"My love went away far away" "When he was wanted" "Where's he tonight?" "Even I cannot say" "Away, far away" "For many a day" "Will we meet again?" "And who knows where or when?" "From here to Xian" "Many men have been wanted" "Who is the most wanted?" "My love, wanted by me" "Come on, Pete, it'll soon be daylight we've got a long ride to the ranch." "Away, far away" "For many a day" "Will we meet again?" "And who knows where or when?" "From here to Xian" "Many men been wanted" "Who is the most wanted?" "My love wanted by me" "Wanted" "Wanted" "He's wanted by me" "Kate can't hold them much longer." "We'd better get going." "Move along!" "Get up son, get up!" " What's wrong, Pa?" "Somebody's running off our herd." "Can't you hear it?" "I'll go get Jack and Pete." "They didn't get back from town yet, Pa." "Never mind, come on!" "Hyah!" "There, Father!" "Hyah!" "Hi, Ed." "Johnny said you had a letter for me." "Yeah, I have, O'Mara." "Didn't know where to forward it so, I just hung onto it." "Bad news, kid?" "If it's any comfort I can assure you your father and brother where given a decent Christian burials." "Thank you, Reverend." "Your father spoke of you often." "He was very proud of you." "I'm not very proud of myself." "Might have been different if I'd stayed around here." "Don't condemn yourself for that, Clay." "These things happen without any apparent reason." "We can't understand them, we can only accept them." "What do you plan on doing now?" "What would you do if you were in my position?" "That's a pretty difficult question." "Many people would be inclined to seek some sort of retribution." "I'd have to advise against it." "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord." "It's more or less what I had in mind." "Yeah, but I'm not a minister." "I know that." "That's what disturbs me." "Clay, do me a favour." "Think this thing over very carefully before you take any action." "That's what I've been doing ever since I left Denver." "Well, if there's anything I can do to help." "I'd like to see the sheriff." "I was hoping you would say that." "Get in, I'll drive you over." "Come on, Buddy." "This is his place." " Thanks a lot, Reverend." "Buddy." "Come on." "May I help you?" "Yes." "That is, I was looking for Sheriff Kenyon." "He's not here right now." "You might try his office." "I already did, but they told me I might find him at home." "He's hard to keep track of sometimes, was it very important?" "It's important to me." "I don't know what to tell you except, you might ask at the Cantina Felice." "Thanks, I'll do that." "Or you can wait right here if you like?" "If you don't mind?" "You're new in town, aren't you?" " Yes, ma'am, I am." "I'm sorry, I'm Laurie Kenyon, the sheriff's my uncle." "I'm Clay O'Mara." "Oh, I'm sorry about your family." "Did you know them?" "Not very well, I used to see them at church." "You're from Denver, aren't you?" " Well, I work out of Denver." "On the railroad?" " That's right." "That must be very interesting work, travelling from place to place." "I like it." "Have you ever been on a train?" "No, but I'm going on one soon, to San Francisco." "Oh?" "I just came back from there." "Is it really as wonderful as they say it is?" "Maybe even better." "If I knew when you were going, I might be there at the same time." "I could show you some of the sights." "I'd like that but I'm afraid my husband wouldn't." "You see, I'm getting married soon and we plan to make our home there." "Oh, I wish you a lot of happiness." "Thank you." "Well, if you show me where the cantina..." "It's right on the main street, you can't miss it." "Thanks." "Bye." " Bye." "What's yours?" "I was looking for Sheriff Kenyon." "You're looking the wrong way, mister." "He's sitting over there." "Thanks." "Friend of yours?" " I never saw him before." "Sheriff Kenyon?" "What is it?" " I'm Clay O'Mara." "Clay, I didn't know you were in town." "This is Tom Meredith, he was your father's lawyer." "Hi, it's a pleasure." "I've heard a great deal about you." "Sit down." "I suppose you got my letter." " Yes, I did." "I'm sorry you didn't let me know you were coming," "I could've saved you the trip, the estate's been settled." "As a matter of fact, I have a bank draft for you ready for the mail." "No, I didn't come to settle the estate." "No?" "No, I came to find out who did the killing." "So far, we don't know." "Any ideas?" "All we know is, whoever did it ran off with your dad's cattle." "This county's full of rustlers." "Could you name me a few?" "I'd like to talk to them." "They wouldn't talk to you, son." "They might if I was wearing a deputy's badge." "What did