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Come on, Glenn. It don't hurt, does it?

Come on, get up, man. Fight back!

Get up, Glenn. Come on, Dov. Come on, get up.

Get up, Glenn.

Most fortunate that the brother was not killed. Most fortunate.

But there was intention on the prisoner's part.

Deliberate and malicious intention.

What happened, Tyler? Oversleep?

Well, I weren't sure that today was the day, judge. I weren't sure.

The parole board here...

Is coming to a decision about this boy of yours.

Your wife's cousin, Braxton here, says he'll take him in and set him straight.

- You got any opinion about that? - It won't help none.

I've seen 3 might of trouble with him. He's as mean as they come.

- He'll drink, fish and read books... - Comics?

- I beg your pardon. - Does he read comic books?

Books, but there never was a hoe or a plow that would fit his hand.

- You're a damn llar. - I suggest you don't say much.

Your record's not good enough for these remarks.

Stole a car once, got picked up thce on a drunk charge.

I don't care. He's still lying!

I know why him and Hank raise that corn too.

They drank my ma into an early grave with that corn.

- Glenn, how old were you when she died? - Ma'am?

She asked how old you were when your ma died.

- Almost nlne. - Well, let's get on with this.

What's your recommendation, Phil?

- I'd give him another cnance, Tom. - So would I, judge.

On parole, of course. Have him report once a week.

I'll see to it that he stay at work with a living wage and board.

I owe his ma, my own cousin, that much.

He'll never do it, rolfe. What he needs is correctlon.

Mr. Tyler, what needs lmprovlng in your son?

Well, begging your pardon, ma'am, what do you think don't?

Your picture's a mighty blacl( One, Sam.

There was nothing wrong with this boy bacl( Away.

There was never a week that this boy and his mother didn't attend church.

Now, Glenn, I want you to tell judge Parker and the parole board...

What was the master's cry from the cross?

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthanl.

And where in scrlpture, Glenn, is that noted?

In Mathew 27:46, and sort of turned around in Mark 15:34.

And what does "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthanlll mean?

It means "my god! My god! Why hast thou forsaken me?“

- Well, good lucl(, Glenn. - Thank you, sir.

Hello, Rosie.

I'm glad the boy was paroled into his uncle's custody. He'll have a chance.

Tell me, was your sympathy for him real?

- You're the expert. You tell me. - I know you share the same bacl(Ground.

I identified with him. Isn't that the word?

If you're not in a hurry, I'll buy you a drink.

Not today, Phil.

- Irene, is it really never again? - Now, we both agreed to that.

No, you agreed. I merely went along.

I'm sorry I did. There aren't many times a man ls given dlstlnctlon.

- Back to your law office, Mr. Macy. - All right, Mrs. Sperry.

Well, here we are.

It don't look like much, but we serve a community need.

Here's your new home, boy.

Got these bottles all ready for labeling.

Here's one that's a little short. Now, watch this, boy.

That's good stuff. Got to give them all a square measure.

Now, they're all set to go.

Now suppose it's, well, Johnson and Terry.

They order under their own label. That's shenandoah elixir. This one.

Now, mlne's old seminole tonlc, sold in every state in Dixie.

Salem drugs wiii order under their own label too.

- And it's all the same stuff? - Except for the labels and the color.

87% aqua pura, 13% graln alcohol. Some folks won't want no label at all.

They walk in off the street and buy a few at a time.

Well, that's it, boy, from a to z.

- Are these the ones to be shipped? - Yep, here's the keys to the truck.

You'll be comfortable in here, Glenn. I had it fixed up for you.

It's clean, it's dry, it's healthy. Even got your own private entrance.

More than I had when I was your age.

I plan to put you in a shower too, right over yonder.

I do love the smell of this place. Dry cardboard, alcohol and herbs.

Also money, it just rolls in. That's a good smell too, boy.

- About my pay, is it okay to ask? - Pa, supper's ready.

Fine, nory. Hope you made plenty. Got an appetlte in the house now.

Come and get it, Glenn. Before she throws it out.

Excuse me.

Mighty nlce cnandeller. Set me bacl( A pretty penny. Cheap at the prlce.

- Sit down, Glenn. - All right.

Yeah, nlce chandelier. I bought it off the Johnson place.

- It's baroque renaissance style. - Yeah, it's mlghty nlce.

Always spend money with a purpose. You'll find my advice is worth heeding.

You know, you got good Braxton blood in you. I alm to see you get ahead.

About my pay, uncle rolfe...

For what we are about to receive, may the lord make us truly grateful.

- My pay? - Your pay? 1 o a week and keeps.

Did I say 10$, 2.50 is more like it. I want you happy, boy.

We got a pleasant llttle famlly here, and I want to keep it that way.

Yess.

Glenn?

Glenn?

- Betty Lee. - Hello.

- Didn't expect to see you around. - I drove in with ma for a meetlng.

- We hoped you'd be up for supper. - Your kin don't like me.

- Not true. Ma thinks you're nlce. - It's your pa.

- Is that nory's baby? - It isn't a cat.

- Did you see him? What's he like? - What's a baby like, Betty Lee?

- Glenn, don't be mean. - Why are you asklng so many questions?

- I'm sorry, I hadn't thought. - They got me on parole.

I got to go see this parole offlcer once a week in the courthouse.

I got to get examlned by miss sperry, caseworker, psychiatrist, whatever.

- She thinks I'm a lunatic. - Irene sperry?

- She spoke at school about her work? - That's the one.

- Her mother left her that house. - She thinks I'm dumb.

You know what I think? She looks like a walnut...

- And she'll get cracked. - My mother thinks she's nlce.

- Dig that. Your ma thlnks she's nlce. - Yes, Glenn, don't look for trouble.

- Ma thinks you're nlce too. - You didn't show her my letters?

- No. - And the other stuff?

- Why? - I want that junk back, maybe burn it.

Sometimes I thlnk you're toucned myself. Don't you trust anybody?

She's pretty.

Pretty and sad.

When's her husband comlng back?

They don't know. He's in government work overseas, so rolfe says.

When did she marry him? No one in town seems to know.

- They don't say, and I don't ask. - Yes, but...

Don't worry your heart, Betty Lee. Just let it be.

- Don't worry, she won't blte. - She's the only one that won't.

Come on.

- Where would you want me? - In here, please.

- Any place you want me to sit? - Anywhere you like.

What about right there?

All right, now what?

I think we should get one thing stralght. I'm not a pollceman.

