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Big Lake, A Tragedy in Two Parts-Lynn Riggs · Tristan and Isolde

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  Speaker 1: Part one of Big Lake, a Tragedy in two parts
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  Speaker 1: by Lynn Riggs. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 2: Characters Betty read by shrimp Fish.
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  Speaker 3: Lloyd read by Todd.
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  Speaker 4: Ellie read by Jacqueline Tyler.
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  Speaker 5: Butch Adams read by Joseph S.
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  Speaker 6: Sheriff read by Gregg Giardano, Deputies.
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  Speaker 5: Joe read by John.
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  Speaker 7: Hunter, and Plank read by Anko.
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  Speaker 8: Miss Meredith read by Agnes Robert Bair.
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  Speaker 1: Bud Bickle, The Davis Boy and Stage Direction read by
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  Speaker 1: Brian Fullan.
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  Speaker 9: One of the Country school Boys and Girls read by
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  Speaker 9: Jesse Percival.
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  Speaker 5: One of the Country school Boys and Girls read by
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  Speaker 5: ra Bunzelina.
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  Speaker 10: One of the Country school Boys and Girls read by Leololo.
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  Speaker 11: One of the Country school Boys and Girls read by
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  Speaker 11: Penny Carrington.
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  Speaker 2: One of the Country school Boys and Girls red by
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  Speaker 2: shrimp Fish.
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  Speaker 8: One of the Country school Boys and Girls read by Winterbury.
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  Speaker 1: Part one The Woods Scene one the woods adjoining the
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  Speaker 1: Big Lake near Verdigree, Switch, Indian Territory, nineteen oh six.
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  Speaker 1: It is spring vines creep on the trees, just putting
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  Speaker 1: out their green. The ground is soft with dead leaves,
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  Speaker 1: among which grow the earliest flowers. A fallen log lies
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  Speaker 1: in a tangle of last year's briars. It is the
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  Speaker 1: grayness of morning. Keller is beginning to show in the
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  Speaker 1: east where the lake lies, and as the light grows,
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  Speaker 1: the lake shines through the leaves. Lloyd and Betty come
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  Speaker 1: from the left, softly over the matted earth. They are
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  Speaker 1: very young. Lloyd is tall, dark, He has black hair.
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  Speaker 1: His face is sensitive. He wears rough shoes, dark trousers
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  Speaker 1: and a pale blue shirt. Betty's hair is yellow. She
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  Speaker 1: has let it down. It frames her white, delicate face.
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  Speaker 1: Her dress is a coarse, dark slip.
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  Speaker 3: It's Ben's a gray.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting lighter.
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  Speaker 3: It's Ben's a gray. But now he's getting lighter and lighter,
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  Speaker 3: even to clear. Back here in the woods, I can
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  Speaker 3: feel the dawn. I can feel the dawn. I can
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  Speaker 3: see the dawn. Look through the trees well, the lake sat.
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  Speaker 3: The big lakes are shining like a tub full of
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  Speaker 3: soap SuDS. I'm glad we come, ain't you, Betty.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad we come early.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad we come.
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  Speaker 1: They stand a moment, breathless at the beauty before them.
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  Speaker 3: Let's sit down.
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  Speaker 1: They sit at left.
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  Speaker 3: The horse is tied up, grubs safe in the buggy.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Meredith and the rest of em won't be here
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  Speaker 3: for a long time yet. They'll be here though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it'll be a long time. Won't Miss Meredith be
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  Speaker 3: surprised to find us here ahead everybody? It was my idea.
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  Speaker 3: She'll think we're pretty smart.
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  Speaker 2: How many's coming?
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  Speaker 3: The whole class, I guess, except the Davis boy. It'll
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  Speaker 3: be a nice day to picnic, won't it.
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  Speaker 1: He rises and goes away from her and looks out
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  Speaker 1: toward the lake.
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  Speaker 3: I always liked the big lake. I've come here many
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  Speaker 3: as the time with Pau when we go out to
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  Speaker 3: get some cattle, miles and miles through the violin heat,
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  Speaker 3: tongue clawing at your mouths, I eatin dust. Maybe we'd
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  Speaker 3: go dust pilin up an blinding you, I getting in
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  Speaker 3: your mouth and eyes till you thought you couldn't stand it.
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  Speaker 3: An then the dark woods here briars a clawing at
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  Speaker 3: your legs and hands rattleer's a hidin' under the leaves,
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  Speaker 3: Maybe logs to make your horses jump and branches you'd
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  Speaker 3: had to dodge. Then the lake flowin wide out plumb
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  Speaker 3: over almost all sight. I satin there in the sun,
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  Speaker 3: like somethin' you never hoped to see. I'd always want
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  Speaker 3: to get off my horse and go down to the
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  Speaker 3: edge of it and totch it and look at it
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  Speaker 3: a long time. But POD always say, sat there, a garkin,
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  Speaker 3: you kid. We got to get back to the sawmill
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  Speaker 3: or two o'clock. Lord, he'd say, to the other end
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  Speaker 3: of the lake is dried up, pretty good, son, We
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  Speaker 3: could cross over that instead of go around by the
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  Speaker 3: section line. I ain't never seen it like this, though
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  Speaker 3: it's prettier, not ever seen it. And we can look
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  Speaker 3: at it as long as we want to, and we
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  Speaker 3: can go out on it in a boat if there
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  Speaker 3: is a boat.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you come over here and set down by me.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you come over here and look at the lake.
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  Speaker 2: I can see it good from here.
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  Speaker 3: Come on over the big log and you can see
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  Speaker 3: it better.
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  Speaker 2: No, I like it here better.
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  Speaker 3: You's funny said over there, Then I like you there
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  Speaker 3: just as well. You look pretty good no matter where
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  Speaker 3: you're a sittin'. You sat pretty good. I like you
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  Speaker 3: settin there with the vine leaves and the tree leaves
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  Speaker 3: behind you. You got purdier and perdier.
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  Speaker 2: Betty have I You're sweet to say it.
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  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't I say it?
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  Speaker 2: No reason not to. I like to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: Words get in the way. Some I can't think to
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  Speaker 3: say much.
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  Speaker 2: There's no need to say much.
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  Speaker 3: There is need to seems to me you're coming to Verdice.
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  Speaker 3: Was like you'd come from some place besides down the river.
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  Speaker 3: It made me think of the Bible, something about the
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  Speaker 3: angel that come down to roll away the stone.
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  Speaker 2: You wasn't dead.
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  Speaker 3: I was asleep. I was I was young asleep. I
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  Speaker 3: was a boy asleep. I'm awake now I'm a man.
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  Speaker 3: I've come to life.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think I is an angel sprouting wings.
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  Speaker 3: You're better in an angel.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two to me better in an angel. I'll put
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  Speaker 3: this flower in your hair. No, it's like a star.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, where'd you get it at?
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  Speaker 3: Why here under the leaves?
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  Speaker 2: It growed up through the dead leaves. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 3: Why, Betty, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Stand them kind of flowers.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a flower growing in the woods.
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  Speaker 2: In the dark woods.
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  Speaker 8: Lloyd, What is it?
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  Speaker 5: Lloyd?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go away from here.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you want to go to?
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  Speaker 2: Out of here? Out of these woods? Oh you think
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  Speaker 2: I ain't right. I can't expect you to know how
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  Speaker 2: I feel. There's something I don't know what it is. Please,
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  Speaker 2: It's like the woods.
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  Speaker 3: Was wading like an animal to get.
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  Speaker 2: Us, to get us. I'm afeared these things growing here
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  Speaker 2: and fighting, these things crawling on the ground, under the ground,
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  Speaker 2: in the trees everywhere. I'm a feared.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a feared, Lloyd, I'm a feared too. Let's go where'll.
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  Speaker 2: We go to?
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  Speaker 3: Out on the lake.
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  Speaker 2: There's no boat.
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  Speaker 3: Further down there's a cabin I know, and a boat. Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, let's go to it.
