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go without scarlet papa there is no room now we've discussed this

she'll step on everything she'll jump out and she'll get killed now i don't

want to bring her period i don't care i said no and i meant no

bye then paula i'm not leaving you here now just turn

scarlet loose give her to becky

Something, anything, but get in this truck now, alone.

Make me.

I'll look after him, Ma.

I promise.

Make him wear his flannels.

Beat off the women.

Paula.

Lord, guide our feet along safe paths for a more prosperous tomorrow,

and thank you for your many blessings.

Thank you for making Papa take Scarlet.

Thank you for this ferocious child.

Thank you.

I said.

Yes, I heard.

Jonathan you stay over here just for one minute and play

My, uh, my truck broke down up above, and we were wondering if we couldn't...

Well, we saw the smoke from your chimney.

Ma'am, my daughter's freezing.

Could she come in and warm herself for a while?

People don't walk down this side of the mountain.

Especially with a pig.

Come in here, I suppose.

For a bit.

Just for a minute, Papa.

Just to warm up. I can't move my fingers.

Thank you.

My name is Waylon Jackson.

This is my daughter, Paula.

We appreciate this.

Put some more life in that fire, Mr. Jackson.

Don't put the poplar in the back. It won't reflect the heat.

Here.

I can see you having any idea.

Move over.

This will be all right with your husband, then?

Mrs... whatever.

My name is Wright.

It's Miss Collie Wright.

Miss?

You live alone here, then?

Well, I had a dog with me up until a couple of weeks ago.

When one of the Campbell's dogs killed her, I kicked one of them so hard it

landed in the stream.

With these boots.

They're my papa's boots.

I like to wear them because they don't let the water in, the same as my shoes

do. And they're fine for kicking dogs.

My papa offered me another ride away, but I might leave this place.

My brother Young said he'd give me the money.

I have an uncle who lives in California, I believe.

Or it's St. Louis.

I might go live with him.

That's the prettiest baby I ever saw.

Well, others have said so.

What's your baby's name?

Jonathan.

And we call him by his full name.

John Wright is too abrupt, don't you agree? It's like two spikes.

Now, Jonathan Wright is someone to be accounted for.

So, you out of work like the rest of the country?

What you tried?

I'm a clockmaker.

I make clocks.

I never heard the lack.

Is there someplace nearby that we could stay? I don't want to be a nuisance.

No, no way you'll have to stop here.

Excuse me, Mr. Jackson. Would you mind lighting that lamp, please?

Your husband is off working somewhere, then?

No.

He ain't here is all.

He passed away.

Leave her, Papa.

You know, I had a pig as a pet when I was a child.

Dogs and cats will sleep on your feet, but a pig in bed is nothing but bristles

and sharp hooves, don't you find?

Papa makes me leave Scarlet outside.

Well, I shouldn't have let you in, Mr. Jackson.

But for that pig.

The rock house isn't much, but he's got a bed and a cot.

Thank you.

Very kind of you.

Good night.

Good night.

Good night.

Quick, Papa, let's hurry up.

What kind of bed do you call this?

For one night, Paula.

We can stand it.

You know, his hands are as soft as Mama's,

Jonathan.

And lets his child rule him.

Yeah.

You father, Jerry Campbell.

Common thieves will shoot at a child.

What would you do if they killed me?

What?

I'm all you have.

I can't take risks.

What do you think,

Jonathan? Not much of a man, is he?

There's a man's razor behind the picture on the shelf there, Collie. Does it

belong to this one you won't discuss?

Why don't you take him into the bedroom and swing him to sleep if you can?

There you go. Got him?

I don't know if you care.

I care.

Now would you push the birdie, please?

Thank you.

Does Jonathan's father come here often?

I've told you all that's to be taught, Mr. Jackson.

My brothers ask me every time they get a chance, and my mother's angry.

It's broken my father's heart.

Yeah, that's enough.

Maybe you got an old clock in one of your suitcases.

You can mount it up there on that wall.

Oh, I do miss the sound of the clock.

And company.

Yes, maybe I do.

