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You know, there ain't no duty so nice as hauling

the cargo of those sweet and gracious women. Thank you, honey.

Here.

Watch out, Charlie.

Like I said, Charlie.

The cargo of a sweet and gracious woman.

What about this town? Oh, it's a terrible place. The whiskey sky and the girls. Oh,

they'll talk your ear off.

I wouldn't be caught dead in there, but it's the only place.

That's a nice little boat.

Should do the job.

Miss Crane, I'm afraid hauling what's left of your little

cargo any further is out of the question now.

Mr. Simon, I hired you to help me ship a cargo, not to give it up.

Well, no matter what you do,

this river captain isn't going to be anxious to haul gunpowder.

Especially the kind you've got.

It's, uh, too unstable. You never know when it's gonna blow up.

You just leave the captain to me, Mr. Simon.

You hire four of the toughest men in town the way I told you.

What would you need with gunpowder like that?

You have them at the saloon in an hour, Mr. Simon. You know what to tell them to do.

One river town just like another. Ever notice the

same with their saloons? They're all alike.

Yeah, but that's good for a man, Ben.

He doesn't have to think or remember where he is.

What do you say, Gray?

Yep.

They're all alike.

Is this chair taken?

Oh, I beg your pardon. Won't you sit down, milady? I'm all alone.

Very kind of you to share your table with me. And I was fortunate to find you.

Oh, you're not alone anymore now, milady. That's your cue, my friend.

Hello, sugar. How about you and me have a little drink?

Belay that malarkey, mate. You're talking to a lady.

That's for sure I ain't talking to you.

Oh, this river rat ain't gonna give you nothing but a lot of talk.

I can show you the good time you came here for.

How dare you!

Whoa!

Yeah, young Marshal, but what I don't understand is why

you let me out of jail and not the rest of my crew.

How do you do?

Who are you?

I'm your witness.

I want to help you, Captain.

You see, I know that you were completely innocent last night. I saw everything.

Well, now, that's the nicest news I've heard all day. I'm very grateful.

Oh, don't be. There's a reason.

I have a cargo, you have a boat.

What kind of cargo?

Oh, I'm shipping food and gunpowder.

How much gunpowder?

Twenty-four kinks.

You see, it's for my father's work.

We're going to meet him a hundred miles up the Arkansas River.

Well, now, I don't know.

I'll pay you a $5,000 fee. And I'll pay the fines of all your men.

Oh, no, that's very generous of you, Miss, uh... Crane.

Martha Crane.

How much will that be, Martha?

It'll cost you just about as much as it cost you to start that fight in the saloon.

Come on, lads. Here's our cargo. Let's get it unloaded. Get it on the boat.

Watch out. There's powder in there. We'll leave that to last.

Put that on deck. Now, come on. Take it lightly.

I'm not going to leave this ship! Whatever you do, Captain, no, Captain,

I'm not going to leave this ship!

That's me! Hello, Chip.

Whoa!

Mrs. Wilkins, our apologies. I don't think Chip will ever run away again.

I'm sure that he'll have a fine time at your grand school.

Looks like he could stand a good meal.

I don't know why I'm the one that's always left behind.

Well, Chip, it's only for a few days.

Yeah, but who's going to keep everything ship-shaped?

And catch the mudcat to put in pick-a-long stew?

Well, we figured it was time you got educated in the finer things in life, Chip.

That's not the reason. It's the captain's itch. That's what it is. Who has the itch?

He does. He can feel trouble coming like anybody can feel the itch.

What he means is we're going on a dangerous trip.

Real dangerous?

Mrs. Wilkins, you will take good care of him, won't you?

Oh, he'll be as proper as a fine young English gentleman by the time you get back.

There, there, see what'll happen if you leave me ashore?

You get your gear together.

All right.

Come on, Andy. We'll keep Andy Jackson here with us. Now,

you get your gear together and go with Mrs. Wilkins.

Now, that's an order, huh?

Yes, sir.

Now, Mrs. Wilkins, I wish I had a little something to give you on a card.

I know about you being stranded, Captain.

Anyway, it's not money a body needs to make a gentleman.

For a start, um... A bath will do.

A bath? I'll desert!

I'll court-martial you.

Ben.

Say goodbye, Chip.

We'll only be gone about a week or ten days, Chip.

But Ben, that's a lifetime.

You brute.

Well!

Let's move around, Mr. Carney.

Quiet, Annie.

Help!

The gunfire!

