ethics than good sense," "I'd like to sit and watch the gangrene set in." "It ain't gonna cure itself." "Grab one of those straps." "Strap that stock to my arm." "Come on." "Tighter!" "Who are you, mister?" "Gunfighter." "You ever hear of doggie kramer?" "Nope." "Well, that's me." "Gallagher send for you?" "I never heard of gallagher either..." "Till you shot him." "What happens to you doesn't concern me." "Come on, doc." "Sure." "If you got no more shopping to do." "Gunfighter." "Which way you ridin' out?" "My own way." "Put 'em on my bill." "How much do I owe you?" "Four bits." "Jim toby still the sheriff of this town?" "Yeah." "Well, where was he?" "Ask kramer." "He probably told him where to go till the shootin' stopped." "That doesn't sound much like jim toby." "Maybe yes." "Maybe no." "Paladin." "Come up here." "I wanna talk to you." "You got nothin' to say to me." "I got a job for you." "I got nothing to lose, paladin." "No." "Hold off on that." "Go ahead, doctor." "I'm not staying." "No?" "I'm offering you $200 just to ride with me." "60 miles." "Santa fe." "Take the cash while you can get it." "Doctor, your hippocratic oath forces you to deal with him." "I've taken no oath and I don't need his money." "Maybe so." "But I need you." "You're the only man around here with any iron in his backbone." "Besides, nobody else will do it." "What are you afraid of?" "Gallagher's friends?" "Or the men you shot in the back for games." "I don't care if this town's" "Crawling with guns looking for you." "Neither do I." "They laid a wall." "Ride out." "You'll be in santa fe by morning." "Tell him, doc." "There's bad initial reaction with a wound like this." "Probably last six, maybe twelve hours." "If he rides before then," "He'll fall out of the saddle within five miles." "That's the gospel." "I'm already beginning to feel like the day after judgment." "Of course you are." "This town would be grateful to any man" "Who did get him out of here." "Even by means of a little expedient back-shooting, hmm?" "gunfighter." "Gallagher's got a brother." "Just a kid." "He'll be after me." "I'll have to kill him." "The boy's hardheaded." "He will." "By the time he finds you, you'll be helpless." "You want protection?" "Get the sheriff to put you in jail." "That's where you belong." "Finish it up, doc." "9:00. 9:00 for, uh..." "For tompkins." "Who's next?" "Let's see your dollars." "Nobody else gets kramer before noon tomorrow." "The gallagher kid'll be back by then." "Put a dollar on... 12:30." "And another one at 1:00." "And, uh, one at 1:30." "All right." "Put perkins down for 1:00, 12:30, and, uh, 1:30." "You gonna blanket the board?" "Sure!" "Sinful, you think it'd be possible to get a drink?" "All right." "Put daly down there for 4:00." "All right." "Who's next?" "You got one here?" "Put up a dollar and guess what time kramer's gonna get shot." ""time" is what time he dies, not when he gets hit." "Hey, toby!" "6:30." "All right." "Down for 6:30." "Let's see some more of these dollars, men." "Come on." "Hello, paladin." "Was it about kramer or gallagher?" "I don't know either." "Just on my way to santa fe." "Got here for the excitement." "In time for the first act anyway." "Toby, what's wrong?" "Wrong?" "What are you gonna do about kramer?" "It all depends on what happens." "He's still here tomorrow, they'll tear him apart." "You'll be right in the middle." "That's where the law belongs- right smack in the middle." "It gives people somethin' to shoot at." "Bullets." "Words." "Depends on the man doing the shootin'." "Confounded new cigarette papers." "Nothing's as good as it used to be." "I'd step down in a minute" "If I could get somebody to take my place, but..." "Look at this town." "Dirt-poor." "We can't afford to import a top gun." "In spite of everything, for 364 days out of the year," "I'm still the best man available." "Time was, that was 365 days." "I know." "I know." "I still got those 364 days." "And I got something else." "I got the right" "To choose the man I die for, and it ain't kramer." "Toby, that mob will tear him to pieces like a pack of dogs." "He deserves it, don't he?" "I can't stop 'em." "Why should I die tryin'?" "Put it down." "Near blew your head off." "You be ready to leave at 4:30 in the morning." "What if I need you tonight?" "4:30." "Take it or leave it." "It's a deal." "You don't get the 200 till we reach santa fe." "Keep your money." "You're not buying anything from me." "I don't figure." "I do this for myself and for the man jim toby used to be." "What happens to you later is not important." "I still got the 200 if you want it." "That you, jimmy johnson?" "Save your powder, kramer." "Try again!" "Come in." "Gettin' time to take him out." "Well, toby," "You gonna do anything about your friends out there in the street?" "Do you want this?" "You take it." "See how it feels to risk your life for a man like kramer." "Toby, I am risking my life for him." "That's your business." "Like you said," "They're my friends and I don't want 'em killed either." "All right, toby." "You go on back out there with your friends." "Watch that weasel-faced one that kicked kramer's gun." "Toby." "You saw that gunfight?" "I was right here in this room." "Yeah?" "put the shotgun down." "Kramer, that mob out there is looking" "For just any excuse at all to blow you to pieces." "I'm gonna let you keep that shotgun till we get past them." "Don't you use it unless you have to." "And once we get out of this town," "You're a prisoner and don't you forget it." "Go ahead." "Kramer." "He tried to draw." "He did?" "Ask him." "Ask toby." "I guess maybe he did." "Well, toby, when you're ready, you come and get him." "He'll be with the sheriff in santa fe." "Help him on the horse." "You will remember to come get me, toby." "All right, kramer." "You know you got one of the meanest snapshots I ever saw?" "The way you cross your body that way." "Go ahead." "No?" "You ain't gonna take me to no sheriff, paladin." "Minute I don't need you, you're dead." "Wait a minute!" "What's wrong with your arm?" "That any of your business?" "It is, if his name's kramer." "It is kramer, ain't it?" "Ah." "He murdered my brother." "Tom was no gunfighter." "You're gallagher." "I'm gallagher." "I got to kill him." "He's like a headache." "I can't think of nothin' else." "Sounds like a chick who's grown a rooster tail." "That sheriff and a town full of yellow scum let you shoot tom." "If I got to live like you, then I will." "You're dead, kramer." "Gallagher, get on the horse." "What are you protecting him for?" "I'm protecting you from him." "And at the moment," "You don't look much better to me than he does." "You get on that horse and get out of here." "Can I have that back?" "Well, from the look on his face," "I'd say you're a little faster than he is." "I should be." "I've had good reason to practice." "Ropin' a fence post ain't the same as roping' a steer." "A lot of difference between a tree limb and a man with a gun." "Not you, kramer." "Not you." "To me, it'll be like shootin' a rotten stump." "Where you takin' him, mister?" "You'll find him with the sheriff in santa fe." "I'll find him." "You wanna be known as the man who shot kramer." "Maybe you ought to find out" "How a thing like him happened to get started." "I shot the man that killed my father in a barroom brawl." "You and me are just the same, kid." "No, we're not." "I'll push till you've got to fight." "You won't get away." "Not after what you've done." "You heard what he said." "I heard." "But we're not the same." "He would've been right." "Want me to take him back?" "It's out of your way." "That the reason?" "Or you still wanna be known" "As the man who brought doggie kramer back wrapped in a poncho?" "I didn't kill him." "I didn't even get my gun out of my holster." "Three or four tellings wouldn't make any difference." "Gallagher and kramer." "You'd be tied together for the rest of your life." "Just like brothers." "Thanks." "Yeah." "¶ "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 ¶"