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Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry ride into the town of North Rim. They pause briefly
in front of the bank. The window is boarded and a sign reads
"Temporarily Closed." Curry and Heyes ride on, obviously looking
for a particular building. They find the place they were looking for,
stop their horses, and dismount.
As they dismount and approach the building, one of two men who have been watching
them knocks on the window of the building across the street. A man inside looks
through a hole in the window shade. From his point of view, we see Curry and
Heyes walking toward a door.
They knock on the door and are admitted by Greer who hustles them inside.
Greer asks to
see the letter from Colonel Harper. Curry takes the letter from his pocket.
Greer asks if Colonel Harper had given them the letter personally and asks for a
description of him. Curry provides the description.
Heyes (adds): "Eyes like a couple of slugs from a .45."
Satisfied, Greer tells them to have a seat. He then tells them the job has changed since
they took it.
Greer: "It's got dangerous."
Curry and Heyes, perfectly synchronized, look at each other.
Heyes: "Well, carrying $50,000 four hundred miles, that's a little
risky."
Greer: "No, dangerous."
He explains that people know that he drew the $50,000 out of the bank just before
it closed and observes that depressions have a way of turning people mean.
He says the office has been watched day and night for at least five days and was
entered and searched just the other night.
Heyes: "I see what you mean by dangerous."
Cut to the man watching through the hole in the window shade.
Back in Greer's office.
 Greer
says that if whoever broke into the office
tried to get the money inside the safe, he didn't get far because the money
is still inside.
Curry: "Maybe we ought to head outta here right now."
But, Greer says they should come back at 3 a.m. They should come to the
side door and knock. When he answers, they should tap five times on the door.
He asks if they still want to go through with the job.
Curry: "Yeah, why not?"
Greer: "Why not! The Colonel must be paying you two a pretty
sizeable fee."
Heyes: "No, but the Colonel does know the Governor, and we're hopin' to
do some business with the Governor later this year."
Greer: "I see. I hope the job will be worth it for you. I
wouldn't take it even for the Governor."
Heyes and Curry look at each other and turn toward the door which Greer has opened.
Cut to the man watching through the hole in the window shade. From his point of
view, we see them walking out the door and into the street. The man continues to
watch as they mount their horses.
It is now dark. Curry and Heyes leave their horses and move toward a door.
Cut to Greer, waiting. We can hear Curry's voice outside.
Curry: "Good evening, sir."
Greer gets to his feet, worried.
Cut to Curry and Heyes tying up a man in the outside stairway.
They go to the door.
Curry knocks twice. Greer answers. Curry knocks five times.
Greer admits them and asks if they had any trouble. Curry tells him there's
a man tied up outside. Greer lights a lamp. Heyes, angry, asks what he is
doing. Greer says they've got money to
count, and they can't count it in the dark. Heyes tells him then the light should
have been on all along.
Greer apologizes: "I'm a lawyer. I'm not used to sneaking money out
of town in the dead of night."
Curry: "Can't be helped now. Let's move."
Cut to the building across the street. There are two men inside.
The lamp being lit has alerted them that something is going on. One
tells the other to "get Mike."
Cut to Greer's office. Greer gets money from the safe and tells Curry and Heyes
he wants them to sign a receipt saying he turned $50,000 over to them. He puts the
money down and tells them to start counting.
Greer: "I don't want you to take that
amount of money on faith."
Curry and Heyes count. After getting Curry's
total, Heyes announces that it's all there and holds a saddlebags while Curry puts the
money in it.
Cut to the building across the street. Mike has arrived and wants to know
who is watching the back door.
Cut to Greer's office. Greer puts the receipt for Curry and Heyes to sign on a
table. Heyes puts the saddlebags on Greer's desk, and he and Curry sign the receipt.
Greer stands at his desk near the saddlebags. Curry picks up the saddlebags, and he
and Heyes start to leave. Greer tells them to wait.
Greer (turning down the lamp): "Good luck to both of
you."
He shakes Curry's hand and pats Heyes on his shoulder.
