"THE YOUNG ONE" "PRIVATE GAME PRESERVE TRESPASSERS ON THIS ISLAND" "WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW." "Help!" "Rape!" "Rape!" "Help!" "You hear that?" "He's trying to rape her." "That bastard!" "Get him!" "Get him!" "He's going down the street!" " which way?" " over there!" "Watch that he doesn't cross the river." "Watch." "Get that black bastard!" "Through the trees!" " Shh, quiet." "Have you seen him?" " No, but someone said he's black." "Come on, let's go!" "It's gonna be some fun!" "Stove's cold." "That girl's a filthy slob!" "Blasted dishes!" "That damned kid!" "Evvie!" "Evvie!" "Get cranking, the bloody dishes aren't even washed yet!" "What have you been doing all day, anyhow?" " Gramps is dead." " Yeah." "Finally went, huh?" "You have at last left." "Poor Pee Wee." "Well, look, it comes to everybody, to you, to me...stop your bawling." "Go over to my cabin and build me a fire." "That stove's as cold as a dog's nose." "Go on, get!" "Tomorrow is Monday, right?" "Right." "Jackson'll be by with the launch." "I will send you in to town with him." "Damn it..." "Now look what you've done." "Knucklehead!" "Clean up that mess." "Where was I?" "Oh, yeah." "Thing to do is let the people over at the church know about you." "They'll straighten you away." "Old Pee Wee." "Many's the time I told him about how I felt." "Way he was bringing you up..." "Told him he ought to send you over to town, to school, teach you to read, write." "But he just kept saying "next week, next week."" "Well, tomorrow's next week." "Here, wash these." "While you're at it, wash your hands and face." "Your knees too!" "And brush your hair." "Way Pee Wee let you run around is a cryin' shame." "Later." "If Pee Wee had held on a little longer, he would have seen you're a real woman, Evvie." "Yes, sir." "A real woman." "You've grown up, baby, and I never noticed." "How old are ya?" "I used to know when Mom was alive, before Gramps brought me out here." "Did you know they tell the age of a horse by his teeth?" "But with a women or a hog, it's flesh and weight that counts." "Gimme your leg." " Yeah, you're fleshing out at that!" " I gotta go clean the dishes." "You sure look good, I'll have to admit that." "You gotta learn to go around like this all the time." "I mean, it's OK to be out here looking like a swamp rat, but in town, the kids will make fun of you." "We can't have that, can we?" "Hey wait a minute!" "Oh, Evvie!" "What's the matter?" "Did it tickle?" "You know that you can trust me." "I wouldn't harm you, don't be afraid of me." "Maybe sometimes I shout at you, but I appreciate you." "I'll scoop you up." "You weight like a little child." "Now you go to the bed, you should rest." "Hap!" "Oh, Hap!" "Pee Wee!" "Hey, Pee Wee!" " Howdy, kid." "Where's Mr. Miller?" " Over there." "OK." "Howdy!" " Just asking about you." " What's the news from the mainland?" "Mr. Hargreaves wants me to bring you into town, that's all." "Yeah?" "Yeah, they had a meeting at the port the other night." " Decided to build that clubhouse out here." " Is that so?" "Gonna start next month." "Surveyors and architects are comin' first." "So, they're finally gonna build, eh?" "They been talking about it since before they hired me as game warden." "Gonna fix me up, too." "Butane, hot running water, be like living in a hotel." "You gettin' mighty fancy!" "You come out here next year, I'll give you some huntin'," " and a hot bath!" " I'll take you up on it." "They have signed me to bring the crew out here and supplies." "You know came close to beating me out of this deal." "Said his boat was faster than mine," "Got twin 50's." "Said he'd save them money." "I had to tell Hargreaves I would buy a 150 motor." "And that one should trust niggers." "At the end he agreed." " Pee Wee has died." " I seen that he wasn't around." " What happened?" " White Mule whisky and his 70 years." "You will have to help me to bury him." "If Hargreaves wants me in town, I have to go." "We ain't got long, come on!" " What will you do with the girl?" " Depend on Hargreaves." "I never would have thought that alcohol weighed so heavy." "Man." "The people here are very nice." "You will need this." "It's a Bible." "Haven't had the burial service, understand?" "I will inform the coroner and he'll send a preacher out here" "In order that things are done proper." "OK." "Here." " Now, what's that for?" " He liked it." "None of that, now." "You have to have show respect for the dead." "Besides, it's a waste of bad whiskey." "Evvie." " What was Pee Wee's full name, anyhow?" " Clinton Ignatius Stroud." "Clinton Ignatius." "Funeral's over Evvie, go on