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And now it's the loudest. You have stated that on the morning of the day your father was murdered, that you and the hands went out to repair a broken fence. How long were you gone?

All day.

And on that day, did you or the hands see any unauthorized person on your land?

Yes sir, about noon we saw a man on a mule cutting across our range.

Is that person in this courtroom now?

The defendant, Johnny Mule.

And now will you describe for the jury just what you and the hands saw when you returned home that evening?

Well, there was some plates on the table. Two people had eaten.

Pa, my father, he was lying face down on the kitchen floor.

And there was a knife stuck in his back.

This knife?

Yes.

Did you or did you not own this knife?

Yeah.

And did you have it with you the day you went to the Loudoun Ranch House?

Yeah.

Well, why did you go there?

To give me some money.

That's why you've killed him, wasn't it?

No.

You even sat at his table and let him feed you first.

No, it wasn't me. It was...

Other fella.

What other fella?

I don't know.

It was other fella I could hear Mr. Loudoun shouting.

What about?

I don't know. There was...

Holleran, he stopped when I knocked on the door.

And did you see this other man?

No.

I know they were someone there, though.

I heard the door slam inside the house.

There was two plates on the table.

And that's the story you want this jury to believe.

He's, um...

Johnny Mule, your real name?

I don't know.

That's all I ever was called.

Did you or did you not?

Wilfully murdered David Loudoun on the third day of last month

for $200 known to be in his possession?

And did you reward his generosity with a knife in his back?

And didn't you then rob him and panic, leaving the knife behind?

And then did you or not?

Four days after your arrest invent this mysterious stranger

in an attempt to cover up this foul and inhuman deed.

Yes or no, Mr. murderer.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

Mr. Mule.

I got the horse's saddle.

Good.

Did you remember that razor strap they asked for?

Yeah, I got it in the other saddle bag with horse's shirt and socks.

We never figured that jury would be out for three days.

No one did.

You know I can't figure out.

I can't really just know what a Hoss and Candy come home at night

instead of keeping them locked up there in a hotel.

Well, they just don't want them to discuss the case with any outsider

until they bring an aburtic.

Yes, it makes sense.

You got everything?

Yeah.

Joe, once we get in the town, I got to get to the bank immediately.

You take this stuff over to the hotel and I'll meet you at the courthouse.

I still think it's been a happy refill he's saddle-made with some hops,

things fried chicken, so all those clean socks.

Well, you're going to find a size 14 chicken.

Well, you're going to find a size 14 chicken.

Why is he?

Oh, Joe.

Can he use it?

No, the jury is still out.

Joe, the bridge is back.

When did he hit him?

Last night, I guess he rode in with Cleve this morning.

It's been almost two years, isn't it?

Is he giving you any trouble?

No.

What was between us is long gone.

He knows I'm Mary and Cleve.

Now, he's, he's brooding about his father.

Well, it's easy enough to understand.

Why don't you go and talk to him?

Cleve, Joe.

Burch, I'm sorry about your father.

I've been hearing that all morning.

Why doesn't somebody do something about it?

What's taken the jury so long?

You know, it was much about it as I do.

Your brother's in there. What does he do something?

First, there's 11 other men in there.

What do you expect us to do?

We heard the same thing that jury aired, Joe.

Deke Sanders offered five to one that they wouldn't be out ten minutes.

No takers.

I wouldn't have been him.

If I'd have been around when they brought that killer in,

it wouldn't be nobody waiting three days to settle it.

Burch, I know how you feel, but that's what the law is for,

to keep trouble from starting more trouble.

I'm talking about the real law. An eye for an eye.

I came back because Pa wrote me, Cleve and Marcy were fixing to get married.

And I come home to this.

Cleve, they said it's no verdict.

What do you mean?

The jury dead locked. They couldn't agree.

They're letting him go.

You know the trial, new jury.

He'll get off. You say if he don't.

