"INTRUDER IN THE DUST" "Subtitles by Seglora" "Say can I get my shoe shined?" "Not today,Mr" "Where is the shine boy?" "Where are they all at?" "Seems to me I ain't seen one darkie on the road since yesterday" "Ain't you heard?" "No,heard what?" "One of the Gowrie boys been shot dead" "Gowrie?" "Shoot at Gowrie?" "Now who would do a fool thing like that" "Shot in the back by a nigger" "It's him,it's the sheriff" "Bring him in" "I'd never thought he'd do it" "He is here,the sheriff is starting,come on" "Come on" "Knock it off again,sheriff" "Knock his head next time" "Don't bother the sheriff, the guards will do it for him" "You boys get on out of here, get on back to barber shop" "You got a flat tyre,sheriff, somebody tried to slow you up?" "Maybe,somebody don't know me,anyhow" "All right,Lucas,come on" "You, young man!" "Tell your uncle I want to see him" "Want to see who?" "Lawyer Stevens,John Stevens" "He wants to see a lawyer" "Lawyer?" "He ain't even needing an undertaker" "I told you boys once to get on out of here,I ain't going to tell you again." "What, Chick,you are perspiring, you are wet through" "Where have you been?" "In the Sunday School,the pictures show doesn't start until six o'clock" "Perhaps there are other attractions" "Gosh,I'm hungry!" "Is that a proper way to behave?" "Sir?" "Coming in here,without a word of greeting" "No,Sir" "This is your home" "Yes,Sir" "Well?" "Hello,ma" "Hello,father" "Hello,Uncle" "Paralee" "Yes,Sir?" "Bring the chicken in again" "I don't know if there is any left" "Apparently she's upset today" "I don't see why,she is not the lady of that murderer" "Or is she?" "No,neither is Chick" "Now Chick suppose you explain where you've been" "Nowhere in particular" "Nowhere in particular is a mighty large place" "I reckon you can do better than that" "May I please have the salt?" "More coffee,Paralee" "You waited outside the jail with the riff-raff from the pool hall and the barber shop,didn't you?" "Well,did you see what you'd expected to see?" "They didn't do anything" "They just stood there that's all" "I want you to stay home until this thing is cleaned up" "Over,finished and done with" "It's happened before and it's bound to happen again" "Nothing for us to get excited about" "I have to run up to Memphis for a couple of days and this is been the way it is" "I don't want to have to worry about you too,you understand!" "That apply to Aleck too" "Yes,Sir" "I told him but he don't listen to me" "He listen to Chick,I ain't no friend of his,I'm just his Ma" "Everybody is going to stay right here at home" "All this fuss and nonsense simply because" "Your friend Lucas Beauchamp really seems to have done it this time" "Yes" "They're going to make a nigger out of him once in his life any way" "What,Chick!" "Let me talk to him" "What in heavens name" "Why?" "He hasn't finished his dinner" "It's terrifying,I know it but we got to face him" "He just doesn't like his napkin up here, makes him feel not quite grown up" "But he isn't" "He'd better not be" "Let me go up and talk to him" "Tell him I said to him to come down and finish his dinner whether he is hungry or not" "Paralee,or Craig tell Aleck to put my suitcase in the car" "Tell me what happened?" "Why did he have to do a thing like that?" "Who knows?" "We'll never really know" "Your friend Lucas Beauchamp" "He is not my friend!" "Chick,you mustn't take this so seriously" "I'm not" "I can't help it" "But why,tell me why" "I don't know" "You must tell me,Chick" "I don't know if I can" "Try,you're old enough to try." "And maybe I'm old enough to understand." "It was quite a while ago" "Went hunting with Alexander" "On the old Edmond's place?" "Yes?" "It was November,pretty cold." "We were hunting rabbit." "We hadn't jumped one all morning" "Alexander!" "My gun!" "Get the pole out of his way so he can get out" "That was just about the first time I saw Lucas speech" "Come on to my house" "Take his gun." "Then I realized we were hunting on his land" "I remember you'd told me the story" "His grandfather was a slave" "He got this land as a gift" "You told me why" "Because his grandfather was the first cousin to the man that owned him" "So grandfather,to father to son came to Lucas Beauchamp" "It was 10 acres,all his own,smack in the middle of whole plantation" "It was Lucas Beauchamp's land" "And Lucas Beauchamp proved it, every step he took" "His land and his house" "Strip off" "Strip off" "There was something else, just what I'd expected" "Side meat and greens" "He made me the dinner that was cooked for him" "What's that for?" "Pick it up!" "Pick up his money" "Give it to him" "I was so angry.I was so awfully ashamed" "He knew what I did not know" "What I didn't have sense enough to understand" "He knew all the