1. He was growing into middle age...Copy !req
2. and was living then in a bungalow
on Woodland Avenue.Copy !req
3. He installed himself in a rocking chair...Copy !req
4. and smoked a cigar down
in the evenings...Copy !req
5. as his wife wiped her pink hands
on an apron...Copy !req
6. and reported happily
on their two children.Copy !req
7. His children knew his legs...Copy !req
8. the sting of his mustache
against their cheeks.Copy !req
9. They didn't know how their father made
his living or why they so often moved.Copy !req
10. They didn't even know
their father's name.Copy !req
11. He was listed in the city directory
as Thomas Howard.Copy !req
12. And he went everywhere unrecognized...Copy !req
13. and lunched with Kansas City
shopkeepers and merchants...Copy !req
14. calling himself a cattleman
or a commodities investor...Copy !req
15. someone rich and leisured
who had the common touch.Copy !req
16. He had two incompletely healed
bullet holes in his chest...Copy !req
17. and another in his thigh.Copy !req
18. He was missing the nub
of his left middle finger...Copy !req
19. and was cautious,
lest that mutilation be seen.Copy !req
20. He also had a condition that was
referred to as "granulated eyelids"...Copy !req
21. and it caused him
to blink more than usual...Copy !req
22. as if he found creation
slightly more than he could accept.Copy !req
23. Rooms seemed hotter
when he was in them.Copy !req
24. Rains fell straighter.Copy !req
25. Clocks slowed.Copy !req
26. Sounds were amplified.Copy !req
27. He considered himself
a Southern loyalist and guerrilla...Copy !req
28. in a Civil War that never ended.Copy !req
29. He regretted neither his robberies,
nor the 17 murders that he laid claim to.Copy !req
30. He had seen another summer under
in Kansas City, Missouri...Copy !req
31. and on September 5th
in the year 1881...Copy !req
32. he was 34 years old.Copy !req
33. You just— You just slide them things
right in there, right in your sleeve...Copy !req
34. and then, when you get ready,
you just shake it out.Copy !req
35. Like that, right there. You shake it out.Copy !req
36. Mary Todd Lincoln, tyrant's wife, fall
into hysterics when the moon was full.Copy !req
37. President's men would tie her up
with hay-baling wire...Copy !req
38. keep her from ripping
her husband's ears off.Copy !req
39. You never heard word one about the wife of
the Confederacy's Jefferson Davis, did you?Copy !req
40. - I didn't.
- No, you didn't.Copy !req
41. He did his duty by her.Copy !req
42. - Oh, my God, I'm speaking to children.
- No, I get it, I get it, I get it.Copy !req
43. The president of the Confederacy discerned
his wife's needs and satisfied them...Copy !req
44. with the utmost skill
and the utmost courtesy.Copy !req
45. - Charley, you spit all over my boot.
- Sorry. Sorry, sorry, Jesse.Copy !req
46. - Here, get it off.
- I'll wipe it— I'll wipe it off.Copy !req
47. But Abraham Lincoln probably sent his wife
on a shopping expedition.Copy !req
48. - A three-act play.
- With money stole from us.Copy !req
49. Chow!Copy !req
50. I think insanity run on both sides
of that Lincoln family.Copy !req
51. You're right about that.Copy !req
52. The river— You jump in the river.Copy !req
53. - Chow!
- Don't be shy now, Dick.Copy !req
54. - One more piece of meat.
- When you diddle a lot...Copy !req
55. There's a good piece of bacon fat
in there for him.Copy !req
56. Excuse me.Copy !req
57. I see I've traipsed right on in
and interrupted you.Copy !req
58. Who are you, then?Copy !req
59. Bob Ford.Copy !req
60. Charley's brother?Copy !req
61. Yeah.Copy !req
62. I was lying when I said
I just happened down here.Copy !req
63. I've been looking for you. I feel lousy
I didn't say so at the outset.Copy !req
64. Folks take me for a nincompoop...Copy !req
65. on account of the shabby first impression
I make, whereas I think of myself...Copy !req
66. as being just a rung down
from the James brothers.Copy !req
67. I was hoping if I ran into you
aside from those peckerwoods...Copy !req
68. I could show you how special I am.Copy !req
69. I honestly believe I'm destined
for great things, Mr. James.Copy !req
70. I got qualities that don't come shining
through right at the outset.Copy !req
71. You give me a chance, I'll get
the job done. I guarantee you that.Copy !req
72. Hey, Dick, is it true you diddled a squaw?Copy !req
73. Come on, you can tell me. I've always
wanted to lay down with a redskin.Copy !req
74. Well, Charley...Copy !req
75. there's a feeling that comes over you...Copy !req
76. getting inside a woman whose hands
has scalped a congregation.Copy !req
77. There's this thunderous sound
that comes from their cooch...Copy !req
78. on account of the fact that
they birth a child standing upright...Copy !req
79. - ... like a wild animal.
- What's it sound like?Copy !req
80. Whatever a thunderous cooch sounds like
there, Charley. I don't know.Copy !req
81. No.Copy !req
82. They got a noisy quim
on account of the fact that...Copy !req
83. they use their cunnis as a saddlebag
to carry sundries across the plains.Copy !req
84. Come on, what'd it really feel like?
Did it feel good?Copy !req
85. Come on, fess up, now.Copy !req
86. I like you, Charley.Copy !req
87. I like you too, Charley.Copy !req
88. Well...Copy !req
89. You're not so special, Mr. Ford.Copy !req
90. You're just like any other tyro
who's prinked himself up for an escapade.Copy !req
91. Hoping to be a gunslinger
like them nickel books are about.Copy !req
92. You may as well quench your mind of it...Copy !req
93. because you don't have
the ingredients, son.Copy !req
94. Well, I'm sorry to hear
you feel that way...Copy !req
95. as I put such stock
in your opinions.Copy !req
96. As for me being a gunslinger, I've just got
this one granddaddy Paterson Colt...Copy !req
97. and a borrowed belt to stick it in.Copy !req
98. But I also got an appetite
for greater things.Copy !req
99. I hoped by joining up with you, it'd put me
that much closer to getting them.Copy !req
100. Well, what am I supposed to say to that?Copy !req
101. Let me be your sidekick tonight.Copy !req
102. Sidekick?Copy !req
103. So you can examine my grit
and intelligence.Copy !req
104. I don't know what it is about you...Copy !req
105. but the more you talk,
the more you give me the willies.Copy !req
106. Now, I don't believe I want you anywhere
within earshot this evening, okay?Copy !req
107. You understand?Copy !req
108. - Well, I'm sorry—
- Why don't you just get now? Scat.Copy !req
109. All right.Copy !req
110. I was with a girl once, wasn't a squaw.Copy !req
111. But she was pretty.Copy !req
112. She had yellow hair like a...Copy !req
113. Oh, like something.Copy !req
114. Like hair bobbed from a ray of sunlight?Copy !req
115. Yeah. Yeah, like that.Copy !req
116. Boy, you— You talk good.Copy !req
117. You can hide things in vocabulary.Copy !req
118. Maybe you and me could write her a note,
send it by post?Copy !req
119. See, all you gotta do, Ed...Copy !req
120. is predict her needs
and beat her to the punch.Copy !req
121. Well, this girl, she has a real specific job.Copy !req
122. - Specific?
- We was only together once.Copy !req
123. She—Copy !req
124. She was afraid of lightning,
and she came up under the wagon and...Copy !req
125. just cuddled right up to me.Copy !req
126. She give me a kind price, too.Copy !req
127. Well, I'll be. That is specific.Copy !req
128. Yeah, sure,
she'd been with other people...Copy !req
129. but the kind of things she said to me...Copy !req
130. people just don't say
unless they really mean it.Copy !req
131. My love said she would marry only meCopy !req
132. And Jove himself could not make her care.Copy !req
133. For what women say to lovers, you'll agreeCopy !req
134. One writes on running water or on air.Copy !req
135. My God, that's good.
Let's write her that.Copy !req
136. No.Copy !req
137. Poetry don't work on whores.Copy !req
138. How do you do?Copy !req
139. Am I too late
to wish you a happy birthday?Copy !req
140. How'd you know?Copy !req
141. You'd be surprised
at what I got stored away.Copy !req
142. I'm an authority on the James boys.Copy !req
143. Is you?Copy !req
144. Well— Well, your brother Frank and I,
we just had a real nice visit.Copy !req
145. Just chit-chatting about this and that,
right over there.Copy !req
146. And must've been a hundred subjects
entertained—Copy !req
147. Good Lord, you know
what this stew needs?Copy !req
148. Dumplings?Copy !req
149. Noodles.Copy !req
150. You eat yourself some noodle stew
and your clock'll tick all night.Copy !req
151. You ever see that woman up in Fayette?
Suck noodles up her nose.Copy !req
152. - In Fayette?
- I don't believe I have.Copy !req
153. You never heard of her, huh?Copy !req
154. She got canals up there
you never dreamed of.Copy !req
155. I don't like to harp on a subject—Copy !req
156. I don't care who comes with me.
Never have.Copy !req
157. That's why they call me gregarious.Copy !req
158. I hear you and young Stovepipe here
had a real nice visit.Copy !req
159. Your boys have got about a acre
of lumber to haul, dingus.Copy !req
160. You better goose them down yonder.Copy !req
161. The James Gang committed over 25 bank,
train and stagecoach robberies...Copy !req
162. from 1867 to 1881.Copy !req
163. But except for Frank and Jesse James...Copy !req
164. all the original members
were now either dead or in prison.Copy !req
165. —mine eye
All my soul and all my every partCopy !req
166. And for this sin, there is no remedyCopy !req
167. It is so grounded inward in my heart.Copy !req
168. So for their last robbery at Blue Cut...Copy !req
169. the brothers recruited a gang
of petty thieves and country rubes...Copy !req
170. culled from the local hillsides.Copy !req
171. Right on schedule, Buck!Copy !req
172. Snuff those lanterns!Copy !req
173. Look at those fools. They're gonna trip
and shoot each other into females.Copy !req
174. I bet you I could find them husbands
if they do.Copy !req
175. Fan out!Copy !req
176. Hold your fire!Copy !req
177. - Watch him!