You know... My mama, she wanted me to lose Jonathan.

So I...

Moved in up here.

My brother Milton, who's a blacksmith, he piped the water in, and my brother

Gudger, who runs the store in town with Papa, he gives me the canned goods I

need.

Papa gave me the bees and the cow, and my brother Young, well, he brings me

venison and bear when he hunts.

I am treasured, Mr. Jackson.

If not in the bosom of my family, Mama feeling as she does.

Close to it.

You were going to tell me about Jonathan's father.

No, I wasn't.

Well, if you have an extra towel, I'll bathe in the river.

Tonight, the water's like ice.

My family's Norwegian. We used to cut ice to swim when I was a boy.

This way I'm all winter.

The Campbell's dog died falling in that stream from the shock of the cold.

I'm sweaty and I don't want to offend you.

What do you mean, offend me?

Well, you know exactly what I mean.

I am not what is called a loose person, Mr. Jackson.

I didn't mean you were. Just because I have a baby doesn't mean... I didn't

mean to suggest anything.

I didn't say that. Well, I suppose I was... I didn't say that.

Thank you.

Can't give you any more credit, Lester. We want to trade this time.

Well, I don't want chickens and eggs. I want cash.

I got seven children.

Can't do without medicine. I'm sorry.

Your papa would have.

I'm running a store now.

Papa never would have let a child go without medicine.

But you didn't give him the medicine.

Help yourself, y'all. We do.

I haven't had breakfast yet, brother.

Have you got a man up there, Collie?

Yep.

Damn.

And his daughter.

Name Apollo.

Where'd he come from?

Off the mountain.

What, yesterday?

Day before.

Are they leaving today?

You know, you just about scared us all to death sneaking around last night.

Well, you have to expect your family to watch after you, Carly.

Hey,

we'll tail Papa together!

Papa!

Hey, Carly, Carly!

Oh, sweetheart, honey, it's... Look at him, look at him, look at him.

Likes change.

You ought to know all about that.

I want you to give him a corner of the store to repair clocks.

I can't take what's got yours away from him.

It's just a corner for a week or two.

I'm not going to do it.

Papa, the Campbells stole all his clothes out of his truck.

The engine, the wheels, everything.

Oh, I'm worried so about you, Polly.

You're always into trouble, getting others into trouble, always plowing your

own furrow.

Your life is so complicated, so secretive.

I'm trying to solve all that. Well, it sure doesn't look like it.

Your mother is still deeply hurt about what you did.

Don't hurt her again.

For a week or two, I don't even know this man.

I'm asking.

I've not asked for much.

You told me once you wanted me to ask more of you.

To let you help me. You, yes.

But helping men I never saw?

Come off the mountain?

No, Collie.

No.

Amen.

This is my father, William Wright.

Waylon Jackson. Pleased to meet you, sir.

This is my daughter, Paula.

So you fix watches, huh, Mr. Waylon? Jackson.

Waylon Jackson.

Guns, too, I suppose.

Radios. A tinker.

I make clocks, Mr. Wright.

Build them from wood and metal.

From scratch.

From an idea.

Is that the sort of thing a man does where you come from?

He's here, isn't he?

Couldn't have done too well where he was if he's here.

That's Godger Wayland.

It's my brother, Godger.

Godger.

Well, we need a schoolteacher around here, Mr. Wayland. And a preacher. We

have no use for a tinker.

He's not a tinker!

You ever think about putting a clock in that church, Mr. Wright?

Don't have no steeple.

That can develop.

What do we need a steeple for?

My papa always say, buy more Bibles and stay. I can put a clock in a steeple,

Mr. Wright. I can't do that to a Bible.

We don't have the money, Papa. Don't even consider it.

Make it strike every hour.

Excuse me.

My shoulder's so bad, I don't know what to start on.

Oh, Ma, you're a multiple invalid. Now, you sit down here.

Rocking is the best exercise.

It's reviving for every muscle in your body.

Oh, stop them. Stop them. I want to tell you. I want to tell you about your

sister. What, pregnant again?

She was taken in in a man.

