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Like it, Mr. Wooster?

The best I've seen since St. Joe.

You know, you San Francisco folks are real friendly.

Now I know why everybody wants to come to California.

Mr. Wooster, I told Belle about you,

and she's real anxious to meet you.

Oh! In her private parlor.

She owns this place, and friend,

wait till you see her.

She's real nice, huh?

Come with me.

Miss Belle, this is Mr. Wooster.

Good evening, Mr. Wooster.

Mighty pleased to meet you, ma'am.

It's a pleasure.

So you're the famous and brave man

who brought that big wagon train

through all the way from St. Joe to Sacramento?

Well, I didn't exactly do it all by myself.

I had a little help.

My own special stock...

reserved for special people like you.

It's an honor, ma'am.

That's real drinking liquor.

Understand you and some friends

are planning to sail around the Horn.

Yes'm. Major Seth Adams and Bill Hawkes and me.

You see, we've never, uh...

We've never been on a...

a real, for sure...

sailboat before.

You will be, Beardy.

Bon voyage.

You know, Major, if Charlie didn't

get into a fight and end up in jail,

he's bound to be here.

Who'd wanna leave anything like this?

Pretty fancy, isn't it?

Evening, guv'nor.

Like a table close up to the pretties?

Yeah, sure. Hold it, Bill, hold it.

We came here looking for a friend of ours,

supposed to meet us here.

Little short fella with whiskers,

name of Wooster. You seen him?

Sure. Say, I'll bet you're Major, uh,

the wagon train master.

Yeah, I'm Seth Adams. This is Bill Hawkes.

How are you? How do you do, sir?

I think he's still up with Miss Belle,

spinning yarns about the wagon train.

She took quite a shine to him.

Come on, I'll show you to her parlor.

Come on. You're a married man, remember?

No harm in looking, is there?

Get out.

Miss Belle, these are Mr. Wooster's partners.

I'm honored to meet you.

Howdy, ma'am.

Your partner's done nothing but brag about you two.

I'm sure he didn't forget about hisself.

I'm Seth Adams, and this is Bill Hawkes.

Howdy do, ma'am. Hello.

Let me buy you a drink.

Thank you.

I seldom get a chance to meet the kind of men

that bring the wagon trains through.

That's nice of you to say, ma'am,

but we're through with wagon trains.

I know, Mr. Wooster told me.

By the way, where is Charlie?

Oh, he decided to try my Faro game.

He said he felt lucky tonight.

Oh. Well, your health, madam.

Cheers.

Understand you're all planning a sea voyage,

around the Horn to Boston.

Yes, ma'am. We got first-class passage

on the clipper ship Jessica.

And we sail day after tomorrow.

Why are you quitting the wagon train business, Major?

Well, it isn't so much that, ma'am,

but, you know, we've never been

on a sailing boat before.

We've never seen Boston,

and really it's just that I'm tired,

bone tired, of sitting in the saddle

16, 18 hours a day.

All those days just sitting up there on that boat.

I can hardly wait.

Well, you don't have to wait.

Have a nice voyage.

Hey. Hey.

This drink!

Deliver them to the Sea Witch before dawn,

all three of them.

Yes, ma'am.

Hey, Bill. Bill, Bill!

Wake up. Come on.

Hey, Charlie. Charlie, is that you?

Come on, wake up!

Whoo, something sure smells.

Say, what are we doing in a buffalo hunter's camp?

Never been in any buffalo camp that smelled this bad.

Where are we, anyway?

I don't know, but you all right, Charlie?

I'm all head. Ooh, man.

Major, look! We're on a boat.

We're what?

That's it, the Jessica. When'd we get on in?

What are we doing down here with these stinking hides?

We paid for first-class cabins.

Hey, I've been robbed, my pants.

How'd they get 'em off over these boots?

Here's some clothes.

Yeah. Better get 'em on.

We'll go find out what's going on here.

Major, you know what I think?

Remember that pretty gall Belle and those two fellas?

Well, they dry-gulched us.

We've been what they call shanghaied.

That's silly, Bill.

Only sailors get shanghaied.

This outfit better have

a gol-darned good explanation for this.

Come on, let's get out of here.

Open up there!

Open up this door and let us out of here!

Go ahead, swabby.

