WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.160 Two weeks from tonight, October fifth, You Bet Your Life 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.000 starring Groucho Marx, will be heard at this time over 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:17.239 most of these same CBS stations, we offer you Escape, 4 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:25.679 starring Victor Mature. Escape designed to free you from the 5 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:27.800 four walls of to day for a half hour of 6 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:28.960 high adventure. 7 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.359 You were camped in the dry mountains of Mexico, a 8 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.439 hundred yards from a treasure and buried gold. A beautiful 9 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.520 girl is sitting across the fire with a gun, and 10 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:45.759 somewhere out in the night, a horseman waits like the 11 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.359 girl for you to make just one mistake. 12 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:04.640 Tonight, with Victor Mature as Toby Manning, we escaped to 13 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:08.000 Mexico with a story of conflict between love and the 14 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.560 lust for gold, as Jeffrey Household told it him the 15 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.120 Fortune of Bargas from his exciting novel The Third Hour. 16 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.400 It was dark and hot. The tropic night air was 17 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.280 like warm steam. Night's sounds drifted over from the docks 18 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.879 and from the native quarter of Panama City. I stood 19 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:39.959 outside the hotel entrance and looked up at the lighted 20 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:46.000 window on the third floor where Baguely was waiting. After 21 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:56.400 the night, I hoped I'd never see his ugly face again. Somewhere, somehow, 22 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:58.239 I had to make the break. 23 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:05.000 Okay, Okay, you can have your three weeks off, but 24 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:05.760 you'll never do it. 25 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.120 You haven't got the guts to break away. Fatly, it 26 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.400 doesn't take guts to break away from a lousy job 27 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.439 peddaling mining machinery in Latin America. 28 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.439 I'll look, Toby, you could be South American manager in 29 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:17.719 ten years if you'd settled down and work at it 30 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:19.960 and stop beating your head against the wall. 31 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.520 Yeah. Yeah, maybe in twenty five years I could retire 32 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.599 and drop dead. Look, all I need is one right break, 33 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:27.560 and I'll take it from there. Any kind of a 34 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.639 break you need more than a break, Toby, If one 35 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.240 fell right in your lap, you'd play it just so far, 36 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.800 and then you'd start doubting yourself or somebody else, and 37 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.800 that's what would beat you. Maybe so, But I've got 38 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:41.439 the next three weeks now. 39 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.240 Look, every time I come to Panama, you say you're 40 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.680 gonna quit. Every time you tell me a big chance 41 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.000 for real money is just around the corner. Why don't 42 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:50.719 think it wise to you? All right, all right, lay 43 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:54.159 off of me, will you Bakeley Report to me in 44 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:56.280 New York on the twenty ninth. I'll lay out your 45 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:57.039 new schedule for you. 46 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.560 Don't count on it. You'll be there, all right. I'll 47 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:01.400 give you odds on it. 48 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:03.680 I'll bet you don't do a thing except sit in 49 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:05.400 the sun for the next three. 50 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:18.560 Weeks setting the sun for three weeks. That would suit 51 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:23.439 bagly fine to see me come crawling back again. Well, 52 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:25.319 I didn't have a definite plan, but I knew i'd 53 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.039 keep on the move. I was so fed up with 54 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.479 Batley the job mining machinery, I'd have jumped at anything. 55 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.280 A guy in a mood like that can get into 56 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:39.560 plenty of trouble. And three days later I found it. 57 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:43.680 Do you have any of the senior manding? Welcome back 58 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:45.039 to Colonna, to the Cari. 59 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:46.800 Hi, Evanuel, what's new? 60 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:50.199 You waste not, amigo? The world grows older, but that 61 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:50.919 is not new? 62 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:57.319 He sit down? Thanks? How's business? Say? Place is empty? 63 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:02.240 We see sometimes good, sometimes baddens, never is interesting or 64 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.479 in fact, I have said to myself, with a life 65 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:09.000 of this kind, I am how do you call it up? Hey? 66 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:09.560 See see? 67 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:12.719 Yes, Oh my look, why don't we team up and 68 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:13.919 start a revolution somewhere? 