- Going down.Copy !req
178. Hold your fire, you idiots!Copy !req
179. Hold your fire!Copy !req
180. Let me in.Copy !req
181. Buck! Boys!Copy !req
182. Buck, this way!Copy !req
183. Do you think that lock will hold?Copy !req
184. No, I don't.Copy !req
185. Let's go, let's go.Copy !req
186. Let's not get clever, nor courageous,
any of you.Copy !req
187. Hey there, boys!
These all for me?Copy !req
188. Looks like Christmas morning in here.Copy !req
189. Hey, friend.Copy !req
190. You mind if I have a peek around?Copy !req
191. This shit. Nope.Copy !req
192. Nope.Copy !req
193. You got anything good here?Copy !req
194. Could be.Copy !req
195. Open that safe.Copy !req
196. Do it!Copy !req
197. - You didn't have to bop him.
- Yeah, he did. They needed convincing.Copy !req
198. They got their company rules,
I got my mean streak...Copy !req
199. and that's how
we get things done around here.Copy !req
200. - Get on over here and attend to this thing.
- Come on, go.Copy !req
201. Hold your fire, you idiots!Copy !req
202. Dig deeper.Copy !req
203. - Come on!
- Give me your money.Copy !req
204. - And you, stand up.
- Let's see your hands.Copy !req
205. What have you got?Copy !req
206. Speak English.Copy !req
207. Money. Money. You understand that?Copy !req
208. Give me your money!Copy !req
209. There's some receipts.Copy !req
210. I got fives.Copy !req
211. Jesse. Jesse.Copy !req
212. Don't look good.Copy !req
213. There ain't no 100,000 dollars
in here, Dick.Copy !req
214. Get down on your knees.Copy !req
215. Why?Copy !req
216. Well, you ought to pray.Copy !req
217. I'm gonna kill you.Copy !req
218. Get at!Copy !req
219. You're gonna have to make me.Copy !req
220. All right.Copy !req
221. Don't shoot him! No, don't shoot him.Copy !req
222. Don't tell me what I can
and cannot do, Ed.Copy !req
223. Round them up!Copy !req
224. Chicago newspaper publishers made
a great deal of the Blue Cut train robbery...Copy !req
225. alleging that in no state
but Missouri...Copy !req
226. would the James brothers be tolerated
for 12 years.Copy !req
227. Hey.Copy !req
228. Can you keep a secret?Copy !req
229. It depends on what you're concealing.Copy !req
230. You afraid of the dark?Copy !req
231. No.Copy !req
232. You superstitious?Copy !req
233. I put— I put an acorn in the window
to keep the lightning out.Copy !req
234. Kid, you must've crept up on cat's paws.Copy !req
235. I'll wager that's the first and last time
you'll ever be caught off-guard.Copy !req
236. How old are you?Copy !req
237. Twenty.Copy !req
238. Except, well, I guess I won't
really be 20 till...Copy !req
239. Till January, so...Copy !req
240. I'm 19.Copy !req
241. Yeah, you feel older than that, though,
don't you?Copy !req
242. Yeah, I do.Copy !req
243. Hey, Frank, you—
You think the sheriff's out already?Copy !req
244. - More than likely.
- Yeah.Copy !req
245. I had a real fine time tonight.Copy !req
246. - You think so?
- Yup. Yeah.Copy !req
247. Hey, I wasn't just flapping my lips
about my kid brother and me.Copy !req
248. What I figured was if you and Jesse could
gauge our courage and our daring...Copy !req
249. you might just make us
your regular sidekicks.Copy !req
250. Your courage and your daring.Copy !req
251. I about heard all I want to about sidekicks.
You sound like your damn brother.Copy !req
252. Yeah. Well, I'll be square with you,
it's Bob who put me up to it. He's—Copy !req
253. He's got plans for the James boys
I can't even get the hang of.Copy !req
254. - They're that complicated.
- Yeah?Copy !req
255. Well, you can just
get shed of that idea.Copy !req
256. Because after tonight,
there'll be no more shenanigans.Copy !req
257. You can jot that down in your little diary.Copy !req
258. September 7th, 1881, the James Gang
robbed one last train at Blue Cut...Copy !req
259. and gave up their nightriding for good.Copy !req
260. Wait.Copy !req
261. Well, how are you gonna
make your living?Copy !req
262. Maybe I'll sell shoes.Copy !req
263. I can't believe I woke up this morning...Copy !req
264. wondering if my daddy
would loan me his overcoat...Copy !req
265. and here it is just past midnight...Copy !req
266. I've already robbed a railroad train
and I'm sitting in a rocking chair...Copy !req
267. chatting with none other
than Jesse James.Copy !req
268. Yeah, it's a wonderful world.Copy !req
269. What's this?Copy !req
270. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
271. I was real agitated this morning, so I was
wondering if I would know you or Frank...Copy !req
272. tell you all apart, and so I had
this clipping that described you both.Copy !req
273. Want me to read it?Copy !req
274. Go on.Copy !req
275. Well... I gotta find it. Hold on.Copy !req
276. Here. Here.Copy !req
277. "Jesse James, the youngest, has a face
as smooth and innocent as a schoolgirl.Copy !req
278. The blue eyes, very clear and penetrating,
are never at rest.Copy !req
279. His form is tall and graceful
and capable of great endurance...Copy !req
280. and great effort.Copy !req
281. Jesse is lighthearted, reckless,
and devil-may-care.Copy !req
282. - There's always a smile on his lips—"
- All right, all right, all right.Copy !req
283. Well, yeah, then it just— Frank, Frank,
Frank. That's nothing. And then...Copy !req
284. You know what I got
right next to my bed?Copy !req
285. Is The Train Robbers, or, A Story
of the James Boys by R.W. Stevens.Copy !req
286. I mean, many's the night I stayed up...Copy !req
287. with my eyes open
and my mouth open...Copy !req
288. just reading about your escapades
in the Wide Awake Library.Copy !req
289. They're all lies, you know.Copy !req
290. Yeah, of course they are.Copy !req
291. You don't have to keep smoking that
if it's making you bungey.Copy !req
292. Alexander Franklin James
would be in Baltimore...Copy !req
293. when he would read of
the assassination of Jesse James.Copy !req
294. He had spurned his younger brother
for being peculiar and temperamental.Copy !req
295. But once he perceived
that he would never see Jesse again...Copy !req
296. Frank would be wrought-up,
perplexed, despondent.Copy !req
297. My brother and me are hardly
on speaking terms these days.Copy !req
298. Well, I wasn't gonna mention it.Copy !req
299. Are you scared?Copy !req
300. No, I'm just surprised a little.Copy !req
301. They ain't as succulent as I like,
the devil to clean...Copy !req
302. but if a man skins them
and fries them in garlic and oil...Copy !req
303. mercy, them's good eating.Copy !req
304. Well, I never been that hungry.Copy !req
305. I give them names.Copy !req
306. Such as?Copy !req
307. Such as enemies.Copy !req
308. I give them names of enemies.Copy !req
309. Go tell Wood and Charley
to get their gatherings together.Copy !req
310. All right.Copy !req
311. Me too?Copy !req
312. You can stay.Copy !req
313. All right.Copy !req
314. Hey.Copy !req
315. - What do you want, peckerwood?
- Nothing.Copy !req
316. Except to say Jesse wants
you two to gather your parts...Copy !req
317. get on your horses
and get out of town.Copy !req
318. And me to stick around.Copy !req
319. Well, whoa, I'm his cousin...Copy !req
320. I'll have you know.Copy !req
321. My mama's his daddy's sister.Copy !req
322. Is that how they described it to you,
Wood?Copy !req
323. You better watch your tongue,
young sapling.Copy !req
324. Why is it me who's gotta rattle his hocks
out of town and not you, Bunny?Copy !req
325. Put your horns away.
If I know Jess...Copy !req
326. there's some real nasty
sad-suzie work's gotta be done...Copy !req
327. and Bob's the ninny that has to do it.Copy !req
328. Oh, yeah, I'm sure that's it, Charley.Copy !req
329. You only met him 12 hours ago.
He doesn't even know your name.Copy !req
330. Wood! You tell your daddy
I'll be in Kentucky in October.Copy !req
331. We can hunt some birds together.Copy !req
332. All right.Copy !req
333. So how come it's Bob who gets to stay?Copy !req
334. Bob's gonna move my gear to a house
down the street.Copy !req
335. See?Copy !req
336. - I don't mind.