Greer: "You'll need it."
Curry and Heyes leave. They pass the man they tied up earlier.
He is struggling to get free. They go to their horses, mount and ride away.
They pass a man on the street who immediately reports to Mike, "Those two guys just high tailed
it." Curry and Heyes ride a bit farther then stop.
Curry (dismounts): "OK, Heyes, good luck and give them a good chase."
Heyes: "Remember that isn't $50,000. That's our amnesty."
He rides off leading Curry's horse. Curry watches four riders follow Heyes.
In several quick cuts, we see: Heyes riding while leading Curry's horse.
Four riders are following Heyes. Heyes jumps from his horse to Curry's
and continues riding, now leading his horse.
The four riders are still following. A close-up shows the horse that Heyes
is riding stumble on a rock.
The horse falls and Heyes rolls off. He is on the ground beginning to get up when the
four riders, led by Mike, reach him. He is on his knees as Mike approaches.
He looks at Mike, a confused expression on his face.
Cut to Curry running from the stable yard.
Cut back to Heyes with Mike and the three men.
The men have checked both horses and found nothing on either horse.
Mike is standing in front of Heyes who is still on his knees.
Mike: "Where'd you drop off your partner?"
Heyes (confused): "Partner?"
Mike backhands him hard across the face. Heyes falls. He gets back to his knees.
His hand is across his face. He still looks confused. Mike
again demands to know where he dropped off his partner.
Heyes: "I guess I'm gonna hafta tell ya. We had
another horse stashed in town, tied up in an alley.
He switched over to that one."
Mike backhands him again. He falls. Mike says he's a liar.
They rode in on the two horses Heyes has. The stableman is a friend of
Mike's
and he would have told Mike if they had gotten another horse.
Mike: "Now are you gonna tell me where he is?"
Heyes (rubs his face): "Sure am gonna give it some
thought."
Mike draws back to hit him again.
Heyes: "Alright! He's hidin' out on a farm just outside of
town."
Mike want to know the name of the farmer.
Heyes: "Man named Johnson."
Mike asks one of the men-Breen-if he knows a farmer named Johnson.
Breen says it's a common name, but it won't work.
There are no farmers named Johnson around there. Mike points a gun
at Heyes and says he'll give him one more opportunity to
tell him or he'll use the gun and "leave [Heyes] for the coyotes."
Cut to a train blowing its whistle.
Cut to Mike and the men. One of them suggests to Mike that if someone knew
ahead of time that a freight would be pulling out, he wouldn't need a horse to get out of town.
Cut to the train with a close-up of the whistle blowing.
Cut to Heyes, still on his knees. Mike approaches. He puts his foot on Heyes' chest and
shoves him over backward.
Cut to the train.
Cut to Mike and the men, now riding off.
Cut to the train. Curry approaches it and jumps onto a freight car.
He stands in the door of the car, facing out.
Cut to Mike and the men.
Cut to Curry standing in the door of the freight car. He turns and sees an attractive young
girl-Annabelle Considine-sitting in the corner of the car.
She pulls her carpetbag closer to herself when she sees Curry.
Cut to Mike and the men.
Cut to the train. Inside the car, Curry is now sitting next to Annabelle.
She is telling him about Reginald VanDerMeer wanting to marry her and take her to Europe.
She says she is tempted. Her father always promised to take her to Europe but is
so busy with financial dealings that it never would happen if she waited for him.
 She
says Reggie comes from a prominent New England family - one of the four hundred.
Curry: "The four hundred what?"
Annabelle: "It's easy to see you don't know much about
society."
Curry (laughs): "I guess not."
Curry asks why Annabelle doesn't want to marry Reggie. She says she doesn't love him.
Cut to Mike and the men.
Cut to Heyes leading Curry's horse.
Cut to the train.
Cut to Curry and Annabelle inside the freight car.
Curry asks Annabelle how old she is.
She says twenty-one.
He doesn't believe her.
She says seventeen.
He asks her what she is doing so far from Philadelphia.