home and change your clothes." "I want to go with Mr. Jackson." "You ain't got no place to stay in town." " Yesterday you said I would go." " Today I say you ain't!" " why not?" " because I said so." "Now stop pestering' me!" "How come you treat her that way?" "Do you want an explanation in writing?" "I have changed my mind, that's all." "Don't yell or I will cut your heart out and throw it to the fish." "Do not be afraid, I am not a bad man." "I know what's going on in your mind, how come he's here on this island." "Well I was out fishing and I ran out of gas." "I have to row here." "Look!" "Like wild, I was a kid the last time I saw them that way." " do your parents live here?" " they are dead." "Who else lives here?" "Who watches this game preserve?" "Private." "Keep off." "Gramps and Miller, but grandfather has died." "Where is Miller?" "He's gone to the town until tomorrow." " just you, then?" " just me." "Look kid, I'm so hungry that I could eat a dead skunk." " give me this honey." " no, it's Mr. Miller's." " what is this here?" " nothing, it's mine!" "Thief!" "No reason to get salty." "Here's a dime for you." "Not a bad price for an old apple, now is it?" "Well, now, that was real nice." "Yes, a cigarette." "Just that deer of yours." "Do you have a dog?" "He a couple of months ago from a snake bite." "Give me a match." "That Miller guy might not go for me being here and eating his food." "But you're real cool." " why haven't you been scared?" " you're just like old Jeb." "You helped Gramps before Miller came." " he made me slingshots." " slingshots?" "Well I don't dig that kind of jazz, but I want you to know that you are big-hearted." "You are an angel of mercy to old Traver." "You dig?" "What's dig?" "Dig means understand." "There's nobody here." "When duck season begins the members come to hunt." "They give good tips." "A lawyer gave me five dollars for a dress." "Five dollars?" "Wow." "He shot his limit in two days." " He gave Gramps ten." " do you put on me?" "I gave Gramps my 5 in order to buy a chrome pistol, but he came home drunk and without it." "That is gas for the lamp." " what cha taking?" " something to eat." " it's Mr. Miller's, you've got no right." " ah, he'll never miss it." " leave that!" " Can't sweety;" "I have to defend myself." "If they come for me I have to get rid of them." "It has been a long time since I've seen one of these." "My father used to have one." "Give it to me!" "Girls shouldn't play with weapons." "We have pursued a rabbit." "This has to work as a team." " You are it - an angel of charity..." " Seriously." "If you know that I have suffered you would know that I mean business." "Mr. Miller will get angry with you very much." "You know what?" "This shotgun is very old, but I will leave 20 dollars for you." "It will be enough for gas and the rest." "Do you have a revolver?" " You better leave." " No." "Traver, it seems to me that you are losing your marbles, man." " does Miller have any boats at the island?" " in the swamp is all." " any way to get from there to the ocean?" " No." " I believed that you had gone away." " and so did I." "Lend me something to fix the boat." " do you have something like that?" " what do you need?" "A hammer." "And some tar." "And nails." "And pitch, or whatever." " a hammer." " good." "Tar and nails." "This saw would work well." "Do you have anything for me to carry everything in?" "You cannot take a walk that way." "Haven't they taught you anything?" "I want to say that ..." "Put on this, you will catch cold." " it's not cold." " keep it on anyway, it might get cold." "I will leave at dawn." "See you at the top, gumdrop." "I have talked about you to Mr. Hargreaves." "Today he'll talk with the preacher." "The county does not arrange anything for kids over twelve." "Turn around." "A man came." "Very pleasant." "I fed him." " what did he want?" " gas." " he took my gas?" " and a shotgun." "The hell he did!" " when did he leave?" " he said that he would leave last night." " where do you see him?" " Down yonder, by the slough." " was he white or coloured?" " like old Jeb." "He ain't here He'll be gone by now." "If not, he soon will be!" "And forever." " are you ready?" " yes." "Your gift." "Let's see how it looks." " what happened to that coloured man?" " forget it." "The shoes have high heels." "Can you keep your balance?" "Give me your foot." "You should know that not all men are like your grandfather." "Neither like me, either." "You should be very careful in town." " you know that?" " yes." " you don't know what I'm talking about, do you?" " No." "Come" "Don't move." "You have washed your hair." "I