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If I were an Indian, I could've picked up some mighty easy scalps just then.

I'm glad you weren't.

Come here. I want to show you something.

Don't be afraid. You won't need that shooting iron. Come on.

Something out there you could live five lifetimes and never see again.

Look.

Saint Elmo's fire.

Never seen it except on ships.

I've never seen it anywhere. What is it?

Well, a star fell and smashed and scattered its glow all over the place.

There, you see? You laughed.

You're getting used to me again.

I was really thinking that you haven't changed a bit.

How do you mean that?

Oh, you've still got that wildness on the tip of your tongue.

I've still got you in my heart, too.

Look, Belle, I know this hasn't been a good trip for you,

but, well, we're going to have smooth sailing from here on out.

You really don't want smooth sailing, Bren.

You carry your own storm wherever you go.

Only when I travel alone.

Belle.

Look at me. I'm trying to tell you how much I love you.

No, Bren.

You loved a 16-year-old girl.

In another country. In another world almost.

And you still think I'm that girl.

You are.

I'm not.

The girl you remember died a long, long time ago.

But the minute I look at you, she comes alive again.

Can't you see that, Belle?

Don't you know what I've done for you?

Something only love could do?

I stopped time from touching you.

I trapped you in my heart the very first day I saw you, and I've never let you change.

Oh, Belle, 100 years from now, my eyes could look at you and still see

a pretty little girl in a yellow dress.

You've said it all.

Don't you see, Bren?

I don't want to be loved as if I were

a frightened, shivering, innocent little girl.

I have to be loved for what I am.

I'm a woman

with the heart and the mind and the flesh of a woman.

I'm not young and I'm not innocent.

There's so much more to me

to be loved than just that.

But you don't see it.

Because you don't want to.

You're up awful early this morning.

Why, yes, I am.

Do you think that's wise? Walking around here unarmed?

Just wanted to see this little church in the daylight.

Yeah.

Lots of hopes, lots of prayers must've started here.

Or ended.

Babies being christened.

Women burying their dead.

Sometimes men, too.

Men?

I lost my wife and two daughters in an Osage war party.

Oh.

I'm sorry.

I'm afraid I was only thinking of myself.

To me, it's always seemed like the women who keep on living.

Men kill or get killed.

And women bury them. We're professional survivors.

Belle, last night...

I couldn't help seeing you and O'Malley talking together.

And I had the feeling that you two have met before sometime.

I mean, way before we began this cattle drive. Have you?

I don't think you have the right to ask me that question, Mr. Stribling.

But I give myself that right, because I mean to marry you.

That gives me every right in the world.

Will I have anything to say about this marriage?

Not until I ask you.

And I can't ask until I square things off with him.

Then you'll have a lot to say about it.

Excuse me.

No reason to be offended.

But you might just as well forget you ever saw him,

because I'm the man you're going to marry.

I mean what I say, Belle.

O'Malley!

Hold up the herd!

What did you think you were doing?

I was protecting my fifth of the herd.

You get on back there and get the outfit ready to stand off an attack.

I didn't sign up to fight Yaquis.

Well, I ain't about to fight them, either.

Get the wagon and the remuda over here and we'll surround them with the herd.

Get ready.

Hold it.

They've got Stribling.

All they wanted was a little fresh beef.

You could've got him killed.

Not yet.

How many herd did you have to give?

One-fifth of the herd!

O'Malley's fifth.

Never did like cows much anyhow.

Quicksand!

Watch where you ride!

Throw me a rope.

Let's have a rope.

Think you might find a way to tear up that warrant?

Not a chance.

Hold your hands over your head.

The big guy is stuck in the quicksand.

Don't get the wrong idea, Stribling.

If Belle didn't need you to get these cattle through,

you'd be on the bottom now, alongside your horse.

That's the way I figured.

I killed Frank Hobbs.

Well, there she is. We made it.

Sure is beautiful.

