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You gonna help me, Sheriff?

Only so I can hang you, Greiner.

- Where are the saddlebags? - I didn't have none.

What would I want with saddlebags? I never owned nothin'.

The money you took from Wylie-- the government money.

- What did you do with it? - I'm losing blood, Sheriff.

He was a good man. You killed him. You killed Wylie. No. No.

You lived in town eight months, Greiner.

You never worked. What did you live on?

Where did you get the money to gamble?

You only save me from the Apache to let me die? The saddlebags.

What'd you save me for if you're gonna let me die here?

You're not gonna die here, Greiner.

You're gonna die hanging.

Take your time. Take your time.

Bring your team in. Come on. Bring 'em up here in front.

Get the coach in here. Get 'em on up here.

That's right. Keep 'em over that side.

That's right. A little closer. Yeah.

Bring your team in. Come on. Bring 'em up here in front.

That's right.

Hey. I'll tell you when to get in here.

Oh.

How'd it happen? Oh, never mind. I don't care.

What am I always opening my fool mouth for? I don't want to know.

Come on. Give me a hand here. Let's get out of here.

Can we help?

No, ma'am.

I'll take care of him.

Take it easy now, boys.

When you're gettin' em off of here, don't hurry 'em any.

Take your time. Take your time.

Easy.

Giddap there!

Looks like a bad one.

How? Apache. About 30 miles back.

Get me some water. Whoa.

They must've been drunk.

Ain't been fightin' 'Pache round here for three or four years.

Here. Where'll I put him, ma'am?

I ain't being nurse to anybody, Sheriff.

He's my prisoner. I'll take care of him.

First bedroom at the head of the stairs.

The name's Ann Kenyon.

I own this place with my husband.

How do you do, Mrs. Kenyon? Colonel Morsby.

It isn't very often we have a woman come through here.

What's your name?

Valerie. Valerie Kendrick.

Well, I hope the couple days you're out here--

You, uh, are going to Salado, aren't you?

You aren't going on west right now?

I'm going to Salado.

Well, that's a relief. I mean, knowing we'll have time to talk.

If only a little time.

Say, you know the fella that was walkin'-- the one that shot the other one?

Well, I don't mean to scare you,

'cause the Waco Rambler was a gentleman with the ladies.

But I swear he's the Waco Rambler.

No.

Couldn't be the Waco Rambler.

Waco Rambler got himself hung eight, nine years ago.

No.

What room shall I take, Mrs. Kenyon?

Oh, you'll have to share a room with Mr. Hatcher, Colonel.

Second door to your right upstairs. Thank you.

Mrs. Kenyon, what about that wounded man?

You get used to everything around here,

especially the wounded and the dying.

You just get used to it.

Miss! Would you bring up some hot water?

It's on the stove, Sheriff.

I'll take it up.

Went through. It's out.

Can I help? No. It's all right now.

How long did you ride with him like that?

Not too long.

He must have lost a lot of blood...

not being bandaged right away.

Didn't he? Maybe.

There wasn't time to do anything else.

Miss Kendrick, your room is right across the hall.

If you'll follow me--

Those pillowcases are expensive, Sheriff.

I'll pay for 'em.

As soon as he can travel, you get him out of here. Understand?

This is a matter of law. You don't tell me what and how.

When he can travel, I'll get him out. Do youunderstand?

If you'll follow me, Miss Kendrick.

Nobody give him anything until they check with me first.

How pleasant.

I was gonna make 'em all up like this.

But what for?

Soldiers, killers, sheriffs?

Or my husband?

He never notices anything different.

Maybe he does notice.

Lots of men can't say it, but they notice and like it.

Sure. Back East...

where couples have time for each other...

to notice each other.

But when you work all day, you don't have time.

You're too busy building a future, like my husband says.

Only the future never comes.

I hope I'm up to it.

If you get to live out here, you'll get like all the rest of us--

almost sick for the sight and sound of another woman.

Someone to talk clothes with or gossip...

or just do nothin'.

You're the first woman who's passed through here in three months.

Maybe I can come up a ways and we can meet once in a while.

From Salado? South of Salado.

The man I'm engaged to, he has a ranch down there.

That's a hard time running a ranch in this country.