All this land is ours, Mr. Whalen.

Where is he? I can see about, oh, 50 miles.

Bottom land, that is, across the river.

The steep land, that belongs to the Campbells. They're the scum of the

earth. They burned my father's place to the ground.

Known all the time. He was crippled, was dead, couldn't save himself.

Makes my head hurt to think of.

Oh, this here's my son, Milton, the blacksmith.

Uh, Jack Whelan.

Mr. Whelan. Whelan Jackson.

That guy's his daughter, Paula.

It was them Campbells that stripped your car yesterday morning.

Look at that.

They're scum, Mr. Whelan.

Mama, look here. Here is your best-looking son. Now, Gudger, come here

and stand still a minute.

Mama, look at the body on this man.

They make bodies in Detroit that aren't as big as this.

Pay no attention to young.

Papa, look what you did. Oh, in a few seconds, too.

Oh, it took more than a few seconds, son.

Well, you set that picture in your mind. Let it be awarded to you.

My name is Waylon Jackson.

I'm a clockmaker. It's good to meet you, Mr. Jackson. Who's this pretty little

thing? Paula. Hi, Paula.

He wanted to make us a clock for a church.

A steeple clock.

Like in Europe?

We don't know how much it'll cost you.

Well, I'd want you to provide the materials, and I'd want a truck in

payment. Will it have two or three or four faces and a striker? A striker?

Like in London, gutter. It can strike once a day. That's enough for people to

set their watches. It'd wake me up if it struck at night. Now, listen here. We're

going to have it strike all the hours on every...

You'll get used to it. I won't get used to it.

Papa, Crawford's got a truck he wants to sell.

What's Crawford over at the store got you?

Are we making decisions or are we hearing decisions already made? I never

agreed to the clock.

Well, I hope we do. I mean, use it for the rest of my life.

What's left of it. Oh, Lord, Papa, don't go dying on us again.

Just remember, Papa, the older the bull, the stiffer the horn.

I'll tell you what I'd rather see.

A bell tower.

Eight-sided, graduating to four, which has a clock in it. Eight-sided? We need

a big enough base for the track.

A forge track?

For the bear.

In Europe, a bear comes out when the clock strikes.

A lofsock's bear. Of course.

A lofsock's are tiny legs. Hot legs.

Black or brown?

Black, like the bears we have around here.

With paws?

Class.

Tongue, tail, everything.

Slobber. Yeah.

Might hook up to the spring.

Damn it, young.

Are you serious or not?

Mr. Jackson, can you make a bear? Yes. A tower? Yes.

Well? Well, a tower would be better than a steeple. The church roof won't hold...

The wait.

Sorry.

Come along, father.

Papa.

I don't know. What do you mean you don't know?

Yes!

Mr. Whelan, take a look at what Milton has in the forge.

Take a look at Crawford's truck.

If it doesn't cost us, we'll do it.

Yes, Papa!

But we'll put off the bail. Oh, damn it!

So, when are we going to start?

Do some drawings right away.

I'll be back in an hour.

Mr. Jackson's been a vist in Cali.

Mama said something.

You're the man? She's just letting me use the rock house. I wouldn't stay

there. I wouldn't.

Collie, is there something about the rock room that could be a danger to

Paula?

Who said there was?

Well, Young was strange about it.

Well, there's...

Yeah.

You know something, Paula? These here mountains are two billion years old.

Many times older than the Rockies.

Older than the Himalayas.

That's why they're so worn down.

They were bigger as babies than they are as old men.

We go get us a bear about this time of year, Mr. Whelan.

You court my sister, you ought to come with.

Nobody's courting nobody, Gudger.

I don't want just anybody courting my sister.

Damn it, Papa, make him stop.

Well, what do you say, Mr. Whelan?

What if I ran from the bear, Gudger?

Which I might do.

What then?

Well, then we'd know.

I know nothing of hunting or guns or bears.

You could learn if you were curious as to what sort of man you are.

I'm not curious.

I hope you aren't thinking of going.

There's some things they're stupid to learn, like killing animals.

I wonder what I'd do.

