"doctor of medicine." "Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted" "But laws are made by men, carried out by men." "Richard Kimble is innocent." "Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove he encountered a man running from the vicinity of his home." "A man with one arm." "and sees only darkness." "But in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand." "ANNOUNCER:" "Papa?" "Don't you need me to help you today?" "Jenny, honey?" "First bell's ringin'." "Jenny, love, you hurry now," "Do I have to go?" "And don't you go near them woods at all." "Papa, please." "I never did my homework." "You'll be late, Jenny." "Get." "Get along." "You run, you gonna make yourself sick." "take Richard Kimble, unjustly convicted of murder." "a stranger in town." "Hello?" "Oh, Naiad, Naiad..." "Oh, you've just got to help me." "Oh, please." "I'll do anything you say, only, please..." "Hi." "Are you all right?" "I found these in the road." "Whose are they?" "Well, do you think you could take them to her?" "Her name is Jenny Ammory." "Well, maybe she'll come back for them." "Mister?" "and that's why she went on ahead to school," "Nobody." "Ever." "but, uh, I'd say she did the right thing in going on to school." "Thank you." "Hey, come on!" "Come on, Jimmy!" "Come on!" "Look at me go!" "Come on, get it!" "Come on, get it!" "Miss Norton?" "Well, you can take your recess now." "You need the change and the exercise." "Gonna send another note home to my ma?" "that you're almost always late for school, and that your homework is seldom done?" "Well, I know, dear." "You always have an excuse." "Maybe we'll get to be friends, huh?" "A man got after me." "A perfect stranger." "Jenny, you have a wonderful imagination and I'm glad," "There was a man." "I was late 'cause I came through the woods." "And he tore my dress." "And I ran and ran." "Oh, I really did my homework," "Jenny, how did you tear your dress?" "There." "I told you." "I tore it when I was running to get away." "Jenny..." "Jenny, remember the time you saw the wild Indians and the, uh-?" "The monster?" "I know, but this is real." "Well, you said that about the monster too." "I don't care." "This is different." "Yes, Jenny." "This story is different." "Because it could mean something to grownups that's..." "Something that's very dangerous." "To him or to me?" "To him." "If" " If there is a man like this, there could be a great deal of very bad trouble about it." "But you don't believe there is." "The important thing is I want you to be sure about it." "Now, look, don't say anything more about this to anyone else just now." "You think it over carefully, and then tell me the story again at lunchtime." "But it'll still be the same and you still won't believe me, because you don't want to." "Even if I prove it." "It's hard to make you understand that what I don't want is for you to be hurt, either by a lie or the truth." "I won't be, Miss Norton." "'Cause there's someone who protects me all the time." "Someone who knows I'm not a liar." "Wait and see." "Hey." "That ain't Ty Tyson at all." "That's that fellow he hired last week." "How do you do?" "Howdy." "Uh, Mr. Tyson sent me over to get a cord of wood." "Ain't you that feller, uh, Fowler?" "That's right." "Jim Fowler." "I've heard about you." "I'm, uh, Mrs. Ammory." "How do you do?" "Yonder's my man, H.R." "How do you do?" "Ah, my daughter Jenny's gone to school." "I-I guess you probably passed her on the road, huh?" "On the...?" "Uh, well" " Well, I, uh..." "Unless she's gone snuck off into them woods again like I told her not to, to play." "Yeah, I guess I came along too late and I didn't see her." "Ah." "Firewood's ready." "Oh, I hope she gets there on time today." "You know, that teacher we got now, Miss Norton, picks on some of 'em." "Mostly the girls." "She likes the boys just fine." "Heh!" "Well, we're the Ammorys and, uh, you're Jim, huh?" "That's right." "We'll do the loading', mister." "You know, come to think of it, her bein' the town librarian too, you probably know Miss Norton, don't you?" "Yes, ma'am." "We've met." "Enjoy our library, do you?" "Yeah, the books are nice." "They say you've read quite a bit since you come to Hainesville." "Well, it's a nice little town to read in." "Maybe I should've asked you before I talked about her like that." "I hope I didn't step on no tender toes there, Jim." "No, ma'am." "I've been to the library twice." "Uh, but not tenderly." "Sure I can't give you a hand with this wood?" "No siree, Bob." "Ty Tyson'll wanna cut the price if we let his hired hand help us load up." "We need that $20." "Every penny of it." "Stand back, mister." "Miss Norton ever mention to you