Hey, Kenny.

What happened in it?

What happened?

We voted 11 to one. Guilty.

Five minutes after we got the case.

We voted that way for three long days.

11 to one.

Who voted to let him go?

Your brother.

Hi, my brother.

I have urgent. I know you were here.

Oh, that's card right.

The big man himself.

I'm sorry you had to come home under such circumstances.

Are you?

Why didn't you do something about it when you were locked up in that jury room?

Well, Virgil, I'm not sure that Johnny Mule did it.

11 other men did?

Well, I have to answer to my conscience out there.

The law states that guilt must be proven beyond the reason we're not bound to make it worse.

And Paul used to call you his friend.

I hope you knew what you were doing, Hoss.

So do the diversity.

Well, let's go.

You don't have to shut me non-shaft.

I'm sorry.

Oh, the whole hop scene's got some of that fried chicken left.

You know, there ain't nothing like that hotel food to make a man appreciate home cooking.

Yeah, you know.

You two have something to say I'd like to hear it right out.

All right.

And I thought the prosecutor had a darn good case against Johnny Mule.

What do you think, Paul?

Well, much as I hate to think it, what the prosecutor said made a lot of sense.

Then you figure out down wrong by voting for an acquittal and logging up the jury, right?

Well...

It's a free country.

I remember his opinion.

But let me tell you this.

You two had a front row seat.

You saw the show when it was over you.

Got up and walked out.

Had a beer and forgot about it.

But we had to decide whether Johnny Mule was going to lay over a die or not.

Well, Hoss, look, we sat there and we listened to the same evidence that you did.

Joe, I listened to that evidence and I listened to it good.

Some of it went on that side of the schedule, some on that side of the schedule.

And after I heard the comments that Judge had to make,

then I had to make a decision.

I had to live with it.

Look, I just don't understand why you...

Hoss is right.

It's a free country. He's entitled to his opinion.

That's not disgusting any further.

Thanks, Paul.

Now, I'm...

See if there's any of that chicken left in there and I got some work to do out in the bar.

Did you work here? You're just going to stand around.

I was waiting for you to tell me.

Thought maybe you got me fired.

I got a ticket, I got a ticket, but it didn't work.

Then I got a ticket.

You know, I got a ticket.

You got a ticket.

I got a ticket.

I got a ticket, but I got a ticket.

You got a ticket.

I got a ticket.

I got a ticket.

I got a ticket.

You got a ticket.

I got a ticket.

Oh, this is the first party.

you got me fired.

Why would I do a thing like that?

Well, we were at each other's throats for three days.

Well, during the trial, that's all over now.

We'll let 12 other men wrestle that problem.

You ever work on these things?

You are.

You don't care anything, I know it.

I don't think you're wrong.

That's your privilege.

I wasn't alone, you know.

10 others agreed with me.

That's our privilege.

Johnny Mule was in loud this house that day, he admitted that.

And, Lauden was killed with Johnny Mule's name.

Well, what do you need?

I want some answers.

Some answers to some questions like...

Why did Johnny Mule leave his knife there?

He panicked and ran.

Oh, ran all three miles, didn't he?

Didn't build himself a fire so he'd be easy to find, huh?

I'd crawl by the horse of his through his shoe and him up lane.

He ran as far as he could.

If I'd just put a knife in a man's back,

I'd run more than three miles with or without a horse.

You do that.

Johnny Mule ain't that bad.

You do that.

Johnny Mule ain't that bad.

Oh, so you're hangin' man because he ain't bright, huh?

Pause that whole thing about him hearing somebody else

aloud his house that day.

It sounds exactly like a man's trying to cover up something.

You just said he wasn't bright, now you're trying to make him clever, huh?

You know you're more than just ordinary stubborn.

You can give a hard rock billy goat lessons.

You're gonna work or talk?

One thing for sure.

The next jury will put the hang, Johnny Mule.

Maybe?