- Yeah, well.Copy !req
337. Sounds like an adventure.Copy !req
338. They moved to 1017 Troost Avenue
at night...Copy !req
339. so that the neighborhood couldn't get
a good look at them or their belongings.Copy !req
340. Then Bob thought Jesse
would give him eight hours' sleep...Copy !req
341. and a daydreaming goodbye.Copy !req
342. But with a second day
in the Thomas Howard house...Copy !req
343. Bob thought he might never go...Copy !req
344. but might be brought in
as a good-natured cousin to the boy...Copy !req
345. and a gentleman helper to Zee.Copy !req
346. He went everywhere with Jesse.Copy !req
347. They made trips
to the Topeka Exchange Saloon...Copy !req
348. where Jesse could spend nearly
60 minutes sipping one glass of beer...Copy !req
349. and still complain about feeling tipsy.Copy !req
350. Bob would rarely vouchsafe his opinions
as they talked.Copy !req
351. If spoken to, he would fidget and grin.Copy !req
352. If Jesse palavered with another person,
Bob secretaried their dialogue...Copy !req
353. getting each inflection,
reading every gesture and tic...Copy !req
354. as if he wanted to compose
a biography of the outlaw...Copy !req
355. or as if he were preparing
an impersonation.Copy !req
356. Go away.Copy !req
357. Used to be couldn't no one sneak up
on Jesse James.Copy !req
358. Now you think otherwise?Copy !req
359. I ain't never seen you without your guns,
neither.Copy !req
360. I can't figure it out.Copy !req
361. Do you wanna be like me...Copy !req
362. or do you wanna be me?Copy !req
363. I'm just making fun, is all.Copy !req
364. Bob was sent away cordially
the next day...Copy !req
365. with a goodbye from Jesse...Copy !req
366. but nothing from Zee
beyond what good manners demanded.Copy !req
367. It was 40 miles to his sister's farm
from Kansas City.Copy !req
368. And it was well into the afternoon
by the time he arrived there.Copy !req
369. Mrs. Martha Bolton rented
the Harbison farm in 1879...Copy !req
370. just after becoming a widow.Copy !req
371. And she made a good income
by giving rooms and meals...Copy !req
372. to her brothers Charley, Wilbur and Bob,
and to members of the James Gang...Copy !req
373. who would appear
whenever they needed seclusion.Copy !req
374. Dick! You're gonna make her sick!Copy !req
375. She's gonna upchuck
if you don't watch out!Copy !req
376. Wood Hite had been spurned by Martha
in his affections...Copy !req
377. and his attempt to switch his pursuit
to her daughter...Copy !req
378. was being thwarted by Dick Liddil.Copy !req
379. Wait a second, you assured me
that you were not ticklish.Copy !req
380. Howdy!Copy !req
381. What's going on, now?
What's going on—?Copy !req
382. - Howdy!
- Were you fibbing about that?Copy !req
383. - No.
- Not at all.Copy !req
384. You're not supposed to peek, Dick.Copy !req
385. Well, you're just so pretty
I can't help myself.Copy !req
386. - You need to be warning him about that.
- Howdy.Copy !req
387. Worry about the field instead,
might be able to worry about the work...Copy !req
388. Howdy!Copy !req
389. - Finally home.
- I'm so glad, Bob.Copy !req
390. I'm in that room too, Bob.
Don't mess with my things.Copy !req
391. All right, Grandpa.Copy !req
392. "July 9th. Diligence, tact,
and a keen sense of responsibility...Copy !req
393. capacity for detail are your dominant
traits. Your sense of duty's strong."Copy !req
394. How long you been there?Copy !req
395. Just now arrived. Did I miss much?Copy !req
396. Not unless you never seen a man
wash his dirty carcass before.Copy !req
397. Boy, you got a big old pecker
for being such a little squirrel.Copy !req
398. That what you come here to see, Dick?Copy !req
399. No.Copy !req
400. Your brother said that Jesse
kept you in Kansas City some extra days.Copy !req
401. What was the reason?Copy !req
402. Well, I'm not at liberty to say exactly.Copy !req
403. Let me ask you this. Did Jesse mention
that me and Cummins were in cahoots?Copy !req
404. Is that so?Copy !req
405. Oh, dear. I went on and said too much,
have I?Copy !req
406. Well, who else is partners with you two?Copy !req
407. See, he'll cut our throats if he finds out.
You don't know him like I do.Copy !req
408. You do Jesse dirt,
you connive behind his back...Copy !req
409. boy, he'll come after you
with a cleaver.Copy !req
410. So, what are you two cahoots
cooking up?Copy !req
411. Don't know that I should say.Copy !req
412. I'm not gonna wheedle
the dang news from you.Copy !req
413. How about we'll leave it a mystery...Copy !req
414. and then we won't neither one of us
regret our little chat?Copy !req
415. Can you hand me that six-gun there, Bob?Copy !req
416. If you so much as mention my name
to Jesse...Copy !req
417. boy, I'll find out about it.Copy !req
418. You had better believe that.Copy !req
419. And I'll look you up.Copy !req
420. I'll knock on your door,
and I will be as mad as a hornet.Copy !req
421. I will be hot.Copy !req
422. You be careful with that iron, Dick.Copy !req
423. You know where I stand on these matters
and that's all there is to it.Copy !req
424. Me and you can be as friendly as pigs
from now on.Copy !req
425. I'm Bunny Ford, stick your hands
up in the air!Copy !req
426. Mister.Copy !req
427. Oh, you have some nerve.Copy !req
428. We were just reading about the James boys
among the Mexicans.Copy !req
429. What's this? This ain't Jesse.Copy !req
430. - You don't know that.
- He would've never wore no mustache.Copy !req
431. Never was anywheres near a cannon.Copy !req
432. Let me see that picture.Copy !req
433. Boy, I can't even calculate
what I'm looking at.Copy !req
434. - Give me that.
- Ever since he was a child...Copy !req
435. Bob's collected whatsoever he could find
about the James brothers.Copy !req
436. Yeah, got himself a little museum
in his room.Copy !req
437. Next time you come snooping around,
you better strap on a shooting iron!Copy !req
438. Well, you can see how scared I am.Copy !req
439. You too, Wood Hite. Cross me again,
I'll put a bullet through your head!Copy !req
440. Boy, you—Copy !req
441. Son, you better recollect
who my cousin is...Copy !req
442. because you've seemed to misremembered
that Jesse loves me like the Good Book.Copy !req
443. Now, you may play it like you're
a dangerous person in the grocery store...Copy !req
444. but don't misremember
who you be accounting to...Copy !req
445. - ... if I so much get my feelings hurt.
- I don't care!Copy !req
446. Do I have to yell "suwee"?Copy !req
447. Why don't we make up,
be pleasant for once?Copy !req
448. Why don't we pass the evening
like pleasant human beings?Copy !req
449. I like your nickel suit, cowboy.Copy !req
450. You see something?Copy !req
451. Just a bird.Copy !req
452. The month of October came...Copy !req
453. and Jesse began seeing
Pinkerton operatives in every floor walker...Copy !req
454. street sweeper, and common man
poking about in a store.Copy !req
455. On the morning of the 11th,
he would wake his wife...Copy !req
456. with the Scripture pertaining to
the Holy Family's flight into Egypt.Copy !req
457. Overnight, the Thomas Howard clan
vanished from Kansas City.Copy !req
458. Shortly thereafter,
four of the Blue Cut train robbers...Copy !req
459. were arrested in shacks near Glendale.Copy !req
460. How Jesse could have known
remains a mystery.Copy !req
461. Theirs was a wandering existence.Copy !req
462. Men who choose to be outlaws...Copy !req
463. cannot afford to remain in one place
for very long.Copy !req
464. - Goodness. Maybe I'll change my mind.
- Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.Copy !req
465. - Martha.
- Buck up, man.Copy !req
466. Wood and Dick would bicker
across the entire state of Kentucky...Copy !req
467. until they made Russellville, home
of Major George Hite, Wood's father...Copy !req
468. and uncle to Frank and Jesse James.Copy !req
469. You stay away from this one.Copy !req
470. She's my daddy's wife.Copy !req
471. You got it?Copy !req
472. Did you cook this, ma'am?Copy !req
473. I've got a nigger woman.Copy !req
474. How's that?Copy !req
475. Dick asked if I cooked this.Copy !req
476. Did you?Copy !req
477. No.Copy !req
478. She knew what he was like
when she married him.Copy !req
479. I guess we're the night owls, you and I.Copy !req
480. I'm glad.Copy !req
481. How come?Copy !req
482. You're interesting to look at.Copy !req
483. You have a real pleasant disposition.Copy !req
484. And I don't know, you sort of
make me feel warm all over.Copy !req
485. You know, I'm what they call a—
An inamorato.Copy !req
486. Well, I knew
there had to be a name for it.Copy !req
487. You and the Hites
don't get along too well...Copy !req
488. if I'm to trust Wood and his version
of the situation.Copy !req
489. We hate each other like poison,
if you wanna know the truth.Copy !req
490. Most of the Hites wouldn't spit on me
if I was on fire.Copy !req
491. They say that when a woman's on fire...Copy !req
492. you're supposed to roll her around on
the ground and cover her with your body.Copy !req
493. Well, you are a naughty tease.Copy !req
494. Isn't it about bedtime?Copy !req
495. Well, I'll just kiss those dainty nubbins.Copy !req
496. Good night.Copy !req
497. Would you stop?Copy !req
498. Boy, I believe I drank too much coffee.Copy !req
499. I gotta go visit the privy
something terrible.Copy !req
500. This is embarrassing.Copy !req
501. Now, you go ahead and do your duty.
I don't mind.Copy !req
502. I've sort of got stage fright with
a strange man in the commode with me.Copy !req
503. I ain't strange.Copy !req
504. I'm built just like the rest of them.Copy !req
505. You look awful pretty.Copy !req
506. Do I?Copy !req
507. I haven't never in my life seen
such well-shaped limbs.Copy !req
508. Is Wood awake?Copy !req
509. It's just me.Copy !req
510. And I bet you thought I was a lady.Copy !req
511. Well, you ain't much of a housekeeper,
are you?Copy !req
512. You didn't just happen by.Copy !req
513. Why not?Copy !req
514. Go on and take a load off your feet.Copy !req
515. You ought to get yourself a wife.Copy !req
516. Yeah.Copy !req
517. I suppose.Copy !req
518. I was gonna ask Martha. Charley's sister.Copy !req
519. I was gonna ask her
if she could imagine it.Copy !req
520. But I guess Wood has plans of his own.Copy !req
521. And there's always Dick Liddil
getting in the way.Copy !req
522. I'll give it some thought, though.Copy !req
523. Your crops come in?Copy !req
524. No, I don't got much.
Just a garden patch and a pasture.Copy !req
525. I was sick at planting time.Copy !req
526. So...Copy !req
527. Ed, how you feeling now?Copy !req
528. Why?Copy !req
529. You're acting queer.Copy !req
530. Well, you and me ain't been
just real good friends lately.Copy !req
531. That's not your fault,
you understand that.Copy !req
532. You hear talk, though.Copy !req
533. Talk?Copy !req
534. People tell you things.Copy !req
535. Why don't you give me an example?Copy !req
536. Jim Cummins come by here.Copy !req
537. Jim Cummins.Copy !req
538. Oh, and Jim says:Copy !req
539. "You know them boys
that got caught in the Blue Cut deal?"Copy !req
540. Well, Jim says he got word...Copy !req
541. that you're planning to kill them.Copy !req
542. Why would I do that?Copy !req
543. That's just talk probably.Copy !req
544. Jim Cummins. He say anything else?Copy !req
545. Nope. No, that was it, basically.Copy !req
546. That still don't explain why you're scared.Copy !req
547. Well, I'm in the same situation, you see.Copy !req
548. I was terrified, I saw you ride up.Copy !req
549. - I just happened by, Ed.
