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Until she started to take Indian wizard oil.

Show them a hitch to Cali.

Sort of bold, don't you think?

What do you think I was?

I said she's sort of bold.

Oh, mercy.

Hey, Scuttle, where do you think you're going?

Can't I see the show, too?

Or does the Cortland family own the whole square?

Never mind about the Cortland family. You just keep your horse's head off my

lap.

Mr. and Angel, I see you in a long time.

And one up here, young woman, along the tree.

Thank you.

And now, Chief Yellow Cloud will pass among you and collect a small sum of 25

cents. Not for the oil, mind you.

Merely to cover the cost of the bottle.

Eat good.

Big Chief says so.

Eat good.

Hey, just a moment, sir.

This compound of yours is nothing but plain, ordinary rock oil.

Why, this stuff comes from here, seeps right through our ground.

Young man, you don't know what you're talking about. I know rock oil when I

smell it. You wouldn't know the sight of a bar unless it hit you. Who told you

you were smarter than the Indians?

It's got nothing to do with the Indians. It's got nothing to do with the

Indians? Did you ever see a white man turn a flip -flop at the age of 84?

You just saw Chief Yellow Cloud do it, didn't you, Smart Alec? And now I'm

to ask Chief Yellow Cloud to give me another exhibition of his strength. I'm

going to ask him to take you by the nap of the neck and throw you...

He said it was good for anything.

You got someplace to put your horse?

We ain't even got someplace to put ourselves.

The girl could sleep on the sofa in the parlor, and the two men could lie up in

the stable.

Well, well, this is a great kindness, madame. But you'll have to leave right

after breakfast. I ain't running a hotel.

We ain't asking for charity, Pop. Hold on. Jump in.

We'll take the girl in front.

With pleasure, with pleasure. Pop, I'm... Oh, I could get in by myself if I

wanted to.

You mean to say you're going to accept favors from a man who said your medicine

was rock oil? Shut up. It is rock oil.

You're up. Good morning.

Who's this?

That's my mother.

Peter's great -grandmother.

I was married in that dress, too.

I wish I had my mother's wedding dress.

My, you've got so many pretty things.

I guess a house is a good thing to have, isn't it? Don't you think it's time you

was getting dressed?

Is this late?

It's going on seven o 'clock.

Morning's half over.

It's just like a picture book out there.

Cows and sheep and pretty white doves. A farm's hard work from sunup to dark.

What's that thing?

Looks like a window without sails.

Ain't nothing that sensible.

It's something they call a derrick.

And my grandson's out there fooling with it, and he ought to be clearing the

North Meadow. He's digging way down in the ground for rock oil.

I thought he was a farmer.

He is, but he's got this crazy notion about oil now. Says he's going to keep

poor man warm and light up every little shack in the country.

Oh, darling.

The most beautiful woman in the world just kissed me.

He's been in and out of this hayloft all night.

There's your things.

Oh, I ain't gonna look at you.

Thank you, Mrs. Cortland.

You better hurry up and get dressed now. I'm gonna give you and your father and

that other fellow your breakfast, and then I'll have done my Christian duty.

From then on, you must ship for yourselves.

Yes, ma 'am.

What do you want me to do with this old back -breaking foot drill, Mr. Cortland?

Roll it down the hill. Double in the creek. Burn it.

Maybe you better wait till you find out if this fancy new engine works.

It'll work all right as soon as we get it together.

Hey, Cortland.

Cut your pipes here.

What do I do with them?

Unload them.

Babe, if I can see why you need all that pipe casing.

Better go far down.

How far are you now?

About 30 feet.

And you can skim all the rock oil you need right off the top of the creek.

Not all I want.

I ain't trying to get all this for myself.

Who are you trying to get it for, Peter?

Maybe for people in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia?

Yeah, and Boston, and Baltimore, and Pekin, and Constantinople.

Awful lot of people in them places.

Suppose you'll have to be getting more help pretty soon, I reckon.

That's what I figure.

Stop it up, Davey!

Get on that bull wheel, Lamb, and lower away.

All right.

Give me a hand.

Guide that drill.

I bet they hit China before they hit oil.

Watch that drill hole, Shorty.

There's likely to be a bunch of little Chinese gals pop out of there any

You put the other clamp here.

All right, now go ahead.

Go ahead.

That's it.

What's the matter?

That's it. Come on.

Come on.

Steady.

Steady.

Steady, love.

Hitch on your toes.

We're all set, Peter.

Hey, Gabby, get on that control.

It'll take some time to make anything out of that old wagon, won't it?

A couple of weeks, Pa, I think.

I can help your grandma in the kitchen. She says it's all right with her if we

stay, so long as it's all right with you.

Yeah, it's all right with me.

Enjoyed your dancing last night, Miss Thompson.

Wasn't surprised to hear the wagon catch fire.