Maybe not.

He's gonna have a better lawyer this time,

and maybe I can find some of the answers for those questions I won't.

Look, Candy, I won't mind you hangin' on the salt, Candy.

You just tired, you gill. Don't drag your feet. I'll let you rip.

Thank you, Candy.

If any man yells for mercy, it ain't gonna be me.

You seen the killer right up to the house?

I saw a man on a horse.

People shortcut across the range all the time, Virgil. You know that?

He didn't know he was gonna put a knife into Pa's back so you couldn't stop it.

All right.

She cut it down something after.

What are you talkin' about?

What happened to you and a broad-pause killer, Ian?

I'll stop you from taking them then and there.

Stop me.

What, stop me, Virgil?

The law!

Can I come in?

You know it?

Not a pan on the stove, no food on the table.

You two haven't had a bite to eat.

I brought some steak and all the trimmings.

Well, you don't have to fix ours, we ain't hungry.

You won't eat, but you've got room for that.

Why don't you run along back home?

Cleveland, I got some hard talkin' to tell.

Do you want me to leave?

You better go, Marcy.

I'm one of the family.

What I'm going to be.

That's no way to start a marriage.

Secrets all over the place.

Look, Marcy, the times you move pretty quickly, boy.

I wasn't warin' over the hill before you were cosying up to her.

That's not true.

You and I never meant that much to each other.

Well, I seem to remember here and you say we did.

Anyway, that don't matter now.

As soon as this is over, I'm selling my half of the ranch and gettin' out.

You can't.

Paul's will says you can't sell unless I do and I'm not about to.

Well, now.

Seems Marcy ain't the only thing you stole.

Come here.

Now, stop that!

Start that! Move of you!

You wanna be ashamed!

Your father just buried in you two fighting like dogs over a boat.

Yes, sir.

You can move real quickly when you want to.

You wanna come to that desert at the night, Paul.

You don't want to be afraid.

You wanna come to that desert at the night, Paul?

You don't do nothin' about it.

The law's stopped ya.

House Cartwright's kinda law.

Well, it ain't gonna stop me.

I'll tell ya why.

Because one way or another,

I'm gonna see that Johnny Mule in dead at my feet,

just like you seen Paul in it, yours right here.

There's still one man left in this family.

It wasn't Cleve's fault,

Hoss Cartwright deadlocked that jury.

If Cleve had done what he ought to have done,

there wouldn't even have been a trial.

Dad.

We're gonna fix that, ain't we, Cleve?

Right now.

No.

Now, don't do it, Cleve.

Go home, Marcy.

No.

I said go home.

Hey.

I don't know what they was arguing about.

All I heard was Mr. Loudon,

Hollerin', and such a...

Stopped when I stepped up on the porch

and knocked on the door.

No.

John, let me get this straight.

You say you heard Dave Loudon yelling,

and you still knock on the door?

Well, sure, I had to let him know I was there, didn't I?

Yeah, sure you got Johnny.

Now, after Dave let you in, what'd you see?

Well, I see'd old Dave.

His face was all red like the waffles on a turkey,

gobblurry, but...

Hey, hostage, did you know that there's wild turkeys again

in the brush-up on Backbreak Ridge?

Some old homesteader fella just moved out

and let his whole flock there to go wild, okay?

You and me, we ought to go get us a couple of them.

They's mighty good eatin'.

Yeah, yeah, Johnny.

We will later, but right now we got some other things tend to.

Now, after Dave let you in, what else did you see?

Well, there was a table and chairs and a door.

You know, the door of what goes to the bedroom was...

It was tight-closed.

No, no, that table.

Did you notice anything special about the table?

You mean, was they eatin'?

Like I said in court.

Look, Hoss, you...

You don't have to go sneakin' up on things.

You want to know somethin' from Johnny Mule.

You just dashed him.

Yeah, fine, Johnny. I know that.

Sometimes it's better if you can remember all by yourself.

