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MAN: Heeya! Heeya!

JIM: There's nothing that will attract a thief

quicker than money.

And the larger the amount,

the more thieves it will draw,

like flies to sugar.

The Wells Fargo stage left Sacramento

with a hundred thousand dollars in cash,

consigned to the bank in Hammond City.

It was a secret shipment.

Only five men had known that it was leaving,

but that was one too many.

MAN: Heeya!

MAN: Whoa.

MAN: Toss his the gun down.

Now the box.

Now, get out of here.

Keep moving, Davis.

You just better keep moving.

JIM: My name is Jim Hardie,

special agent for Wells Fargo.

I was up in Sonora when word of the robbery

came in.

Twelve hours later,

I reached Sacramento,

just in time for the investigation

that was taking place in the division office.

Please, Mr. Wilson, I don't know where he's gone.

You mean, he never told you anything about a hideout,

someplace or other? No, no never.

Come in.

Come in, come in.

Burt, how are you?

Glad you got here so quickly.

You said it was urgent. Yeah, I...

I guess you heard about the sheriff of losing

that killer's trail. Yes, I did.

Aren't we gonna get on with this?

As soon as you give me a chance

to introduce Jim Hardie.

Jim, this is Cyrus Wilson, he's the president

of the Rancher's Bank here.

How do you do?

It was my money you were shipping, Hardie.

Wells Fargo is responsible for every cent of it.

Jim's aware of that.

And this is Mrs. Davis. Jim Hardie, Mrs. Andrew Davis.

Hello.

Pleased to meet you, ma'am.

We believe her husband has something to do

with the robbery.

CYRUS: Something to do with it?

He was the one that pulled it off,

that thieving no good killer.

He was a trusted employee.

He was the only one in the bank

that I told about that shipment.

And he not only knew about that shipment,

he's left town.

Now you find him and you'll find that money.

All right, Mrs. Davis

came to me this morning, Jim,

after she heard about the holdup.

She has a letter from her husband.

Maybe you'd better read it.

CYRUS: Read that part where he wrote about not coming back.

"Will send you enough money to keep you comfortable."

Now, if Davis isn't the killer,

where is he going to get that money?

Mr. Davis has worked for you a good while,

I take it.

Eight years almost to a day.

And in the past, I imagine

he's had many opportunities

to take large amounts of money if he wanted to.

Yes but...

Mrs. Davis, can you think of any reason

why your husband would wait until now

to do such a thing, if he did it?

Well, one,

there is this woman

who...

According to Davis's friends at the bank,

he's been seeing a young woman

who moved here about a year ago.

She didn't move here.

She was stranded here when that troop

of play-actors ran out of money.

Her name is Elaine Griffin.

She has a small dressmaking shop on Oak Street.

Perhaps I'll go and have a talk with her,

see what she has to say,

see what I can come up with.

By the way, what does she look like?

Now, I've met Miss Griffin.

She's...

young, very attractive,

dark hair...

jet black I guess you'd call it.

Well, let's see what happens.

Good day.

JIM: I didn't know it then,

but other people had the same idea

that sooner or later, Elaine Griffin would leave town

to join Andrew Davis.

ELAINE: Make yourself at home, Mrs. Jenny.

I'll be right there.

I know that you're just going to love this...

Oh, oh.

I thought you were a customer

but you... you're not even a lady.

No, ma'am.

I'm not sorry about it.

And you're no gentleman,

crashing in here like a... Like a bush steer.

Well, I can't say I'm sorry about that either.

I suppose you enjoyed it.

Yes ma'am, I sure did

and I'd be lying if I said I didn't.

Well...

an honest man.

Who are you?

The name's Hardie, Jim Hardie.

I'm looking for Miss Griffin.

Are you a drummer, Mr. Hardie?

Are you Miss Griffin, ma'am.

No.

No, she's gone, she's sold out,

left me behind to clean the place up

for the new owner.

Well, she must've left in quite a hurry.

Yes, yesterday morning.

