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Not quite...Quarter Cherokee. The rest is Welsh...So they tell me.
You've done a lot of growin'...
Somethin' mighty fishy about this trail, Uncle Ethan...
Stop callin' me 'uncle'...I ain't your uncle.
Yes, sir.
Don't have to call me 'sir' neither... Nor grampaw neither...Nor Methuselah neither...I can whup you to a frazzle.
What you want me to call you?
Name's Ethan...Now what's so mighty fishy about this trail?
Well, fust off...
Well, come on!
Easy! It's forty miles, sonny...Horses can do with some grain and a little rest.
Nothing for you to see.
Leggo...
All right...but I'm givin' the orders...You take 'em or we split up here and now...
Why, sure, Ethan...There's just the one thing we're after...finding Deborah and Lucy...
If they're still alive...
Easy on that!
Sorry...We don't even know if Debbie 'n Lucy are with this bunch...Maybe they split up...
They're with 'em if they're still alive.
You want us to fire a shot if...
No...nor build bonfires...nor beat drums neither. I'll meet you on the far side.
You all right, Ethan?
Huh...? Sure I'm all right...
Say!...What happened to your blanket? Lose it?
Must've...Anyway, I ain't goin' back to look for it...
What you goin' to do?
Get some sleep...Tomorrow's another day...
Say it. We're beat!
No...our turnin' back don't change anything...not in the long run. If she's alive, she's safe...for a while...They'll keep her to raise as one of their own, 'til she's of an age to...
And you think we got a chance to find her?
An Injun will chase a thing til he thinks he's chased it enough...Then he quits...Same when he runs...Seems he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that might just keep comin' on...So we'll find them in the end, I promise you that...We'll find them just as sure as the turning of the earth.
Good night...Laurie...
Good night...
Jorgensen's been runnin' his cattle with my own...
YOUR cattle?...<U>DEBBIE'S</U> cattle!
He's agreed to take you on and share the increase from my herd while I'm gone...I'll be pushin' on tomorrow...
I ain't stayin'...I set out lookin' for Debbie...I aim to keep on...
Why?
Because she's my...my...
She's your nothin'...She's no kin to you at all!
I always felt like she was...Her folks takin' me in, raisin' me like one of their own...
That don't make 'em kin...
All right...I ain't got no kin... I'm goin' to keep lookin' that's all.
How? You got any horses, or money to buy 'em...You ain't even got money to buy cartridges...Jorgensen's offering you a good livin' here...
Martin...I want you to know some thin'...
Yeah...you want me to know I ain't got no kin no money no horses nothing but a dead man's clothes to wear!..You tole me that already... Now shut your head!
Good night.
Hey! What's the idea...?
Maybe I'm gettin' like Mose Harper my bones is cold tonight...
Not so funny...if you recollect what 'Nawyecka' means...
What's that?
Sorta like 'roundabout' like a man says he's goin' one place when he means to go just the reverse...
Oh...
You all settled an' comfortable now?
Futterman?
He just couldn't wait...
Whatchu doin'?...
Let's go...I think I stumbled onto somethin'...
Scar?
When are you goin' to learn to keep your mouth shut! Come on. Let's get out of here.
But I just bought a good blanket.
Forget it...
What I heard back there was that a band o' hostile Nawyeckas came through this way less'n two weeks ago...
Think it might be...?
<U>YOU</U> don't understand, ya chunkhead! <U>You</U> didn't buy any blanket! Ya bought <U>her</U>!
What?
You got yourself a <U>wife</U>, sonny!
Oh no! Tell her she's got to go back...
And have her whole family after our scalps for floutin' one o' their women?...No sir! Come on, Mrs. Pauley...
That's the way to train 'em. Looks like Mrs. Pauley's goin' to make you a fine beautiful wife...
Cut it out, will ya...
Says her name's Wild Goose Flying in the Night Sky...but she'll answer to Look since it pleases ya...
Look?
You ask her!
Look! Scar?... Do you know where he went? And if he has a girl with him...a <U>white</U> girl naibist pabo taibo...
Beats me how she could get that pony out o' camp without neither of us hearin' a thing...
She ain't goin' back to her family, that's certain...not if she took off where the arrow points.
Think she means for us to follow?
How should <U>I</U> know...She's YOUR wife!
I think maybe we oughta...
Yeah, I kinda figgered you'd say that...Bein' a new husband and all...
Ethan, quit it!
Nine... Ten!
What's the sense in it!
Least, <U>THEY</U> won't feed any Comanches this winter...Killin' buffalo's as good as killin' Injuns in this country.
Peaceful tribes depend on the buffalo, too....
Ain't that too bad...If you feel that sorry for your kinfolk, I'm surprised you didn't take up with that squaw wife of yours...
Well, you're a widower now...
What'd the soldiers have to kill her for!..
No...She's not...
I ain't sure...Where's that doll?
Lemme alone...
You breeds are all alike two drinks an'...
Suit yourself...While you're enjoyin' your little conversation, I'll be ridin' out with Senor Fernandez here... The Comanch' medicine country ain't far...there's one camp with a chief named Cicatriz.
Never heard of him...
Cicatriz is Mex for <U>Scar</U>...an' he has a white girl in his tepee...Be seein' you...
Stay out here.
Not likely.
You figger Scar means to kill us?
He's got to...All these years, run nin', dodgin', knowin' we were after him...Now we caught up...It's him or us.