Escape from Fort Bravo Page #4

With your permission, sir.

May I have the pleasure of this dance?

Well, it's never been done.

I like doing what's never been done.

Miss Forester,

may I present Captain Marsh?

- Miss Forester.

- Captain.

Colonel.

Captain.

It's been so long just to touch you again.

Darling, I know, I know.

Then smile.

Is it still the night of Beecher's wedding?

There will be four of us now.

Then I'll meet you in Texas.

We'll have a wedding of our own.

There's only one danger.

Captain Roper.

Don't worry.

I can handle him.

You falling in love with that girl, Roper?

How's that, sir?

You're beginning to act human.

You even showed fear as though

that Johnny reb might run away with her.

Have some more punch, sir.

Did you see her? Did you talk to her?

When do we go?

Why does it have to be

such a big secret?

- Because I'm not supposed to have brains?

- That's a good question.

And an even better answer.

Take it easy, Cabot, take it easy.

It's gonna be all right.

I wanna get out of here

as much as both of you.

And Bailey too. But it can't be done

by just being bold and tough.

Roper is both.

He's something else too.

He's pretty smart about men.

I'll go with that.

About men, that is.

Meaning,

women might be something else.

They always have been.

Only don't that go for you too?

Sure.

But I know it.

Maybe Roper doesn't.

- You said Bailey?

Mm-hm.

Does he have to go?

Yes, he has to go.

- Why do I have to take a punk like him?

- Because I said so.

You act like he was your kid brother.

All men are brothers, Cabot.

Most of them are kids.

One of these days...

...I'm gonna take that little gray cap

and knock it right off your head.

And do you know something, Cabot?

From that day on, I'll be wearing yours.

Do you think it's proper?

A little water and a little dirt,

a few cuttings from back East.

You raised these?

Roper's roses.

Always good for a laugh.

Green thumb on an iron hand.

You should have been a farmer,

not a soldier.

My old man had a dream

about this country.

He dreamt about finding water,

growing crops, raising cattle.

I guess he handed it down to me.

That's why I do this.

It isn't much, is it?

I think it is.

What was your father like?

Well, he was something.

He taught me how to ride

and how to shoot...

...how to see and how to hear.

He was big.

Do you know what I mean?

A man is bigger than anything he does.

Or should be.

It's like a Bible

that's bigger than any religion.

I guess he was my Bible.

Did he ever teach you to smile?

He did that too but I guess I forgot.

It's so quiet.

Yes, isn't it?

So completely quiet.

That's the wonderful thing

about this country.

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