I can't cipher numbers, and...

And I never learned how to read him.

And I got assigned my name with a mark,

but there's one thing that Johnny Mule can do.

And that's remember what he sees.

Good.

And Johnny, what was on that table?

There was a company, tablecloth,

with little red and white squares.

There was company dishes, and bread, and butter,

and a big pitcher of milk, and baked beans.

It was fresh bread.

There was two plates.

One of them was almost full,

and one was about empty.

First time he never asked me to step in and set.

He just...

Give me the $3 and close the door.

Yeah, now, John, let me get this straight.

You went out there to sell Dave your knife for $3

so you'd have money for food, right?

Yeah.

First time he never asked me to step in and set it while.

Johnny, I could sure use some of them beans.

How did you know Dave would buy the knife?

He seen me cleaning a trout with it one time.

And he said to me,

any old time you want to sell that knife,

I'll sure buy it.

He said he had one just like it when he was a kid.

Did you tell you lawyer that?

He never asked me.

Dog got it.

You should have told him, Johnny.

See, everybody thought you were lying.

If they didn't know who I am, they wanted that knife.

They might have believed you.

Could have made a big difference.

Just here next trial.

You're going to be on the jury.

No, Johnny, I can't.

But I'll guarantee you this.

You're going to have a better lawyer.

You're the only one that knows I didn't kill Mr. Loughlin.

You gotta be on my jury.

Johnny, it's impossible.

If you ain't,

they're going to hang me.

electronic tone

Sir Koen Loughlin,

the lady who came in

in the car and said

It's Marcy Coleman.

Anybody with you, Marcy?

No, I'm alone.

What are you doing out this time of night?

Virgin Cleaver going to try to kill Johnny Nunele.

Well, I believe Virgil triathal, things like that, but Cleave's too level-headed.

He's been acting different since Virgil came back.

I tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen to me. He sent me away.

I had to come and tell you.

I don't want Cleave getting killed trying to do something that the next jury is going to do anyway.

Oh, well, you did the right thing.

You won't hurt them, will you?

Marcy, I don't want to hurt anybody.

Now the best thing you can do is keep them boys away from Miss Jale.

They wouldn't listen to me.

Marcy, there's another deputy clean poker over in the silver dollar.

Tell him I need him and a couple of volunteers to stand shotgun.

Come on. Where?

Johnny, I'm putting in the solitary cell for your own protection.

Now, I sooner stay right here, Sheriff.

You must have heard what the lady said.

Mounted men could gun down on you from out there.

Move!

I can't go in there.

I can't go in there.

I can't go in there.

I can't go in there.

I can't go in there.

I can't go in there.

I can't go in there.

Johnny, I'm not asking.

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Please, I can't go in there.

Dark place.

Dark place.

Dark place.

Oh.

Oh, Johnny, hold it!

Watch.

A couple of shots.

How's the sheriff?

He's alive.

That's what you mean.

What is it, you'll be a while getting on the speed.

And, uh, no trace of Johnny Mule?

We didn't find any.

We got a couple of dozen in out there

tracking it, just too dark to find him.

We'll get him in the morning.

You heard about Johnny Mule?

Yeah, how did it happen?

Split the sheriff's skull and root out.

First paw, now the sheriff.

That's what Haas Cartwright's turn loose on his hand.

We'll find him tomorrow.

The next jury will vote to hang him.

If he lives to stand trial.

Whiskey, you're safe.

Johnny Mule busted out of jail last night and practically

killed the sheriff doing it.

What's it out?

The deputy's former impasse asked me to come to get you three.

You're right, will you?

How did it happen?

Sheriff was switching Mule to the solitary cell

and Mule jumped him.

Why the switch?

Marcy told the sheriff that the lads would come in

to take care of Mule themselves.

Cleaved to?

Yes, cleaved to.

What do you expect after what you did to that jury?