you do for a living before you came here?" "Railroad surveyor." "Then go on back to it." "It's got a future." "I can't say the same for being a deputy in this country." "I'm not asking you to." "Furthermore, I don't hand out tin stars as licences for murder." "I don't want to kill anyone, I just want to talk to them." "Take my advice, get your money from John and get out of town." "I guess that means I don't get the badge?" "That's right." "Well, in that case, I'll have to get along the best way I can." "Be reasonable, son." "I've done everything anybody could you're just asking for trouble." "I'm not asking for trouble but I might deal out a little of my own when I find out what I want to know." "Wait a minute, Clay." "I think he's right, Fred, he's entitled to ask questions and it would help if he were wearing a star." "Thanks, Mr Meredith." "That's all right, glad to do anything I can to help." "Could you give me an idea where to start looking?" "I think maybe I can." "There's a man by the name of Whitey Kincade that's in trouble with the law." "Still have that reward poster, Fred?" "I think I have." "Here it is." "Where can I find him?" "That will be a little hard but he used to have a girl over in Diablo." "Might get a line on him there." "Where's Diablo?" "That's a few hours ride east of here." "I'll be ready to go in an hour." "All right." "Stop by the office and pick up a badge." "Whitey won't be very hard to find." " I didn't think he would." "Kind of tough sending a kid like him up against a gunman." "One thing I've always liked about you, Fred, you're sentimental." "Hello, Laurie." "Hello, Tom." "Uncle Fred, you didn't tell me you made Clay a deputy." "I didn't think it was important." "Why'd you do it?" "He wanted some authority to go looking for whoever gunned his dad and brother." "Kincade didn't do it." "We can't be too sure of that, Kincade's a killer." "He'll kill Clay, too." "That's a chance he has to take if he wants to be a police officer." "Why are you so upset about it?" "Well, it's..." "I just think it's unfair to send someone so young and so inexperienced out after a..." "He asked for it." "If he wants a man's job, he has to do a man's work." "We both tried to talk him out of it." "There's no reasoning with him." "Just the same, I think it's disgraceful." "You both ought to be ashamed of yourselves!" "I wouldn't worry, chances are he won't even find Whitey." "Come on, Laurie, I'll walk you home." "Can you feed and water my horse?" "That I can." "Can you tell me where I can find a Mr Whitey Kincade?" "That I can't." "In case anybody's looking for me, I'll be in the saloon." "You lost, sonny?" "Maybe." "Is that for real?" "Yeah, why?" "Strangers don't ask questions in Diablo, they just answer them." "What do you want here?" "I'm waiting for somebody." "Who is this somebody?" "That's a question." "Whitey Kincade." "If I was you, I'd be drinking while I'm waiting." "See what he wants." "Name it." "Can I just have some water?" " To drink?" "Yeah." "Another badge for Whitey's collection." "Looking for me?" " Are you Mr Kincade?" "Skip the Mister, everybody calls me Whitey." "I've got a warrant for you." " Who ain't?" "For the murder of Frank Whiteside." "That wasn't murder, he had a gun in his hand!" "I wonder how it got there." "Whiteside wasn't packing a gun." "A friend of mine put it there, after I shot him." "We figured it would look better in case I ever got arrested." "Good thing you thought of it." "You're under arrest right now." "You hear that?" "Well, what do I do now?" "I ain't never been arrested before." "Makes us even, I never arrested anyone before." "But you can start by putting your gun on the bar." "You better high-tail it back where you came from before I stop laughing." "Put it on the bar." "Wasn't luck, boys." "Stay right where you are." "Yeah!" "Take it easy." "I don't want to see him shoot an unarmed man." "Now what do we do?" "We're heading for Santiago." " Santiago?" "Relax, Larry." "Me and um..." "I didn't get your name." " O'Mara." "Me and O'Mara got a nice little trip ahead of us, and one of us is just liable not to make it." "This is a good a spot as any." " What for?" "A smoke." "A smoke." "You mean my arresting you?" "Yeah, you trying to make yourself a reputation or you just trying to ruin mine?" "I'm only interested in one thing, that's finding the cattle rustlers who shot my dad and brother." "Cattle rustlers?" "You think I'm a thief?" "I think you know the answer to some questions I have in mind." "You picked on the wrong party." " Not what I heard." "Who you been talking to, kid?" "A lawyer in San Diego by the