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  Speaker 1: They start, Lloyd stops shaking off his fear.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, listen, what's the matter with us? Runnin like rabbits?
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  Speaker 3: There ain't nothin to be skeered of. We're just cold,
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  Speaker 3: that's all that's it. Driv us. The long afford got lies,
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  Speaker 3: just got us chilled to the bone. I ain't cold, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: cold as eyes. You're tremblin'.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a feared.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to the cabin then it's safe.
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  Speaker 2: Thar and get the boat and go out on the lake.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get warm first.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, let's not go to the cabin. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: on the lake.
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  Speaker 3: Why, Betty, I never.
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  Speaker 6: Seen you like this.
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  Speaker 2: I never been like this.
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  Speaker 3: Come on to the lake, now, Betty, to the cabin first. Ay,
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  Speaker 3: you're cold. There'll be a fire burnin there. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know who's a livin there, but we'll go up an
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  Speaker 3: knock an ask to get warm. They'll be up country folks.
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  Speaker 3: Get up early an they'll have a fire, a nice
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  Speaker 3: rollin warm fire in the fireplace for us to get
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  Speaker 3: warm at. Won't you like that, Mebby. It's the funniest
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  Speaker 3: kind of cabin you ever see. It's a log cabin.
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  Speaker 3: I've been in it a long time ago with Pa. It's
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  Speaker 3: a nice log cabin. An they'll have a fire.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll go.
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  Speaker 3: If you think from the outside, it looks just like
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  Speaker 3: any log cabin. But when you open the door an
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  Speaker 3: look in, whatd'yo see? Steps? Three steps A goin down
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  Speaker 3: to the dirt floor. It's pot under the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, like it growed up out of the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, just like that, like it growed out of the ground.
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  Speaker 2: It growed out of the ground. It growed out of
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  Speaker 2: the same ground the big woods growed out of.
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  Speaker 1: She shudders.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's don't go there, just long enough to get warm. No,
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  Speaker 3: not that warm, and ask him for the boat here
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  Speaker 3: if they got a boat, couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: We just take the boat without asking?
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  Speaker 8: Betty?
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  Speaker 3: Course we couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see we ain't these I'd be one. No,
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  Speaker 3: you wouldn't. Come on to the lake, to the cabin.
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  Speaker 3: First lake, No, Betty, cabin.
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  Speaker 1: They go out right. Curtain scene too. Interior of the
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  Speaker 1: cabin at the bout three steps the sun from the
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  Speaker 1: planked door to the dirt floor of the cabin. Windows
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  Speaker 1: curtained are on either side of the door. They are
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  Speaker 1: so high up that only a tall man can see out.
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  Speaker 1: A wide fireplace made of stone rises from the floor
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  Speaker 1: at the right end of the room. In the left
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  Speaker 1: corner of the cabin, a wide double deck bunk juts out.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy quilts cover both beds. A few chairs, A rough
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  Speaker 1: table set for breakfast at right of steps, and utensils
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  Speaker 1: for cooking at the fireplace complete the furnishings. A fire
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  Speaker 1: burns in the fireplace. Coffee bubbles on a little iron
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  Speaker 1: stand on the hearth. It is dark and gloomy. No
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  Speaker 1: direct sunlight has ever reached this secret place. Ellie, a tall,
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  Speaker 1: dark woman of thirty five, stands tensely by the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the bunk. Her face, even in her excitement, is
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  Speaker 1: brooding and restrained. Her thick black hair, parted in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: is done up in a knob at the back of
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  Speaker 1: her head. She is wearing a faded, predominantly purple plaid dress,
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  Speaker 1: full sleeved, full skirted, pulled in at the waist. After
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  Speaker 1: a moment, she goes swiftly to the fireplace, pokes the fire,
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  Speaker 1: then goes across to the window nearest the bunk, and
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  Speaker 1: with extraordinary agility and grace, steps upon a chair under
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  Speaker 1: the window and looks out. She gets down, goes slowly
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  Speaker 1: toward the fireplace in the center of the room. She halts,
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  Speaker 1: wheels about, and faces the door. It opens. A man
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  Speaker 1: comes in quickly and closes the door, as if shutting
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  Speaker 1: something out. He turns facing her from the top of
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  Speaker 1: the steps. He is of medium height, brutal, crafty. His
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  Speaker 1: clothes are nondescript and unclean. His hair slance into his
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  Speaker 1: eyes butch.
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  Speaker 4: Thank god I didn't see ye.
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  Speaker 1: She makes a step toward him.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up, butch, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Shut up? I tell you, squawking like a hen, you
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  Speaker 5: want to get me killed? They followed me.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me what is it?
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  Speaker 5: I'll show em. They won't get me. I've got away
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  Speaker 5: from better men than they are. They won't get me alive,
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  Speaker 5: the lousy bumps. I'd like to see em. And they
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  Speaker 5: followed me. I've been at the switch and when I
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  Speaker 5: started back, I've seen three men a following. They'll come here,
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  Speaker 5: and they ain't got nothin on me. They can't prove nothing.
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  Speaker 5: They don't know. It's me done it. They only got
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  Speaker 5: somebody's word. They don't know it, and they can't prove it.
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  Speaker 5: No one saw me.
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  Speaker 4: But I knowed this had come. I knowed it. You'll
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  Speaker 4: get sent up, and it ain't right. You ain't done
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  Speaker 4: nothing wrong. It's just a law. What the hell's along?
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  Speaker 4: What's a good fer? Whind it again? The law everywhere
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  Speaker 4: else to sell whiskey. Them men where they have their
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  Speaker 4: corner saloons all polished up, are making it criminal to
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  Speaker 4: sell a man a drink? What's right about it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know? Protecting the Indians, They don't want the
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  Speaker 4: Indians to get all it up like they do all
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  Speaker 4: the time, every day, every night, regular hell Indians. I
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  Speaker 4: ain't saw two Indians since I come to Indian territory.
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  Speaker 4: Now they'll get you noted. They'll stick you for selling
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  Speaker 4: the stuff to the poor fools that's too scared and
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  Speaker 4: too weak. And two damn bigger cowards to go up
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  Speaker 4: to Kansas City are Joplin and bring in their own
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  Speaker 4: whiskey like a man. They'll send you to jail, the
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  Speaker 4: only man that's got guts enough to do it. You'll
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  Speaker 4: get ten years or more. Well I get, I'll get off.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'll get. I'll get left here to rock.
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  Speaker 5: Shut up.
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  Speaker 1: He goes up these steps and listens intently. Then he
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  Speaker 1: comes down.
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  Speaker 5: Let up on your jail stuff. You'll have me scared,
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  Speaker 5: and I gotta keep my senses. Listen to me. I've
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  Speaker 5: been followed before. The last bunch of guys laid in
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  Speaker 5: wait close to the hall or where the whiskey's at.
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  Speaker 5: Did that stop me from getting a whiskey and getting
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  Speaker 5: out with it? Do that stop me from selling it? Regularly?
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  Speaker 5: To Joe Hurd's Curry story at Clermont, I've been follered
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  Speaker 5: lots of times, and you know it. I've been follered
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  Speaker 5: lots of times, count of selling whiskey. It ain't nothing
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  Speaker 5: new to me this time I'm follered. And it ain't
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  Speaker 5: on account of the whiskey. It's something else.
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  Speaker 4: Butch, you got to tell me what is it? What
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  Speaker 4: have you done?
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  Speaker 5: Easy? Easy?
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  Speaker 4: You was scared. I never see you like that before.
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  Speaker 4: You've done something. Tell me what it is? What have
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  Speaker 4: you done?
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  Speaker 8: Lay off?
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  Speaker 5: Take it easy? Butch, christ say you're a mad woman.
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  Speaker 5: Keep your shirt on. Maybe you ain't done nothing. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: you'd just been fooling myself. Maybe for all I know,
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  Speaker 5: they ain't nothing to get excited about.