Well, he wrote me that it's quite comfortable now.

I don't know why I'm even making plans.

I'm not even sure that--

You have to be sure.

If I'd really loved him, would-- would I have stayed away this long?

It's over a year since he left Abilene.

You better wash up now.

Food will be served in a few minutes.

Your coach is ready to leave, folks.

If there's anybody else headin' west--

Nobody else, Deadhorse. Glen's got 'em all.

All right. Nobody else, Glen.

Get it rollin', boy. Get it rollin'.

Your patient didn't eat very much.

He's doing all right.

I've seen men in a lot worse shape who've been up and around in no time.

Where are you taking him? Back to Rio Seco.

- Are you the sheriff there? - Mm-hmm.

What'd he do? Murder.

He break jail? Never was in.

But if he hasn't had a trial, how can you--

You knowhe committed the murder?

He's guilty.

Very often out here, it's necessary to judge and punish without a trial.

But how can you?

The way I take the sheriff's word that Indians wounded his prisoner.

They were Apache.

We know our enemy. We have to.

We didn't once, but we do now.

How can you say they're guilty of something until it's proven?

Law is an unusual interest for a woman.

I'm not talking about law. I'm referring to justice, Colonel.

Then justice is an unusual interest for women.

In-- In the border wars,

I saw a judge decide who was guilty your way.

He would say, "We know our enemy."

Just as you say, Colonel. He would say, "Why pretend?

I know. Everybody knows."

You're from Abilene, huh, Miss?

Of course. Judge Kendrick.

He was an extremist, a fanatic.

My father did it for as noble a reason...

as you think you have, Colonel-- or the sheriff.

He did it out of an honest belief it was his sacred duty...

to judge the border raiders that way.

There was a special reason.

There's always a special reason.

The fact still remains the Apache tried to kill a white man today.

Correct, Sheriff?

Colonel, I've been out here a long time.

I ain't heard of any Apache fighting in three or four years.

A week ago, I was making a routine inspection on the San Carlos reservation.

While I was there, 50 of them escaped.

We only got shot up by two.

You're lucky.

They killed a family of settlers in Grant Valley.

My husband-- he'll be coming back from Salado.

He's riding alone.

I wouldn't worry, Mrs. Kenyon.

By the time the Apache gets that far south, I will have reached Salado.

Our troops will be in the field and ready for them.

Sheriff. Colonel. Come on!

That one standing there and pointing--

do you see him?

Yeah.

That's their leader. Cara Blanca.

Are they the ones, Sheriff?

That's right, from San Carlos.

I'm not sure they're the same ones. What are you scaring her for?

I'm sorry, Mrs. Kenyon, but we have to be prepared.

You can't prepare if you fool yourself into thinking everything's all right.

Well, they're here, aren't they? All of them.

What are we going to do?

I want a man to go to Salado and get troops.

Salado's a two-day ride. If Cara Blanca attacks,

the troops would never get back in time and we'd be a man short.

We'll have to run that risk. Don't let him throw you into a panic.

Those Indians won't attack unless they're stirred up.

They don't need stirring up.

We scattered them from Mexico to California.

We broke their ranks, and they re-formed.

We burnt their villages, and they lived in caves.

They have a will to survive, a passion for life, that shames any white man.

It never dies.

Nothing destroys the Apache but death-- total, complete.

I fought the Apache too, but the wars are over, finished.

I live with them now. I stopped fighting.

But you can't. That's the difference between us.

I can admit we made a mistake doing what we did to them, but you can't.

You never will. They're comin' over.

Where are you going? To get a rifle, of course.

There are only two of them coming over. Even one is dangerous.

I figure we can handle this without a gun.

Don't act like you think they killed those settlers. Don't accuse them.

I know how to handle these people. It's my business to know.

We come in peace. You broke your word.

The reservation was not the way it was promised.

Three years is enough for my people.

- You had food and shelter. - You promised more--

the green farmlands of the Rio Colorado.

But when the new white men wanted our farms,

you moved us to the desert of San Carlos.

A government as big as ours doesn't always know the mistakes that are made by its helpers.

Is it too much to ask that the white chief know...

when his promises are made into lies?

We come to trade-- for food, for salt.

That's not why you're here.

