never seen at a horse before to first say about the man  you don't have to strike up no bend i know you're here to find you still know me anyway i know you're better than anybody else in the world you got yourself cooked up in a real slumgullion if you ever i heard about how they run your foreman over the big is a marvel to me how you never seem to know what goes on but you don't spend hardly any time in the back room saluted all do you not too much you see how ignorant it makes a man to live cultivated the way you do i haven't worked this range for nearly seven years and i know more about what's happening on it than you do the lucky thing for you i have to be passing through and you're going to keep right on passing through to where you kill me if i don't you know some day it might come then a thing you can do about me and you know it perfectly well what is it your want well tonight i want to take a little ride just checking up on a guess you want think i'd kill a man you wouldn't kill a man except for food one was killed by a cow big one were you ever anything else like tom ever really did you nobody ever proved a thing twice now i can't prove anything i don't even want to i just want you gone i don't think you done it tom or you don't come on we've got to get going all we have to do if you we're in a little trouble kathleen i'll be in trouble he called himself kid wichita kid wichita you've heard of a lot of people have heard of you can come out from under the bed now your wife and i took care of it and i don't know chief yeah you can go anywhere you want as long as it's far i'll see you around you see before i take it of course not never in my life we was peacefully riding tom clouds range at midnight when he come up and took our saddles away a man in the world game to take the lap of all the crazy for the show you how to handle these neighbors know you're not going to show me a thing because you're not going to be paid killers on the range it's my understanding the trouble is what he wants why mr god am a realty gee whiz with two exceptions nobody never proved a thing on me but you never moved in anywhere without murder breakin out and you never left any place except under a cloud shortly after midnight last night job kelsey rolled into my place shot through the body he fell out of his saddle unconscious and never come to again this morning he died no i can't prove the lone killer shot kelsey while he was patrolling is rain i don't expect any witnesses to come forward now i don't expect anot you know seem to realize right all right seems to me your son a sheriff there where is he i'm fully ready to handle some of these things myself i'll tell you why isn't here as he's nothing but a bill show cowboy and never could be anything else stamps straw for fear i might have to look myself in the face again i'm trying to think how many men ever told me anything like that do you know how many i think it was  i see that to turn your horse and get out all right tell you what you're up against it's all any man could do so they like night right now right will show they want to lift a cow we live three only if you already last night we give him one dead man in trade for a dead man but from here on we'll be more generous we'll give him two for one great fog in the foothills man it's a pleasure to see you fighting back all right which you just won on wages  another thing your neighbors are saying that this kid which you brought him on this ranger and hired him is a pain killer just to murder your way up and down here  you know tom there's not much can happen to a single photo like you and me but what about you want to see him turn out to be like what you told and that's why i'm making this fight and we won't but what kind of thing you think he learned by just being around him he'll never learn to turn tail you never get that from wichita or from me i'm sorry to leave you well i mean i hate everything that ever happened in this place but knowing you you've been a good friend you see that rock over there yeah i had more trouble with that one a matter of don't you ever tune this thing there's nothing in the world you can do about this they're just one thing or the other which you talked i knew a voice once told honest john boy found a million in silver and drank it up say i just thought all honest john had a boy went to some fancy pants mine well i'll be move that's probably just what he wants that's fairly obvious i don't suppose there is the least doubt in your mind of what you can kill me very easily but unless you leave this house that's exactly what you'll have to do please wichita my son was shot to death the killer fired four times three of the bullets were sent into my boy after he was do wichita might do it i don't know what for maybe i do i told my boy to run with range i'd like to think he was man enough so that maybe he began to try to have your boys dead a funny thing happens  can't remember whether it was any good or not you can't remember him as a model the only remember him as a little kid i suppose so it doesn't matter now what he did that wasn't good enough or what part i had  it all that counts is what is up ahead of us now such as what i'm stepping into my son's place the time has come to choose up sides once and for all because i'm going to straighten this county out you can help me or you can work against me there isn't going to be any on the fence now you never did give me much choice did you i'm giving you and now john i'm going to take care of myself here in any way that i see fit that your answer is the only answer i give you right now all right but i'll tell you this i'm going to get the murder of my boy all right let's get on down  i guess you realize if lightning struck right square in the middle of them three my troubles a day over us take care of go and if we don't then somebody have taken a kid wichita that's all you see it yourself and after wichita there's turkey and the parson and me four killings before you through i make it  place if you want me to tell them what you boys just have one next thing to do and that's to get back in the before somebody takes them away from you again i guess you boys better emotion at the first time you've been right why i can't see an just what do you want i wouldn't for that if i were i have fired him went yesterday but he talked me into right just one night more one more time twenty times i've told you to turn around go back get rid of waste i said it over and over again and when you finally did you just had to give him that one night more what i know you didn't they gone crazy down there say they must be two or three yet somewhere in the brush like you're tough when i get finished with a kid i'm coming for you now how can i help you i don't care where you go oh what you but i'll find you good luck you don't be all right sonny you ain't never seen on the tide they fought a whole rustlers war that's what they done and on one side with just one man and a boy and somehow they want out because he was there too yeah i didn't do nothing that was tom cloud no more the cleared out this whole allen range for us they got rid that there are a couple of horses about a quarter mile out if that's what you mean or it isn't wichita thomas to people that has given me all this waiting and listening and waiting day in and day out i got to go s even together a lot even the whole family just by ourselves ever since i was ten years old that's right kid if i had to choose between stan him i gotta be honest i just don't know you you should have brought her here you know something down got main rock over there in a bar room after all the trouble i had with that one rock i do believe i got about eight feet too far to the right wichita now it's got in the i'm going to take you you know what i'm going to take in for the murder of earl boy i did warn you we're fooling not any more how do you figure to take me i don't know all i can tell you is what i'm going to do don't you know you can't shoot me you couldn't shoot me even if i as it just ain't in your time it never has been and it never will be don't you know that yet that's what i have to do well i'll be your sick man tom where would you say i need to drill you to let some of these ideas run off right square through the middle i suppose force anybody else in the world i wouldn't believe it but coming from you i guess maybe it's so what you you know it's a funny thing like john gough all of a sudden i can't remember anything ever done or like remembers when we were kids yet more trouble with that one run he had with all the rest of the canyon