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Nice little house he's got here, Quid, fellow with all his money.

He's making a fort a nice house, Mitch.

He is coming out of the barn. Let's go have a little talk with him.

He's a very big fella. We shouldn't have much trouble now.

Hello there. Get on rest awhile, man.

I'll get out. You stay mounted, Mitch.

Right, Quid.

Why don't you both get down? I got a pot of coffee on the stove in there and I might scare up a little bacon if you're real empty.

We've had we camped and then cotton woods out there last night.

Well, you did. Well, why didn't you ride in? I could have slept you in the barn. I don't get much company out here.

I know. We've been watching the place. You're alone here, ain't you?

I've always been all alone. O.B. Tater, huh? O.B. Tater, that's right, Mr.

but how come you know my name? Well, everybody has heard of you, O.B.

Man, it spends money away. You do get kind of famous life.

Oh, I don't spend money no more. That was when I first come here. Well, I'm broke now.

Why don't the way we heard it, O.B. We heard you drove you back in Sacramento from the loaders with gold, double eagles.

Oh, that ain't so. A thousand dollars is all the gold I scratched out of California and I spent it building this ranch.

Sure, don't know why people keep talking about how rich I am. They'll quit talking soon enough, O.B.

You ain't gonna be rich no more. And now you enjoy.

What are you talking about? I'm gonna ask you real nice, O.B. where you got that gold head.

Oh, wait a minute. What do you follow us up to? You're gonna tell us. You've come here to rob me, didn't you?

Well, they ain't no use. There's nothing to rob. That told you wouldn't talk, Wade. We'll have to bounce us out of them.

Go ahead, Mitch. Stay down your rope. No, I ain't even armed. You can't hang me.

We ain't gonna hang you, O.B. We're just gonna give you a little ride. Feet first.

Go on, Mitch, rope. No, don't put that rope away. You ain't gonna drag me.

Yes, we are, O.B. Just what we're gonna do.

Well, look it there. It's O.B. Tater. Oh, Chester. Marshall, do you? Are you over? What brings you in the dodge?

Well, I had to see Doc Adams, Marshall. You are kind of peeked looking, O.B. you've been sick.

I ain't been sick. I've been hurt. Hurt? Well, what happened, O.B.?

Three weeks ago, Marshall. I like to die. What'd you do? Did you fall off a horse or something?

No, I didn't. I got drug. What? Well, two followers. They come by my place and they throw the rope on me and they drug me cross the prairie.

Well, who did? What for? I never seen him before, Marshall, but one was called Mitch and the other quayed.

That's all I know about. Well, I never heard of no Mitch, no quayed around here. Well, why did they do it, O.B.?

Well, Marshall, you know how everybody thinks I come back in California with a lot of gold, doubly gold and they say I'm rich.

Well, it ain't true, of course, but that don't stop them. They just go right on saying it. Yeah, I've heard the talk.

So these two followers, they wanted to rob me. I told them and I told them that I don't have no gold money, but they wouldn't believe me.

That's a wonder they didn't kill you, O.B. Well, they put near did, Marshall. I felt awful when they got through.

Do you think they'll come back? They said they wasn't done with me yet. They said they'd find a way to open me up.

It's a terrible thing, Marshall, being treated like that for no reason at all. And especially when you ain't even got no gold money.

That's too bad the room I got started in the first place, O.B.

I tried to stop it, but you know how I am. I ain't very smart. I can't hardly sign my name, Marshall.

If that's why I've always got job by any fast talker, it comes along. All life, it's been like that.

Well, we can't stop what people think over, but maybe we can find those two men. Do you think it recognized them?

Yes, I sure would, Marshall.

Okay, they just might be hanging around Dutch. Let's go look the town over, O.B.

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Masha, Dylan, we must have been in every student and Cameron, House, and Dodge. I'm getting a foot sore.

Well, there are only a couple more. I'll be able to drive a Texas trail here.

Well, what are you going to do if we find a Masha coming to you?

I don't know if there's enough left up in when I get through. Now, here we are.

Okay, take a good look around, movie.

They painted the bar, and they painted the tables back there.

Couldn't we sit down a minute, Masha? I'm all so tired. I guess I ain't got my full sprints back.

Sure, I'll be. We can sit down.

Well, let's go over there with Kitty, and whoever that other girl is.

Oh, I'd like to add, Masha. I ain't heard a woman's voice over half a year.

Oh, Matt?

Hello, Kitty. Oh, Kitty, this is Oby Tater.

Well, I had to know you, Oby.

Ma'am?

