- Karl Blucher: [He drinks liberally on liquor, not even offering Bill a glass of water] That letter, let me look at it. No, no, I can't go along with this.
- Bill Hawks: Don't you have 50 horses?
- Karl Blucher: Not at $10 a head I don't. Gotta get twice that or don't pay to round them up.
- Bill Hawks: John Kaylor thought that price was fair.
- Karl Blucher: Well, that was last Spring.
- Christopher Hale: Don't forget to give my love to Grace, Johnny's daughter. You know, we were practically engaged at one time. I think she was nine at the time. Nine years ago.
- Bill Hawks: That would make her about eighteen now. You know, if she hasn't changed her mind, shall I tell her you're still waiting?
- Christopher Hale: [laughs] All I'm waiting for is horses, all 50 of them.
- Naomi Kaylor: Oooh, I have a heap of living to catch up on.
- Karl Blucher: Naomi, suddenly I get a strange feeling. All you've been talking about is yourself an what you're gonna do with the money.
- Naomi Kaylor: Oh. really, I wasn't conscious of that.
- Karl Blucher: But we've always planned about us. And now it seems I'm suddenly out of your thinking.
- Naomi Kaylor: Oh dear Karl, how can you say such a thing. Why do you think I married a man thirty years older?
- Karl Blucher: It's smart to keep up appearances before the will is read.
- Naomi Kaylor: Oh, don't be concerned with a mere trifle. After all, John is hardly in a position to do anything now.
- Karl Blucher: The ranch belongs to Naomi. She's the boss now and she expects me to run it at a profit.
- Grace Kaylor: Even if it means breaking Pa's word?
- Karl Blucher: Even anything you like.
- Grace Kaylor: What kind of people are you! Here my father was only buried this morning and you act as if nothing happened at all. It's, it's as if this were a party, or a church social.
- Naomi Kaylor: Well, you're putting a wrong interpretation on it, Grace. He was your father, but, after all, he was my husband for 9 years.
- Naomi Kaylor: There's no reason now for me to play games with you or anybody else. Soon the estate will be settled and I'll sell the ranch and go away. Europe, perhaps. Tell Chris Hale my husband was the kind of man who always got what he wanted. Oh, what a Romeo he was. How persistent. He said how my voice would brighten up this gopher hole. Tell Chris Hale John Kaylor said he had only a little while to live but he didn't keep his end of the bargain.
- Naomi Kaylor: He'll naturally want to know what's happening here.
- Bill Hawks: He'll be interested to know all right, especially when I tell him the price of the horses.
- Bill Hawks: Like I said before, they're not good enough.
- Naomi Kaylor: [Carl shanghais a whiskey bottle] That's Carl's way of relieving his tension. And he's always sure he'll never run out of whiskey bottles.
- Bill Hawks: At $20 a head, I'll do my own picking. You set the price but I'll set the standard.
- Naomi Kaylor: One thing you do know, he loved me enough to will me this ranch, but he thought of you too. With a dowry of $20,000, you'll have no trouble catching a man.
- Grace Kaylor: I don't need to be told I'm not pretty. Maybe I will have to buy a man. If my husband died, I wouldn't flounce around in such a fancy dress.
- Grace Kaylor: That's enough. John Kaylor is dead. And I'm alive and I intend to live!
- Charles Druten: He didn't cut you off, Mrs Kaylor. It's right here. May I? And to my beloved wife, for as long as she cares to live in the house to which I brought her as my bride. I hereby bequeath a sum equal to the full value of all the loyalty, fidelity, and devotion she has afforded me these past several years, a monthly bequest of thirty silver dollars.
- Bill Hawks: Thirty pieces of silver.
- Naomi Kaylor: That's all in the past, all the sadness, all the weeping. Mmm? We've only the future and we'll make plans.
- Naomi Kaylor: That's the ninth one he's turned down. At this rate he'll be here forever.
- Karl Blucher: I can't help it. You'd think he was buying racehorses.
- Naomi Kaylor: I've heard enough. You bungled the first job, now get rid of him.
- Karl Blucher: You know when I was a boy I could kill a jack rabbit on the run
- [with his shanghai]
- Bill Hawks: Takes a lot of practising.
- Grace Kaylor: You think this is something? There's a sharp bend about 300 yards ahead that would scare a mountain goat.
- Grace Kaylor: I'm going to miss you when you leave.
- Bill Hawks: Well, that's the nicest compliment I ever had. Old Chris Hale's gonna be a little bit jealous when I tell him about it. Seeing as the two of you were gonna get married once.
- Grace Kaylor: That! You tell him from me that I think I'm too old for him now.
- Grace Kaylor: I've been riding her for two years. Pop picked her out himself.
- Bill Hawks: It could've been a ground squirrel or a snake, or anything.
- Grace Kaylor: It was as though something struck her.