Roseanna McCoy
Cap
has been crippled in an accident at the fort. The psychotic Mounts,
who has bitter memories of his own father's death at the hands of the
McCoys, slips away and goes to Anse's cabin. He menaces Roseanna with
a knife,
but Anse, who has followed Mounts, rescues her.
When Little Randall attempts to defend his uncle with a knife, Mounts
shoots him, and the fight quickly escalates into a shootout. Thad comes
to the door with the wounded Tolbert and reports that Little Randall
has been hurt and is trapped in the store with the Hatfields. Roseanna
follows her father and Thad to the store, and after ordering his kinsmen
to hold their fire. Mounts follows them and is about to shoot the lovers,
but Johnse shoots and injures him.
Roseanna and Johnse then mount her horse, planning to ride to find the
preacher, and when Mounts prepares to fire at them, Anse shoots and
kills him. They stop shooting, and everyone watches Johnse and Roseanna
riding off together.
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