69 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.240 Karamba. I was in one. Once in Mexico, I was 70 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.120 a capitan with the General Lara. 71 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:25.240 We were defeated. Lara Lara was ambushed somewhere around Torreon. 72 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:26.319 Wasn't he he? Here mego? 73 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.279 We were outnumbered and he was killed. But I was 74 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:32.040 more lucky. I walked three hundred kilometers to the sea 75 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.680 coast escape on a Dutch for its ship. Hey, Carama, 76 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:38.639 I hope I will never do that again. 77 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.079 So too, you know there's not much profit and revolution. 78 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:44.079 All right, let me have a wrong man. 79 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:53.680 You well see here you are in your You were 80 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:57.199 wrong about the revolutions. In your marning in Mexico with 81 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:01.319 General Lara, I made a fortune like a man never dreams. 82 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.120 About enough to open this cafe. Like, I don't call 83 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:05.879 that a fortune. 84 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.720 Then your mannay in Mexico is one half million dollars 85 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:10.120 in goal which belonged to. 86 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.639 Me half a million bucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure it 87 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:15.199 is true. I may go. I swear it. 88 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.839 You will would take a little chance for that much? 89 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:21.879 Perhaps? Perhaps? Why? 90 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.920 Why then we are going to have talked tonight. I 91 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.319 have already decided that before you come here this time. 92 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.920 I don't get it. What do you mean why. 93 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.120 You think I ask questions from you always when you 94 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.079 come here you tell me, because I wish to find 95 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:36.519 out if you are a right man for the plan 96 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:39.800 I have. I have decaid that you are boying. Well, 97 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:42.879 let's talk tonight at my castle. 98 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:43.279 Why not? 99 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.959 Now you think there is no danger for one who 100 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.199 knows the secret to a fortune, one must be careful. 101 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:56.920 A fortune the big chance. Come on, Manuel, Let's get 102 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:06.839 over to your cassa and start dealing the cards. 103 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.519 So, as I tell you, Senor Manning, everything works according 104 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.519 to the plan which Hanner Alara has made. The dynamite 105 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.439 explodes and the train is wrecked. Our men break open 106 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.800 the freight cars and load the pack horses and ride 107 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:19.079 for the roundezvus at Torreon. 108 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.839 Everybody except to you in general law it was at it. 109 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:23.360 We are the. 110 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:25.639 Only ones who know the shipment of gold which is 111 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:29.000 secretly on board. We find it, of course, Laura horses 112 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.399 and head north to the hills, with the Federalists close 113 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:36.160 behind us. At nightfall, we bury the gold ride for Torreon. 114 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:40.639 I have four days later, and that Alara is killed 115 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:44.560 and I escape as I tell you, and the gold 116 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.279 is still there, a half a million dollars worth, Sisor, 117 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.399 and I am the only man who knows where to 118 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:54.000 find it. But if I inenter Mexico, I will be 119 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.879 executed within twenty four hours. That is why I need 120 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:01.120 a partner. You've got one, only one thing. 121 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:01.480 I may go. 122 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:05.439 Do not think that there will be no danger in 123 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:07.800 mehe co or thousands of bandidos who we'll cut your 124 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:09.319 throat for one tenth as much money. 125 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:10.920 And on the other hand, a half a share and 126 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:15.879 a fortune a quarter of a million dollars. I'd shoot 127 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.160 the works for a whole lot less than that. Boy. 128 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.079 Then I will explain to you have to find it. 129 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.040 But what is qudapo? 130 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:27.040 Here's somebody move outside the window. 