name of Meredith and Sheriff Kenyon." "Kenyon, did he send you after me?" "Yeah." "There's a man who knows how to play both ends against the middle." "What do you mean?" "We got something in common, kid." "We've both been framed." "That doesn't make sense to me." "It does to me." "Kenyon's going to be the most surprised man in the county, if you bring me in." "When I bring you in." "You've got a right to your own opinion." "So, you figure I know who killed your folks, huh?" "That's what I was told." "Is that why didn't kill me back in the saloon?" "That's part of it." " What's the rest?" "There used to be a marshal up in Colorado." "He told me any police officer can bring in a dead man, the trick is to bring him in alive." "And what happened to that marshal?" "He was killed trying the trick once too often." "That could happen to you." "Don't gamble on it." "Relax, I'm not sore because you grabbed me." "As a matter of fact, I'm growing real fond of you." "I'm even considering making you a deal." "You offer it, I might consider it." "Take these off of me and I'll put them on the party you're looking for." "Uh-uh." "I'm as good as my word, sometimes better." "I thought you didn't know anything about it." "I don't, but I got ways of finding out." "Don't let that tin star go to your head." "I happen to have regard for the law, Whitey." "There's only one law around here, 'Get yours while the getting's good' there ain't other law!" "You're forgetting the one that'll hang you." "You're still wet behind the ears." "I'm growing real fond of you." "Hey!" "What are you trying to do?" "You were just telling me how much you liked me." "That's the truth, the gospel truth, so help me Hannah!" "You're sure set on taking me back alive!" "Who's the reception party?" " Oh, probably some of my friends." "Friends, huh?" "What have they got against us?" "If it's who I think it is, one of them's got a sister." "A man could get real unpopular associating with you." "She was a real nice girl, too." "I hope so, it looks like I'm going to get shot for it." "If you need any help you can always give me back my gun." "Uh-uh." "What's the matter, don't you trust me?" "Uh-uh." "You might get to like me real well again." "They're making a run for it." "Ain't you going to shoot them?" " Not in the back." "It's safer that way, they can't shoot back at you." "I don't fight that way." "I don't know where you were brought up, kid but wherever it was, you were brought up wrong." "It looks like one of us is going to have to walk." "You going to guess which one?" "From the way you do everything else, I figured it will be you." "Guess again, Whitey." "That's the trouble with you, you ain't consistent!" "Here comes our man, he's bringing in Whitey Kincade." "Hey, men!" "O'Mara's back and he's got Whitey Kincade with him!" "Looks like you're pretty popular in this town." "I'm more popular away from it." "You could get elected Mayor for bringing me in." "Who wants to be mayor?" "Right now I wouldn't mind it." "Yeah, he got me!" "Howdy!" "Hey!" "How you doing?" "Kate, I don't believe it." "I wouldn't have missed this for anything." "I've waited a long time to see Whitey Kincade get cut down to size." "Right cosy place you got here." "I heard you got home cooking, too." "I sure hope it's good." "You won't be here long enough to get tired of it." "Now then, son." "Do you mind telling us how you managed to do it?" "I beat him to the draw." "Maybe you were just lucky?" "Maybe." "Whitey has a fair reputation as a gunman." "It might have helped if you'd told me that before." "I thought you knew what you were doing, son!" "Everybody around here knows Whitey Kincade." "I know him now." "From now on, he'll know you too as the guy that brought him in." "That's a reputation I wouldn't want to have." "It's like digging your own grave!" "Did you have anything to eat, son?" " No, not since morning." "Go to my house and have my niece fix a meal for you and Whitey." "We'll have to feed him till we can hang him." "Looks like we guessed wrong on the boy." "Yeah." "What am I supposed to do with him now?" "Get rid of him." "How?" " I'll leave that up to you." "You killed his father and his brother, you may as well take care of this one, too." "This one is your concern, Fred." "He won't be and he ever finds out that you're the party to come looking for..." "He won't find out." "O'Mara isn't afraid of taking chances." "All you have to do is see to it that he takes one too many." "Just a minute!" "Clay!" " Hello." "Come in!" "I never expected to see you again." "Your uncle sent me to fetch some food for Mr Kincade." "Whitey