I know what you'll do. You'll get yourself killed.

You should listen to the child. And I'll never get to Philadelphia.

I think I'd like to go anyway.

Dear Lord, thank you for this good food. And stop Papa from

going on the bear hunt. Amen.

The case isn't finished yet, Collie, but it'll keep you company.

Paula, would you give it a swing?

Don't worry.

Take good care of it now.

You have to show me how to load this now.

Hey, Papa, Milton and Young both are bringing new dogs.

Yeah? See the goat to my dog, Harry. Say hello for me.

Hey, here's a hat for you. Gotta be sure it's on safety all the time.

Why are you doing this?

Hey, Waylon, you can tear a few pages out of this here.

This is the way you load it.

Be sure the bullet's forward, right?

Like my new dog, McGregor.

Ain't she pretty?

She's young, but she's tough.

She'll learn. Call her Eleanor Roosevelt.

either, Greg, but it's like owning a piece of lore, you know? A legend still

breathing. But you don't pet him, I notice.

Now let's get going.

Let's get whaling in the woods. Scare some...

They don't stay long.

They get tired of looking after themselves.

Ever only all for thee.

Ever only all for thee.

And there you go.

Look at me, Collie. I look just like you.

Well, kinda.

What's the door bolted for?

I was going to bed.

It come from a razor.

Well, take it.

Got a sweet taste of you.

Colin?

Who's that?

Papa Jackson.

What's she doing here?

She's visiting.

Cole, don't.

Tell anybody you seen me here, and I'll slit your tongue

so it's working like a snake's.

It's okay. Come here.

It's okay.

It's okay.

All right. Get a bear, Roy. Get a bear.

Now, Waylon, a bear is left-handed. You watch his left paw.

It'll knock your head off.

He'll fashion a horse quicker than a cat.

He'll slither through a picket and drop a snake. And a bear will ball himself up

and he'll roll down about in a piece of mine, too. Is it true, Greg, that a bear

sleeps with its paw in its mouth?

up things in your head. A bear sleeps with a cow bear if he can, just like you

and me.

He don't. He sleeps alone. He humps and runs like you and me.

Hey, speaking of humping, boys, when we gonna give old Wayne our advice?

He's a courting sister.

With a bastard, baby.

Seriously. It's your spirit, Jack.

Just don't wear yourself out, boy.

No likelihood of that.

I don't know. Did you ever see a man drive a pole in the ground to make a

hole? Yes, I suppose.

Well, did you ever see the hole where I pull the pole?

Just like the world's fire keep getting bigger and bigger every year.

All right, boy.

Let's find our spot.

Well, I'm for Chickapoint. All right. Come on, Curve. Let's go down the hut.

All right, Wayner. You can take that little ridge right up yonder. It's

closer to the cabin and you won't get lost.

It's a little safer, too.

I'll be on the ridge over for you.

A little hair of the dog to bit you?

Was I drunk last night, or did McGregor claim he'd had 150 women? Shit, I don't

think he can count that high.

So, how you liking it so far?

Aside from being hungover, cold, hungry, dirty, flea-bitten.

Yeah, aside from that.

I think I already miss Collie and Paula more than I thought I would.

I wish you weren't so fond of Collie, Waylon.

What a thing to say, huh?

Why?

That's Roy.

Come on, this is it.

Trying to keep him off young.

It's the best bear we ever got.

The worst, my dog.

You got yourself a skin.

Hell, I shot the goddamn bear. Oh, you son of a bitch.

Waylon's shot killed him. You were the undertaker. Oh, is that gonna be the

story? I saved your goddamn life, young. You were naked to the bear, you're back

to a stone wall.

Waylon was riding without a saddle under his ass and with Papa's old antique

pistol in his hand. Shut your damn mouth. Don't you...

Take your goddamn skin.

Hey, lady!

My truck broke down and I was wondering if I... if I couldn't come in there and

warm myself.

You learn to swim in cold water. Get yourself a towel. Come on in.

Come on. I've done this since I was a boy back home in Norway.

I'll get some tanning from Gudger tomorrow.