131 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:34.399 Mamasaf here, careful, Manuel, Manuel, waste from that door here? 132 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.399 Let me get the lights off there. Did you see 133 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:39.399 who it was? No? 134 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.199 I think these shots come from the bushes across from 135 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:42.519 the door. 136 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:45.160 Well maybe we better take a look. Let's get to 137 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.879 the door, passed and step to the side. You got 138 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:57.120 your gun, see, Senor, Okay, let's go. I do not 139 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.040 hear anything, Senor. No, and it's as black as a hat. 140 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:03.279 I'm going across. 141 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:16.120 Manuel, keep me covered, Boeno, there is. 142 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:16.920 Nobody there on me. 143 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.240 Go. No, whoever it was must have run down the 144 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.279 alley there as soon as they fired. Say you've got 145 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:26.759 any ideas, there's no, amigo. Look Manuel, if nobody but 146 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.279 you and Laurel knew about this gold and Laura is dead, 147 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:32.799 then how come the shot? And why have you been 148 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:33.559 packing a gun? 149 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:38.120 Senor Mandy? And there he said, treasure so big as this, 150 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.200 it is possible that even the coyotes can smell it. 151 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:48.679 You still wish to go on? Yeah, I still wish 152 00:08:48.679 --> 00:09:05.240 to go on. Three days later, on the train between 153 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.559 Mexico City and Durango, I got a few of the answers, 154 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.759 or thought I did. The coach had been empty most 155 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.399 of the way, except for a couple of soldiers up 156 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:15.879 ahead and a few Indians near the back. I was 157 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.559 busy watching for some of the landmarks Barga had given me, 158 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.440 so I didn't pay much attention to the Mexican girl 159 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:23.799 who came in and sat down the seat. Ops. That 160 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:25.399 is not until she spoke. 161 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:32.759 Then you're you're wasting your time. This three kilometers farther yet? 162 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.879 What the place where the train was read? I said, 163 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.120 we're not there yet, honey. 164 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:42.279 I don't think I know what you're talking about. 165 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:43.200 You're lying. 166 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:45.440 You know well enough, and do not call me honey. 167 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:47.519 Then your my name is Conzuela Cantuela. 168 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:49.159 That's a pretty name, honey. 169 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:52.159 Do not play the pool with me. Manuel Vargas tell 170 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.120 you where he hide the goal, So do not lie 171 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:54.360 to me. 172 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.120 Oh so it was you out there and the bushes 173 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.000 with the gun that night. You know you're a bum shot. 174 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.559 I do not try to hit somebody. I only should 175 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.159 to have the chance to get away. You're a fool 176 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.320 if you think because I am a woman, I am weak. 177 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.039 I know all the tricks of men. They are perils dogs, 178 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.720 all of them, and I would not trust one that far. 179 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.480 Okay, honey, take it easy, Take it easy. 180 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:22.399 I spend a long time to find Manuel in Bologne. 181 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:28.720 I watch, but I learned nothing until you come. And 182 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:32.159 now I am here for my one half share of 183 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:36.840 the gold. What do you mean you're hair Hanna Alara 184 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:37.960 was my father. 185 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.679 So that's right. Well you have to work that with Voga. 186 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:44.320 I don't know anything about I. 187 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:45.440 Am telling you now. 188 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.840 You still think I'm a silly girl who can do nothing? 189 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:54.879 Eh? Look, senors, all right, look it's a nice guy. 190 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.159 You better put it back now, you see, honey, if 191 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:00.399 you shoot me, you'd have no one to lead you 192 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:05.639 to the gold. I know where it is, you don't, so. 193 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:10.240 You lead me to it, and don't forget I'm very 194 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:11.320 good at shooting. 195 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.559 Okay, honey for the time being, count yourself in, but. 196 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:19.679 Have no mistakes on your I shall take my share 197 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:22.679 of this gold, even if I must kill you to 198 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:23.039 get it. 199 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.919 You understand, I understand. We'll argue about that later. 200 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:42.879 And something else. Send your yes, do not call me, honey? 