We want only peace, Colonel Morsby.

Our tribe will suffer no more at your hands.

Do not awaken the old hatreds.

He came only for food. That's all he wants.

We can't trade food for those things.

We can't afford it.

Will five American dollars buy them?

Food. Not money.

The five dollars will buy flour and salt.

Won't it, Ann?

Good.

You get the flour.

You get the doodads.

Ese hombre solamente.

What's the matter? He hasn't committed any crime.

A family of settlers was murdered.

You're guessing. You don't know who did it.

Do you need proof that the man upstairs, Greiner, committed murder?

There are times and places when you have to believe...

a man's guilty until he proves he's innocent.

That's crazy. A point where all you can expect is treachery and murder.

It isn't the same.

Whatever you think is wrong will be worked out at the council table.

But you will return now with your people.

You will return to the reservation.

Colonel, why don't you listen to the sheriff?

Deadhorse, take Cara Blanca across on the barge.

Sheriff, why don't you listen to the colonel?

Whether you return to the reservation or not is your business.

But make sure you're gone by morning.

Whatever you think of an Indian's word--

As much as any man's if he lives up to it.

My word, my promise-- we shall be gone by morning.

I sure like Apache.

One of the first white men in these parts to like 'em.

Said to General Custer, "Custer," I said,

"you got to trust Apache."

Oh, yes, sir, I'm very fond of Apache.

Are you always so sure of everything?

Not always.

Can I put up my horse in the barn? Do anything you like.

You seem to be running things around here.

Ann. Ann.

You forgot these. Not now. Later.

Miss?

Are you afraid?

Well, I-- I don't know.

But you must know if you're scared.

Well, I-- I read things in Kansas about the Apache,

about the things they did, but...

this one acted peaceful.

I'm afraid.

I try not to be, but I am. Well, that sheriff, he seemed calm.

I hate him. Hate him?

Do you believe him? Do you believe everything's gonna be all right?

Well, I-- I guess I am anxious,

but I don't have any reason to doubt the sheriff.

I mean, doubt what he said about the Apache.

But the colonel doesn't agree, and it's his profession.

He knows there's no easy way.

He knows we're not safe. He doesn't promise an easy way out of here.

The sheriff didn't promise anything. He didn't--

Like my husband promised-- so much.

I won't die here. I won't!

Miss.

Some water?

Sorry, miss.

I heard.

She's right about his big talk, about the sheriff.

Why do you think so?

He told you about me, about why I'm here.

Yes.

'Cause he always thinks he's right.

Ain't anybody else says so, but he says so.

You claim you're innocent?

All I'm sayin', if you listen to his ideas,

he'll have us all killed before we're through.

I-- I'll be back later.

You're all right. I'll tell you about it.

Then you figure who's talkin' straight-- him or me.

I'll be back.

You do understand why I had to talk to the Apache that way?

Maybe that's the only way you know how to talk to people.

The government's way-- the army's way to talk to Apaches.

When I came here 12 years ago, the massacre of settlers was beyond control.

Because of the way you had treated the Apache.

That wasn't our mistake.

Our mistake was not in being too cruel.

We were too kind.

It was not that we were too harsh.

We were too soft.

Almost too late, we recognized they kill for the love of killing,

kill because they have a natural need to kill.

Nobody's got a natural need to kill.

That grows in a man. It's put there after he's born.

Your kind of misguided benevolence led to the slaughter in this territory.

That's why, as much as I was haunted by the thing I was doing,

I had to recommend that the Apache submit or be exterminated.

That's why, finally, we moved in 8,000 troops.

That was youridea? You don't understand, my friend. You--

Look. Look here.

See the beauty of this craftsmanship,

the simplicity that is true art.

That was my torment, my doubt.

Could such artistry be the root of their being...

and everything else about them only my imagination?

Or was this-- this beauty just a mask for violence?

Don't you think that, even to this day, I am sickened by what I had to do?

But my admiration stopped at murder.

Murder? You call it murder. You make it a crime.

We robbed them, we killed them.

When they fought back, we called it murder.

I don't know all about you, Colonel,

but you complain too much about what you hadto do.

I think killing Apaches is something you liketo do.

You can put up an all-night guard...

or be murdered in your sleep.