- Suppose you heard gossip, though.Copy !req
550. Suppose you heard Jim Cummins
come by, you might have thought...Copy !req
551. that we were planning to capture you
or get that reward, and that ain't true.Copy !req
552. But you might have suspected it.Copy !req
553. Haven't heard a lick of gossip lately.Copy !req
554. I got 600 dollars stashed away.
I don't need no governor's reward.Copy !req
555. Well, it's the principle too.Copy !req
556. Well...Copy !req
557. - I'm glad I stopped by.
- Oh, me too.Copy !req
558. What do you say
if we were to go for a ride?Copy !req
559. We can go into town. I'll buy you dinner.Copy !req
560. Then I'll be on my way.Copy !req
561. Okay.Copy !req
562. You ready to go for a ride?Copy !req
563. We going to your place?Copy !req
564. You seen Ed Miller lately?Copy !req
565. Nobody has.Copy !req
566. Must have gone off to California.Copy !req
567. I'd still like to know where we're going.Copy !req
568. If you were going to see Jim Cummins,
wouldn't you follow this road?Copy !req
569. I guess so.Copy !req
570. Howdy.Copy !req
571. Are you friends of my pa's?Copy !req
572. We're friends of Jim Cummins.Copy !req
573. Well, it so happens
he's been gone since August.Copy !req
574. And never said where he gone to.Copy !req
575. - I'm Matt Collins.
- Albert Ford.Copy !req
576. Very happy to meet you.Copy !req
577. - Dick Turpin.
- Pleased to make your acquaintance.Copy !req
578. I don't know where he is!
Leave me alone!Copy !req
579. Shut your mouth!
You shut your mouth!Copy !req
580. - You shut your mouth.
- I don't know where he is!Copy !req
581. - I don't know!
- Get in there.Copy !req
582. Shut up.Copy !req
583. - I don't know where he is!
- Shut up.Copy !req
584. - I don't know!
- Shut up.Copy !req
585. - Jesus.
- Shut up.Copy !req
586. Jesse, he's just a kid.Copy !req
587. He knows where his uncle Jim is and
that's gonna make him old soon enough.Copy !req
588. - Maybe he doesn't know.
- He knows!Copy !req
589. You need to ask and ask sometimes.Copy !req
590. Sometimes a child don't remember so much
at first. But it'll come back to him.Copy !req
591. My goodness, she's about to rip off,
sweetie.Copy !req
592. Just a little more here to get her started.Copy !req
593. Then I think I can rip her off
like a page from a book.Copy !req
594. Jesus, he can't even talk.Copy !req
595. Where's Jim?Copy !req
596. Where's Jim?Copy !req
597. Where's Jim? Where's Jim?Copy !req
598. Where's Jim? Where's Jim? Where's Jim?Copy !req
599. - Where's Jim?
- Quit it!Copy !req
600. You bastard! I don't know where he is!Copy !req
601. You won't believe me!
You never even gave me a chance!Copy !req
602. You kept my— You kept my mouth shut!Copy !req
603. I never know where Jim is or
when he comes! So leave me alone.Copy !req
604. Get off me, you son of a bitch!Copy !req
605. I'm worn out.Copy !req
606. I can't. No, see...Copy !req
607. My mind's all tangled anyway.Copy !req
608. Little deals like this
just make me feel dirty.Copy !req
609. Are you all right, Jesse?Copy !req
610. Jesse was sick...Copy !req
611. with rheums, and aches
and lung congestions.Copy !req
612. Insomnia stained
his eye sockets like soot.Copy !req
613. He read auguries in
the snarled intestines of chickens...Copy !req
614. or the blow of cat hair
released to the wind.Copy !req
615. And the omens promised bad luck,
which moated and dungeoned him.Copy !req
616. How come it's you
that's gotta do all the chores?Copy !req
617. Charley and Bob pay extry to Martha
so that they don't have to.Copy !req
618. It still don't seem fair.Copy !req
619. Martha.Copy !req
620. Well, look what the cat dragged in.Copy !req
621. You come from Kentucky?Copy !req
622. Why do you have your head in a hole,
Martha?Copy !req
623. Wood and Dick had a shooting scrape
a few months ago.Copy !req
624. Cover the kettle, Ida.Copy !req
625. And what did you and Dick
get in a scrape about?Copy !req
626. Well, he tampered
with my daddy's wife...Copy !req
627. while a pork chop
burned on the skillet...Copy !req
628. so I shot at him.Copy !req
629. Ida! Do not stick your thumb
in the cream when you skim it.Copy !req
630. His chicanery and his philandering ways...Copy !req
631. has instigated such malice.Copy !req
632. He's a yellow snake in the grass
and he can't be trusted, Martha.Copy !req
633. Dick told me a complete other version
of that affray.Copy !req
634. Wood Hite's downstairs.Copy !req
635. You mean he's here?Copy !req
636. Yeah, he come in late last night.Copy !req
637. Hey, simmer down!Copy !req
638. Don't get into a fracas up there, you boys!
I've got breakfast almost ready.Copy !req
639. He's still sucking air.Copy !req
640. But I think he's a goner.Copy !req
641. Maybe y'all better come wish him well
on his journey.Copy !req
642. Wood?Copy !req
643. You were a good fellow, Wood.Copy !req
644. Oh, I sure hope you're not
in frightful pain, Wood.Copy !req
645. I'd get you something to drink,
but I'm afraid you'd just choke on it.Copy !req
646. Little Ida's gonna miss you.Copy !req
647. So is the rest of the family.Copy !req
648. Well, one thing's settled.
Can't take him into Richmond.Copy !req
649. Why not?Copy !req
650. Well, one, sheriff'll put Bob in jail.Copy !req
651. And two, Jesse'll find out his cousin
Wood's been shot in our house...Copy !req
652. and then that'll be the end
of each and every one of us.Copy !req
653. "And in one merciless, violent thrust
broke in...Copy !req
654. and carried all before him,
and scented and brewed...Copy !req
655. reeking with blood of my virginity...Copy !req
656. up to its utmost length in my body."Copy !req
657. He ain't disappeared,
if that's what you were hoping.Copy !req
658. What chapter you on?Copy !req
659. She's met some Algerian corsair
down at Gibraltar.Copy !req
660. Got herself all agitated.Copy !req
661. How's that leg?Copy !req
662. Full of torment, Bob. Thanks for asking.Copy !req
663. Blessed are the poor in spirit...Copy !req
664. for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Copy !req
665. Blessed are them that mourn,
for they shall be comforted.Copy !req
666. Blessed are the...Copy !req
667. Meek.Copy !req
668. Blessed are the meek.Copy !req
669. - Is it him?
- Yeah.Copy !req
670. Why is he here? Does he know
about Wood, do you think?Copy !req
671. I don't know. All I know is
he don't miss very much.Copy !req
672. - What should I say about you if he asks?
- Tell him I'm in K.C. with Mattie.Copy !req
673. He was buffalo hunting.
He was thrilled to meet yours truly.Copy !req
674. Yeah, over there in Europe there's only
two Americans they know for certain...Copy !req
675. Mark Twain and Jesse James.Copy !req
676. - Why, it's the kid.
- How's everything?Copy !req
677. - I never take off my gun belts.
- Yeah?Copy !req
678. Good thinking.Copy !req
679. Well, Charley, did you hurt your leg?Copy !req
680. Yeah, I slipped—
I slipped off the roof...Copy !req
681. and I smacked down into a snow bank
like a ton of stupidness.Copy !req
682. One second I'm screaming,
"Whoa, Nelly!"Copy !req
683. Next second, poof,
I'm neck-deep in snow.Copy !req
684. Well, whatever possessed you
to climb a roof in December?Copy !req
685. There was a k— A kite. What am I saying?
There was a cat.Copy !req
686. A cat. It was on the roof
and I went after him.Copy !req
687. It was a tomcat yowling
and what all, and I slipped.Copy !req
688. I thought maybe your club foot
was gaining on you.Copy !req
689. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
690. Dick went to Kansas City to be
with his wife. He was here for a bit.Copy !req
691. Hey, here's a cute story, Jess.Copy !req
692. Bobby was what, 11 or 12...Copy !req
693. and you were by far
his most admired personage.Copy !req
694. He couldn't get enough.Copy !req
695. It was "Jesse this" and "Jesse that"
and "Jesse this" from sunrise to sunset.Copy !req
696. Fascinating.Copy !req
697. No, there's more. This is cute.Copy !req
698. We're at supper and Bob asks,
"You know what size boot Jesse wears?"Copy !req
699. - Charley, Jesse doesn't wanna hear this.