Fix that skin, or it'll stink.

My wife walked into the sea, Colleen.

You don't have to tell me.

I want to.

It's peaceful like it is now.

Leave it.

We worried and prayed and you came back.

And that's enough.

She wanted us to call her Lynn at the end.

Her name was Ruth.

She was crazy?

No, she was in terrible pain.

She thought if she were someone else, she... She wouldn't have the pain, I

suppose. She never said.

Marie, for a while, then Lynn.

We were at the ocean, and I was finally fixing the screen door.

Not paying attention.

She walked into the sea to end the pain.

Young, start with these rocks on top.

Want them crossbeams put in now? As soon as he gets the rocks in.

What do you think of these, Boylan?

Seem pretty smooth.

Are they helping, Papa?

Has he shot the bear, Uncle Will?

Yep.

Are they that stupid?

Yep.

Even Young?

Oh, no. Young's helped your Papa right from the beginning.

Young doesn't wait for a man to prove himself.

Here's something, Papa.

Sometimes I dream about being a mere boy again. And whenever I do, it's not me.

It's young I dream of.

I smile at all the women.

Change wrongs to right.

Walk only the high road.

Young silly, not stupid.

Silly. I like silly men.

I noticed.

First time I loved him, it was here.

Jonathan's father.

He was Young's friend.

His best friend for a year or two.

Because he's forbidden, I think.

Young said not to fall all over him.

Not to fall all over him, but... Well, I fell in love so crazy.

All my emotions swung on the hope of him.

If I love someone, I do.

As I did with you.

Did you fall all over me?

Didn't you notice?

The first time...

i agreed to meet him alone i came here scared to death i

crept over there maybe thinking i'd maybe not reveal myself maybe

i'd hold on to my virginity first thing i knew he was on top

of me kissing me devouring me like a star man

I wish he'd been more careful.

You don't mind?

Only that he hurt you.

Oh, Lord.

For the boy.

It's over, Cole.

Over my ass. My baby's in bed in the other room.

It's my boy I'm calling.

It was an accident.

Don't you ever call my son a goddamn accident.

What do you intend to do for him, Cole?

Do you mean to marry his mother?

Yes, I do.

Not this goddamn minute.

You can't.

And you know it.

You don't dare ask your father or mine.

You got fur on you, Collie.

As soft as these cats.

Now let me see it. Go to hell.

You used to show it to me all the time when I asked for it. Now you tell me to

go to hell?

You tell me who the other one is.

Did you give him much of it yet, Connie?

It's none of your business.

None of my business?

None of my business?

I've been drowning in you for two years.

No woman has ever done that to me.

Come on. I'm sorry.

No. No, Lestat.

You want to or not.

A little anger won't hurt you.

As hard as I make a close-up.

Come on.

Jesus.

Is it Christ himself?

Is he a name?

Jackson.

What's he do?

He's a clockmaker.

He stands there like a ghost staring at me.

Well, look how he floats over the floor there.

Collie, where'd you find such a dear little fella?

Does he have a voice?

What's your name?

Cole Campbell.

Now, what do you two do together?

Pray?

Collie, would you like to make some coffee for us?

Cole, you want coffee?

Speak to me, great spirit.

I think it's time we put all the cards on the table.

You want the cards?

He didn't mean... Hey!

Let him talk.

I'm listening, spirit.

Ghost. Let her talk, too.

She has the most to say.

She has the baby.

My boy. Her boy.

That's your clock on the wall there, Ghost?

Yes.

My uncle and I made that in Pennsylvania.

Get that clock out of my house.

He gave me that clock.

Cole, I'd like to talk to you about this family.

What do you mean, destroying something you can't make?

I love that clock.

Go ahead with what you were saying, Spook. Why say anything to you?

You're nothing but a trigger finger. Go ahead, use that damn thing. Cole, don't.

I'm going to shut up, Collie. Go ahead and look at it. Mr. Jackson.

Collie! Mr. Jackson, please. It doesn't strike a spirit or not.

Cole, give me that gun.

Coach, do you ever have your woman you was greedy for?

