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10 EXT. MAIN STREET, APPALOOSA - SUNSET 10

Shops and services are closing up along Main Street. A

couple of lazy dogs watch Cole and Hitch ride slowly into

town.

HITCH (V.O.)

But life has a way of making theforeseeable that which never

happens... and the unforeseeablethat which your life becomes...

A group of SCHOOL KIDS see them. Two young boys dash up tothe doors of the BOSTON HOUSE HOTEL AND SALOON, a two-story

brick building with a wide porch, and excitedly call inside.

Hitch and Cole tether their horses and head up the woodensteps to the hotel.

11 INT. LOBBY, BOSTON HOUSE HOTEL -MOMENTS LATER - SUNSET 11

(As one enters the Hotel, a raised landing to the rightserves as a parlor/dining area. Beyond the parlor, thereception desk.

A wide stairwell leads to the hotel rooms. Double doors

[closed at night] connect the Saloon.

In the PARLOR:

Fat Wallis raises the oil lamp chandelier.

ABNER RAINES paces as he speaks.

RAINES:

All we know is that Jack Bell and

his deputies went up to Bragg’splace to arrest the men whomurdered Clayton Poston and rapedand killed his wife.

MAY:

And that Jack Bell and his deputieswere never seen again.

At the table is PHIL OLSON, portly with pink skin and EARLMAY, bald, heavy-set and wearing glasses.

Cole sits just out of the light, his brim lowered.

COLE:

I knew Jack Bell, he was a good

man.

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Hitch sits off to the side cradling his eight-gauge.

HITCH:

This fella Bragg, what’s his story?

RAINES:

Says he’s from New York City.

Claims he worked with Chester

Arthur in the Customs Office there.

HITCH:

Chester Arthur, President of the

United States?

RAINES:

That’s what he claims.

HITCH:

What the hell’s he doin’ out here?

MAY:

He’s after the copper fields.

RAINES:

He and his men showed up a month

back claiming they was going to

start a big cattle operation.

MAY:

He’s after the copper fields.

OLSON:

Earl...?

MAY:

What?!

OLSON:

Let Abner speak, please.

MAY:

He is speaking!

A beat.

RAINES:

The mines shut down back in ‘75

because of the Apache problem. We

finally made a deal with a company

out of Chicago to get the operation

going again, a very fair deal mind

you.

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MAY:

Then this murderin’ sonofabitch

comes along.

OLSON:

Earl, please.

MAY:

What?!!

RAINES:

Our investors pulled out after the

killings...

OLSON:

Bragg and his men have us all

running scared. They buy supplies

in my store and don’t pay for them,

they harass our women, use horses

from the livery and don’t bring

them back... eat and drink what

they want and never pay...

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