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Raw Story Notes Pt 1



Tales of the Galaxy : Fringe Justice











Both suns had slipped past the bluish gray horizon. The leveled landing pad was deserted, and the prevailing wind was driving fine powedered ice dust across the seemingly endless plains stretching flat as a pan cake in every direction. The







The street of a western town, night. The street is deserted. Snow falls.



We track slowly forward.



<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I was just fourteen years of age when a coward by the name

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and two

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A shape lies in the street below the busted-out porch railing of a two-story building. A

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">sign identifies the building as the Monarch Boarding House.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Papa was a Cumberland Presbyterian and a Mason. He'd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hired Chaney--for paid wages, not on shares--when Chaney

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">was "down on his luck." If Papa had a failing it was his

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">kindly disposition; I did not get my mean streak from him.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The crumpled shape is a body. We hear the thunder of approaching hooves.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He had taken Chaney up to Fort Smith to help lead back a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">string of mustang ponies he'd just bought from a stock trader

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">named Stonehill. In town, Chaney had fallen to drink and

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">cards, and lost all his money. He got it into his head he'd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">been cheated and went back to the boarding house for his

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Henry rifle. Papa remonstrated, and Chaney shot him in the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">breast.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A galloping horse enters frame and recedes, whipped on by a bareback rider. A long-

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">barreled rifle is tied across the rider's back with a sash cord.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">2

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He disappears into the falling snow.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Chaney fled. He could have taken the time to saddle the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">horse--or hitched up three spans of mules to a Concord

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">stagecoach and smoked a pipe, as it seems that no one in that

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">city was inclined to give chase. Chaney had mistaken its

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">citizens for men.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">DAY

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We are looking into the window of a moving train.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Looking out past us is a fourteen-year-old girl, Mattie Ross. Next to her is Yarnell, a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">middle-aged black man. Reading backward in the mirror of the window we see a station

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">sign easing in as the train slows: FORT SMITH.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The voice-over continues:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice-Over

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You might say, what business was it of my father's to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">meddle? My answer is this: he was trying to do that short

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">devil a good turn. He was his brother's keeper. Does that

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">answer your question?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">DEAD MAN'S FACE

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Candlelight flickers over the man's waxy features.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">(Irish-accented)

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Is that the man?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The body, wrapped in a shroud, lies in a pine coffin. Mattie and Yarnell stand looking

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">down at it. An undertaker, grizzled and severely dressed, holds the candle.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yarnell

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Lord lord.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">That is my father.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">3

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Undertaker

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">If you would loik to kiss him it would be all roight.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yarnell

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He has gone home. Praise the lord.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Put the lid on. Why is it so much?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Undertaker

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The quality of the casket and of the embalming. The loifloik

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">appearance requires time and art. And the chemicals come

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">dear. The particulars are in your bill. If you would loik to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">kiss him it would be all roight.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">No. Thank you. The spirit has flown. Your wire said fifty

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">dollars.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Undertaker

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You did not specify he was to be shipped.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well sixty dollars is every cent we have. It leaves nothing

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">for our board. Yarnell, you can see to the body's transport to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">the train station and accompany it home, and I will have to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">sleep here tonight.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yarnell

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I don't think your mama'd want you to stay in this town by

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">yourself.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">It can't be helped. I still have to collect father's things and

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">see to some other business.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yarnell

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">But I's your chap-a-rone! Your mama didn't say for you to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">see to no business here!

