Wild Bill Page #6

Maybe. I don't know.

You got a bathhouse in this town?

Sure could use one.

Howdy.

- What you doin' here?

- Maybe I'm just bein' friendly.

It ain't that I don't appreciate it.

I just got a lot of things to do today.

- What things?

- Weigh up my methods.

I'm gonna stir up old Wild Bill.

You'd better listen to me, because I know

where your Mr Wild Bill was last night.

One of them Chinese girls

told an upstairs girl that told me

that he went down to Song Lew's

and had himself a pipe.

You tell your friend, next time

he goes in there, tell me about it.

I'll make it worth her while. Yours, too.

You know, you can move all your plunder

into my room if you want.

It's the first room at the top of the stairs.

Maybe I'd better stay on

out at the tent city.

What's the problem?

No problem.

I think it just might be best if I stay out...

You got yourself some new gal?

I just ain't in the mood.

Well, you must have

got yourself some new gal.

You know, I don't ever remember askin'

to be the only thing in your life,

or you in mine, for that matter.

But what we had was kinda special,

and I don't see why we can't have it now,

so I would just like some kind of goddamn

explanation. You owe me that much.

I don't owe nobody nothin'.

I don't explain myself.

Not to you, not to some punk-ass kid!

Not to nobody!

Now, just run along and leave me be.

Sure thing.

And to hell with you, Mr Wild Bill!

In truth, Bill felt some remorse

for his argument with Jane.

But it was the nature of their friendship

that feelings for one another go unstated.

Typical for a man of action,

Bill found romance

the most perplexing aspect of his life.

Bill! Look what I got! This damn kid!

People said bring him. I bringed him!

(laughter)

Well, look what we got here. I'd stick

him in the manure bin if I was you, Joe.

Take him around back and shoot him.

He's makin' all kinds of trouble, Bill.

Skunk stuff, all of it.

Insulted some ladies,

broke some china over to the store.

He even claims that you told him to do it!

Here. You see to the damage.

- What name do you go by?

- Jack McCall.

Joe, cut his ropes.

Hear you been misbehavin', Jack.

What's the problem between me and you?

I don't like the way you treated my ma.

How you done whatever then you left her.

She kept track of you. She had lots

of stories from newspapers, dime novels.

I told her she should write you.

She said you wouldn't answer no letter.

- Who was she?

- A decent lady.

Miss Susannah Moore.

Greetings, Jack.

Charles Prince, friend of Bill's.

Could be that Wild Bill's made

a few mistakes over the years, but...

Well, it's understandable. But past is past.

Shut up, Charley.

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