Make any trouble,

I'll bust your head open.

I was just coming up... Lay topside!

Captain Cobb wants to have a look

at you... lubbers.

Now, listen, friend...

I'm first mate, and you address me as Mr. Ferris.

When I give you an order, you jump.

Now, lay topside, you chowder-heads.

On the double!

Water as far as you can see.

How far are we from land, Mr. Ferris?

Only one mile, Whiskers, straight down.

Come on, lay aft.

What?

Aft. Aft.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

There they be, Captain,

not a sailor man amongst 'em.

There's a couple of things I'd like to find out about.

Who gave you permission to speak?

I don't usually ask permission!

When I wish you or any other deckhand to speak, I will let you know.

Until then, you will keep your mouth shut.

Now, what did you wish to say?

Speak up, man!

ADAMS: Well, there's been some kind of a mix-up.

We bought and paid for our passage

around the Horn to Boston.

First-class passage, too!

On the Jessica!

This is not the Jessica.

It is the Sea Witch,

and though our course is around the Horn,

I am bound for New Orleans, not Boston.

You are not passengers; you are deckhands,

and you will leave my ship in approximately 100 days,

give or take a week or two.

Be reasonable, man!

Captain Cobb, we spent

practically all our lives in the saddle.

There isn't anything we don't know

about horses or cattle.

We know how to round them up, how to brand them.

There isn't a trick that the Indians know that we don't know about.

We've fought so many of them I couldn't begin to count 'em.

But we're not sailors!

You will be! Before I'm through with you.

Come, Patricia.

Aren't they wonderful?

Did you hear them, Miss Minnie?

They've fought Indians and ride horses and everything!

Yes. Come and solve these problems now.

I don't know how anybody can eat that swill.

How does he do it?

I don't know.

I guess if you get hungry enough,

you can eat anything.

Yeah, but that's his second helping.

That's my plate he's started on.

I've always got an appetite

for anything I don't have to cook myself.

Go on, Major, try it.

Ain't so bad once you set your heart to it.

Just think of poor old McCullough,

riding all the way back there to St. Joe.

What do you think he's eating? Hardtack and jerky.

Maybe a little old scrawny rabbit,

if he's lucky enough to catch one.

Figure McCullough's somewhere around Wyoming, huh?

Oh, he's not the far back yet.

He's in hostile Indian territory,

that's for sure.

Wagon train scout

now full-blood brother.

No more war between us.

Thank you, Chief.

Now.

We will eat.

Brother Wolf, I've never seen

such a wonderful feast...

with such beautiful waitresses.

Thank you.

Tell more about Major Adams.

Suppose he was lucky enough to catch a rabbit; he couldn't cook it.

Smoke'd give him away and he'd have to ride to save his scalp,

so as bad off as we are,

we're better off than McCullough, I think.

Anyway, they're sailing around the Horn

and they're traveling first class,

having a wonderful time, eating like kings...

How long does a man have to feel this way

before he's allowed to die?

You'll live, boys.

Look!

You the cook on that wagon train

you're always bragging about?

Yes, sir, I was the cook.

Get to the galley. You're ship's cook from now on.

And don't make any of that fat, greasy swill!

Why aren't you eating your supper, Pat?

I don't want any more, Daddy.

She hasn't any fever. Why isn't she eating?

It's possible that she isn't hungry.

Nonsense. What's the matter, Pat?

Why can't we have buffalo meat once in a while?

Buffalo meat? What's this about buffalo meat?

Did you ever taste it?

No, but I'd sure like to.

It's awful.

Where did you hear about it?

I heard one of those wagon train men talking about it.

Oh, he told you about it?

No, not me. He was telling a sailor.

I just heard him.

Wong! Yes, Captain?

Buffalo meat is terrible, isn't that correct?

You say so, it is, Captain.

Cook on a spit with onions

and basted with whiskey?

Very good! Yes!

That's all, Wong.

Take away her plate.

Yes, Captain.

I don't want to hear any more about it.

Doesn't she have schoolwork to do?

She has.

Then go do it.

But I bet you never even tasted it!

How is my daughter's education coming along?

In some things, fine...

and in another, more important thing,

not so fine.

Such as... one thing, to act like a girl,

behaving like a young lady.

We've been all through this before.

