Broken Arrow Page #6

There.

I was going to walk up

that way myself...

...by accident.

Sonseeahray.

I walk this way because I don't

know when I may see you again.

When do you go?

I don't know. Cochise said

he would talk to me soon.

- Will you come back?

- I hope so.

I want to. It's important to me.

Why?

May I speak truly...

...from my heart?

It will be all right.

All my life I've been mostly alone.

I wanted it that way...

...but when I saw you in the wickiup

and you touched me...

...and you prayed for me...

...I felt bad being alone...

...and I knew that I needed to

see you again before I left...

...so that I could find out if

it was the same as last night.

Is it the same?

Yes.

So now when I go away...

...I'll be lonely for someone for

the first time in my life.

I have decided about the mail.

If I let the riders go in safety,

but no one else...

...there will be no loss.

It will show the whites

what power the Apache has.

It makes me laugh.

A good step. The seed is small...

...maybe the tree will grow big.

I'll be happy to tell my people.

Is it straight, Captain?

You saw Cochise himself?

That's right.

Any lad who would go into

Cochise's camp alone...

...is some punkin of a man.

Or a blasted liar!

I believe Captain Jefford's word...

...but not the word of

and Apache murderer.

Cochise said the mail

would ride safe. I believe him.

While you were up there with him...

...his men attacked a wagon train

near here and killed every one.

Another band attacked Kliner's ranch

and killed three men and a boy.

Cochise never said anything

about calling off the war.

He said the mail was safe.

Are you willing to bet on

the word of an Indian?

You name it.

Will you lay three hundred dollars...

...that five riders in succession

leave here and five come back.

You've got a bet.

The mail's piled up...

...and the route's guaranteed safe

by Tom Jeffords and Cochise.

Three days of riding in

the sunshine at high pay.

Who's first?

Looks like you'll have to

go yourself, Jeffords.

Only that won't prove a thing.

I'll go.

That'll prove something.

Duffield's back!

It's Duffield.

He's back.

Good boy!

See any Apaches?

Saw a few some signals but

not one live Indian.

Hi, Milt.

- It's all right, Tom.

- Why'd you take so long?

When I got there safe I got drunk.

Took time to sober up.

One made it but there's

still four more.

My bet's safe.

You want to double it?

After Duffield returned,

we sent out a second rider.

He saw some Apaches but

nothing happened.

The third rider, too, said it

was peaceful on the trail.

When the fourth rider went out

I was really proud of Cochise.

The days passed quietly and

on one of those quiet days...

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