Oh, I shouldn't expect Johnny Mule to break out of jail.

That's for sure.

All right, all right.

How'd the process split out?

Three groups.

The one forming at last is going to sweep

to the red hill country.

What about the others?

The deputy's heading to the foothills, the rest

are starting down with the leg.

What will be you with?

Red hill country.

He's of the lads with you.

I'm not sure.

Joe, you're head to the foothills.

Right.

I'll turn the leg group.

Awesome.

You've got to go with candy.

Right.

Candy.

Yeah.

I'll saddle up to catch you later.

Right.

OK.

Mr. Hollis.

Please.

Please.

What happened to you?

I was right through the trees.

I got knocked off my horse.

I fell down in amongst the rocks.

What are you doing here, anyhow?

I didn't know.

Know how the place to go.

You was the only one, horse.

The only one.

Believe me.

Johnny.

Johnny.

ascAsm

I'm better.

Yeah, let me help you.

Johnny, I'm still going to have to take you.

You know that, don't you?

Why?

Well, Johnny, you're...

You're a fugitive. You're still a woman for killing a man.

You know I didn't do that.

Oh, Johnny, I don't know that you didn't.

I'm just not convinced that you did.

There is a difference, you understand?

But...

Them others, they...

They wanted to hang me.

Well, it ain't up to them now.

It's a new jury that's got to decide it.

Then what you did to the sheriff didn't do, you case no good, neither.

Oh, he...

He wanted to put me in that dark little place.

But Johnny, it was for your own good to keep him clean and verd from trying to kill you.

I ain't never been locked up, Paisa.

I don't like them bars.

I don't like walls.

Two ways you could have gone from here.

The lake will pass the creek into the hills.

Won't be hard to find out.

Creek bed's muddy.

It's bound to be tracked.

Don't take no chances.

Come on, Gabe.

Okay, give the horses a breather.

You hear something?

No.

Well, you've been sniffing back there ever since you met us.

Paisa's supposed to have joined us.

He should have been here half an hour ago.

Well, the warrant for him ain't none of us would have to be here.

There's nothing to do, Johnny.

Well, just help me to get away.

I promise you, I never come back no more.

Johnny, there's laws.

I ain't got no choice.

I go back.

I gotta stand trial again.

Yeah?

And them folks say, they say I did it.

They hang me.

That's a law, Johnny.

For that next jury.

They vote to kill me.

And you don't have to feel nothing.

Because it ain't you're doing no more.

I just thanks for what you've already done for me.

Johnny, where are you going?

Well, if I'm gonna get hanged for something I didn't do,

they ain't gonna shoot me like no animal in a cage or something

hanged up for skin.

Look, I wanna help you.

But now we're gonna have to do it the right way.

Now, if you promise to stay right here,

let me go in and talk to the sheriff about a change of venue.

I don't even know what that means.

Johnny, all it means is that we'll take you to another town

when you have a better chance for a fair trial.

It's the only chance you got, Johnny.

There must be a hundred men out there looking for you.

A hundred men.

Looking for Johnny Mew.

I wonder how many ever look for who was hiding in the house

the day he got killed.

Johnny.

The sheriff looked.

He couldn't have looked very hard.

Johnny, everybody makes mistakes.

This sheriff is one of the finest fellas I ever knew, Johnny.

People promise me to stay here while I go in and talk.

It's just promise me that.

I can't.

Johnny, you're gonna stay if I have to tie you to a post.

I can't go back.

They ain't gonna lock me in that little iron box.

I can't go back.

I can't go back to home.

I don't want to hurt you, Nama.

Look, get over against that stall there.

Put your hands up.

Johnny.

Johnny?

Johnny.

Johnny.

I didn't want to hurt you, Nama.

The

whole day gone.

Three potsies riding since dawn.

They haven't brought him in yet.

Stay put, Tom. Sit down.

Look, if you really want to help, you can saddle my horse.