She says she felt stifled and wanted adventure and excitement.
She says she wants to meet people - the common people.
Curry: "Ridin' around on freight cars, you're goin' t' meet a lot of them all right.
Wouldn't taking a passenger train do just about as well?"
Annabelle: "Anyone can do that. I believe a girl should have authentic experiences
before she gets married and settles down. Don't you agree?"
Curry: "That's the only kind to have - authentic."
Cut to Mike and the men.
Cut to Heyes leading Curry's horse.
Cut to Mike questioning a man in a railroad office.
He wants to know how many times the train stops and for how long.
The man says six or seven times for water and freight.
He explains that there are no telegraph offices at the way stations.
He adds that when the train stops for cattle, it can be a long layover.
He says the train makes two stops for cattle.
Cut to Heyes leading Curry's horse.
Cut to Mike and the men.
Cut to the train.
Cut to Curry and Annabelle inside the freight car. Annabelle is sleeping.
Curry is loading his gun. The car jolts. Curry finishes loading his gun, gets up,
and puts it in his holster. From outside the train, we see him open the door and
look out.
Inside the car, Annabelle is waking up. There is the sound of footsteps on the
top of the car. She wants to know what it is. Curry tells her it is the
shack - the brakeman.
Curry: "If you're goin' t' steal rides on freight cars, you're goin' t' have to learn
the language."
Annabelle wants to know why they are stopping. Curry tells her to take on water or coal.
Annabelle: "Coal?"
Curry: "It's for the engine. They burn coal and it heats the water.
The water turns to
steam and the steam makes the wheels go around and when the wheels go around. . ."
Annabelle: "The train moves."
Curry winks at her to show she's got it.
Annabelle: "My, you certainly know a lot of interesting
things."
Curry: "It's the mark of a common man, Annabelle."
Cut to the train stopping at a water tank.
Cut to Curry and Annabelle inside the freight car.
Curry says they are stopping for water.
That will give him a chance to get them some food at one of the farmhouses nearby.
He tells her to close the door as soon as he hops off but to watch for him and
open the door as soon as he gets back.
Curry: "Because if they catch me, we're both gonna
do a lot of walkin'."
He hops off the car, runs a short way and stops.
Annabelle looks out the door, then closes it. Moving back to the corner of the car,
she trips over the saddlebags. A close-up shows her hand on the
saddlebags.
At the train, the brakeman is checks the couplings and looks under the
traincars.
Curry approaches with a sack. He sees another one of the train men and stops.
Annabelle looks worriedly out the door. The train man signals the engineer to go and
gets in the caboose as the train begins to move. Curry runs, catches up to the freight
car and starts to grab the ladder on the side of the car. The brakeman, who has been
concealed between the cars, kicks him off. Curry hits the ground and rolls.
The brakeman laughs. Curry sits up and watches the train move away.
He puts on his hat and stands up as the train continues down the track.
Cut to Mike and the men.
Cut to Curry counting $40 into a man's hand.
Man: "You just bought yourself a good horse, mister."
Curry: "Well, I said when I woke up this morning this was gonna be my
day."
The camera shows a really sorry-looking horse.
Man: "In case you're interested, I call her Princess."
Cut to Heyes leading Curry's horse.
Cut to the sun setting.
Cut to Curry riding Princess bareback along the railroad tracks.
Cut to Annabelle walking along the tracks toward Curry.
Curry calls out to her, rides up and dismounts. She has the saddlebags.
He takes and opens them. A close-up shows the bundles of bills.
Curry (to bag): "Am I glad to see you!"
Annabelle: "Are you talking to me or to that?"
Curry: "Oh, to you, Annabelle. Are you all right?"
Annabelle: "I am not. I'm tired. And I'm hungry.
And I've walked for miles. And I'm cold."
Curry takes off his coat and puts it around her. He asks her why she
decided to get off the train. She says she figured the only way she was going
to eat was to find him. She also says that without him, the car was lonely.
She asks him where the food is.