Matthew Cobb, you simply can't raise

your daughter on-board ship.

Nobody can.

This whole past year I have tried to.

I don't want to hear any more about it.

Miss Minnie, you are employed

to teach my daughter.

In the future, you will see to her education

and I will tend to the other matters.

And as models to emulate

she shall have nothing but crude seamen,

wear the clothing of a boy?

It's not fair!

I will hear no more of this!

Excuse me.

Why...

hi there, sonny.

Hi, except I'm not a boy.

Well, you sure could've fooled me.

I don't think I've seen you before.

How come you're on-board?

I'm Patricia Cobb,

but I prefer to be called Pat.

My daddy's the captain.

Captain Cobb is your father?

Yes, my daddy, like I told you.

Could I please talk to you?

Well, sure.

Come on over here.

Just talk away.

Were you really a wagon master?

Yes, ma'am, I was.

And did you really fight Indians?

Well, sometimes...

and sometimes I skedaddled

just to save my scalp, too.

How wonderful!

May I sit on your lap?

Well, sure!

What is a wagon train, exactly?

Does it have an engine with a whistle?

No, honey, it...

it doesn't have an engine and a whistle.

A wagon train is sort of like a town

with a hundred or more houses,

except they're on wheels,

and in each house is a family with...

boys and girls like you,

and they're moving.

They're going west.

I sure would like to ride a horse once.

Well, you could learn, honey.

Patricia!

What are you doing out of your cabin at night?

This is Major Seth Adams.

He's been telling me all about wagon trains

and Indians and...

Oh, this is Miss Minnie Jellison.

She's my teacher.

Howdy, ma'am.

Excuse me.

If I seem surprised, it's because I am.

I didn't know we had a lady on-board.

And I suppose you didn't know

that Patricia is not permitted

to fraternize with deckhands.

But I asked him to talk to me!

Captain Cobb does not allow her to associate with any sailors.

He considers them a very bad influence,

rightfully so, I might add.

Seems to me the captain might be a little mixed up, ma'am.

Look at her,

nice little thing like that dressed like a boy.

I didn't even know she was a girl till she told me.

If you ask me, any father that lets

his own daughter be raised on a boat like this

had better give some thought as to who's the bad influence

before he starts blaming other people.

That will be all!

Take Pat to her cabin.

But, Daddy, it's not Major Adams' fault.

I asked him to talk to me!

Did you hear me? Take her to her cabin.

Come, Patricia.

If I ever see or even hear of you

associating with my daughter again,

I'll slap you in irons and keep you in the brig until you rot.

Aye, aye, sir.

Oh, and another thing.

You will stop talking to my crew about buffalo meat.

Buffalo meat?

Get to the fo'castle.

Yes, sir.

Hear the news!

All hands lay topside!

Hup! Hup!

Topside!

Oh, you loudmouth!

I'd like to catch that guy on the trail.

Whoa!

Get off of me, will ya?!

I used to complain about the jolting

of one of those Conestoga wagons.

Oh, man!

Give me my pants, will you?

Haven't heard so much noise since Fredericksburg.

Hoist up on the sheet line!

Double reef to topsails.

Whoa!

Steady on, man!

Don't let her fall off to leeward.

Charlie, get outta there! You're gonna get killed.

Hello. Jump to it.

What'd he say, Major?

Doesn't make any difference.

Follow us!

Daddy!

Daddy!

Daddy!

Mr. Ferris! Mr. Ferris!

The little girl!

Get back up there.

But Mr. Ferris...

Get back up there. Now, move!

Patricia!

Get back, get back!

Patricia. Patricia.

There, there.

Daddy's got you safe and sound now.

How did she get out of your cabin?

Captain! I'm preferring charges against this man.

He left his post,

he disobeyed a direct order, and knocked me down!

Mr. Ferris, I saw that starting to fall!

Did you disobey an order from Mr. Ferris?

Captain, there wasn't time to...

Did you strike him?

Yes, sir, just as hard as I could.

Take him to the brig and put him in irons.

You can't put him in irons!

He saved Patricia's life!

He admitted leaving his post.

He disobeyed an order.

He also struck our officer.

That amounts to mutiny.

But you don't understand!

She would have been killed under that wreckage

if he hadn't saved her.

Take her to her cabin.