It's Miss Oby. And the same with Ella Mellish here. And this is Masha, Dylan.

How do you do, Ma'am?

How do you do? I'm glad to know you.

Sit down. Sit down.

Thank you.

That's an awful pretty name, Ella Mellish.

Thank you, Oby. Ella's new here. She's only been in Dodge for about a week.

I like it, though. I might even stay while.

Oh, well, that'd be nice. I sure hope you do, Ella.

Well, it depends.

It depends on what?

Oh, people, I suppose.

If I meet somebody I like, I'll stay.

You will?

Sure. Why not?

Well, you'll meet somebody. Pretty girl like you.

You're nice, Oby.

By the way, how you feeling now?

Oh, I'm fine.

Doc Adams couldn't find us and real wrong. He just said to take you to Hissie for a while.

What's the trouble, Oby? You've been sick?

No, it's not that. A couple of...

A couple of fellows come by my place and treat me kind of rough.

I'm okay now.

You look fine, Oby.

You can't hurt a young man like you anyway.

I ain't very young no more. I'm not pushing 60.

60?

Well, I don't believe it.

But you look more like 35 to me.

I do.

Of course you do.

Ella.

Yeah?

I'd be proud to take you over to the barn by you or drink. Any kind of a drink you want.

Wait a minute, Oby. We've got a couple of more places to look at.

No, that can't wait, Marshall. It ain't important. We'll do that tomorrow sometime.

Oh, will you, Ella? Come on, will you come?

I'd love to, Oby.

And maybe you'll tell me about yourself.

It's not in California now.

Oh, that ain't nothing. I'd rather hear about you now. You're coming to dodge.

Well, I sure didn't take a while.

I love mullage.

What do you know about her, Kitty?

I don't know anything, Matt. Not really.

I was a good talker, but she didn't say much about herself.

Did she come here alone?

For as I know, she did.

Yeah.

Do you have any friends here? I mean, have you seen her with anyone in particular?

No. I don't pay much attention to her.

Why, Matt? Something wrong?

No, not yet, Kitty.

But, uh...

I assure you're going to be.

Oh, good morning, Matt.

Hello, Doc. Come on in.

Oh, well, thank you. You found Oby Tater yet?

No, not yet, Doc, but Chester's out looking for him.

Well, maybe he hadn't tried the right places, man.

Oh, we've looked everywhere, Doc.

You and that Ella Mellish just plain disappeared, both of them.

Well, I wouldn't worry about it. They'll be back.

Well, I hope so.

Oh, thank you. You found Oby Tater yet?

No, not yet, Doc. But Chester's out looking for him.

Well, maybe he hadn't tried the right places, man.

Don't worry about it. They'll be back.

Well, I hope so.

This is the second day they've been gone.

I tried to talk to Oby that first night, but he was acting like a man in a dream.

Oh, he loves dream, Matt. Love sweet young dream.

Doc, Oby Tater will never see 60 again.

Oh, age has nothing to do with him.

I'm surprised that you don't understand these matters.

Oh, why should I always come ask you about them?

Any time, Matt. Any time.

I'm glad to advise you.

There's many a pitfall I might save you from, too, if you come to me in time.

And you may consider me like a father.

Like a father, huh?

Certainly.

Well, that's mighty nice of you, Doc.

Yes, a benefit of my experience is yours, Matt. Just any time.

Good, good.

Tell me, Doc, how does a man get out of New Orleans with two different husbands gone in for it?

Two husbands gone in for all the time.

Oh, my goodness, I must have been drunk.

When did I tell you about that?

The same night you told me about how you come to leave Philadelphia.

Yeah, I did.

Oh, well, that happened long.

Oh, a long time ago.

And I don't appreciate you remembering that, either.

But here he is, Mr. Dylan.

What?

I found him.

Come on, Oby.

Oby Tater, well, it's about time you showed up again.

What's all the fuss about?

You think I was a criminal or something?

We've been worried about you, Oby. Where you've been?

Honeymoon?

What?

Honeymoon.

It's a dodge house.

I paid the clerk $10, not to tell nobody we was there.

How do you pull up all this?

You mean you married Ella Melish?

It was love at first sight, Marshall.

I proposed to make her my wife and I am proud to say she accepted me right off.

I never thought she'd go that far.

She's a fine girl, Marshall, a fine girl.

Is she, Oby?

Well, I hate to say anything against your wife, but there's something I gotta tell you.

Your jealous, Marshall, etch, what you are, ya shame on you.

Oby, if I'd known you were gonna do this, I'd have made you listen to me the other night.