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">It is business Mama doesn't know about. It's all right,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yarnell, I dismiss you.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">4

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yarnell

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well I'm not sure I--

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Tell mama not to sign anything until I return home and see

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">that Papa is buried in his mason's apron.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">To the undertaker:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">. . .Your terms are agreeable if I may pass the night here.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Undertaker

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Here? Among these people?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie looks around the empty room.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">These people?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Undertaker

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I am expecting three more souls. Sullivan, Smith, and His

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Tongue In The Rain.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">How is it that you know in advance?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">GALLOWS

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Three men stand upon a rough-hewn three-banger gallows. The condemned are two white

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">men and an Indian. They wear new jeans and flannel shirts buttoned to the neck. Each has

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">a noose around his neck. One of the white men is addressing the crowd:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Man

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Ladies and gentlemen beware and train up your children in

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">the way that they should go! You see what has become of

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">me because of drink. I killed a man in a trifling quarrel over

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">a pocketknife.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie is pushing her way through the spectators thronging the town square.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Up on the gallows the condemned speaker starts to weep.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">5

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Man

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">my wife and children today, away out on the Cimarron

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">River. I don't know what is to become of them. I hope and

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">pray that you will not slight them and compel them to go into

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">low company.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">His blubbering will not let him go on. He steps back. A man standing by slips a black

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hood over his head which continues to bob with sobbing.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie hisses to a woman nearby:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Can you point out the sheriff?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The woman indicates a figure among the officiators on the scaffold:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Woman

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Him with the mustaches.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The second condemned man is speaking:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Man

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well, I killed the wrong man is the which-of-why I'm here.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Had I killed the man I meant to I don't believe I would a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">been convicted. I see men out there in that crowd is worse

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">than me.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A thinking pause. He nods, shrugging.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">. . . Okay.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He steps back and is hooded.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The third man steps forward.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Indian

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I would like to say--

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He is hooded, speech cut short. The hangman, hand to his elbow, helps him step back.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The executioner pulls a lever on the scaffold. Three trapdoors swing open and three men

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">drop. They hit the end of their ropes with a crack.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">6

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Crowd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Oh!

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Two of the men have their heads snapped to an angle and are limp and twist slowly. One,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">though, writhes and kicks, jackknifing his legs.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Man

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Oh, Sullivan must'er lost weight in prison! His neck ain't

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">broke!

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sullivan continues to writhe and kick.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Hot tamales?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie looks down at a boy selling hot tamales out of a bucket.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">. . . Ten cents?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">LATER

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie is talking to the sheriff whom we saw officiating on the scaffold. The square is

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">emptying and, in the background, all three men twist slowly, the last man having finally

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">given up the ghost. The Mexican boy still hawks tamales to stragglers.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sheriff

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">No, we ain't arrested him. Ain't caught up to him, he lit out

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">for the Territory. I would think he has throwed in with

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Lucky Ned Pepper, whose gang robbed a mail hack

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">yesterday on the Poteau River.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Why are you not looking for him?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sheriff

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I have no authority in the Indian Nation. Tom Chaney is the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">business of the U.S. marshals now.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">When will they arrest him?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sheriff

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Not soon I am afraid. The marshals are not well staffed and,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I will tell you frankly, Chaney is at the end of a long list of

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">7

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">fugitives and malefactors.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Could I hire a marshal to pursue Tom Chaney?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The sheriff looks at the girl and chuckles.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sheriff

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You have a lot of experience with bounty hunters?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">My answer is this: That is a silly question. I am here to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">settle my father's affairs.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sheriff

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">All alone?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I am the person for it. Mama was never any good at sums

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">and she can hardly spell cat. I intend to see papa's killer

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hanged.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sheriff

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I see. Well. Nothing prevents you from offering a reward,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">or from so informing a marshal. It would have to be real

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">money, though, to be persuasive. Chaney is across the river

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">in the Choctaw Nation--lawless country. It will not be a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">daisy-picking expedition. Upwards of three-score US

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">marshals have been slaughtered in the Territory.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I will see to the money. Who's the best marshal?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sheriff

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I would have to weigh that proposition. I reckon William

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Waters is the best tracker. He is half Comanche and it is

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">something to see him cut for sign. The meanest one is

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Rooster Cogburn. He is a pitiless man, double tough and