Well, I guess there's no other way.

Mmm. Have to, I reckon.

Of course we have to. We absolutely have to.

I'll be upstairs if you need me.

You take it first. I'll relieve you.

Sheriff! Colonel!

Sheriff! Look up the north road!

Look!

Now what about Cara Blanca's precious honor?

Now, what about it? I don't know.

Now we'll lay down the law to them.

We'll do what I wanted to do in the first place.

The troops are in Salado. The coach isn't due for a day and a half.

There's nothing to back you up. - They're afraid of me.

That's what backs me up.

They're afraid of me because they've never been able to fool me.

If you squeeze Cara Blanca into a corner, he'll have to fight us.

You know it. He's killed five settlers already. He wants to fight.

Didn't the sheriff say that two Apaches shot the man upstairs?

Not thieves, not highwaymen, but Apaches.

Didn't he say that, Hatcher? You heard him. Well, yeah, he said it.

And, Miss Kendrick,

you seem to have great faith in the sheriff's words.

The Indians were to be gone by morning.

It's-- Well, something could have come up.

Something--Something did come up-- a plan to murder us.

You don't know that as a certainty.

Then why don't the Apache leave? Why?

Mrs. Kenyon, can you tell me why?

Sheriff, Hatcher, any of you.

Can anyone tell me why the Apache decided to stay?

Can anyone give me a motive other than treachery?

What do you want to do? Go into the camp.

Carry it right to them on their home ground, and I shall go alone.

Do you want Morsby to go there alone?

I want you to go with him.

Maybe both is a better idea.

You ready, Colonel?

Greiner's beginning to move around. Keep an eye on him.

You said you'd be gone by morning.

When I told my people what the colonel had said,

they would not leave until we talked again.

What are you after, Cara Blanca?

What do your people want?

Farmland that will not be taken from us.

A life of peace and not to be hunted.

Not to be tracked down like animals by troops.

It's not what the colonel wants. He says you've broken the law.

Your law is like a twig-- bent this way and that as you want.

Colonel, I want your promise that troops will not come after us.

Five settlers were killed south of San Carlos.

We did not do it. You were there when it happened.

We parted ways from those of my people who would still go to war.

We left them. We went our own way.

You knew the five settlers would be murdered if you walked away.

As you turned your face...

when the whites killed our families at the mines of Santa Rita.

But that was so many years ago.

Have you counted the wagon trains of whites the Apache have killed since?

And how many innocent tribes of the north...

have been hunted to death in caves and canyons?

The new killing is your doing, and the guilty will hang.

En la sangre de sus abuelos, han jurado no matar más.

Make no move, Colonel. Answer this question.

Do you say some of my people must die?

We can't talk anymore here. I'll council with the colonel back at the house.

- There'll be no trouble. - Until the sun is low in the sky.

You will tell us then. Hablaremos.

What if some of them try to stop us?

You must risk that, Colonel.

My brothers and I are pledged as of this moment not to kill.

I was practically a stranger in Rio Seco.

Sure, I gambled a little, but I never hurt nobody.

And then when he couldn't find nobody to bring to trial for that killin',

people started saying maybe they-- maybe they needed a better sheriff.

It wasn't his fault if he couldn't catch the man.

But he thought it was. He had to have a hanging.

He had to-- had to prove he was smart.

I guess that's why he kept pickin' on me--

'cause I never been afraid of him.

Guess that's why he kept buildin' up them stories about me.

Don't you see, ma'am? He had to make it come out his way...

even if, for real, it wasn't that way at all.

They're coming back.

He's still everything I said.

Everything.

But if you weren't guilty, Mr. Greiner, why did you run?

From him, anybody would've. Anybody.

Is it all right?

No, it isn't.We'll have to hole up.

Morsby's gonna change his mind.

He's going to promise not to send troops.

I'm an officer of the United States Army, and I'm committed to a policy.

Any Indian who escapes from a reservation must be returned.

Anyone who hinders me from my duty will be guilty of a felony. Is that clear?

What about these people? What's your policy toward them, Colonel?

If it could save your lives, I'd walk out there and agree to their terms.

- I'd agree with everything they asked. - Then agree. Tell them.

Out there just now, you saw Cara Blanca take my challenge, accept my accusation.