Almost busting the flames myself.

See, you're kind of smart, ain't you?

I ain't as smart as Cortland there.

You know what he's doing?

He's digging up enough oil for all the people in the world.

Well, maybe that's a pretty...

the people in the world that's got rheumatism or jaundice.

Whatever your pop said rock oil was good for, some of us don't need it.

Blockheads don't know what it's good for, maybe.

Blockheads ain't figured out that maybe you can light lamps and make stoves go

with rock oil.

That's good.

Lighten all the lamps in Philadelphia and peak in China with rock oil from

Cortland's farm.

Get out of here, Red. Yeah, I guess maybe I better before I start getting

IDs myself.

See you later, Miss Watterson. On the other side of the fence.

Who told you?

Tell me what?

About this, what I'm aiming at.

Oh, I just kind of figured it out for myself.

You've been talking to Grandma.

Maybe. Come to think about it, she did say something about you having a daffy

notion in your head.

You think it's daffy?

Yes, I think it's daffy. Pretty daffy.

Get back to work instead of wasting a lot of time over a lot of silly

And if you're going to earn your keep by helping Grandma, why don't you go and

start in? You can't talk bossy to me like that, Mr. Golan. I ain't used to

And I ain't used to being told I'm daffy. You ain't. Well, it's about time

somebody told you.

Right snippy little piece, ain't she?

She's kind of snippy.

Peter hasn't fed the stock yet.

I'll feed him.

You think you can?

Of course I can.

All right.

Now that's for the chickens and that's for the...

I'll bet Sally will be glad to get away from here.

Do you think so, Mac? Sure.

She's always fighting with that Cortland fella. She hates the sight of him.

You know human nature, don't you, Mac?

From A to Z.

You must have skipped W.

Women come under W.

Why'd you come up this side today?

I went by the barn to see how Papa was getting along.

You're late this morning.

Well, Peter, I'm a half hour earlier than usual.

Oh, seem like you're awful late.

Here's your vinegar sling. Thanks.

Ah.

Mmm.

Good.

You're going Friday?

Yes.

Pop says the wagon will be ready by then.

Oh, I love it up here on this hill.

Just the same. I bet you Hank is going to get back on the road.

Oh, I don't know.

It's been kind of fun living in a house and cooking in a real kitchen.

I surely will miss your grandma.

Oh, I've got to get back, too. She'll be mad and all get out. Oh, don't go yet.

I want to ask you something.

It's late at night. They're having a kind of jamboree over at Doc

and... Oh, yes, your grandma told me.

I was thinking, I don't know, it might not be very exciting for you, but I was

wondering whether... You want me to go to the dance with you?

Yeah, that's what I'd like.

Well, I'd love to go, Peter.

Would you?

Of course I will.

Well, I've got to get back to work now.

Now, listen to those birds sing.

They don't usually sing this time of day.

Don't they?

No.

Goodbye.

First couple out to the right and swing.

I like your dress.

Grandma made most of it.

I don't see how you did all that work in one day.

Oh, just four days.

But I didn't ask you to yesterday.

I'm sorry to see that the tone of this here gathering ain't as high as we like

to keep it in our sociables around here.

Oh, you mean Red Scanlon, well, as long as he behaves himself. No, I'm referring

to that medicine show gal your grandson brought here, Mrs. Cortland.

By the way, Mr. Stark, what do you hear from that brother of yours at the

penitentiary? His term for horse stealing's about up by now, ain't it?

and love that royal race he sprung he wore a star upon his breast to

show that he was royal best he wore a star upon his breast to show that he was

best

Tell me again, Peter.

Flarello, what's the fuss about? She's been kissed before, ain't she? Wasn't

with the medicine show?

Looks like we're going to have some fun.

That's what I want to do.

Take him to the house and hold him there till Peter goes.

You ought to send the girl away, too.

Easy, rag.

We ain't toward this yet, Cortland. Remember that.

I don't leave no fights unfinished.

All right, come on.

We have to ask you to leave, Peter.

Let him go, boys.

Come over and apologize to Mrs. Lippincott tomorrow, Peter.

That was a good one you're giving.

This is a shortcut home.

Oh, it's beautiful here.

Yep. Apple.

I got kind of scared when you were fighting.

I thought he was hurting you.

Thanks for getting scared.

Oh, I love it here.

Can we sit here and talk a while?

Uh -huh.

You smell so sweet.

I... I think you're sweet.

It's gone.

We'll get to the sea, maybe.

Are you going tomorrow for sure?

Uh -huh.

It's been nice having you here.

Your pa always cracking jokes and you singing songs and everything.

Oh, we like being here.

Oh, I guess you'll be glad to get back on the road.

First thing you know, you'll forget all about us.

Maybe.

Think you'll forget about us?

Maybe.

In a couple of years.

Shut your eyes.

And feel the moonlight.