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">fear don't enter into his thinking. He loves to pull a cork.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The best is probably L.T. Quinn, he brings his prisoners in

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">alive. He may let one get by now and again but he believes

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">even the worst of men is entitled to a fair shake. Quinn is a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">good peace officer and a lay preacher to boot. He will not

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">plant evidence or abuse a prisoner. He is as straight as

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">string. Yes, I will say Quinn is about the best they have.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">8

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Where can I find this Rooster?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">MATTIE'S HAND

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Rapping at a door of rough plank.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">After a beat, a voice--rasping and slurred:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The jakes is occupied.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Wider. We see that Mattie stands before an outhouse.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I know it is occupied Mr. Cogburn. As I said, I have

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">business with you.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Beat.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I have prior business.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You have been at it for quite some time, Mr. Cogburn.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">(roaring drunk)

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">There is no clock on my business! To hell with you! To hell

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">with you! How did you stalk me here?!

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The sheriff told me to look in the saloon. In the saloon they

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">referred me here. We must talk.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">(outraged)

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Women ain't allowed in the saloon!

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I was not there as a customer. I am fourteen years old.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">No response. Mattie reaches up and raps again, vigorously.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">9

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Beat.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voice

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">(sullen)

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The jakes is occupied. And will be for some time.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">PLANK FLOOR

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A coffin is dropped heavily into frame and we see, chalked onto the freshly milled wood of

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">its top:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Ross

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yell County

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Hold at station

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">After a resting beat, during which the coffin's handlers presumably adjust their grip, the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">coffin is shoved away over the straw-littered planking of a rail freight car. Once it has

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">been pushed fully in, the upright planking of the boxcar door blurs through frame in the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">extreme foreground til the door slams to rest.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We hear the steam engine start to chug, and the foreground door moves slowly off with the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">grinding motion of the train.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">SHOP DOOR

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Swinging open. It is the barnlike door to the mortician's workroom; the Irish undertaker

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">holds it open for Mattie. She carries a bedroll.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Undertaker

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You can sleep in a coffin if you loik.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Three bodies lay under shrouds on a high work table. The arm of the nearest sticks out,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">rope burns on its wrist. Three coffins are in various stages of assembly.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie unwinds the bedroll onto the floor.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Not. . . yet.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">STREET

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">10

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie strides along, looking at facades. She stops, looking at the signage on a barnlike

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">building:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Col. G. Stonehill. Licensed Auctioneer. Cotton Factor.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">INSIDE

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie steps to the doorway of an office set in a corner of the stable.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">How much are you paying for cotton?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill looks up from his desk. He eyes the girl up and down.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Nine and a half for low middling and ten for ordinary.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We got most of ours out early and sold it to Woodson

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Brothers in Little Rock for eleven cents.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Then I suggest you take the balance of it to the Woodson

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Brothers.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We took the balance to Woodson. We got ten and a half.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Why did you come here to tell me this?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I thought we might shop around up here next year but I guess

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">we are doing all right in Little Rock. I am Mattie Ross,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">daughter of Frank Ross.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill sets his pen down and leans back.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A tragic thing. May I say your father impressed me with his

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">manly qualities. He was a close trader but he acted the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">gentleman.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">11

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I propose to sell those ponies back to you that my father

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">bought.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">That, I fear, is out of the question. I will see that they are

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">shipped to you at my earliest convenience.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We don't want the ponies now. We don't need them.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well that hardly concerns me. Your father bought those five

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">ponies and paid for them and there is an end of it. I have the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">bill of sale.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Beat.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And I want three hundred dollars for Papa's saddle horse that

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">was stolen from your stable.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You will have to take that up with the man who stole the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">horse.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Tom Chaney stole the horse while it was in your care. You

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">are responsible.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill chuckles.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I admire your sand but I believe you will find that I am not

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">liable for such claims.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You were custodian. If you were a bank and were robbed

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">you could not simply tell the depositors to go hang.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I do not entertain hypotheticals, the world as it is is vexing