You were just appolnted by the court to flnd out if I'm toucned or not.

- Where'd you pick up that impresslon? - The hearlng.

You were taklng all those notes, countlng every flea on me.

Those might have been about your father, mother...

- You don't know about my ma. - I'd like to if you'll tell me.

I don't care to tell you, and that's that.

- She meant a great deal to you. - You heard me, didn't you?

You can leave. There are no bars on these windows.

- You smoke? - No.

This routlne of yours would stagger a bllly goat.

What's funny?

- What you said. - It wasn't meant to be.

You want to find out what makes me tlck, don't you?

No. You're a compllcated human belng, not a cneap tln ciock.

Now, you can stay or leave as you cnoose.

Well?

- You invited me to leave. - Right.

If you keep pretendlng you're slow-witted, I'll put you out.

- You're pretty tough, huh? - Well, I can be.

Why don't we get down to business? I might be able to help you.

Well, I'm not exactly drownlng. What kind of help?

How do I know? All I know about you is what I have in this report.

- No, that's mlne. - Can I see it?

No. What it says...

Would stagger a bllly goat.

I see you can smlle too.

I'd llke to apologl2e, ma'am, for belng so hostile.

- That's the word, isn't it? - You didn't invent hostility.

- What do you want me to talk about? - Anything at all, just talk.

It'll never leave this room. Do you belleve me?

I think I do. Yes, ma'am.

I'm always walking around with a full cup of anger, trying not to spill it.

When somebody hurts me, I want to hurt them right back.

I've laid awake nights wishing my pa and my brother was dead.

Hank didn't die, but I tried to kill him.

I got the Mark of Cain on me, ma'am.

I know where I'll end up, and not you or anyone else can stop it.

What are you thinking, Glenn?

About the dreams I used to have.

Money...

Fame.

Is that what you want?

I could have bought my ma her freedom with money and fame.

Bought?

I don't quite follow that.

Listen, ma'am, my ma was enslaved on our farm.

And I do mean enslaved.

Many tlmes I've seen her out in the hot sun chopping cotton...

While them two men laid up drunk and wasted.

She done meals, she done the chores that Hank wouldn't do and I couldn't.

Then that lady...

And she was a lady, ma'am...

She'd soak her old stockings in buttermilk...

And put them on her arms, not to burn, and go work in the sun...

While pa's fishing the river with a jug by his rump.

Now, my point, ma'am...

My point is...

I'd have bought ma away from there if I'd had the cash.

I'd have brought her into town.

And give her a house llke this on a quiet street.

And set her on the porcn in a rocking chair...

And let her watcn the seasons come and go.

From sprlngtlme tlll snow, she could rellsh it all.

White lilacs...

Early rhubarb...

That's the quiet sort of thing she liked.

She could read too.

She could read flne books.

But there was never the tlme.

“This is undone, and that's undone.“

and, iiglenn, where's my mind going nowadays? Ll

she said I'd go to college too.

Now, there's a laugh.

She was bugged on learnlng, ma'am.

And then...

Just before my 9th birthday...

She died and left me.

Death...

He's a quick one, isn't he?

Did you want to go to college, Glenn?

If you don't mind, ma'am, my heart's out of it, and I'll leave.

- Could I come back another time? - Well, of course.

Monday around noon?

Yes, ma'am.

It's quitting time, Glenn.

Saturday night.

Here's your pay.

There you are.

Well, what's on your mind? High junks?

Too tlred, unseasonable weather.

- When are you going to put that shower? - Until I do, use the bath upstairs.

- Could I? - I should say you can.

Any boy works the way you do deserves the best.

You know, Glenn, I knew you wasn't lazy.

There's too mucn snap in the eyes, huh?

- What's to eat? - Fried chicken. I do alm to please.

One day you'll find a man, and he'll say, "your pa tralned you right."

Yeah.

- Glenn, now what's this? - I told Glenn to use the tub.

Does he get to use my toothbrush too?

Don't leave no rlngs around that tub. I got enough cnores to do.

What's eatlng on you? You asklng to be chastised?

- Stop picking on me. - Don't you see he's a godsend?

- He's a decent boy. - A decent Tyler?

- Never seen you with his folks. - He's a good, decent boy-

that good, decent boy has been hay-lofting with Betty Lee Parsons.

- So people say. - You going to llsten to me!

Lay off! I'll be gone like my ma if you don't quit.

That is an eventuality which will not eventuate, nory.

You aren't got the guts.

You just Walt and see.

This beer's good.

- Enough hot water in there, Glenn? - Yeah, thanks, uncle rolfe.

- Now, there's a boy fuii of thanks. - Pa?

- Stupid and full of thanks. - Only I'm not stupid.

No, you're a Braxton. You're not.

- Stop biting your nalls. - I wasn't. What time is it, pa?

- Time? 9:50. - No need to fret. He'll be here.

There he is.

- Got a truck, huh? - More than you had at hls age.

Now llsten...

- Evening. - Evening, I'm sorry I'm late.

I couldn't get shed of uncle rolfe.

I almost went to bed. Too late for the movle.

- They'll be open at high tenslon grove. - You two fight it out or just sit.

Love's a surrounding and entertalnment all by itself.

- By the way, it is love, isn't it? - Mother!

Well, don't just sit! We'll never get away.

- Don't be mad, Betty Lee. - I0:00.

Do you want to hear some music?

You're going to hear it whether you like it or not.

Look, I told you uncle rolfe wanted me to take nory to the plcture.

I was embarrassed. Then I had to ask him to lend me this truck.

- It was all for... - There's no reason to shout.

I iook at you and wham I'm head over heels

I guess that love is a banana peel

I feel so bad and yet I'm feeling so well

I slipped, I stumbled, ifell

one crazy klss and bam I head for the skies

I guess that love is llke a cake of ice

you skate along but then you never can tell

I slipped, I stumbled, ifell

I never thought I'd get kicked by your sweet talk and lles

you got a bag of tricks

and when you got busy I got dazzled and dizzy

I felt like a ton of bricks

my knees are weak my head is splnnlng around

I guess that love has turned me upside down

thought I'd get hurt but gee, it's turnlng out swell

I slipped, I stumbled, ifell

- I don't like this place, cliff. - It's the only place open this late.

Dace, go ask him to joln us for a drink.

Betty Lee, cliff Macy wants you and Glenn to have a drink with him.

Tell him we got a drink.

I've always hated cliff Macy after what he did to you.

Hate's llke a snake biting its own tall.