Help! Help! Simon, what's the matter? Help!

What's the matter, Simon?

What's that cake doing loose? Oh, don't look out! Leave me alone!

That wasn't an ordinary gunfire. What was in that? I don't know. Don't lie to me.

What was in it? I tell you I don't know.

I was only hired to help get the staff to her father.

Miss Crane.

Miss Crane.

Just one moment. What's in those kegs?

I told you, gunpowder. It couldn't blow up.

That stuff's got ten times the power of gunpowder, and you know it.

Nonsense.

What's in it?

Ordinary gunpowder Captain, my father bought it months ago.

I only came to Rivers End to arrange for shipment.

All right. Joshua!

What are you going to do?

I'm telling these kegs overboard. Joshua, get these kegs in the river.

Captain, my father has to have that powder. Get me out of here, boys.

Really? Why? Well, it's no concern of yours. Well, my crews are a concern of mine.

Get these kegs overboard, boys.

Now, what about the other crews on the Arkansas? They have no concern to you.

What do you mean?

Those kegs float. Now, if they go over the side of the boat, they'll explode.

Hold on.

I'd better look into this, Captain. Aye.

Put that back in the pile. Give me that one.

I've got to open one of these kegs.

You're out of your mind!

Simon, keep quiet.

Get them out of here, Captain. We'll see what this stuff is.

No, you must have... Oh, forget that.

Open it up, George. Get to your cabins.

Go on, Miss Crane.

You too.

Go back to work, Connie. It's just a small firecracker.

Some firecracker?

It's starting to smolder, you saw that? When I threw it in the water,

it didn't stop smoking. I think I know what it is.

I've seen something like it a few years ago.

Shit!

What are you doing here?

I came back. I knocked the keg over. I'm sorry if I did anything wrong.

All right, you go up to my cabin, and you wait for

me there. You can explain later, and I'll scoot.

That's the same stuff. It smells the same. What is it?

Oh, that's gunpowder, all right.

But there's something... Aye, that's it.

An army engineer did some experiments, and he developed a very powerful explosive.

But it couldn't be trusted. It was unpredictable.

Sometimes you couldn't blow it off at all, and other times,

a wee touch would put it off.

When it went off, we got 23 kegs aboard.

Oh, no, Captain.

She's right.

I wouldn't do that.

All right. All right, I'll handle it just once to give it to the

woman's father and then wash my hands of the whole affair.

But what if we hit a snag or we run aground?

Sometimes you have to trust the luck, Captain.

All right, Joshua, all right.

See if this stuff is tied down securely and keep everybody off this deck.

All right, let's hear it.

Like I told you, sir, I just couldn't stay with Mrs. Wilkins.

So?

So, when I got on the dock, I gave her the slip and I climbed paddle wheel arm.

You mean you rode the paddle wheel arm till

we got out in the main part of the river?

Yes, sir.

Well, it was easy.

Sir.

Oh, he's a clever one.

Nobody saw me, sir.

A lot of people on shore saw you. You could have got yourself killed.

Well, I was very careful, sir.

That's no excuse.

You will retire to your cabin and await further orders. Right, sir. Move along.

He takes after me, he does. What he did, I used to do in meals.

Captain, if we have to stop our wood, we're going to lose the entire crew.

They've heard so much talk about that powder that they're scared of their wits.

Well, not my men. They're brave lads, all of them.

I'll go below and see.

Oh, Mr. Fraser.

Would you accompany me to the engine, Dick?

Please.

Sure, Captain.

You've been a drinking man.

I'm not.

I was just out on deck, and I had an old dream come back.

For a sailing man, the land must have been meant as

just something to leave and long to come back to.

Do you really think you'd be happy away from the river? I would.

Land's the only place a man can grow roots.

If I'd saved my money, bought some property.

And now, there might have been a woman waiting for me at the end of the day.

When I think of those powder kegs, Captain, they scare me stiff.

Keep your dreams, Joshua.

Maybe you'll find a way to buy that land yet.

Miss Graham, passengers aren't allowed on the Texas deck.

I wanted to see you, Captain.

What I've done, I'm sorry, but I had to do it.

Yeah, you're a strange woman.

Strange?

How?

Well, right now you look like an Eastern schoolgirl, eager to meet her family,

coming home from her college term.

You see, I'm very fond of my father.

Well, is that so unusual?

No, no, but where you're meeting him is,

and you have to admit that your baggage is a little out of the ordinary.

Why did you do it?

