I Shot Jesse James Page #2

Tell him I'm...

gonna be a farmer.

You've been gone long enough to get

10 pardons. What did Meredith say?

Pumped Cynthy livid trying to find out

where I'm hiding.

Said if I gave myself up,

he'd see I only got 20 years.

Twenty years.

Think they may have

followed you back from St. Louis?

No.

- Where's Jess?

- Took Zee and the kids to church.

Did Meredith tell her

what the governor just came out with?

Everybody in St. Joe's

been talkin' about it.

- Don't seem to worryJess none.

- What?

Amnesty for any of the gang

who turns in Jess, dead or alive.

- Amnesty?

- Yeah. Act of pardon.

Means if you're on the run

and you turn in Jess, you're free.

- No time in jail?

- Not even a day.

Means you could walk down the street

and nobody'd bother ya.

Yeah. It means just that.

Means I could get married.

Yeah. $10,000 goes with that,

dead or alive.

Means we could buy a farm.

Nobody could takeJess alive.

That'd be suicide.

She wouldn't have to tear up old wheat sacks

to make herself a pair of drawers.

- Bob, what are you -

- I'm...

thinkin' of Cynthy.

What about FrankJames?

What'd you do that for?

Meanin' I'm afraid of Frank?

Ain't ya?

Sure.

If I want to think I'm afraid

or say I'm afraid...

I'll think it and I'll say it.

Nothing gonna stop me

from marryin' Cynthy.

Nothin'.

Hey, Bob.

Bob.

Hey, hurry up, Bob.

That's wonderful.

That's more like it.

It's nice and warm now.

Be back in a minute.

- Bob.

- Yeah?

Pick up that blanket, will ya?

It's a Colt. 45.

Improved pattern.

Silver-mounted, pearl handle.

It's beautiful.

It's loaded.

Sure. When I give a present,

I like to make it complete.

Well, go ahead, Bob.

What are you waitin' for?

There's my back.

Here. Scrub it.

Hey, Bob.

I'm goin' to town.

I'll see you in the mornin'.

What are you doin'

pokin' around out there, Bob?

Come on in. Let's talk.

It's kind of lonesome without Frank around.

It ain't lawful. Even folks in town what

don't likeJesseJames is sayin' it ain't lawful.

Don't you fret about it, Zee.

It's just as if the governor was advertisin'

to hire an assassin to go and kill you unawares.

I ain't killed yet, Zee.

I pick my friends, and I know 'em.

No friend of mine would swallow

that immunity offered by the governor.

Ain't that -

What are you so nervous for?

Did Cynthy turn you down?

Yeah. Kind - Kinda.

Think I'll go in to St. Joe

and buy a new horse.

You can fetch the children

home from school with ya.

Yeah. I'll do that, Zee.

I'm tired.

I guess maybe Zee's right.

Time I settled down.

That's what you ought to do, Bob -

get yourself a wife and a home.

That's what I'm aimin' to do, Jess.

It's only 11:
00.

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