Joe Kidd Page #3

maybe some other time.

You don't know Mr. Harlan

very well, do you?

Is that what you call him?

Mr. Harlan?

I call him Frank,

and a few other things. Why?

Well, you...

don't look like his daughter,

and I don't think

you're his wife.

I'm not his mother,

either.

But you do take care

of him at times?

Ask him, if you'd like.

Or find out for myself?

How long have

they had you locked up?

Two days.

What would you be like

after two months?

We wouldn't even

be talking now.

Mr. Harlan

can see you now.

Mr. Harlan,

Joe Kidd.

Mr. Kidd.

Mr. Joe Kidd.

You come well recommended.

Judge Vince Brennan, 4th Territorial

Court, spoke very highly of you.

Man with the Indian bureau,

name of Wattles,

said you worked up at the

Jicarilla Apache station,

know the mountains and game trails

better than anybody.

You were supplying

their meat for 'em?

Yeah, I worked

for them a few years.

Before that,

I understood you hunted men,

anybody with

a price on his head.

Good at it.

That was a long time ago.

You got a one-loop outfit

you work when you're not out hunting.

I get out now and then,

yeah.

We propose to spend a week,

maybe 10 days.

Pay you whatever

your rate is.

A bonus for everything

we shoot worth mounting.

Get us some mule deer,

some elk,

maybe one of them

mountain cats...

if we see one.

You think

this piece of iron...

will stop one of them

big old cats?

I suppose it would,

if he lets you get close enough.

If you get close enough.

hear that, Mingo?

I'd like you to meet

my associates, Mr. Olin Mingo,

Lamarr Sims.

This is Roy Gannon.

These gentlemen are A-1,

first-class hunters.

I'd bet them against

anybody at any distance.

You believe that?

If he says so,

it's all right with me.

Whatever he says,

that's it.

Let me show you

something here, buddy.

Shut the window, Lamarr.

We're gonna need four horses,

which we'll buy off you,

if you want.

Come to your place tomorrow

and start in the morning.

You're asking me

to guide for ya?

What do you think

I've been talking about?

I don't hire out to guide.

Either hunting

for animals or men.

You don't believe

we're after mule deer?

You're after Luis Chama.

Seen through it right away.

You got a keen eye.

It's simple. You deal in land

and he wants to take it away.

If the sheriff here

can't stop him, I will.

I got claim to 935 sections,

nearly 600,000 acres,

and I'm not gonna permit some

sheepherder named Luis Chama...

to get away with

cutting fences...

and stirring up the Mexican population

with talk about land reform.

Nor am I gonna waste time

arguing it in court.

Here it is.

I'll give you...

$500 to help us

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