Yes. Yeah.

And who was that?

Collie.

Jake, he says you got it.

Sorry, I didn't just... Don't come at me like that.

I love him, damn it.

Shut up, Collie!

Spooky, you ever see my baby boy?

Connie, go get me my baby.

No, you're too drunk to hold him. Go get him. No.

Hey, how you doing?

Hey, that's my boy.

Yeah, yeah.

Hey, John, who's that? Huh?

Can you see him?

No, me neither.

Yeah, that's my boy. How's that for a boy? Huh?

My boy.

How's this for a family, huh?

Hey.

So you wanted to talk to me. Now come on.

Let's talk.

You want to talk? Let's talk.

There you go.

Cole, I want to give Jonathan a home, a family.

Provide for Collie and educate the boy.

Are you the Holy Ghost?

Even though it's difficult for one man to give his son up to another.

Why should it be? He's never here.

I beat my head on the barn door once. I was so lonely for you.

Look at you now.

You're drunk, you're mean, stinking.

But Cole, we need a family.

And who the hell are you to tell me what my own needs?

Your own what?

Wife and son.

Why do you treat them like a whore and bastard?

Whore and bastard!

No, don't! Son of a bitch!

Get back in there!

I said get in there!

as I say. Let me help you.

Do as I say.

You can run from me.

Do you know that's spook?

Spooky, spooky.

Why not?

It's me, Cole.

Get me out of here. My foot's caught in the stirrup.

Tell me about you and Kylie.

Could you get me out of there? Tell me you're the father.

I'm the father.

You gonna do right by her, Cole?

Because you're a prison.

I'm dying.

First, I want to know what you're gonna do.

Go.

Go, Kylie. Yeah, you son of a bitch.

Go.

I'm Nelly Crawford, Mr. Campbell.

I've laid him out for burial.

He was distorted worse than anybody I've done.

I'm sorry it was cold.

I know how we favor our youngest.

I feel for you, sir.

We all die, Mr. Wright.

What say?

We all die, Mr. Campbell.

It is written the wages of sin are death.

What say, Mr. Wright?

Any sin here?

An eye for an eye, Mr. Wright.

Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.

Why did his horse come here, Miss Wright?

Crawford's boy found him down below the main road.

Coal fell from his horse into the creek.

Fell?

Coal fell?

We want to have a look around.

Jonathan was fathered by Cole Campbell, Papa.

When did you find out?

Well, I wasn't sure until recently.

I wasn't born to be a tinker, chimney sweep.

Pruner of trees, I was intended to be an educated person who could think his way

through tangles like this.

Borrow a gun or pop us, Jack.

Don't go unarmed.

I was across the field just now. I was thinking Campbell could shoot me from

any tree.

They can shoot as far as you can see.

What good does it do to carry a gun?

You can shoot back.

If you're dead?

You don't die immediately.

You live a little while.

It deters him.

Papa's in the dining room.

Paula, help Mrs. Wright in the kitchen.

All right, Papa.

Mavis?

Cabblers gave Mavis a list, knowing she'd show it to us.

Read it, Mavis.

From Waylon's bruised face, the broken window, the shot clock, and the stick of

firewood, they know that Cole fought Waylon over at Collie's house.

They know that Young wasn't home all night, and that Cole was put in the

stream.

They say he fought with someone from a rock in the river. It was someone who

was there in the middle of the night.

Sometimes they get so clever, they just can't be believed.

Thank you, Mavis.

Go across the river.

Tell them we're talking it over.

Yes, sir. Close that door.

Call it.

I should stay, Pop. No.

Yes.

This time, yes.

Stay here.

Wouldn't the police help? Oh, hell.

Can they trace a murder better than the Campbells?

Can they choose among us better than we can ourselves?

Somebody in this room.

There might have been an accident.

They won't accept an accident without a cold.

You're not a stranger here, Wade. I'm not any longer.

What?

You had a reason to kill Cole. None of us has as good a reason.

What are you telling him?

Well, that he's one of us now, and he's no better than we are.

It's not above doing as we decide here today.