Now, Major, you're gonna learn what it means

to hit the first mate of a ship.

Get over there.

Unh!

Sheriff Moran?

Yes.

Well, I'll be.

Flint McCullough!

Oh, what a treat to see ya!

How are you, Willie?

Just great, thank you.

Is the major with you?

No, not this trip. He and...

Say, do you remember Bill Hawkes and Charlie Wooster?

Oh, I'll never forget 'em!

Well, Major, Bill, and Charlie

are on a clipper ship going around the Horn.

No! Yeah.

Say they given up wagon trains.

They're gonna settle down in Boston

and do what even they don't know.

But I guess they're having a pretty good time.

I'll be dogged.

Hey, will you stop and have supper with me?

I've been counting on that since I saw the sign outside.

Good enough!

Alice, make that three suppers instead of two!

Café's just next door.

Now, you make yourself comfortable.

Um...

I sure will.

Good enough.

This is a nice place you've got here.

Kind of unusual for a sheriff's office.

Do you keep your guns somewhere else?

Oh, I don't use 'em. Oh?

I used to be a prizefighter, remember?

Sure I remember.

I got these hands if I need 'em,

and well, I haven't had to use 'em much.

Everybody around here knows me,

and well, it's become a right peaceful town.

None, uh, for you, Willie?

I ain't had a drop in over a year now, Flint.

Here's to you.

Thanks.

Oh, Alice! Here, let me help you!

I want you to meet an old friend of mine, Flint McCullough.

He was the scout on the wagon train that brought me out here.

How do you do?

Willie, uh, what time does she get off work?

You ain't changed a bit. Ha ha ha!

Well, looks pretty good.

Probably won't be to that one prisoner I got.

He complains about everything. Excuse me, Flint.

Oh, uh...

would you like to take a look at the cell-block?

Kind of special. Why not?

Here you are, partner.

It's the fanciest jail I ever saw.

Yeah, it's a throwback to the Dark Ages,

that's what it is, a dungeon.

Look at the slop he feeds me.

You don't know when you're well-off, friend.

Really, Willie, those are nicer quarters

than you find in most hotels.

Well, I've been trying a theory that there's no sense

in treating a man like an animal

just 'cause he broke a law.

Even the worst of them might get better

if they had a decent bed to sleep in.

Well, come on, let's have our supper here,

and you tell me all about the major.

I'll be he's having a great time, huh?

How do you feel, Major?

I'm all right, Charlie.

I tried to slip you down a real meal.

That Ferris fellow, he stopped me.

It's all right.

Hi, Charlie.

Hi, Bill.

I heard this morning that that land we see

is Chile on one side and Tierra del Fuego on the other.

We're in what they call the Straits of Magellan.

We're supposed to be in them about five days.

We're going this way instead of around the Horn.

Swenson tells me hardly any of these ships

sail around Cape Horn anymore.

They don't, huh?

Say, that's good.

Needs a little more salt, though. What is it?

Oh, that? That's salt and water and wood ash.

I'm boiling out the captain's socks.

Proves how bad this food used to be

when laundry water tastes good.

You know, Charlie... Yeah?

Be real easy to get off this ship with land that close.

We can't go and leave the major in the brig.

Yeah. Hey.

Come on.

That captain better not get any ideas about hanging the major.

If he does, he'll have to hang us first.

You are aware of the seriousness

of the charges against you?

I am.

Your actions are subject

to the most severe penalty I can impose.

Though I in no way approve of what you did,

I find that there are mitigating circumstances.

Therefore, the charges against you are dismissed.

What?

You heard me, Mr. Ferris.

Release the prisoner.

This swab disobeyed an order.

He knocked me flat, and you're letting him off

as if nothing had happened!

Mr. Ferris, I am the judge

and jury aboard this ship.

My decisions are the law here.

Aye, aye, sir.

No deckhand's gonna make a fool out of me.

He'll wish he hung before I'm finished with him.

Trouble, Mr. Ferris?

Women, no matter what their age,

nothing but trouble.

They're the ones that got him off.

It's a doomed ship we're on.

As long as she's aboard,

everybody'll have trouble.

She's the jinx!

You're a superstitious fool.

I'm not superstitious. It's a fact.

It's only facts I speak, Mr. Ferris.

