Yeah, I think Sam Varner would make you better scout by now, boy.
Ah, you son of a gun. You picked me up, huh?
I spotted you from the ridge about four miles back.
I'll tell you the truth, Varner, I figured I’d find you dead over some onion patch, huh?
I listen at the fort. I hear from the Indians about the boy.
- You know what he is, this boy? - Yeah.
Oh.
Well, I figure maybe you don't know. So I ride Hennessey.
I dig up that grave, Hennessey. I figure maybe you're in it.
Goodbye, Sam, huh?
Then I ride Silverton. Silverton, they're all dead too.
Even your horse dead, Silverton.
Then I hear he stops wagon at Oakley.
Two days later, he's already Columbia Pass.
I figure out.
I come tell you. He's on his way.
- I figured good, huh? - Real good.
Nick will be here for a while.
Salvaje is on his way.
Have you told him anything?
I think...
...he already knows.
There's a Mexican family down the road.
I'll ride over in the morning. Warn them.
It has nothing to do with you.
It has to do with me.
I didn't have the courage to die.
I knew what I had to do to stay alive.
I chose to be with him.
Tomorrow I'm going to take my boy away.
And Salvaje will find us...
...and maybe that will be enough for him.
It won't be.
It will keep him from here.
What about after here?
I buried his dead at Hennessey.
They're all dead at Silverton.
Dead all the way across Arizona.
I have to think about that.
If I can, I have to stop it.
You and the boy...
...aren't leaving here.
I want you to stay here.
It's right that you're here.
Hey, old man.
Wanna make a card game?
I teach you poker, huh?
Eh.
He talk too much, doesn't he?
Hey, boy. Hey, come here.
Come here.
If you gonna be white, you better learn white man's game, huh?
Yeah.
Pretty good, huh? Sit down.
See this?
That's cards, huh?
See that? That's numbers.
Numbers. All numbers, huh? Say this number. Four.
Four. That's four.
Say that.
- Four. - Four.
Say this one here.
Say that one. Three.
Three.
- Three. - Three.
Hey, I teach you count, huh? Okay, say ace.
- Ace. - Ace.
Deuce.
- Deuce. - Deuce.
Three.
- Three. - Try again. Four. Four.
- Four. - Four.
Five.
- Five. - Attaboy.
You gonna make good poker player, eh.
You want cigar?
You take cigar. Attaboy.
Where is she? - We didn't see nobody.
- She's gone. The breed's looking. - Get inside. Bolt the doors and windows.
Nick.
I lose him.
Someplace I lose him. Damn it.
Tell the boy she's not dead.
Tomorrow morning.
You all right?
Yes.
We have to start before the sun's up.
He's doubled back.
Open up.
I teach him poker.
I teach him take your money.
How come you never give me a chance to beat you, Varner?
Come on, I'll play you stud.
Maybe you make him tough scout, huh?
Maybe.
Maybe this one don't wanna be tough scout.
Maybe not.
You figure you beat the man, you win the breed, huh?
I'll tell you something, Varner.
Maybe the man beats you.
Maybe this half-breed, he'll be Indian.
Feed my dog.
Here, boy. Here.
Ned.
I saw something.
You find the old man?
Yeah.
You won't hear him.
I'll hear him.
It doesn't happen that way.
He just comes.
I'll hear him.
I'm going to cross the clearing.
Head for the north side of the corral into the trees.
I'm gonna draw his fire.
If I don't, at least he'll be watching me.
When I get to the middle of the clearing, I want you out the storeroom window.
Our best bet's still having two of us on him.
Keep well behind me.
If I can keep his eye on me...
...he'll still think there's one of us in this house.
Let him know when I'm halfway across.
He's there.
Sam!
Hey, Sam.
Yeah?
He's hit.