time,and I didn't" "That I was his guest in his home" "Now go on and shoot your rabbit" "And stay out of that creek" "Then I could hardly wait for Christmas" "I went down-town and bought Lucas Beauchamp four of their best cigars a package of snuff for his wife,Molly" "That was to pay him his seventy cent with interest" "The next day he made me take it back again" "That's a home-made molasses, a gift from him to me" "That was worse this time,because he had a white boy bring it to me" "This time it had to be finished, once and for all" "Out of what you paid me I saved a quarter a week and finally there was enough" "Enough so he couldn't pay me back" "Enough so he wouldn't if he could" "Mother helped me" "We bought a dress good enough to wear on Sundays,head and set for his wife Molly" "I thought that Lucas would have to come now" "Take off his hat and say" "Thank you,Mr Mallison" "But he didn't" "I saw him in the town just once after that" "He didn't even see me" "I wasn't there" "He didn't even see I wasn't there" "I thought now it's finished,it's all over" "Then I heard,you see, his wife was dead" "Been dead when I sent her the dress" "He was grieved" "I reckon you can be sad and prouder and even lonely,and sad of black skin too" "I went to see him,not to his house, I wouldn't be caught that way again" "I picked neutral ground this time" "Fraser's store" "He came by there any Saturday afternoon" "They were watching him, two of the Gowrie boys" "One of them was Crawford Gowrie.." "The other was Vinson the younger brother" "You,brummie,big headed,bare headed nigger" "Get out of here, Lucas!" "Get out of here, your fool!" "Take it easy,Vinson" "Don't be a fool" "I didn't go after him,couldn't, I don't know why" "Maybe because Vinson Gowrie was white, and I was white" "Lucas Beauchamp was not" "Right in these woods on a Saturday afternoon a few weeks later" "He killed Vinson Gowrie, shot him in the back" "And yet he thinks I'm his friend." "Well,come on" "He wants a lawyer." "Is that all?" "He asked for you" "Uncle John,can't you go right now?" "What's the hurry?" "Chick..." "Nothing is going to happen" "They never start anything in the day time" "They'll be ashamed to see each other's faces" "Suppose they are not?" "They'll wait for the Gowries" "They won't do a thing without the Gowries and the Gowries are going to bury Vinson before they do anything to anybody that isn't a Gowrie" "Then they'll come and drag him out of jail and hang him up" "No,the Gowries are not much good except the fish and fight" "And rise enough corn to boil up some whiskey" "But it's Sunday,even for a Gowrie and they wait for Sunday's passed, for midnight at least" "Suppose they don't" "Then there is a steel door and sheriff Hampton" "It's his job" "Not yours and not mine" "But you are going to see him,aren't you?" "There isn't much I can do for him now" "Uncle John" "All right,I'll go" "I want to go with you" "All right,after supper" "But suppose they come.." "Suppose of them?" "Lucas should have thought of that before he shot a white man in the back" "Come on finish your dinner" "Good evening,Mr Lillie" "Alone aren't you?" "Those Gowrie folks got George to do before they can get into town" "Maybe they'll decide to stay at home on a Sunday night" "By Jove no,they are set for this Sunday" "He ought to thought of that before taking to kill a white man on Saturday afternoon" "I agree" "My wife is not feeling well tonight,but tell them to holler if they need any help" "I expect they know they can depend on you,Mr Lillie" "You see he has nothing against Lucas" "He'll probably tell you like some other don't like the white folks, and he believe it all he requires is that Lucas acts like a negro" "Which he believes what must have happened" "Lucas blew his top and murdered a white man" "Now the white folks are going to take him out and burn him" "No hard feelings on either side" "In fact Mr Lilley will be probably one of the first to contribute cash money to Lucas's funeral and support of his widow and children if they had any" " What's that?" " Someone of Mr. Lilley's friends" "Good evening.Mr Legate" "Evening" "Mr Stevens,you had to get mixed up in it too" "Seems like you can't let life act alone" "I'm his lawyer,Mr Tubbs" "Will here won't even shut and lock the front door" "I'm doing just what the sheriff said" "He is saying me aside and it is a night to resist and is just what I going to do" "Does the sheriff think that gun and funny papers are going to stop the Gowries?" "I don't suppose to stopping by myself, I've got you,and you got a pistol" "Me?" "Me getting in their way for 75$ a month" "Better for everybody if them folks just took him as soon as they laid hands on him yesterday" "But they didn't and I don't think