He could have killed me then. Why didn't he? Why?

If I'm so dangerous to his people, why? Because he wants peace.

Because he's afraid of me as long as I stand up to him.

As long as I do that, you're safe, all of you.

The moment I agree to anything he wants,

he'll think that I'm weak and he'll attack.

And we'll all be killed.

Mrs. Kenyon, shall I agree to the Apaches' terms?

No.

Hatcher?

I guess you got a point, Colonel.

Miss Kendrick. They said they'd go, but they didn't.

They killed five defenseless settlers.

They're desperate fugitives. They're killers.

They are Apache.

I ask you, Miss Kendrick. Is there another way?

Oh, I don't know. Maybe you're right.

The Apache!

Colonel, you was right. They got the south ridge covered.

I was nosin' around, and three wild men-- they was standin' up.

Not movin', just holdin' their rifles.

Not aimin' at nobody at all, but they wouldn't let me go no further.

Well-- What--

Don't you realize what I'm sayin'?

We're surrounded on both sides.

You in the house!

What is your answer?

Well?

I order them to return to the reservation.

What is the colonel's answer?

You will return to the reservation.

Or the colonel will send troops after my people?

You give him no other way.

Then hear me.

Your Colonel Morsby will come with us...

to make sure troops do not follow.

Morsby stays in this house.

We will not harm him. He will be returned.No.

When we reach the mountains, he will be released.

Your offer is refused, Cara Blanca.

I have had angry words with my people.

I have avoided killing.

You must accept my offer.

Then we shall take him!

This is all the ammunition we've got. Mostly rifle shells in here.

Hey!

That fella, Greiner, he wants a gun.No.

We need everybody who can shoot. No gun for him no matter what happens.

You and Hatcher take the upstairs.

Get on the floor.

Who's covering the west end? Me-- Hatcher!

I'm taking the horse out of the barn. Cover me.

When I ride out, you run to the barge.

No.You've got to if you want to get out.

Maybe I should stay.

They haven't got any horses. Once you're across the river, you're safe.

You'll be needing help here. There's food to cook. We'll manage.

You'd better wait. If the Apache take my horse, we'll never get the women out.

Maybe he won't come out.

He has to.

He has to.

Run now.

Come on.

The landing.

Get down.

Run for it.

You said you'd get us out of here.

That was our last chance, wasn't it? I don't know.

Well, why don't you turn me over to them? I should've done it before.

Maybe you still can. Why don't you go out there and talk to them?

Don't take another chance like that.

I'll do what I have to.

Yes. Of course.

You tried everything you could.

Yeah, so did you.

Don't, Mrs. Kenyon.

Don't talk like the Apache aren't out there.

You-- You can't pretend. It isn't any good.

I didn't want to come out here. I didn't.

But he begged me-- my husband.

He pleaded with me to come out.

How can I respect him when he begs and pleads?

It only meant he loved you that much.

All our friends, all our family expected it.

You can't break your word once you've promised.

You can't break your promise once everybody knows.

You don't mean that, Mrs. Kenyon.

You're just frightened because he isn't here right now.

What was that?

I won't.

I won't die waiting for a man I don't even love.

Did you ever tell him?

If you didn't love the man you're going to marry, could you tell him?

I'm sorry I talked to you like that,

especially after the risk you took.

It's over. It's done. It didn't work.

There's another way. No other way.

That was the last chance you and Miss Kendrick had to get out.

I'm talking about you and me. We could get out.

About 30 feet downstream from the landing, there's a rock ledge.

A small flatboat is under it.

And what happens to Miss Kendrick?

I don't care. But I do.

If I were as pretty as she, you wouldn't care.

Not one minute you wouldn't.

Say, a while back, four coyotes was hollerin'.

That'll keep 'Paches away better than anything. They figure that's the worst bad luck.

I've been around 'em for years. Never heard of that superstition.

Well, maybe that's because you been around northern Apaches. These is southern.

You mean four coyotes howlin' is yourgood luck sign, huh?

Yeah, that's it. My good luck-- their bad luck.

Don't depend on it.

Don't try anything.

Give me that gun. Don't try to take it.

You brought me here. Now get me out.

The horse is gone. Nobody can get out.