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  Speaker 4: Butch, you got blood on your coat.
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  Speaker 1: She stands a moment, terrified.
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  Speaker 4: Your hurt? Why'n you tell me quick? Lemme fix it?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 5: Ain't hurt?
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  Speaker 4: You're bleedin.
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  Speaker 5: It ain't my blood.
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  Speaker 1: Eli draws back her hand, ut her face confused.
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  Speaker 5: A killed a man?
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  Speaker 4: Oh you'll hang for it. Butch Adams, why'd you go
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  Speaker 4: an do it? Who was it?
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  Speaker 5: Jim Dorry? He told on me for selling whisky. He
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  Speaker 5: told the federal officers, aid Telsey, I killed him stuck
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  Speaker 5: a knife in him and turned it around. That's why
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  Speaker 5: I went out at midnight to lay for room. I
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  Speaker 5: knowed he'd go to the play party or to Bingham's.
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  Speaker 5: I laid for him in the big woods, close to
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  Speaker 5: the sawmill. Here he'd go that a way home. I
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  Speaker 5: figured about three o'clock this mornin' he come along in
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  Speaker 5: a buggy with one horse to it. I jumped out,
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  Speaker 5: grabbed the bridle. He leaped out on me with a knife.
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  Speaker 5: I got hold of it. I stuck it through his
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  Speaker 5: ribs and turned it around. Then I got scared they
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  Speaker 5: might think I'd done it finding him so close to here.
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  Speaker 5: It wouldn't do to find him so close, picked him
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  Speaker 5: up and dumped him in the buggy and give the
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  Speaker 5: horse a crack with a stick. He started off and
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  Speaker 5: a run down the road. But not afore I'd saw
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  Speaker 5: Jim kind of raise up one of his hands to
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  Speaker 5: his face. He wasn't dead. I hadn't made shawl. He
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  Speaker 5: wasn't dead, and he'd tell him me. He'd tell someone
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  Speaker 5: for he died, and I'd hang for it. Oh, maybe
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  Speaker 5: I could catch up and finish the jaw. But the
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  Speaker 5: horse run like mad, crashing through the bushes, but kept
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  Speaker 5: purty close to the road. I run and run after him,
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  Speaker 5: almost to the switch. Then I seen someone come out
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  Speaker 5: of the store and whirl a light was burning, and
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  Speaker 5: grabbed the horse's bridle. I seen him take Jim up
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  Speaker 5: and carry him in and shut the door. I run away.
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  Speaker 4: Then.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know if he was dead or not. If
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  Speaker 5: he wasn't he telling me I was crazy. Not knowing
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  Speaker 5: if he was dead or not, I come on to
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  Speaker 5: the woods. I couldn't stand it, not knowing. I started back.
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  Speaker 5: When I got to the edge of the woods, I
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  Speaker 5: seen three men coming up the road. I'd knowed one
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  Speaker 5: of them. It was the sheriff. They must have wired
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  Speaker 5: the Claremont for him. Jim had told on me, Ellie,
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  Speaker 5: what'll I do? They'll get me.
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  Speaker 1: Elly goes over to the fireplace in her absorbed way,
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  Speaker 1: without speaking, and pour some water in a pan.
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  Speaker 5: Ellie, they'll be here any minute, for God's sake, say something.
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  Speaker 4: Your breakfast ready, Ellie. Take off your.
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  Speaker 1: Coat, he does, like one in a daze.
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  Speaker 4: Throw it under the monk.
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  Speaker 1: He does, so, wash your hands. He moves toward the
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  Speaker 1: pants slowly and begins to wash his hands. She has
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  Speaker 1: gone to the table with the coffee pot and poured
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: some coffee. He finishes washing and dries his hands on
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a towel. Sit down, He moves toward the table.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: But Ellie, sit down.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: And eat your breakfast, mister murderer.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He sits. Ellie leans over the table.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Eat a plenty, drink, here's coffee, salt, pork, gravy, potatoes,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: eat them. Enjoy yourself.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Butch half rising, what do you mean it?
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I had not a dummy. Would you want me to do?
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Let him get away with it. Let that dirty little
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: coward sneak off to Telsey and stick the officers on
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: to me like bloodhounds and do nothing about it. That
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: ain't my way. Someone does me dirt, he gets it,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: you can count on it. I ain't no Christian. I'm
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: a man. You I'm a man.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Let up, ell He goes away from him, bitterly, your.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Lorn I thought you was. I never thought to be
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: living with a murderer.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: He comes toward her.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, I ain't so good. I know you don't have
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: to tell me, but I never thought to come to this.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I thought I knowed what I was getting into when
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: I went away with you. I knowed you was a bootlegger.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: I didn't care. It's clean, it's right. But killing. I
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: stop at killing. Why'd you go and do it? Why
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: did you?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: They'll come and take you. They'll take you away from me.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Christ's sakes, Shut up. It took me away for bootlegging.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: No, they wouldn't. They couldn't have proved it. But now
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: they'll take you. They'll hang you for murder.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: She clings to him.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: No, I won't let him. They can't take you. I
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: love you. I can't help it, and I won't let
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: them take you away from me. I won't let them.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I'll find a way. I will. They ain't proved you
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: done it. You said, no one's seen you.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: They got Jim's word.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I tell you he's dead. He can't talk now, sh.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Hurts him, excitedly, drawing his pistol.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Do you get me give me that gun?
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Not as long as I'm alive, butch give.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: It to me. I'm all right now. I ain't never
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: advised you wrong. I'll get you. Listen to me. You
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: ain't been out of the house, you hear, not since yesterday?
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Eat your breakfast.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: She goes to the window, steps on the chair and looks.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Out it's only a man and woman.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: It's blind.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: No, no coming down.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: It's just a boy and girl, a couple of kids.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Keep them out, No, we'll let them in. It's providence.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: It's blind.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I tell you, it's luck. It's our luck. Maybe we
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: can use them some way. I don't know yet. Give
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: me the gun.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: He hands it to her reluctantly.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Keep your head. These two come in. They'll keep you
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: from hanging, Butch Adams.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: She goes swiftly to the bunks and hides the pistol
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: under the quilts. Butch goes back to the table and sits.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: There is a moment of intense silence, then a knock in.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Lloyd and Betty come in. They look very slight, very
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: delicate in this somber place. How do.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Howdy you got a file? We can get warm out
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: over there. If it will bother you, if we'd be
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: in your way, it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Won't bother me. Nothing gets in my way. You're welcome,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: come in and get warm if you want to.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: They come down the steps slowly. Ellie turns to the window.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: I get you a cheer.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Lloyd and Betty turn and are about to go to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the fireplace when Butch rises from the table where he
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: has been sitting. They see him for the first time
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and stop.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: It alarm, but spring a cheer up.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: He picks up a chair and sets it in front
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of the fireplace. Lloyd and Betty watch him anxiously. He
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: goes across to the bunks sits down. Ellie crosses over
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: with another chair.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Here's another chair, sit down. They go over slowly and
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: sit the forest going strong. Maybe you'd like a cup
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: of hot coffee, would you, Betty?
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: She shakes her head and no, ma'am, thank you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I guess you've had your breakfast.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: No, we ain't yet. We're going to have it soon
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: as miss Meredith comes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Oh's smiths, Meredith, I teach you. Oh over to the switch.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's a picnic breakfast here in the woods for
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: the whole class.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, you've come off for early.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Nobody's coming yet but us we come early.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: How'd you happen to do that?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Why we we just thought we'd come early. We drove
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: over from the switch horse and buggies up here aways
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: not for oh.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: She looks from one to the other, then to Betty.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Are you getting warm? Miss?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yes'm I was cold?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: She was trembling you'd ought to wear more clothes when
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: you go out surly. Yes'm your Martaughta told you. Mastead
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: your pard Atta told you.