Lie, cheat, steal?

Risk all the lives of the people on board this boat just to carry

explosives strong enough to blow a path of Arkansas country.

I owe you $5,000, Captain, nothing more. Oh, come on, now, now, now.

I've played fair with you.

My father...

He's a wonderful man.

He has courage.

He's been everywhere.

Nothing else will satisfy him.

He's a mining engineer.

And at last he's found the thing he's always been looking for.

A gold mine in Arkansas?

He's found a mine. That's all you need to know.

Captain, there's trouble on the cargo deck. The men want to be pretty sure.

You stay right here.

Captain, we want to be put ashore. We'll be landing in about eight hours.

Now, sir.

This boat's a death trap. I don't like this situation any more than you do.

But I'm only going to handle that cargo of gunpowder once.

When we put it ashore where it was originally sent.

We say stop the boat now!

Get back to your posts.

No!

We took a vote!

We're getting off! I'm not stopping the vote!

We're almost there.

You can see the mountain.

My father's camp should be at the base of it, and the mine's halfway up.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, well, there's a couple of things to be settled first. Now,

your father's men will unload the gunpowder.

Of course. Of course.

And there's a small matter of a $5,000 fee, charge of delivery.

Oh, my father will pay you when we land.

That's good. Thank you.

Father!

Johnny!

Captain.

That was my father's.

It was a robbery.

In that case.

He's gone on the map to the mine. That's why they killed him.

They're up there. They're up there on the mountain.

Ben.

Ben.

You and Simon take Miss Crane back to a cabin. My father.

There's only one thing we can do for him now. We'll

take care of it. Go on, Ben. Take him back.

Jimmy?

Break out the shovels on the double.

It's a strange thing, Captain.

Each man has about 20 bullet holes in him.

They've been robbed of all their valuables, but the horses are still here. Well,

that means it couldn't have been the Indians. They would have taken the horses.

And their scalps, too.

Well, it's no affair of ours. As soon as we dump the powder,

we'll go on back downriver.

Well, let's get on with the business at hand.

What are you doing in here? Well, what are you doing with the captain's trousers?

Chip, could we have a little secret?

Well, I guess you could try.

Well, you see, I couldn't very well ride a horse in these skirts,

so I borrowed some riding breeches.

You're gonna wear pants?

Golly.

But you mustn't tell Captain Holden. I got to.

He might think I took him for myself. Chick,

don't you love Captain Holden and Joshua very much?

Oh, sure.

Well, when your folks were killed, didn't you want to do something about it?

Well, my father's dead, and I want to do something about it.

But I don't want anybody else to be hurt.

So if you don't tell anyone that you saw me come in here, have we got a secret?

I guess you're right, Miss Crane.

Better all on board, Captain. That's good.

A nasty job. Well done. I'm glad it's finished. Prepare to cast off, Joshua.

Prepare to cast off, you rascal. Cast off, forward line. Let's haul this plank.

All forward line.

Haul the plank. Yeah, pick along. Give the boys

an early supper, will you? They deserve it.

You ain't going to leave without Miss Crane, are you?

Well, of course not. Why? She ain't on the boat.

What do you mean she's not on the boat?

She ain't here. Told me to keep my eyes on her. She's not here. You sure?

Of course I'm sure.

All those lines! All the flags!

Check!

Chip, did you see where Miss Crane went?

No, sir. Yes, sir. I mean she's gone away. I could see her from up there.

What do you mean she's gone away?

On a horse, and she's wearing your pants.

My pants?

Which way'd she go?

On the trail towards the cliff.

She took another horse to carry four kegs of gunpowder.

Four kegs of gunpowder?

That foolish woman.

We gotta stop her. Why? Why? Don't be funny, Carney.

She hasn't paid her passage yet. Ben! The boat's all yours. That woman's took off,

and we're gonna follow her.

All right, let's go. Chip! You stay here. Kitty!

You foolish female woman.

You give me that. I want to finish the job my father started. Started?

You don't even know how to finish tying a rope yet. Joshua Carney.

You finished your job, Captain. You're under no further obligation.

I haven't been paid yet. Here, Joshua, put that on that load horse.

Secure that cake. Make sure it's down there tight.

I'm going to get you back in that boat. I can carry you there.

Put me down. Put me down.

Please, please put me... Captain, you put me down.

I'll tell you why I wanted such a powerful explosive.

Please.

Diamonds don't break away from the ground so easily.

Diamonds? Diamonds?