201 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:47.320 Why not? 202 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:49.320 Senor? 203 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:51.960 Yeah, I guess we're ready to pull out. How about it? Cants, 204 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.080 well you wish well, thanks a lot for your trouble 205 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.039 seeing pascualas say, you know, it looks like you've runned 206 00:11:58.120 --> 00:11:59.960 us five of the best horses into riding. 207 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:04.360 Yes, naha, he's very bad country herd your god, Senor, 208 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.480 Perhaps you would like to hire a guide. 209 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:10.320 No, thanks, I know that country pretty well. 210 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.720 But of course, and you're going to call it the mine, 211 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.799 do you under Senor? Retame sell machinery Verdad? 212 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:17.919 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 213 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:21.559 I think you need a guide, singer. Some of the 214 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.360 mines are very hard to find, especially the gold mines. 215 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.440 Gold mines, Oh, well as uh far as I know. 216 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.200 It's all lead and silver country up there. 217 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.399 We see mostly this, but there is an old saying 218 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:38.559 gold is where do you find it? 219 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:40.399 Senor? 220 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.919 Wasting time? This man would be no help to us. 221 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.720 How do you know? Ever seen him before? Of course not, 222 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.960 you ask, just wondered. 223 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.320 I've never seen him before. 224 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:54.799 Okay, are you singer? Amos? 225 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:00.919 Good by? My shielder? 226 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:06.440 Oh he Vancito? Have my horse ready to live up once? 227 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:20.039 I'm going to take a little train. You are listening 228 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.039 to Escape, starring Victor Mature. 229 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:31.159 Tonight's a big night on CBS or the welcome Matt 230 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.679 is out for two of radio's greatest shows, The Bing 231 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:36.399 Crosby Show and the return of Burns and Allen In 232 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.720 just a little while over many of these same stations, 233 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.120 der Bingal will be on hand with his songs as 234 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.559 humor and his guests comedian Abe Burroughs and Peggy Lee. 235 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.919 Right after Bing's housewarming, George and Gracie will keep the 236 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:50.840 celebration going with the first of their new series. So 237 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:54.240 stay with us tonight for Bing Crosby and for Burns 238 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.000 and Allen and their opening shows on CBS. 239 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:02.559 Where this fall you hear them all tune in this 240 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:06.120 ball for the shows that you love best of all, 241 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:08.080 and listen carefully. 242 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:10.320 Here's me yet, It's ee. 243 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:17.360 See me yet? And now back to Escape, starring Victor Mature. 244 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.279 We camped to dusk, about a quarter of a mile 245 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.000 from the spot where the train had been dynamited. Vargas 246 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:34.120 had given me directions starting from there. After we eight, 247 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.039 I let a cigarette roll up my blanket and watched 248 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.399 Consuela across the fire. She was worth watching. I kept 249 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:46.360 wondering about several things, but mostly who the horseman was. 250 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.679 Who has been following us all day? I'd seen the 251 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.799 dust cloud hanging back a hour or so behind us 252 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.559 ever since we left o Wrangle. I didn't say anything 253 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.120 about it to Consuella. I still hadn't decided what I 254 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:00.320 was going to do about her. I think I was 255 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.399 fairly safe from her or from anybody else until the 256 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.200 minute I tipped off the location of the gold, and 257 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.240 right then when the picture would change and change plenty. 258 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.519 Send your money. Why are you staring at me? 259 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.679 Likely just wondering some things things. 260 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:25.480 What thinks mmm? 261 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:29.320 With a girl like you would really kill me just 262 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:33.080 for gold? I do not trust anybody, Senor All right, 263 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.279 But let's drop the senior make it Toby. 264 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:43.120 You wish he's hope. No matter to me, Toby. 265 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.840 Look, suppose I've made a deal with you. String along 266 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.639 and don't start any trouble until I get the gold 267 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.639 of New York. Then if your really law's daughter, I'll 268 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.000 try to get Vargas to agree on a three way split, 269 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.240 one third for each of us. What do you say? 270 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:57.799 I think? 