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">enough. Secondly, your valuation of the horse is high by

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">about two hundred dollars. How old are you?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">12

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">If anything my price is low. Judy is a fine racing mare. She

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">has won purses of twenty-five dollars; I have seen her jump

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">an eight-rail fence with a heavy rider. I am fourteen.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Hmm. Well, that's all very interesting. The ponies are

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">yours, take them. Your father's horse was stolen by a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">murderous criminal. I had provided reasonable protection

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">for the creature as per our implicit agreement. My watchman

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">had his teeth knocked out and can take only soup. We must

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">each bear his own misfortunes.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I will take it to law.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You have no case.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Lawyer J. Noble Daggett of Dardanelle, Arkansas may think

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">otherwise--as might a jury, petitioned by a widow and three

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">small children.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Where is your mother?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">She is at home in Yell County looking after my sister

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Victoria and my brother Little Frank.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I cannot make an agreement with a minor child. You are not

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">accountable.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Lawyer Dagget will back up any decision I make, you may

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">rest easy on that score. You can confirm any agreement by

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">telegraph.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill stares.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I will pay two hundred dollars to your father's estate when I

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">have in my hand a letter from your lawyer absolving me of

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">13

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">all liability from the beginning of the world to date. The

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">offer is more than liberal and I make it only to avoid the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">possibility of troublesome litigation.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I will take two hundred dollars for Judy, plus one hundred

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">for the ponies and twenty-five dollars for the gray horse that

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Tom Chaney left. He is easily worth forty. That is three

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hundred twenty-five dollars total.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The ponies have no part of this. I will not buy them.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Then the price for Judy is three hundred twenty-five dollars.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I would not pay three hundred and twenty-five dollars for

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">winged Pegasus! As for the gray horse, it does not belong to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">you! And you are a snip!

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The gray was lent to Tom Chaney by my father. Chaney

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">only had the use of him. Your other points are beneath

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">comment.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I will pay two hundred and twenty-five dollars and keep the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">gray horse. I don't want the ponies.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I cannot accept that. (she stands) There can be no

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">settlement after I leave this office. It will go to law.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">This is my last offer. Two hundred and fifty dollars. For

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">that I get the release previously discussed and I keep your

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">father's saddle. I am also writing off a feed and stabling

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">charge. The gray horse is not yours to sell. You are an

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">unnatural child.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The saddle is not for sale. I will keep it. Lawyer Dagget can

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">prove ownership of the gray horse. He will come after you

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">with a writ of replevin.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">14

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Stonehill

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A what? All right, now listen very carefully as I will not

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">bargain further. I will take the ponies back and keep the gray

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">horse which is mine and settle for three hundred dollars.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Now you must take that or leave it and I do not much care

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">which it is.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Lawyer Daggett would not wish me to consider anything

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">under three hundred twenty-five dollars. But I will settle for

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">three hundred and twenty if I am given the twenty in

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">advance. And here is what I have to say about the saddle--

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">STREET

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We are tracking down the street we toward the Monarch Boarding House.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie is humping a saddle up the street. She stops before the boarding house. She looks

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">at its sign. She looks at its busted-out porch railing.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">INSIDE THE PARLOR

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A Marjorie Main-like woman crushes Mattie to her bosom.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mrs. Floyd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Frank Ross's daughter. My poor child. My poor child.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie grimaces, arms pinned to her sides.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You have my father's traps?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mrs. Floyd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Oh yes we do. My poor child. Are you gawna be stayin

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">with us or are you hurrying home to your mother?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I am staying briefly. I have business with Marshal Rooster

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn. I found him in his cups today but I understand

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">he's to be in court tomorrow, testifying. I mean to engage

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">him to hunt down Tom Chaney.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">15

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mrs. Floyd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well god bless him for that. The tariff here is seventy-five

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">cents for room and supper. That does not include your

