"Henry, ask Saxon for your money." "And if he turns you down, forget it." "As for being better off dead, let's save that as a last resort." "This gentleman very desperate." ""Mr. Paladin, sir, you could make real money were you to come learn me how to shoot," ""on account of I got to go up against Rud Saxon who ain't no pushover." "Come real soon." "Henry Grey, Mountain View, hand writ."" " Oh, ho." " Excuse." "I'm looking for Henry Grey." "What do you want with him?" "Well, it's a personal matter." "I gave birth to him." "T'ain't nothing more personal than that." "Yes, ma'am." "Well, is he around?" "Doin' his chores." "Back at 4." " Well, if you don't mind, I'll wait." " 4:00, he cuts wood." "Well, I don't suppose the whole world would stop if he cut it a little bit later." "Later he's got other chores to do." "Supper's at 6." "Finished at quarter past." "You come around then." "I'm Paladin." "Henry Grey." "I'm ready when you are." "Well, Henry, before I take you on," "I'd like to know what this is all about." "Well..." "I bought me a mail-order woman." "I paid out 50 in cash to the marriage man," "$185.66 to transport her from New York City and another $37 for all kinds of odd and ends." "I got receipts for 'em." "Three days after she gets out here," "I no sooner turn around and she's gone over to Rud Saxon on the next farm." "Mr. Paladin, I gotta learn how to shoot." "You want her back?" "I want my money back." "I'll pay you half of my refund for learning me how to shoot." "That would make my share about $130." "Ever since that woman showed her face, he's been different." "God means for him to lose that money." "He's punishing Henry for buying a pig in a poke." "Mr. Paladin don't care to hear about that, Ma." "Her and Rud Saxon are two of a kind." "It's God's will they found each other." "It just don't make sense he would want me to spend my money to furnish a woman for Rud Saxon." "Henry, have you ever done any shooting?" "Well, I bought this belt here, and this..." "Hmm." "Well, offhand, I'd say the best thing for you to do is ask Rud Saxon to give you your money back, and if he turns you down, forget it." "Oh, he's already turned me down." "Now I ain't asking." "I'm demanding." "Henry, I'd say that's suicide." "Maybe I'm better off dead, then." "Well, let's keep that as a last resort." "And in the meantime, I'd better have a talk with Rud Saxon." "Hey, is anybody going to give me a hand?" "Yeah, of course." " Callie!" " Hey!" "Yeah!" " More, Callie!" "One more!" " One more!" "Who invite you, right?" "One of the girls?" "You like my song?" "I teach them my music." "I like it very much." "My name is Paladin." "Mine is Cale Athanou." "They don't know." "They say "Callie," but I don't mind." "I imagine your real name was Caliope Athanasokoori." "Rud!" "This man, he speak Greek." "If I sing now, you tell him what I say?" "You tell him." "Go." "Who are you, and what do you want?" "My name is Paladin, and I want $272 that belongs to Henry Grey." "We were having such a good time." "Callie, Henry Grey spent a lot of hard-earned money to bring you here." "Now since Rud Saxon is getting all the benefit from it," "I think Henry is entitled to a refund." "Henry Grey is a..." "You understand?" "You agree?" "No, I do not agree that he is a jackass." "He is a proud man, and you stripped him of his pride." "I never do a thing like this to a man." "What then, Callie?" "You accept his proposal, his money, then walk away and leave him an object of ridicule?" "I do not mean to do this." "Callie, hey." "Do you think it's fair that Henry should spend his life savings to bring you here for Rud Saxon?" "I would have been good to him." "I was meant to be good to my husband, to give him many, many children." "But also I was meant to sing, to laugh and to dance, and this Henry Grey and his mama..." "Three days, and then... you saw." "You understand." "Three days and then exo!" "Exo apo tho!" "Callie, come on over here." "I got something to show you." "In a way, Henry Grey is a good man." "You understand?" "And Rud?" "Will Rud marry you?" "Of course!" "Well, then don't you think it's fair that he pay the expenses for bringing you