The Missouri Breaks Page #3

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how long we might send him up?

- Life is indicated.

- He'll take anything.

How would 10 to 20 sound to you?

Sounds about right to me.

How soon would I be eligible for parole?

In about two weeks.

Anything you'd like to say

before we send you to your just deserts?

And if I may speak for the court,

we would prefer

that it be something colourful,

life on the frontier being what it is.

Just that...

it may seem to you boys

like a hard way to make the papers,

but I'm not ashamed of robbing that train,

of blowing bridges, sticking up banks, or

for my careless devil-may-care gunplay.

I'm not ashamed of pissing away

the money on hard living either,

because I'm that kind of guy.

But as a concession to me

for my cooperation,

I would like you all

to refer to me from now on

as "The Lonesome Kid".

Especially in front of outsiders

here in the West.

That's enough of that! Let's all go up

to the bar and make fools of ourselves.

Yahoo!

Whoo! I haven't danced like that

since Chicago.

I'm Tom Logan.

I'd like to congratulate you, sir,

on your treatment of that impostor.

Oh... My daughter, Jane.

Hello.

People have told me

I should talk to you, Mr Braxton.

I just sold a family implement business

in the Shonkin range

and I'm thinkin' of buying a small ranch.

You done so well I'd like

a piece out by you for good luck.

Well... the Cannon Ranch is for sale.

Isn't much. Four sections and a cabin.

Pole corrals around it.

But it's well watered,

and pretty fair shelter.

The owner's living in town now.

Has a cooperage at the end of Main,

past the livery.

I understand you had

some rustlin' problems.

Seven per cent losses per annum.

You should know about that.

First year, that might just break you.

Mm...

I understand

you had to hang someone here.

I did that.

Oh, that's tough.

What was this?

Some kind of a desperado?

No.

He was a thief, with probably a million

good reasons for being on hard times.

The main thing is that

we put him out of his misery.

Don't you believe

in hangin' thieves, miss?

No, sir, I don't. Do you?

I surely do. How in the world else

are we gonna have law and order?

Well, what do you know?

Maybe you can buy that Cannon Ranch,

get started in the cattle business.

With your attitude toward human life,

you may yet get to be

one of the barons of this prairie,

and have your picture on page one,

or page three, of the Chicago papers.

And for your birthday you can have

a big barrel of fresh oysters on ice,

just the way the other hangmen

up this way do.

You sound bitter, lady.

You should have seen

that young man's face.

- He did not die quickly.

- I don't wanna hear about it.

I don't think you can really picture

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