Kincade?" "Yeah, he's starved, so am I." "I don't believe it!" "We haven't eaten since this morning." "How'd you do it?" "We just tightened our belts." "Well, if you're so clever, you can help me cook." "I can do that, too." "I thought we had a deal?" "We do." "I operate in Santiago, you operate in Diablo." "Why did you send the kid over there to arrest me?" "There was no stopping him." "What's more, I never figured on him beating you to the draw." "Next time you send somebody after me make sure he can't shoot first." "You ain't hurt, Whitey." "What am I doing in jail?" "Stop worrying, there will be a trial in the morning." "Is that supposed to make me happy?" "I understand capital punishment's legal in this county." "You won't be here." "Where am I going to be?" "Anywhere you like." "You can shoot your way out of here tonight." "Who am I going to shoot, Clay O'Mara?" "Maybe, unless you give him another chance to outdraw you!" "Just a minute, Sheriff." "I just thought of an easier way." "Get me a witness who will say that I killed Whiteside in self-defence." "Why bother?" "I'm giving you a way out." "I know a guy who broke jail once, he got shot in the back." "Do you think I'd double cross you?" "Yes." "I wouldn't trust a jury if my name was Whitey Kincade." "I got a lot of confidence in you, as long as I can still talk." "The jury might hang me but I'll hang you first." "I didn't bring you in, O'Mara did." "If anything goes wrong at that trial I might get O'Mara, too." "Right in the back." "What's so funny?" "Oh, kid!" "I wish I could tell you but you're too young to hear it!" "Stay away from her!" "Ringer!" "That's enough of that." "Why don't you stay out of trouble?" " They were mauling Kate." "I want you to lay off the bottle for a couple of days." "Sounds like you need me for something." "Yeah, you're appearing in court tomorrow morning." "Court?" "Are you crazy?" " Shut up and listen." "You're appearing as a defence witness for Whitey Kincade." "Why should I defend him?" "I hope they hang him." "You'll hang right alongside him if they do." "He knows enough to ruin us all." "He won't mind talking if he doesn't like the verdict." "I'm not going to lie for nothing." "You've been lying for nothing all your life." "Once more won't hurt you." "You know Sheriff, one of these days I'm going to surprise you." "The only way you could surprise me would be to quit drinking." "Meredith will be around tonight." " With some cash?" "With a little speech you're going to make in court." "You want something?" "Yeah, I want some company." "I'm lonesome." "Go on back to bed." "I can't sleep." "Too much on my mind." "That figures, they can only hang you once!" "But that once can be awful permanent." "Is there a bottle of whiskey around?" "I wouldn't know." "How about going across the street and getting me one?" "You're in jail, not a hotel." "If I was in a hotel, I'd ask you for more than whiskey." "You got a girl, kid?" " No." "Like some advice?" " About girls?" "I was thinking about something else." "Look, you nabbed the notorious Whitey Kincade." "Why don't you quit while you're still ahead?" "I didn't come here to go gunning for you, Whitey." "You're up against a cold deck, kid." "Go on back to Colorado and don't run after nothing but women." "You got some reason for saying that?" "Yeah, I'm sentimental." "You're a good kid." "But you're going to bullet in the back if you stay around here." "Who's going to do it, Whitey?" " That's a good question." "But I can't give you the answer until tomorrow." "Not guilty!" "The verdict is not guilty!" "Good verdict!" " I think he ought to have been hung." "Stick around, Clay, I want you to escort Kincade out of town." "You look put-out, Clay." "I am, I don't understand the verdict, especially with you being foreman of the jury." "You heard Ringer testify Kincade shot Mr Whiteside in self-defence." "I didn't believe him, I don't see how you or the jury could either." "I held out for a verdict of guilty until it was pointed out that Mr Ringer had sworn on the bible to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth." "As a minister, I couldn't ignore that." "No, I guess you couldn't." "We're having a church social at my house tonight why don't you drop by?" "Thanks, Reverend." "Maybe I will." "I'll see you there." "Kate, you look real pretty." "That gal with the corn silk hair, the one I threw you over for." "She don't look pretty no more." "You'd look better to me with a noose around your neck." "You should have told that to your boyfriend before the trial." "I did." "Oh, join the revival meeting, you know these gents, don't you?" "I met Mr