I got to know what's going on before dark.

The doc said you'd stay put and get plenty of rest.

Are you going to be in worst shape and you're already gone?

I should be out there.

Yeah.

And it'd take two men to haul you back in after you fell out of your saddle.

Tom, there's plenty of looking for Johnny Mule now.

Yeah, sure.

Including the Loudons.

Oh, it's my job to keep Mule alive until a jury decides different.

Tom the Loudons ain't likely to find him.

And neither's anybody else for a while yet, anyhow.

You sound awful sure.

The potsies only got a couple hours a day, like that.

And they're looking a long ways from the right place.

Well, where is he?

Oh, I'm not asking his a friend.

I'm asking you as an officer of the law.

I'd like to do a little talking first if I cut, Tom.

You're eating and abetting a fugitive, us.

Now, I want to know where you got him hid.

Well, I keep recall just off hand, and I don't think I'm going to.

Do we get a couple things straightened up?

You're not only breaking a law.

You're asking me to help.

I'm not going to.

I'm not going to.

I'm not going to.

I'm not going to.

I'm not going to.

I'm not going to.

I'm not going to.

I'm not going to help.

Yes, I am.

Word's Latin is talking to Lynch and murder.

Now, if he can't find Johnny Mule, he ain't no way he can put that on, is he?

So in a way, I'm sort of doing you a favor, ain't it, Tom?

No matter what you say, boss.

I can't break the law.

I've scorned up hold.

All right, then.

Bend it a little.

Until I can get a good lawyer to change the venue or recurse the city.

We can get some guards that you can trust to get him there alive.

You really believe he's innocent, don't you?

I don't know.

All I know is that I got me a bunch of that stuff that you law me in called reasonable doubt.

Even after what he did to me and you?

Oh, Tom, he was trying to save his life.

That don't make him guilty of murder.

No, but it don't prove him innocent either.

Wait a minute.

Now, what was done in regards to checking out his story about that strange fella or whoever it was out the loudens?

You heard me in the trial?

He never even mentioned another man until he was sitting in that cell for four days.

You heard my story about the knife, too, didn't you?

Well, that'll come up in the retrial.

If we can get him back for a retrial.

Yeah, they're always still creek. No sign of fresh tracks.

Well, we'll head west and keep going as long as there's light on up the sea by.

Hey, Artal, maybe it'll make you feel a little better.

Thanks.

You found him, Ed?

No, but we will.

Before Virge and Cleve kill him, or after he kills one of them.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

After he kills one of them.

Oh, Marcy.

Johnny Mute doesn't want to kill anybody.

Well, you are the only one in the world who thinks that.

Marcy.

You're not doing yourself any good hanging around here.

You ought to be home in bed.

We're here.

Where's the duck?

His office.

I guess why.

The duck's in his office.

Where have you been?

I've been busy.

Were you sure voted right, buddy?

We flushed Johnny Mute and all the rocks behind Loudons.

He shot Virge.

He slipped us before we could rig him.

Is Virge dead?

I don't know.

Even if the duck gets there in time, I wouldn't hope to.

The rock's back of Loudons.

You know he was hiding there and you wouldn't tell me.

He wasn't hiding there, Sheriff.

Are you sure it was Johnny Mute?

Of course I'm sure it was Johnny Mute.

You saw him?

It was dark.

We were fanned out.

Virge must have ridden right over top of it.

Johnny Mute fired three rifle shots hit Virge twice.

So none of you actually saw him, did you?

We didn't have to.

Well, who did you think it was, Mr. Cartwright?

That mysterious stranger again?

The one that nobody ever sees?

It's your fault.

If you hadn't protected that murder,

Virge would never have gotten shot.

Where's he?

Virge has heard bad.

All the more reason he needs a nurse.

Don't tell me you were fool enough to hide him.

Well, I don't know about the fool part,

but I knew where he was, yeah.

And I didn't tell nobody.