Like you were drowning in silver

heavy you you know what we said about forgetting in a couple of years

well i don't think i'll ever forget you

Here comes Sally now.

Oh, here she is. It's been a mighty pleasant little visit, Mrs. Cortland. A

mighty pleasant little visit. We did the best we could to make you comfortable.

Goodbye, Grandma Cortland. Goodbye, Charles.

Thanks for the dresses and for everything. Goodbye,

Mrs. Cortland. I hope to repay you handsomely for all you've done. Never

about paying me. You just look after your daughter. Bye, Mrs.

Cortland. Bye.

And there was something I wanted to tell her.

Then why didn't you?

Why don't you?

Go away!

Get up!

We'll have to let the waist out a mite.

She ain't as delicate as I was.

Yes, yes, yes, that's pretty good.

Now, would you please look over at me?

Yes, I like that much better. Now, will I take the groom's arm?

Oh, lovely.

Now, don't be nervous, children. Take it easy. Just a moment. It won't take

long. Let me see. Over here.

Yes, yes.

That's pretty good. Now, let me see from here.

No, I don't like that.

Oh, there it is. I like that much better. Yes, that's the one. Now, smile

though you were happy.

Lovely. Now, don't move.

Steady.

One, two, three.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

13, 14, 15, 16, and 1, and 2, and 3, and 4, and

5, and 6, and 7, and 8, and 9, and 10, and 11, and 12, and 13, and

14, and 15!

That's it!

Will you marry me tomorrow, Mariah?

Will you marry me tomorrow, Mariah?

Your ma thinks I'm unsightly. Your pa insults me nightly. But tell them both

politely to jump in the lake. I'll have no dilly -dallyin', Mariah.

I'll have no shilly -shallyin'.

Church in the village.

It's going to be right here.

What's going to be right here?

The house I'm building for you.

Peter! It can be painted white.

If you like white houses, I hope you do.

Oh, I love white houses.

And I love you for wanting to build it for me up here on our hill.

But, darling, you've got a house.

Oh, Grandma'll stay in that one.

She says a young couple ought to be along.

Come on, sit down. I'll tell you about it.

I was up here this morning staking the whole thing out. Where's the front porch

going to be? Oh, it's going to be a beauty.

Runs across here, 30 feet, and faces south.

Oh. I hate it.

There'll be a fine scramble for land options now, Mrs. Gordon. What? We're

trying to get ready quick.

from what we figured. Peter, look what you've done.

Oh, never mind that.

You can have anything you want now.

But I... I got everything I wanted.

Gentlemen, this oil business very definitely concerns us. It concerns us

It concerns our Wall Street friends in New York, our other associates in

Cleveland and St. Louis.

In fact, clear out to San Francisco.

They all agree this may be one of the big industries of the future.

So, I think it's high time we went to western Pennsylvania and took control of

it. Getting control of an industry, Mr. Brennan, takes time and a lot of money.

It certainly does, yes.

That is, unless someone thinks of a shortcut.

Meaning? Well, these oil fields are owned by a group of hard -headed

They won't sell out.

But their oil's no good unless it's refined.

They can't get it to the refineries unless they use our railroads.

So, if we keep raising the freight rates, we lower their profits to a

point.

Well, you gentlemen have certainly heard of a little game called freeze out?

Oh.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Same thing every day.

Paying a lot of men to come up here and do nothing.

We can't start building your house less than we know front from back.

We just got started working with Mr. Cortland and then he had to go.

Said it was something awful important.

My husband's a very busy man these days.

I guess you better tell your men to go on home.

Guess that's all we can do, Miss Cortland.

I'm sorry.

Come on, boys.

Hey, ma 'am. Ma 'am!

Have you sorted all that correspondence on the railroad rates?

Yes, you did.

And I want everything else from the Brennan offices in Philadelphia.

Oh, you ain't human, Peter. Look at that clock. The roosters will be crowing

soon. Never mind. I'll get me what I'm asking for. Then you can go home.

I gotta have my facts dead straight before I tackle Mr. Walt Brennan and

company.

And that's the worst of the evils these strangers have brought with them. The

shanty boat.

It's time the God -fearing people of this county took action.

These gamblers and women and whiskey sellers are going to be driven off the

creek. Get out.

So this is the sporting life in Titusville.

lady finishes her song.

The things I get are what I never seem to want.

The things I want are what I never seem to get.

I'm just a discontented dreamer with a discontented heart.

can never win a bet the kind of man I seem to find

is one with one upon his mind and not much time to spend

and then I find another kind who wants to put me

on a pedestal because I'm

I get are what I never seem to want.

The things I want are what I never hoped to see.

And so it isn't any wonder

talking for a group of men who ship 4 ,000 barrels of oil a day on one of your

railroads. 4 ,000 barrels, huh?

My, my, my.