they will" "Don't mind me I'm on duty doing as best as I can" "I've taken an oath of office too" "How am I going to live with myself if I let a posse of no good Gowries to take a prisoner away from me" "And don't think nobody don't make me admit I like it" "I got a wife and two children" "What good in my tomb if I get myself killed for taking a hard stand" "Look" "Look at them,they ain't asleep not a one" "And I don't blame them when a mob of white men is going busting here with pistols and cans of gasoline" "Well,it won't be the first time, and the law of black cats look alike" "Entitled to a cell?" "Serious orders" "I don't know what the next white man he figures he can't risk going to kill somebody and going to think about it" "I've taken the blankets off" "Maybe because he won't be here long enough to have to go asleep" "Well,old man you played the devil this time" "Then you can take my case?" "Take the case?" "What do you mean?" "Depending before the judge?" "I'm going to pay you, you don't have to worry" "I don't defend murderers that shoot people in the back" "Let's give it a trial,we ain't come to it yet" "Now I want to hire somebody, don't have to be no lawyer" "To do what?" "Is you or ain't' you going to take the job?" "I'd already taken your case before I came in here" "I am going to tell you what to do as soon as you tell me what happened" "Never mind that" "Mind?" "What I want is.." "You tell the Gowries to never mind when they bust in here tonight" "So you don't want the job?" "No,but I'll do it just the same" "Now tell me exactly why you killed Vinson Gowrie?" "Was it to that kind of trouble at Fraser's store two months ago?" "I was there Uncle John, I'll be your witness" "That's Lucas's trouble now,he's got too many witnesses already" "Well?" "There was two white folks, partners in a sawmill in this way they were buying lumber to the sawmill on credit" "Who were they?" "Vinson Gowrie was one of them" "Lucas has it not occurred to you that if you just said" "Mr to the white people and said it like you meant it you might not been sitting here now" "So I am to commence now?" "I can start off by saying Mr to folks that drag me out of here and builds a fire under me?" "Nothing is going to happen to you" "Nobody takes you if you got a good pair of hands" "Sure of hands,is home in bed" "It's a point of Mr Wilbur Legate to sit downstairs and throw away the shotgun" "I ain't querying any Will Legate" "The day you hunted?" "The man that can hit a running rabbit with a 30 30 rifle?" "Them Gowries ain't no deer,they might be carrymouse and panthers,they ain't no deer" "All right,I'll stay here with you till the morning if it makes you feel better" "Now go on" "Vinson Gowrie was doing a lumber deal." "Who was the other man?" "Vinson Gowrie was the only one what's public here" "And he got public by being shot in the back in broad daylight" "Well,that's one way to do it" "All right,who's the other partner?" "What was his name?" "Some other man" "He was stealing a load of my lumber every night so" "How do you know?" "I've seen him" "All right,and then what?" "Now you answer me some questions" "Is you or ain't you going to take the case?" "You haven't got a case,you look at the suspicious and took a pistol and went straight in a wrong between two white men,what did you expect?" "What else did you expect?" "You don't want justice,you want mercy" "Well?" "Well,what?" "The rest of it,what happened?" "That's all" "Then I tell you,you went to Fraser's store again and met Vinson Gowrie" "You told him that someone was robbing you,he cursed you and called you a liar" "Whether it was true or not,naturally, he would have to do that" "Maybe he even knocked you down and walked off" "And you shot him in the back" "Never nobody knocked me down" "So much the worse, it's not even self defence" "Now you listen to me" "I'm going to get you tried in another county" "Persuade the District Attorney out there since they don't you that you are an old man,never been in trouble before" "You plead guilty and ask the mercy of the court" "And hope they send you to a penitentiary where you will be safe from the Gowries" "I'll made this offer once and I'll make it again" "Do you want me to stay with you in here tonight?" "I reckon not,they kept me up all last night,I'm going to try to get some sleep" "If you stay here you'll talk to the morning" "Right" "How do expect to get me help from anybody?" "I don't want help,I paid my way" "You won't pay your way out of this" "You broke it" "You might bring me a can of tobacco" "If them Dowries leave me time to smoking" "Tomorrow,we don't want you to keep you awake tonight" "You aren't going to help him,aren't you?" "Of course I am,whether he wants me to or not" "As for change of