- Shush, now, Bob, let me tell it.Copy !req
700. Bob says— He says, "You know
what size boot Jesse wears?"Copy !req
701. He says, "Six and a half." He says,
"Ain't that a big enough boot...Copy !req
702. for a man 5'8" tall?"Copy !req
703. I decided to josh him a little, you know,
he being my kid brother and everything.Copy !req
704. So I said, "He doesn't have toes is why."Copy !req
705. That's a really stupid story.Copy !req
706. "He was dangling his feet off a culvert
and a catfish nibbled his toes off."Copy !req
707. Bob taxed himself trying to picture it.Copy !req
708. That'd be a good joke if it was funny.Copy !req
709. Isn't that a cute story, Jess?Copy !req
710. Give me some more conversations, Bob.Copy !req
711. I got one. This one's about as crackerjack—
It's the one about your—Copy !req
712. Let Bob tell it.Copy !req
713. All right.Copy !req
714. I don't even know
what you're talking about.Copy !req
715. About how you and Jesse
have so much in common.Copy !req
716. Go on, Bob.Copy !req
717. Yeah, come on, Bob.Copy !req
718. Tell us a story.Copy !req
719. - Nope. No.
- Come on, entertain Jesse. He's here.Copy !req
720. Come on.Copy !req
721. Well, if you'll pardon my saying so,
I guess...Copy !req
722. it is interesting the many ways
you and I overlap and whatnot.Copy !req
723. I mean, you begin with our daddies.Copy !req
724. Your daddy was a pastor
at the New Hope Baptist Church...Copy !req
725. and my daddy was a pastor
at the church in Excelsior Springs.Copy !req
726. You're the youngest of three James boys,
and I'm the youngest of five Ford boys.Copy !req
727. Between Charley and me,
there's another brother, Wilbur...Copy !req
728. with six letters in his name.Copy !req
729. And between Frank and you, is another
brother Robert, also with six letters.Copy !req
730. And my Christian name
is Robert, of course.Copy !req
731. You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes.Copy !req
732. You're 5'8" tall, I'm 5'8" tall.Copy !req
733. Me, I must have had a list as long as
your nightshirt when I was 12, but...Copy !req
734. I seem to have lost some curiosities
over the years.Copy !req
735. Ain't he something?Copy !req
736. Did I ever tell you the story about
that scalawag, George Shepherd?Copy !req
737. Shepherd's one of
Quantrill's lieutenants.Copy !req
738. He give me a story much like Bob's,
what bring him to mind.Copy !req
739. Going on about how much
we had in common, and so on...Copy !req
740. so he could get in the gang.Copy !req
741. How could I have known
he had a grudge against me?Copy !req
742. How could I have known
he was lying to get on my good side?Copy !req
743. I said, "George, come on aboard.
Glad to have you."Copy !req
744. George thought he was smart,
except he wasn't.Copy !req
745. One morning, George rides into camp...Copy !req
746. and about 20 guns open up on him.Copy !req
747. See, old George, he only had one eye. You
gotta have two eyes, you wanna get Jesse.Copy !req
748. You ought not think of me
like you do George Shepherd.Copy !req
749. You brought him to mind.Copy !req
750. Well, it's not very flattering.Copy !req
751. Sure is good eating, Martha.Copy !req
752. Well, I'm so glad you enjoyed it.Copy !req
753. How come George
had a grudge against you?Copy !req
754. I said, how come George
had a grudge against you?Copy !req
755. Well, you see, George had a nephew
he wanted me to protect during the war.Copy !req
756. This nephew had 5000 dollars on him.Copy !req
757. It just so happens he winds up killed
and someone swipes that money.Copy !req
758. And when George is in prison,
someone whispers to him:Copy !req
759. "It was Jesse James
slit the boy's throat."Copy !req
760. It was just mean gossip, was it?Copy !req
761. Bob's the expert. Let's put it to him.Copy !req
762. Oh, dear, I made him cranky.Copy !req
763. I'm not cranky. I just been
through this before, is all.Copy !req
764. Once people get around to making fun
of me, they don't ever let up.Copy !req
765. Someone's getting awful fresh over there.Copy !req
766. Woman, shut your face for once.Copy !req
767. Don't want you to skip off
to your room and pout...Copy !req
768. without knowing why I come by
for this visit.Copy !req
769. Why? So you could
tell us how sorry you are...Copy !req
770. you had to slap
our cousin Albert around?Copy !req
771. I come by...Copy !req
772. to ask if one of you two Fords...Copy !req
773. would care to ride with me
in a journey or two.Copy !req
774. I guess we both agree
it ought to be Charley.Copy !req
775. You been acting sort of testy.Copy !req
776. Have you seen Wood Hite lately?Copy !req
777. No. Not at all.Copy !req
778. I swear that stew
had some squirrel meat in it.Copy !req
779. - Still arguing with you, is it?
- Yeah.Copy !req
780. - You're Charles Ford?
- Yes, ma'am.Copy !req
781. You've seen me once or twice before.Copy !req
782. I got a letter from George Hite.Copy !req
783. He hasn't seen hide nor hair of him.Copy !req
784. And you say you haven't seen Wood?Copy !req
785. No, I— I can't imagine where he could be.Copy !req
786. Yeah?Copy !req
787. You finished with your sleeping?Copy !req
788. I could use a couple more hours
if it's no trouble.Copy !req
789. Yeah.Copy !req
790. I been holding a discussion with myself
over if I ought to tell you this or no.Copy !req
791. My good side won out and...Copy !req
792. Well, I wanna make a clean breast
of things.Copy !req
793. Yeah, my mind's a little cobwebby
is the only drawback.Copy !req
794. I could use a little—
A little more sleep.Copy !req
795. You know I went to Kentucky?Copy !req
796. Yeah.Copy !req
797. I come back through Saline County and...Copy !req
798. I think to myself:Copy !req
799. "Why not stop by and see Ed Miller?"Copy !req
800. So I do.Copy !req
801. Well, things are not to my satisfaction.Copy !req
802. Ed's got himself all worked up
over something.Copy !req
803. I can see that he's lying like a rug.Copy !req
804. So I say to myself, "Enough's enough."Copy !req
805. And I say to Ed, "Come on, Ed.Copy !req
806. Let's go for a ride."Copy !req
807. You understand what I'm saying?Copy !req
808. Going for a ride is like...Copy !req
809. Going for a ride
is like giving him what-for?Copy !req
810. Exactly.Copy !req
811. So...Copy !req
812. Ed and Jesse...Copy !req
813. they argue on the road.Copy !req
814. Did you ever count the stars?Copy !req
815. I can't ever get the same number.
They keep changing on me.Copy !req
816. I don't even know what a star is exactly.Copy !req
817. Well, your body knows.Copy !req
818. It's your mind that forgot.Copy !req
819. You go on ahead, partner.
I'll catch up with you.Copy !req
820. It's okay.Copy !req
821. It's okay, sweetheart. It's okay.Copy !req
822. And when push came to shove...Copy !req
823. Jesse shot and killed him.Copy !req
824. Jesse did?Copy !req
825. You got it.Copy !req
826. You...Copy !req
827. So, you see, your—Copy !req
828. Your cousin, he got off easy.Copy !req
829. I was just playing with Albert.Copy !req
830. Yeah, I made him squeal
once or twice myself.Copy !req
831. I'm just not as thorough as you are.Copy !req
832. You got a tale to swap with me now?Copy !req
833. I don't get your meaning.Copy !req
834. Seems to me, if you have something
to confess in exchange...Copy !req
835. it'd only be right...Copy !req
836. that you'd spit it out now.Copy !req
837. I can't think of a single thing.Copy !req
838. About Wood Hite, for example.Copy !req
839. I'm not gonna— I been saying over and
over I can't figure out where he's gone.Copy !req
840. Now, I'm not gonna change my story
just to have something to spit.Copy !req
841. - Why was your brother so agitated?
- Which?Copy !req
842. Bob.Copy !req
843. That's just his way. He's antsy.Copy !req
844. You know?Copy !req
845. You go on back to sleep now.Copy !req
846. You got me agitated now, you see?Copy !req
847. Yeah, just ain't no peace
when old Jesse's around.Copy !req
848. You ought to pity my poor wife.Copy !req
849. Ed Miller was a good friend of mine.Copy !req
850. He introduced me to you
at that one poker game.Copy !req
851. I'm a little angry with you, if you
wanna know the God's honest truth.Copy !req
852. You ought to pity me too.Copy !req
853. As proof of his confederacy with
the James Gang, Bob told the authorities...Copy !req
854. that Dick Liddil was sleeping over
at the rented farmhouse...Copy !req
855. while his ruined leg mended.Copy !req
856. And then, created a map
of the Harbison property...Copy !req
857. leaving out the creek where
Wood Hite's remains now moldered.Copy !req
858. Right, you boys are cornered!Copy !req
859. Come on out peaceably
and nobody'll get shot up!Copy !req
860. Don't shoot!Copy !req
861. Come on out and show yourself!Copy !req
862. Hello.Copy !req
863. We got him.Copy !req
864. Give me that Colt, son.Copy !req
865. - All right.
- Andrew James Liddil...Copy !req
866. I have a warrant here
for your arrest...Copy !req
867. Snowstorms would move over Missouri
that Sunday, February 19th...Copy !req
868. shutting down commerce
for more than two days.Copy !req
869. - Go, go, go.
- Are the papers here?Copy !req
870. - Wants to know if the papers are here.
- I don't care what he wants.Copy !req
871. Yet this wouldn't prevent Robert Ford...Copy !req
872. from presenting himself
to Governor Crittenden...Copy !req
873. at the Craig Rifles Ball on Wednesday.Copy !req
874. I deem it a great privilege
on this glorious occasion...Copy !req
875. to recognize publicly...Copy !req
876. the intelligent and effective assistance...Copy !req
877. that Captain Henry Craig has rendered
the state of Missouri and myself...Copy !req
878. in our joint quest
to rid Jackson County...Copy !req
879. of the James band.Copy !req
880. The task that Captain Craig
has assumed...Copy !req
881. will require fearless courage,
extraordinary vigilance...Copy !req
882. and an unerring selection
of instrumentalities.Copy !req
883. Well, I've gotten the signal from my wife
that enough is enough.Copy !req
884. However, before I sit...Copy !req
885. I would like to ask you
to join me in a toast...Copy !req
886. to a great son
of the state of Missouri...Copy !req
887. - ... my friend, Henry Craig.