271 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.639 I do not like it New York. 272 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.480 I will be in a strange place here. I'm at 273 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:09.600 home here too. I have gone kin save well, think. 274 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.679 It over anyway, that's your best bet. I'm going to 275 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:14.759 turn in now. We'll start early in the morning. 276 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.720 Wh See, I'm. 277 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:20.120 I will think it over. 278 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.000 But Senor. 279 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:30.759 Toby, yeah, Hi, I wish you to know that I 280 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:35.600 do not trust you either. Okay, I do not trust anybody. 281 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:39.879 You understand that, sure? Sure? I understand? Can I can't swear? 282 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.360 The second day out of traveling was ten times as rough, 283 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.879 and all day long, the same dust cloud stayed with us, 284 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.159 following a mile or so behind. I knew there'd have 285 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:01.559 to be a showdown sooner or later, but not yet. 286 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:05.319 When we finally made camp at nightfall, I was dripping 287 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:08.240 with sweat and dog tied, and Consuello was slump in 288 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.799 her saddle. All of Manuel's landmarks had checked out during 289 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:15.000 the day, and although she didn't know it, the gold 290 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.759 was supposed to be buried within a hundred yards of 291 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:23.279 our camp. This was the night to trim the cat's claws. 292 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.440 I was counting on one thing that she couldn't stay 293 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:34.319 awake two nights in succession, and I was right. By 294 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.680 two hours after dark, with the full moon barely above 295 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.759 the horizon, Conzuela was sound asleep. I slid out of 296 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.400 my bed roll and moved quietly around the fire towards her. 297 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:44.799 I knew the gun was under the blanket at her head, 298 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.119 so I bent over her and slowly gently slipped my 299 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:50.039 hand under and found it, eased it out into the 300 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.519 open inch by inch, and dropped it into my pocket. 301 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.440 I'd forgotten about her knife until the gunnered in the moonlight. 302 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.400 She leaped from the ground and came for me. 303 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:06.720 While she's struggling, twisted follow like a panther. As small 304 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.920 as she was, like an hardly hold. I couldn't get 305 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.599 hold of brother hand. I don't wonder the knife the 306 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:15.960 wife might slip looser than any second thought. We fought 307 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.759 in the moonlight, stumbling and slipping, but staying on our feet. 308 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.599 I could see only one thing to do. I pulled 309 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.799 her torn, bend her arm back, and twisted. 310 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:28.839 To drop. 311 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:29.559 But can't swell. 312 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:35.000 Drop that now, drop that knife. 313 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:44.519 Sorry, you shouldn't have You should have dropped it. You 314 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:49.160 broke my arm better than being cut to ribbons the 315 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:49.839 way I have been. 316 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:54.240 Why are you time talking? You think I'm afraid to die? 317 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:54.680 You're wrong. 318 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:57.039 You have the gun, you have my knife. 319 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.319 Go ahead kill me while you wait? Wait a minute, 320 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:02.440 what do you get this idea? I'm going to kill gol? 321 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:04.960 Why else you wait for me to sleep and steal 322 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:05.480 my gun? 323 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:05.759 Oh? 324 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.319 You silly little fool. Look, I was trying to make 325 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:09.960 sure you wouldn't take a shot at me after we 326 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:17.480 located at gold tomorrow. You went, of course not. Look. 327 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:19.359 Why don't you get smart and find out you can 328 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.559 trust somebody once in a while. I'll wake up now 329 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:25.079 and get some sense in your hair. I'll shake some 330 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:33.480 sense and tell you if I have to h Why 331 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:38.759 you look like that? You you little devil? 