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">daytime eats.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Very well.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mrs. Floyd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Your father owed for two days, god bless him.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Oh. Well.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mrs. Floyd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You'll share a room with Grandma Turner. We've had to

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">double up, what with all the people in town come to see the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hanging Judge Parker's put on for us.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yes, I witnessed the hanging myself.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mrs. Floyd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Was it a good'n?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">BEDROOM

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A blanket is unrolled to reveal a watch, a cheap knife, and a long-barreled Colt's dragoon

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">revolver. Voice off:

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mrs. Floyd

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">This was in the poor man's room. This is everything, there

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">are no light fingers in this house. If you need something for

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">to tote the gun around I will give you an empty flour sack for

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">a nickel.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">DARK ROOM

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We hear wind whistling through cracks in the floorboards and walls.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We hear snoring.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">There is one bed, not large, with two shapes in it.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">16

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We cut in closer to find Mattie lying on her back, staring. She shivers, shoulders hunched.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The thin blanket barely covers her.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">She pulls the blanket gently, slowly, so that it covers her exposed side.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">A beat of snoring, a snorfle, and then, as we hold on Mattie, the crackle of mattress ticking

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">under a shifting body--and the blanket is pulled away toward the unseen snorer.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">COURT HALLWAY

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Voices echo from inside the courtroom. Mattie cracks a heavy oak door and slips in.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">COURTROOM

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The gallery is crowded. Mattie is at the back of a press of standees.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Her point-of-view, semi-obstructed: on the witness stand is Rooster Cogburn, a rough-

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hewn man going to middle-aged fat. He has a patch over one eye.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The woman was out in the yard dead with blowflies on her

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">face and the old man was inside with his breast blowed open

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">by a scatter-gun and his feet burned. He was still alive but

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">just was. He said them two Wharton boys had done it, rode

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">up drunk--

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Objection. Hearsay.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Dying declaration, your honor.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Judge

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Overruled. Procede, Mr. Cogburn.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Them two Wharton boys--that'd be Odus and C.C.--

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">throwed down on him, asked him where his money was,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">when he wouldn't talk lit pine knots and held 'em to his feet.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He told 'em in a fruit jar under a gray rock at one corner of

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">the smokehouse.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">17

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And then?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well he died on us. Passed away in considerable pain.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">What did you do then?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Me and Marshal Potter went out to the smokehouse and that

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">rock had been moved and that jar was gone.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Objection. Speculative.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Judge

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sustained.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You found a flat gray rock at the corner of the smokehouse

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">with a hollowed-out space under it?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">If the prosecutor is going to give evidence I suggest that he

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">be sworn.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Marshal Cogburn, what did you find, if anything, at the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">corner of the smokehouse?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">We found a flat gray rock with a hollowed-out space under

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">it. Nothin there.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And what did--

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">No jar or nothin.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">What did you do then?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">18

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well we rode up to the Whartons', near where the North

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Fork strikes the Canadian, branch of the Canadian.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And what did you find?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I had my glass and we spotted the two boys and their old

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">daddy, Aaron Wharton, down there on the creek bank with

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">some hogs. They'd killed a shoat and was butchering it.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">They'd built a fire under a wash pot for scalding water.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">What did you do?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Crept down. I announced that we was U.S. marshals and

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hollered to Aaron that we needed to talk to his boys. He

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">picked up a axe and commenced to cussing us and

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">blackguarding this court.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">What did you do then?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Backed away trying to talk some sense into him. But C.C.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">edges over by the wash pot and picks up a shotgun. Potter

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">seen him but it was too late. C.C. Wharton pulled down on

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Potter with one barrel and then turned to do the same for me

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">with the other. I shot him and when the old man swung the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">axe I shot him. Odus lit out and I shot him. Aaron Wharton

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">and C.C. Wharton was dead when they hit the ground but

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Odus was just winged.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Did you find the jar with the hundred and twenty dollars in

