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Oh, no, don't look at me like that now, Matt. And she wants to know all about Dodge. And I've been trying to tell her what to expect. Well, in Dodge, you can expect almost anything, Miss Twilling. So I hear. But Abby's seen her share of violence, Matt. She was a nurse in the war. Oh. Well, that's how I met Doc. We worked in the same hospital for nearly a year. Oh, the best Dodd got nurse I ever saw. Yeah, I'm trying to talk her into settling down here. Oh, Dodge could use somebody like her. Are you moving on, Miss Twilling? Why, I, I haven't any plans, Marshal. I've been working in St. Louis, but it's lonely. And I got restless and decided to ride the Santa Fe as far west as it goes. I'm on sort of a vacation, you might say. Somebody on the train mentioned my name. And she looked me up right off. Well, it's been a long time, Doc. Oh, too long. Oh, you stay here, Abby. We'll keep you busy. Oh, yes. And who knows, maybe we'll even find you a husband. That's all right, Doc. Do you see my husband was killed in the war, Marshal, the first year. That's why I went into nursing. Oh, I see. Well, I think I'd better get back to the hotel. Yeah, well, I'll take you, Abby. Yes. You're going to wait here for Chester Mad? Oh, he's coming now. It is a pleasure to meet you, Miss Twilling. Thank you, Marshal. Good night. Good night. I'll see you later, Doc. Sure, Mad. This way, Abby. Tiff, is he coming here? No, it says, uh, Coney Thorn released from state prison last week. I hear he's looking for you, so you better go on wearing that gun a while longer. Good luck. That will you herp. Who's Coney Thorn, Miss Dunn? What's he want to you? Expect he wants to kill me, Chester. Well, what for? Well, I arrested him out in Arizona a long time ago. He was one of the suspects in the stage holder. So I had to bring him in, even though I thought he had nothing to do with it. Well, then why did he go to prison? Well, I wasn't on the jury, Chester. 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The way he's driving those horses, he shouldn't be late. I think he's never been on time yet, unless there was an Indian scare going on. Not many passengers. Three. No, another one getting out. Yeah. All strangers. No, not all of them, Kitty. Not to me. Why? That last man I got out, I've been waiting for him. Coney Thorne. Might as well get this over with right now. Look, Kitty, you better go inside, huh? Yeah, I sure will. Good luck, man. Yeah, I guess so long I was expecting you last week. How'd you know I was coming? You must have told somebody. You've got friends everywhere, ain't you, Mark? I never thought you had anything to do with that holdup, Coney. I told you at the time I was sorry I had to take you in. I've been five years in prison, Marshall, no matter what you thought. I'm not apologizing. That's your free now, Coney. Why do you want to die? What makes you think I'm going to die? A man in prison doesn't get much chance to handle a gun. You must be pretty rusty by now. A lot of ways to kill a man, Marshall. In the back, you're a man once. Five years in prison, Marshall, wasn't any good. Nearly went crazy. I would have till I got to thinking about who put me there. That saved my mind, kind of. Yeah, but you're out now. It's all over. Oh, not yet. I ain't going to fight you, Marshall, until I'm ready. Not like I figure out how to kill you. I'm going to make you go crazy waiting the way I've done. And I'll sleep all the better, knowing you're going to have to have one eye open every minute from now on. You're not the first man who's wanted to kill me. Maybe not. But I'm going to be the first to do it. Man, about three o'clock. A fellow of the Dodge House was keeping everybody awake. Huh? Well, it sounds more like they should have called me. No, no, it wasn't drunk, man. He was delirious. His brain fever, most people call it. Oh? Well, I couldn't leave him there alone, so I got Abbie twilling to take a room next to his. The first chance you got, you put her to work, huh? Well, man, that sick has to have care, man. You talk like he's going to die. Not with Abbie working on him. He isn't. Well, that's fine. The man's name is Coney Thorne, man. What? Yeah, he won't be up and about for another week, though. I thought he looked sick when he got off the stage yesterday. Well, he was. Well, maybe it was the fever that made him talk like he was planning to shoot me in the back, like Coney. Oh, good morning, Chester. Oh, would you get that mail with this hour? It ain't mail docket to telegraph here, Mr. Don. Yeah, you know, sometimes I wish they'd never invented the telegraph. And maybe it's Washington, Matt, offering you a raise. They'd send me last month's check by mail, I'd be satisfied. Mr. Don? It's from a U.S. Marshal in Phoenix. He says if Coney Thorne has left Arizona, he's broken his parole. And if he turns up here looking for me, they will arrest him. I didn't know he was on parole. Don ain't to deny