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: Then he's asleep.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: The three smile at this. Lloyd and Betty begin to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: feel more at ease.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: This is the first time I've been out surly. I
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: didn't know it was cold. Now I know before it
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: gets sun up. It's liable to be even after son up.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: It's apt to be cold here in the woods.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Ain't it, Ellie. Ain't you got a coat? You could
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: let her? Maury?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Why, yes, I got a coat to Betty. I'll lend
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: you one.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: No, you mustn't. I'm obliged to you. But I don't
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: you show Yes'm.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Butch's interruption causes a constrained silence. Ellie goes away toward
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the bunks thoughtfully. Betty, uneasy, looks at Lloyd. Then Butcher rises,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: crosses the room, takes the poker and stirs the fire.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: He goes back to the little table and sits down.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Lloyd rises, makes a step toward Ellie.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Maybe we better go, now sit down.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: He begins eating his breakfast.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: He ain't had his breakfast. Don't mind him, We better go.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: He don't mean nothing.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll stay a minute or two.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: He goes back and sits down, Ellie, as if nothing
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: had happened.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Must be fun to come a picnicking in the woods.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I ain't never been.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: I ain't been since I was your age. Why ain't
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: you been.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I've always worked help my dad drive cattle till now
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I'm in school.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: And ain't never been to school before. No, ma'am, an
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: ain't never went on picnic, not till now. I used
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: to go all the time when I was your age
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: in Kansas City. Woods wasn't far away. Used to go,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: a whole crowd of us every Sunday, set on the ground,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: real ground, stood old pavement with grass of growing out
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: of it. First I'd ever saw. We thought it was fine.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: You've missed a lot.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, um, I guess so. But I've had fun. I've
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: been out with Paul a lot driving cattle. He buys
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: em up different places, verdigree, foil, Caesia, even so fur
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: away as prior Crieck. Then we could saddle off our
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: horses and go out and drive em in to ship
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: to the market at Saint Louis.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: What's fun about dry cattle sounds like work to me.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Well, it's work, and it's fun too.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: In winter, looks like you'd freeze your ears off.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, we don't drive a mushroom winter.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Well, in the summer, then in the spring, I don't
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: see what's fun about the scorching heat and the dust
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: and the hot wind. I'd want to be in out
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: of it. I'd want to be under a roof, whether
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: sun didn't hit me.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Sun's bad, that's bad too. Wind dan so good. But
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: there's something else.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what is it?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Lloyd going across to her.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's kind of crazy.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: I had a crazy brother.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Lloyd smiling, Well, it ain't as bad as that.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: My brother wasn't bad, just wasn't right. He used to
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: run out in the woods here like he is wild.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: He lived here with us, He done queer things.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Thanks, this is queer too. You'll laugh. You see, when
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Paul and me goes out to drive cattle, some time
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: or other, we pass by the big lake. The lake,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: yes'm Sometimes it's early when we first died out from
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: the switch. Sometimes it's middle of the day when we
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: got back from Grand River. Sometimes it's night, but we
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: always pass by it. Some time or other.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I don't see what's fun about it. I've been living
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: here three years. I can see the lake anytime. There's
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: no fun to that.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I can't explain it very well. It's nice, nice to
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: see it, no matter where you're at, what time of
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: day it is. It's nice snow, the lakes are and
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: it's nice snow. At some time. Maybe you'll get a
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: chance to go out on it. I ain't never been.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I always want to smiling. Kind of crazy, ain't.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: It, Ellie? Thoughtfully?
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, I told you it was.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: You're not the only one, the only one. What crazy?
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: These others? I saw them? Do you ever read the newspapers?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I know them.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I can't read well.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Not much, but I'm gonna learn better.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: How long you lived at the switch, always lived there?
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Then you must have heard of people getting drowned in
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: the lake?
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Crazy? Why they go on it?
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Can't the lake's fault. It's there.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for going out on it, No.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: For carelessness. Some of them fall in, some of them
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: turn the boat over. Sometimes the boat leaks.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But if they didn't try to go out on
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: the lake, the boat wouldn't leak, the boat wouldn't turn over,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: and they wouldn't fall in. It's their fault for going.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: But people will go out on it. People want to.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: It ain't wrong, No, it t ain't wrong. And people
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: will do it. That's the trouble. They will do it.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: And do you know who it is? Does it? Do
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: you know who it is that's always getting drowned in
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: the lake? People like you, young people like yourselves picnicking
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: My brother. He got drowned out there a month back.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: We never did find him.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Butch has risen to put a log on the fire.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Bet He shrinks away from him as he goes near her.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Warm now, yes, sir.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Lloyd goes over quickly, anxiously, we better go.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Lloyd, I'm warm, I'm plenty warm.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Well we'll go then to Butch. Thank you, mister, thank
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: you for the fire.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: He turns toward Ellie.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I was going to ask you if we could borrow
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: your boat. I don't know now, I want.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: To Betty quickly nervously to Ellie.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: You got a boat, ain't you?
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: Yes, let us bory it a while.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Please let us wory it.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Lloyd to Betty, you still want to go on the lake.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do?
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: To Ellie, please can't we take it?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: For a while.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I ain't so shuw.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: Worrio bored all you want to here's the keys, Lloyd
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: takes it, bring it back when you get ready. Oars
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: is over there by the door.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you to Ellie.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the fire.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Lloyd and Betty go toward these steps. He picks up
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the oars. They go up these steps. Lloyd turns to Ellie.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: The ol seem to be good. The boat don't leak,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: does it?
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: No, it don't leak?
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Lloyd smiling, Well.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I'm careful, Betty's careful. We'll make out, all right.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I guess they go out. Ellie looks sharply at Butch.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: He turns back to the table and sits down. She
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: follows him over.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Why'd you do it?
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Do what?
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: Give him the key? Give him the oars?
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Why to get rid of them? I didn't want him here?
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: It is you wanted him?
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: You're lying? Why'd you do it? I told you that
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: wasn't it. You got some reason?
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: You had a reason for letting him come in too,
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: you said you did anyway, Well, what was it?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: I thought we could use him, use them?
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: How could we use him?
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: I guess we can't?
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: No of course not. He never had no idea that
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: you was just talking.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: I did have an idea. I thought when I seen
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: him outside, they might be a way of throwing the
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: blame onto that boy Someway.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Butch rising excited.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Ellie, you thought of blaming him with Yes.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: For I seen him.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: I did.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: After he come in, I knowed we couldn't.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Well why not.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have the nerve to try to throw it
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: onto him. Maybe it'd work, all right, Maybe it could
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: be done, these ways of making fools out of the law. Oh,
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: I know, I've done it many's the time. And we
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: could get suspicion on this boy Someway and he'd hang too,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: innocent and all. But I can't do it. I wouldn't
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: think of doing it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Well, why wouldn't you.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Butch, forget, I said it, Forget, I ever thought of
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: such a thing.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you thought of it.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: I mean? It's an id. I wouldn't have thought of it.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: I can see, I can see away. You're a smart woman, Ellie.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, let me think.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: No, you can't do it. What are you thinking of?
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Why not? You want me to hang?
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: No?
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Shut up? Then the officers will come here. What'll I
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: tell him? What'll I say? He'll come in the door.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: This boy, he'll be out on the lake by that time.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Butch, Butch, shut up. You can't plan to do this.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I won't let you get that boy killed. He's too young.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: He's too sweet looking.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Hah, he ain't. I ain't I sweet looking? You said, so?
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: Do you mean it?
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I come here and lived with.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: You, sold Lily, sowed Marge. Would they do Lily on
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: her death? Better? Damning me? I can hear her yet, Marge,
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: she tried to give me up to the law. I
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: fixed her. Hell, they both come here and lived with me.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: That don't prove nothing. You gotta prove it some other way.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: You gotta help me.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: I've helped you, bending over your far, cooking your victuals,
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: washing your clothes, making the beds you slept in. I've
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: helped you living in this damp cellar like a mole,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: with no sunshine or coming in, and no moonlight ever.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: I've tended you when you are sick. I've lied for you.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: I've buried myself away from all the decent folks I
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: ever knowed here in these dark woods for three years
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: why'd I do it? Why did I? It's proof you want?