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">it?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Leading.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Judge

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Sustained.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">19

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">What happened then?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I found the jar with a hundred and twenty dollars in it.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And what happened to Marshal Potter?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Died. Leaves a wife and six babies.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Objection.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Judge

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Strike the comment.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And what became of Odus Wharton?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">There he sets.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Okay. You may ask, Mr. Goudy.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Thank you, Mr. Barlow. In your four years as U.S. marshal,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Cogburn, how many men have you shot?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Objection.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">There is more to this shooting than meets the eye, Judge

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Parker. I will establish the bias of this witness.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Judge

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Objection is overruled.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">How many, Mr. Cogburn?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">20

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I never shot nobody I didn't have to.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">That was not the question. How many?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">. . . Shot or killed?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Let us restrict it to "killed" so that we may have a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">manageable figure.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Around twelve or fifteen. Stopping men in flight, defending

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">myself, et cetera.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Around twelve or fifteen. So many that you cannot keep a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">precise count. Remember, you are under oath. I have

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">examined the records and can supply the accurate figure.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Beat.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I believe them two Whartons make twenty-three.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Twenty-three dead men in four years.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">It is a dangerous business.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">How many members of this one family, the Wharton family,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">have you killed?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Immediate, or--

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Your honor, perhaps counsel should be advised that the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">marshal is not the defendant in this action.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">21

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">The history is relevant your honor. Goes to Cogburn's

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">methods and animosities.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Judge

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Okay.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Did you also shoot Dub Wharton, brother, and Clete

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Wharton, half-brother?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Clete was selling ardent spirits to the Cherokee. He come at

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">me with a king bolt.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You were armed and he advanced upon you with nothing but

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">a king bolt? From a wagon tongue?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I've seen men badly tore up with things no bigger than a

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">king bolt. I defended myself.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And, returning to the encounter with Aaron and his two

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">remaining sons, you sprang from cover with your revolver in

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">hand?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I did.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Loaded and cocked?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">If it ain't loaded and cocked it don't shoot.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And like his son, Aaron Wharton advanced against an armed

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">man?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He was armed. He had that axe raised.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">22

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yes. I believe you testified that you backed away from

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Aaron Wharton?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">That is right.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Which direction were you going?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I always go backwards when I'm backing up.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Very amusing I suppose--for all of us except Aaron

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Wharton. Now, he advanced upon you much in the manner

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">of Clete Wharton menacing you with that king bolt or rolled-

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">up newspaper or whatever it was.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Yes sir. He commenced to cussing and laying about with

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">threats.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">And you were backing away? How many steps before the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">shooting started?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Seven, eight steps?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Aaron Wharton keeping pace, advancing, away from the fire

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">seven eight steps--what would that be, fifteen, twenty feet?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I suppose.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Will you explain to the jury, Mr. Cogburn, why Mr. Wharton

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">was found immediately by the wash pot with one arm in the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">fire, his sleeve and hand smoldering?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Well.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">23

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Did you move the body after you shot him?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Why would I do that?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">You did not drag his body over to the fire? Fling his arm in?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">No sir.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Two witnesses who arrived on the scene will testify to the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">location of the body. You do not remember moving the

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">body? So it was a bushwack, as he tended his campfire?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Barlow

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Objection.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I, if that was where the body was I might have moved him. I

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">do not remember.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mr. Goudy

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Why would you move the body, Mr. Cogburn?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Them hogs rooting around might have moved him. I do not

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">remember.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">COURTHOUSE PORCH

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie waits as people file out. She pushes forward to meet Cogburn when he emerges,

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">muttering.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Son of a goddamn bitch.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Rooster Cogburn?

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">What is it.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">24

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">He does not look up from the cigarette he is trying to roll. His hands are shaking.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">I would like to talk with you a minute.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Cogburn

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">What is it.

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">Mattie

<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:transparent">They tell me you are a man with true grit.