"Etienne, I am truly sorry." "I may have to shoot roy cooney." "I may even have to shoot him" "Through your plate glass window." "Hey boy, what's happened to my dinner?" "It's no good?" "Well, taste it." "Too much salt?" "No, it's delicious." "Come." "I will introduce you." "Hmm." "This is monsieur paladin." "Mr. Etienne." "Etienne ledeaux, madame ledeaux." "How do?" "She's native." "No polish, but excellent character." "Uh, you will join us, yes?" "Thank you." "Now, monsieur ledeaux," "What inspired you to tamper with my dinner?" "Tamper with his dinner." "This man is an original, did I not tell you so?" "Any ordinary man would have kissed my feet." "But no, not this one." "He's made of iron." "You still haven't answered my question, monsieur ledeaux." "Oh, etienne." "Call me by my christian name." "I insist on it." "You are the man I'm looking for." "Is that so?" "I have a mission for you." "What would you call a job." "A mission of such gravity, of such delicacy..." "Well, hadn't we better talk in private?" "Oh, shoot, he'll talk your fool head off." "He wants a man to help him" "Take a plate glass window back to panamint." "We own a kind of a, a hash house there." "Hash house?" "Mon cheri, if you were a man," "I would shoot you down like a dog." "Excuse me." "A restaurant." "The frenchman's." "Of course, I've heard of your place." "A thousand dollars?" "A what?" "I offer you a thousand dollars, monsieur." "Why?" "Because I must have this window." "Why must you have this window?" "I have money, I have a wife." "Oui?" "Oui." "Now that gives meaning to my body, hmm?" "Now, for my soul," "You understand, I'm a frenchman." "For my soul, there must be a touch of civilization." "That is, a touch of paris." "That is a plate glass window." "The only plate glass window" "In all of eastern california?" "Ah, you understand me." "Yes." "And you will help me?" "No." "No." "Well, there you are." "Now, will you stop fussing about it" "So we can go back home?" "Three times I tried to bring in the window." "Once it was broken by a slide of rocks," "Once by a drunkard," "Once by a strong wind," "As though the good lord himself did not wish me to have it." "And you still haven't given up?" "Monsieur, I alone, in this entire section," "Hold up the banner of civilization." "If I surrender, well..." "Did you ever see such a durn fool in your life?" "Many times." "I hate to think what the world would look like without them." "Monsieur, a thousand dollars." "And a meal such as you have never eaten." "Done." "And they call us the weaker sex." "Please, go gently, I beg of you." "You trying to tell me how to do my job?" "You almost dropped it!" "Hey, you trying to make a fool out of me" "In front of my partner here?" "I have no desire to improve upon what nature" "Has already accomplished." "Was that an insult?" "Oh!" "Never seen a man get so wild over an ordinary piece of glass." "Neither did I." "Brace the glass, etienne." "Yes, of course." "But please, do not break it." "Now claire, take them out of there." "Hah!" "Hah!" "Do not break it, please." "Get up, hyah." "Hah!" "Giddyap there." "Whoa." "Men." "Is that what makes you men?" "Risking your life ten times over" "For a piece of foolishness like that?" "Madame, will you join us?" "Men." "Come on." "I'll help you." "Claire, I think you're angry." "Listen." "I know you." "Once this window is put in place," "You will feel as proud of it as I am." "Don't hold your breath." "Hyah." "Here we go." "Hyah." "Would you like me to stop a while?" "No, go faster." "The sooner that fool piece of glass gets broken," "The better chance I'll have of getting home in one piece." "You sound like a jealous wife." "Listen, I'd rather he did chase another woman." "I'd know how to handle that." "Go ahead, laugh." "You don't care if I get busted." "Nobody's paying you a thousand dollars to see" "That I don't get smashed to pieces." "Whoa, now." "Whoa." "You know, I think we better rest a while." "What for?" "Well, take a look at your wife." "She's a beautiful woman of noble character." "Why do you stop the wagon?" "Well, I thought her, uh..." "Her character might use a little rest." "Nonsense." "She will rest when we get home," "Eh, mon cheri?" "She'll rest in a wooden box, I'm thinking." "Oh, please, cheri," "Do not joke about such things." "I know you love civilization as deeply as I do." "Or else why did you marry me, huh?" "Right now, etienne, I ain't real sure." "Now, monsieur, let us go on." "Civilization does not rest." "Indeed, it does not." "Look over there." "Get down, etienne." "Will you...?" "Will you get down?" "Etienne, get down from there!" "You'll get hurt!" "Do you think it was a trick?" "I don't know." "They were yelling something about the sun." "About our having captured the sun." "¶ ¶" "Claire!" "Over there!" "Etienne, I think you may have" "The wrong, id..." "Idea." "Monsieur, I'm not blind." "Do you mean that you thought me" "And that hatchet-faced gunslinger was..." "Etienne, would you put the gun away." "Calm your fears, monsieur." "I'm a frenchman." "I hired you to guard my window." "My wife, I think, I must guard myself, huh?" "I have just never..." "I warn you, monsieur, in the future," "Keep your mind on the job, eh?" "Well, monsieur, I will do my very best." "Hyah." "Giddyap." "Morning." "Bonjour, monsieur." "Hey, where do you think you're going" "With that great big sheet of glass?" "To panamint." "I have a restaurant." "You have heard of the frenchman's, of course?" "No, home cooking's good enough for me." "Well, it's not good enough for a lot of hardworking miners." "Do you mind getting out of our way?" "Well, you see, I just built me a house." "It's about the nicest little house in these parts." "But for one thing." "There's no glass in the windows." "Now I'm getting sick of squinting