Say it out, Marshall.

I gotta get back to my bride.

We were leaving for the ranch today.

Well, I'm half tempted to let you find out for yourself.

I'll find out what we were talking about.

Don't you remember the other night when you first met Ella Melish?

How she asked you if you were feeling okay again?

No, ain't that just like Ella.

Always considering other people me in particular, I'm happy to say it.

Well, well, your feelings are happy. Tell me something.

How come she knew you'd been hurt?

Hmm?

You came here straight from Docs that day and nobody knew anything about what had happened

to you except Doc and Chester and me.

Now, who told Ella Melish?

Well, I don't know what difference she's made.

Well, Oby, listen to me. There's something wrong with Ella.

I don't know for sure she's in with those fellows, Mitch, and Quaid, but if she isn't,

she's got explaining to do.

Marshal Dylan, Ella Melish is now Mrs. Oby Tater.

She don't have to explain nothing to nobody.

Oh, I give up.

She's a fine woman, Marshal, and I won't stand for no talk again.

Love sweet young dream, huh Doc?

It's like being a local maddy can't hear you or anybody else except that girl.

No, that's no way to talk about me. I thought you were my friend.

We are your friends.

Not anymore, you're not.

You were Doc or Chester and nobody.

Well, I've got me a wife now, and I don't need you.

You will see.

Yeah, we'll see.

But I hope it isn't too late when we do, Oby.

And I hope you're still alive to see too.

I didn't know how Ella Melish planned to do it, but she was a clever girl.

And I was sure she had some way in mind to have a Lovetater.

What she didn't know, of course, was that he didn't have any money,

and that she was wasting her talents on him.

And I was afraid that when she failed, Mitch and Quaid had come back,

and a list I may kill Oby.

He was still alive about a week later, however,

when Chester and I happened to be in the country not far from his ranch,

and rode over to have a look.

There at home, all right, Mitch and Dylan.

My gracious, they must be roasting the calf

with all that smoke coming out of the chimney.

Wait a minute, Chester.

Huh?

Watch that smoke coming out.

What?

I'll just watch it.

Not there. There you see.

All right, it's puffing.

It's starting and stopping every now and again.

Yeah.

Well, maybe a chimney's got something stuffed up in it.

Maybe.

You know, if you couldn't see the house, you'd think it was Indian signal.

You stop now.

Let's leave our horses here, Hunter.

Thank you.

That Chester, when we get inside,

don't say anything about how that smoke looked.

Do you mean you think it was a signal Mitch had gone?

Oh, we'll see.

Hello? Anybody home?

Who is it?

Is that you, Ella?

Marshall, Dylan, what are you doing out here?

Oh, we were nearby, so we thought we'd stop and say hello.

Well, that's fine, Marshall.

But I can't ask you, and I'm busy cleaning out.

Oh?

You'd better come back some other time.

I'd love to see you then.

Oh, sure. Sure.

Where's Obi?

Obi?

Oh, he went off somewhere this morning.

I don't expect him back to late.

Next time, Marshall, you come see us next time.

I'll cook your dinner or something.

Oh, that's okay, Ella.

We'll see you another time.

Sure.

You do that, Marshall.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Come on, gentlemen.

Who are you?

I declare Mr. Dylan, I never got treated like that in my whole life.

Not by nobody.

If she wasn't expecting us, Chester had her upset.

I don't care. That's nice.

She's from not even offering a man a cup of coffee.

Oh, she doesn't want us in the house.

In fact, I don't think she wants us anywhere around here.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, where are we going?

I want to take a look in the barn.

And the phobia isn't out here.

We're going back to the house.

Well, but...

Ella said he took off for somewhere this morning.

Ella was kind of nervous just to maybe she didn't mean it.

Oh, here we are.

Obi, Obi Tater.

Stand right where you are.

Don't move either of you.

Hey, he's got a shotgun.

It's Marshall Dylan, Obi, and Chester.

Oh.

Sorry, Marshall.

I couldn't see it first.

Who's in the back there, and I had to door open,

and I've seen two men stand here.

Can't blame me for being jumpy.

That's all right, Obi.

But what are you doing in here?

Ella told us you weren't around.

Ella told us.

And Ella does a lot of talking these days.

Oh, what is it, Obi?

Something wrong between you two?

Something wrong.

Marshall Dylan, I owe you an apology.

What for?

For not listening to you backing dodge.

You was right about the whole thing.

All that woman married me first was my gold money.

And I told her and I told her I ain't got none.

But she won't listen.

All that talk won't hurt you, Obi.