Meredith." "Shake hands with the gent who did the reviving, Jed Ringer." "I didn't catch the name." " It's O'Mara." "Oh, yeah." "I heard about you." "Of course you heard about him, he's the one who beat me to the draw!" "Drink up, kid, drink up." "No thanks." "You know it ain't polite to stare." "Not even at the star witness?" " What's your objection?" "Just thinking, it's probably the first time anyone ever shot an unarmed man in self-defence." "The trial's over, it's futile to argue points of law now." "Anyway, what do you know about it?" "Just what I heard from a man who was on one end of the shooting." "He means me, ain't that rich?" "Are you admitting that Ringer lied to the court?" "Are you or ain't you?" "Well, now that you bring the point up, I am." "That's the way it is with revival meetings, somebody's always getting the spirit." "Let's go." "This is as far as I can go, here's your gun." "It's loaded!" "Wouldn't do you much good empty." "Listen, kid, you're talking to Whitey Kincade." "Nobody hands me loaded guns." "I shoot people in the back." "All you got to do is pull the trigger when I head back for town." "I got a real good reason to." "Sure!" "I ruined your reputation as a gunslinger." "How did you ever manage to live this long?" "If I was smart, I'd shoot you right now." "Except, I think I'll keep you around for a while, just to see what makes you work." "Maybe you're getting soft, Whitey." "Maybe you're turning into a human being!" "If I ever feel that coming on, I'll shoot myself." "So long, kid." "So long, Whitey." "I'll leave you with a little advice." "Don't ever turn your back on Jed Ringer." "Could he be one of the reasons that brought me to Santiago?" "He's a good bet." "Know any others?" "Oh yeah." "Sheriff Kenyon." "I guess you got to have your joke." "Sure, but that ain't it!" "I'll keep it in mind." "I'm Whitey Kincade." "Draw on him, Clay!" "Why didn't you draw, Clay?" "Because I was scared, that's why." " You ain't scared of anything!" "Imagine him being scared!" "Excuse me." "Can I speak with you, Tom?" " Surely." "Laurie, you must forgive me, something urgent has come up." "I'll try rush right back." " All right." "Would you men excuse me for a minute?" "Sure!" "Hello!" " Hi." "I haven't seen you out there dancing." "I don't have anyone to dance with." "You can ask someone." "A girl can't very well ask you!" "I guess I'm just bashful." "I know a girl who isn't dancing right now and her escort isn't here." "Well, it wouldn't look very nice for her to be dancing with strangers then, would it?" "I guess it wouldn't." "Besides, if she asks you, you would probably think she was forward." "I probably would." "Do you like forward girls?" "I don't know any." "I think they're pretty dreadful myself." "Oh, would you care to dance?" "Come in, Tom." " What's the trouble?" "Silver Bullion." "I got word from Wells Fargo tonight about the shipment." "They changed the time?" "And the route, we've got to map out a new plan." "Miss Kenyon, she's a very charming girl." "I'm just wondering about her uncle." " What's your opinion of him?" "I was just about to ask you the same thing." "Fred Kenyon?" "He's always struck me as a kind of an unhappy, disappointed man." "The job he as here is difficult, thankless, the pay is poor." "Has anyone ever questioned his honesty?" "Why do you ask?" " I heard talk." "Clay, there's always talk, even about ministers of the gospel." "Yeah, I guess you're right." "It was a lovely dance." "I'm pleased you and the others enjoyed yourselves." "Clay, would you mind walking Miss Kenyon home?" "Not at all." "Good night." " Good night." "You didn't have to do it, you know." "Do what?" " Walk me home." "I know the way very well and I'm not afraid of the dark." "I don't mind." "In that case, you won't mind if I walk the rest of the way by myself." "What are you so mad about?" "I've been insulted." "Who did it?" "I'll see if I can get him to apologise." "You can start right now." "Are you talking about me?" "Naturally, you're the only one here, aren't you?" "I didn't do anything." "That's exactly what I'm talking about." "I had to throw myself at you to get you to ask me to dance and then you walk me home and won't even talk to me." "I'd be wasting my time if I got too interested, wouldn't I?" "I don't see why." "I understood you were engaged to Tom Meredith." "What difference does that make?" "I've known people to get awfully jealous if someone paid too much attention to their girl." "Tom's not the jealous type, besides he wasn't there." "He isn't here now, either." " I didn't think you'd noticed!" "You know what I'd do if you