I just started to put the hem up on a dress,

and before I was finished, she'd sold the shop out

from under me.

Well, she didn't by any chance,

say where she was going, did she?

Well, she, um...

she didn't exactly tell me.

Somehow I got the impression

that, well, she didn't want anyone to know.

But if you promise to come back

after you finish your business with her...

That'll be a promise that won't be too hard to keep,

Miss... Houston.

Joan to my friends.

Yeah, I bet you haven't got many enemies either, huh?

Not since I grew up.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, about Miss Griffin?

Oh, you're very anxious to find her, aren't you?

The sooner I find her then the sooner

I can get back here.

Well, If you aren't a drummer,

you should be, the way you handle words.

Well, when she ran away,

she didn't have room for everything in her buckboard,

so she asked me to send these things

on the stagecoach this afternoon.

It sounds like you might know where she is.

I could hold out,

but I guess it wouldn't be wise.

It's somewhere near the old Grant Mine.

Grant mine is deserted.

There hasn't been anybody living around there for years.

Well, that's her problem. Oh, she did say

that it wasn't a regular stagecoach stop.

And that if I didn't pound it into the driver's head,

that they probably have to flag him down.

They would? Uh-hmm.

Well, the way you talk,

I don't think she's alone.

A girl as pretty as she is,

what do you expect?

Well, I'm not sure what I expect,

but I would like to know who that is with her.

Hmm, sounds like you'd pay

for that information, Mr. Hardie.

Well, maybe I would.

It all depends on how much.

Well, it might even be... That much?

Well, may even be able to go a little stronger that than.

Well, she's with a gentleman friend.

Now,

you take my advice

and hurry back.

You hear?

Yeah.

I'll be back.

And then what happened?

Then he got on his horse and left.

You're sure it was Hardie?

As sure as I know my own name.

Hmm, she'll move now trying to lose him.

When she does, we'll follow her

right to Davis.

JIM: Late that afternoon, I was near the old Grant Mine,

waiting for the stage and anyone who showed up

to meet it.

Pull up, it's Hardie. Whoa.

JIM: It only took a few seconds to find out

there was no shipment for Elaine Griffin

on that stage.

You say some dresses, Hardie?

A whole shipment, dresses and everything,

marked for Elaine Griffin.

No, not on this stage.

And we're the only one through here this week.

All right, Don. Get on with it.

It looks like she made a fool of you, Jim.

There's not much doubt about that.

She didn't leave very much behind her either.

I told you she was an actress.

She must have been expecting someone

to question her about Davis.

Where did the sheriff say he lost Davis' trail?

Up near Stone Mountain.

Stone Mountain, that's north.

She sent me south to Grant's Mine.

That means she's probably going north herself.

At any rate, I'll know the first thing in the morning,

I'll bet you on that.

JIM: I was right in thinking she had headed north.

By mid-morning, I had located her first camp.

I found something else too.

The tracks of two horses

following close behind her.

Let me go.

Now that ain't being very hospitable.

Yeah.

For two days, we've been sleeping cold

and camping dry.

Didn't want you to spot us.

MAN: We figure we know about where Davis

is waiting for you.

And if we're wrong,

maybe you'd like to tell us.

Where is he?

JIM: Hold it right there.

I thought I'd lost you.

Well, you tried hard enough, I'll say that.

How'd you get here? How'd you find me?

Same way the other two did,

you left a trail a little kid could follow.

I suppose I should be grateful

that you came along when you did.

Well, I think you should.

Pretty girl like you out here

running around by yourself,

any number of things could happen to you, you know?

Well I'm not grateful.

I know why you're here and who you're after.

JIM: I suppose you do.

I planned on waiting

until after you joined up with Davis

before I surprised you.

Now, I guess, we'll just have to let you

lead me to him.

You really believe I'd do that?

If you're smart, you will.

Up until now, you've broken no laws.

You've done nothing you could be arrested for.

But if you go to Davis and help him get away

or take any part of that money,

you become an accessory to the crime.