A whole mountain of them, right there.

And half of them belong to those of you who go with me.

Diamonds.

Diamonds have never been found in this part of the country.

My father did, right there.

That's possible, Captain.

Anything's possible.

Our job's running a riverboat, not hunting down some mythical diamond mine.

Captain, I still owe you $5,000. You'll find that when you cash this in,

you owe me a considerable amount of change.

We sailed down the river before sunset.

Captain, I'm offering your men great wealth. Now,

do you have the right to stand in their way?

I have the right to decide what I... Don't be hasty, Captain.

No!

I've never amounted to much, and up to now, I never thought I would.

Captain, just once in my life, I'd like to feel nine feet tall.

Her money and clothes and best girl in town.

Joshua?

Those roots I was talking to you a while back about.

The money, I could buy a place to plant them.

They share it for every one of us.

You can't deny us that, Captain.

That's part of the deal.

For every man.

Even Simon, if he carries a keg of powder, because that's part of my deal.

That powder?

A horse can do that.

A horse can climb up that cliff, and that's the way to get to the mine quickly.

Up that mountain?

All the way up that mountain? Only partway.

There's a plateau with a forest clearing. That's where the mine is.

You can't see it from down here.

How far up is that?

It's half as far this way as it is by the trail on the map.

Been there before?

Once.

There's no marked path, but the stones offer plenty of foothold.

I accept your offer, Martha.

You would, Simon. You'll be my bad luck piece.

If I share in the diamond mine, I'll be anything.

We'll be rich, Captain. Exceedingly rich. Well, at least we'd have the chance.

I think you'd fight me for that chance.

Well, I can't deny you men a crack at the mine if there is such a mine. Carney,

you go back down to the boat. Tell them to wait for us. Oh, no.

But don't tell them what we're up to. Don't tell them about the diamond.

If they carry the gunpowder, they share and share alike. I'm on your side. Yes,

I'll just bet you are. Carney, you unload that horse.

Get those kegs on. Each one of us will carry a keg. Joshua, come with me.

We'll see if we can find a way up there.

I don't know how we're gonna get up there.

He's Mexican. What's he doing on this trail up here? Look,

he's got about a dozen bullet holes in him.

He's got some torn American money, too, but there's

no way of telling who he was. I know who he is.

His name is Costa, and he was never far from the

side of his brother, Juan Miguel. Juan Miguel?

They locked up all those banditas. I heard the

escapes almost a month ago. All 30 of them.

It must have been the ones who killed Father.

Well, there weren't that many tracks.

Maybe they all broke up into small bands and worked their way south. Captain.

This isn't just another outlaw we'll be dealing with.

Miguel would stand by and watch his own brother bleed to death without

so much as giving him a glass of water to help ease the pain.

How do you know so much about Miguel?

I heard they've been robbing and burning the towns and settlements around here.

Captain Holden!

Captain, I think we better turn back.

Captain Holden!

Suppose we could do what we came to do without ever meeting Juan Miguel.

How, when they're already in front of us?

He may have the map, but we can get to the mine before he does.

Skipper, you better start climbing. I'm spending the money already.

We'd need an awful lot of rope to get up that mountain.

There's an awful lot of rope on the horses.

Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go! All right, Simon, put it on.

Take it down. Tie it to yourself, Jimmy.

Ready?

Good luck.

Bring me back one the size of a potato. All right, Connie, watch the store.

Carney, where's the rest of them? I left them back there.

You did what?

The captain sent me back to the boat. Why?

Well, they're going after the... Well, it's a gem of an idea.

Carney, what are you talking about? Where are they?

Well, they're climbing the mountain. What mountain? That one.

Like the looks of that sky, Captain?

I don't either. It's hurry. It looks like a nice storm.

But you said this way was easier.

Well, it is. It's going down.

Come on, where are they?

Come on, Joshua. Can you make it? Come on, Jimmy.

We might be out of the trail. We can't go any farther.

We didn't come up this way before.

There can't be a foothold anywhere.

We can't go back now, Captain.

It'll soon be night.

I know, I know. I can't see anything above me or below me.

We just have to bed down here for the night, I guess.

Keep your eyes open, don't fall asleep, and watch those kegs.

Don't fall asleep? I can't keep my eyes open.

Do you want to go over the edge?

No.

Well, then don't fall asleep.

Josh, hold that line! Don't let it slip! Josh!

Hang on, Jimmy, hang on! Give me the line, Josh!