venue,pleading guilty" "Then they tell you what really happened" "I know what happened, he killed Vinson Gowrie no matter what provocations and he probably had plenty" "Nevertheless he's killed a man" "But there was something he wanted, started to tell you" "I know the answer to that too" "He was going to tell me a lie he knew I couldn't believe,and ding his lawyer,I had to defend like it" "No,I know what's happened and the only cure for it,come on,let's go home" "I might take him the tobacco" "That can wait for morning" "Chick,your father told me before he left to see you didn't go anywhere" "I know" "Then you get home as fast as you can" "Yes,Sir" "What again?" "I forgot something" "Let it rest till the morning" "Oh,let him get it tonight" "I am afraid if he leaves to the morning he might get trampled on" "Let open the gate,I intend to give him through the bars" "All right,what do you want me to do?" "Go out there" "Go out where?" "The Gowries buries into chapel" "What?" "That's nine miles out of the bridge" "Then first right hand turn up the hills" "All you got to do is going to look at him" "Me?" "Why should I do such a thing?" "Come here" "Because my pistol is a 41 colt" "All right,suppose it is,then what?" "He wasn't shot with no 41 colt" "What was he shot with?" "What kind of shot was he shot with,Lucas?" "I'm going to pay you,name your price and anything within reason and I'll pay you" "But why me,why do you call me, what can I do about it?" "Because you ain't clattered,you can listen but a man like your uncle he ain't got time" "He is too full of notions" "Tell me what you want me to do" "They bury at the Caledonian Chapel" "Up in that part of the county, up in the night?" "Even the sheriff won't go up there unless he is sent for" "And you want me to?" "Anyway I have to be back at midnight or the Gowries" "I know about the Gowries" "Even midnight will be too late" "I don't see how I can make it" "I'll try to wait" "Wait!" "What did he tell you?" "Nothing Mr Gowrie" "You have been up to see him twice" "Why not?" "Why shouldn't I?" "He killed my kid brother" "And I'm here to see that nobody stick him over the county line where we can't get at him" "You tell me what you went up there for?" "He asked me to bring him some tobacco" "Tobacco?" "We buried Vinson this morning,and do you know how he was killed?" "Tell me what he told you" "He said it wasn't his gun" "He is a smart nigger,I'd say the same thing" "So he told you it wasn't his gun" "If I were Lucas or any other ignorant murderer" "I'd claim the exactly the same thing myself" "That's just what Crawford Gowrie said." "Where?" "Outside the jail" "And the Gowries are there already" "And you come to me,and I say no more that what a Gowrie says" "It's true,in the matters of life and death, a man's vocabulary is almighty small" "Oh Excuse me,Good Evening,Miss Habersham" "Good Evening" "Where as in the matter of Miss Habersham's truck in dreadful collision to a worn out rooster which your neighbour Mr Winston swears and contends is of high pedigree stock" "Worth at least 7 $" "There are all the words in the world" "Why if he had to shoot a white man, did he do it up there in deep mine?" "He couldn't picked the worse place for himself in this whole county" "Maybe not in the whole world" "But if he had to do it there why did he pick the Gowries?" "And if he picked the Gowries why did he have to shoot him in the back" "Maybe he didn't" "Maybe we might find out if we went up where he was buried" "Chick,now tell me,what did Lucas asked you to do?" "Maybe the sheriff could do it" "Do exactly what?" "Dig him up" "What?" "To get the bullet out and look at it" "Why in heavens name?" "To see that it comes from a 41 colt" "Dig up Vinson Gowrie out of ground he's been prayed and consecrated into?" "Violate a Gowrie's grave to save a black from punishment?" "I'd rather tell old man Gowrie" "I want to exhumes his boy's body to get his gold out of its teeth" "Even if Lucas' story were true, even if every word of it were true even then we couldn't do it,not you,not me not sheriff Hampton,not the governor, not the President of the United States" "It's Chick" "I'll let you not going to do it tonight" "I didn't say I was" "It's Chick with Ryebow" "Let him be" "Go ahead,go ahead,if you want to" "That Lucas being so smart,why did he has to do a thing like that" "Go ahead,do you what you just want to do" "I ain't going nowhere" "At least not very far" "Where are you going?" "Far enough" "Where is that?" "Where I don't have to see or hear anything that have happened tonight" "I am going after more feed if you go that far" "Chick" "What did Lucas tell you?" "He said it was not his pistol" "I know and then what?" "He wants me to pick up the body" "Well?" "I