I got plenty of vaqueros to help us make the crossing.

Crazy Horse is on the other side, just beyond that ridge.

When do we cross over?

First thing in the morning.

You mean we're going to have to make camp again?

When there's a town in plain sight?

Well, it's too late to try today, Melissa.

All right, let's get these cattle moving towards the river.

You know, Missy, you and your mother could make the crossing now,

and spend a comfortable night in town. I'd like that.

We've come this far, Melissa. We might as well spend one more night.

Well, I sure would like a nice bath.

You know, this is our last night in Mexico.

Let's celebrate. Let's have a fiesta.

A fiesta? Can we get all dressed up? Why not?

O'Malley? O'Malley?

Yes?

We're going to have a fiesta tonight. Will you dance with me?

Sure will. Dance with you all night long.

Oh, Mr. O'Malley, if you decide not to cross the border with us,

I'll be glad to send your wages after I've sold the herd.

I'll think about it.

I'm only a sham.

I haven't any slippers. I wouldn't wear boots.

Do you like it?

Very much.

It was my mother's.

Could've been made for you.

Melissa, where did you find that dress?

In your trunk.

It's been torn.

Oh, yes, it is.

Did you know that, Mama?

Yes. Someone gave me a corsage of primroses.

And a very jealous boy ripped them off and stomped on them. Tore the dress.

I think that's romantic.

Well, some day I'll give those primroses back to you.

Dance with me.

Pretty little girl in the yellow dress

When are you going to give

Your heart to me?

I intend to keep on asking

Until you answer yes

Pretty little girl

In the pretty little yellow dress

I looked and saw you standing there

Like fire-glow on a winding stair

So young you were, so proud, so fair

With candlelight to preen your hair

Pretty little girl in the yellow dress

Your watch, O'Malley.

When you...

Hey. You're a long ways from your wagon. What are you doing here?

Are you going to cross over?

I don't know. I haven't decided yet.

If you stay here in Mexico, I'm staying here with you.

Why do you say a thing like that?

Because I love you.

Oh, Missy, you only think you do.

And you mustn't... Don't say that I mustn't.

I've loved you from the very first minute I saw you.

And now I'm all filled up with love for you.

Have you said anything like this to your mother?

No. Not yet.

Besides...

Besides what?

You've seen the way she looks at Mr. Stribling.

She won't be lonely for me for much longer.

Missy.

Look at me. And listen to me.

Now you're young, too young... I'm not.

Girls here marry when they're much younger than I am. In Mexico, I'm a woman.

Why is it you always make such a ruckus over being a woman?

Because it's important.

I can sew, keep house and cook better than any woman you ever knew.

Of course you can.

And one these days, a boy'll come along... I don't want a boy.

I want you.

You want someone who'll fill your heart with warmth and sunlight.

You want a young man, not me.

All I can do is throw a cloud over you...

I'm not afraid of clouds.

I'm not afraid of anything.

If you can see so much beauty just by looking into the ocean waves,

why can't you see just a little something to love in me?

Oh, Missy, I do. I do, Missy.

I look at you and all I see is loveliness.

Please try to get used to me.

And if you don't love me right now, please try to learn.

Oh, Missy.

I've loved you all my life.

Take me with you wherever you go?

For as long as you want,

thanking God every step of the way that I found you.

There's Texas.

It's a lovely sight.

Hey, do we cross the border in the middle of the river

or when we get to the other side?

Well, I don't know.

Well, you like everything legal, don't you?

Oh, yeah.

You still want to serve that warrant?

That's right.

I'm not accepting it, you know.

That's what I figured.

What's that do to our showdown?

Maybe we ought to get the work done first.

Gives us one more hand.

I'll come for you at sundown.

I'll be waiting for you.

Ho, there. Come on.

I'll meet you back here as soon as I get cleaned up.

I'll be waiting!

You could stop this thing if you didn't hate him so.

I don't hate him.

I did, at first.

It's hard to keep on hating somebody you've come to know.