- Here, here.Copy !req
888. Yes.Copy !req
889. Just let my attorney know.Copy !req
890. Hi, governor—Copy !req
891. Who is that? Who is it?Copy !req
892. Get out of the way, now.Copy !req
893. You know, you're more goddamn trouble
than you're worth, Bob.Copy !req
894. I was just gonna say hello.Copy !req
895. No, you weren't gonna do that, Bob.
That's not why you're down here.Copy !req
896. You think it's your goddamn coming-out.
You think you're the belle of the ball.Copy !req
897. Now you get upstairs and try to keep your
identity secret, you silly little bastard.Copy !req
898. The governor'll see you in good time.
Take him up, boys.Copy !req
899. Bob would later be cross-examined
repeatedly...Copy !req
900. about the exact nature of the deal
he had made with the authorities.Copy !req
901. And he was never consistent
in his recollections.Copy !req
902. My wife's asleep in the other room,
so let's speak as quietly as we can.Copy !req
903. So you're Dick Little.Copy !req
904. Liddil.Copy !req
905. I beg your pardon?Copy !req
906. I spell it with two D's.Copy !req
907. He's given us a full confession, governor.Copy !req
908. Newspapers haven't caught onto it yet.Copy !req
909. And you've guaranteed him
a conditional pardon...Copy !req
910. and amnesty for all the robberies
he's committed.Copy !req
911. You Robert Ford?Copy !req
912. How old are you?Copy !req
913. Twenty.Copy !req
914. You surrender to Sheriff Timberlake
as well?Copy !req
915. No, no, governor. That's his brother,
Charley Ford, he's in the James Gang.Copy !req
916. But little Bob here,
we got nothing on Bob.Copy !req
917. He's just acting in the capacity of...Copy !req
918. a private detective.Copy !req
919. Jesse James sent me a telegram
last month...Copy !req
920. saying he'd kill me
if he had to wreck a train to do it.Copy !req
921. He said once I got in his hands,
he'd cut my heart out...Copy !req
922. and eat it in strips like it was bacon.Copy !req
923. I'll wreck his train first.Copy !req
924. I'm sorry, Your Excellency.
I was thinking about something else.Copy !req
925. Jesse James is nothing more
than a public outlaw...Copy !req
926. who made his reputation
by stealing whatever he wanted...Copy !req
927. killing whoever got in his way.Copy !req
928. You'll hear some fools say he's getting back
at Republicans and Union men...Copy !req
929. for the wrongs his family suffered
during the war.Copy !req
930. But his victims have scarcely been selected
with reference to their political views.Copy !req
931. I'm saying his sins will soon find him out.Copy !req
932. I'm saying his cup of iniquity is full.Copy !req
933. I'm saying Jesse James
is a desperate case...Copy !req
934. and may require a desperate remedy.Copy !req
935. Y'all got the right man for the job.Copy !req
936. Come on. Come on, now.Copy !req
937. Come on, now.Copy !req
938. Have you ever considered suicide?Copy !req
939. I can't say that I have. There's always
something else I wanted to do.Copy !req
940. Or my predicaments changed,
or I saw my hardships from a different slant.Copy !req
941. You know all what can happen.
It never seemed respectable.Copy !req
942. I'll tell you one thing that's for certain.Copy !req
943. You won't mind dying
once you've peeked over the other side.Copy !req
944. You'll no more wanna go back
to your body than...Copy !req
945. you'd wanna spoon up your own puke.Copy !req
946. Hey, since we're looking to rob banks...Copy !req
947. I was wondering if we could
add another fella to the gang...Copy !req
948. and sort of see if we couldn't
come out of our next job alive.Copy !req
949. Bob wanted to know could he ride with us
next time we took on a savings bank or—Copy !req
950. A savings bank or a—Copy !req
951. A railroad.Copy !req
952. Bob isn't much more than a boy
to most appearances.Copy !req
953. But there's about two tons
of sand in him.Copy !req
954. And he'll stand with a shooter
when that's what's called for.Copy !req
955. And he's smart too.
He's about as intricate as they come.Copy !req
956. You forget I already met the kid.Copy !req
957. Hell, he surely thinks highly of you.Copy !req
958. All of America thinks highly of me.Copy !req
959. Still, not like you got two million names
to snatch out of a sock...Copy !req
960. whenever you need a third man.Copy !req
961. I can see you trying to
wear me down on this.Copy !req
962. That's my main intention.Copy !req
963. Robberies would be conceived
but never carried out...Copy !req
964. in Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri.Copy !req
965. During this time...Copy !req
966. Henry Craig enjoined Robert Ford to return
to Elias' Grocery Store in Richmond...Copy !req
967. and await instructions
from Sheriff James Timberlake.Copy !req
968. All right, three cans...Copy !req
969. peaches. Two cans...Copy !req
970. Two cans sifted peas.Copy !req
971. One bottle...Copy !req
972. Mary's Morning Tonic, and a half—Copy !req
973. Half a sack of flour.Copy !req
974. I'll be right with you.Copy !req
975. I haven't seen any sign of him.Copy !req
976. Well, do you know where he's living?Copy !req
977. No.Copy !req
978. No?Copy !req
979. Well, I can't guess how he does it...Copy !req
980. but he is always knowledgeable
about what's going on.Copy !req
981. He's gonna know I've been here with you.
You ought to take that for granted.Copy !req
982. And he will kill you if he gets the chance.Copy !req
983. Are you willing to risk that?Copy !req
984. Yes, I am.Copy !req
985. I've been a nobody all my life.Copy !req
986. I was the baby.Copy !req
987. I was the one they made promises to
that they never kept.Copy !req
988. And ever since I can remember it,
Jesse James has been as big as a tree.Copy !req
989. I'm prepared for this, Jim...Copy !req
990. and I'm gonna accomplish it.Copy !req
991. I know I won't get
but this one opportunity...Copy !req
992. and you can bet your life
I'm not gonna spoil it.Copy !req
993. Well...Copy !req
994. wait for your chance.Copy !req
995. Don't let yourself be found alone with him,
and do not...Copy !req
996. let him get behind you.Copy !req
997. You been chosen.Copy !req
998. Well, what do you mean?Copy !req
999. Well, your brother said that
you might wanna join us.Copy !req
1000. But maybe you like this grocery store
more than you said you did.Copy !req
1001. - So you missed me?
- Oh, yeah.Copy !req
1002. I been crying myself to sleep every night.Copy !req
1003. Don't let him see us so much as wink.Copy !req
1004. He's suspicious as a damn coyote,
and he don't trust you one iota.Copy !req
1005. - Well, I guess that makes—
- Hey.Copy !req
1006. He already put away Ed Miller. He said so
like it was something piddly he'd done.Copy !req
1007. If we're ever alone for more than a minute,
I'd like a chance to talk to you further.Copy !req
1008. They gave me ten days.Copy !req
1009. For what?Copy !req
1010. For arresting him.Copy !req
1011. You and me, huh?Copy !req
1012. It's gonna happen one way or another,
Charley. It's gonna happen.Copy !req
1013. So it might as well be us
who get rich on it.Copy !req
1014. - Bob, he's our friend.
- He murdered Ed Miller.Copy !req
1015. And he's gonna murder Liddil and Cummins
if the chance ever comes.Copy !req
1016. It seems to me Jesse's riding from
man to man, saying goodbye to the gang.Copy !req
1017. So your friendship could put you
under the pansies.Copy !req
1018. I'll grind it fine in my mind, Bob. I can't
go any further than that right now.Copy !req
1019. You'll come around.Copy !req
1020. You think it's all made up, don't you?Copy !req
1021. You think it's all yarns
and newspaper stories.Copy !req
1022. He's just a human being.Copy !req
1023. From now on, you two
won't go anywhere without me.Copy !req
1024. From now on, you'll ask for my permission!
From now on, you'll ask to be excused!Copy !req
1025. Charley, take them horses
around the barn. Bob, you go on inside.Copy !req
1026. - Hello, Mary.