belonged to me?" "What?" "You tell Meredith if he isn't jealous, he's a halfwit." "Clay." "Yes?" "That is, I..." "I don't know what I'm doing!" "Have a good time at the dance?" "Yes, I..." "I did!" "A simply wonderful time." "Laurie, what's wrong?" "You should know." "You didn't even come back to call for me." "I had to come home with Clay O'Mara." " I thought you liked young O'Mara?" "I do, that's the trouble." "He kissed me goodnight, I liked it." "He said if you weren't jealous of me, you're a halfwit." "I'm beginning to think he's right." "You don't mean that, Laurie." " I'm afraid I do." "Let it go, Tom, let her think about it through tomorrow." "Goodnight, Laurie." "I'd like an explanation, Laurie." "So would I." "I don't know how it happened, I didn't want it to happen." "But it did." "You really think you're in love with Clay?" "Yes." "Listen to me Laurie, forget Clay and save yourself a lot of grief." "Why?" "I've seen kids like him time and again in every boom town." "He's out for revenge, headed straight for boot hill." "Where's the sheriff?" " He's not in right now." "When do you expect him back?" " He didn't say, can I help you?" "What can you do?" "I need a posse." "My white stallion's been stolen." "It cost me $10000!" "When did you see him last?" "My stable boy saw somebody riding toward Diablo this morning." "Why didn't you go after him?" "In the first place, my stallion is the fastest horse in the South West!" "In the second place, catching horse thieves is a Sheriff's job, not mine!" "Now, can you raise a posse or can't you?" "I think I can take care of that." " Who you taking with you?" "Nobody." "You mean you're going alone, just one man?" "He only stole one horse, didn't he?" "Kenyon push you into this?" " He doesn't even know I'm here." "Don't take any bets on it?" "How about this horse?" "Matt Grove's stallion, huh?" "A real white beauty." "Fast as the wind." "I wish I'd stole it!" "Any idea who did?" "Any reward?" "Grove didn't say." "Sorry, I don't inform on my friends." "I'd like to meet them." "You going to be hanging around Diablo a while?" "It appears likely." "I got a friend named Rosita and she's got a friend named Sally." "You're informing!" "Maybe you'd like to see some cattle ranches around here?" "That I would." " Come on, I'll show you." "Thanks, Whitey." "Don't thank me, I'd probably be thanking you or one of my friends for a very interesting afternoon!" "Any relation to the Lowerie gang?" " No relation, this is them." "Say hello to Clay O'Mara." " What are you doing here?" "I was showing Clay around and I figured he ought to see the Lowerie ranch." "Yeah, it's a pretty nice spread you got here." "They had to steal a lot of cows to get it!" "I'm not interested in cows, I'm interested in horses." "Any horse in particular?" "Yeah, the white stallion out there." "You can buy him for $1,000." "Matt Grove says he's worth ten." "How would he know?" "Because he happens to own the only white stallion in these parts." "That's him." "Relax boys, he's your guest." "Maybe you ought to make up your mind whose side you're on, Whitey." "I'm on my side, right now I'm looking for a little excitement." "I'm sure Mr Grove would be glad to get his horse back." "Where did you say you found him?" " I said I bought him." "You better ask for your money back." "I think the man who sold him to you is dishonest." "Thanks for the sightseeing tour." "Like I said before, don't thank me yet." "Uh-uh!" "When he gets past your trespassing sign you can start after him." "It ain't exciting enough to see a man shot in the back." "Saddle up." "Well, Tom." "No word from O'Mara?" "I expect to get word about him not from him." "What do you want?" " I want some money." "I told you to stay out of this office." "This won't wait." "I need $200." "Sorry Jed, you already got all that's coming to you." "I stole Grove's stallion, that ought to be worth extra." "You got paid for it!" "Not enough, I'm tired of doing dirty work for no pay." "From now I'm going to get my share the same as you." "From now on, you'll take whatever we want to give you, get out." "Throw him in a cell." "Take it easy, we still need him." "Looks like he's hurt." "He must have run into trouble." "I'm Doc Hiatt." "I didn't want you to mistake me for the Archangel Michael." "You don't look much like any of the pictures I've seen of him." "Hi, Laurie." "Hi." "How do you feel?" "Care to dance?" "Save the next one for me, will you?" "Make it a nice slow waltz till he gets on his feet again." "Young man, there's nothing wrong with you, except you lost a lot of blood." "A little rest will take care of that." "I'll