him. But they're willing to pay the expense of sending him back under escort. You going all the way to Arizona with him, Mr. Don? No, no, no. Of course not. I'll hire somebody. Well, you can't put that man in jail, Matt. Now, why not? He's too sick. And I won't have Abbie nursing a man in jail. It's bad enough in the hotel. Well, as long as he can't run away. He'll be in bed for a week. And if you don't tell him about this, he won't run anyway. Okay, Doc. I'll leave him alone for a week. Bracka Coney's progress through Doc. And the rest of Dodge did too. Everybody in town knew he'd come there to shoot me, and it seemed like they were all waiting for him to get well and try it. And there were a number of men who'd have been right happy if he'd done it. I waited for over a week, and he was still in bed. So finally I went over to the hotel to have a talk with him. This is my room, Marshall. He's right through there. I have it arranged this way so he won't be disturbed. Now, is, uh, is he still sick, Abbie? He's better. Well, Doc says that he could get up. Please, Marshall, give him a little more time. A couple of days. It's very important. It is? I know what he came here for. It doesn't matter to you if he stays in bed a while longer, does it? No, but if he's well, why are you keeping him in bed? It's good for him. Coney needs a rest like this. You've no idea how much he needs it. Please, Marshall. Um, Abbie. Yes? You, uh, you've got to know Coney pretty well, haven't you? Yes, I have. What kind of a man would you say he is? He's a good man, Marshall. But he's suffered a lot being in prison the way he was. And, well, it's, it's like soldiers I've seen who've been through too much. They've changed for a while anyway. But if they're given a chance, the right kind of a chance, they find their way back sometimes. Uh, that, that's what you're doing. Giving him a chance, huh? I'm trying, Marshall. Well, how does he feel about it? I'm not sure yet. Uh, Chester. Yes, sir? I changed my mind about talking to Coney. Okay. Thank you, Marshall. I, uh, guess I'll know how you make out, Abbie, one way or the other. I'm not sure I don't understand what she was talking about, Mr. Dillon. Well, I don't understand it either, Chester, but, uh, my guess is that Abbie's fallen in love with him. What? Well, that, that don't make sense. That seldom does. But it doesn't keep it from happening. No, sir. Well, Abbie's a little scared. She's not sure about Coney. But anyway, he trusts her enough to have told her about being out on parole. That's why she figured I'd heard about it and had come to arrest it. What you gonna do? Well, Abbie asked for a couple of more days, Chester. I think she deserves them. Never saw that saloon so crowded as it is tonight. Oh, a couple of new herds arrived today. Yeah, I know. I danced with every cowboy that came with him. I had to get out of there while I could still walk. Well, as long as they're dancing, they're not fighting. Oh, you have a dance with one of them, huh? Oh, is it that bad? Mr. Dillon? Evening, Chester. Mr. Dillon, right across the street there, I just seen Coney thorn. Huh? Well, where was he headed? He was knocking on the front door of the stage office and nobody didn't answer, so he went around back. Oh, I'll see you later, kid. I'm gonna run off, Mr. Dillon. There's no stage till tomorrow morning, Chester. Besides, he doesn't know I'm going to arrest him. Well, at least he didn't come gunning for you as soon as he got out of bed. Well, maybe he was to be sure of a seat on the stage first. You said he went around to the back of the office. Yes, you're right up the alley here. Yeah. Look, you better stay back a little, huh? Hmm? Being in bed so long might have made Coney a little nervous. Well... Breaking more sales records every day. Quality or effectiveness. And notice how easy it draws. You get much more flavor, much less nicotine. 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We got back just in time. Why would Coney be taking the stage? He hasn't finished his business here yet. Nobody was trying to get in the office, and I seen him last night. By heaven, there he is. Yes, there an Abbey, too. How are they up to? Now, let's ask him. Good morning, Marshal. You, uh... Going someplace, Coney? I heard about last night, Marshal. But it wasn't me who shot at you. You know it wasn't. I found the man that did it. I ain't gonna kill you. That's all over, Marshal. It is. It was like being crazy, Marshal, for a long time. Then I got the fever, and Abbey was there talking to me all the time. They could care of me. Now, somehow, I ain't mad at nobody. Well, I'm glad to hear that, Coney. Being in prison so long when I was innocent... It was bad, Marshal. Yeah, Coney, you shouldn't have left Arizona. You broke your parole. I'm gonna have to send you back. He's going back, Marshal. Right now, with me. What? We're gonna be married. And then he's gonna turn himself in. 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