- Hi.Copy !req
1027. Look at this rotten parsnip
I found in the compost heap.Copy !req
1028. You never mentioned Bob would be here.Copy !req
1029. Maybe he was saving it
as a pleasant surprise.Copy !req
1030. Got two cousins for company now.Copy !req
1031. How it's gonna be is...Copy !req
1032. we'll leave next Monday afternoon
and ride down to Platte City.Copy !req
1033. How far is that from Kansas City?Copy !req
1034. Platte City's 30 miles south.Copy !req
1035. You and me and Charley'll
sleep in the woods overnight...Copy !req
1036. and we'll strike the Wells Bank
sometime before the court recesses.Copy !req
1037. What time will that be exactly?Copy !req
1038. Well, you don't need to know that.Copy !req
1039. You know, I'm real comfortable
with your brother.Copy !req
1040. Hell, he's ugly as sin,
he smells like a skunk...Copy !req
1041. and he's so ignorant
he couldn't drive nails in the snow...Copy !req
1042. but he's sort of easy to be around.Copy !req
1043. I can't say the same for you, Bob.Copy !req
1044. Well, I'm sorry to hear you say that.Copy !req
1045. You know how it is when you're
with your girlfriend and the moon's out...Copy !req
1046. and you know she wants to be kissed,
even though she never said so?Copy !req
1047. Yeah.Copy !req
1048. Well, you're giving me signs
that grieve my soul...Copy !req
1049. and make me wonder...Copy !req
1050. maybe your mind's
been changed about me.Copy !req
1051. Well, what do you want me to do?
Swear my good faith on the Bible?Copy !req
1052. You two having a spat?Copy !req
1053. I was getting ready to be angry.Copy !req
1054. Sit over here closer, kid.Copy !req
1055. Come on.Copy !req
1056. Charley, you'll stay with the animals.Copy !req
1057. Me and the kid...Copy !req
1058. will walk into that bank
just before noon.Copy !req
1059. Bob will move that cashier...Copy !req
1060. away from the shotgun
that's under the counter...Copy !req
1061. and I'll creep up behind that cashier...Copy !req
1062. and I'll cock his head back like so.Copy !req
1063. And I'll say:Copy !req
1064. "How come an off-scouring
of creation like you is still sucking air...Copy !req
1065. when so many of mine are in coffins?Copy !req
1066. How did you get to reach 20
without leaking out all over your clothes?"Copy !req
1067. And if I don't like his attitude,
I will slit that phildoodle so deep...Copy !req
1068. he will flop on the floor like a fish.Copy !req
1069. My God, what just happened?Copy !req
1070. Boy, I could hear your gears grinding...Copy !req
1071. hear your little motor wondering,
"My gosh, what's next?Copy !req
1072. What's happening to me?"Copy !req
1073. You were precious to behold, Bob.Copy !req
1074. You were white as spit in a cotton field.Copy !req
1075. You got him. You got him.Copy !req
1076. You wanna know how that feels?
Unpleasant. I honestly can't recommend it.Copy !req
1077. The old Charley looked stricken!Copy !req
1078. I was. I was.Copy !req
1079. "This is plumb unexpected," old Charley
was thinking. "That done ruined my day."Copy !req
1080. Hell. Hell.Copy !req
1081. Jesse slept with Bob
in the children's room that night.Copy !req
1082. And Bob remained awake.Copy !req
1083. He could see that there was a gun
on the nightstand.Copy !req
1084. He could imagine its cold nickel
inside his grip...Copy !req
1085. its two-pound weight
reached out and aimed.Copy !req
1086. I need to go to the privy.Copy !req
1087. You think you do, but you don't.Copy !req
1088. You wait for grace, now.Copy !req
1089. - Thank you, Mama.
- Thank you, Zee. God, that looks good.Copy !req
1090. - Thank you, Zee.
- You're welcome.Copy !req
1091. Well, is this fit to eat or will it just do?Copy !req
1092. Woman's cooking's
always been a scandal.Copy !req
1093. Cut her meat and the whole table moves.Copy !req
1094. You want a biscuit?
You gonna have a biscuit?Copy !req
1095. Here's some butter.
Come on. Come on.Copy !req
1096. Oh, shoot.Copy !req
1097. And so it went,
Jesse was increasingly cavalier...Copy !req
1098. merry, moody, fey...Copy !req
1099. unpredictable.Copy !req
1100. He camouflaged his depressions
and derangements...Copy !req
1101. with masquerades
of extreme cordiality, courtesy...Copy !req
1102. and goodwill towards others.Copy !req
1103. But even as he jested,
or tickled his boy in the ribs...Copy !req
1104. Jesse would look over at Bob
with melancholy eyes...Copy !req
1105. as if the two were meshed
in an intimate communication.Copy !req
1106. Bob was certain that the man
had unriddled him...Copy !req
1107. had seen through his reasons
for coming along...Copy !req
1108. that Jesse could forecast each of
Bob's possible moves and inclinations...Copy !req
1109. and was only acting the innocent...Copy !req
1110. in order to lull Bob
into stupid tranquility and miscalculation.Copy !req
1111. How long you been studying me?Copy !req
1112. You're gonna break a lot of hearts.Copy !req
1113. How do you mean?Copy !req
1114. It's a present.Copy !req
1115. It's heavy.Copy !req
1116. Well, you gonna look inside?Copy !req
1117. It's April Fools' Day, you know.Copy !req
1118. It ain't no joke.Copy !req
1119. Oh, such extravagance.Copy !req
1120. Don't that nickel just shine, though?Copy !req
1121. It's more than I could hope for.Copy !req
1122. I figured that granddaddy Colt
may blow into fragments...Copy !req
1123. next time you try
to squeeze the trigger.Copy !req
1124. Well, you might have something there.Copy !req
1125. Tom, supper's ready.Copy !req
1126. I'll be right there, sweetheart.Copy !req
1127. I might be too excited to eat.Copy !req
1128. You know what John Newman Edwards
once wrote about me?Copy !req
1129. He said I didn't trust
two men in 10,000...Copy !req
1130. and even them I was cautious around.Copy !req
1131. Government's sort of run me ragged.Copy !req
1132. I'm going the long way around the barn
to say that...Copy !req
1133. I been feeling cornered
and just plain ornery as of late...Copy !req
1134. and I'd be pleased if you'd accept
that gun as my way of apologizing.Copy !req
1135. Heaven knows I'd be ornerier
if I were in your position.Copy !req
1136. No. No, I haven't been acting correctly.Copy !req
1137. Seems I hardly recognize myself
when I'm greased.Copy !req
1138. I go on journeys out of my body...Copy !req
1139. and look at my red hands
and my mean face...Copy !req
1140. and I wonder about that man
that's gone so wrong.Copy !req
1141. I've been becoming a problem to myself.Copy !req
1142. Well...Copy !req
1143. - I better wash my hands if supper's on.
- Yeah, go ahead.Copy !req
1144. The day before he died was Palm Sunday.Copy !req
1145. And Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Howard,
their two children...Copy !req
1146. and their cousin Charles Johnson...Copy !req
1147. strolled to the Second Presbyterian
Church to attend the 10:00 service.Copy !req
1148. Bob remained at the cottage...Copy !req
1149. and slyly migrated from room to room.Copy !req
1150. He walked into the master bedroom...Copy !req
1151. and inventoried the clothes
on the hangers and hooks.Copy !req
1152. He sipped from the water glass
on the vanity.Copy !req
1153. He smelled the talcum and lilacs
on Jesse's pillowcase.Copy !req
1154. His fingers skittered over his ribs...Copy !req
1155. to construe the scars
where Jesse was twice shot.Copy !req
1156. He manufactured a middle finger
that was missing the top two knuckles.Copy !req
1157. He imagined himself at 34.Copy !req
1158. He imagined himself in a coffin.Copy !req
1159. He considered possibilities...Copy !req
1160. and everything wonderful
that could come true.Copy !req
1161. He's not gonna kill us.Copy !req
1162. Yeah, he is.Copy !req
1163. Well, I'll stay awake so he can't.Copy !req
1164. You're imagining things.Copy !req
1165. Ain't gonna be no Platte City.Copy !req
1166. That's Jesse fooling with us.Copy !req
1167. Go to sleep, Charley.Copy !req
1168. Morning.Copy !req
1169. Charley.Copy !req
1170. Bob, how much did you want to eat?Copy !req
1171. I'm feeling sort of peculiar.Copy !req
1172. Why is it you're looking so interested?Copy !req
1173. You think it's intelligent
to go out like that...Copy !req
1174. so all creation can see your guns?Copy !req
1175. Hi.Copy !req
1176. Come on, let's go see
what your mama's doing.Copy !req
1177. Timmy, get that door, would you?Copy !req
1178. - Well, you lost your shoe, sweetheart.
- Yeah, I did.Copy !req
1179. That's gonna be a problem.
They don't sell those one at a time.Copy !req
1180. We lost a shoe, Mama.Copy !req
1181. Will you put that up for Daddy,
would you?Copy !req
1182. - What you doing, you lose a shoe?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1183. It's only meant to go on top,
to complement.Copy !req
1184. Yeah, I know. Sometimes, I—Copy !req
1185. Bob, everything's getting cold!Copy !req
1186. - Where's Mary?