Think of that. How this business is growing.

Growing fast enough to be interested in big business, men.

Yes, Mr. Cortland.

Well, I think it's time men with some important capital came in and organized

it. What about the men who started it? Put their savings in it, put their

in it, and built it up to what it is. I admire them.

What courage.

What adventure.

Have another drink, gentlemen? Thank you. Yes, sir, Mr. Cortland. You can

feel proud of yourselves.

Why, do you know that you're giving your country a new industry?

You like it, do you?

You like it so well, you want to add it to your collection.

You've got things a little mixed up.

I'm only interested in railroads.

Yeah, I had your way.

You're the one who's raising freight rates so high we'll have to shut down

wells. Why not raise the price of oil?

Because our life and the life of our industry depends on putting out refined

cheap, so as the poor man can buy it. The poor man?

Oh, I see.

Well, Cortland, what's your solution to it all?

Lower your rates.

Let me fill your glass.

Never mind that. You listen to me, Brennan.

Your rates have got to be lowered.

Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Cortland, but you must permit me to run my own business.

That's final, is it?

I'm to go back and tell them you refuse to change the rates. No, no. Don't tell

them that.

I'm going to change them.

I'm going to raise them again tomorrow.

Looks the bad for a first cake, does it? Why, no.

You think he'll like my dress, Grandma?

Well, it's ruffled, ain't it? All you have to do to catch a man's eye is tack

a ruffle somewhere.

Now, when he comes in, I'll be singing and playing, and you have the candles

lit.

You think he'll like the cake?

Why, of course he will.

He can't do that. Does Mr.

Brennan own the world?

He thinks he does, him and all his friends in Philadelphia.

They think the United States of America is just a big pie for them to cut up and

pass around among themselves.

Any time somebody stopped them, any time somebody stood up to them, we've got to

stop them.

I'm glad to hear you feel that way.

I know for myself I expect to be fighting Brennan and people like him to

end. And I'm glad I don't have to fight him alone.

I'm awfully sorry, honey.

Something extra special came up tonight, and I couldn't get away. Oh, wait and

wait, and I must have dropped off to sleep.

Peter Deeger.

Seems there's always something extra special lately.

I know, honey. I feel terrible about it, being away so much, and especially

tonight, you baking that nice cake and everything.

It don't look so good as it did.

I bet it tastes good.

Can we have some now?

Of course you can.

I'll light the candles all over again and we'll open the presents and have a

real party.

Oh, you poor thing.

Bet you're so tired you can hardly see.

We should give those railroad men a good licking and send them about their

business.

Then maybe we could settle down to living.

Maybe we could get started on the house.

I was up on the hill today.

My, it was beautiful.

I don't suppose there's a spot in the whole world where I'd rather build a

house.

Can we start it soon, Peter?

and evildoers. Get off this rotten raft and take your women with you.

Get ashore!

Petroleum City, over the line. Peter, come on, take her inside.

You can't take her into your house. A wench off a shanty boot.

Who's telling us who we can take into our house? The girl's hurt. She's nearly

dead. She's going to be taken in here and nursed until she's well again.

If it ain't too late.

She's got to go across the county line tonight.

You ain't the law.

Nobody made you judge her right and wrong. Nobody but yourself.

Bring her in, Peter.

I reckon you don't know what you're doing, Peter Cortland.

Get your men off of my property stock.

And get them off quick.

You're taking this on yourself.

Remember that.

I'm holding you responsible to every church -born citizen of the county.

Put her on the sofa, honey.

And run upstairs and get those two heavy green blankets in the hall closet.

Mercy!

Who is she? Where'd she come from?

She's off a shanty boat.

A shanty boat woman?

In my part?

She's hurt and she's soaked through to the skin.

Guess I'd better heat some water.

High, wide and handsome, a yellow moon above.

Why am I riding hard?

Because I'm riding to my love.

This is the hat that went with it, see?

Oh, it's awful pretty.

Do you ever miss all that excitement?

Ain't you ever a little homesick?

Oh, I got a home.

I got a husband to think about.

But all you can do is think about him. You don't see him very much.

The whole two weeks I've been here, he's been out every day from morning till

night.

He's having business troubles. He's fighting the railroad.

That Mr. Stark. He's been bothering him too, ain't he? What do you know about

him? Oh, I heard all the fuss yesterday. The door was open.

The elders of the church and all coming up and telling you to throw me out.

Well, don't you worry. You ain't leaving this house till I say you're strong

enough to go.

That won't be long.

Oh, Sally, you've been so wonderful to me. I'll never forget everything. Stop

talking rubbish. Here, open your mouth.

I've been thinking about getting a job for you.

There's a carnival show coming along this route pretty soon. I know the man

runs it, Pop Barge. He's a friend of Pa's.

But I'd be no good with a carnival show.

