- Mushy: Mr Wishbone says train travelling is broadening.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, I guess that depends on your point of view. Now, where're the wagons?
- Mushy: The what?
- Rowdy Yates: Wagons, where are they?
- Mushy: You're foolishing me, Mr Rowdy.
- Rowdy Yates: Foolishing?
- Mushy: Well, you know there ain't no wagons.
- Gil Favor: You know, that boy is such a hothead. I'm surprised he stopped to bother to take a horse.
- Rowdy Yates: That's right. He must've jumped.
- Gil Favor: That fool.
- Rowdy Yates: That word comes real easy to you, doesn't it, Favor?
- Gil Favor: All right, all right. What do you intend doing?
- Rowdy Yates: Going after him. You gonna stop me?
- Gil Favor: Why should I?
- Rowdy Yates: It's your horse, your saddle. You already made it clear how you feel about company property.
- Gil Favor: Well, that's all right. As long as you come back and work it off.
- Mushy: It's not that I don't want to stay with you. Well, I want to stay with you more I want anything. Just that I can't take care of you now. I'm not too smart... I mean I'm learning. Mr Favor and Mr Wishbone are helping me all the time. Maybe in a year or the year after. Well, if you're going to be my girl, I have to look after you. And I can't look after you now. Not the way I want it to be, not the way it oughta be.
- Rowdy Yates: Which way they'd go?
- Mushy: That a way.
- Rowdy Yates: That a way? Ah ah. Right. Well,we don't have a chance in Hades of finding them probably but we'd better make a try. Come on, come on. Let's go.
- Gil Favor: [after checking the boys on the train, lifting hats to check sleeping and unconscious faces of the cowboys, trying to get past more standing drunks in the aisle in the carriage, Gil goes outside] Smitty, Smitty, you've gotta be reasonable.
- Smitty: No, no. Don't talk to me, Favor. I'm three hours behind already on account of you. Now I'm leaving.
- Gil Favor: No, no, no. But my men aren't here yet.
- Smitty: You call those men?
- [a squaw arrives with an unconscious man in a wheelbarrow]
- Gil Favor: Well, they ain't all like that, Smitty.
- Smitty: No, some are like
- [a man is being piggybacked by another man, and yet another is riding his horse on the boardwalk outside the shops, ready to slide off in his drunken stupor]
- Gil Favor: Well, they've had a hard three months on the trail. They're entitled to blow off a little steam.
- Smitty: A little steam? It'll take this town a month to recuperate.
- Gil Favor: Well, well, well. If it isn't Yo Yo. You got any money left, Yo Yo?
- [the horse snorts]
- Gil Favor: No, I didn't think so. Well, I'll tell you what. You go get on the train and we'll take you back to Texas and if you're very good, and work very, very hard for another three months, we'll give you another big night in the town. All right?
- [the horse snorts in agreement]
- Gil Favor: All right.
- Rowdy Yates: I coulda figured something like this coulda happened. And, well, I didn't and it did. Could've been worse.
- Gil Favor: Worse than what?
- Rowdy Yates: Kinda hard to explain.
- Gil Favor: Why don't you just try starting your ugly little story right from the beginning then?
- Gil Favor: [Mushy moves up the carriage to get away from the cowboys, and sits on the floor only to hear his misdemeanors and mortal sins being discussed] And you mean to say that feeble-minded idiot, more than a thousand dollars worth of equipment without even asking for a bill of sale?
- Rowdy Yates: Well, Boss, you gotta consider the circumstances.
- Gil Favor: I'll give you a circumstance. I'm not only responsible for that equipment, I have sold it.
- Rowdy Yates: You what?
- Gil Favor: You heard me. I have sold it. And for twelve hundred United States currency right here in my money belt. Horses, wagons, supplies. And you know when that stuff don't turn up just exactly what my name's gonna be all over the Southwest Territory.
- Vassily: [Negotiations at the livery stable] I am an honourable man but I'm about to do a terrible thing, only because I'm forced to. I must take my family away from this dust and heat. One hundred dollars. A man of discernment such as you cannot afford to say no. You owe it to yourself. In Christian charity, you cannot afford to say no.
- Seth Parker: Fifty, last offer.
- Vassily: Eighty.
- Seth Parker: Fifty. Five.
- Vassily: Seventy. On the fidelity of my wife and the head of my son, I will not take a penny less.
- Seth Parker: Sixty.
- Vassily: Done.
- Vassily: What am I? I am a performer. Am I also to be a Samaritan to the public highway? Moses to the wilderness? Collector of human garbage? I have no room for him. See if he has any money.
- Gil Favor: Vassily, my friend, I think we can both start with the understanding that we're both honourable men.
- Vassily: STOLEN? How can you ever say such a thing. My people are the very soul of honesty. Stolen, no, my friend. You see, my men found the wagons in the desert along with the horses and they simply brought them here so that they could be returned to the rightful owner.
- Gil Favor: I didn't realise. I must say that was awfully thoughtful of them. Well, in that case, we'll be taking our gear and moving along.
- Vassily: There is, of course, the matter of the reward.
- Rowdy Yates: You listen to me a second. And listen real good, Favor. Don't go telling me I'm fired 'cos I wouldn't want to work for you for all that money in that money belt. Now, sure Mushy may have done something stupid but he's got no corner on the stupidity market. Remember you pulled a few good gems yourself, you know. Yeah,that's right. In fact, the dumbest thing you ever did, was hire me because I'm the one that put Wishbone and Mushy out there. If you're so worried about the bosses' money, here it is, my wages. You count, Favor, and count it real good. And while you're doing it, you count all the cattle you've lost over the years through stupid mistakes and your dumb judgement. And you fire Mushy 'cos I ain't got the gut for it.
- [For all the contortions on Gil's face during Rowdy's solilquy, Gil is now speechless]