- What's he got agalnst you? - You, for one.

It seems hls father's money couldn't help him there.

I never thought he'd go so far as to lend a car, and then say I stole it.

But it figures.

I feel sorry for him sometlmes.

- I won't waste any sympathy on him. - Maybe sympathy's never wasted.

One way or another, you get it back. Or so it says in the book.

- That's something I can't understand. - What's that?

The way it says we ought to be, and the way we are in fact.

Turn this cheek, that cheek. Don't cast the first stone.

That's for tall angels, not for men.

- No, I don't see any wings on you. - Now, that is a fact.

Hello, Betty Lee, Glenn Tyler, how you all doing?

We were doing fine till you crawled in.

- Crawled, dear boy? - Yeah, crawled, as an insect.

- Don't you go calllng us no insect. - Shut up, dace.

Tyler, I invited you and your lady companlon for a drink.

My date, monlca George, expressed desire to meet you.

- You're stoned out of your mlnd. - Don't. You're supposed to be on-

lady's remlndlng you you're on parole...

And my distinguished father is a member of that board.

Let's all calm down and have a drink. Set them up.

Don't think I'm forgetting Christmas night. Let's go.

- Wait. - Take your hands off.

One side, ladles.

I want to contlnue my conversation with Tyler, the auto thief.

You put a black Mark on me I didn't deserve.

The next tlme you and dace come for me, I'll crack both your heads.

Glenn, come on!

We going to have to mess him up. Mess him up good.

Hey, Tyler! How's your cousin nory and her family increase?

Hey, Tyler!

Thank you, Sarah.

So go on.

He yelled something at me as I was leaving, but I didn't pay attention.

What's wrong with him?

He likes to tell the world he's had his tail kicked.

Nobody wants him, I guess.

Maybe his folks done it to him.

- But the Macy's are well-off. - Yes, I know.

Money's no guarantee of a normal childhood.

- Tell someone else that, miss sperry. - Mrs. Sperry.

- Excuse me. - I'm telllng it to you.

Think the two of you might have something in common?

Not as I can see.

Well, you've kind of had your tail kicked too.

I'll have to chew on that a while.

You know...

A couple of years back I decided to keep a diary.

- Just like a girl or something. - Dlarles can be very productive.

Did you ever think of writing in a serious way?

What makes you ask that, ma'am?

You turn a phrase a certaln way, an image.

- You could write, you know? - I'd rather read.

What do you read?

Comics!

I almost passed out when you asked my pa if I read comlcs.

I got so mad, I could've thrown you through the door.

They could've put me in jall.

"Who's he?“ “Nobody, he reads comlcs and sucks a jug.“

you're not being fair. I didn't know you then.

Well, you made me small that day.

- Do you read very much? - Some.

- Don't you want to talk about it? - It makes me nervous to talk about it.

You see, I was helping at home, and I was late gettlng out of high schooi.

So belng a year behind and a head taller didn't help any either.

Every once in a while, I'd mentlon about how I wanted to erte.

You'd think I set a blowtorch to the amerlcan flag.

What's a man for if he can't aim high?

- But... - But you gave up.

I guess.

Well, I guess I better be on my way.

I got some more deliveries to make.

Glenn, what do you think of this idea?

The thing that happened at high tenslon grove...

Erte it all down in your own words just as you told it to me.

- I can try it. - Yes.

- Is there a certaln tlme you want it? - No, whenever it's finished.

I have to thank you, ma'am, for an awful lot.

No, you don't, Glenn. Not yet.

Rose! Come on, girl. Time for your walk.

- Hello, flossie. - Hello, Mrs. Sperry.

- Admiring your handiwork, are you? - No, something new and very nlce.

- A pleasure to see you, Mrs. Sperry. - Thank you, Davis, it's mutual.

- Have you taken your bar exam yet? - No, not until the fall.

Come more often. I've been notlcing Mr. Macy works too hard.

You notlce too much, Davis.

I think he's right. I do work too hard.

Let's relax.

- I'll try a Martini. - I'll try one too.

I don't think I ever make a martlnl without thinking about us.

Did you ask me here to discuss us?

No, but make hay whlle the sun shlnes.

That's what my old dad used to say.

- Very dry. - Very dry.

Irene, I think you're just as lonely as you ever were.

I know I am.

Here's to lonellness.

If I let my wife divorce me, I'd lose all this.

I'm just the steward of the plants and mills her father left her.

But I'd gladly give it all up if you'll marry me.

Not that we'd starve, you understand.

Do you realize what you're saying?

Of course. I'll get a divorce if you'll marry me.

I can't be any clearer.

You're saying if I decide, you'll get a divorce.

You won't decide. You'll leave it up to me.

That's not right. It's as though you were using me.

Using you?

That's what it boils down to.

To pry yourself out of an impossible situatlon.

You're not belng honest with yourself.

You're just afraid. Your first marrlage...

I don't want to discuss that.

Well, think about it, will you?

Bring that fine analytlcal mlnd of yours to bear on your own problems.

- Physician heal thyself? - That's the general idea.

You're asklng the impossible.

Phil, why did you invite me here?

I wanted to talk about my son, cliff.

- May we discuss him for a moment? - Of course.

It's hls mother. You know she's as loose-footed as ever.

She's spolled the boy.

She's got him heading down the same road as herself.

Only in hls case, it might be a fatal road.

Fatal? How?

No one knows this but hls mother and me.

Cliff has what's known as an athletlc heart.

Too much of everything too fast.

I've taken him twice to speclallsts.

But in spite of it, he's drinking like a fish. Running wild, in fact.

- Would you try to stralghten him out? - That wouldn't be wise.

- Because of us, you mean? - Exactly.

I'd have to talk about hls mother and hls father.

How objective and honest do you think I could be?

Not very, I guess.

I will look into it and see if I can find someone good.

Thanks.

I suppose I'm just iooklng for some way to try to bring us together agaln.

I'm sorry, phll. I really am.

That's about the size of it.

You know, I snapped my fingers and up goes a new factory.

And it doesn't mean a thing.

Goodbye, Irene.

Bye.

Where's it been this late?

It took uncle rolfe to the bowling alley.

Friends driving him back?

Old semlnole. Your pa's going to whip your tall.

That stuff would plckle a snake.

What ever happened to that old Mexican gultar your mother had?

It's been a long tlme since she gave us both lessons.

She was a good singer. Hank stepped on that guitar on purpose.

He's a mean one, almost as mean as you are. All you thlnk about is yourself.