Then let him go. Forget about him.

I was almost hoping he wouldn't cross over.

Please.

Sorry, Belle.

Belle.

What is O'Malley to you?

Or what was he?

I knew him years ago, when I was a girl.

I haven't seen him since.

Until he came to the ranch.

Were you in love with him?

I thought I was.

I was afraid of that.

You can't think there's anything now?

No, Belle.

I'll meet you back here for supper.

Oh, Dana.

Please. If you really love me, you won't gamble your life away like this.

Remember, it's my life, too.

Belle, I do really love you.

Oh, then don't fight him.

There must be a way out. Find it.

Oh, promise me you will.

Good afternoon, Mrs. Breckenridge. You look beautiful.

I had to see you, Bren. I have to talk to you.

All right. Let's talk.

I want to thank you for all you've done for me and Melissa.

That's all right.

But don't you think you should get out of the country, before something happens?

What could happen?

Well, if you stay here, you'll...

Either you'll have another murder on your hands, or you'll be killed.

You're not thinking about me. You're worried about Stribling.

You love him. You don't want to see him killed. That's fair enough.

I'm not thinking of Stribling.

You're a real woman, Belle.

Sorry that cowpoke won't live long enough to know what he's got.

It's not Stribling. It's Melissa.

She told me.

I can't let you take her, Bren.

I won't.

Look, Belle.

Missy'll be safe with me.

Nothing bad will ever happen to her while I'm with her. I promise that.

But it won't last, Bren.

She's so young, it can't. It will.

You see, Missy and I need each other. I don't know how it happened,

but she loves me in a way she'll never love any other man.

You don't know what you're saying.

But I do. I want Missy. And she belongs to me.

I love her more than I love my own life.

Don't you know why?

Bren, you must.

She's your daughter.

It's true.

You know it's true.

What're you trying to do to me, Belle?

Do you think I wouldn't know my own daughter?

Even if I never saw her before, I'd know my daughter.

The minute I looked at her, I'd feel it.

You're lying.

What a dirty thing to do.

You're lying. You're lying. You're lying.

Senor O'Malley. Senor O'Malley.

Missy.

O'Malley?

What's wrong?

Oh, nothing.

I was just thinking what a beautiful girl you've turned out to be.

Beautiful, beautiful girl.

Missy, let's take a walk. Wonderful.

Got my things all packed.

Good.

Are you going to have to fight Mr. Stribling?

We decided on tomorrow,

but we leave today.

You know, I feel as if I've been looking for you all my life.

Without knowing who you were or even what you looked like.

Then I found you.

And now, I'll have you forever.

Forever?

Mmm-hmm.

You know something, Missy?

I'm old enough to be your father.

What difference does that make?

Well, it means that some day, you'll be alone.

I won't be with you anymore,

and so you'll have to find someone else to love.

That's silly. I couldn't love anybody else but you. I couldn't.

There's something wrong with us, Missy.

But why?

Because if you ever really love, you have to go on loving.

It's like a mountain spring. If it stops flowing, there's no more spring.

And if you stop loving, just because something happens to me,

there's no more Missy.

You mean, you'd want me to find somebody else?

If you really loved me, you'd have to find someone else.

And the day you found him, and gave him all the love you once gave me...

Oh, Missy, Missy.

On that day, all the angels in heaven will shout for joy.

And the stars will bend low to chime your wedding bells.

And I'll hear them.

And I'll smile.

And then I'll go to sleep again,

content.

Missy?

Are you all through?

I'm not sure.

Because I'm not listening.

Already I'm a bore.

No.

It's time to get our horses.

I'll pick up your saddlebags at the hotel.

You wait for me right here.

You'll come right back to me, won't you?

When that sun goes down over there,

just below the rim of the hills,

I'll come right back to you.

O'Malley!

It wasn't even loaded.

He told me to give you this, in case anything happened.

Primroses.

You said you'd give them to me.