can't even if I could you know what Uncle John would say" "I got a flash,I got my car" "Can you get some tools,a pick and shovel?" "Going to no good, he will be burned just the same just exactly the same for you could not doing anything about it" "How far is it?" "Caledonian Chapel is on the hill beyond the bridge" "Then we do need a horse" "We?" "Do you expect to come,Miss Habersham?" "We'll park at the bottom of the hill, then we use the horse,he'll make less noise" "Can you drive?" "I am not supposed to go" "I know,neither is Mr Stevens neither is the sheriff,or the governor, or the President of the United States" "For that matter neither am I, but somebody got to do it" "Come on" "Don't go across the bridge it will make noise" "Go and cross the creek" "What's the matter?" "He smells quicksand" "A mule coming down the hill." "Who's that on the mule?" "I couldn't even see it was a mule" "I couldn't see anything" "Suppose he saw us,suppose he knows he can catch us" "Maybe he had carrying things" "Here it is" "There is no need for any pick" "So much the better" "Got to excavate,I'll help" "All right,Aleck,give me a hand" "We need a crowbar" "And rope.We forgot the rope" "It's empty" "Well,you would not have come here at four o'clock in the morning with a tale like that if it wasn't so" "Looks like he might be innocent" "He could have killed Vinson Gowrie but he never dug him up" "Because Vinson wasn't buried until Sunday afternoon." "By that time Lucas had been locked up in that cell for almost six hours" "Sheriff if we don't.." "Vinson isn't in that grave" "But officially he is" "By the county records he is" "So you want me to dig him up again officially" "Gowrie grave,Gowrie ground" "Who is going to get old Hubb's permission?" "Aren't you the sheriff?" "But you're the lawyer" "You're the talker" "And tell him what?" "That we are trying to save the black skin of a man who was found with a fired pistol in his pocket?" "Standing over a dead Gowrie?" "It will take more than a lawyer to do that" "If we are going up to that graveyard without permission" "We'll wait till it's broad daylight" "We didn't and what is going to happen to Lucas Beauchamp in the mean time" "That's an iron door,Miss Eunice" "There is a key to it" "Meaning Mr Tubbs is only a man" "Will Legate had 12 gates and a shotgun inside,Mam" "If enough Gowries are that keen, enough work and they are keen" "You mean if they are enough to get together they make up a collected minds they'll pass even Will Legate and his 12 gates and the shotgun" "We will back before then" "And if you are not?" "He is doing the best his judgement tells him to,Miss Eunice" "You can't ask more than that" "If you mean these two children and me we are not asking anything" "It's Lucas you got to trap for or cow to" "No,Miss Eunice,it's none of us up to do anything before we had some breakfast" "Drink your coffee,that's a full swelling of Mr Hampton's style" "What I like to know how the same Lucas Beauchamp could convince me he was guilty and convince you he was innocent" "And you too" "What I would like to know what Chick and his buddy would have done if there had been a body in that coffin" "I don't know,I hadn't thought about it" "I did" "Put some sugar in it child" "You?" "You were out there too helping digging up a white man's grave.Why?" "Was it because Miss Habersham made you?" "Never made me,I didn't even know that I was going,to tell you suddenly,there I was" "Why didn't I believe Lucas?" "Why didn't he trust me a loyal to the truth" "You are a white man,worse than that, you are a grown white man" "Yes,I've heard that before too" "I heard Aleck's grandfather tell Chick and Aleck that once" "Do you want to get anything done, don't bother the men folks with it" "They are too clattered up with facts" "Get the women and children to working on it" "Is that what you meant?" "Why don't you drink your coffee yourself so we can get started" "It's more than that there is a wall going up between us." "Lucas can't see through it and I won't" "Maybe that's wrong" "We're the ones who can't see through it because we are the ones who are blind" "Will Legate!" "What are you doing here ?" "Morning,Miss Habersham" "It is broad daylight,I got 2 miles to walk before I can feed them" "You see?" "Who is on guard?" "I'll wake Tubbs and give him a shot gun" "Oh,it is all quiet over there, I wouldn't left if it hadn't been" "Are you too sure.." "Miss Eunice let's finish breakfast and get started" "Mr Hampton is right,Miss Eunice, and so are you" "They'll pass even Will Legate sooner or later when there was enough of them" "But there is one thing that would stop them" "Long enough,anyhow" "And that is somebody without a gun" "A lady" "A white lady" "All right but I am not