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Is it? Then? Look at me? Butch Adams, I'm proof.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Look at me. I was young when I come here
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: with you three year ago. I was young like that
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: little girl that is here just now. I wasn't as
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: party as her, but I was young like her. Look
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: at me.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Now you're talking, you're putting words together. Well good are
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: they to me? They won't save my neck from hanging.
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: You got to help me. If you got to talk,
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: tell me what to do. The sheriff will be coming here.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: What a less say to him? There ain't nothing to
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: say to him unless you help me. I got a plan,
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Not that boy. You gotta help me. They don't care
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: who they hang in this country. One man's as good
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: as another for hanging. They don't care. But I do.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: I care for hanging. Got to be.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Someone else, not that boy.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: That boy, it's got to be him. It's got to
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: be him killed Jim Dorry.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: They'll never believe he'd done it.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: They'll believe it.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Jim Dorry must have told him befo he died, who
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: done it?
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: That don't prove it. My words as good as his.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Jim might have made a mistake. In the dark woods.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: You couldn't see so well, not even if it had
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: been daylight. Maybe somebody else done.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: It, Not that boy, that boy.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: I tell you no, but.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Shut up.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: I can't let you. You don't know what you're doing doing.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: I'm saving my neck, That's what I'm doing.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: You're losing it. If you get that boy hung, you
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: hanging yourself, you'd tell on me.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Damn you, I ought to kill.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: You, Kill me then, coward? Don't you know? If I've
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: done what's right, I'd tell on you now, I'd give
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: you up to the law for the brute you are
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: and let you hang as you'd ought to hang. Why
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: don't I? Yes, why don't I? Because I'm a fool.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm like all the women in the world
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: that's ever lived. I ain't good, I ain't decent. I
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: ain't even honest, except to one man. I hate you?
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: Oh you do? Hey?
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: Well, what is it you mean?
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: If I get that boy home? How will that be?
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Hanging myself?
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Wasn't you ever young?
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: What's that got to do with it?
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Wasn't you ever just start in life? Wasn't you ever
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: innocent and good and wanting to go out into the
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: world and expecting it to be kind to you. No,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: then you won't understand this boy. Is that a way?
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: You can't kill a thing like that. If you killed him,
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: you'd be killing what is good in you. Once, if
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: there's ever anything.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: You're preaching, let up. What'd you think this is? It's
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: got to be the way I say, Ellie, if I
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: want to save my neck, I gotta throw the blame
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: on someone else, not that boy.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you another reason why. If you'd have looked
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: at him, you'd know the reason yourself. Anybody, even the sheriff,
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: of looking at him would know that that boy couldn't
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: do nothing wrong. He couldn't kill a man, allie. He
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: couldn't even hurt anyone's feelings. And besides, his story is
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: as good as yourn. They know what he said was
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: the truth. You got to try some other plan, butch,
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: you got to try to get away. You got to
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: sneak out in the woods and hide a day or two.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: I'll take your grub to eat some way. Then when
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: things blows over more, we'll light out for Texas till
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: they forget all about us. You could hide close to
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: the old sawmill somewheres, they'd never think of looking there
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: for you, so near, so near where Jim, hurry up? Now?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: She crosses and gets his gun.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: You ain't got much time. Take your gun. Don't use
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: it unless you have to promise me. I want you
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: to be safe.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: She offers him the gun.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: No, put the gun back, butch, you took it away
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: from me once.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: You're not gonna give yourself up, but you know you'll
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: be hung.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: You said they'd never believe that boy done it.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: Eh, yes, they won't. They'll know he couldn't.
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: And they'll believe him. Eh. His story'll be better than mine.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: Eh, they'll know it's the truth.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: I believe you.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: Then, why don't you go before the sheriff comes.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: I ain't going.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: You ain't giving yourself up, but you mustn't. It's wrong
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: of me to say it. You've broke the laws, you've
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: sold whiskey, you've killed a man. You'd ought to suffer
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: for it, But you mustn't. You gotta go quick face time.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I'll leave you grub every day by the foot log
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: that's been washed up by the creek. I'll keep a
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: lookout when it's safe.
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: I ain't going. I ain't gonna give myself up neither.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: I got a plan, And if you try to bundle it,
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: if you try to put your nose in or even
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: open your mouth, I'll kill you. Do you hear? You
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: know I will too.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: What are you gonna do?
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: Put that gun back? Put it back, I say.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: She crosses reluctantly and is putting the gun back in
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the bunk. The door is kicked open viciously. Three men
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: with pistols in their hands eye them from the high threshold.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: It is the sheriff and his deputies.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: Two of em. Keep your eye on the woman blank.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: To Butch, put em up. The men come down into
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the room. The sheriff is a florid faced man with
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: a long mustache.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: Search him, Joe.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Joe comes over, makes a quick search of Butch and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: finding nothing.
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: No gun, Eh, Mike Suowjo. We don't want to take
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: no chances.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: They ain't on sheriff all right.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: Keep your gun on him, to Butch. Guess you know
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: what we want you for. Adams. Your name's Adams, ain't
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: it Butch?
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: Adams? Sheriff.
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: You've killed a man.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about. Combusting into my
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: house this way? What right.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: Have you got dry up?
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: You gotta warrant?
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: Warrant?
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: Hell, you got no right here? How to shoot you down?
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: Shoot? What are you shoot with? Strikes me as funny.
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: You got no shooting iron on you, and you just
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: murdering men in cold blood.
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: I never I don't know what you're talking about.
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: We won't argue with you.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: Show me your warn.
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: They ain't no warrant.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll have the law on you.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: I am the law. Let's go so funny about you
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: having no gun. I don't understand.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Plank suddenly to Ellie.
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: Stand where you air? Get away from that bunk. Let
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: me see what you were doing.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: He turns back the cover and finds the pistol.
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: That's what you're up to?
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: Ah, what is it? Blank?
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: She is reaching for a gun. I thought there is
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: something funny when we come in. She seemed to be
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: abandon over, like she is hunting something.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Sheriff taking the pistol.
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: So that's it. Do butch, you didn't have time to
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: get hold of it, did you? Said? Lucky we kicked
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: the door open.
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: He didn't do it.
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: I ain't been out of the house.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: Don't you take him. He ain't done nothing.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: I ain't done nothing. If Jim Dorry said.
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: My name Jim Dorry? Eh, who said anything about Jim Dorry?
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: I guess you've told on yourself. Why never you fixed yourself?
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: Now look around, Joe, I'll watch him. There ought to
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: be evidence too.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Joe begins in search of the room over by the bunks.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: He crosses to the fireplace.
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: Don't see nothing, You won't find nothing.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Here's a pan, bloody water, sheriff.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Let's see it, Joe bringing it over.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: He washed his hands.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: You got him bloody? Did you putting Jim back in
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: the buggy? Oh? He told he had time to get
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: out a word or two before he died. Well, we
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: got evidence, got you now where we want you.
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: Sure, I'll tell you.
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: It's time you told me.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you who done it? My brother he done it.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: But he's crazy. He runs wild here in the woods.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: He ain't right.
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: What's this?
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: He lives with us, my brother. He must have heard
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: of him.
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: I've heard of a crazy boy here in the woods. Sureff,
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: But that don't prove nothing. You hear funny stories about
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: these woods here.
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: That's Kelly say, that's crazy boy live here with you, yes,
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: and sleeps here?
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, Sleepstar points to the top.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Bove sheriff to butch.
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: He's your brother, eh.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: Yes, names Adams two like mine. I'll tell you. I
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: can't protect him. I tried. He went out last night.
