- Paladin: In ancient days, the barbers were also surgeons. This is the nineteenth century, and if I want any blood let I'll get a doctor to do it.
- Grady Stewart: Oh, Frank, you're the only one that treats me like I got any sense.
- Frank Gault: That's 'cos I know you've got sense. I just so sorry about the way Morgan made you the laughing stock of the town today.
- Grady Stewart: I'll get even with him for that.
- Frank Gault: That won't be easy to do. Unless you could get the last laugh on him. Maybe.
- Grady Stewart: What, Frank?
- Frank Gault: I was just thinking.
- Gene Morgan: Do you think you could find out why he's become so almighty contentious lately?
- Paladin: I think that's where my job begins.
- Paladin: I work for him and part of my job is to keep you from annoying him.
- Grady Stewart: Annoying?
- Paladin: That's right. Annoying. The rest of my job is to keep him from killing you. And that's the part of the job I like least, well, right now.
- Grady Stewart: Well, if you're Morgan's man, there's something you can give him for me.
- Frank Gault: Just wait. In a couple of days the same thing will happen again. He'll be as polite as pie, beg your pardon, and take his cattle home.
- Grady Stewart: Pretty funny way to fatten cattle.
- Frank Gault: It's an easy way to establish a claim on the bottom land. The court will think it's his 'cos his cattle are all over it. Precedent, prior rights, lot of legal talk.
- Paladin: Mr Morgan, has it occurred to you that you might decide to hold onto a couple of people you're fond of, if you didn't make such a big issue out of a few handfuls of dirt?
- Gene Morgan: Often. I suppose I can let Grady have those few acres but there's 25 years of my life in this land. I don't want to be stubborn and difficult but I can't change that easy. I've worked for so long and so hard.
- Paladin: Does Grady know that?
- Gene Morgan: He must know it.
- Paladin: I'm still concerned about your brother.
- Frank Gault: The way a hunter is concerned about a deer.
- Paladin: I know this is hard for you to accept but Gault is trying to force Grady into a pair of boots that are much too large for him. And Grady is so anxious to become a man that he may not live to see the day.
- Gene Morgan: That boy? Hmph. Sometimes I can outdraw him, outshoot him, or spank him. Wouldn't even be close.
- Paladin: Cigar? You might have made a strategic error in anatomy that could cost you. Should have hit him on the chin, not the seat of his pants.