here?" "I have not thought of that." "Well, think of it now." "You are right." "It is fair." "You pay him the money." "Or perhaps Rud is not contemplating matrimony?" "What do you say to Caliope?" "You know what Cale means in Greek?" "Tell him!" ""Cale," the first part of her name, in Greek means "good"." "She wants you to know that she is a good girl." "No!" "Go." "Yee-hoo!" "Well, that sounds like quite a party over there." "That girl must have really upset your routine when she lived here." "Now I suppose you're just as well out of it." "A girl like that would never understand your way of life." "Our way is the right way, the way it's always been..." "always will be." "You know, it's shattering to think how many people might possibly agree with you." "Myself, I've always favored the freer in spirit." "But if your way of life brings you happiness, then it's the right way." "And, Henry, you should find yourself a woman with no nonsense about her... a nice, quiet, docile kind of girl that would live here in the house with you and your mother and do tomorrow exactly what she did today, and right on time." "A girl like Callie is not for you." ""He who shuts out love" ""in turn shall be shut out from love, and on her threshold lie howling in the outer darkness."" "Now what do you suppose made me think of that?" "It's Alfred Tennyson." "We'll go to bed now." "We ain't got but two beds." "Well, I do have a bedroll, thank you." "Henry, it's a very pleasant evening." "Why don't we stretch our legs a little bit before we turn in?" "Henry." "Henry, that was a very stupid thing to do." "Shh." "She's sleeping." "Come on." "Where are you going with that gun?" "Did you forget what you came for?" "Now that I'm here, I don't know what to do." "I'm sorry I didn't do so good on your dance." "What's the matter?" "You done great." "Better'n I do learning your..." " You want 'em to play the Greek stuff?" " Yes!" "I studied yours, now you study my dance." "Yes?" "She says she's young and beautiful and can love whom she desires." "And if it's written in her fate to a foreign land, she must go." "Give her love." "Well, Henry... you want your woman back?" "Yeah." "I gotta have her back." "Would you like a little more of this courage before you..." "No, siree." "I know what that is." "There ain't no Grey ever been a drinkin' man." "Well, there ain't no Grey ever had a wife called Caliope, either." "Let's all dance!" "Ain't Henry cute." "Well, look at old Henry!" "And he's gonna dance!" "Henry, you don't have to be great." "You just have to let her know that you're trying." "Well, I don't like them laughing at me." "This dancing ain't for men." "It just ain't manly." "Oh?" "Henry." "With your kind permission, sir." "Yee-hee!" "Yee-hoo!" "You've made enough of a fool of yourself for one evening, Henry Grey." "It's time you came home." "If I were to make a fool out of myself, I'm gonna make a fool out of myself." "Now, you get on home, Ma." "Go on, before I decide to get mad." "Mrs. Grey?" "Ms. Grey, no matter what you think, your life is not over." "Remember Ecclesiastes where it tells about a time to get, and a time to cast away?" "Go home, Mrs. Grey, and wait for your son." "And if you love him, you pray that when he comes home, his woman will be with him." "Yoo-hoo!" "I want you back, Callie." "You hear?" "I want you back." "We can live in town in the hotel." "You can dance every night if you want to." "You won't have to work anymore." "What?" "What you say to me?" "You think I'm afraid of work?" "I can feed the pig." "I milk the cows as good as the neighbors." "Better." "I cook like you never ate before." "Well, if you want her from me, you're going to have to take her." "Rud." "Henry." "Henry." "Thank you." "Well, Callie, which one do you choose?" "Poor Rud." "I feel very sad for him." "He lose me." "It's too bad you don't have any sisters." "Oh, but I have many." "I have Efrosini, Dimitria, Polixeni." "That settles it." "I'm going back to Greece." "No, no, no!" "Don't go to Greece." "I bring them here." "Here." "Henry." "Upsy-daisy." ""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?" "Paladin, Paladin, far, far from home"