What are you saying to him, you?

Only he can help the family same as I can, and you might tell him. All right,

all right. Let's decide, man.

My way of thinking, the Camels will take Young, or Gudger, or Whalen.

Take us for what?

Even the score.

Quiet down. The fire-headed one's amongst them.

Now we're to designate one of us?

Unless we want him to.

The one we choose... will have to leave us forever.

Either Campbells or Cullum.

Young's without a family.

I can easily leave, Papa.

Confess from some other place, keep traveling.

What about Gudger?

Good God. Papa, I've got a family in the storehouse. I can't run off.

Was Cole dead in the river, Gudger?

Papa? I never saw him, I swear. Was he alive? No.

And you saw him, Dave? I never saw him, Papa. Did you kill him? No!

Did you let him die?

Look, why come at me? Did you let him drown?

Papa, God damn it!

Help me, Papa!

Help me!

All right.

Jack.

Young's offered.

Goodger's refused.

They won't take Milton.

But they will take you.

You fought Cobalt. You put him in the creek.

On his horse.

And he rode off.

But he might have fallen off and drowned, wouldn't you say?

Oh, God knows I've thought about it ever since then.

How long can a man live in that cold of water? What? Two minutes, I guess. Three

minutes. Why?

You know that when you put him on his horse?

I didn't know he was going down the creek. No.

Carly... Yeah, go on. What about Carly?

Nothing.

I didn't want his horse going along the road with him maybe being seen.

He always went home by the creek.

Cold shoes the Greek this time Hey you

I Did

Well

I've concluded for myself what camp was probably already concluded

I'll come up with you and guy

We need to get you and your daughter out of here.

And Collie?

Oh, if Collie goes off with you, none of it will be safe.

Once Julie Campbell realizes who the boy is.

We... I mean, they've worked everything else out, Jack.

Papa, I'll go.

No, you won't. And I'll tell you why. You never fought Cole. And put him on a

horse and sent him down the creek in a winter. Well, I didn't send him down the

creek either. No, Collie did. You want her dead?

Papa!

Let us have another choice. For God's sake, don't tear up Collie's life. You

tore it up, sir, when you brought Cole into friendship with her.

What if it wasn't one of us?

What about the McGregors?

That's a possibility.

They've fought the Campbells as long as we have. If they could steal the white

furs that Cole brought, Collie, we could lay them out.

Are we prepared to choose the McGregors? Well, if they stole the pelt, it's their

crime, isn't it? What do you say?

Your move, Jack.

It's been the best part of my life so far to be here.

No.

I'm not prepared to choose the McGregors.

I'm not prepared to choose anybody except myself.

I may not have been entirely responsible,

but in a large part, I was.

My daughter and I will leave in the morning.

You surprised me.

You come to mourn Cole with me?

Was buried at dawn, big gatherer.

None from your side of the river.

What is it, Miss Wright?

What does she want, Harmon?

She walked up the yard by. I see you.

That's all I know. Pleasant to have company, Miss Wright.

Are you mourning Cole? Did you know him?

I loved him.

What'd she say, Pa?

She said she loved Cole.

You people never claimed to love anyone over here before.

That's true.

I didn't know he ever went that side of the river, except to hunt.

He came to my house, Mr. Campbell.

The night he died?

Many times.

Carmen, did you know that?

I sure as hell didn't know it, Pop. Am I the only one in this family that's been

kept in the dark?

For God's sake. Go, Margaret. Get your sister up here.

Margaret! Margaret!

Papa, what is it?

Oh, my God.

Miss Wright come to visit.

Margaret come to mourn Cole with us.

Did you know he visited her house? Coal? No, Papa, not coal.

Margaret raised coal from when his mother died, Miss Wright.

That boy could drive an eight-yoke oxen team when he was 14.

I worked side by side with him.

He wore me out.

It's the prettiest babies ever I saw. Look at that market, a million-dollar

smile. Did you ever see a better smile?

Papa. It's his baby's name, is it right?

Jonathan?

Yeah.

Your ma's gonna have to buy you a pony, Johnny.

