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SHEA Four horses to your wagon. What are you hauling?
James studies them. Says nothing ... SHEA (CONT’D)
Wagon moved pretty fast to be full. My guess is you’re filling it in town. Then headed ...
James says nothing. Shea laughs ... THOMAS
Mister, if we wanted to rob you we’d have done it long before now. We’re leading a wagon train north. Thought you might be headed the same way. We could use some capable men with us. And you seem to be that ... SHEA That’s all we’re asking. JAMES DILLARD My family meets me tonight. We’re headed up north tomorrow. SHEA North where. JAMES DILLARD Don’t know. SHEA You don’t strike me as a man who travels without a plan. JAMES DILLARD I got a plan. They wait for more. But more doesn’t come. Shea laughs. SHEA You will make a man work for an answer, won’t you. JAMES DILLARD
Don’t have the answer myself. Everybody running off west and north and they ain’t even seen the country. Don’t even know if it’s worth the journey. Not me. (MORE)
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