But there's something else that might.

She does more than talk, Marshall.

The woman's a devil.

That's what she means.

Oh, what do you mean?

What she's been doing?

She won't feed me for one thing.

She won't even boil my coffee.

It started the first night we got here, Marshall.

As soon as I show her my gold money, she says she'll be a good wife.

I tried to tell her the place is hers.

What she need money for, even if I had it.

No problem.

I never heard of a wife that wouldn't cook for a man.

Oh, that ain't all, Chester.

What do you think I've been sleeping out here in the barn?

That's where I can't even sleep in my own house.

She says she'll run off into the pier if I come anywhere near.

Well, oh, Obi, if a woman doesn't marry in Texas,

you'd have a right to give her back.

I don't want to give her back.

She said darn pretty.

And besides, there's something else she ain't going to devil me no more.

What?

After the night she said, she said, after the night it's all over.

She said she won't give me no more trouble.

After the night, huh?

That's what she said, Marshall.

Chester, go get our horses and bring them under the barn where they can't be seen.

And when you get back, you and Obi and I are going to go into the house and sit on and wait for the night.

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You might as well sit down, Hallyu, just wear yourself out, walk around, Hallyu.

I've got nothing to do with it, I tell you. I've never heard of Mitch McQuade.

I just shouldn't worry about it, I'll find out if you know him when they get here.

You're awful smart, aren't you, Marshall. That wasn't Sigglin, there's nobody neither.

You're awful smart, aren't you, Marshall. That wasn't Sigglin, there's nobody neither.

You're just trying to put the fire out.

Sure.

They're some horses coming up outside, Mr. Dillon.

It's too dark to tell, but I think there's two of them.

All right, Chester. Come on, you're not waiting to catch them.

I sure wish I had my gun, Marshall.

No, I'll be, I'll owe it a scene to it, you weren't armed.

And we'll have them covered, so don't worry.

You make it a big mistake, Marshall.

Never mind that, Hallyu.

You just remember what I told you.

Give us a way and your friends will die.

They're not my friends.

Come on, Chester.

They're gonna be some surprise.

Thank you, Mr. Dillon.

Well, I hope so, Chester.

We better get back out of the light.

They're the comers, Mr. Dillon.

Quiet enough.

He's an O.B.

Mitch, you remember O.B. Tater?

Sure.

You look better than what I last seen him, though.

What are you just in between?

You're making a mistake.

Well, I shut up, Ella.

It's true.

We're not gonna give up.

We're not gonna give up.

All right, Chester.

All right, don't move, either one of you.

What is this, who are you?

Get your hand away from my gun, Quaid.

You're caught now, Quaid.

You and Mitch both.

He'll fix you that's Marshall Dillon from Dodd.

Marshall.

That was double-crossed, Quaid.

No, I didn't.

I tried to tell you.

You figured we was to come in.

You know nobody double-crosses me, Ella.

Nobody.

Don't do it, Quaid.

All right, Mitch.

You're next.

I got the hands of Marshall.

I ain't drunk.

You're a big shot at Marshall.

You done killed her.

Chester, got Mitch's gun.

Yes, sir.

Come on, we give it to me.

You get your hand away.

Who'd think any man could be low enough to shoot a woman?

She double-crossed him.

That's why he did it.

No, Mitch.

Ella had nothing to do with the Marshall being here.

She's signaled us to ride in tonight.

That meant she'd given up when she was going away with us.

Give her up.

If Ella couldn't find her money, nobody could.

You're nothing but an old liar, Obitator.

You ain't got no money at all.

A liar.

I told everybody a thousand times I ain't got no money.

It doesn't matter now, Obitator.

Chester, take Mitch outside and time up.

Yes, it's me.

Come on, Mitch outside.

Get moving.

All right.

I'm going to use your own rope to tie you up with her.

All right.

She's dead in Marshall.

I'm sorry, Obitator.

I just wasn't fast enough.

It wasn't your fault, Marshall.

You know what's happened?

What, Obitator?

I was awful, fond of you.

Ruinness is sweet reading me.

She was a dog going pretty.

And I told her she just acted like a wife should.

That's all she had to do.

And my other father could have killed me before I'd told him.

But I'd told Ella.

So what are you talking about, Obitator?

You'd have told Ella what?

About my gold money.

Your money?

It's in the rain barrel outside, Marshall.

A whole big sack full of gold W goes.

What?

You mean you had that money all the time?

Sure, it's true.

But you won't tell nobody where you're Marshall?

No, Obitator.

I won't tell anybody.

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