know from the smell." "But you have brushed it, too." "You hardly ever do." "Full of cuttleburrs!" "See how you wear those shoes." "They suit you very well." "Very well." "I want to talk with you." "Take a seat." "I have to talk to you." "You are very innocent." "They tell you to take a seat, and you take a seat." "Listen, Evvie." "You should not permit anyone to hold you this way." "I refer to older people like me" "They know that they want, do you understand?" "They will tell you things, and they will do something." "But they will do you things that you can believe that are all right..." " what is this?" " that's mine!" "Where did you get it?" "Who give it to you, huh?" "That nigger give them to you?" "Tell me!" "Why?" " what has he asked you of?" " he paid for the shotgun." "Don't lie to me!" "I want the truth." "Go to the bed." "To the bed, I have said!" "Put your hands on your head." "Faster." "Faster, damn you, or I'll blow your brains out!" "Turn around." "To kill a white man will fix you up good." "A white man damn near killed me this afternoon." " you are a thief." " don't move or I'll shoot." "I am not a thief." "I gave you 20 dollars for some gas and this trashy old shotgun." "I will leave the shotgun where my boat is." "Where you stole this." "I have came here peaceful and I want to leave without killing nobody." " are you planning to leave in your boat?" " that's right." "So, go on." "How have you slept?" "Feel OK?" "Evvie." "Come here." "It is important for you to tell me the truth, see." "And for that black boy also." " why did he give you money?" " for the shotgun and some gas." "OK, I believe you." "Take it, it's for you" "Because you told the truth." "Is old Hap your friend or ain't he?" "Hey, little girl." "He didn't say so, but I thought maybe he shot ya." "Who kills me will have to be hip..." "And no square like that's gonna do it." "What's important is that you are alive, and I'm happy." " How come?" "You don't even know me." " I know you well enough." "Well, when you come on like that, you make me think you kinda dig it." "What's it?" "That big, fat and invisible thing... that we all search for and cryin' for during our life." "That you got no other name for it, so you call it "it."" "Get back there, man!" "Don't come any closer!" " suppose I like it here?" " stay where you are!" "Evvie, else you want to get into trouble, then come here." "I was a very puny baby." "I needed special feeding' got my milk from an old black mammy." "Seriously?" "So did I." "My father had a little store... close to the cotton gin outside of town." "Sold snuff, fat back bacon, on credit mostly to niggers work around there." " until he went broke, that it." " a real old southern family." "I have seen a lot of niggers, and some have been my friends." "But no one was as fresh as you." "Listen, man; you tried to kill me." "You have stolen my motor and you have torn apart my boat." "And you say that I'm fresh!" "What kind of man is that?" "It is no more than a white-trash." "Don't call me that." "How come, man?" "You think you're passin'?" "Don't never use it." " don't matter you do have a gun." " then don't call me a nigger!" "You sure are fresh." "But it is the same for me." "Long as you ain't too fresh." "You can count on it." "You got spirit." "You will work well, like all the fresh niggers." "You used that word again!" "I didn't allow that in the army." "White trash." "I'm tellin' ya, man, don't press me." " and where was you in the army?" " In Italy." "I was in the fifth one." "Third Division, Red Beach, Salerno, Naples..." "And the whole tour." "I went that way." "With the 45th." "Supply." " we were combat." " suppose we weren't." "Do you know that country, that weather?" "We ran out of mules we had to carry the ammo on our backs." "Under fire all the way." "One day we had not received supplies all day." "A shaggy little guy came up under the rain with 100 pounds of supplies." "Munition, mortar shells... had a bullet in his lung." "died in my lap." "A poor white from South Carolina" "He wasn't no...he wasn't no coloured person." "Evvie, let's go." "I'll say one thing, that boy sure puts out the work." " Hi!" " Hi, Evvie." "I knew it." "You will not manage to repair that boat today." "She's fixed already." "Just needs soaking, that's all." "Tomorrow she'll be tight as oak." " don't you like to be alone?" " I prefer to know where you are." "If you go back to touch the boat I will find you, wherever you hide." "I can't shoot any more holes in it." " you could kick those patches off." " don't give me ideas." "Man, you're sick." "Wait." "You will pass the mainland's ship before