Aye, we'll all end in Davy Jones's locker

so long as she's allowed to stay aboard.

Thanks.

The master of a ship

must make decisions based upon facts.

In the turmoil of the storm,

I acted upon the facts as initially presented to me.

Without discipline, a man couldn't even keep

a river barge afloat.

However, I do try to rectify any errors I've made

when I'm convinced that I've been wrong.

I appreciate that, Captain.

There must be some sort of discipline,

even in a wagon train.

Oh, there is, I assure you.

These, um...

These wagon trains, Adams,

where do the people come from?

Why do so many of them even want to go out West?

Well, Captain, they come from all over,

and as to their reasons, well, I guess there's

as many reasons are they are people.

They're mostly family folks that

are trying to find a new life,

trying to find a better way of living

for their kids than they had for themselves.

I know how you feel. You agree with Miss Minnie.

You think that this ship is an unfit place to raise my daughter.

You don't deny that, do you?

No, sir, I don't.

Well, you're wrong, both of you.

Pat has everything she could wish for...

Love, affection, care, everything.

Has she got children her own age

to play with, to grow up with?

I don't consider that essential.

Has she got a place to put her roots down,

a place to belong to

and friends to share it with?

Seems to me, Captain, that nobody can grow up

or feel very secure, very permanent,

with the floor rolling under them all the time.

You've been aboard long enough to know

it's a deck, not a floor.

Your daughter may not think much about this now, Captain.

She may be a little unhappy with you later.

She may even grow to hate you...

for trying to make her

be the son that you always wanted.

You've got a nerve, saying a thing like that to me.

Well, Captain, it's the truth as I see it.

And there's another thing.

Miss Minnie.

What about her?

Tell me, how come you didn't hire an older woman,

less attractive, for Pat's teacher?

What are you getting at?

It just seems to me, Captain, that having

a young and beautiful woman on-board,

well, it's not very good

for the morale of your crew, is it?

For their morale or yours?

Adams...

I apologize for unjustly punishing you,

and now I consider that our accounts are square.

I advise you to keep them that way.

Now, go back to your station.

Yes, sir.

Thanks for the coffee, Captain.

I replaced the worn reef lines

and the main top-gallant like you said, Mr. Ferris.

You tar the shrouds?

Oh, you're getting smart, aren't you?

Is it all right with you if I get some sleep now?

You've only been on duty 18 hours.

You can crawl in your hammock after you polish

the belaying pins in the main-mast fife rail.

Yes, sir.

What are you doing, Major Adams?

Evenin', Miss.

I am, uh...

polishing belaying pins.

I never heard of such a thing.

Oh, the mate just thought of it.

I'm not surprised.

I'm not surprised at anything

that happens on-board this ship!

Is there anything I can do, Miss?

No, thank you.

Go on.

I'm sorry.

It's just that...

That I'm so angry and mad that I could...

Now it's all my fault

that Patricia no longer likes the ship...

and yours, of course,

for exciting her interest in the West.

Tell me, why does he insist

on raising the child on this ship?

Well, Patricia's mother

died while she was giving birth to her.

Matt was away at sea when it happened,

and I expect he felt so guilty about it

that he made a vow he'd never be absent

from his daughter again, never leave her alone.

So, since he lives at sea, so does she.

Oh, there...

there are times when...

when Matt is so sweet and so gentle

that I could faint from the joy of it.

Then there are times like tonight, when...

When he is as temperamental

and unpredictable as the weather!

I guess you've been in love with him

a long time, haven't you?

Ever since the first time, when he...

I'm not in love with Captain Cobb!

I'm-I'm simply an employee

who happens to be very devoted to her job

of teaching his daughter...

the three Rs.

Mm-hmm.

Does it really show that plainly?

I mean...

my loving Matt?

Well, Miss Minnie, a woman as beautiful as you

certainly wouldn't choose

to live on a cargo ship like this,

not for a salary.

Well... I guess not.

Oh...

If I only knew how to cope with it,

what to do.

You know, sometimes...

a man doesn't realize what he has

till he's lost it.

Suppose, Miss Minnie,

that you got off the ship at New Orleans.

Leave?

Mm-hmm.

Well, who would look after Patricia?

Well, that's the captain's responsibility.

It's his daughter.

