Dead Man's Burden Page #2
Is that a fact?
I'm not my father, Mr. Lane.
And you certainly are not.
I do imagine you
have an asking price.
Mr. Lane, you're paying
respects to my father.
Business will be conducted
at the proper time.
I appreciate your support
in this [inaudible].
(Noise)
Lady said her goodbyes.
Well, you let her
know I'll be back
in a month's time
with a bill of sale.
to be done with this place,
[Background Music]
Tell me, Mr. Kirkland,
you ever traveled
to Morris, Kansas?
I may have ridden through.
Well, I hear it
used to be beautiful,
especially by firelight.
It'll be a pleasure
doing business with you.
(Noise & Music)
(Noise)
Damn mule got in
the locoweed again.
I have to put it down.
(Noise)
It needed to be done.
(Noise)
Lane ain't by today.
He'll come.
A few weeks is what he said.
You got to eat.
I like how much
you like my food.
(Noise)
We got enough.
(Noise)
These all the food we'll
have in San Francisco?
Well, I heard [inaudible]
took another herd up to Kansas.
It could be.
Cows are no better
than crops.
We're opening a hotel.
I ain't exactly
the hotel type.
We weren't exactly
the farming type either.
It'll be a grand place.
Grandness in San Francisco
a polished wood entrance,
children running all through.
Lane's coming.
(Noise)
That ain't Lane.
(Horse Galloping)
(Footsteps)
Do we have to?
Stay in the house.
(Noise)
This McCurry place?
Who's asking?
I ain't angling for a fight.
Folks don't ride out this
way lest they're angling
for something.
[Horse Snorting]
Be obliged if I
could water my horses.
Been riding hard this last day.
(Noise)
Wrong way?
(Noise)
Got business with
the McCurrys.
Ain't you heard?
Joe McCurry is dead.
I heard, I heard
about James and Billy.
Dead too.
Dead? No they ain't.
See for yourself.
(Noise)
Stranger?
All of them.
If you want to water
your horses, be on your way.
It's fine by me.
(Silence)
(Noise)
Why is he asking
about my family?
Stay inside, he'll
be gone soon.
Maybe you ask him
how he knows Billy.
[Background Music]
Thank you kindly.
I was wondering-- Martha?
(Music)
1 Oh, how'd you do
so much growing?
It's Wade, your brother.
Best ride on out of
here right now, mister.
It's been a while, I know.
But it's me, sure as a gun.
Wade is dead.
Killed by a horse 10 years
past on his way to war.
(Music)
You still got that
scar from the fever?
The trip is supposed
to take four days,
but I had to ride six straight
on account of the weather.
tried to bleed you.
(Music)
Wade.
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