I like to mind my own business.

Well, then go on, go to bed and mlnd your own business.

Move your little fat legs.

I wish your pa'd put that shower in. It's hot.

- He won't put that shower in. - Why won't he?

Pa hopes to catch us one of these nights. You and me, together in sln.

That's hls plans. Then you'll have to marry me.

What about your husband, nory?

You are stupid.

Cost pa 2 bucks, that did.

I may not be here tomorrow

but I'm close beside you today

so lie to me a little

say you love me a lot

and I'll be true to you

in my way

love never goes on forever

at least, that's what wise men all say

so smlle when you klss me

tomorrow you may cry

but I'll be true to you

in my way

yes, I'll be true to you

in my way

- I'm going to bed. - Don't go. Pa won't be back tlll 1:00.

- Don't bait me. You'll get in trouble. - I won't tell a word, I promlse.

I want to get out of here. I want to have a good tlme.

- Then do it. Run away. - It needs a man to go to hell with.

That's what I want, hours and hours of heaven...

That slides down to hell, and we don't care how or when it ends.

You're wild, Glenn, just llke me. Unhappy wild.

Pa's got some money stashed around. He hides it like a squirrel.

We could take some and run away. Nobody would know.

I can't run away. I got plans.

- Mrs. Sperry... - I want you, Glenn.

And I mean want. Since we waded in felcher's creek.

- I was only 12... - You waded a lot since then.

I wanted you even then. There's nothing I wouldn't do for you.

Just ask and see.

That why you treated me like dirt all these years?

You think I'm no good, don't you?

No, honey.

- Who's that? - Dace.

Turn those lights off.

State liquor store's closed. Cliff wants to get some of Braxton's stuff.

Sell it to them. Pa usually does.

Why don't your boss-man come get it himself?

I'm right here, Tyler.

Sorry to interrupt such a charmlng domestlc scene.

Two bottles, dear boy.

When you comlng out of deep freeze, nory?

Why, I'm a marrled lady now. Call me Mrs. Martln.

Bless your black little heart!

Don't marrled folks get lonely too?

You offend old friends by your protracted absence.

Don't rustlcate too long, my dear.

- I can't make change. - You keep yourself that change.

Maybe you'll buy yourself some cuff llnks or such.

Someday you may even own a shirt.

Someday I may stuff it down your throat, dear boy.

Give that to your pa.

Good night...

Mrs. Martln.

Good night.

Ma'am?

Well.

- The grammar and spelllng are bad. - Pretty bad.

- Are the characters here real people? - Yes, ma'am.

I do kind of mix them up, though, don't I?

I guess you should know right away...

If people belong up with the angels or down in the fire and brlmstone.

Should you?

Take, for instance, Betty Lee.

At times I look at her and I think she's flat, dried-up and selfish.

And then agaln, I think she's warm and full and unselfish.

What about this character, nory?

She wasn't at the grove, I wrote her in.

That's a writer's privilege.

I even get mlxed up about nory too.

She says that she'll have me any way. Plaln, fried or scrambled.

And I am tempted at tlmes...

Llke at night when uncle rolfe's at the poker games.

I don't know about nory. In fact...

Proper folks would say she's just downright no good.

What would you say?

Well, you know me, ma'am. I'm not proper folks.

Nory never had a chance. Her ma ran out on uncle rolfe...

Five or six years ago, and he's taken it out on nory ever since.

But she got around him.

One tlme she got lost over the weekend with this New York-type salesman.

He came through in this big, new, shiny car.

I pretend llke I don't know, but I know.

That baby's father has a big, green convertible.

And that's the way it is.

I don't like to sound like I'm bragging.

But it's like I have two girls with two roads to go. You know what I mean?

Yes, I know what you mean.

Have you ever thought there might be a third road?

What's that, ma'am?

What your mother wanted for you. College.

- What makes you say that? - Thls does. Your story.

Have you any idea how good this is?

How much promise it shows?

Do you mean that? You said the grammar and the spelllng was bad.

Spelllng and grammar, that can be taught...

But this has something that can't be taught.

It has such beauty and power and excitement it jumps off the page!

All you need is discipline, formal educatlon.

No matter how, you've got to go to college.

- It takes money to go to college. - There's such things as scholarships.

Look, let me make a suggestion.

Take this home and reerte it. Polish it up.

I'll show it to a friend at the university...

Let a lot of people read it? Strangers?

Well, of course.

I didn't write that for anybody else to read. Just you and me.

Then you want to be an errand boy all your life?

Or slop hogs on some farm?

You said you wanted to be a erter. Be one.

- Suppose you're wrong and they laugh? - You take that chance.

Where are your guts?

- I'm an ignorant country boy. - Stop boastlng.

I don't know about all this, being a erter and going to college!

- What are you trylng to do to me? - Wake you up!

Oh the parole board's orders?

You were supposed to help me, not rlle me up llke a muddy creek!

Twist my life into something you want.

Not me, ma'am, not me! It seems to me you're overstepping.

- I had no idea... - I'm sorry, ma'am.

I had no right to put harsh words on you.

Will you at least consider what I've sald untll we meet next Friday?

Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.

Somethlng's burnlng. Smells. I hope that girl's watchlng dinner!

- You ever want to fly? - No.

Kind of breezy up there.

Yes.

Here, hold this.

Feel that pull!

- Whoop! - Whoop!

You like me?

I- o-v-e you.

Back to the house. Get off this property, klte and all!

- Don't be mad. - I'm sorry if you think...

I'm not concerned what you thlnk. Get back to your folks.

- You're all a lot of pigs. - Daddy, stop!

Don't answer back! You didn't come to church! Go and help your ma!

No chlld of mlne gets taught ungodly things on the sabbath!

You could find more godllness here in the sun than in your church!

Don't you come here again! I'll not have it.

Where is god? I don't know.

He takes a boy llke my son off in the war...

And leaves a loafer and braggart llke you alive.

Glenn.

Glenn!

You been touching my stock in any shape or way?

- You think I need a tonic? - Think it's Glenn?

I don't know.

- How are things between you and him? - It takes two to waltz.

Besides, he don't mean dust to me.

- Did you get it fixed? - No, I gave up.

- You were going to fix it... - I gave it up.

Accordlng to my count, there's considerable stock mlssing.

Know anythlng of its whereabouts?

No, except for the two bottles cliff Macy bought.

- Suppose nory's been tippling? - I wouldn't know, uncle rolfe.

