Two Rode Together Page #2

40 miles for fresh air and sunshine.

My orders are

to accompany you to Fort Grant.

- Accompany me?

- That's right.

And I'm to use any means

short of handcu...

Any means short of handcuffing you

to persuade you...

...to accept the major's invitation.

And if you don't accept,

I will handcuff you.

Sit down, Belle, join us.

What, has there been

a murder out at the fort or...?

Somebody run off

with the sutler's wife?

- Nope.

- Why not?

- It wouldn't be a case of stealing?

- No.

What soldier's got anything

worth stealing?

- That's very true.

- No. I can't agree with that at all.

- You're... You're not gonna tell me?

- No, I'm not gonna tell you.

Well, I don't know, Jim.

That's an awful long ride.

Forty miles. You know, that's...

No, no, that's not so far.

And I have my duties here

to think of.

McCabe, I don't put

my foot down often.

And that's one of the things

I like about you, Belle.

Just one of the things.

But it's a very rare quality in a woman,

and I admire you for it.

What time did you say

we were gonna leave?

- Three o'clock.

- Three o'clock. Fine.

Oh, Belle, get the cook

to build me a steak, will you?

And well-done this time.

Not raw like it was last night.

You didn't eat here last night.

Or the night before.

Well, come to think of it,

I didn't, did I?

No. No, that's right,

I guess I didn't.

Detail, ho!

Fall out for water.

- Fifteen minutes.

- Fifteen minutes!

It's harder than my saddle.

You're in great shape,

sitting on that porch.

You know, I still can't figure it out.

I can't figure it out. No fuss.

No argument.

What made you decide

to come along?

Ride all night

on some wild goose chase.

I'll tell you this, you didn't

decide me to come along.

- I'll tell you that.

- I didn't figure I did.

Those things come one in a box?

- Don't you ever buy your own cigars?

- Sure. I bought two last payday.

- That was three months ago.

- Here.

Thanks a lot.

Hey, I got a match.

Gee, I'm surprised

you can afford matches.

I can handle that, all right.

Why did you come?

Well...

If you must know, it was mostly

to get away from Belle.

Belle? Why?

- I thought you two were kind of:

- I know, I know, I know.

Well, to be completely

ungentlemanly about it...

l... Not that I ever pretended

to be otherwise.

- We were, we were.

That's what I heard.

And...

...just lately she started

calling me "Guth."

I noticed that.

Guth. The first time I heard it I thought

she'd got something stuck in her teeth.

Guth, Guth, Guth. But she didn't

have anything stuck in her teeth.

It was in her craw...

...and a few nights ago she got it out.

Yeah, go ahead. What happened?

Well, that's not a subject you can

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