The point is if Captain Cobb lets you leave,

you'd be better off without him.

That is, unless you like to suffer. Some women do.

Well, I certainly don't.

But leave Pat and...

and never to see Matt again?

Good night, Miss Minnie.

I didn't steal it, Mr. Ferris.

Shh.

I've been thinking about what you said

about the woman.

The angel of death for all of us!

She's at the leeward rail amid ship right now alone.

The watch at the quarterdeck is at the helm.

There's nobody about.

If you really think she's a jinx,

people fall overboard lots of times,

get lost at sea.

Aye. Aye, that they do.

I could save the ship!

My mates'd thank me for it.

Nobody'd know you ever did it.

Lay topside.

I ain't happy with the job you did

on the belaying pins.

You're just aching to have me come

to the end of my rope,

aren't you, Mr. Ferris?

Most powerful ache I ever had.

Do something, Adams,

something with no "mitigating circumstances."

No thanks, Mr. Ferris. No thanks.

Lay topside. Come on!

What's that?

Who's there?

Miss Minnie!

Get Captain Cobb.

She's out cold, Mr. Ferris.

I was just coming up from the fo'castle

when I heard her scream,

and then I heard somebody run off over there.

Minnie!

What happened to her?

We found Adams kneeling over her.

Daddy! Daddy, I tried to yell,

but I couldn't, I just couldn't!

I was so frightened!

Did you see Adams with Miss Minnie?

Yes, and I saw her with him before, too.

But Patricia... Put him in the brig!

You won't be in a brig long this time, Major Adams.

By sunset tomorrow, you'll be hanging by the neck

on the highest yardarm of the ship.

You hope.

Thank you.

You feel better now?

I'm fine.

You know, Matt,

it may not be very ladylike to say so,

but it was worth being bruised

if only to find out that you're capable

of worrying about me.

Well, of course I was worried.

A thing like this...

Can you tell me exactly what happened?

Well, I'm not sure.

I was standing at the rail,

thinking about something

that Major Adams had said to me.

Then he was with you earlier.

Why, yes.

I met him on deck after I left my cabin.

He spoke for a moment, and then he said

good night and went forward.

What?

Oh, nothing.

It just confirms something that Pat said.

Go on.

Well, suddenly from behind,

somebody grabbed me, my throat.

Oh, he wasn't trying to molest me, Matt.

He was trying to throw me overboard!

It's true.

He was trying all the time

to lift me over the rail.

You didn't see who it was?

No.

Well, you will tomorrow when I hang him.

Oh, I don't know how I could've been

so wrong about that man.

You know who it was?

Minnie, it was Major Seth Adams.

Ferris and another man caught him red-handed,

and Pat saw the whole thing from the window in her cabin.

But Major Adams...

I don't believe it.

Evidence of eyewitnesses

is difficult not to believe.

But...

Major Adams was absolutely sober

when I spoke to him,

and it was only a few minutes

after he left that this happened.

No, Matt.

No, it couldn't have been him.

The man who tried to strangle me,

he was drunk.

He was so drunk that I almost gagged

from the smell of rum on his breath.

And also if it had been Major Adams,

why, I wouldn't be here right now.

Why, he could lift two like me

over the rail without even trying.

Oh, no, not Major Adams.

Anything else, maybe, but not rum.

Rum don't set well with the major.

He gives me his rations almost every day.

You telling me the truth?

Swear on a stack of Bibles, Captain.

You're a pretty good cook, biddy.

Thank you, Captain.

I'd like to cook a buffalo steak for you sometime.

Say, I haven't seen the major this morning.

Next time I see him I'm gonna ask him about this.

He's in the brig again.

Oh, no. Not again.

I heard him tell Miss Minnie

to get off the ship at New Orleans

and leave you and me and everything.

Daddy, he wants to marry her.

Well.

What did she say to that?

Well, I couldn't hear very well,

but you won't let her do it, will you?

I hadn't thought too much about it, Pat.

Now, Pat, listen.

I want you to try to remember real hard.

Was this talk you heard before Minnie got hurt?

Mm-hmm.

What did you do then?

Well, after Major Adams told her good night,

I went back to my bunk,

but I couldn't sleep very well,

'cause I was too worried about her leaving us.

Did you see him come back?