- She's outside, darling.Copy !req
1187. Mary?Copy !req
1188. What do you think goes on
in that noggin of his?Copy !req
1189. Nothing.Copy !req
1190. I was talking about his mind, not yours.Copy !req
1191. Oh, yeah.Copy !req
1192. Oh, I get it.Copy !req
1193. Well, hello now.Copy !req
1194. "The arrest and confession
of Dick Liddil."Copy !req
1195. You don't say so.Copy !req
1196. That's very strange.Copy !req
1197. Says here Dick surrendered
three weeks ago.Copy !req
1198. You must have been
right in the neighborhood.Copy !req
1199. Well, apparently, they kept it a secret.Copy !req
1200. If I get to Kansas City soon,
I'll ask somebody about it.Copy !req
1201. You two ready?Copy !req
1202. I will be, by noon.Copy !req
1203. There is a ship
She sails the seaCopy !req
1204. She's loaded deep
As deep can beCopy !req
1205. But not as deep
As the love I'm inCopy !req
1206. I know not if I sink or swimCopy !req
1207. The water is wideCopy !req
1208. I can't cross o'er
And neither have I wings to flyCopy !req
1209. Give me a boat
That can carry twoCopy !req
1210. Both shall row
My love and ICopy !req
1211. For love is gentle
And love is kindCopy !req
1212. Sweetest flower
When first it's newCopy !req
1213. But love grows old
And waxes coldCopy !req
1214. And fades away
Like the morning dewCopy !req
1215. There is a ship
She sails the seaCopy !req
1216. I guess I'll take my guns off...Copy !req
1217. for fear the neighbors might spy them.Copy !req
1218. Don't that picture look dusty?Copy !req
1219. What have—? What have you done?Copy !req
1220. Jesse.Copy !req
1221. Jesse?Copy !req
1222. Jesse? Jesse?Copy !req
1223. Jesse!Copy !req
1224. No!Copy !req
1225. No. Jess—Copy !req
1226. Come back. Oh, come back.Copy !req
1227. Oh, Jesse! No!Copy !req
1228. Oh, Bob. Have you done this?Copy !req
1229. I swear to God I didn't.Copy !req
1230. It was an accident, Zee.Copy !req
1231. Come on. Pistol went off accidentally.Copy !req
1232. Put my name.Copy !req
1233. Why, what'd you do? I shot him.Copy !req
1234. You might wanna keep that.Copy !req
1235. Thank you all very much.Copy !req
1236. The resulting prints
sold for 2 dollars apiece...Copy !req
1237. and were the models for the lithographed
covers on a number of magazines.Copy !req
1238. Soon a thousand strangers were making
spellbound pilgrimages to the cottage...Copy !req
1239. or were venerating the iced remains
in Seidenfaden's cooling room.Copy !req
1240. The man who offered 30,000 dollars for
the body of President Garfield's assassin...Copy !req
1241. sent a telegram to City Marshal
Enos Craig offering 50,000...Copy !req
1242. for the body
of Jesse Woodson James...Copy !req
1243. so that he could go around the country
with it...Copy !req
1244. or at least sell it to P.T. Barnum
for his Greatest Show on Earth.Copy !req
1245. Another photograph was taken
of the renowned American bandit...Copy !req
1246. nestled in his bed of ice.Copy !req
1247. And it was this shot that was most
available in sundries and apothecaries...Copy !req
1248. to be viewed in a stereoscope
alongside the sphinx...Copy !req
1249. the Taj Mahal,
and the catacombs of Rome.Copy !req
1250. Hello, here!Copy !req
1251. "The arrest and confession
of Dick Liddil."Copy !req
1252. Young man, I thought you told me
you didn't know Dick had surrendered.Copy !req
1253. You mean he did? I didn't know.Copy !req
1254. But I knew I had not fooled him.Copy !req
1255. And he knew, as well as I, in that moment
that I intended to bring him to justice.Copy !req
1256. But he would not kill me
in the presence of his wife and children.Copy !req
1257. And so he was smiling
to throw me off-guard.Copy !req
1258. Well, it's all right, anyway, Bob.Copy !req
1259. It was widely felt that
Bob possessed some acting talent...Copy !req
1260. and Charley, not a jot.Copy !req
1261. That picture's awful dusty.Copy !req
1262. Charley was only expected
not to slouch or mutter...Copy !req
1263. and to transport his sicknesses
to the alley before letting them go.Copy !req
1264. And that's...Copy !req
1265. how I killed Jesse James.Copy !req
1266. By October of 1883, Bob Ford
could be identified correctly...Copy !req
1267. by more citizens than could
the president of the United States.Copy !req
1268. He was as renowned at 20 as Jesse was
after 14 years of grand larceny.Copy !req
1269. You won't get your hooks into me.Copy !req
1270. That's right. That's right.
Sit next to your boyfriend. Jezebel.Copy !req
1271. Charley was increasingly superstitious...Copy !req
1272. increasingly subject
to the advice of soothsayers...Copy !req
1273. who promised to cure his miseries
with pipe smoke and poultices.Copy !req
1274. You been spending too much time
with Gypsies, Charley.Copy !req
1275. Shit.Copy !req
1276. The picture's awful dusty.Copy !req
1277. Something began to change
in Charley's stage portrayal of Jesse.Copy !req
1278. His gait seemed more practiced.Copy !req
1279. His voice was spookily similar
to the man's.Copy !req
1280. His newly suggested dialogue
was analogous...Copy !req
1281. to a script Jesse might have originated.Copy !req
1282. He began to look at his younger brother
with spite...Copy !req
1283. as if he suspected that
in some future performance...Copy !req
1284. he might present himself
to a live cartridge in Robert Ford's gun.Copy !req
1285. Murderer!Copy !req
1286. Cur!Copy !req
1287. Coward!Copy !req
1288. You wanna investigate my courage?
Do you?Copy !req
1289. Find out! Find out!Copy !req
1290. Nobody.Copy !req
1291. Coward!Copy !req
1292. By his own approximation, Bob
assassinated Jesse James over 800 times.Copy !req
1293. He suspected no one in history
had ever so often or so publicly...Copy !req
1294. recapitulated an act of betrayal.Copy !req
1295. Bob always challenged
the allegations of cowardice...Copy !req
1296. but Charley seemed
to agree with them.Copy !req
1297. He spoke of Mrs. Zee James
as certain priests might the Madonna...Copy !req
1298. and composed long soul-describing letters
to her...Copy !req
1299. begging her forgiveness...Copy !req
1300. none of which he mailed.Copy !req
1301. Charley Ford became all that his countrymen
wanted an assassin of Jesse James to be.Copy !req
1302. Jesse James was a man
Who killed many menCopy !req
1303. He robbed the Glendale trainCopy !req
1304. And he stole from the rich
And he gave to the poorCopy !req
1305. He had a hand
And a heart and a brainCopy !req
1306. Well, Jesse had a wife
To mourn for his lifeCopy !req
1307. Three children
They were braveCopy !req
1308. But that dirty little coward
Who shot Mr. HowardCopy !req
1309. Has laid Jesse James in his graveCopy !req
1310. It was Robert Ford
That dirty little cowardCopy !req
1311. I wonder how does he feelCopy !req
1312. For he ate at Jesse's bread
And he slept in Jesse's bedCopy !req
1313. And he laid poor Jesse in his graveCopy !req
1314. Well, Jesse had a wife
To mourn for his lifeCopy !req
1315. Three children
They were braveCopy !req
1316. But that dirty little coward
Who shot Mr. HowardCopy !req
1317. Has laid poor Jesse in his graveCopy !req
1318. I'm Robert Ford.Copy !req
1319. It was two children, not three.Copy !req
1320. Hey.Copy !req
1321. You get yourself home, son, okay?Copy !req
1322. Come on. Get out of here.
Get out of my place.Copy !req
1323. He thought, at his angriest...Copy !req
1324. about visiting the kin
of Jesse's slaughtered victims:Copy !req
1325. Mrs. William Westfall in Plattsburg...Copy !req
1326. the Wymore family in Clay County...Copy !req
1327. perhaps even Mrs. Joseph Heywood
in Northfield, Minnesota.Copy !req
1328. He would go to their homes
and give his name as Robert Ford...Copy !req
1329. the man who killed Jesse James.Copy !req
1330. He imagined they would
be grateful to him.Copy !req
1331. It was only with Dorothy Evans
that Bob spoke revealingly or plainly...Copy !req
1332. and it was with her that he spoke of
things he didn't know he knew.Copy !req
1333. He told her that he had no real memory
of the shooting and its aftermath.Copy !req
1334. He could remember lifting the gun
that Jesse had given him...Copy !req
1335. and then it was Good Friday and he was
reading about the funeral proceedings...Copy !req
1336. as if they'd happened a long time ago.Copy !req
1337. Why did you kill him?Copy !req
1338. Well, he was gonna kill me.Copy !req
1339. So you were scared
and that's the only reason?Copy !req
1340. Yeah.Copy !req
1341. And the reward money.Copy !req
1342. Do you want me to change the subject?Copy !req
1343. You know what I expected?Copy !req
1344. Applause.Copy !req
1345. I was only 20 years old then.
I couldn't see how it would look to people.Copy !req
1346. I was surprised by what happened.Copy !req
1347. They didn't applaud.Copy !req
1348. He was ashamed of his boasting...Copy !req
1349. his pretensions of courage
and ruthlessness.Copy !req
1350. He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness,
his dispassion...Copy !req
1351. his inability to express
what he now believed was the case:Copy !req
1352. That he truly regretted killing Jesse...Copy !req
1353. that he missed the man
as much as anybody...Copy !req
1354. and wished his murder
hadn't been necessary.Copy !req
1355. Even as he circulated his saloon...Copy !req
1356. he knew that the smiles disappeared
when he passed by.Copy !req
1357. He received so many menacing letters...Copy !req
1358. that he could read them
without any reaction except curiosity.Copy !req
1359. He kept to his apartment all day,
flipping over playing cards...Copy !req
1360. looking at his destiny
in every king and jack.Copy !req
1361. Edward O'Kelly came up from Bachelor
at 1 p.m. On the 8th.Copy !req
1362. He had no grand scheme, no strategy...Copy !req
1363. no agreement with higher authorities...Copy !req
1364. nothing beyond
a vague longing for glory...Copy !req
1365. and a generalized wish
for revenge against Robert Ford.Copy !req
1366. - How'd it go last night?
- Not so bad.Copy !req
1367. The other one.Copy !req
1368. Edward O'Kelly would be ordered
to serve a life sentence...Copy !req
1369. in the Colorado Penitentiary
for second-degree murder.Copy !req
1370. Over 7000 signatures
would eventually be gathered...Copy !req
1371. on a petition asking for
O'Kelly's release...Copy !req
1372. and in 1902, Governor James B. Orman
would pardon the man.Copy !req
1373. You shouldn't be wearing that stickpin
again there, Bob. Opals are unlucky.Copy !req
1374. My luck's not very good as it is. I don't
think an opal's gonna change that much.Copy !req
1375. I hear you.Copy !req
1376. There would be no eulogies for Bob...Copy !req
1377. no photographs of his body
would be sold in sundries stores...Copy !req
1378. no people would crowd the streets
in the rain to see his funeral cortege...Copy !req
1379. no biographies would be written
about him...Copy !req
1380. no children named after him.Copy !req
1381. No one would ever pay 25 cents
to stand in the rooms he grew up in.Copy !req
1382. Hello, Bob.Copy !req
1383. The shotgun would ignite,
and Ella Mae would scream...Copy !req
1384. but Robert Ford would only lay
on the floor and look at the ceiling...Copy !req
1385. the light going out of his eyes...Copy !req
1386. before he could find the right words.Copy !req