Garden of Evil Page #2

I'm talking.

Don't turn your back on me.

You're right. A man should never

turn his back on you.

Not if he cared for his life.

But I'm a peculiar man.

I don't care.

You followed me,

didn't you?

If you want to know

where you're going, ask me.

You can tell the others too.

Tell them, that without me

they're nowhere, they're lost.

And when you're lost in this country,

you're dead.

Then you won't need that gun.

You underrated me, Hooker.

Don't do it.

I don't think I will.

It looked like a good thing.

It looked like a miracle.

A woman leading you

to a gold mine

in a country where nobody goes

and anything can happen.

- Go on.

- Did you imagine I thought

you were doing this

to save a man's life?

A miserable little thing

like a man's life?

- Are you?

- You don't think so?

I think so.

I think anyone would care

about a man's life being in danger,

especially if it was

in a gold mine.

Say, Hooker,

before you became an idiot

looking for gold, what were you?

An idiot without any.

Is he still marking up the way?

I think he's memorizing it.

Are you?

- Does he know she's wiped his marks?

- I doubt it.

You'd think she'd get tired.

She's like something hammered

out of silver.

Now you, you're made out of leather.

Vicente, volcanic rock.

- And you?

- Words and flesh.

I think I'm the only

human being here.

- She's human.

- How can you tell?

- Because of what's driving her.

- And what is?

That man in the mine.

It makes every mile

and every hour precious.

Well, you sound

almost human yourself.

We'll camp there for tonight.

Not many hours old.

- Some kind of a ceremony or ritual.

- Who?

- Apaches. A new moon last night.

- So what?

This is a special month for them.

It's, "The Moon of the White man."

- How do you know?

- He knows everything. Let him talk.

It's from when they wiped out

all the settlements, like this one.

You know, back in that saloon

but out here it's dwindling fast.

Don't listen to him, it's a legend

he got from the priest in town.

But he was here.

This was his church.

Do you think they care about us?

They killed those who took

the land and built on it.

People who made homes

and fences and came to stay.

People like us, who hunt for gold

and run away with it,

do you think we're worth killing?

Maybe you're right when there were

two of you, a man and his wife.

- But now...

- Now you listen to me, all of you.

I hired you

to save a man's life.

It might be a little dangerous,

that's why I paid you good.

If a man's life isn't worth a risk,

tell me how much you want.

Go ahead. Tell me how much more.

- What's eating her?

- She's just tired.

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