"Easy, calvert." "I know your name" "Was a death sentence to 20 men." "But this isn't el paso." "And you're not as young as you used to be." ""ranch war in wyoming." ""benedict, wyoming." "According to c.W. Wellman," ""the refusal of a local rancher" ""to permit access to the sole remaining source of water" ""in this drought-stricken area has resulted in the deaths" ""of two men and threatens open warfare."" "Excuse me, mr." "Paladin." "Yes, hey boy?" "The gentlemen in 312..." "They are expecting you." "Tell them I'll be right there." "They sitting at table now, very anxious." "They ready to deal out cards." "Well, tell them I'll be there in a few moments." "Something long, cold and wet." "Yes, sir." "It's a pretty quiet town." "No more than most." "Direct me to the wellman ranch?" "North road, about three miles." "Thanks." "You a friend of the wellmans?" "No." "You're looking for work?" "In a way." "What's everybody waiting for?" "Me to get killed." "Looks like the waiting's about over." "That squares us, barney." "Excuse me." "Don't, casey!" "There's no sense to this." "What do you want, an apology?" "All right, I apologize." "Casey, don't." "Listen to me, please!" "You knew you could beat him." "Knowing and doing are two different things." "I guess you'll just have to keep on waitin'." "There's a job open at the wellman's now." "His." "It's dry." "But I can let you have a bucket" "From the kitchen pump, if you'd like." "I'd appreciate that." "It's been a long ride." "Just help yourself." "Thank you, I'm paladin." "I'm here to see mr." "Wellman." "He's not here right now." "But he should be back soon." "Good morning." "Did you just come from town?" "Benedict?" "Yes." "Was there..." "I mean, did you see anything happen?" "There was a man killed, if that's what you mean." "Who?" "I believe his name was casey." "Meg." "You know what your father said about speaking to strangers." "No offense meant." "Mr. Wellman is very strict about these things." "I understand." "You said casey was killed." "That's right." "Jeff do it?" "I didn't catch his name." "Jeff." "Poor boy." "Well, he's alive." "How long can a man live by a gun, mr." "Paladin?" "Especially when he doesn't want to." "Casey's dead." "Young calvert gunned him down." "I know." "Mr. Paladin told me." "Paladin?" "Mr. Wellman." "I was passing through benedict, I saw it happen." "You think you can stand up to calvert?" "If there's a good enough reason." "Well, that's your job." "Get rid of him." "I don't think we understand each other, mr." "Wellman." "I offered my services to help you get water." "This is your card, isn't it?" "The one you sent me?" "Yes." ""have gun, will travel." as far as I know, that means one thing." "That's the reason I hired you." "Well, we do misunderstand each other." "I'm not an executioner." "I'll just water my horse and be on my way." "All right, I'm sorry." "I was upset about casey." "I wasn't thinking straight." "But I need your help." "We all do." "I told you I didn't offer that kind of help." "It's part and parcel of the same thing." "Look, can I talk to you or not?" "Sit down." "We're desperate, paladin." "Our water holes are drying up," "Even the deep wells are going dry." "Another week of this and our herds'll be buzzard bait." "Calvert's ruining us." "Let's take it one thing at a time." "How can a boy like that ruin you?" "Boy?" "!" "I'm not talking about jeff." "It's his father, roy calvert." "He owns the six iron ranch, over in the valley." "Roy calvert." "Three years ago in the southwest," "There was a gunfighter by that name." "That's the same one." "Only he's here now." "Bought this ranch about three years ago." "I knew there'd be trouble, even then." "With a man like that." "How can roy calvert block your water supply?" "There's a lake in back of his ranch." "But calvert's ranch runs right across the valley." "It's the only approach to the lake." "He only let us use it the first year." "Now he's fenced it off and won't let us through." "Why not?" "So help me, I don't know." "He just closed us off." "A couple of weeks ago, harry craig got mad." "Tried to drive his herds through," "And young calvert killed two of his men." "Just the two of them?" "Roy calvert and his son?" "They've had a few hands." "But jeff is the gun." "His father's turned him into a worse killer" "Than he ever was." "I tell you, there's only one way to break calvert." "Get that boy." "Now what do you really want?" "You want water?" "Or that boy's death?" "I want results." "And fast." "I'll get him for you." "My way." "What are you gonna do?" "I'm going to talk to roy calvert." "Maybe he'll tell me the whole story." "No, no, no!" "Blast your eyes!" "You're late on the trigger." "Your barrel came up too far, made your shot too high." "All right, but I hit him." "He would have been hurt." "That's not good enough." "How many times do I have to tell you," "When you draw, you shoot to kill." "From here to here." "Understand?" "No place else." "That's good advice." "If all you want to do is kill." "Take it easy, calvert." "This isn't el paso," "And you're not as young as you used to be." "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "Five minutes of your time, I want." "And my name is paladin." "To paraphrase shakespeare, our names are advertised" "By our loving friends." "Son, you can put that up." "I'm not here to cause trouble." "You get that job at the wellman's?" "I got a job at the wellman's." "Whether it's the same one remains to be seen." "Anybody who works for wellman has no business here." "Anybody who denies water to his neighbors," "Has no business being a rancher." "Oh, so that's it." "Talk it over?" "Let me show you something." "Then you decide what we got to talk over." "Keep at it." "This is all I got to say, paladin." "My wife's grave." "This town put her there." "Still want to talk it over?" "Yes." "That's not all there is to it." "20 years we were married." "She was a kind woman." "You must have loved her very much." "All I wanted was a place