All I can do is sing sad songs and make people cry after they've had a few

drinks. But you could learn something lovely. I could teach it to you. That's

line.

No, Allegheny Owl.

Who's that rascal there?

Who's that steamboat dandy?

Allegheny Owl.

Allegheny Owl.

Fair grease on his hair.

Makes him shine like candy.

Is that her?

Is that the woman off the shanty boat?

No, it sounds like Sally's voice.

You mean that's your daughter -in -law up there singing and dancing to that

woman?

Well... Mercy, I'm late.

I promised Miss Henderson I'd drop in on her this morning.

Bye, Wilhelmina.

Bye, Miss Ramage. Bye. Penelope, be sure and tell Mrs.

Henderson and all the rest of the gossips about the terrible scandal.

Tell them the Courtlands are practically running a shanty boat on land.

Wilhelmina.

And the next time I see any of them, I'll tell them about something I know

happened on a certain hayride.

That time we all went up to Hyde Town.

Just before you met your husband, you was carrying on with Alf Cotton.

The photographer?

Well, that was more than 30 years ago.

It'd still make a spicy story.

We seem to be hurting ourselves more than we're hurting the railroads. We

You think so?

You go take a look at the empty cars off on the railroad side and then figure

out what the other side's losing.

Beamer here says they've got so much money they can hold out from now to

doomsday. That's right. Now, look here, man. Just to cause a couple of... Mr.

Cortland, a port of this couple of American house says Mr. Brennan wants to

you right away.

You hear that?

Maybe Brennan's a little tired of fighting, too.

Maybe he don't like his cars being empty anymore than we like our pumps being

out. Go over and see him now, Peter. We'll wait for you here. All right, you

wait here. I got an idea. I'll bring back some good news.

Now, just between you and me, why don't you give your business to the central

refineries in Pittsburgh?

Your railroad owns that, don't it?

Exactly. You deal with our refinery, and there'll be certain favors that you'll

get to make up for their high freight rates. Oh.

And the rates wouldn't be hurting me. They'd just be freezing out the rest of

the fellas.

Say, you catch on quick. You've got a good head for business.

Well, it ain't hard to figure out.

All it amounts to is plain everyday stealing.

A few men stealing what belongs to a lot of men. That happens to be a pretty

good definition of business.

We can't change it, so why try?

Sooner or later, oil's got to be controlled by a small group of strong

Well, might as well be us.

Who do you think this oil belongs to by rights?

Ones who grab it first.

It belongs to the world. It's for everybody to benefit by. You can't tie

and make it any price you like.

But I can, and I will.

Not while I've got any breath left in my body to fight you.

Fight me.

Don't be a fool.

What could you do without the railroads?

How would you get your oil to the refineries? Carry it in your hat or roll

there?

I don't know who you think you're bluffing, but I do know you can't live

the railroads.

Fight me, huh?

Well, go ahead and fight.

I will.

John!

John! What's the matter? Something wonderful.

Did Brennan give in? Come here.

What do you see?

Bad weather. No. That pipe.

See that rain pipe?

Yes. See the water flowing through that pipe?

Yes. Well, it isn't water.

It's oil.

It's oil flowing through a pipe.

Peter, have you been drinking? Here, sit down.

You think I'm out of my head, John?

Well, I am. I am from pain excitement.

I got pipes on the brain.

Iron pipes.

Miles and miles of them.

Carrying our oil.

Clear across the state right smack into the refineries. You mean... I mean we'll

tell the railroads to go to blazes. And give Brennan a great big laugh right in

his face.

Gee, hoss of that, Peter. You have thought of something.

Now, Mr. Engineer, come on, get busy. Get busy.

Wait a minute.

What's the matter?

What about the cost?

Have you thought of that?

Not to mention the price of the pipe itself.

Iron isn't butter, you know. I know that, John.

You begin to draw this pipe on paper, I'll do the rest, Peter.

You realize that this thing is going to take every penny you farmers have got.

Maybe more.

Can you afford to take that gamble?

John, we can't afford not to.

Get busy, man. Get busy. Oh, wait a minute. I have to have my map. Map?

Well, I thought the house was coming down the way you slammed that front

What is that you're bringing up here?

Stars.

What's the matter with you, Peter?

Oh, I'm myself tonight, Grandma. I'm King Solomon, wisest of men. I'm

the Great.

Peter! Shh!

Peter,

stop it.

Look at you, you're soaked.

Where have you been?

Away from you.

But I'm back.

See? Back where I want to be all my days.

Here's the brightest light I ever saw.

Here's the sweetest thing in the world.

Honey, you've had good news.

Things are going your way.

Something's happened. Something wonderful.

Something wonderful happened the day you was born.

Oh, where'd you get the apple blossom?

Oh, they just bushed it out on me.

I was a hurrying home to you, and I just busted into bloom. Tell me, what has

happened?

