off at Santa Fe if you want to get off this he was spitting man when in short they
are offering he wasn't flattered he said a measly thousand bucks for me as much
too little I'm worth a lot more than that that's right he said that many out of
the zeros and a thousand by me man no bug Kavanaugh about a week ago he was
seen at White Rocks thanks if it's of any interest to you somebody else
dropped him to see me about him who I've never seen him before his name is Manco
takes me three years turn it tell me isn't the sheriff supposed to be courageous
loyal and above all honest yeah you people need a new sheriff but I see you
but you've seen what takes place here
is 18 months to stop raising a friend
and that's why I feel your family is partly mine outside both innocent please let
them go I was the one you know that me just enough this time you'll have a
chance to shoot me but not in the back this thing you can good day sir good
afternoon more than Douglas Mortimer Virginia Carolina that's right Carolina can
I help in some way I'm looking for a first-class bank but exactly yeah the
largest and most secure bank in the territory well Mr. Mortimer I want to
assure you our bank here has everything all the safe got you looking I don't doubt
that but I have a large sum to deposit now one suppose I'm a bandit
bandit very dangerous bandit with a gang of killers and what would be the most
impossible bank for me to rob in your case the one banker would suggest the bank of
El Paso not even Indio or dare to attack that one it's not a bank it's a fortress
there what time's the next train for El Paso 11 30 I'll telegraph to my colleague in
a bank of El Paso that you're going to arrive thanks name is Fernando the stable
is right here and that is your hotel why this hotel and that's some other you
probably wouldn't like that other place much senior you'd have to spend half
the night shooting cockroaches at this hotel the rooms will cost you so much
less and there's a landlady this one's in your married yes but she doesn't care
that's the bank as soon as I get some money I'll put it in are you gonna have
to earn it first I have 50 cents here for you if you'll let me know when
anybody you've never seen before here in El Paso comes to town at the hotel
senior a stranger just came out of there as he stands the hotel let me know if
you see any more strangers sure senior help you sir I want the room right above I'm
sorry it's occupied too bad the hotel's filled a capacity I'm sorry the room you
want is our best it's always occupied by who check the register Mary it's then
your Martinez it's free now that room is taken I'll see to it he's nothing but a
wild vicious animal is tall isn't he you're just dirty I'll give you another room
immediately it's the best in the whole hotel the best
yes and you're what do you want you thought of me thank you like these we see I
didn't waste a minute coming here in your calls and groggy comes running right away
and Sancho if you're waiting for Sancho I'll go and come back in about four years
he's in prison for four years no more no denero no son that for the rest of us
man who gets caught doesn't deserve respect huh what's an old bottle not just
listen that puzzle let's see we'll say this is the inside of the bank
Nino is the safe which way is three turns and can't be open with dynamite there's
the part with two cashiers this is the managers desk writing back as a fancy
cabinet containing bottles for offering drinks to the rich depositors there's the
main door and opposite a billy double wall what happens groggy let's say you've
already killed it to cashiers and the manager for the next few minutes you
are the boss of the bank now what the time's been wasted in you right the waste
of time especially groggy to press open that damn iron safe will have to be using
so much dynamite that the whole bank with yours disappear and you'll go up with
it and besides the presence of a safer lawn doesn't always seem to find that
there is money inside to help you understand what I mean I would like to
relate a nice little parable once upon a time there was a carpenter you don't think
a carpenter can make money no you're wrong this one did well because he was a
builder of saves there was a banker once who decided he must have his iron safe
disguised look like wood cabinet to get it made the banker goes to our carpenter for
the job and one day as destiny has it the carpenter's in our puzzle he happens to
walk into the bank there and what does he find the cabinet since he'd worked on the
cabinet he spotted it right away from that day I couldn't work anymore
pity because there was something he had to do there was this crazy idea and it's
and each day to put his hands on the money inside get in there and grab all the
money sure you think that carpenter was lucky the way things work out that he
was lucky to go and just that bank it wasn't true he's could fortune stop that
day because later as a prisoner he ran into me they told me the story and I tell
you the money isn't in this safe it's right in this almost a million dollars in
your colleague in Tukumkari told me this bank has the largest deposits in the whole
state yes that's correct Mr. Mortimer here at the bank at El Paso we have half a
million dollars reserve on hand I see you sure this bank is secure enough to
hold that much from the moment your money is on deposit here Mr. Mortimer you
can sleep without any worries the charge when the bank is closed an armed guard
always remains here and a patrol is unguarded outside even the bank of San
Francisco isn't that well protected exactly the truth is Mr. Mortimer to try
robbing us would be so futile that only a complete fool would attempt it yeah or