Curry: "Annabelle, I'm sorry. I ate it."
Annabelle: "All of it!?!"
Curry: "'Fraid so."
Cut to Mike and the men talking to the brakeman.
He tells them that part of his job is to check the empties. One of them asks if he's seen
anyone jump off the train since it left North Rim. He says he hasn't, but adds that a fellow
did try to get on but he stopped him. He says that man did look something like the man
Mike and the men are asking about.
Cut to the exterior of a farmhouse. The wind is blowing.
Cut to the interior. A couple-the Lamberts-are sitting in a pleasant room.
The man is reading a paper. The woman is knitting. There is a knock at the door.
The man gets up.
Mr. Lambert: "Who's out there?"
The wind is blowing.
Curry (from other side of door): "Like to talk to you,
Mister."
Mr. Lambert: "What about and who are you?"
Annabelle (from other side of door): "Let us in, please."
Mr. Lambert looks at his wife. She nods. He opens the door revealing Curry
and Annabelle. Curry apologizes for disturbing them and says he hopes they can
sell them some food. Mrs. Lambert asks what they are doing out at that time of night.
Curry (hesitates then begins): "We're on. . ."
Annabelle (cuts him off): "We're on our honeymoon.
And the buggy broke down. And the wheel broke. And we just had the one horse."
She breaks down and cries. The whole time she is saying this,
Curry is staring at her, speechless.
Mrs. Lambert: "You poor dear. . . You come right into the fire and get warmed up
while I make you some hot soup."
Curry remains in the doorway, disbelief on his face. Mr. Lambert tells him not to
just stand there. He says he and his wife will give them "grub."
Curry enters, still looking in Annabelle's direction, still rather in shock.
Curry: "Thank you."
Curry, Annabelle, and the Lamberts are sitting
at the table. Mrs. Lambert pours coffee. Annabelle is talking about what a fascinating
story this will be for them to tell their children.
Annabelle: "We expect to have three - at least."
Curry (uncomfortably trying to make conversation): "I expect your children are
all grown and married now, huh?"
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert exchange a look.
 Mr.
Lambert says he and wife never had any children.
Mr. Lambert (adds): "It might be we've been spared a lot of heartache."
Then, he leaves the table.
Curry says he guesses they'd better be getting on, but Mrs. Lambert says they'll do no such thing.
Mrs. Lambert: "The idea of you taking your wife out in the
middle of a freezing night. We won't hear of it, will we?"
Mr. Lambert says they're spending the night right there.
Curry isn't happy. He starts to decline the offer, but Annabelle cuts him off.
Annabelle: "Now, dear, if you think that I'm going to get back on that horse on
a night like this you just don't know me... Dear."
Curry looks angry. Mr. Lambert offers them a place to stay in the barn.
Curry notices the saddlebag is not on the hall tree near the door where he left it.
He is quite upset and demands to know where it is. Mr. Lambert explains that he
put the saddle bag in the hall closet with Curry's "wife's" things.
Curry (apologizes): "I'm sorry Mr. Lambert. Honeymoons do have a way
of making people nervous."
He says that as long as they're going to be staying there, he might as well get their things.
A close-up on Mr. Lambert reveals his quizzical expression.
There is a full moon. The wind is howling.
The trees are blowing. We see the exterior of the barn.
Inside the barn, Curry is putting down a blanket. He tells Annabelle to "crawl in."
A little later, he asks her if city folk always sleep with their shoes on.
Annabelle: "I don't have your knowledge of living like a hobo."
Curry: "You wanted authentic experience. You're gettin' it."
He lies down away from her. She pulls up her blanket, shivers and squirms around.
She is obviously trying to get some comfort and sympathy from him, and he is not
responding to her attempt. A coyote howls.
Curry (apparently relaxed and comfortable in his own blanket): "Try to relax,
Annabelle. It takes a little gettin' used to."
Annabelle (disgusted): "I am relaxed."
But, she keeps squirming. She finally gets up and wakes Curry.
She tells him she's freezing.
