:58:00
Whatever you say or don't say,
tomorrow I start to dig for gold here.
:58:12
I know you guys
can bump me off any minute...
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but that's a risk worth running
considering the stakes.
:58:17
Let's lay all our cards on the table.
:58:19
As I see it, you guys have to do
one of three things:
:58:22
Kill me, run me off
or take me in with you as a partner.
:58:25
Let's consider the first.
:58:27
Another guy may come along tomorrow.
Maybe a dozen other guys.
:58:30
If you start killing them...
:58:31
how far are you prepared to go?
Ask yourselves that.
:58:34
Also, don't forget,
the one actually to do the bumping off...
:58:37
would forever be in the power
of the other two.
:58:39
The only safe way would be
for all of you to drag out your cannons...
:58:42
and bang away at the same instant
like a firing squad.
:58:45
We wouldn't stop at anything
to protect our interests.
:58:47
I claim killing me isn't it.
:58:50
But, of course, that's for you to decide.
:58:53
As for choice number two...
:58:55
you run me off,
I might very well inform on you.
:58:57
We'd get you if you did that.
:58:59
We'd get you
if we had to go all the way to China.
:59:01
Of your find is the reward I'd get.
:59:04
And that would be mighty tempting.
:59:07
It's a strong argument
in favor of number one.
:59:09
I don't deny it.
:59:11
But let's see
what number three has to offer.
:59:13
If you take me in as a partner,
you don't stand to lose anything.
:59:16
I'll not ask a share in what you've made
so far, only in the profits to come.
:59:21
What do you say?
:59:24
Mind, stranger, letting us talk this over
among ourselves?
:59:27
Not at all. Go ahead.
:59:29
I have to look after my burros anyway.
:59:45
- What do you think?
- Sending him away is out of the question.
:59:47
Either we bump him off
or make him a partner.
:59:50
F.C. Dobbs ain't a guy
that likes being taken advantage of.
:59:53
Do the mug in, I say.
:59:54
He told us how, didn't he?
:59:56
All of us hold out our cannons
and let him have it.
:59:58
What do we gain by bumping him off?