Man with the Gun Page #3

If you'll just hold up...

I'm not holding up for anybody!

Not for Holman or Sims or anybody.

How about thinking of Stella?

I am thinking of Stella.

It's our homesite, and I'm building on it,

so we'll have someplace to live

when we get married.

Mr. Tollinger, I must say

you don't look fierce enough

to fight everyone's battles.

I'm a peacemaker by profession,

Miss Atkins.

Let's get you some dinner.

You haven't met my wife yet.

Oh, Mary.

Saul?

You're late tonight.

Mary, this is Mr. Tollinger,

and he's hungry.

Oh, this way, Mr. Tollinger.

Those guns...

All that talk about fighting,

and what happened to you today.

I'm scared.

Honey, you can't keep on

turning the other cheek

with a cemetery as big as we've got.

But to pay someone to stand up

like a man for you...

You understand, don't you?

I don't know.

Look, it's like this.

I've got to do my own fighting,

to get into training to be head

of my family.

Don't I, now?

Good night, honey.

Good night.

Mmm.

The boy's gonna take some handling.

But I think he's...

Jeff!

Here he is.

- His left shoulder, it's bleeding!

Get Doc Hughes.

Well?

Town needs it.

They'll find out they want it in a hurry.

Fourteen killings

and 31 robberies in the past year,

most of them in or around the Palace.

That's how things have

quieted down for us.

Call that spade a spade, Saul.

You're talking Tollinger,

you're talking gun law.

What have we got now?

Only it's Holman's guns and Holman's law.

People are scared to build.

They're scared to farm.

They're even scared off the streets.

You know how I feel about young Castle

getting shot up, Saul,

but Tollinger?

I heard about a town

he cleaned up right smart,

only a lot of businesses closed down

till the smoke blew away,

and never did open up.

If my business closed down,

I wouldn't know the difference.

$500 is a lot of money

to pay for a cleanup job,

but it ain't too much to pay a tamer,

willing to take all the chances.

Arthur.

One gun against Holman's army?

They'll take him fast.

Then Dade'll work his grudge off

on the rest of us.

I say if Gold Street riffraff

want to kill each other off,

let them, and good riddance!

Things have quieted down lately for us,

till tonight.

Ten years ago, there were a dozen farms

and three mining operations in the valley.

Now there's just Dade Holman.

He's got the valley,

he's got us backed up here in town.

Now he's working on the town.

He already owns Gold Street.

What happens when he decides

to take over Sheridan Street?

He'll take it over.

Can anyone here deny that?

Unless...

Are you sure Clint Tollinger is available?

I'm sure.

Is Tollinger the cure for what's ailing us?

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