Mr.

Campbell, I've come here to say something to you.

I want you to let the matter of Cole's death go by without taking revenge.

I couldn't convince this pack of men around me to let it slide if I wanted

to. A life for a life, Miss Wright.

Does that have to mean a life lost?

Does that have to mean a death for a death?

I don't follow your meaning. What do you mean, Margaret?

I've heard of sacrifices made of a person's own life.

Are you offering me yourself?

No, sir.

I'm offering you Cole's baby.

Pa, you should say anything, Pa.

I can't have my brothers killed or Mr. Jackson for something I got myself into.

Cole had a scar on him. Two, actually.

Oh, God.

There was one on his right hip and

a long scar on the inside of his thigh where he claimed a bear ripped him.

How did you meet?

He was Young's friend.

They hunted together in Tennessee.

They were inseparable because of the risk.

Where did you meet?

In the north woods near the falls.

And Cole came to your house?

Yes, sir.

How many times?

I don't know.

Many times.

What other men have you been with, Miss Wright?

No other men. Mr. Campbell in my experience an unwed woman who will lie

down with one can be had by all I Never came close to another man

You

love

this baby miss right

God, yes.

He's my whole life.

You don't think I'd settle for a visit for Cole's life, do you?

You have to leave him here.

Oh, my lord.

Hush, Margaret.

Until you die.

His life for his father's.

You spare my brothers and Mr. Jackson.

We have a deal

My

arms

feel so light

Come on, we better hurry.

Whaley?

We can't wait for any longer.

Where did you go so early, Collie?

Where's Jonathan?

Where is Jonathan?

He's drinking.

No.

No.

He agreed to take him.

Instead of you.

We're my brothers.

You gave him Jonathan?

You couldn't have.

Papa.

Till Drury dies.

You'll love him.

Wayland?

I love you.

Well, that's a good one. What's your weight? 300 pounds. Biggest fire on the

mountain. Dog down to the creek.

Get that water over to the pot.

Stretch those across the top.

Hey, Zach!

Wake up, it's high.

Arm it. It's all about me.

It's got to be as sharp as it can be.

And you slit the belly from the tail to the throat, like that, see?

If you have to saw the hide, that means your knife's too dull.

Look at here!

That's the one kill Cole, Papa. If I want him killed, I'll kill him myself.

Thank you.

What's he want, Harmon?

Supper?

I've come to ask you to bring Jonathan across the river at Easter.

Here's the deal, Mr. Jackson. She'll not get him back.

I'm marrying Carly Wright, and I'd like him there.

You killed Cole!

You and her two brothers!

I would have killed you, but for the trade.

Cole didn't die because of us, Mr. Campbell. None of us across the river.

What's he mean, Harmon?

He died because of you, sir. God damn it, don't come into my camp and accuse

me. He was afraid of you. Cole, afraid?

He was in love.

In love with Collie Wright. Afraid to tell you that. Cole wasn't afraid of

anything. If that were true, he'd be alive.

He'd be married, raising his son, a bond between the rights and your family. Give

me my gun!

I'm not done. You're done!

You're gonna die, Mr. Campbell.

If you're lucky, you have another ten years left, but the boy will forget his

mother by then. By then, he'll be a Campbell for life. Exactly.

Turned over to people he hates, people who hate the people he loves.

Did you do that to him?

That just ringed me. Huh?

as quickly as possible.

You all right now?

Are you sure, honey?

Don't ask me, young papa.

You look pretty, Carl.

Yes, you do.

Get back up there. Act like somebody.

Oh, you don't have been with men to be sacrificed, Mavis.

Just like Jesus.

Oh, I think it's sweet.

There's that time, Mr. Jackson.

Wait.

Now.

Lord, bless this clock.

Keep it accurate.

Thank you for sending us a man who believed he could make such a thing, and

in the making of it, could inspire and unite us.

And thank you for suggesting to him that he could make my daughter happy.

One is as silly as the other, Lord. Neither one of them does anything the

regular way, so help them, Lord. These two need more help.

than most to find in each other a future to cherish.