Stop it! Stop it, you fool! Stop it!

Simon, you ought to be next.

We're here.

I knew we could make it.

How much farther?

We're there.

Among the diamonds.

Hours for the taking.

Take your head screw on.

You don't see any diamonds in front of your noses, do you?

They're here.

You can count on that.

I've seen them. I've been in the tunnel.

They're pieces of coal harder than any rock.

Your album and air, white flame flashes with fire.

Buenos dias, senores, senorita.

You take a long time.

We wait and watch.

Oh, see?

And now you are here, huh?

Who are you?

Do you work for my father, Albert Crane?

Then clear out. This is my property. I own this claim.

No, señorita.

It is mine.

May I beg to introduce myself?

I am Juan Miguel.

A pretty señorita, huh?

Seguro.

Muchísimas gracias, señores.

I am a rich man now.

A gold mine all of my own.

Gold for all of my men.

Maybe I'll give you some, see?

Gonzalez, their guns.

Kill them if they say no.

But they have no guns, Miguel.

Ay, gracias, senores. Gracias.

It is good I kept Gonzalez with me, eh?

He has the eyes like the eagle.

Only my dear brother Costa has a better right until I kill

him for taking some of the gringo's money from me.

Listen to me.

Listen to me.

But these people are not my friends. They made me a prisoner.

They forced me to help them.

Ah, then you are the man to help me, huh?

You stole that map.

Oh, no, señorita.

I found it.

Now I'd like to find my gold mine pronto.

There isn't any gold mine.

No gold.

And why you climb up and carry the so heavy gunpowder?

Oh, the senorita jokes, huh?

Oye, three men climb down from here to the river and die.

And now three men climb up again.

Why is that, senores?

You, amigo, you will tell me where the gold is,

huh? I don't know. I'd help you if I could!

See, I think so.

All your life you have tried to be on the side of the boss,

but you're never going to make it.

You climb here, right here, because the goal is close.

Miguel is a smart man.

The mine is very close.

Get up, all of you.

We're going to look for my gold.

Oh, how nice, Gonzalez. They've tied themselves together for us.

They can't get away like that. Gonzalez!

Do you not see the lady does not want you to touch her?

She's saving that job for me.

Get up, senor.

Get up or you will never get up again.

In my business, you learn to know our real men.

You try to give courage to the rabbits, eh?

Before this thing is through, you and I will have much fun, amigo.

Now, where is the mine?

I don't know.

My men will look here for the gold.

There is a door or a hole in the ground or something.

Now go look.

If we do not find it, one of them will talk.

Miguel knows how to make that happen.

Juan Miguel is a smart man.

It is all our gold.

Go tell Miguel that we found the gold. Andale.

All our money.

Soon many men will come to join me.

Today or tonight.

Now we have more gold to buy guns and ammunition.

Pure stones.

What is it?

I don't know. Let's go see Miguel. I'll show you!

Inside that mine, there's all you want. It's just like that.

It's a precious stone. It is a glass that shines.

You think I go to a store and buy more rifles and ammunition with a piece of glass?

It takes gold.

Miguel, Miguel. Miguel, I think it's cold.

Andale, que cold.

You do not know how to look for gold.

I will show you. Now get the gunpowder in the

tunnel. Not you, Miguel. You, you, andale.

Captain, the powder.

Unpredictable. This map does not show me where the gold is.

Who tells me where?

You?

I don't know anything about the mine.

Senorita says the map is stolen.

She knows about my gold.

I wouldn't tell you.

Then I'll make you tell.

Oh, you are young yet, and you will not like what I do.

To him.

Oh, no, Captain, not the boat.

Don't, don't, don't. You'll explode it. You'll blow up the mine.

We don't know how many men are coming.

If he gets us, he'll get the party. You know what he'll do with it.

He'll blow up all the towns and villages around.

Oh, please, don't. Joshua, get out of here. Don't, don't, don't.

Well, you have every right to be angry, Mr. Carney,

and I'm sorry that we're no richer than we were before, but I had no other choice.

Sure, Mr. Holden.

Nobody believed a story when I told them anyway.

You told them? Well, sure, you didn't expect me to keep a secret.

Mountain of Diamonds, it's fantastic. I didn't believe it myself.

Mountain of Diamonds.

Well, I believed it.

One day we'll find it again.

Well, you keep it in your dreams, Joshua, but don't go looking for it.

But if you do, let me know.

I'll grab my hat and go with you.