a week." "They'll give you a lift back to town." "Meanwhile, I lost my handyman, and I have a lot of work to do." "25 bucks a week minus 5 for food and board." "What'dya say?" "My friends will wonder where I am." "I got to cut outta here soon as I can." "I sure would like some of that board, though." "No work, no food, unless you want to steal it, that is." "Evvie, look like we may have company." "Better you sleep in my cabin tonight." " Can I use that towel?" " Oh, yes." "Thanks." "Why did you turn down the job?" "If you whip a dog hard enough he won't come." "Same thing goes for cats." "Why can't you be friends?" " Ask him." " He says ask you." "Evvie, I have this, right?" "I don't want to use it on him and he knows." "But if he had it, one bad steppin' like yesterday and goodbye Traver!" "It's easy for him to kill me." "And it's hard for me to kill him." "So he's still got the power." "Offers me his hand, expects me to kiss it!" "I like it better this way." "Might say it makes us almost equal." "Evvie, you get the blankets." "I hope that you're not offended that I moved the kid's bed." "You don't believe that I discriminate against you?" "Not at all, man; not at all." "Treat those cabins just like they were your own." "Be my guest." " what's in the box?" " cigarettes." " Un-uh; that black wooden thing." " there's nothing that to see." " is that what you played last night?" " I didn't play anything last night." "Because I heard music." "Probably a witch, baby sweets, that was wanting to haunt you." "Come on, play." "You must be dreaming." " I don't know how to play anything." " You do too!" "Do you play an instrument?" "Are you a musician?" "Hell, no." "Me a musician?" "I'm taxi driver." "Or dockworker or what you want." "I play a little to have fun." "Play it." "What do you call that?" "Wise guys call it a licorice stick." "But it's a clarinet." "Hey you, boy!" "Watch this!" "Come here, Evvie!" "I said come here, now!" "Do you see how I could have minced you up if I wanted to?" "Why don't you give me the weapons and get yourself a good night's sleep?" "I have two more souvenirs like that one right in there." "Finally convinced you, huh?" "!" "OK; early to work tomorrow, and we'll see about some of that food!" "Don't be afraid, Evvie." "Evvie, don't be afraid." "Morning, Evvie." "Here, there, Evelyn!" "Why do you shout?" "Leave her alone." "When you finish what you're doing, burn the trash behind the house." "I will if I have time." "If that boat's swelled tight enough, I'm cuttin' out of here!" "That's all right with me." "The sooner the better." "Evvie." "Evvie, look at me." "You can throw away that ratty old coat, Evvie." "Soon as I get to town," "I will buy you an overcoat, thick and warm." "You're not a kid anymore, Evvie." "You're a woman." "I will buy you some nylons look like you're not wearing any." "And lipstick." "Or do you prefer something else?" "That chromium-plated 22 gun that Pee Wee promised you, I'll buy you that too!" "See you later." "Don't you want to eat with us?" " you haven't raised her very well." " nobody raised her." " thanks, anyway." " why not?" "I got the message." "That's Northern style." "Everything's real smooth on the front, see?" "No signs that say "for white only."" "If you want to take a coffee, you enter, and the owner looks up from his greasy counter." "You just been deprived of your rights." "And customers keep on eating and talking real polite." "And you, you ain't felt a thing." "Least not right here." "Don't you ever eat with coloured people?" "Sometimes when I am going to collect a bill, invite them to the table." "And do you never invite them?" "Never." "Because he eats the same as you do." "Never heard the name Travers, where did you get it?" "My mother named me Traveling Man, after my father." "He traveled a lot and one day he didn't return." "Kids, they shortened it down to Travers." "Those Italian women, they were really a dish." "Guess you coloured boys think so too, eh?" "What do you mean by that?" "Well I was talking to a fellow not too long ago, said there was a lot of trouble with you boys over there." " Assault, rape..." " And you white boys never tried it" "It's funny how clean livin' all you cat's are." "No one gets into trouble but us." "Said they strung up more than a hundred of you on that charge." "Yeah?" "The white men swore that girls were professional." "Told them they had better watch their step, or get a good pistol-whipping." " and that they would land in jail." " just what this fella said, that's all." " Go get your licorice stick." " You mean clarinet." "Look, kiddy." "Dad here don't dig it." "Nothing