a complete madman another stranger in town yes and I know something else there was
another stranger I didn't tell you listen to me you saw it off little runt I want to
know how many men there are all together well there were two now there's two more
where in the saloon it's a miracle you're alive why should a man walk around
with a pistol and let himself be insulted it's mighty strange I said the
hunchback didn't shoot you yet a very very important reason that's all I was
thinking that myself yeah no no I don't know him I don't know him I don't know
him you know everybody I don't know anybody anymore I'm dead understand well
there was a time when I knew everybody that was a long time ago and all this
was prairie but these days everybody's in a hurry that's right with your damn good
for nothing trains your damn train 2 2 2 3 disgusting one day someone from the
railroad comes here to see me and he says probably the railway is gonna go
right past your house ah that's so I said mm-hmm yep that's right he says
all those trains gonna go right past here and the best thing for you profit
to sell your land to the company or else we'll buy bakers he lives next to
your place now put the tracks in that'll make you go crazy well you say will you
sell out our company profit oh is that sure as I mm-hmm mm-hmm he was very anxious
for me to sell out oh you know what I told him about railroad you know what I
told him he could do with railroad you said no you're right about that listen
to me old man you were supposed to be a profit I didn't come here to listen to
you rattle on about trains I want to find out about this man it's obvious you
don't know anything no need to be insulting that's all you came here to do you
can clear out of my house fast before I lose my temper understand yes I better
leave before you go and lose your temper what's the matter with you why you
said dang stupid hurry up give me that pistol there yeah right there behind
you all right yes yes that's the one now hand it over
there she's giving that gun man you asked about there's only one question how does he
carry his gun huh he wears it here across his belly yeah why don't you tell me
that in the first place my boy of course I know the man you're trying to find out
about of course I know him he's Colonel Douglas Mortimer Mortimer a brave man
a soldier he was known as the best shot in the Carolinas a great soldier now he's
reduced to be in a bounty killer same as you because of trains because of the damn
trains damn them thank you to the station the gentleman's leaving they get to
the station
go inside the station just like the games we know picking dog a trick maybe how can
somebody in my business go around with a contraption like this that contraption
almost sent you to your grave
forgetting one thing Colonel I was shooting at your hat well I was only
shooting at yours but I recall firing first boy I reached almost 50 years of age
with my system how many men last long in these parts how long do you expect to
last much longer than that when I get my hands on Indio and that ten thousand
dollars I'm gonna buy myself a little place possibly retire yeah well I don't
believe we ought to start another fight but you forget one small detail what's that
I want to get my hands on Indio too sure after me or before you or at the same
time
that a proposition mm-hmm an equal partnership what should I like and think
of three reasons first is there's 14 of them yeah it's a lot a lot for me yeah no
small number even for two of us second reason second reason the second reason is
you could make it 15 to 1 don't forget I want to play in this game too as you're
aware when two hunters go after the same prey they usually end up shooting each
other in the back and we don't want to shoot each other in the back Colonel dies
mm-hmm all right I'll be generous you can have the reward for Indio not take the
reward for the rest of the band no all wrong no indios worth ten thousand
dollars but the rest of the band adds up to much more than that like he's worth
four miles with three and you know to use one first goes with two well that's ten
thousand yeah but there's a few more lead up to more than that I'm sure how do you
know that I have my information Colonel no all said and done I might just take
you off when your proposition hmm let's drink to this partnership to the
partnership with no tricks of course no tricks realize of course we're gonna have
to figure out some way to get them in the middle yep one from the outside one from
the inside there's no other way one of us will have to join indio's band why are you
looking at me when you say one of us because they don't know you while sees me
in this humble kitchen fire tell me Colonel how do you propose that I join up
with indio maybe bring him a bunch of roses well you could do that but I'd
suggest you take him sancho parents who sent your parents a friend of indios right
now he's cooling off he's cooling off and now I'm a Gordo jail how do you know all
this I've got my information too naturally you'll have to arrange for his release
naturally tell me Colonel were you ever young yeah and just as reckless as you then
one day something happened made life very precious to me what's that question in
discreet no the question isn't in discreet but the answer could be a friend of mine
did you ask him that yeah amigo where did you help me out well such a big reward
being offered and all you gentlemen that I thought I might just tag along on your
next robbery might just turn you into the law that's the one answer that will prove
you all right then you arrive just in time to the job is already set it's tomorrow