Curry: "OK. Get your blanket and crawl in."
Annabelle: "I don't want you to think for one minute. . ."
Curry (abrupt): "I'm not thinkin' anything. Get in."
Annabelle: "It's just that I'm cold."
Curry: "So was I. Glad you and your blanket decided to join me."
Annabelle: "I wouldn't dream of doing anything like this if I wasn't... Cold, I mean. . ."
Curry: "Of course you wouldn't."
Annabelle: "I just wanted you to know."
Curry (frustrated): "I know! (pause) You all right now?"
During this exchange, Curry is turned away from Annabelle, his eyes closed.
She is turned toward him, shivering. A bit later, Curry opens his eyes and
tells Annabelle she's quite a liar. She says the Lamberts would never have let
them in if she hadn't made up the story about their being on their honeymoon.
Curry says he knows that. He's talking about everything else she's said.
Curry: "It takes a first rate memory to make a really good liar, Annabelle.
You aren't equipped for it."
Annabelle: "Well, It wasn't all lies. I
just like to exaggerate a little. ...for the sake of interesting conversation."
Curry (looks at her): "You know what really would interest me?"
Annabelle: "What?"
Curry: "Knowing what you're really running away from."
Annabelle: "Oh."
Curry: "And where you're really goin'."
Annabelle: "Well, I told you the honest truth. I'm running away from getting
married."
Curry (skeptical): "To Reginald VanDerMeeter of the four hundred?"
Annabelle: "Well, not exactly."
The rest of the conversation reveals that Curry remembers everything she said
originally, and that none of it is "exactly" true. She does insist that,
while her father is not a financier, he is a gentleman.
Annabelle: "And an authentic aristocrat, a man of leisure and good manners and style."
She also reveals that he lives in Kingsburg,
which is where she is heading. Curry says that's where he is heading, and she says maybe
he knows her father-DeCorsey Considine. Curry says he's only going to Kingsburg on business.
Annabelle: "We'll be together all the way then, won't we?"
Curry: "I won't let you out of my sight."
Annabelle: "Suddenly I feel very warm and happy ...and sleepy."
Curry: "Good, I was a little afraid you might talk all night.
Good night, Annabelle."
Annabelle: "Here we are, like this, and I don't even know your name."
Curry: "It's Jones."
Annabelle: "And you called me a liar!"
Curry: "Well, the world is full of people named Jones."
Annabelle: "Yeah. I guess it is. I'm glad I met one of them.
Good night, Mr. Jones."
Curry: "Good night, Annabelle."
Curry wakes up. He looks around,
sees the saddlebags nearby, and puts his hand on it, relieved. Annabelle is sitting
near him, combing her hair. She tells him she was afraid he was going to sleep forever.
 Cut to Heyes.
He is still leading Curry's horse.
He asks a passing rancher in a buckboard
if he has seen his friend who bought an old sorrel horse without a saddle. He wonders
if he had passed that way. The rancher says he hasn't seen him. Heyes rides off.
A series of quick cuts show Curry and
Annabelle on Princess and Mike and the men. The camera is on Curry and Annabelle.
They hear a gunshot. Cut to Mike and the men, riding fast. Cut to Curry and Annabelle.
Annabelle: "Let's get out of here!"
Curry: "Good idea. What do we use for a horse? (pause, pats the horse)
Sorry, Princess."
Mike and the men catch up to them and order them off the horse. Curry tells Annabelle
that it's him they want. He assures her that if she does as she's told,
she'll be all right.
 Curry
dismounts. One of the men has ridden over to the other side of Princess.
Man (looking at Annabelle): "Hey, don't I know you from someplace?"
Annabelle (offended): "I should hope not."
Mike dismounts and pushes Curry aside. He takes the saddlebags. He and one
of the men check the bag while another keeps a gun on Curry. Mike takes a bundle
of bills from the bag. Annabelle looks shocked. Mike checks the bundle
and finds a stack of cut up newspaper between the top and bottom bills. Furious,
he grabs Annabelle's carpetbag and dumps its contents on the ground. He pulls
his gun and is about to shoot Curry when one of the men-Stacey-stops him.