- Well, I'm on my way. - Why do you leave the safe door open?

So if anyone wants to thieve, he'll see there's nothlng to be thieved!

Cute, am not I? I'll be home around 1 or 2. Poker night.

Lock me up, son.

Thanks for not telling pa.

What's in that stuff that makes it smell like that?

Banana 0”.

That's a joke.

It's no joke.

Banana 0”.

- Is there enough not water? - Mm-hm.

Will you shut that door?

I want it open.

I said, I want that door shut!

- I'm sorry. - Turn off the light.

Oh, Mrs. Sperry!

Mrs. Sperry!

I want my story back, please.

Mrs. Sperry!

Didn't that light go off?

I did see a light, didn't I?

No, you dreamed it, hon.

- No, I didn't dreamed it, hon. - You did.

Well, I want it back. I want my story back, Mrs. Sperry!

- It's that Tyler boy, stoned. - Stoned is an understatement.

Mrs. Sperry? Mrs. Sperry!

Well, what do you know?

- I want you to meet Mrs. Sperry. - I don't want to meet Mrs. Sperry.

We're going to wake up the whole neighborhood! It's too hot, anyway.

- Is it too hot? - Yes.

Well, we'll cool it offa little bit.

What are you dolng, Glenn?

I'm going to hose away the heat.

Mrs. Sperry!

What about it, Irene sperry?

Gimme the hose.

I wonder if this porch stuff is ralnproof.

Come on, let's go. Let her sleep.

What's he dolng now?

Hosing down the porch.

- Come on! - All right.

I have no desire to monopolize your tlme, ma'am.

She don't give a damn about me, anyway.

Let her snooze her life away, I don't care.

- Come on. - Goodbye, Mrs. Sperry.

- Come on. - No, wait.

I want to cool off.

Walt a mlnute. Thls is cool.

- Give me some. - Sure.

No, no, no!

Oh, you! Glenn!

Hello, Glenn.

Ma'am.

Have you been worklng hard?

What does it look like?

You said you wanted your story back. Here it is.

I'm sorry about last night, ma'am.

But I don't want to come to those meetlngs anymore.

Well, that's your privilege, but I'd like to know why.

Let's just say I'm not worth it. I'm not worth it!

- I dlsagree with you. - What am I talklng to, the door?

Everything goes in one ear and out the other.

You mean there's no braln in your head to stop it?

Surely you reallze you're gifted.

I don't care to be gifted. It's too much work.

Gifted people get knocked around. I been knocked around enough.

If we were all afraid, there would be no great men.

We would have no scholars, sclentlsts, artlsts or movers and shakers!

Get this. This ought to be good.

What's that "movers and shakersll routlne, ma'am?

Those who overcome handlcaps, who live to move and shake the world.

Shake it out of its alllgator sleep and move people out of the swamps.

- She means llke Jesus, Glenn. - Yes!

I mean llke Jesus, Glenn.

Flings them words around like hash.

- Why did she come here? - Where's your ears?

I don't need ears to know what she wants from you.

- Get your mlnd out of the gutter. - It just goes right back down agaln.

It's sure a beauty.

Least a man can do for his only chlld on her birthday.

- Glenn... - Nory, you iook pretty as a bride.

Well, thank you, pa.

Since pa got me a new guitar, I'm giving you my old one.

Come on, you klds. It's a big night, and it's all on me.

- Happy birthday. - Thanks.

Folks born in July, they're home-loving, they say.

Come on, now.

- I'm glad to see you, Mr. Braxton. - Evening, reverend.

- A dollar's worth for me. - A dollar?

Thank you very much.

You go enjoy yourselves. I'll catch up.

Step up, boy! Oh, too bad.

Don't go away mad! Two for a nlckel.

- How you doing? - Thank you.

All right, let's see.

- Supposed to knock them off. - Next time. Stick around.

- Too bad, let's go. - Oh, no.

- You win a big doll here! - Thank you!

Step right up, folks! How about you? Just one more!

- Can I, please? - Sure.

Lord is good to give us a night like this.

- Evening, Mr. Baker. - Evening.

Well, there's a thing.

He saves used postage stamps, all the way back to confederate days.

- A couple of grape drlnks, please. - Yes, slr.

Poor kld. Being her birthday, I've been holding it back all day.

- I don't know how to break it to her. - Holding back what?

News about nory's husband passing away.

What's your plans, Glenn?

If you don't mlnd my saylng so, you're jumplng llke a crlcket.

No, I'm as contlnuous as beads on a strlng.

Now, if you and nory came together, I'd make you a partner in my place.

You know the business.

I'd give this thing a decent tlme of grief.

That's a polnt. If I could soften the blow, whlch it's sure to be to nory...

By telllng her you got matrlmony on your mind.

How did he die?

That's the funny part. The telegram don't say.

- All that hush-hush government stuff. - Yeah, I've seen a lot of it on TV.

- Are you hinting that this is fiction? - I'm saylng don't box me in.

You llsten to me! You are boxed in, that's gospel, but not by me.

You took nory llke a stamp. Licked, smacked and canceled her all over.

- You deny it? - I wasn't exactly alone.

- Are you saylng you...? - You had this in your mind all along.

- You ratty liar! - Don't say that!

Wait till the parole board hears about this!

Where's that boy? Get him!

- What happened? - He pushed me down! Call the police.

Are you hurt, Mr. Braxton?

I ache bad.

I ache very bad!

I came because I had a fight with my uncle. Broke parole.

He'll say I stole his truck. They'll take his word...

And I'll go to jail for 2 or 3 years.

All I can do now is run, get out of the state.

I'd just as soon get out of the world too. I'm that angulshed.

Take a trlp to the moon or hang yourself? Whlch?

How you exaggerate things!

Don't you get it? I need sympathy, not sermons.

You can't build on sympathy, it has no bones.

Now, instead of splutterlng llke a wet firecracker, what do you want from me?

Betty Lee, I don't have the right to ask.

It's nory. It's a trlck. Her pa says I must marry...

I don't want to hear it. Be honest another tlme.

I'm sorry for nory. For you too.

I'm sorry for myself that I love you, Glenn. It won't stop.

And you're wild and unsettled, like a porcuplne that can't be held.

That's right. I'll never make a pet.

- Can you scrape up $20 to help me? - Yes, but they'll get you.

That's my rlsk. I won't hurt or bother you agaln.

- I never said you hurt me. - Will you get me the money?

Don't you think it might be better to stay and fight for your rights?

How?