places the bank in El Paso not far from El Paso's little town Santa Cruz tomorrow
blackie Chico Paco and you amigo we're of the bank in Santa Cruz should kill get
every gun in the area after you especially those from El Paso any others around
we'll take care of them and then after the job will all meet again at Las
Palmeras there's gonna be any shooting I gotta get my rest told that story yesterday
I fell for it big joke wasn't it amigo who said I was joking I don't get that if
it's true bear you have to die man they should be at Santa Cruz man they've
just robbed the bank here in town once you just sit down and send out the
alarm to El Paso and the rest of towns around here and warn them right but
mister I didn't hear any shots at the bank and I sure would have you might
hear one the alarm sorry no results now take it easy we only know the Santa Cruz
part of this plan you were the one who had their strategy all worked out I'm gonna
meet Indio I see I better go along I'm going along me I have an appointment with
Indio and I'm not gonna let anyone else interfere certain about that that's right
Colonel all right in that case I'm sorry Indio sent four men to Santa Cruz one
man returns a new man without a scratch Indio is no idiot you write up to him
again and show him that little Nick you got you might believe you and don't forget
that as of today the whole gang is worth forty thousand dollars more that's the
reward offered by the bank to get the money back is the partnership operating
again just how do you figure try to convince Indio to go north and then go
along the real Bravo it's a good spot for an ambush and we can get in between
two fires you on the outside me on the inside right after Santa Cruz we headed
for El Paso they hit us from all sides and you just take your own skin isn't it
right you little you did your part of it let's go which way we headed north a long
real Bravo Canyon why not seems like a good place for an ambush to me you know a
better way to go yeah south right to the border yeah they'll never expect you to
cross the border now that the alarm's been sent think we're at East there's a
place I know about a guacalliente here we are that's our guacalliente yes I have
many friends he looks just like a morgue look out it could be one so easily they
don't like strangers no they don't like anybody what you never saw a friend
here should rise no we don't know how you'd be in emergencies I was thinking
this is the right place I got away you can show the man
how's that going to time a lot of me go
yeah you got here I just reasoned it out I figured you tell Indio to do just
exactly the opposite of what we agreed and he suspicious enough to figure out
something else since El Paso was out of the question well here I am
of course you do El Paso
it's a small world yes and very very bad now come on you light another match I
generally smoke just after I wanted you come back in about 10 minutes 10 minutes
you'll be smoking in hell open the safe for you what's easy you're the one from
El Paso you got there ahead of me however I'll ever open that safe and you're
going to have the bank notes I can open it without blowing it up it costs 5,000
two zone I'll pay you it's easy to steal the trouble listen keeping the loot to get
out now every man in New Mexico is after us all they have to do is catch one of us
with some of this money and we'll all end up the same way we're going to wait
here for an entire month if I think it's necessary and everybody will get
his share and you'll wait a month to get your money naturally I'll be in the tavern
the air around here stinks anyway just like the food but the month will go fast
problems this out you'll see that the tight security sleep keep your eye on them
why let them live all things at the right time what do you mean what's he doing
right now looking for the cash that was in the bank right and supposedly finds the
bodies of this man just outside El Paso we have lots of money on them what we the
sheriff think well that's right what is it need oh change of plans it's not
loaded you think you should get out fast now use your guns without bullets and listen
don't you let in Joe find you both around no you don't like questions in the
over why are you doing this Nino how long have you known that Moncos a bounty
killer I found out tonight why I knew he was one from the first moment he
arrived one's also a bounty killer so I have an idea they'll be useful to us we'll
try it those men are a lot better than mine when they're gone so we let all of
them get mixed up in a gun but but that won't really matter to me because we'll
be far away right all the money who did it why don't you look at it I and it
shouldn't be there should it but I didn't kill him in the oh I didn't do it
which he do you it's difficult to prove that in the oh I am in one of the
horses is outside let's see if you can get to it just kill slim
you have those two body killers get away killers are sitting on a back
and I tell you they must both be killed right away open it up now can they come
back here you've been gonna kill them who thought something different you made
the boys right on out to make sure that they're both killed in fast I'm not as
dumb as the rest of me deal there was no help for it watch it's been a long
time that I wanted to ask I can see that it means a lot to you when you go why when
the time's end pick up your gun go and shoot me cut it out just try just to be a
family resemblance naturally between brother and sister my gun you become
rich you mean we've become rich old man no it's all for you I think you deserve it
what about a partnership maybe next time 1727 any trouble boy I was having trouble
with my adding