No.

Well, if you don't cooperate this time,

I'm gonna put you under arrest for harboring a known fugitive.

Tom, give me no daylight.

I'll bring him back to you.

I promise you, give him my word.

Yeah, if you're lucky, he's probably half-witted Arizona by now.

I'm gonna go check to see if they found the dark.

I gotta get out to the loungers.

You're not going into the place.

Shake your hair.

Tell you not to drink that coffee.

Better?

No!

I'm not a good guy.

Never mind.

That's my pony, Mr. Cartwright.

What are you doing here?

Same thing you're doing.

Looking for Johnny Mule?

Well, you heard Candy say that they had flushed him up there to Loudons.

I heard that.

I heard you too.

I heard you too.

Now he can't be in two places at once.

So where is he?

What do you mean that you believe me instead of candy?

I asked you a question.

You better answer me.

I'd like to know what you're doing here instead of at the loudens.

Because I'm chasing a killer.

Well, women and I had a brother of all shot

and maybe I'm going to be there by side,

all from all the help, comfort that could.

He'll give a lot of people comfort.

I get my sights on Johnny Mule.

You're a good shot, huh, Marcy?

Good enough?

You know when something troubling me,

I don't like to get rid of it until I can get all the facts

kind of straighten out my mind.

That's why I would have not guilty of the trial.

You were just too many questions unanswered.

I'll never mind the speeches.

Just tell me where I can find Johnny Mule.

Words were shot with a rifle.

Johnny and Eden got more.

Four questions will be the death of you.

It's very kind of rough, Andy, Marcy.

Your folks being dead and losing the ranch and all that.

Don't worry about me.

I'll do all right.

Well, you were telling around at you

and Virge you're going to get married.

That isn't until he ran out on you.

And now it's you and Cleve.

But of course you knew that Cleve would just

be a hired end till his paw died.

Marcy, you say you're good with a rifle.

How good are you with a knife?

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You really had it figured out nice for yourself, didn't you?

I'm still out and dead.

Johnny Mule blamed for it.

You had Cleve and that whole ranch all yourself.

You know, real nice until Virge wrote back, right?

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I'm in the door.

There you go.

There you go.

You took long enough.

No, no.

I want to make sure I heard everything.

Did you?

Oh.

Yeah, yeah, nothing to make me want to cut my throat.

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I was sleeping out in the bushes.

I heard his shot.

Yeah, she wanted to see me dead, Johnny.

Why?

Well, I recognize asking too many questions.

What do you mean?

Well, I mean, Johnny, that she wanted a ranch

and a husband bad enough she put an eye

for an old man who's going to let you hang for.

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Johnny, for three days I kept voting to hang you.

I guess I decided you were guilty the first time I looked at you.

Well, I'm never in my life.

You even judged a horse on first sight.

I was ready to judge a man that way.

I'm never going to do that again.

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Well, I guess that's the last we'll be seeing as Johnny Mu, huh?

How come he didn't want to come work for us?

Oh, I offered him a job, but he better be better up by himself.

He throw cleaved the same thing.

Candy?

Sure may I'll.

Oh, thank you.

Good by the lot, please.

Yeah, Doc's got birds sitting out in the sun already.

He'll be riding round open a month.

Good.

He's a lucky man because they're not bad gut shot he was.

Hey, you know, maybe all the ride over there a couple of days a week

and talk about a lot of Zealand.

That's a good idea.

Is it all right, Pa?

Sure.

Hey, good enough.

Ross?

Yeah, I got a message for you.

It's in the sheriff.

He sent it out of posse to bring you in.

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So 11 men and prosecuting attorney can buy you the biggest dinner

in Virginia City.

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Hey, can we get this wagon fixed before they get here?

We're going to get way lower.

For posse, I just realized why you never been found guilty.

What's that?

Sir, Jerry was afraid to ask the condemned man what he wanted for his last meal.

Time.

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