- Come in and we'll phone. - Who?

Mrs. Sperry for a start. Come on.

Myself and two others on the board feel you're belng harsh with the boy.

- Dr. Underwood and... - Yeah? Who's the other?

- Mrs. Sperry's working with Glenn. - That's nelther here nor there.

His morals make my blood run cold. And he stole my truck.

- And I need x-rays! - Then you mean to press charges?

- I do. - I'd rather you didn't, Mr. Braxton.

You look here. Don't come in here trying to blackmall me!

Blackmall is an ugly word.

But let's explore the possibilities.

A recently widowed cllent of mlne, I advised her to drop the case.

You sold her hundreds of dollars' worth of tobacco juice called Bermuda balm.

You clalmed it was a cure for cancer.

You can't prove that.

Can't I?

Crooked transactlons should always be in cash.

She's got her canceled checks and a witness, her cook.

Life's got shadows enough, Braxton. Live and let live.

Your truck will be returned tomorrow.

I'm glad you got beat, pa.

You don't peddle me llke your no-account belly wash.

Glenn!

I was just typing up the bills, Mr. Longstreet.

Grease me up. I'm going to the Athens for a bite.

Oh. I'm sorry, I didn't see you.

I brought your guitar.

- Is your pa still mad at me? - Mad's a kind word for what he feels.

- You don't hold it agalnst me, do you? - Of course not, nory.

You warned me.

- You always told me the truth. - I can't lle to you, can't pretend.

Glenn, I've missed you something awful.

Don't I get to see you anymore?

I don't think it would do elther of us any good.

Do me good, for sure.

You remember what you said about us belng wild?

Unhappy wild?

You need somebody who's more settled.

Someone with thelr feet on the ground. Me, I don't know what I need.

- But... but it isn't me!

- I didn't say that, nory. - I can get along not being needed.

I just need you, Glenn.

- I don't mean marrlage. I'm not good- - that's your pa's words!

- That's not hls words! - Don't let him beat your wings down!

You alm to fly way up above me.

But if you ever come tumbling down...

I can Walt.

Goodbye, Glenn.

- Is Mrs. Sperry home? - She'll be here in a mlnute.

You can sit and Walt if you llke.

Not in there, in the living room. I'm waxlng the study floor.

Don't break anything.

Hello, Mrs. Sperry.

Glenn.

- How nice to see you. - Thank you.

- Been out to the penltentlary again? - Yes.

It's been one of those long mornlngs.

- How's your new job worklng out? - Just fine.

- I wrote Mr. Macy to thank him. - Oh, good.

- Lunch? - I had it, thanks.

- Sarah doesn't approve of you. - Yeah, I know.

She llkes to hose down the porch herself.

What's this?

It's the story, ma'am.

I rewrote it like you asked me to.

Oh, I'm very pleased.

All these things that are yours...

I can see a whole life in them.

- You read French, ma'am? - Yes, I read French.

And what are these, your father's old medlcal books?

Do you think this is art?

Yes, I think that's art.

If you say so.

This play program... Who is Paul sperry, ma'am?

He was my husband.

Was?

He died.

Well, I'm sorry.

You've never spoken about him, ma'am.

No, I never do.

Is that good?

I mean, keeping something inside that should be let out in the air?

You learn very fast, don't you, Glenn?

You don't need books to understand you should never iock up a heart.

I'd llke to have known him, the kind of man you'd marry.

Well, he was just a boy.

Very talented...

Very emotlonal.

Like you.

Were you happy?

Well, you'll learn, in splte of the fairy tales, there are other things...

Besides living happily ever after.

Like what?

Like work.

One's self-respect.

I guess everyone that knows you respects you.

Well, thank you, Glenn.

- Come back on Friday, llke we used to? - Yes, of course.

We're almost there. You excited?

- A little. And you? - Yes.

Come on, Glenn.

- American literature. - All this?!

Yes, three stacks over.

There's Hemingway, twain, memlle. You take your pick.

After my class, I'll be in professor Larsen's office around the corner.

- Glenn, are you llstenlng to me? - Oh, yeah. Right around the corner.

"Dace sniffs in twos. Sniff, sniff.

But sometlmes sniffs in threes and fours. Sniff, sniff, sniff!

Walklng, wet or dry, head cocked llke a spanlel, almlng to please...

Ilttle dace sniffs. Does a rabbit know about its twitchy nose?

Does the crlcket hear its chirp? Like that, dace doesn't know he sniffs.

Dace is dead.

He's brown and leather dead llke the pork meat from the smokehouse.

Sniffs, worms, smoke and all...

May god hang him high like a flltch of bacon in the winter wind.“

I wish I'd written that.

You've got a real natural on your hands.

- Then you agree with me. - On, I'd say!

Given tlme and seasonlng, anything might happen.

His contact with paper is immedlate and instant. He writes as he feels.

I'll try and work a scholarshlp for him. Send him in.

Glenn?

- You'll never regret this, Joe. - I hope not.

But don't get too involved.

Great expectatlons, great disappointments.

This is professor Larsen. Glenn Tyler.

- How do you do, sir? - How do you do?

I want to say just one thlng, Mr. Tyler. May I?

Yes, sir.

For man to discover fire was nothlng.

To learn to use and controi it was everything.

Will you think about that and what it means?

Yes, sir. I will.

If you were taklng my course...

I would be tempted to give this plece of yours an a.

That's all. Run along now. I have to bone up on a lecture.

Thank you so much, Joe. Good to see you. Bye-bye.

Goodbye.

We're marchlng across the green grass green grass, green grass

we're marchlng across the green grass in a husky, dusty day

we're marchlng off to get marrled marrled, marrled

we're marchlng off to get marrled this husky, dusty day

you're awful dirty and ragged ragged, ragged

you're awful dirty and ragged this husky, dusty day

I'm just as good as you are you are, you are

I'm just as good as you are this husky, dusty day

I'll climb through your window window, window

I'll climb through your window this husky, dusty day

I'll lock and bar the window window, window

- I'll lock and bar the window - I think you're off the key now

I know and I just can't help it

You need some new tlres, Mrs. Sperry.

You're riding on your nerves now.

- Maybe I should take it for a while. - All right.

- Want to stop untll it blows over? - That's a good idea.

- Well, where did you folks come from? - We dropped out of the sky.

- Got any coffee? - No, never touch the stuff.

What have you got?

Well, I got lemon and cherry pop and ice cream on a stlck.

- I'll have cherry pop, please. - Yeah, me too.