why she ain't been married?" "A woman her age?" "Uh, no, ma'am." "We just passed the time of day." "Menfolk around here like her right enough." "Ain't that true, H.R.?" "Women carry on about her somethin' fierce." "That's true." "'Course, havin' a baby and runnin' a house, them things age a woman some." "But, you know, there she is, really older than me." "Leastways not no younger." "Ain't never taken a husband." "Some do, some don't, that's all." "'Course you ain't married neither, are you, Jim?" "Uh, no, ma'am." "Say, I know why you ain't seen Jenny." "It's 'cause she run all the way to school." "That's what she did, I told her to walk and she run." "She run, she run, she run so she wouldn't be tardy." "See there, that's that teacher again." "She got that child plumb scared, poor little thing." "Hey, Brains." "Hey, Brains." "Better hop to it, the boss is calling for you." "Let's see, now, I- I gave you $15, didn't I?" "Yup, ten-five." "Got a $5 bill in your pocket?" "Got Mr. Ammory's firewood out of the truck?" "It's, uh, unloaded, stacked over there." "Oh, he's a real wizard, ain't he?" "Oh, yeah, very polite with the ladies too." "Here you go, H.R." "Twenty dollars, paid in cash, right?" "Oh, don't forget to put it on your income tax." "Tell your missus I said hello, will you?" "Here you are, two, three, four, and I sure do thank you, Brains." "I gave you five." "Oh, that just makes us even." "Cost me a dollar 'cause you had them Ammorys load that wood without you helping' 'em." "I could've charged them an hour of your time." "What's that?" "That's a dime." "You pay me a dollar-ten an hour." "Hey, I like you, Brains." "I really do." "You hear that, Sailor?" "Ha, ha, ha- No, Ty." "What was it, huh?" "Oh, man, that's rich." "Yeah, you're all right, Brains." "You know what I'm gonna do?" "I'm gonna let you load about a ton of coal on this truck." "That's very nice of you, Ty, but I'm trying to eat my lunch." "Well, you can eat later today." "Board of Elders ordered this coal and paid for it in advance." "Come on, I'll help you." "Can't this wait half an hour?" "No, it can't." "Our little schoolteacher wants it up there by noon recess." "To the school, huh?" "Oh, that's different, ain't it?" "I guess it is." "Never keep a lady waiting." "Especially Emily Norton, right?" "She's a lady." "What you been doin' to find that out?" "I thought I was quietly observing." "She's intelligent." "Alert." "Probably too much of a lady to take up with any stranger in town, right?" "She hasn't taken up with me, if that's what you're worried about." "I didn't say I was worried about it, did I, Brains?" "Heh." "No, fact is..." "I'm kinda taking' it easy with her, and I don't like nobody rushing' me." "I don't think she knows she's spoken for, Ty." "She will, when the time comes." "'Course, I can't talk as pretty as you." "Want me to tell her for you?" "Heh, you wanna take the chance?" "Heh." "'Course, you could just stay away from her entirely." "I think I'd like that better." "He's here." "He's here." "I told you he was after me." "Now he's here." "Jenny." "There." "There." "Now do you believe me?" "Jenny, that's simply the man delivering the coal" "I ordered for the furnace." "Mr. Fowler." "Don't tell him where I am." "Don't tell him what I said." "He'll lie to you." "Jenny, you stay right here while I go speak to him." "Now, I've met him." "He seems like a very nice man." "No!" "Don't tell him!" "I have to show him where to put the coal." "If you tell on me, Miss Norton, a terrible thing will happen." "Mr. Fowler." "Hello." "Uh, hello, Miss Norton." "Uh..." "Mr. Fowler, do you know one of my girls, Jenny Ammory?" "Well, I know who she is." "Do you know where she lives?" "I was at the, uh, Ammory farm." "I picked up some firewood." "Oh?" "When was that?" "This morning." "What time?" "Before school?" "Yes." "Was Jenny there?" "Uh, no, uh, not at the farm." "Well, did you see her?" "I bet you don't give out many A's, Miss Norton." "Bang, bang!" "Pow!" "Bang!" "Marvin." "Bang!" "Marvin, please." "You're not permitted to play around the barn." "Now, run along outside." "Okay." "Sorry, teacher." "Come on, let's go." "I'm sorry." "I have quite a bit of trouble with Jenny Ammory." "She has a- A fantastic imagination." "She told me a story about something that happened this morning." "Something that involves you in a rather unpleasant way." "About a man." "Chasing her through the woods." "I think I'm ahead of you." "I'll tell you a secret." "It was me, but I" "Jenny!" "Shame on you, Jenny." "You tell me stories, you" " You disobey me, and now you eavesdrop on me." "Well, little girl, you are in trouble now." "This is very, very serious!" "Mama, Mama!" "What