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: I didn't know why. He goes out rooms in the
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: woods all the time. Lately he's got to mumbling something
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: like this, Uh, woods is too ful, Woods is too
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: fool people. I've heard him ask elly.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Oh he did. He said that people too many people.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: There's room in the lake. There's room there, there's room
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: in the lake. It's big, it's deep.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, buries her face in her hands.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: She liked him. He is my brother. Last night he
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: went out, come in this morning early. It was him.
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: It was him killed Dorry. He told me, met him
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: in the woods, stuck a knife in him. He washed
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: his hands. There was a blood on him. He throwed
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: his coat under the bunk. There's a blood on it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: He went out again.
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: Where is he? Where'd he go to?
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: Don't ask me?
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: Tell me quick. Where is he in the lake?
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: I'd swear he's at in the lake drowned.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, he ain't sure. He's on the lake,
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: but in a boat.
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: We'll get him. He won't get away.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: You won't get him not alive. You won't. You'll have
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: to be careful if you want to go near him.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: He's got a gun.
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: We'll get him.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: He's crazy, he'll shoot, he'll shoot first.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Sureff no, no, don't do it. Don't listen to him.
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: Be careful, Sheriff.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: I ain't scared him.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: He's a girl with him, a girl he run into
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: her summers maybe here in the woods. I don't know
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: where she come from. A young pretty girl. He's got
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: her with him out on the lake, the bestard. Be careful,
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: don't shoot her, Sheriff.
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: Where's they a boat?
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: They ain't but one. He's in it, him and the girl.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: You'll get him from the bank. Then, Joe, you stay here,
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: watched cabin outside. Don't let these two get out of
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: your sight. Plank, you come with me.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: The three men go up these steps. Joe and Plank
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: go out.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: Sure, if you mustn't do there's a reason you mustn't.
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: I tell you he's my brother, Sheriff. I don't care
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: he's done wrong.
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: Shoot him down, you're damn right. I will like a dog.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: He goes out.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: What made you?
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: You told me yourself? No, that about your brother. That
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: put me wise. No one else knows he's been drounded.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Why do you do it? You could have said he
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: got drowned this morning, that I believed it. Why do
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: you say it was on the lake?
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: I got reasons.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: What are they?
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: You must have noticed Ellie. The girl was here with
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: that boy. They'd come here together.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: What of it?
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: The horse and the buggies up here aways. She's young,
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: she's pretty. They drove here together. She'll need someone to
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: driver home through the woods.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: Hug you, beast.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: He goes toward these steps.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: Maybe I am one, Maybe I am a beast in
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: this place we're living in. What's it? It's the woods? Ally,
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: it's the dark woods.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: He goes up these steps, but she hurries after him.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Curtain and of Part one, Part two of Big Lake,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: A Tragedy in two parts by Lynn Riggs. This is
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 53:52
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• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Part two The Lake. Scene one, a cleared place on
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: the bank of the lake. At the back beyond a
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: slate mound, the lake begins. Willow trees droop into the water, gold,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: sunshine touches the lake plays over an old boat tied
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: under a tree. Voices excited, boisterous rough shatter the quiet
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: from the left. The picnic party enters singly, in groups
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: of three, in pairs a dozen or more people. Tall,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: farm boys, red handed, red faced, dressed in battered overalls,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: pumping shoes, ragged shirts, short round farm girls in unbecoming
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: calicoes and ginghams with bows in their hair. Some of
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: the boys carry boxes of food.
• 54:56
  Speaker 11: I can't carry this no further. Where's the f go
• 55:01
  Speaker 11: for the down?
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: I reckon over. There is a good place.
• 55:06
  Speaker 9: She's getting her sewing done now, the crazy fool and
• 55:08
  Speaker 9: the fair sixpence off. Oh, she can't sew it all.
• 55:13
  Speaker 9: Guess she aims to get married. Married. Huh, wouldn't no
• 55:18
  Speaker 9: one have her?
• 55:19
  Speaker 10: Would two have me? Limbsickles would have had me.
• 55:23
  Speaker 9: He'd have you, all right, if you'd give him a chance.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: This play.
• 55:27
  Speaker 11: Let's stop a minute, hey, miss Meredith.
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: Shut up.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: You're yellin. Miss Meredith'll take your head off.
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: What if I call her Jesse?
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: You better hadn't Our ClOH went and called her Jesse
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: and you order seeing her?
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: She slapped him.
• 55:48
  Speaker 9: I'm hungry. Oh, come on and do what, Bud says.
• 55:53
  Speaker 10: Miss Meredith won't let us.
• 55:54
  Speaker 11: I bet Freddy cat shooting on it. Clam quit stepping
• 55:59
  Speaker 11: on my feet, you crazy.
• 56:01
  Speaker 9: Let's play keep your feet in your pocket.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Let's play little brown jug.
• 56:08
  Speaker 9: I'm hungry. Well who cares if you are?
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: Be hungry? So are we?
• 56:14
  Speaker 11: Who's going to cook the meat? Who's got the beat?
• 56:18
  Speaker 11: Here's the beat?
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Anyhow?
• 56:21
  Speaker 11: It's bacon, ain't it?
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Sure is bacon, so belly bacon and bean soup.
• 56:30
  Speaker 10: Let's play. Happy is the miller boy? I'll be it?
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Ah, Let's play Old Joe Clark. Come on, I re
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: get her, get Healdy for a partner. Well you're it,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: then I resit. Everybody got a pardner?
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, go ahead, you started, Bud, Old Joe Clark.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: They begin to play, singing the song as the Dosey
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Doe promenade, et cetera. Old Joe Clark's dead and gone.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I hope he's doing well. He made me wear the
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: ball and chain till my ankles swelled.
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: Rock rock, Old Joe Clerk, Rock Rock. I'm gone rock rock,
• 57:19
  Speaker 9: Old Joe Clerk, goodbye. Lucy's on.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't marry a yellow goal? Tell you the reason
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: why cross our tears run down her back when she's
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: dust to cry.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Rock Rock Old Joe Clark, Rock Rock, I'm gone Rock.
• 57:36
  Speaker 9: Rock Old Joe Clark.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: Goodbye, Lucy Lord.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't marry a yellow goal. Tell you the reason
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: why her neck's so long and string he I'm afraid
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: she'd never die Rock.
• 57:51
  Speaker 10: Rock Old Joe Clark, Rock Rock, I'm gone Rock Rock
• 57:55
  Speaker 10: Old Joe Clerk, Goodbye, Lucy Long.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Miss Meredith enters at left. She is sharp and prim.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Some of the boys shout to her, while the chorus
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: goes on.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Merideth and pray.
• 58:11
  Speaker 8: No, I won't play. It's fine, it's time to eat,
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: hurry and finish.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't marry a yellow gal. Tell you the reason
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: why she blow her nose in yellow corn bread and
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: call it punkin pie Rock Rock Old Joe Clock Rock Rock,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: I'm non rock Rock Old Joe Clock, Goodbye, Lucy Long.
• 58:35
  Speaker 8: Quit it, quit it.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: The chorus stops.
• 58:41
  Speaker 8: There's no way to act. Those verses are not very
• 58:45
  Speaker 8: nice by bickle ah.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: What's the matter with them?
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: Never mind, you're not to sing them. They're bad taste.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Hah. Bad taste versus don't taste, Miss Meredith. There ain't
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: no taste to em, ma'am. And if there is, they
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: all taste a lot.
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: Not another word out of you, but bickle, it's time
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: to be cooking the breakfast. Anyway. You can play afterwards, Ah.
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: Let us play one more, one more before we go.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: It didn't mean nothing.
• 59:22
  Speaker 10: It's still early. Betty and Lloyd ain't here yet.
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: Betty and Lloyd ain't come.
• 59:28
  Speaker 9: It's time to eat anytime.
• 59:30
  Speaker 10: Gosh, she told him. Please, Miss Meredith, Oh very.
• 59:35
  Speaker 8: Well, you may play drop the handkerchief.
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: Ah.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: That ain't a play party game.
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: This is not a play party.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Let us play straight across the hall. That's a game.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: It ain't got no verses. Come on, miss Meredith, you
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: be my partner.