through oil paper." "Makes me feel like I was going blind." "You tell me what you want for it" "And I'll give you a fair price." "I'm sorry, monsieur." "That is out of the question." "Mister, I don't think you understand." "I'm buying that glass," "Either in one piece or in little ones." "This is what you americans call the bluff, huh?" "I too can bluff like an american." "Monsieur, I will not sell you one splinter of this glass." "Now what are you going to do, huh?" "You show him what I'll do, ben." "Save me some for my windows." "Now let's go." "Hyah!" "Whoa." "Whoa." "This is a disaster." "It is roy cooney." "I thought he was mining elsewhere." "You know him?" "Only too well." "He's a man of barbaric impulses." "When drinking, he must smash this window." "He cannot help himself." "There's no other road?" "None." "Only this one." "He's a friend when sober." "I cannot bear to hurt him." "But he will break the glass." "Well, he certainly looks drunk enough" "To do it." "Alas, he does." "However, if claire will be good enough to help us," "I may have a plan to harness roy's destructive impulse." "Claire." "Etienne." "Whoa." "Panamint." "Aha!" "First, we install the window by tomorrow," "And then your dinner:" "A bisque de crevettes," "A truite au chambertin," "And then a filet de poulet aux beurre noisettes." "Oh, it is a simple dinner, but difficult to cook." "I wouldn't count on the filet de poulet" "Until they're hatched." "She's happy because she's home." "She's making a joke." "Oh." "No, the joke's tomorrow." "You know what it is?" "What?" "It's Saturday night in a mining town." "Hyah!" "Woo-hoo!" "Hey, fellas, I just came from frenchy's." "He's put in his new window!" "This is a duckling bird with seven vegetables." "Ooh!" "Etienne, so far, I have had oeuf poivre," "Caviar, consommé, bisque, trout, shad roe," "Chicken, peas, calves' brains," "Quail..." "And now duckling." "And to come, a salade to cool the palate." "And then soufflé ilda." "That is a lemon soufflé" "With the strawberries and the raspberries..." "A little purée of raspberries." "Oh, it's very good." "Men laugh and cry when they hear great music." "It's just a shame we can't applaud your husband." "Not bad, but he's done better." "I don't believe that." "You just wait till that window gets busted," "And he gets his mind back on his business." "And remember, for all the world to know:" ""the frenchman." yes, sir." "And make it fancy." "Yes, sir." "What are they waiting for?" "He's ready for the soufflé." "You serve it to him yourself." "I'm busy." "See?" "There it is." "You wouldn't shoot a man" "Over a piece of glass." "I do not know, sir, but I would not" "Want to try, either." "Would you?" "Why, you might at that." "Hey, frenchy!" "You must have gone to a lot of trouble" "To get that thing." "I have faced a succession of the most unspeakable dangers" "To bring to this excellent community" "A small measure of progress..." "Of civilization." "We're uncivilized?" "Ain't this town good enough for you?" "Even in paris, there's room for improvement." "Uh-uh-uh!" "Any attempt to inflict the slightest bestiality" "Upon this unique window of glass" "Will engender a massacre of heroic proportions." "Wait!" "Roy cooney wishes to break it himself." "And what he will do to the man" "Who deprives him of this pleasure" "That will make history" "Even in this sink of barbarism." "He's right, fred." "Roy will go wild." "Yeah, I guess you're right." "The only pleasure roy gets is busting things." "He's coming for sure, frenchy." "And what are you going to do then?" "Etienne, there is kirsch in this soufflé." "Now, where did you find a bottle of kirsch in this country?" "Do not talk to me about food at a time like this." "Well, etienne, what are you going to do?" "I have saved it from them." "Now there's only roy cooney." "If we can save it from roy tonight," "They will become bored with it." "Tomorrow, they will find something else to destroy." "And roy?" "I know." "He will break it." "It has all been a complete failure." "Now you're talking sense." "Paladin, what am I going to do about roy?" "The kirsch is really delicious." "And I'll see what I can do about roy cooney." "Do not shoot roy!" "You will break the window!" "I may have to shoot roy." "Oh, and my window- an innocent bystander." "Roy, do not shoot paladin!" "You will break my window!" "Now, there you are." "That's all you mean to him." "That's all I mean to him." "Tell him to holster his gun." "I'll do the same." "Roy, he will not shoot you." "Holster your gun." "Roy, you cannot do this." "Please, my friend." "Come and have something to eat, huh?" "A man's peace of mind." "That's all a fella's got for a grubstake in life." "I was thinking of this all night long." "I couldn't sleep a wink." "I thought it was a dream when I saw it" "Come up the pass." "I lost my peace of mind!" "Knowing it was here," "I just couldn't sleep right." "Ah!" "Break it, roy!" "Go on." "Break it!" "Break it, roy!" "Go on!" "Smash it, roy!" "Go on!" "Don't be afraid!" "We're backing you!" "You roy cooney?" "I'm sorry I almost killed you" "In the middle of your dinner." "I wasn't drawing on you." "But you were going to shoot through the window." "I thought of it." "And then I decided..." "I decided I'd like to break it up with a rock instead." "But etienne's your friend." "Now, doesn't it matter to you" "That he wants to keep the window?" "Why, sure, and he knows I'm sorry," "But it's something I've got to do!" "What about my peace of mind?" "It shatters with the glass." "Go on." "Get him!" "Hit him again!" "Oh, roy, I am sorry" "I had to do this to you." "Aw, it's all right." "It was a fair fight, and you won." "You ain't a-givin' up, roy?" "Do you want to fight him?" "Uh-uh." "Come on, roy." "Well, paladin, it is done." "Busted, ain't she?"