is it?" "Oh, Mama." "Oh, there, there, there." "Mama." "Baby, what's the matter?" "Mama." "Oh, there." "What are you doing home at this hour, sweetheart?" "Mama..." "Hmmm?" "Something awful happened." "She send you home for misbehaving'?" "It wasn't me, Mama." "Her and this man." "Who?" "What man?" "The man who works for Mr. Tyson." "He came to school in the truck." "He did?" "You mean Jim?" "That" " That" " That Jim Fowler?" "Yes, Mama." "And I saw him and Miss Norton go into the barn." "You what?" "Come on, baby." "Come on inside with Mama, now." "You tell me all about it." "Come on now, baby." "Come on." "Oh, Mama, I'm tellin' the truth, honest." "She saw me." "I tried not to let her see me." "Then she got real mad." "And she scared me." "And then I ran so hard I even tore my dress." "Oh, baby..." "Oh, I just had to come home." "She's got it in for me now." "All right." "There, there, there." "I just had to come home." "Sh-shh." "You did just right, sweetheart." "You did just right." "There, you settle down now." "You're safe with Mama." "You did just right, sweetie." "Poor little girl." "Bein' made to look at somethin' like that." "Them shameless, no-good" "Give me 3- 3921, please." "You tell Mama just what you seen." "Mama, I just can't." "Of course you can't, baby." "Come on, never mind." "Mama knows." "H-hello, Mrs. Sturgis?" "This is Mrs. Ammory." "Yeah, well, I thought I should call you first, Mrs. Sturgis, because, uh, Mr. Sturgis bein' chairman of the Elders..." "Well, you see, my- My little girl come home from school just now... and, uh, well, it's happened." "Mm-hm, just like I always knowed it would." "Oh, Naiad, Naiad..." "Thank you, thank you, thank you." "Three times today you saved me." "Three times." "Most of all, Mr. Fowler." "Oh, thank you for him." "I know why you sent him now." "He's how you want me to fix her good." "I will, oh, I promise." "He's how I'll fix Miss Norton really good." "Forever." "Deke, gonna be some fat canaries in this town, amount of birdseed them women's been buying lately." "Ty get back from Basin City yet?" "No, but he will be soon." "Maybe, uh, suppertime." "Reckon he found out about him and her in the schoolhouse barn?" "No, but he will as soon as he gets back." "Wait'll he hears about that meeting they're having tonight." "He'll know then." "And, man, look out." "There's gonna be fireworks." "Jenny, you, uh, surprised me." "There were people out front so I snuck in back so nobody'd know I was here." "Oh." "Well, what can I do for you?" "I need you to help me." "All right." "My teacher... she's awful mad at me." "Oh, I don't think Miss Norton's really mad at you, Jenny." "Well, anyhow, you go to the library, don't you?" "Yeah, sometimes." "Well, could you take something back for me?" "You could say you just found it someplace and brought it back." "Then maybe she'd like me better." "'Cause it's been gone a long, long time." "It's a book." "Well, yeah, I could take it back, Jenny, but wouldn't it be better if you took it back?" "Then she'd know I stole" "I mean, then she'd think I stole it." "Well, all right, Jenny." "Can you take it this afternoon?" "Well, I can take it right now." "I'm just closing up." "I have to hurry." "It's the regular Thursday meeting of the board, but we plan a little special discussion." "That's why my husband sent the note." "'Course, if you've got something else to do, you don't have to come." "No, no, I'll" "I'll be there." "We'll look forward to it then." "Ladies." "I brought you a book." "There's nothing as badly timed as a badly timed entrance." "Well, I guess my time has run out here, Mr. Fowler." "Well, you saw the ladies." "Mrs. William Sturgis, no less." "Oh, her husband is chairman of the Board of Elders." "Y-you know of course, that they meet every Thursday evening, and they" " They want me to be there this evening." "What for?" "Oh, just a friendly, cordial, impossible chat about my being whatever they think I am." "Well, what do they think you are?" "This is the fourth town I've tried, Mr. Fowler." "Well, they always have a name for me:" ""Worldly." "Sophisticated." "City girl."" "And there's always a man like Mr. Tyson." "Oh, Mr. Tyson." "Mr. Tyson has ideas, you know." "Probably some of the married ones too." "You might as well face the facts." "You're an attractive woman." "Attractive enough to raise the temperatures of most of the healthy males in this town, so you've got to expect the women's eyebrows to go up." "I don't care about the eyebrows." "It's the 30-day notice that I resent." "And then having to look for another town." "Why don't you fight back?" "I came here to teach the children, not to fight their parents." "And