like exposing him to culture." "You know, bring the peasants some music." " Maybe they'll learn something." " (Hey)" "Evvie." "Over here, reverend." "Lucky to be here I can tell you." "Five hours late, took us three just to cross the bar." " Right, Jackson?" " Too rough come in, too rough stay out." ""Preserve me at all tasks from nature in her adverse moods."" "A drink would go well." " reverend." " some hot coffee." " blown off course?" " no, our destination was here." "Mr. Hargreaves called me." "Mr. Stroud's death has affected me very much." "His wife was a member of our congregation." "I suppose that this is Mr. Stroud's granddaughter." "That's right." "Glad to meet you, Evelyn." "I know that we're going to be good friends." "Is it true that they have not baptized you?" "Pee Wee never got around to it." "We have found you a place to stay until final plans can be made." " I'll take her back to town with me tomorrow." " No, you won't." "And why not?" "Because I promised a day of shopping in town... and I do not break my promises." "How does everything go?" "Well, Hep, like man says, something happens today that yesterday I heard on the radio." "Dull as hell." "Excuse me, reverend." "There is a new thing." "The day before yesterday, when I brought you back..." "No, the day before that." "A nigger raped a white woman in Hammersville." "Last night they informed the sheriff." " the day before you took me to town?" " yes." "A nigger from the north came down with a six-bit orchestra." "Why, that black..." " he's here." " he's what?" "He's right here in the other cabin." "He fooled me, and I even hired him!" "Here, take this." "You had promised me to go hunting." "You two just sit tight." "Hey, Traver!" "Must have seen you coming." " he'll go to your boat." " I have the key right here." " is there another way to go out?" " his boat is all." "The motor and oars are here." "Here they come." "Flew the coop." "We will start to look for him tomorrow." " sure that it's him?" " he's a musician, jazz." "I knew that there was something funny about him." "And him eating here tonight." "Drinking, buddying up." "That's something I won't forget." "He must take me for quite a sucker." "Perhaps it's lucky that we have all night." "Where are you planning to bed down uninvited guests?" "Evvie will prepare a bed for you." "If the nigger slept in, it will smell bad." "Put on clean bedsheets." "Tomorrow we have to return at first light." "Sure thing, reverend." "Of course." "Here you are." "If he asks you something about me don't answer, is that clear?" "About you?" " what's he gonna ask?" " well, about last night." "About you and me." "Not a word." "Look, I'll explain..." "All set, reverend." "She's changing the bedsheets." " Ask her for anything that you need." " Thank you, Mr. Miller." "See you tomorrow." "Hurry up, we do not want to keep the reverend up all night." "How many nights has that poor devil slept here?" " One night." " We'll turn the mattress." "I believe that you have the wrong idea of this place where you'll go." "You will be one of the family." "They will dress you, you will go to school, they will put you to bed at night..." " will I have my own bed?" " yes, of course." " and my own room, too?" " no, there will be other girls." " everything has to share a room." " but I am not a child." " you most certainly are." " I am not." "Mr. Miller said yesterday I wasn't." " pray how not?" " ask him." "He told me not to tell anyone anything." "The sheriff said it was funny as hell." "When they learned that the violator played the clarinet, they went to the cabaret where he was playing..." "And there were 4 or 5 coloured boys playing away there." "The Hammersville guys knew that they looked for the one playing clarinet." "What took you so long?" " of what have you talked?" " about my home and the school." " that's it?" " yes." "OK, go to bed." ""Is this a clarinet?" yells old Charlie Johnson" "And picks up an old shiny horn." "No, said one of those fresh coloured boys." "This here's a sax." ""Well, it looks like a clarinet to me", and whammo!" "Right over the nigger's head!" "Evvie." "Has that preacher said something to you?" " nothing?" " nothing." "You're a good girl, Evvie." "Very good girl." " where do we go?" " to look for that gift that I promised you." " what's that?" " a key of gold." "Something beyond price." "A gift you will treasure all your life!" "There is nothing like it in worth, in this world or the next." "Don't be afraid." "I baptize thee..." "In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." "Amen." "And now will you give me my key of gold?" "Hey, wait up!" " what's