The Rebel

Now come on Reb, where's Pollack?

Hey Reb, is that what you're doing in Arizona country,

you're looking for Pollack, ain't ya?

Where is he, in the pass?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Did you find anything in them saddlebags?

See the way he's headed?

Yeah, and I don't like it.

I've changed my mind Matt,

I don't wanna go back in that town,

not after what happened to us there.

The war's over Sim, the war's over.

I know, I still get nightmares.

Sure you do, who was it give 'em to ya?

Pollack.

Alright, we're gonna go riding back into La Paz,

we gonna get Pollack, and then we're gonna live royal.

We're gonna live royal the rest of our lives.

Just think Matt, all that money, all that gold,

and we dug it with our own bare hands,

right in that stinking La Paz.

Come on, let's get outta here.

Come on, come on.

Come on in, have a drink here, come on.

You could have whatever your little old rebel heart desires.

Come on.

Hey, hey now, you quit that.

Hey!

Hey, I said quit!

Come on, you have a drink,

anything your little old rebel heart.

No thanks, I'm fine.

You don't want a drink?

No thank you.

Don't you want anything?

Come on, now we're gonna drink to the south sir.

Y'all drink now, come on, everybody drink.

To the south.

You mind telling me something?

Yeah, what's that?

First Arizona, I never heard of it.

Attention!

Afternoon friends, afternoon, afternoon.

Afternoon Captain.

General sir.

Afternoon sergeant.

Who's this?

My name's Yuma sir, John Yuma.

I see by your cap, you have no qualms

about your sentiments, I admire that.

Where'd you serve?

Third Texas.

Good, brave group, very brave.

Come to my office.

Go on, go on with him.

Captain Pollack's good for a bottle,

maybe even be good for life, go on.

Did you say Pollack?

Yeah, Captain Pollack, oh no, he's general now,

see, he promoted hisself.

Go on.

Come in.

Close the door.

I got beat up pretty good on account of you.

Oh really, how was that?

Two Yanks out in the desert,

they figured I knew something about you,

Pollack, they kept saying,

that and something about the gold.

What did they say about the gold?

I couldn't quite tell, I was too busy getting hit.

So they've started looking for me.

I want to show you something, come on.

Soon they'll all be looking for me,

all the Yankees, but they won't find me,

not until I'm ready.

And then the First Arizona will swell out of that wasteland,

and remove the yoke of Yankee bondage from the nation.

How's that?

I'm a proud man, Mr.Yuma.

I believe I was born with an indestructible heritage.

The honor of a true south.

You too have that heritage.

You defy the world by wearing that cap.

You refuse to admit defeat, and there will be no defeat.

You talking about starting another war?

Not starting, finishing.

It was finished at Appomattox.

Merely a delaying tactic.

That your army?

The beginning of it.

More will drift in from Mexico

you want?

I want freedom, dignity for all of us.

Now you think about that Mr. Writer.

I'll do just that, I'll think about it.

He tell you?

You believe him?

What's the difference as long as the red eye holds out.

He's paying for everything.

With what?

He's got some gold or something?

I don't know.

Maybe he filched outta the mine

while it was still paying off.

What mine?

Oh, he didn't tell you that?

Right outside of town La Paz Belle was a main source

of confederate gold during the war.

Is it still operating?

No, the smelter's all busted down.

Nothing in that hole now excepting dirt.

I know, see reb, 'cause I was in charge of the work gangs.

Nearly every man in here was in

that confederate garrison stationed at the mine.

Pollack was captain in command.

Boy he worked those prisoners 'til they dropped.

If they couldn't get up, he'd hang 'em.

Maybe that's what they did.

Did what?

Oh, couldn't you tell?

A little strange.

I wonder.

Hmm?

Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon,

they were all a little strange.

Back off.

Now look reb.

Shut up.

We didn't do nothing.

No, you just go around bushwhacking people, huh?

Leaving 'em to die.

Look reb, we didn't leave ya,

we was following ya.

Yeah, well I just followed you.

Now it's your turn, talk.

Well, we figured you knew.

You must've, you come by here didn't ya?

Why?

Why'd I come by?

The Gold reb, the gold.

There's plenty of it here.

We'll find it and split it.

Pollack had over a million.

Keep talking.

Tell me about that gold.

You didn't know did ya?

I said for you to tell me.

Look, it was at the end, just before the war was over.