Mike thinks Curry knows where the money is and demands he tell him. Curry says
Mr. Greer showed him and his partner the packages, and they believed him.
Curry: "So, Mr. Greer's gonna hafta tell you where the money
is because I sure can't."
Mike says Greer is a lawyer and doesn't have to steal. Curry says he did.
He had them sign a receipt for the $50,000. That puts Greer in the clear and
him in a lot of trouble. Mike doesn't believe they would
sign for the money without counting it.
Curry: "Like you said, he's a lawyer. . .I trusted him."
Mike puts his gun in Curry's face and says Curry is a liar.
 Nobody's
going to save him except him by telling the truth. Once again, Stacey stops Mike.
He takes him aside.
Man (who earlier said he recognized Annabelle): "I've got it now.
You're old man Pringle's granddaughter. Annie."
He says he thought she was supposed to be marrying a wheat farmer about then.
Stacey tells Mike that no one could act as surprised as Curry did when he
saw the paper in the bundles. He has to be telling the truth.
Mike explains to Curry that they are not thieves. They all lost money
when the bank closed. Then, he and the others ride off, leaving the
cut up newspaper and Annabelle's things scattered on the ground.
Curry angrily pulls Annabelle off Princess.
Curry (demands): "All right. Where'd you put it? You cleaned out that
saddlebag last night
when I was asleep. Now I'd like to know where you hid it and I'd like to know now!"
Annabelle is hurt. She tells Curry he is horrible and asks how she would know that
there was money in the saddlebag. He says there was $50,000 in the saddlebag when he
left North Rim, and if she didn't take it, who did? She suggests the lawyer, but
Curry says his saying the lawyer had it was a lie for Mike and the others. He says he helped
count the money and put it in the saddlebag himself and the saddlebag hasn't been out of
his sight except in the freight car and last night when he was asleep.
Annabelle, still hurt, begins stuffing her things in her bag. She is crying.
Curry says the only other answer is the Lamberts.
Curry: "It's either you or them. There is no other possibility.
I'm gonna to take you back there with me and I'm not gonna let you outta my sight
until I get that money back."
At the Lamberts' ranch, Curry confronts Mr. Lambert.
Curry: "I know how it sounds, Mr. Lambert, but somewhere between North Rim and
your place somebody took that money out of my saddlebags. And whoever it was,
put back bundles of cut up newspapers - like the ones you've got right here."
Lambert is angry. He says if he were a younger man, he would throw Curry out.
Curry: "I don't like it any better than you do, Mr. Lambert, but somebody took
that money. Now, she took it (nods to Annabelle) or you took it."
Mrs. Lambert is shocked that Curry would accuse his "own wife."
Mrs. Lambert: "Well, I never. . ."
Curry: "Let's not get into that, Mrs. Lambert. Things are mixed up
enough all ready."
He asks Mr. Lambert for permission to search the place.
Mr. Lambert (still angry): "The only way you'll search my place is
with a sheriff."
He gets a rifle.
 Curry
wrestles it away from him. The search begins.
He searches everywhere inside the house. The only place he hasn't searched is
the room behind a locked door. Curry demands the key. Mrs. Lambert says there
is no key to that room.
Mrs. Lambert: "It's God's truth."
Curry says if they don't give him the key, he'll shoot the door open.
Mr. Lambert: "You aren't goin' into that room."
He tries to physically stop Curry who pushes him aside. Curry shoots the
lock with the rifle and opens the door. The camera pans the room. It is covered
in dust and cobwebs and is obviously the room of a little girl. Curry carefully closes the door.
Curry: "I'm sorry. Before I leave, I'll fix the lock and it'll be
just the way it was before."
Curry, Annabelle, and Mr. Lambert enter the barn. Mike is there, and he holds a gun on them.
Mike: "We figured you'd come back for it."
Curry says he is checking out the only other possibility, but he still thinks Greer has it.