Even if you have to carry me.

Go on.

Greiner. Greiner!

You can hear me. You gotta let me go.

Shut up. You got no right stoppin' me.

Another trick like that, and I'll kill you. Just give me an excuse.

You're a man of law. How can you threaten him that way?

No matter what he's done.

He murdered Wylie, and I'll kill him.

If he was strong enough to handle a gun, I'd--

But one way or another-- my own gun or by law-- I'll kill him.

Fire arrow!

Fire arrow!

Get on the roof.

Help!

Help me! Help!

They're gone for a while, maybe until morning.

You'll be all right.

I'll send in Mrs. Kenyon.

Hold your fire! It's Cara Blanca.

The more reason. If we bring him in here, they'll listen to us.

And if he dies in here, they'll never quit.

I'm going after him.Wait. I--

- Yes? - I--

Oh, nothing.

Are you going to help him before he does what you want?

Sure. Why not?

Before he makes them stop fighting?

I don't use a man's life to make deals.

Any man's life.

It makes no difference. But it's your life.

Still, it makes no difference.

But what of your people? They are lost.

Then why don't you stop them?

And what would I promise them if they did stop?

Peace. They put down their guns once before.

Do not try to bring the wolf and the coyote together.

Do not stand between them.

We are no good now...

we who stand between the angry people,

we who would bring them together in peace.

There's your answer. Now let's get rid of him.

First you say, if he dies here, we'll never get out.

Then you want to kill him here.

It has to be done.

Miss Kendrick, can you feel safe in the same house with an Apache?

You want to commit murder, and you ask us to approve of it.

That fella you're gonna marry, I hope you get to him.

Thank you.

Would you like some coffee?

Sure.

You know we won't get out of here, don't you, Hatcher?

We'll never get out alive. We have a chance.

No chance at all if we stay.

There's nothing to do.

What about the flatboat under the ledge?

That's crazy. We'll die if we stay.

The 'Paches are on the south ridge.

You'll take me to the boat, Hatcher.

Why should I? What for?

Because you love me.

Don't fool. Don't play games.

'Cause you always stayed here instead of going into Salado on your time off.

Waiting. Waiting because you love me.

Because you want me.

Ann.

Not unless we go tonight.

Not until you take me away tonight.

Tonight.

Rider! Comin' over the south ridge.

Thanks. Tom.

Ann. You're all right. I thought I'd never see you again.

Did you sight any patrols along the way? No.

You told me there wouldn't be any more Apache attacks.

There haven't been, Ann, not for two or three years before I brought you out here.

You knew it would happen again. You knew they'd come back.

Look, Ann, I brought you something.

It's something you've always wanted.

Well, go on, open it.

Ann, what's the matter?

We've been at peace with them. How'd it come to this?

They escaped from the reservation.

I never did them any harm. Why are they fighting here?

Do you want to answer him, Colonel?

Do you want to tell the man why?

They broke federal law.

Well, that's not enough for me,

not for how hard I worked to build up everything here.

All that's important is to stop it.

There's no help coming. We'll be wiped out before--

Our only chance to stop them is to keep fighting.

They haven't got any help coming either.

The colonel speaks the truth.

My people are alone.

But while helives, they will fight.

They will die fighting to kill him.

What's your name, Colonel?

Morsby.

Morsby.

The famous Colonel Morsby.

- Who do I relieve first? - No relief. We need everybody at a post.

What isn't covered? Upstairs. South side.

So the Apache finally caught up with you.

Ann, have you got something you want to tell me?

No.

Nothing.

Oh. Thanks.

Oh. I wasn't very hungry.

Too tired to eat? Mm-hmm.

Here. It's wet. It'll keep you awake.

Oh. Thanks.

Can I stay here?

Well, it's safer to sit on the floor.

Mm-hmm.

Scared?

Oh, I-- I've been keeping busy.

I mean, it's happened so fast, I--

Yeah. Oh, yes, I am scared.

Maybe if I'd been out here longer.

Ann Kenyon's been here a long time. She's scared.

She's different.

Nah, you never get used to this.

When Indians attack, nobody's a hero.

Ann Kenyon isdifferent.

She never wanted this kind of life or to be married to--

I shouldn't talk about it like that.

