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then?

He'll go back to bannock

and stand trial.

Will they hang him?

Circuit judge

is no hanging judge.

In fact, a man like Bronson

could buy him cheap.

I don't... I don't mean

just the judge.

I mean the town,

the good people with the rope.

My town, Laura.

Nobody gets a mob rope

in my town.

You know that.

I give you my word.

If he comes in peaceful,

there will be no hurt

come to him.

You never did

give much away.

Would you come, Laura,

if your man hadn't

been on the list?

No.

There's nothing left over

from before, Jered.

Good-bye.

He has until tomorrow.

I called you in 'cause

we've got trouble.

You remember last spring

we took a herd over

the Kiowa.

We hit a town called bannock

on the way back.

Do you recall?

None too clearly.

We shot up the town.

Seems an old man

took a bullet.

We thought it was nothing

but a lot of broken glass,

but...

seems now it's a bit more.

Now, the hard point

of the matter

is there's a lawman

the name of Maddox

in Sabbath.

Figures to take us back

and stand trial for murder.

One lawman?

Ryan thinks he's enough.

Cotton Ryan.

Choctaw, you may not

think much of Ryan

as he stands now,

but...

in his day, you couldn't walk

in the same sun as him.

Hey, where's

Marc Corman?

Marc Corman's

dead.

Corman's dead

'cause he called short

on this Maddox.

Marc Corman's dead?

I called ya here to hear

what you have to say.

Well, Vern?

I don't know,

Mr. Bronson.

I don't want trouble,

I appreciate ya askin' us

here for our opinion,

but it seems to me you got

some choice, and I don't.

I can't go back to bannock.

If I do, my land dries up

and blows away.

My beef gets scattered

into the high country.

I don't have the hands

to keep my spread tied down.

You know Id see ya

right, Vern.

I'd send some of the boys,

give my mark

to cover your losses.

Thanks, and I know

you mean it,

but I have

to work my own.

Well, what do you

suggest, Vern?

I don't suggest

anything,

and I don't aim

to do anything.

Just stay close

and mind what's mine.

And if he comes

after you?

I'll stop him

if I can.

Stop him first

and make sure.

I didn't kill anybody

that night in bannock.

I've got no quarrel

with the law.

You, Choctaw?

You give the orders,

Mr. Bronson.

I asked for

an opinion.

It was an

accident.

If that lawman

wants to lean hard,

then I say

we set him running.

I go along with Choctaw,

but, uh, as he says,

Mr. Bronson,

you give the orders.

Hurd?

Well, then,

Id like to hear

what you

have to say, Vince.

Want your say,

Harv?

I say we tell the lawman

to peddle his law in bannock.

You got all the guns

you need, Mr. Bronson...

just for the asking.

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