the matter?" " far as you can go out there." " gotta head this way." " if you see that black boy, kill him." " No sir;" "I want this one alive." " Not me, I'll shoot." "Child, let me explain again." "The baptism open to you the whole world of heaven." "Heaven and its wonder." "That's why I call it a key of gold." "Can you think of another gift with more value?" "Yes." "The chromed .22 pistol that Mr. Miller promised to me." "Perhaps now it might so seem, but when you grow older you will see." "There is something I would like you to explain to me." "What you said last night, that you no longer were a child." "I couldn't sleep." "Come, you can tell it to me while we walk." " and now what?" " nothing." "Two people will not find him today." "Let's head back to the mainland and ask the sheriff for dogs and more men." "You go." "I will remain at the cabin." "Ya." "Let me take that long cold trip alone." "Last night I saw that you like to sleep comfortable." "What do you mean by that?" "Evvie, what is that?" "Somebody!" "Please, take me out of here." "Listen brother, I didn't do what they say." " truly." " they claim you did." "Claim?" "Reverend, that's what they claim!" "I was boxed-in." "Look, this rich white woman keeps coming where we were playing." "She said she wanted me to come over, talk about business." "Do you believe me, reverend?" "Until now there is nothing for me to disbelieve." "Inform me when they return." "She wanted us to be going to her house for a dance." "Next evening I went to the address that she gave me." "She asked in me." "Leads me down a corridor and we ended up in her bedroom." "She told me come on in, fella and she took a seat in bed." "I'm not a saint." "If she would have been younger ... but she was just too old." "I said, "Mrs. Brownell..." That was her name." " Mrs. Brownell?" " right." "I told her to go in the evening to the cabaret and we would talk there." "But that woman wouldn't take no for an answer." "She stank of tobacco and whisky." "I separated her gently and I told her" ""no, ma'am." "Thanks a lot, but no thanks."" "And then?" "Then she took a seat in bed and she looked at me like I had two heads." "I really felt sorry for her." "All of a sudden she jumps up and starts yelling rape!" "When I went out fleeing her neighbors chased me." "One shouted at me while I ran." "Ever since I have kept fleeing." "Do you believe me, reverend?" "I mean I'm innocent." "I know Mrs. Brownell well." "Yes, I believe that you are innocent." "I will try to use my influence in town." "Travers is in the cabin!" "He's hurt!" "He's here and we were searching for him like madmen." "Here he is." " leave him, I believe that he is innocent." " on one side, reverend." " do you claim that you are innocent, boy?" " yes." "She swears you raped her." " can a white woman lie, boy?" " yes." "Ever hear a nigger plead guilty?" " get your hands up, boy!" " Don't worry, I will be your witness at trial." "Reverend, they will not wait for no trial, not in that town they won't." "Come on!" "Wait." " we are going to tie you." " come on." "Here." "Turn him around." " what are you going to do?" " take him to town in the morning." " lock him in a cabin." " and have him flee while we slept?" "The hell with that, reverend." "Mr. Miller, I protest your inhuman treatment of this man." "I insist you make his state at least bearable, why he can't even sit here!" "You're right, reverend." "Black boys' favorite position, sittin'." "If thou wouldst ask of him, he would give of thee living water." "The woman saith unto him, sir, thou has nothing to draw with and the well is deep." "From whence then thou has that living water?" "Art thou greater than our father Jacob, that gave us the well, and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle?" "And Jesus responded "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again..."" "Go ahead." "Say something." "Say something fresh." "It is easy to insult a man if he's hogtied." "You intimatin' that I'm a coward because I got you tied up here?" "Well that ain't it." "Believe it, don't believe it, makes no difference." "I have stared death in the face many times." "And until now I never have been afraid." "When you have an alligator we have to tie it." "A great many soft people believe that nigger's a man." "I just don't believe it." "I don't believe you are." "God left something out of you, a soul, perhaps." "When a black tries to be a man he gets into trouble." "If you were a man I'd be mad at you, but I ain't." "Hell, I'm sorry for you." "And that's the truth." "Are you thirsty?" "Do you want water?" "Evvie!" "Evvie!" "Come here!" "Would