take good care of him, Doctor." "If I were younger and had an offer like that," "I wouldn't mind getting shot." "I'll drop by tomorrow." "Thank you." "How long are you going to let Meredith kick you around?" "Until I get ready to leave town." " And when's that going to be?" "Any day now." "You've got a lot of nerve coming here haven't you done enough already?" "You can wait outside, Kate." "Jed and I have a little business." "That was $200 you wanted, wasn't it?" "Could you use another 1,000?" "You know the answer to that." "What do I have to do for it?" "Doc Hiatt says Clay O'Mara's going to live." "I say he's wrong." "Doc never was very good at guessing." "That Silver shipment's due in four days." "Just before you leave town, drop in on O'Mara at the Sheriff's house." "Sure!" "We're going to do like you say." "We'll kiss this town goodbye right after the Bullion robbery." "Why do we have to wait for that?" " There's $100,000 on that shipment." "Not for you, there isn't." " Why not?" "When Meredith and the wagon show up for that silver, I won't be around." "I'll be driving hard to Diablo." "That's the first place they'd look for you." "I'll be there long enough to hide the silver till things cool down." "What happens to me?" " We get together in Dallas." "Here, this will take care of you till I get there." "Did Meredith give you this money?" " It's a present." "I'll bet, what kind of dirty work does it buy?" "It buys nothing, I'm going to double cross Meredith right down the line." "Kind of late, ain't it?" "Start your trip without the Bullion, we've been double-crossed." "By Jed Ringer?" " By no one else." "What went wrong?" " Everything!" "Is O'Mara still at your house?" "He is, I thought Ringer was supposed to take care of him?" "He was." " What happened to him?" "He got a little greedy." "He killed the driver and two guards and ran out on both of us." "Any idea which way he's headed?" " Diablo." "Let's go." " No." "You're not going to let him get away with this?" "You bring him in, you bring the silver in." "What good will that do?" " Keep him from enjoying it." "There's a better way." "You still have a deputy." "Let him take Ringer for us." "He doesn't have to know about the silver." "We got to have some reason for sending him out." "He's looking for the man who killed his folks." "Why couldn't that be Ringer?" "You still got a deputy named O'Mara around here?" "Yeah, he's still around." "That calls for a celebration." "Come on, I'll buy you a drink." "You're looking almost well." "It's because you're such a good nurse." "You ought to make a career out of taking care of me." "I intend to." "When are we leaving for Denver?" "As soon as we can." "Doc Hiatt said you'd be able to travel by tomorrow." "Who else have you been talking to?" "Reverend Moorehead." "He's free tomorrow morning." "Has your uncle got his shotgun ready?" "You're not going to jilt me!" "Look, I didn't come to Santiago to find a bride." "You happy that you did?" "No, just that I haven't finished what I came here to do." "But you..." "I got something to show you." "Ringer left town last night I checked through his room and found this bill of sale for your father's cattle." "Looks like he's the man I'm looking for." "It's pretty strong evidence against him." "Think he headed for Diablo?" " Probably." "That's where I'm headed." "Clay, you're not going!" "Don't try to stop me, Laurie." "I can't mean very much to you if you think nothing of risking your life and our future." "My father and brother thought they had a future, too." "I'm sorry, Clay." "I guess I wasn't thinking right, I know you have to do this." "Hey, O'Mara!" "Well, hello." "I brought a bucket of beer for Clay." "He's not here." "He's gone." "Did he go looking for me?" "No, Jed Ringer." "What's old Jed done now?" "He's the one who killed Clay's father and brother." "Who said so?" " My uncle." "Where's your uncle?" " He's gone, too." "My compliments." "Come in." "No, I always like to keep in touch with old friends." "They running you out of town, Kate?" "That's a habit of mine, losing interest." "Of course, I might always get it back." "Is that what you came up to tell me?" "No." "As a matter of fact, I was wondering where I could locate Jed." "What do you want with Jed?" "Nothing, but Clay O'Mara does." "They found out about the robbery already?" "What robbery?" "All I heard is O'Mara found out it was Jed who killed his folks." "Who told him that?" " Kenyon." "That dirty, double-crossing..." " Jed was in on the deal someplace." "He only helped them move the cattle." "It was Meredith who did the shooting!" "Meredith?" "That ain't