- Do you think this rain will last? - Lady, where's your ears?

It's comlng down mighty steady.

Looks to me llke it's going to raln all night. There you are.

- Thanks. - Thank you very much.

He's probably right. Want to wait in the office?

- It'll be warmer. - Let's.

- You two want a room? - No, thanks.

- Got anythlng good to read? - Zane grey.

Can't none of them beat Zane. He came here once, after...

The first world war. Autographed me two of hls books.

Why don't we take rooms untll the raln stops? I'm tlred and jumpy.

Sure, ma'am. If you llke.

- You reglster right here, ma'am. - Shall I sign for you, Glenn?

- If you don't mind. - Two rooms.

- Two rooms. - Are the rooms heated?

Yes, ma'am. Heater in every room. 15 and 16 adjoining. This way.

- Okay to take these? - Yes. Just help yourself.

Thls way, ma'am.

- For the lady. - Thank you.

Okay.

I'll see you when the raln's over, Mrs. Sperry.

Here you are.

- How much you get for this? - $6.00 single.

- You mean for one night each? - What's wrong with that?

- In summer you pay $8.00. - |'ll sleep in the car.

Hold it. What did you figure to pay?

- Three or four. - Then why don't you do it now?

- You'll do it later. - What?

- Double up for $8.00. - Wait!

All right, two singles for $8.00.

Glenn?

Come in.

Glenn, I think we ought to try to drive home.

It's not a good idea on those tlres. Wouldn't be safe even in daylight.

Somethlng wrong?

It's just the rain. I haven't been able to sleep.

Any of these any good?

The Gideon Bible, it's always good.

Try Genesis, seventh chapter.

What's that?

And it came to pass after seven days...

The waters of the flood were upon the earth.

Well, maybe we should bulld ourselves an ark.

I'll wait for you here.

Don't worry, Mrs. Smith, they know me. Everything with a kiss.

Oh! Well, Mr. Smith, it's nlce to see you agaln, slr.

- Got a room? - Yes, slr.

Hey, now. I see you got a couple of other customers tonlght, huh?

Yes, we have. Number 11, your old room. For iuck.

Thanks.

- What's so funny? - It's a small world. Yes, indeed.

A very small world.

I'll borrow this, if I may.

- Good night. - Good night.

Ma'am?

It wasn't the raln that kept me awake, it was you.

These walls are thln, you know.

- I'll try to be more quiet. - No, it's not that.

I guess you know what's happenlng to me.

Glenn, in a relatlonshlp llke ours...

Well, this kind of thing often happens.

- Psychlatry calls it transference. - That's book talk.

I don't mean to be disrespectful to you, but I'm in love with you.

Irene...

I'm in love with you.

Do you want me to leave?

Please.

Well, no matter how many times-

well, I can't help it if she's not home when you call.

The Tyler boy.

All right.

Will you tell her agaln, please? I've got to see her. It's very important.

Yes, I'll leave the message.

Miss Irene, that boy sounds very troubled.

It's the third time he's called.

Here's to us.

I'm assumlng your wife is still willing to give you a divorce.

Honey, don't worry. You know she'd jump at the chance.

In one stroke, you've given my life real meanlng.

- I have to say something else. - What else is there?

You're going to marry me.

I don't...

I don't quite know how to put this...

I'm marrylng you for mlxed reasons.

Well...

We're nelther of us school klds.

I'm runnlng away from something...

Somethlng I'm afraid of.

Another man.

- Anyone I know? - That's unlmportant.

It's just that I wanted you to know...

And I've been terribly frightened. I've felt myself on the brink.

Darling, everything you're saylng is unlmportant.

I know you'll be a wonderful wife.

We'll be happy.

We'll be happy, I guarantee it.

We'll have to celebrate at dlnner tonight.

Mr. Lewis agaln, calllng from Chicago. It's urgent.

I'll take it.

I'll make you a martlnl.

Yes, speaklng.

Oh, very dry.

No, no. Not you, Mr. Lewis. I'm sorry.

- Afternoon, Mr. Longstreet. - Hello, Mr. Braxton.

Young Tyler around?

I just sent him over to the hardware store.

- Is there something you wanted? - He stole my nory's guitar.

He don't impress me at all as a boy with itchy fingers.

From what I heard, I'd check him elsewhere along the line.

What's that supposed to mean?

- Who told you that? - My nephew, Willy dace. A laugh!

It's half past 7. How long will he be?

I don't know. I'd llke to go home myself.

Nice to see you, son. Ma'am.

You can go in now, cliff.

Good evening, dad.

Craving a boon, I wonder if you're in a good mood or bad.

- Where were you Friday night? - Friday night?

- Stopped somewhere in the raln. Why? - You and Willy spreadlng a story...

About Mrs. Sperry up at some motel?

I told a friend or two...

- Do you reallze what you've done? - What have I done?

They were there together, all night! Don't get excited.

Sure, you're not for the lady yourself.

You'd throw my mother away to marry her.

It's tlme you knew you're not the only one who carrles a key to that door.

Can I see Mrs. Sperry? Or is her car home, and she isn't?

- She's home and expectlng somebody. - Never mind. Ask him to come in.

Won't you sit down?

I'm sorry, I was planning to call you tomorrow.

- I know I owe you an explanation. - I haven't slept for two nights.

I've put it off because it's been compllcated.

- I love you. - It isn't that simple!

- You worrled about what people say? - No, it's not that.

- I don't care what people say. - Would you listen? Sit down.

All right, I'll listen.

You're at the start of a brllllant career.

You mustn't get tled down.

You've got to have your hands...

- Mind and emotlons free. - What's that got to do with us?

You're simply not ready for a marrlage.

This is all about me.

What about you, Irene?

It wouldn't work for me either.

For once, what about your life?

I love you.

I got the idea that you love me too. Can we talk about that?

Let's talk about that. I know a lot about love. I marrled for love.

Do you know how it ended?

It ended by my husband gettlng in the car one ralny night...

And hitting a curb at 90 mlles an hour.

And do you know what killed him? Love!

- I don't understand. - A marrlage he wasn't ready for.

- You blame yourself? - Yes!

I should've known he couldn't carry the responsiblllty.

Glenn, do you see I'm lettlng the same thing happen all over again?

I wanted so much for you, and now I've nearly ruined it.

I let my hopes get mlxed in something that doesn't belong...

- That doesn't belong at all. - It could if you let it.

- It could! - Oh, Glenn, please!

Irene.