Don't bother me. Just be quiet.

Just stay like this for a month of Sundays till Judgment Day.

Like this with me.

Close, honey.

Close.

When you can laugh and be gay, everything's right for me.

Everything's all right again.

Everything's going to be right from now on.

That's easy.

You just look at me the way you're doing.

Mr. Cortland!

Mr. Cortland!

Who's that?

I'm from Mr. Thompson's office. He's got to see you.

Tell Johnny not to wait on him off.

He says he'll lose the whole day unless you come to see him tonight.

He's got things to ask you. Says it's important.

Oh.

All right.

Why does John Thompson have to ask you questions at this hour?

It's about what's happened.

We thought of a way to beat Brennan. John and me figured out something.

A way to carry the... I can't help it, honey. I gotta go.

There's other men in this thing, and every day we save means something.

Goodbye, honey.

You get some sleep.

It seems like throwing good money after bad, Mr. Cortland, but I wish you luck.

Thank you.

That closes out your account, Mr. Stackpole. Yes, I know.

They said they were going to lay pipe all the way to their refineries, and I'm

down if they haven't started it. That's not funny. Nothing to laugh at, Mr.

Brennan. Suppose they finish it. Oh, they won't, Mr. Marble.

I'll show you something.

This line is the pipe.

Mm -hmm.

Well, why is it broken here?

Well, that, gentlemen, is where Mr. Cortland and his farmer friends might

into difficulty.

Funny if someone bought that entire strip, wouldn't it?

You mean to say Brennan's bought every section in that 20 -mile strip?

All except this one piece, 18.

Who owns that?

Joe Veras.

The Greek over at Petroleum City?

The fellow who runs the hunky -dory.

He wouldn't sell to Brennan. Says he won't sell to anybody.

He's as smart as they make him. I wonder what he's after.

Let's go over and find out.

We gotta have that.

Jim Lamb, come along with me.

Well, what do you want for your land?

It's like this.

Mr. Brennan say whatever you offer, he pay more.

Put you in a nice position, don't it, Joe?

Yeah.

Elegant.

You both got to have it so somebody's got to give Joe anything he ask.

Well? Well...

You're a gambler, willing to give up cash from Brennan if you give a good

gambling chance.

You've got a fine oil land, Mr.

Cotland. You want my oil wells?

You've got a fine land where you never put the wells.

He means your hill.

Yeah.

I hear that's a fine property for prospecting. So I take that in trade for

land.

You think Joe's smart?

You can't have that hill.

Too bad. Too bad for Pipeline.

Too bad for you farmers lose all you got.

Look, Joe, that hill means something special to me. I promised my wife we'd

build our home there.

Oh, you got a wife.

Well, I know how you feel.

I had a wife once.

She was a wonderful woman.

You better ask for something else, Joe.

Don't bother Joe no more.

Don't like the bargains.

Just make it a yes or no.

Nothing in between.

He's got us, Peter.

Oh, he can't do that to me. It's crazy.

Well, he's got the only thing that can save us. We don't get his land. We have

no pipeline.

That's right, Peter.

Well, I'll get off him a couple of wells.

He won't take that.

No, he's too smart for that.

You see, he's an old friend of mine. It's very important I find him. Well, it

won't do you no good to see Mr. Bowers now.

We'll be all moved and packing in ten minutes. But where is he?

Well, he's over having a drink in that honky -dory place.

Right over there. Oh, thank you. Come on. Come on, Patricia.

This is an awful place for you to come. Don't you worry about me.

I'm going to get you the best job.

There's Papa.

Molly! I'm so glad to see you.

I see your father a few days ago.

He's going to join my show in a couple of weeks, you know. Yes, I know.

He tells me you're married and happy.

Say, what are you doing in a place like this? I'm looking for you. I was over at

your pitch and they told me I'd find you here.

Well, it's lucky you found me. We were just getting ready to leave town.

Pop, this is Molly Fuller.

How do you do?

How do you do? I'm awful anxious to get a job for Molly.

We haven't got what you call an opening with a show.

Oh, well, she'd take anything.

She sings awful pretty.

Let's hear you.

You mean here?

Sure. Nothing like singing in front of an audience.

Hey, George.

Play something for this lady.

even decided that we were going to... Ah, John, you, Mr. Cortland, must say

No other way.

Who's singing out there?

Just some girl.

We... Come inside.

A wife?

Yeah.

Is that her husband?

Yes, and it's all my fault, too.

Mr. Bowers, you gonna give me that job?

No.

Oh, I know I'm in the wrong, honey. I got kind of carried away trying to egg

Molly on. Carried away?

Is that what you're like, being stared at by a lot of gamblers and drunks?

Well, I want to see Molly get a decent job. Molly? What do I care about her?

Who's Molly? You are my wife.