She doesn't make any secret of it.

She married because she was committed,

because everybody expected it.

Being loved isn't enough, is it?

Being loved and-- and not loving back the same way is like--

It's like being alone.

Or is it because I'm so frightened that I--

that I feel alone.

Nobody can tell you. You gotta know it yourself.

To marry a man just because he'd be miserable if you don't,

that makes a life of misery for both.

Doesn't it?

Back home, I--

I would've had to known you a long time before we kissed,

the way I knew all about the man I was engaged to.

There's not much to know about me.

Except for Greiner.

All right, I'll tell you about him.

Only if you want to tell me.

You know, my name-- Dakota-- isn't a white man's name.

It's Indian-- after the place where they killed my family,

where Ed Wylie found me.

He was an Indian agent on his way to Rio Seco.

He didn't know anything about me,

but he took me in and raised me.

It wasn't easy for a man his age,

a man alone to take over a kid and raise him.

That's why he's so important to me.

He was both parents.

But it's over. It belongs in the past.

You can't keep thinking about it.

Better get some sleep.

Go in there.

What do you want? I heard you.

I'm going with you.

Your husband's asleep. You get his rifle.

You get the old man's down the hall.

Leave 'em without any guns?

I'll take care of downstairs.

I'll meet you at the flatboat.

Leave 'em defenseless? Don't argue.

All right. All right.

He's been hit.

I didn't do it! Dakota, we lost two guns.

Where are they? I didn't take 'em.

Where are the guns? Hatcher.

Tell me. Tell me! Hatcher.

I didn't take--Where are the guns?

Tell me! Hatcher!

Hatcher's dead.

He's dead.

You were running away with him.

He told us-- He made us.

Tom, where are you going?

There's a shotgun in the barn. I'll try and hold some of them off.

No! Tom!

Don't let him because of me. Don't let him.

You can't help now.

Tom? Go back!

Oh, Tom. Tom. I was wrong.

Go back. Get out. Forgive me, dear. Forgive me.

- You don't want me. - I do. It's this place I hate, not you.

It's too late to forgive. I love you. Only you. Only you.

How many shots you got left?

Three or four.

I only got a couple myself.

But the Apache are just as bad off, aren't they?

That's why they're coming in to fight, isn't it?

I will not answer.

Then tell your people the colonel is dead.

Isn't that what they wanted?

Before so many were killed.

Tell them the colonel is dead.

I will tell them.

Hermanos.

Hermanos. Escúchenme.

Está muerto el coronel.

El coronel está muerto.

They will not listen.

They've got to listen.

Tell them again. Tell them the colonel is dead.

Por sus hijos, por sus mujeres.

Escúchenme.

Está muerto el coronel.

Está muerto el coronel.

El coronel está muerto.

Está muerto--

The savages!

As you are.

As all men, if revenge be the only reason to live or die.

Then we move like the coyote...

in a world of enemy and hate.

Your people were always like this.

Do not forget how it started.

I don't care how it started. You have to.

This was your doing.

You should've turned Morsby over to the Apache.

Will killing him save our lives? What good will it do?

It'll do me good.

Isn't there anything in you besides hate?

There was last night.

There was tenderness, love. And I--

I wasn't afraid.

Now there's nothing to go to-- nothing.

There's no love in you. No love.

They are all dead.

Todos están muertos.

Muertos.

Muertos.

Wherever you go, there'll be something like this.

Not if men will talk with us.

Wouldn't the reservation be safer for you and the women?

Now there is no choice.

Because you have always won the wars against us,

but you have never won our trust.

Can you ever win it by punishment?

Your women wait.

What about him?

Take him back in the house.

Valerie, you going to stay in Salado?

You mean, am I going to marry him? No.

He'll understand.

There'll be a coach out of Salado for Rio Seco.

Dakota, I'm not coming to Rio Seco.

You mean, last night, what you said to me-- I said there was no love in you.

To a man like you, the world is full of Greiners.

You'll always have to look for them, to find them.

When will there be time in your life to love me...

or anybody?

I'm sorry. Greiner will have to stand trial.

But I'm not the judge and jury.

Without the saddlebags, I can't prove he did it.

And what if he's freed?

Then he's freed.

But either way, I'm free.