Are you telllng me you don't love me?

Answer me.

Answer me, please, Irene.

His uncle says you spent Friday together in a motel.

- Who says? - Is it true?

- Who told him that? - My son.

- He's an expert in shady motels. - In lies.

I'm not so sure about that now. Is he what you're runnlng away from?

- You got no right to talk like that. - Haven't I?

Mrs. Sperry has said she will be my wife.

Phil, don't!

Irene, my son, what he said, is it true?

If I find him... if he's shipped home in a box, don't say I didn't warn you.

You were right, ma'am. I don't ever want to see you agaln.

Glenn!

Glenn!

Irene, I have to know. Is it true?

No.

Are you in love with this boy?

Yes.

Now maybe I've destroyed him.

Nory.

- What are you dolng here? - Where's your pa?

- He went bowling tonight. - Do you want to shake this town?

You wouldn't fooi around with me, would you?

Where's the money your pa's got stashed away?

Here it is.

It's got a fake bottom. Just bust it open.

- Get packed, and get your baby. - I'll be ready in a snake.

Well, how do I look?

Kind of frisky for a widow.

Glenn, it's a dream. It's a real dream.

Maybe it's a nlghtmare. How do you know?

We better take the back roads. They'll be after us.

- They won't. Pa can't do a thing. - What do you mean?

- That's all tax-dodge money we took! - It is?

I would give my eyeteeth to see hls face when he reads that note!

- What are we stopplng here for? - I'll be back in a mlnute. Hang on.

- You seen cliff Macy? - He's inside.

If it isn't Tyler, the great lover.

- Is that lady sperry? - Don't talk about her.

Don't talk about her!

She's a pushover. Ask my father, ask anybody!

- Is he drunk? - Get water, will you? Quick!

It was a fig ht.

What did cliff Macy do?

It doesn't matter anymore. It's all over now.

State police. Your pa called them after all.

- You Glenn Tyler? - Yes.

I'm taklng you in for manslaughter.

Look at them, crowding in for the free show.

You'd thlnk it was a circus...

Not a coroner's inquest.

What was a boy like that doing with a $500 watch?

You have nothlng to blame yourself for, Mr. Macy.

A 20-year-old boy?

Mr. Macy, it's nearly 2:00.

Phil? Phil, can I speak to you for a moment?

Go home and pull down your blinds.

You must iisten. Glenn had no intentlon to...

Get him a good lawyer, because my intentlon is to hang him if I can.

Phil?

Mrs. Sperry?

I'm Hank Tyler, Glenn's brother.

We was wondering if...

We got a jug in the car. If you know a good motel...

We figured we might all get together.

There she is.

- Any more questions? - Was there any sort of weapon?

Might have been. It was gettlng dark.

There was no medlcal evidence of that.

Thank you. You can go.

Quiet, please. Quiet.

It's been suggested, and she's agreed.

Will Mrs. Sperry come forward to testify?

- She's got a lot of nerve! - We must have qulet here.

Quiet!

Raise your right hand.

Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god?

- I do. - State your name, please.

- Irene sperry. - Mrs. Sperry...

We're simply trylng to determlne if there are grounds for prosecution.

Man 1: Kills the boy, and wonders if there's grounds for prosecutlon!

I wish to remlnd everyone here that this is an inquest...

And not a murder trlal!

Was Tyler present at your house on Thursday night around 8:00?

He was.

- What was he dolng there? - Soclal work!

- Was phll Macy present? - He was.

Did Tyler at that time...

Utter some klnd of threat agalnst Mr. Macy's son?

- Well, he... - What did he say?

I don't remember the exact words, Dr. Creston.

Was hls remark something along the llne:

“He would send young Macy home in a box"?

- Yes, Mrs. Sperry? - He had every reason to be angry.

There was a slander being spread, a lie.

- True! - You denylng it?

- Some lie! - Yes, a lie!

Glenn did nothlng to be ashamed of.

If anyone's to blame, it's me. I lost sight of certaln realltles...

And I forgot my responsibllltles.

Oh, Glenn, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Mrs. Sperry, this is off the polnt.

We're merely trylng to determlne if there's been felony commltted here.

What I'm trylng to say is that there was no felony commltted.

- Cliff Macy's death was an accident. - What do you mean?

Order! Order!

Glenn was angry over what had been said, and he hlt him.

He didn't intend to kill him.

- He didn't know cliff had a bad heart. - A bad heart, Mrs. Sperry?

Yes.

Isn't that in the autopsy report?

There was postmortem evidence that he'd suffered a coronary.

We assumed it was caused by the blow.

Are you saylng the boy had a chronlc heart condition?

Well, if so, the family physician, Dr. Mclaws, knew nothing about it.

Well, ask his father, Mr. Macy.

He told me about cliff's heart weeks ago.

Well, Phil...

Do you wish to make a statement? You needn't.

We reallze it's painful for you, but...

There was nothing wrong with my son's heart. He was in perfect health.

We will hear the next witness, Hank Tyler.

Raise your right hand.

You swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth...

- So help you god? - I do.

- State your name. - Ha-k: Hank Tyler.

- Sarah. - Yes, miss Irene?

Here it is.

Make sure it goes first class, speclal delivery.

I hope they don't get too drastlc with that boy.

Do I take the car?

Ca r?

Just down to the post office?

Sarah, you'll grow fat.

I suppose.

No, Rosie.

No walk today.

Were you present at Mrs. Sperry's home...

When Tyler is alleged to have made a threat agalnst your son?

- I was. - Can you repeat what he said?

He sald:

"If I find your son...

If he's shipped home in a box, don't say I didn't warn you.“

- No! - We'd better adjourn now.

No, Walt. Give me a mlnute, please.

I want to, god help me, correct a statement of mlne.

- What happened? - I lied to you about cliff's heart.

It was bad, very bad. It wasn't Tyler's fault at all.

I struck cliff myself the same night for the same reason.

Let him go! Let him go!

Irene.

You can switch over.

- Irene? - That's the idea. Keep breathlng.

Breathe deep.

Irene, there's nothlng to be afraid of anymore.

Mr. Macy told them the truth. I'm free.

But I need you, Irene.

Don't leave me.

Don't you leave me too.

I'm so ashamed.

Don't be ashamed.

I'll help you.

I'll take care of you. I won't let anythlng hurt you agaln.

- Well, Glenn- - I'm not saylng goodbye.

I know, but find out first.

Be sure.

That's what college is for, is to find out.

Will you write?

All aboard!