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: Come on, I don't play.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I'll teach you how see easiest falling off a log? No, please,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: just wants it. Then we'll go and make afar and
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: get breakfast.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 8: Just once.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Then Bud leading her over. Miss Meredith's gonna play.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 11: Gee.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's a good game.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 9: You won't mind it s much, ma'am. If anybody steps
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: and you just kick him, Miss Murdith, that's the way
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 9: a lady do.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: They form a circle and begin to sing and play
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: straight across the hall to the opposite. Letty swing her
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: by the right hand, swing your pardner by the left,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: and promenade the girl behind you. Oh that girl, that
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: pirty little girl, the girl I left behind me. Oh,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: we down cried the day I died for the girl
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: I left behind me.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: Stop it was some Stop it, Bud bickle.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: She crosses over right angrily.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: We won't play any more.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Bud following her over. What is it? What have I done?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 8: You swingin' the waist swing, bud pickle.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Well, of course it's.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: Wrong, It's wicked. I'm ashamed of you. I'm surprised at you.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Why, ma'am, I do that all the time. I swing
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: all the girls the waist, swing the idea.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 8: Don't you know what's wrong?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: No?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 8: Um it is? Do you ever do it again? You
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: hear me? I know you girls? Ever let me catch
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: you letting a boye swing you by the waist instead
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 8: of by the arms. Come on, now, we won't wait
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 8: any longer. But Betty hear you will not wait, I say,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 8: hurry up.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Now she goes out.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 10: She's on her high horse.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 9: I'd to you to eat since just rise.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 11: Hey, she told it to you, Bud.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: Ain't you a nice sight a swinging? The girls shit
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: up you?
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: He devil, you bud, bickle your way swinging son of
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: a gun.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: Come on, swing some meat over the fire and see.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: How you like that.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: They all go out laughing. After a moment, Lloyd and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Betty enter from the left. Betty goes hurriedly toward the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: boat and is about to get in. Lloyd stops Betty.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: She turns.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: Betty they just went. I guess they're ready to eat.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Now, Betty shaken.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: Ah, you mustn't be excited about nothing.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: I ain't excited.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, you add too. I can tell the way you act.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: You see, there wasn't nothing, no nothing to all. There
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: was nice folks, a fine he plans to be a
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: living in though buried under the ground like looks like
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: it'd be damp so close to the lake. But they
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: is nice folks, nice woman. The man is all right,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: kind of a lumbering kind of man without no talk,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: but kind hearted. Didn't he loanoss the boat?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: I didn't give us the oars? Sure he did.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go on the lake now, Lloyd.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: Sure, we'll go, all right, I said we'd go.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: He goes toward her. She gets in the boat. A
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: burst of song and laughter comes from the picnicers some
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: distance away. He raises his.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: Head, Beddy, listen, they are getting breakfast ready.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: I guess I don't want none, all right.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: I ain't so hungry, but I'm just wandering. Well. We
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: hadn't ought to let him know we'll come. I told
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Bud Bickley was coming early by ourselves. They might wonder
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: about us or wait for us.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: They won't wait.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: They're starting to fire, smokes are rising good. It's a
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: coming off the ground and rising up like a cloud.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: We ought to be there. Miss Meridith might worry about us.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: She wouldn't worry about us. She wouldn't worry about no one. Please, Lloyd,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: let's go out on the lake a little while, just
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: for a little.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: Nothing?
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: Tell me?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, them that cabin, them people, that man. I'm afeared
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: of him. He's a part of these woods here, he's
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: part of this.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: I don't like it.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: It's busy, busy, it's doing something I can't understand. They
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: ain't nothing clear to me. Why'd he look at me?
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: That a way. Why'd he want me to boy a
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: coat to keep warm? Why'd he stir up the far
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: for me?
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 9: Why did he?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: Betty, he is only being nice to you.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: He liked you.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: People like you. You're sweet, you're purty.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: No, it ain't that, it's something else. I don't understand it.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: I'm feared. I'm too young.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: It's wrong to be young, Betty.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: Why here his eyes are burning, his teeth like an
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: animal's Betty. He's a part of these woods here. He
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: belongs here.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: I don't.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: I don't belong here. You don't. We're too young. There's
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: something going on, something mean, somethin awful. It ain't for
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: us to be part of. We got to get away.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: We'll go on the lake.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, we'll go on the lake. Then where'll we.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: Go to across the lake or down to the other end.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: We can get a stack to eat at Bangham's. We'll
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: do that and then row home. We won't come back
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: here to the woods if you don't want to.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: We couldn't just stay in the middle of the lake.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: Awhile, course we could for a while, but you'd be hungry,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: you'd be cold out there too. After a while, the
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: wind blows.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: All around the lake. Everywhere they's woods. The lake goes
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: out and it's clear, thoar and bright. But it touches
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: the woods everywhere at the edges. Oh, they ain't no
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: place to go to the lake. It touches the woods.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: It's a part of the woods.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: She sinks down, Lloyd kneeling.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: No, No, it ain't, Betty, you're jest upset. It'll be
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: nice out though, It'll be bright and clear, maybe it'll
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: be warm, will stay as long as you want to.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: You mustn't be this way, don't you see, Betty? Oh,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: I know you're just upset. You've saw things you don't understand.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: You've been skeered. It's all right now. You mustn't think
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: everything's mixed up like this, like these woods out there.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: Look at it.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: Look at the lake, sun touching it, little waves starting
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: in the wind breakin here on the bank, an ripples, trees,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: willers leaning down like they is, preying at the edges.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: I wish I could be a lake. I wish I
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: could be that big, that deep. I wish I could
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: be catchin the sun like it and sparkling and singing
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: and never a fearin a nothin', just a settin there
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: wide in the sunshine, A lookin' up at the sky,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: A lookin up at the sun, Betty, looking up at him.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: You make it nice, No, tain't me.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: You make it nicer an it is.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: No, it looks that way to me. It's that a
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: way to me too, Betty.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: When you say it, you make things nicer than they are.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: No, I make of the way they are in the lake.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: It's a deep pool. It's quiet, it moves when the
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: wind moves. It holds the sun. It's a cup with
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: gold in it, and dawn and sunset and shatters and
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: starlight and the moon burning red. Come on, why do
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: we stay on the bank. We'll go out.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: He climbs into the boat.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, on the lake.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: I hear something.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: It's footsteps. Somebody's running.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: They're coming this way.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: Feel the woods, Lloyd, sh let's go quick, be still,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: they won't see us.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: A boy rushes in headlong from the woods at the left.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: He is almost out of sight. Right when he catches
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: sight of the two in the boat. He stops. His
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: face is coarse, A grin like an idiot's spreads over
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: his face. It is the Davis boy. Hai, I didn't
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: see you, Betty and Lloyd. Ain't it what you're doing?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: Nothing?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Where's miss mad at that down the lake?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: Thought you wasn't common? Thought you had to work?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: I did, but I sneaked off play hooky from work
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: like from school. Joke's on my old man he's keeping
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: the shop he shoe and old Jake Wilkinson's maya, whatch
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: you doing here? You two nothing, sitting in a boat
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: by yourselves an'cia hah, having a good time all by yourselves,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: anchia sweet on each other? Ain'tia?
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: By Joe, Wait till I tell miss Meredith.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: Shut up your mouth, Oscar Davis.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: Miss Meddeth news you're here, don't you?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: We ain't saw her this morning?
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: You ain't. Oh wait till I tell her sitting in
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: a boat, hiding in a boat. I wouldn't have saw
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: you if you'd have kept your head down, Oh, Cory.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Lloyd gets out of the boat angrily.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: What you was saying?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: You? Oh?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: The sweet little babies are sitting in the boat, just
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: a sitting there, a sitting till the nakede come. Oh,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: by Joe, He runs out right laughing. Lloyd looks at
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Betty disturbed, then walks over left. Betty gets out of
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: the boat slow lean goes toward him.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Lloyd, we'd better go.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: Ah, maybe he makes me feel Oh, don't mind him.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: I do mind him. We'd better go, Lloyd, What is it?