going to sit there all the morning doing nothing so the gaoler's wife will think she has to talk to me" "I'll go home and get some mending to do and feed the chickens" "Maybe Aleck will drive me" "I don't know Mum want me.." "You gone this far you can go a little further,you and me,both" "I reckon so" "Yes and.." "Who can eat more than two eggs?" "Well,we won't have the county the sense to stay home anyway" "They'd rather have" "We are too late,they are going to get him" "No,not these people, I haven't seen any of the Gowrie,not yet anywhere" "Suppose .." "I reckon that" "They are just going to town to see something happening and wait for the Gowries,just to wait,that's all" "But suppose" "Suppose we'd stop supposing and denying either to get out there and do what we have to do" "All right,boys,jump to it,let's get to work done and get out of here" "What is going round here,sheriff?" "I am going to open this grave,Mr Gowrie" "No sheriff,not that grave" "Yes,Mr Gowrie I am going to open it" "Get back to the car boys" "Never mind boys" "I ain't going to hurt you,I'm talking to the sheriff here" "The boy ain't in that grave" "Don't tell me the name of the fellow that proved my boy ain't there,sheriff" "It's empty" "I saw it last night" "Grab those shovels,sons, they belong to the county" "If we bust one,it's nobody's business except the grand jury" "What have they done with my boy" "Mr Gowrie I think you knew last night that something was wrong" "You knew that Lucas would be dead some time after midnight or as soon as you could have got into town" "But you stayed home,why?" "Why,Mr Gowrie?" "Uncle Charles I found some tracks come on" "Here,I found them again" "Here,here was the animal was hiding" "And there was it stopped" "Alec said it was a mule" "Aleck whom?" "Oh" "Sure,the other detectives" "Yes,but did he say who it was" "Somebody who couldn't or wouldn't let Vinson rest" "Had to take him out and hide him somewhere" "Anywhere so we couldn't look at the bullet and name a gun" "Somebody who knew that Vinson was never shot with Lucas Beauchamp 41 colt" "It is Vinson's partner in the lumber deal whoever that is" "Because Lucas won't tell at least not to his lawyer" "You think his partner" "Who is Vinson's partner?" "We ain't found Vinson yet" "Set your dogs to find him" "Never mind the dogs they'll trail and they'll catch anything that ever run or walked either" "But my boy never walked away from here and never left no trail" "Hush now,Mr Gowrie the man that carried him walked all by himself from here on" "And in dreadful terrifying hurry before two boys and an old woman who came down that hill and discovered him at work,so he had to do it" "Hide what he had to carry and do it fast,sure and quiet" "There will be no more trace not for long time" "A well or a river" "Or sand" "Yeah,what sand!" "Right over the bridge,the horse wouldn't cross last night" "Quicksand" "No,lawyer,put a man in quicksand,my boy in quicksand" "A man who would do a thing like that would.." "Gowrie give me a hand" "Get the rope up the hound dogs" "You cut a branch,any branch, anything get him out of there" "Watch it boys" "Come on boys" "Hurry with that branch,come on let's go" "Three or four down here" "Give me your hand now" "Here,I found him,I've started on him" "Hang up" "Here,bring it on,give me the pole" "Pull,pull" "Easy boys" "Pull" "Easy boy" "That's it" "That's it boys" "My boy,get my boy out of there" "All right,boys,pull,pull now" "Easy boy" "Right over here boy" "Here we are" "Put him right here" "There we are" "That's Vinson all right" "John,let's get him away from the road" "At least get him back in the wood so they won't see him" "Steady,they all passed by now anyway" "They are all in town by now" "Well they had to do it too hard, just a three and a five" "Well,Mr. Gowrie,when you reckon you don't get somebody?" "He's got to wait on his brothers certainly" "Where is your act Robert, planting corn this morning?" "Don't say that they are waiting to be called up for jury duty" "Get out of your way,Miss Habersham" "I'm very comfortable the way I am" "There is one way take and move her and chair out in the yard" "Or else I could do this" "Please bring your step out of my light so I can straight my needle" "Miss Hamersham,I'm not touching you,you are an old lady,but you are in the wrong" "You are fighting the whole county" "But you are getting tired,and when you do get tired,we are going in" "I'm going for the 80 and I'm not tired yet" "Go home." "Everyone of you" "Go on home" "You're ought to be ashamed" "I've never seen no man shoot Vinson Gowrie" "But you must know who shot him" "Don't you realize you'd never be safe" "Not until we know who is, not until we find him" "Not until we put him right here in your