the way the Sheriff told it." "I think I'll go see Mr Kenyon." "Now get out, Whitey." "I have to get dressed." "Don't mind me." "Get out." "Hello?" "Is the sheriff in?" "Not right now, could I take a message?" "Yeah, you can take a message." "Tell him if anything happens to Jed Ringer," "I'm going to come back and kill him." "Wait!" "I don't understand." "Your Uncle told O'Mara Jed killed his folks." "I know." "Jed didn't do it." " Why would uncle..." "Because he's trying to frame an innocent man to save his own hide." "You can't mean that!" "You mean to tell me you don't know what's been going on?" "No, I guess you wouldn't at that." "You're engaged to Tom Meredith, aren't you?" "Not any more." "You don't know how lucky you are!" "He's the one who did the killing." "You get rid of the wagon, I'll meet you when I finish here." "Whoa!" "I didn't know this is a Wells Fargo station?" "Ain't said it was." "How did you come by it?" "I found it sitting on the road, nobody around." "You're under arrest." "I had nothing to do with it." "I told you, I found it." "Hey, I've been looking for you." "I heard you was looking for Jed Ringer." "I didn't know it was advertised." " Your girl told me." "Where'd you see Laurie?" "At the house, I brought you beer but you'd already left town!" "Why don't you let me know what you're going to do?" "That's why I was looking for you." "I forgive you, kid, as long as I didn't miss the fire works!" "Who stole the express wagon?" "That's what I aim to find out." "I ain't talking." "Better change your mind, Frank." "He's a friend." "Are you going in after him or are you going to wait till he comes out?" "What would you do?" "I'd wait, he's bound to get hungry sometime and he can't eat that silver shipment." "I've waited too long already." "It's more exciting this way." "Some folks run to fires, I run to shooting." "Don't get yourself hurt, Whitey." "Ringer!" "It's me, Whitey Kincade!" "And don't waste no lead on me!" "I'm just stringing along to see you and O'Mara shoot it out!" "You're cornered, Ringer." "Throw out your gun." "Don't you do it, Ringer!" "Shoot it out!" "You don't want to hang, do you?" "Thanks." "It's your last chance, Ringer." "Come on out." "Nice shooting, kid, I wouldn't have missed it for nothing." "Looks bad, Whitey." "Think you can sit on a horse?" "Sure I can, just give me a hand." "Ha, what a laugh!" "I can see the marker now," ""Here lies Whitey Kincade, an innocent bystander"." "Sort of off your range, ain't you?" " Your brothers around?" "Haven't seen them since yesterday, why?" "We're riding after O'Mara, thought you might like to go along." "All right." "What happened to you, Whitey?" "Help me get him inside." "Get me some clean rags and a bottle of that whisky." "Is there a doctor in this town?" " Not even a horse doctor!" "Rig me up a buckboard." "I got to get Whitey to Santiago." "Looks like O'Mara's in the saloon." "Whitey Kincade must be with him, there's his horse." "Maybe we're lucky." "Whitey, Sheriff Kenyon's outside." " Who's with him?" "Tom Meredith and Tim Lowerie." " That figures." "I better tell him about Ringer." "You go through those swinging doors, and you'll be dead before me!" "What do you mean?" "Why do you think Kenyon sent you out after me?" "And the Lowerie brothers?" "Because he figured you'd never come back." "You tried to tell me that once before." "You thought I was making jokes." "Then it wasn't Ringer." "No." "Meredith shot them both down." "Why didn't you tell me that back at the mine?" "Because you thought it was Ringer he had a good chance to kill you." "I figured if you was going to die you might as well die happy." "Still hard to believe that Kenyon has..." "Why, because you're sweet on his niece?" "Hold it, kid." "If you're so anxious to get shot, I can do it right here and save you the trouble of going through those doors." "You getting real soft, Whitey." "Yeah?" "I told you once before, if I ever started feeling like a human being, I'd shoot myself." "Clay!" "It's all right, Laurie." "There's something I got to tell you." "I already know." "Sorry." "Uncle Fred?" "He's dead." "Meredith's in jail." "Tickets." "Have your tickets ready, please." "Well, hello Clay, I haven't seen you around lately." "I took a leave of absence, Henry." " Been thinking of taking one myself!" "This pass looks all right for you but what about the young lady?" "That reads 'and family', doesn't it?" "Sure does." " Meet Mrs O'Mara." "Well, I'll be!" "Congratulations." "Excuse me, I've got to close the windows, we're coming to a tunnel." "Is it a long tunnel?" "It's long enough." "Let's not waste it then."