332 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:52.400 Oh m are you going to no? H? 333 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:57.599 You kiss me? 334 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:01.839 Yeah? Why I don't know. 335 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.839 I think you're going to kill me then you kiss me. 336 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:10.599 Yeah, yeah, there's your knife. 337 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:13.480 I just know you take it away from me. 338 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:14.920 I know, I know, I know, but look, you better 339 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.240 keep it for protection. Never mind, just just take it. 340 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:20.519 Oh h. 341 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:28.440 Yeah, well, I'm going to turn in now, and look, 342 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:30.279 you'd better get some sleep too. We got a tough 343 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:36.519 day to bar and honey, if you decide to cut 344 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:40.240 my throat during the night, make a clean job of it. 345 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:49.119 Dopey, are you awake? 346 00:20:53.200 --> 00:21:12.119 Yeah? Winess much. Maybe I was a fool to give 347 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:16.000 her back the knife. Still, if she wanted to kill me, 348 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:18.039 it wouldn't make any difference. She could knock my head 349 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:19.880 in with a rock while I was asleep, just as easy. 350 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:27.559 I never known a woman like her. At ten o'clock 351 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.279 the next morning, we found the gold. 352 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:36.599 That is only Toby. There's no more. 353 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.279 No, it's all on the pack horses. Now. Look, starting 354 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:42.279 right now, we're going to ride hard until we hit 355 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:45.119 the Nass River. Somebody's been followed this ever since we 356 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:48.720 left the wrangle. I don't know who it is or why. 357 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:49.960 Maybe you do. 358 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.200 I how could I know, Toby? 359 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:55.200 I swear I do not. 360 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:57.680 Okay, okay, here. Now, look, you better take your gun back. 361 00:21:57.720 --> 00:21:59.240 You may need it in case we get separated. 362 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:02.799 I'm going to stay with it. 363 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:05.640 Go sure you are, but you better take the gun anyway. Now, 364 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:12.720 come on, let's go. Mile after mile we pushed our 365 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.039 horses on the trail to the north, riding most of 366 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:17.480 the day over broken basalt rock to hide our trail. 367 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:20.559 There was no dust cloud to show whether anyone followed, 368 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.480 but I was sure somebody did. I was hoping to 369 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:26.880 reach the Nassis River before the showdown came. I knew 370 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:29.240 there was only a rope bridge over the narrow gage, 371 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:31.920 and once across, I would cut the ropes and close 372 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:34.599 off any further chance of being followed. So we pushed 373 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.319 the horses and rode hour after hour. By late afternoon, 374 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.839 Consuela complained more and more, being tired, wanted to stop 375 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:44.880 and rest, and I couldn't be sure she wasn't trying 376 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:54.920 to slow us down. Two hours after dark, we reached 377 00:22:54.920 --> 00:23:01.200 the river. Toby, you bache ahead of us. I'm so 378 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:05.319 glad and so should have alone, Honey. Looking, there's the moon. 379 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:07.359 This thing's no sense to cross in the dark. He 380 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:10.599 looks very weak. He's only held up by ropes. It's 381 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:17.000 safe enough. Whoa boy, whoa, whoa h hah yeah, hold 382 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.759 my horse. I'll lead the pack animals across on foot. 383 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:22.759 To be careful. 384 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:28.880 Are you worried about me or the gold? Hurry? 385 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:30.119 Please take them across. 386 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:37.200 Wait, I think that will not be necessary. Senor, you 387 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:39.559 would put up your hands, do no move? 388 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:42.039 Can you see this in the shadow right by the bridge? 389 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:44.759 It's best, Quala said guy in d Wrango. Were you 390 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:46.359 expecting a swear to. 391 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:50.759 You that the senor you will drop your pistol on 392 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:53.039 the ground very slowly? 393 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:58.640 Eh, glady, that's very kind of. 394 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:00.519 You to discover the gold for me. 395 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:03.200 How did you know we were looking for? 396 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:07.400 I forgot to tell you in the Wrango. I'm Sergenti 397 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.160 Alberto Pasqualis, formally with the fourth Regiment of General Alara 398 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:11.880 and the Army of the. 399 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:14.039 Revolution were not my father's soldiers. 400 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:17.119 For five years I have waited for Capita and Vargas 401 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:19.480