place,on this bunk,in this cell" "You are a lawyer,you know the law" "Can you put a man in jail if you never seen him fire no shot?" "Your case is slightly different" "Can they take him out of jail and maybe burn him if there are only suspicions and maybe.." "Listen,you were standing over a dead man you had a recently fired pistol in your pocket" "Do you call that just suspicion?" "It was Saturday" "I know that" "Why did you carry a pistol?" "Mr Carruthers" "Give it to you?" "Sold it to me" "All right" "He always carry it on Saturdays" "But he was a white man" "So that's why,I see" "When you dressed up on Saturday you wear the pistol exactly like old Carruthers did,just as simple as that" "Downstairs in the office they got my pistol" "And my hat and the toothpicks, do I get them now or.." "Lucas,last night I was wrong,you were right and Chick was right,and I was wrong" "Today I'm trying to save your life not for your own safe since you've been throwing it away but for my own safe" "So I won't carry it on my conscious" "All right" "What would you be satisfied with?" "The truth,nothing more" "There were two white folks partners in the saw mill" "And one was Vinson Gowrie, yes,and the other?" "I do not sleep much nights." "So I taking to walking" "Not because you suspected anything of course" "I've taken to walking and in the dark I come near the saw mill" "And then I see the light coming straight at me" "Just like I told you that there were two folks partners in the saw mill" "And one of them was dealing with lumber every night maybe or every night he could" "And he's seen me" "So I know that was the end of it" "Then I hear the mule" "This your lumber?" "Who drove that truck?" "You see who drove that truck" "I knew that was not him neither" "Next Saturday afternoon I am on my way over to Fraser's store" "I see my Saturday supper" "But I missed him" "Two miles later when I come in sight of Fraser's store there was Vinson Gowrie" "He wanted to know before he beat me just who's been stealing the lumber" "Then I told him I ain't decided yet" "He told me,he reckon he has to beat it out of me then" "He never did" "I don't know if it was a rifle" "It could have been a rifle" "But I've never seen who fired it" "He could have picked me out and shut me up but he picked Vinson" "Do you know why?" "Because the murderer watched you every step of the way" "He saw you fire the rabbit and missed,it was his chance" "He murdered the man from whom he stole the money to see you lynched for that very same murder" "So he would be safe and you and Vinson would be dead" "The scheme should have worked by every reason of geography and psychology and the past 200 years of this county system" "In fact it did work" "Except once long time ago and partly by chance a white boy fell into the creek on your property" "Hello,sheriff" "I don't know what you have done with Lucas but we got something out of Vinson Gowrie" "Lies just right back at his breastbone" "Fired by some kind of rifle" "Who fired that rifle?" "You forget I've not seen no rifle" "But certainly you must know or suspect or even guess" "Not personally I do not want to send any man to jail I ain't seen personally" "Lucas,why don't you trust me" "There is no need to" "Listen to me,it wasn't your pistol,true you did not move the body down to the creek,true" "But you try to explain the truth to a mob who has been waiting down there all night for something to kill" "Don't you see you are not going to be safe until we catch the murderer" "All right I'll show you how to catch them" "Put your right fake in the right trap" "How do you propose to do that?" "Give me my hat and let me go home" "Can't do that" "Sure we can on the strength of this you are a free man now" "But you walk out this jail and you won't be alive 10 minutes" "And you would be lucky for less" "Shall I ask the sheriff to get your hat?" "And the pistol and my toothpick" "No,come on" "I think I got to be be hiding in there" "You won't have to stay here much longer we are going to get this whole thing settled before dark" "All right I don't mind I've had lots of company" "So I see" "Lawyer" "Lawyer" "Lawyer" "That the second time you've been up seeing him" "Yes" "What can you actually do for him lawyer?" "Don't we treat you better" "Save his life" "You ain't been paid enough money to be able to do that,lawyer" "I've been paid nothing,there are some things you don't do for money" "I'm going up to my office and phone the District Attorney to get him to release this man,today so he can go home and finish his planting" "Wait" "So you are taking the case that is going to defend him hope to get him out" "Yes" "And you call yourself white folk" "Mr Gowrie" "And my brother was killed by that nigger" "Lucas Beauchamp