Mm-hmm.

You saw him sneak up behind Miss Minnie

and try to throw her overboard?

Did he do that?

That's what I'm trying to find out.

I just heard some noise

and went to the window to look,

and that's when I saw him.

Saw who, Major Adams?

Mm-hmm.

He was kneeling over Miss Minnie.

She was lying with her face right on the deck,

and then he rolled her over.

Oh, Daddy, I'd just die if Miss Minnie went away!

I just love her so.

Hey, hey, hey. Now, wipe that up.

Pull yourself together, man.

We'll never make port. I can feel it.

Shut up.

Just keep your wits about you.

Everything'll be all right.

All of us are marked for doom now.

Quiet. You're a fool.

All I know... when you try

to cast out the devil and you fail,

the penalty's death, mate.

Listen...! Can't you smell it all around you?

Listen, you.

Just keep your mouth shut, and nothing's gonna happen.

I shouldn't have listened to you.

Yeah, you put it up to me.

Oh, I'd never have tried it without your egging me on.

Why, you...

Seize that man!

Oh!

Go to my cabin. Get the cat o' nine tails.

Strip off his shirt

and spread-eagle him to the main mast.

You're gonna flog me?

Till there's no strength left in my arm to lift the whip.

Put him up!

Go in and get that man!

Sharks!

Get my rifle!

Release Adams from the brig.

Well, there she lays, New Orleans.

Ain't she pretty!

Yeah, but them lights still look a long ways off.

Eh, we couldn't make port before dark,

so the captain's gonna anchor out here.

We'll sail in at dawn.

Captain wants to see you.

Huh?

What have you done now, Major?

I haven't done a gol-darn thing.

You sure? 'Course I'm sure!

Think he's lying?

Come in.

You, uh, sent for me, sir?

I suppose you're anxious to leave my ship in the morning.

Yes, sir, I am.

I won't try to prevent it,

providing you disembark alone.

Alone, but...?

That's exactly what I said... alone.

I will not let you go off arm-in-arm with Minnie

and break my daughter's heart.

You mean you're not gonna let

Miss Minnie off the ship?

That's precisely what I mean!

I have the authority to restrict her to the ship

just as I can any of the crew!

If Pat wasn't involved in this,

I'd say good riddance to both of you, but...

how can a woman

as essentially bright as she is

even think of marrying you?

Captain, how did you happen to find out about this?

My daughter, at least, is loyal to me.

She told me.

You may not know it, but she was listening

the night you were talking to Minnie,

proposing to her the night she was attacked.

Oh.

She must be out of her mind...

A cowboy like you!

Captain, I don't know whether you know it or not,

or whether you agree,

but I happen to be as well respected on land

as you are on sea,

and as far as Miss Minnie's concerned,

any man'd be an awful fool not to realize

what a wonderful wife she'd make.

It is not necessary for you to describe her virtues to me.

I am well aware of them!

Then surely, sir, you can understand

how I might happen to ask her to marry me.

Now, hear this, Adams, and remember it.

Don't try to get off this ship with her!

She is not leaving, even if I have to...

If I have to lock her in the brig!

Will that be all, Captain?

That will be all!

Thank you, sir.

Oh, Miss Minnie, I got a hunch

that Captain Cobb's gonna want to see you

in about two shakes.

Do yourself a favor, will you?

No matter what he says or does,

just remember to act like you know

exactly what he's talking about,

and I think all your troubles will be solved.

Will you step into my cabin for a moment, please?

Yes, Captain.

Uh, sit down, Minnie.

Thank you.

What I wanted to say was that I, uh...

Well, I-I...

How could you do this to Pat and me?

Do what?

Oh, don't be coy with me.

It doesn't become you.

You know very well what I mean...

Marrying Seth Adams.

What kind of a life do you expect

to have with a man like that?

With Major Adams?

Why, a good life, I expect.

I, uh... um.

How long have you known about us, Seth and me?

Long enough to be nearly crazy with it.

I want to propose to you myself,

only I... well, I thought I was too old for you.

But if he...

Why, he's old enough to be your father,

your grandfather!

Minnie, I will not allow you to marry that man.

Are you proposing to me now?

Well, yes.

Yes, I am.

I... for Pat's sake. She needs you.