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: What did he mean?
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't mind him.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: Tell me.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: Things. He's dirty, he's low. Oh, we'll go where the
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: others are at. It's all right, don't you mind. Miss
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: meredith'll know it's all right. She'll know. Come on, we'd
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: better go.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: They start right. Miss Meredith enters hastily, out of breath, venomous.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: She stops in their path.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 8: Oh so you're here, he yes'm a pretty sight, a
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 8: pretty couple. I must say, what do you mean? The
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 8: nerve asking me what I mean? Where have you been
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 8: all morning?
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: You two nowhere? We come here? That's all?
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 8: Come here. What time did you leave the switch?
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: I I don't know. It was early?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 8: What time.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 8: You don't know before sun up? Yes, ma'am, before daylight,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 8: wasn't it YEA? Yes, you left in the dark.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was still dark. I thought, So what difference
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: you'd make? I told Bud Dickle to tell yo.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: Oh, he told me, He told me you were coming
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 8: early by yourselves, you and Betty.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 5: Why did you do it?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: Why we wanted to?
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 8: Wanted to? It's no reason. Why do you want to?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: Why we wanted to be here? For? I got light
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: to see the lake, to see you get lighter and
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: lighter till the grave mist is all gone and the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: sun had rose.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 8: Oh you did so. You had to get up early
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 8: in the mornin, before daylight and drive here through the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 8: dark woods. Are yourselves alone? You two? You had to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 8: sneak off where there is no one to spy on
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 8: you and no light to make you ashamed of yourselves,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 8: didn't you?
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: How?
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 8: Don't interrupt me. I know why you did it. I'm
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: surprised at you, Betty. I wouldn't have thought it of you.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 8: I shall report you both to the school board. I'm ashamed.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 8: I'm ashamed for you. I can hardly look any one
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 8: in the face. I don't know how you can. Oh,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 8: it's this that makes teaching so hard.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: After all my.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 8: Labor and all my rules to keep you from going
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 8: wrong like this, you sneak off to the woods the
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 8: first chance you get, like a couple of animals. I'm
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 8: ashamed of you. Come on now, the fire started. Come
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 8: on and eat your breakfast.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: She goes out. Betty turns away, stricken.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: Oh her too, her, and everybody, damn her, damn everybody.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 9: Oh Christ, it's all me.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: It's all wicked, wicked. What'll we do now?
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: Nothing?
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: We got to do something.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: We'll go on the leg.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Then there is no place else to go.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: It's the only place to go. We'd otter went. Therefore,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: come on, Betty, get in.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: They get in the boat. Lloyd shoves it away from
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: the bank.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: We can go across and get grub. We can go
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: home home.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see home again. I hate it.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: I hate these woods. There's no place for us no more.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: There's room on the lake.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, these rooms are there's room on the lake.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: It's big, it's deep.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: They row out of sight left. A burst of song
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: and laughter comes from the picnickers down the lake. Then
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: there is the sharp crackle of twigs and the noise
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: of running plank, and the sheriff run in from the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: right plank, pointing off left excitedly ther he is sheriff.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: Sheriff draws his pistol as they run off left. Curtain
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Scene two, A cleared place sloping down to the left,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: where the lake comes in in a little bay. The
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: branches of old trees meet overhead. The lake glitters in
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: the bright sunlight. Plankin'. The sheriff, with the pistol still
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: in his hand, stand and shout off left.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: Come in, you put that boat into shore. I won't.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: I won't. I'm giving you one more chance.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: I won't never do it. You can't make me.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: You can't.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 6: I'll give you till I count three.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: Count ten, come a hundred.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 5: I won't come.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 6: One, two, three, comin, Neva.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Sheriff raises his gun slowly in fires Take that then,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: but he screams.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 10: He got him.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 7: Suff He sunk down in the boat like he's dead.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: Hey, look at it.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 7: Look the girl, she's standing up in the boat. Good god,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 7: she's jumpin in the lake.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 9: She'll drowned.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Butch and Ellie, followed by Joe, run in from the right.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 8: Sheriff.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: Sheriff, you've killed him, you've killed him.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: She looks off left of the girl.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: She's drowning.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: Quick, save her.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: You got to go and save her. She's drowning.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Butcher throws off his coat, muttering price. He dashes off left.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 6: Oh what have you done?
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: What if you done? You don't know. You think you've
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: upheld the law. You think you've done your duty. Well
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: you ain't. You've killed an innocent boy that wouldn't hurt
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: a fly. That's what you've done.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: She looks left.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, hurry, hurry, she's going down. Hurry and get her.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 6: Go help him, Blank, go help him, Joe, go drag
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 6: in the boat.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Hurry up, Blank and Joe, hurry out.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe she ain't drowned, Maybe she ain't. The poor thing.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: She sinks down wearily to the sheriff.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 4: I just stand there. Why don't you do something? Look
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 4: at him. He's the law, he's done his duty, he's
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: God is man. He'll get a reward.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Shit up.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 4: You can't shit me up. I'm a fool not to
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: have told you before. I'm a fool too, like yourself,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 4: like butch, like the whole damn world. I've been a fool,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 4: but I won't be now. I'll tell you now now
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: it's too late. I'll tell you something. I'll make your
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: ears burn. It'll make you sick inside, like something eating
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 4: on your heart. Listen to me. You you're bright, you're smart,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 4: you're a keen smelling dog of the law.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: You're the law.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: You protect the weak, you hang the criminals, you shoot down,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: you murder innocent people. That's what you do. It is Butch,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: it has Butch killed Jim Dorry.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 6: What's this?
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: Butch? I tell you this boy ain't his brother. He
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: never saw him before. He's just a boy, just a
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 4: young boy picnicking in the woods.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 6: Good God, is this their truth? You're telling me? It's
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: the truth, God all Mighty.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: Butch comes in, dripping, carrying Betty. He puts her down gently,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: drowned it. Plank and Joe come in carrying Lloyd. They
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: put him down.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 5: You got him, sheriff, He's dead.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: The sheriff staggers a little, his hand before his eyes.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: Ellie comes down, bends tearfully over the bodies. Then she stands,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: erect wheels and faces the sheriff.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: Ask him, Oh, ask him, sheriff, Ask him who killed
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 4: Jim Dorry? And if he lies?
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 6: Sheriff to Butch, she says, you done it.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 5: She told him me.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 6: She says, you done it.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Butch looks at Ellie. She does not flinch. He looks
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: back at the sheriff speaks slowly, who killed him?
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: Christ Almighty? You killed Jim Dorrey. You killed this boy too,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 6: Then you don't it twasn't me.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: Killed her too? She drowned herself, tried to see her.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 6: How could you do it? Two men in this poor
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 6: innocent little girl? God, why'd you do it? What made you?
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know? You're the law. You tell me, tell
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 5: me why I done it.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: The picnic party rushes in from the right. They stop,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: They are silent, owed.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 8: What's the matter, I heard jots.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: She catches sight of the bodies.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 8: Oh what is it? Lighted?
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: Betty?
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 8: Heavens dead? Miss Oh, my poor little children, my poor
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 8: little ones.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: To Butch, gratefully, noticing his wet clothes.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, you try to save them, God will warn you.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Butch turns away.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 8: Poor little Betty. Lloyd was good to her. Oh why
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 8: did they go on the lake.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 5: But they do it.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: I told them not to.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: She turns away, sobbing.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 4: It's always the way. People will go on the lake.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 4: Young people can't keep them off. And they's always accidents.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it's the lake, sometimes it's the woods. Boats leek,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: guns go off. People are careless, these wild animals. Something happens,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: Something always happens. It can't be helped.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Curtain end of part two. End of Big Lake, A
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Tragedy in two parts by Lynn Riggs