Well, I didn't... Standing on a table dancing in a cheap bar room. You can't

things like that. You ain't on a medicine show anymore.

Maybe you'd like to be back doing that. Running wild over the country with

everybody gawking at you.

Maybe you like that better than being a married woman.

Maybe I do.

Come to think about it, I was enjoying myself.

It's the best fun I've had in a long time.

Fun? More fun than sitting home doing nothing.

I'm not good at that.

I want to be useful to somebody, even if it's only to a lot of strangers,

singing them a song, telling them a joke, cheering people up a little.

some excitement in that anyway.

If that life's so exciting, why did you marry me?

Because I thought you were the most exciting thing in the world.

I thought we'd have the most exciting life of any two people.

Excuse me, Mr. Cotland.

Mr. Cotland, if you sign up the contract right now, we can get transfer of deed

before everything close up.

Put an ink over here, please.

Just a short letter.

Just say you give Joe the hill and he give you the land.

What hill is he talking about?

It isn't anything about our hill, is it?

I got to let it go, Sally. Let it go?

Our hill?

Oh, no, Peter, no, you can't do that. There ain't no other way. I already gave

my word.

But our house, Peter.

It's already started.

There are other people to think of, honey.

We've got to have that pipeline.

Pipeline. Oil wells.

You've thrown away everything for them.

All right.

If it don't mean anything to you, it don't mean anything to me then.

Nothing does.

Nothing matters.

Nothing in the whole world.

Come across the street, attend the transfer.

She'll feel much better when we come back.

You understand women.

I figured them out, but you still like that.

Who goes there?

Hold on, who's that?

Is it you, Peter?

What are you doing with that gun?

Well, Joe Williams was on guard, and he got took with the chill, so I'm taking

his place.

Grandma, next time ask who goes there. I did.

Yes, but you shot first and then asked.

It should be the other way around, Mrs. Cortland.

Oh, all right.

All right.

Grandma, I'll have somebody come and take your place.

Good week's work, Scanlon.

Thanks, General.

Tonight I want to hit them where it counts.

Do you know the junction where all the pipes go into one big one?

Down by the bridge.

Yeah, well, if that were busted, it wouldn't be so easy to put together,

it? Ain't gonna be so easy to bust.

That's a heavy pipe.

I think maybe I can help you with this one.

How?

Get those fellas over on the brush and tie them up. Get that hook around their

elbow.

Come on, put some beef into it.

Come on, it's all right.

Get away from it. Get away.

Hurry up. Get on it.

All right, Jim.

back to work.

Who's that?

It's only me, Peter.

Why don't you go to bed?

I don't sleep so well when I do go to bed.

I could think it was your grandpa sitting there. The two stubbornest men I

knew.

You just won't do the thing you're dying to do.

Nothing could persuade you to go and get that girl back.

Mrs. Dr.

Lippincott come back from Harrisburg today and she had news of Sally.

Well? Seems there's a show in Harrisburg called Bower's Carnival and Sally's

singing in it.

Well?

Well, the whole town's talking about her.

Say she's getting to be the most popular singer east and west of the

Alleghenies. Why, a man told Mrs. Lippincott... All right, Grandma, I'm

bed now.

Going to bed.

You'd better go and get her before she finds out she can get along without you.

Good night, Grandma.

Good night.

Suppose we drink to our new agreement, and may we all prosper.

Why don't you drink your champagne, Mr. Lippincott?

I don't feel altogether right. We promised Peter to see the governor

I wouldn't worry about Peter Cortland. You've stuck with him long enough. And

what have we got? Nothing.

What side do you want to play, on the smart side or the dumb side?

Well, I know what you mean.

And I've got my family to think of. Oh, now, Mr. Lippincott, you're talking

sense. Molly, tell Mr. Lippincott's class.

But, Mr.

Brennan, what's going to happen to the others?

The ones who don't come over to your Pittsburgh refinery?

They'll be out.

Out in the cold.

What about Peter Cortland?

Peter Cortland's got to be smashed.

As a matter of fact, he's going to be smashed.

Perhaps you ought to explain that to the gentleman, Mr. Brennan.

Well, he's got to get his pipe to the refinery within a time limit. That's the

contract, isn't it? But the refinery's granted him an extension.

Ah. But suppose their bank doesn't consent to that extension.

Suppose, for instance, that I'd bought that bank. Exactly.

Well, that would leave him two days to complete three miles of pipe.

That would be quite a trick to do, wouldn't it? It certainly would.

Quite a trick to do.

That's him, all right.

real talent. Thank you, Mr. Barnum. And once I've made up my mind, it doesn't

take me long to act on it. You're coming with me tonight.

Tonight? Sure, sure. Where? Over to the big show, New York.

But I'm with this show.

We're going to Petroleum City tonight.

That will all be arranged.

I wouldn't stand in your way, Sally. I'll pay him well for your contract.