you do me a favor?" "Bring my knife to me." "It's in your cabin, under my bed." "They'll hit me." "If they get me to town, they'll kill me." " do you want a cigarette?" " thanks, I do not smoke." " a coffee?" " No." "Can't I offer you anything?" "Yes." "Some your time." "I would like to talk with you alone." " What you doin' here?" " Gettin' my boots." "I have a disagreeable duty that to do, and you should know it." "What's this about?" "I suspect that you have abused the innocence of this child." "You have abused her innocence, Asking her so many questions." "Your behavior confirms my suspicions." "If true, you would be guilty of an abominable crime." " an innocent's violation." " she is a woman." " then you accept the accusation?" " No sir, I don't!" "Why should I?" "You are an adult and she is a child." "The law is explicit." "I reserve the right of taking any measure." "All right so I admit it, so what?" "Hell, she's a wild thing." "A man can't be shut up on this island." " It had to happen." " I cannot be a party to your crime." "I have made myself." "If you denounce me I will lose my work." "A preachers should show charity, some mercy." "For the helpless, the weak, yes." "There are always excuses, always extenuating circumstances Mr. Miller." "And I'm tired of them." "He's sick, he's poor, his parents beat upon him, or they didn't." "Excuses for the roughest crimes." "I no longer accept them." "I believe in sin and expiation." "There should be guilt and expiation or sin will be readily committed again." "Miller, Hap!" "Come out here!" "Preacher you come a runnin'!" "You come here right now!" "Look at that." "That's been cut." "It's that damned preacher who done it, that's who." "Let's go." "Yes, what is it?" "That nigger fled, and you cut the ropes." " It wasn't I." " Then who?" "It was you." "Damn you, Jackson!" "Do not put your hands on her." "Why have you done that?" "Because you attacked me." "All right Hap, I get it." "He will not have gone far with that leg of his." " This time I will shoot on sight." " There are laws against that!" "Have you heard me?" "That man is innocent." " how do you know?" " I know that woman well." "Once she asked me for help, and I could not deliver it." "She drinks ever since her husband died." "Two years ago she accused a white man of this same act." "What would you think if I married Evelyn?" "It is something that I could not prevent, Mr. Miller." "Even so, would you report me?" "I need to consult my superiors in the church." "Let's suppose that Travers is guilty." "Killing him would be bad enough." "But innocent, and of all people to hunt him, yourself." "Jackson!" " Hey, Jackson!" " Hep!" "Hep, over here!" "Leave him." " what do you say?" " that you leave off." " give me the shotgun." " have you gone insane?" "Give me the shotgun!" "Go to your boat!" "Miller." "I will return accompanied." "Then we will see who's boss over here." "Cotton-pickin' nigger lover." "And that ain't all you are." "Look!" "Last night I ran out of gas." " you were hot at the shed." " accent that helps him." "Thanks." "Today the leg is better off." " it is not easy to flee when you can't perambulate." " take a seat." "Uh-oh, here comes trouble." "Is that boat of yours tight yet?" "You can sink her if you want." "I don't care." "I don't dig it, reverend." " He's blowin' some new changes." " I don't understand you." "I know that here a lot of things have happened." "Here." " Try walking on these." " Yeah, sure." "I don't dig you, man!" " will you get to the boat?" " I will go dancing." "Hurry up." "I'll meet you there with the motor." "I will be over there..." "Five minutes ago!" " thanks reverend." " good luck." " will we see ourselves soon?" " of course." "Of course we will, Evvie." "Perhaps see you playing for television." "Sure." "I'll send you my autograph." " Bye." " Bye." "You should know, reverend." "You and whoever is interested, that I intend to be in Saturday to take Evvie shopping like I promised." "In the end it will be Evelyn who decides." "I believe that I will be able to convince her." "Let's go Evelyn." "Hey, nigger!" "Wait up, boy." "You thought you'd make it." "You figured you were gonna get away." "All right, boy." "I'm gonna kill you." "I'm gonna get you, boy." "Watch that oar." "Go ahead, kill me." "Let me have it!" "Dirty nigger." "No, I'm not going to give them a reason to lynch me." "White trash." "I'll be back with the sheriff, boy!" " Well, you finally got here." "We thought we'd lost you." " get on board, preacher." "Traver!" "Everything's ready, she's all set to go!" "Come on, you traveling' man!" "Subtitles and translation by Xenu"