And the crime is robbery and murder.

Now are you gonna take me to him?

No, I'm not.

All right.

Get your stuff together.

Get this cleaned up.

Where do you think we're going?

We'll just keep heading north,

same direction you were going.

Maybe we'll pick up a trail somewhere.

Hold it up.

Let the horses rest for a while,

we'll have some breakfast.

Let me go.

No, let me go.

Let me go!

Let me go.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

No.

No, please, Mr. Hardie.

I'm a woman.

There is no doubt about that.

You have no right to do this.

Please. Look, I'm no criminal.

Please, Mr. Hardie.

Mr. Hardie, please don't do this.

It isn't fair.

Fair?

You think what Davis did was fair?

Whenever you decide to tell me where he is,

then I'll think about letting you go.

You just wait until we get back to Sacramento.

You just wait.

You sure you won't change your mind

about telling me where he is?

No.

No!

Thank you.

Quiet, isn't it?

Uh-hmm. ELAINE: Like a theater

just after the house lights dim.

You miss the theater a great deal, don't you?

ELAINE: Not my kind.

We were pretty bad.

Was that when you met Davis? ELAINE: Yes.

I just decided to go into the dressmaking business.

I asked the bank for a loan

but I didn't have any security.

So many bad things had already happened to me,

I guess I went to pieces.

Andrew helped to put me back together again.

It's too bad you couldn't have fallen

in love with a single man.

I never intended to go away with Andrew.

Am I to believe that?

ELAINE: A week ago,

I told Andrew that I was leaving town

and that he should go back to his wife.

I didn't know what he had done until I received that note

telling me where to meet him.

Oh, I feel so responsible for what's happened.

All I want is to tell him

to return that money to the bank.

I'm afraid it's not as simple as that.

He killed to two men in that hold up.

ELAINE: Andrew didn't kill anybody, he couldn't have.

It was the men that were with him.

I got the driver's word on it.

ELAINE: He lied.

No, Elaine.

Aren't you gonna go after him?

You're not gonna let him go again, are you?

JIM: Yes, I think I will.

You won't tell me where Davis is

and I can understand that now.

But I can follow him. He'll lead me to him.

But...

but he'll get there before you do.

He's got a gun.

Yes, he has.

And he wants the money.

All right. It's an old prospector's cabin

just off the black trail, up near the summit.

JIM: Burch's plan had been to ambush me

so he could take his time

getting Davis and the money.

But now he knew I was close behind him.

It was morning when he reached Davis's cabin.

He had only a few minutes

to get the money and ride out.

That's far enough.

Drop it.

Davis, hold it, hold it.

Please, don't do it, don't do it.

Give me one good reason why.

Hardie, Jim Hardie. He's with your girl,

they're following me. You're lying.

They'll be here any minute. You can see for yourself.

Look, Davis, you help me take care of them,

I'll move on.

Hardie ain't a man you wanna face alone.

You need me.

One way or the other, I'll get Hardie near the house.

You know what to do.

Jim, let me go down there first.

Why? So you can warn him?

So I can talk him into returning that money.

You still believe he's innocent of murder,

don't you?

Yes.

I'm sorry, Elaine.

If you went down there

and anything happened to you.

Elaine!

Andrew. Where's Hardie?

Hardie? What? He's...

Never mind lying. I know he's with you.

Andrew, wait!

Wait please, Andrew. Andrew, please.

Wait and let him kill me, is that what you want?

Give Mr. Hardie that money.

Let him return it to the bank.

Andrew, please!

Please!

All right.

Hardie!

Do you wanna make a deal?

Throw down your riffle.

Now back up to the house.

Well, Hardie,

do we have a deal?

I don't think so.

You killed one of our men in that holdup.

ELAINE: Jim, look out!

JIM: Before we left the black trail,

I had made up my mind

to do what I could

for Elaine Griffin.

She knew she had made a mistake,

and I knew she'd paid for it.

No matter where she'd go,

she'd be paying for that mistake

the rest of her life.