Well, don't do me any favors, Matthew.

No, wait a minute, Minnie!

I didn't mean it the way it sounded.

I meant for my sake, too.

Minnie...

I love you,

and I want you to be my wife.

And, uh...

and live on-board ship,

trying to raise Patricia here?

Everything just like it's been, except...

for marriage?

No, thanks, Matt.

Well, all right.

Then we'll get a house ashore.

It'll be a snug harbor for me to come home to.

Oh. Oh, so Patricia and I can be lonely together

and live in fear that each voyage

is going to be your last?

No, Matt.

You expect me to give up the sea?

I want you...

safe, home from the sea.

I will not be dictated to.

I refuse to be victimized

by you and Pat,

or Adams, or anyone else!

Adams!

Yes.

Now, you hear this.

I am not pulling into port in New Orleans.

I'm setting an easterly course

and I'm staying on it

till that woman has regained her senses!

Prepare to weigh anchor!

Break out all sails! Jump to it!

Looks like now or never, Major.

I guess we're gonna have to swim for it.

That's a pretty long swim from here.

We can make it all right

if we take it easy and just dog-paddle.

Dog-paddle, what's that?

Charlie, don't you know how to swim?

I don't know, I've never tried.

I'll just do what you fellas do.

Well, we can probably

float him in or something.

Give me a line.

You come down this line. Come on, Bill.

Wait for me, now!

You want us to lower a boat, Captain?

Certainly not! Good riddance.

Get back to your station.

All right, calm down, all of you, will ya?

So, how long are we gonna hang around here?

We were supposed to start two hours ago.

Lady, I told you. I told all of you.

We can't leave until the wagon master gets here,

so why don't you just relax?

McCullough!

Major Adams, you old army mule,

you're a sight for sore eyes.

I'm glad to see you.

How are you, Bill, Charlie?

How was the trip?

Just great! Great.

You know, if I hadn't been flat broke,

I'd have never signed on for another trip with you.

You think there's another wagon master in this part of the country

that would give you a job scouting for him?

I thought you were fed up with this thankless job.

I thought you were gonna settle down in Boston.

Seems to me like you've been doing a lot of thinking,

and as usual, you're wrong.

Is this the guy we were waiting for,

and if so, why is he wasting time gossipin'?

All hand on deck.

Now, hear this.

I'm the skipper of this outfit.

That means I'm the wagon master.

Now, if you want to travel with this train,

you're gonna do what I tell you do when I tell you to do it!

You got any complaints, just keep 'em to yourselves.

Now, lay up to your wagons. We're shoving off.

Mr. McCullough, on this voyage

I want you to keep a sharp eye out for land,

some choice land, that is,

for a particular friend of mine.

That's captain... Uh, sea captain, that is,

Matthew Cobb and his bride,

and their little daughter... They're newlyweds.

Newlyweds?

Aw, lay aft and secure the stragglers, will you?

Lay where?

Lay aft, lay aft!

The stern, the back end!

Pick up the stragglers!

You old landlubber.

Come on, Charlie.

Lay forward to the galley.

Aye, aye, sir.

Daddy, why aren't you giving the orders?

Aren't you the captain anymore?

Well, you see, Pat, it's like this.

We... we're not... I mean, this is, uh...

I mean...

Ask your mother. She'll explain it to you.

ADAMS: All right, hoist your sails, everybody.

Get up!

We're gonna shove off with the tide.

As noisy as ever.

When's he gonna start to talk like a wagon master again?

Oh, about halfway through the cruise, I reckon.

Wagons, ho!

That long, eh?

♪ Roll along ♪

♪ Wagon train ♪

♪ Rollin' over prairie where there ain't no grass ♪

♪ Rollin' over mountains where there ain't no pass ♪

♪ Sittin' all aboard, eyein' the weather ♪

♪ Prayin' to the Lord we stay together ♪

♪ Side by side on the wagon train ♪

♪ Wagon train ♪

♪ Pull along ♪

♪ Pickin' up a passenger in every town ♪

♪ Wonderin' if he's ever gonna shoot you down ♪

♪ Sittin' all aboard ♪

♪ Eyein' the weather ♪

♪ Prayin' to the Lord ♪

♪ We stay together ♪

♪ Side by side ♪

♪ On the wagon train ♪