where she could" "Say hello to somebody without them looking past her." "The name calvert was a death sentence to more than 20 men." "You really think you could hide it?" "Nobody would have known." "But wellman found it out and he passed the word." "Gunslinger's wife." "Killer's wife." "She was alone again." "When she took sick, nobody came to call but the doctor." "Then she died." "Pneumonia, he said." "But she just gave up." "Nobody came to her funeral." "You hear me?" "Nobody came to her funeral." "I'm gonna kill this town, paladin." "That's all I want." "The ranchers will drive through." "They tried it once." "And it cost 'em!" "Maybe next time it'll cost you." "Not likely with jeff playing my hand." "I have more respect for a man who plays his own." "I can't." "I promised that I'd never draw this on another man." "Now, jeff." "Today, please!" "We'll go away together." "You can't leave your folks," "Anymore than I can leave my father." "Well, we can't go on like this." "Dad's almost desperate now." "And after this morning when casey..." "I tried to stop him, meg." "I know, I know!" "Oh jeff, what are we going to do?" "Excuse me." "I don't mean to intrude." "I'd just like to get my horse." "Miss wellman, I thought you" "And the fella that was killed..." "No, no." "I only went to a dance with him last night," "Because my father wouldn't let jeff take me." "He tried to pick a fight with me" "When I asked meg to dance." "He said he was gonna look for me in town today." "I didn't want it to happen, paladin." "Jeff isn't a killer." "I don't care what my father says." "Somebody's gonna have to knock some sense" "Into your father." "And yours too." "I know he's been hurt, hurt badly." "But now the ranchers are being hurt," "The town's being hurt." "Where's it going to stop?" "That's up to pa." "It's up to you too, jeff." "You're in this." "Right square in the middle." "What are you going to do about it?" "Jeff..." "There's nothing I can do." "I'm sorry, meg." "Get her out of here, paladin." "Miss wellman..." "He can only fight one fight at a time." "Come on, I'll take you home." "I just went out for a ride." "We met on the way home." "Well?" "Is calvert going to let us through?" "You can't expect me to wipe out" "Three years of hate in one afternoon." "He told me about his wife." "His wife?" "She's dead." "She was sick." "We had nothing to do with it." "I know, you had nothing to do with the calverts at all." "All I know is, if we don't get" "To that lake, we're wiped out." "Now, do we get through or not?" "As of now, no." "But maybe." "Then we'll drive our way through." "And you'll get rid of young calvert." "I told you before, I'll do this job my way." "Not if you're working for me." "Get rid of young calvert or cut out." "Mr. Paladin, wait." "You're leaving?" "I can't do this job his way." "He'll go ahead without you." "He and the others." "There'll be fighting, shooting." "Some of them will be killed." "Men with wives and families." "Are you asking me to decide who's gonna die?" "I'm asking you to measure one life against many." "One family against a whole town." "I pray that god forgives me." "Good morning." "What's the matter?" "He think you're good enough yet?" "Can't be good enough or you're dead." "Now that sounds like your father talking." "What are you doing here?" "If you're working for wellman," "Sooner or later we gotta shoot it out." "That all you know?" "Shoot it out?" "You killed three men already." "You have a taste for it now?" "Don't you?" "A man draws a gun for a reason." "Every man has his own." "But most men have a point where they draw the line." "I have mine." "What's yours?" "You think I like it?" "You think I want to watch somebody coming at me?" "Like casey this morning." "I had to kill him." "Did you?" "He would have killed me." "That's your excuse today." "What'll it be tomorrow?" "Where do you draw the line?" "It's all I know." "Jeff!" "I thought you were..." "What's the matter?" "Haven't we talked enough?" "You did all the talking last time." "Wellman's organizing the rest of the ranchers." "They're going to drive those cattle to the lake." "You mean they're going to try." "We'll be ready for them." "And if you stop them?" "If you kill some of them," "That make your wife rest easier in her grave?" "It'll make me rest easier." "How about you, jeff?" "Those cattle are going through tomorrow afternoon." "I'll see to it myself." "You have any objections," "I'll be in town all morning." "We can settle it then." "We'll be glad to oblige." "You or jeff?" "Me." "Well..." "Getting easier all the time, isn't it?" "You oughta be very proud of yourself." "You've turned this boy into a killer." "He's going to enjoy the same life you have." "If he lives long enough." "He's riding in." "Roy calvert's coming in too." "I hope the show is worth the price." "Barney, thank you very much." "You all right?" "Yeah." "No, you're not." "There's something wrong." "I can feel it." "You're not up to it." "What difference does it make now?" "It won't be self-defense this time." "You have to draw first." "All right, jeff." "Whenever you're ready." "No, paladin!" "Me!" "Let's get him to the doctor." "Unless we're not finished." "We're finished." "You see, paladin?" "I didn't turn him into a killer." "What are they doing here?" "Why don't you at least listen and find out?" "Mr. Calvert?" "A long time has passed," "And there's been too much bitterness for apologies." "But I'd appreciate it if you would allow me" "To pay my respects at your wife's grave." "It's a little late for that, isn't it?" "roy..." "When you first came to this town," "You expected these people to forget the past." "Now they're asking exactly the same thing of you." "Let it end." "All right, go ahead." "Thank you." "What are you two up to?" "This barn's needed a coat of paint for a long time." "That stock's still going to need water." "Don't rush me all at once." "I'll be talking to wellman later." "¶ 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 ¶"