Now, you've got five minutes to get dressed and start for the train. Go

I'll have a hack at the entrance.

Go get your clothes on.

Scoot.

Good to see you. Sally, I've got some news for you. What news, Molly? Your

husband, he's in trouble.

Peter? In trouble?

Your daughter isn't much of a quick change artist, is she? Well, I'll see

keeping her.

Well. You Mr. Bonham? Of course I am. I got a message for you. She ain't coming.

Who ain't coming?

Sally, Miss Watterson. She had to go somewhere else. What are you talking

young woman? She's driving to Titusville.

By herself?

Why, that takes all night.

Titusville? Why in blazes is she going to Titusville?

Is the girl crazy, throwing away a future like I just offered her? Can

give her a future in Titusville? Maybe somebody can.

Maybe somebody.

All right, boulder up. All right.

Peter, Colonel Blake from the Independent refined this.

Wonder what he wants.

Afternoon, Colonel.

How are you, Peter?

What do you think of the time we're making? I tell you, in one week we'll

have... Peter, bad news.

You haven't got a week. You've only got until tomorrow.

But, Colonel, you know it ain't humanly possible to finish by tomorrow. Why,

it's three miles around this cliff.

And besides, you promised me the extension.

I know.

It's the bank.

They threatened to call in my mortgage if I gave you the extension.

But, Colonel, that was... You see, the bank has a new owner.

Brennan? Yes.

I'm sorry it ended like this, boys.

I wanted to see you win.

But I guess it just isn't in the cards.

Sorry, boys.

That means I call the men off, don't it?

No. Put them back to work. Make them work like devils. Even devils couldn't

that pipe to the refinery in less than a week. You do as I tell you. That's what

you're being paid for.

The trouble is we ain't being paid, Peter.

These men have been paid nothing for the past two weeks.

They've been working because they've been promised pay when the pipe started

earn money.

It ain't going to earn money now.

I guess we all know that.

It's no use, Peter.

There's nothing more we can do.

Boys, I'm going back to work.

Who's with me?

crawl home like a pack of liquor dogs.

There ain't going to be any pipeline.

Just a lot of iron rusting and rotting in the earth.

It's too bad we don't lie down ourselves and rot. We ain't men, we ain't

nothing.

What was I trying to do anyway?

Who did I think I was? Who cares?

Peter! Peter!

Sally, how did you get here? I came down for Mary. I came to warn you. They're

going to hold you to your time limit. Yes, I know.

Look.

Your men quitting?

Yes, we're all quitting.

Not you, Peter. You don't know what it is to quit. I'm beginning to learn.

But the pipeline.

You've given up everything for it. That's why I made a fool of myself.

You knew I was a fool, too.

Oh, no, Peter. You showed me what you thought of me and my notions, didn't

And you were right, too. No, Peter, I was wrong.

Anybody's wrong runs away from things. I can't bear to think of you running

away. I'd expect you to fight until you dropped, until you didn't have enough

strength in your body to move, not to turn tail and run home. Look, that ain't

like you, Peter.

Well, what do you want me to do? What have you got to do?

There's three miles around that cliff to the refinery.

It'd be a miracle to lay that much pipe in less than a week. They tell me I

gotta do it in a day.

I can't do it, you understand? Nobody can do it.

I can't make the pipes flower that cliff or climb over. I can't.

I... Climb over.

If the rock would hold, we could pump it up.

You thought of something?

Can't talk to you now, Sally.

Hey, Phil!

Phil! Get out of Spike and Hammer. We are hanging the pipe to the left. Hang

straight over the hill. It's worth the try, boys.

Come on!

Peter,

I'm going with you.

No, no, Sally, you stay here. I can't take you.

Come on, guys!

Come on!

They could rig up a block and tackle and pull the men up so they can drive in

these spikes and run the pipes clamped to the top. That's a pretty high cliff

climb. I know that, but we can make it.

Only... Only we need more men. We do that.

And where are we going to get them?

How many more men do you need, Peter?

At least as many more as we have now.

I know.

I know where I could get them.

Well, where, Sally? Never mind. You put your men to work. I'll get you some

help.

All right, boys, let's get started.

All right, come on, boys.

This one's up to something we ain't counted on. I thought we'd counted on

everything. Not this. No, just by Adam's bluff.

You know down there by the pass? Yes. They're pushing the pipe right up over

Over the top? Yeah.

Red, we've got to stop that. You'd better get your men together. All right.

You'd better come too, Mr. Brennan. All right.

Hey, Jack, Jerry, get in here.

Where are you going, Red?

Adam's bluff.

Portland again.

fight, but we still got work to do. We gotta finish that pipeline.

Come on!

Well, the time's nearly up. Well, it isn't 12 o 'clock yet.

You've only got two minutes.

Start your pumps.

You see?

Your pipe doesn't help you.