Pat Hingle, wisely underplaying rather than engaging in his usual overly self-indulgent style, is quite scary as "Absolem Weir", who is either an incarnation of the devil or just an exceptionally vicious, ruthless and rather creepy man, who, as another character points out, has done well from the misfortune of others and who somehow gets wherever he needs to go without ever needing a horse. The sunny but equivocal ending does not reveal which of the two Weir is, although the consensus among the Lancers is that "Weir" is the latter. And while the smell of sulphur that Jelly Hoskins has been smelling a lot of lately has gone and evil may have left the Lancers' environs it most likely has just moved elsewhere.
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