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BRAGG:

My name is Randall Bragg.

COLE:

Virgil Cole.

BRAGG:

I know who you are. We need to

talk.

COLE:

The only thing I need from you, is

what happened to Jack Bell.

BRAGG:

Can’t help you there, Marshal.

Bragg takes a seat uninvited opposite Cole. His men spread

out along the bar.

BRAGG:

I see the fella with the shotgun.

COLE:

Eight-gauge.

BRAGG:

Good idea, spreading out like that.

COLE:

It is.

Bragg gestures, and one of his men brings him whiskey.

Bragg pours himself a shot, drinks it, pours another one.

BRAGG:

You a drinking man?

COLE:

Not so much.

BRAGG:

And Mr. Eight-gauge over there?

COLE:

Everett. Everett Hitch.

BRAGG:

(not looking at him)

You a drinking man, Everett?

HITCH:

Not so much.

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BRAGG:

Hard to like a man who doesn’t

drink a little.

COLE:

But not impossible.

BRAGG:

Well, we’ll see.

(downs his whiskey)

You shot three of my men.

COLE:

Matter of fact, I only shot two.

Hitch shot the other one.

BRAGG:

Point is, I can’t have my hands

coming in here and you boys

shooting them.

COLE:

I can see how you’d feel that way.

BRAGG:

So we need to make an arrangement.

COLE:

We do.

BRAGG:

You have a suggestion, Marshal?

COLE:

There’s a set of by-laws posted

right outside the door of this here

very saloon. Your boys do like the

by-laws say and everything will be

muy bueno.

BRAGG:

And if they don’t?

COLE:

I arrest them.

BRAGG:

And if they don’t go along?

COLE:

I shoot them... or Everett does,

that’s the law.

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BRAGG:

Your law.

COLE:

Same thing.

BRAGG:

You proposing to kill us all?

COLE:

That’d be up to you boys.

BRAGG:

Maybe you aren’t good enough.

Cole is silent.

BRAGG:

Don’t be so sure you’re quicker

than me.

COLE:

So far I been quick enough.

After a moment...

BRAGG:

Perhaps this isn’t the time.

COLE:

Um-hm.

BRAGG:

Doesn’t mean there won’t be a time.

COLE:

I see you and your boys there are

heeled. I know you haven’t had a

chance to read the bylaws yet, so

I’m gonna let it pass. But the bylaws

say it’s illegal to carry guns

inside town limits, so next time

I’ll have to disarm you and lock

you up for a bit.

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