Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Allison Justis Story (1960)

Ward Bond: Major Seth Adams

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Quotes 

• Major Seth Adams : What's the matter, Flint?

  [He takes the billfold from the younger man] 

  Major Seth Adams : Lou Justis. That name mean anything to you?

  Flint McCullough : The girl I was going to visit.

  Major Seth Adams : What?

  Flint McCullough : [Flint swallows, his mouth dry, his face in anguish]  I've just killed her husband.

• Major Seth Adams : [He walks through the campsite with Hawks and Charlie following]  I don't give a goldarn - if you two would just listen to what I tell ya, and do it. Then we wouldn't have any goldarn -

  [He catches sight of Flint adjusting straps on Stormy Night and eyes the well-turned out Flint] 

  Major Seth Adams : Well, I'll be. Huh. Say it looks like our handsome dashing scout here is gonna pay a visit to the young ladies of Boone Center.

  Flint McCullough : I hate to damage my reputation with you, Major, but I'm paying this visit because her parents asked me to.

  Charlie Wooster : Now what kind of parents would do a thing like that to a young innocent girl?

  Major Seth Adams : [Flint pretends to prepare to take a playful swing at Charlie, they're all smiling]  What kind of folks has she got anyway?

  Flint McCullough : Well, I've known her since I was a kid. She got married about the day she got out of high school. Besides our relationship is more like brother and sister anyway.

  Major Seth Adams : Oooh.

  [Then a man appears in the shadows of the wagons calling: Horse thief. Horse thief] 

• Flint McCullough : [Bending over a coffee in the darkness except for the light of the campfire]  I don't like lying, Major, it doesn't sit well with me.

  Major Seth Adams : It's not exactly lying. You're just not telling the whole story, that's all.

  Flint McCullough : Well, it's the same thing. And I don't know what to do about it.

  Major Seth Adams : Don't do anything about it. The minute you tell 'em that you shot Justis, you'll have to tell 'em why. How in the world can you tell this girl that the man that she loved enough to marry was nothing but a horse thief.

  Flint McCullough : Well, I wish I hadn't been so quick with the gun.

  Major Seth Adams : Well, I saw the man go for his gun.

  Flint McCullough : Yeah. It could've been a reflex.

  Major Seth Adams : Of course it was a reflex action. Anytime a horse thief gets himself caught, he's gonna try and shoot his way out. He's not gonna hang around and wait for a rope. So quit blaming yourself, will ya.

  Flint McCullough : 'Fraid I already have, Major.

  Major Seth Adams : Listen, you go back there and do what you can to straighten it out, will ya. You can catch up to us later. Let's turn in.

• Major Seth Adams : Well, just what in tarnation do you think he was doing?

  Flint McCullough : I think he was running the horse to check its wind. I think he thought he was buying the horse.