is innocent" "Not in this court" "I've seen a piece of evidence that I know would even convince you" "They don't believe you" "One of them does,the question is which one" "But he will be cleared out of the county" "He might" "But there is one thing he is bound to do first" "He was frightened last night when he had to dig out of his grave the body of the man he shot, carrying downhill to find a place to bury him again" "All by himself furiously in the dark" "One man against the whole weight of the earth" "What a hard that must have been" "And now today every hour that has happened since Saturday noon must be gone together in his brain" "They don't know it out there,but he does" "He is lost,he is finished" "He is running through his last few pennies of freedom" "And I reckon he is going to spend the only way he knows" "On revenge" "You don't carry a 33 rifle do you,Mr Gowrie?" "No" "Do you know anybody that does?" "Yes" "Sit down Mr Gowrie" "Don't sit down if you don't care to but at least get away from that window" "You sent for me" "You phoned me set up a warrant see who killed my boy" "He'll be here" "Sooner or later before the day is over he will come to kill Lucas Beauchamp" "I don't see Lucas Beauchamp neither" "Now you do" "Is that his wife?" "That his wife,she is dead" "Two years now" "Maybe three" "Mine been gone twenty five years" "The day the twins was borne" "Raising all them boys by yourself is hard" "Five boys" "That wasn't shot with no 41 colt" "Come on out here you black nigger" "Wait a minute" "Get out of the way" "You need help" "I don't want no help" "I'll do it myself" "Pa,you ain't got no business here" "Pa,get out of the way" "Put down that gun" "Is this the gun that killed your brother Vinson?" "Is he the one,sheriff?" "That's right,he is the one" "The man who killed his brother" "Ask him" "Is that right,Nub!" "That's right,he killed him" "They are running away" "There is more than that" "No,that's all,there is nothing left to do than to admit that they are wrong" "So they are riding away" "It's worse than that" "Then they are running from Lucas Beauchamp" "No" "Yes" "They won't even wait to buy him a can of tobacco to show him getting for all the trouble he cost" "Then what's the hurry?" "They know they got the rest of their lives to do that" "From coffins,so they wont have to bury him, they are running away from coffins" "Not from Lucas and not from coffins" "Well,they are running,you can't change that" "No,I can't change that" "They are running away from themselves" "Hi,Miss Eunice what's the hurry?" "I got to get home to my chickens but if you ever get trouble again let me know" "You see,we were in trouble, not Lucas Beauchamp" "It's all right,Chick" "Is it?" "It will be all right" "So long some of us,you,Miss Habersham, and Aleck and maybe me or even so long one of us, someone of us doesn't run away" "Uncle John" "Chick" "It's a fine Saturday afternoon why don't you go to the ball games" "Lucas is coming here" "Well,he is a gentleman,he won't tell me in the face I was wrong" "Come in Lucas" "Young man you seldom go fishing lately" "I'm waiting for you getting nice new ..." "You are welcome whether it is frozen or not" "Have a seat Lucas" "I believe you got a little bill against me" "Not me I didn't do anything" "That boy there is the reason you are walking around today" "All right,I'll pay him" "You can't,he'll be practising law without a licence" "I'll pay your expenses then" "The only expense I had was having this fixed" "How much?" "2 $ 2 $" "That don't seem that much to me" "First I'm a farming man use a law man" "I don't reckon it is my business to try to learn yours" "That is one dollar in four bits" "Never mind that" "That makes it out four bits in pennies" "I was aiming to take them to the bank but you could save me the trouble" "You want to count them?" "Yes,but you are paying,you count them" "There is 50 of them" "This is business" "As long as you are paying your debts ,go and see Miss Habersham 15,20 I ain't much of a visiting man" "You could bring her some flowers" "I've had no flowers to speak of since Molly died" "Chick's mother will fetch some of your garden" "You owe her that much,Lucas" "She is the only lady anywhere that ever held a jail full of threats" "All right,anything more to satisfy you" "Just one thing more" "Why didn't you tell me the truth?" "That night in the jail" "Would you have believed me?" "No,what what are you waiting for now?" "My receipt" "They don't see him as though it never happened" "They see him" "No,they don't know that he is even there" "But they do same as I do,they always will as long as he lives" "Proud,stubborn,insufferable but there he goes keep on my conscience" "Our conscience,Uncle John" "Subtitles by Seglora"