Mike says one of the men-Breen-is going back to North Rim to check.
Mr. Lambert: "Nothing here belongs to any of you. This is my home."
He goes for Mike. This creates enough distraction for Curry to get a punch
in on one of the men. There is a scuffle.
 Heyes' voice
is heard from the general direction of the barn door.
Heyes: "Why don't we all talk this over?"
There is the sound of a gun being cocked. Cut to Heyes, gun drawn and ready, entering the barn.
Heyes: "Hi!"
A train enters the station at Kingsburg. Curry, Heyes, and Annabelle get off the train.
Greer meets them.
Greer: "Am I glad to see you two. I thought you'd never get here."
Curry: "We don't have the money. I guess that doesn't
come as a big surprise to you. Does it?"
Greer explains that he had the choice of having Curry and Heyes transport
the money or using them as decoys and transporting it himself.
He chose to transport it himself. Curry asks him how he got the stacks
of newspaper in the saddlebags. Greer tells him that he switched bags when
Curry and Heyes were signing the receipt. Heyes doesn't say anything, but his
fury is evident on his face. Curry, also furious, draws back to hit Greer.
Heyes stops him.
Heyes: "Cool down. Cool down. (to Greer) You can't blame
him for being upset, Mr. Greer. If we'd lost that money, we'd be in big, big trouble."
Greer (smiling, self-satisfied): "And you thought you'd lost it? ...but you didn't.
 All's well that ends well."
Heyes (smiles): "You know, that's my philosophy, too."
Heyes slugs Greer, knocking him across the platform and into the side of the station.
Heyes turns to Curry. They smile, nod at each other and look satisfied.
Curry turns to face Annabelle who slaps him hard enough to turn his face back toward Heyes.
Curry and Heyes exchange a shocked look. Curry turns back to Annabelle.
Curry: "What was that for?"
Annabelle: "Because you called me a thief. And I'm about to do it
again unless I hear an apology."
Curry (throws up his hands in surrender): "I apologize, Annabelle, I apologize."
Close up of the train as the whistle blows.
Curry, Heyes and Annabelle are standing
at the frontdesk in the hotel. Heyes tells the clerk they want two rooms.
One of them with a bath for the lady. Annabelle asks the clerk if
he knows where she can find DeCorsey Considine. The clerk looks puzzled but
finally recognizes the name.
Clerk: "Oh, Deke! Deke Considine. Sure."
He tells her he is at the saloon. He is usually at the saloon.
When he has money, he plays poker for himself. When he doesn't, he deals
blackjack for the house. The clerk says he saw Deke at the saloon a
half hour ago - dealing blackjack for the house.
Annabelle turns away and goes to sit on a couch. Curry and Heyes exchange a look.
Curry goes to Annabelle. He tells her when she's had a bath and a
rest she'll be all right. Annabelle says she is all right, but when Curry
encourages her to sign the register, she says no, there is a train going
East in two hours. She's going to take it. She's going home.
Curry: "To get married?"
Annabelle: "Yes. Probably. One day."
Curry: "What about all that authentic experience you were looking for?"
Annabelle: "I think I found it."
She and Curry smile at each other.
Curry: "All right. The train it is. But first you're gonna get a bath and a chance
to change your clothes."
He leads her back to the desk and hands her the pen. She signs the register.
Heyes looks on, smiling.
Tag: Curry is saying goodbye to
Annabelle at the train. They kiss. They look fondly at each other.
Annabelle gets on the train. Heyes joins Curry, standing beside him.
Annabelle asks them to tell her father that they met her, and that she's
all grown up and very happy.
 Curry
asks her if she is sure that she doesn't want tell him
herself. He says there's another train tomorrow.
Annabelle: "No. I'm not that grown up. (pause)
His name is DeCorsey Considine.
And he lives here, in Kingsburg."
As the train pulls out, Curry and
Annabelle continue to look fondly at each other.
The scene ends with Curry looking pensive. The train disappears
down the tracks.
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