I'm a good teacher, Mr. Fowler." "I believe that." "They need a good teacher here in Hainesville." "Maybe, uh..." "Maybe you just have to learn how to fit into a small town." "I was born in a small town just like this one." "I left it." "I traveled." "I went to school." "I was looking for something...noble." "And then I met this man." "Oh, I'm" " I'm sure you've heard the rest of that before." "Nothing serious." "J-just heartbreaking." "You know what my friends used to-?" "Used to tell me in New York?" "They used to say, "Emily," ""you can take the girl out of the small town," ""but you can't take the small town out" "Out of the girl."" "Oh, I didn't belong in New York." "I could never find myself there." "But I don't belong here either, that's for sure." "Miss Norton, stop feeling sorry for yourself." "We've all got troubles." "So you went to the big city." "Now you're back." "Just don't accept a 30-day notice." "Teaching is your job." "Why don't you fight for it?" "Hi." "Hi." "Get all your business taken care of?" "Not quite." "You didn't miss anything around here." "That's right, 'cause it hasn't happened yet." "Has it, boys?" "No, not quite." "But you do remember my warning you not to try to beat my time with Emily Norton, don't you?" "I-I didn't think you were afraid of competition from me." "Old Sailor's tickled." "He thinks I'm gonna hit you right in the mouth." "Wouldn't be so funny, would it?" "I ain't afraid of competition, Brains." "I just wanna see if I got some." "See, I never listen to gossip, so I let you alone." "But I know you just come from the library so I say if we're gonna compete, let's compete." "Ooh-whee!" "Look at him come." "Oooh!" "Ha, you got him, Ty." "You got him." "What's goin' on here?" "Come on, break it up." "Let me through." "How come you're down?" "Hold on." "Aw, McNary, ain't you got no sense of fair play?" "Hold it, mac." "There's no hard feelings, Brains." "But since your little romance here is over, you stay away from that schoolhouse and that teacher." "Even find yourself another job, 'cause you're fired." "Meanwhile, you just stay off the streets of Hainesville and outta my sight." "Yeah, yeah, that's right, sheriff." "Huh?" "Well, I'll be darned." "I'm much obliged to you." "The sheriff says you was lying about your references." "That job you said you had up in Sandville before you come here?" "All right." "So?" "So you ain't done nothin' wrong here." "I got nothin' against you so long as you don't stir up this town any more than it is right now." "But, Fowler, there's a bus through here at 9:00 tonight." "Now, I got to face that crowd down at the church, and I'd just rather tell 'em that you was on that bus and gone." "That way, it'll be better for you, better for the girl and about the only way I'll get this town back to normal." "Wait a minute, uh, what crowd?" "What are you talking about?" "The meeting of the board." "They got Miss Norton in there now, on account of her sneaking' off into the barn with you or some such of a thing." "Sneak-?" "What are you talking about?" "About half the town is down there now at the church, talkin' about what Tyson done to you." "Now, it looks bad enough for her no matter where you're at, but the further away you are, the better." "Believe me, now, come on." "Wait a minute." "McNary, McNary, they're wrong about her." "Well, then let her tell 'em that." "They already got the one version from Mrs. Ammory and Jenny." "Come on." "Jenny Ammory?" "Yeah, sure." "Now, are we goin' down to that station or you gonna tangle with the county sheriff?" "What's gonna happen to Miss Norton if I run out on her?" "McNary, I'll be on the bus at 9:00." "First I'm going over to that meeting house." "You coming with me?" "Yeah." "And then to the bus station." "We do not want this sort of thing going on under the very noses of our innocent children," "Mr. Chairman, isn't that right?" "We've gotta do something." "Mrs. Ammory." "Please be seated." "Now..." "Now, Miss Norton, you, uh..." "You were seen in the barn, there." "You understand, of course, these aren't charges or accusations" "Not accusations?" "Well, then what are they?" "Trying to drive me out of my job with rumors?" "Well, I" " I" " I won't let you say it." "They're simply not true." "You callin' 'em lies?" "Mr. Chairman, your own wife saw him come there to visit, while we was there." "That's right." "In the public library." "In public." "Well, there he is right now." "Please, please, folks." "Take your seats." "Mr. Sturgis, Mr. Fowler here's got somethin' to say." "Mr. Fowler?" "Hi, Jenny." "Sir, um..." "Ladies and gentlemen," "I'm leaving town." "About time." "And I'd like to help clear up this thing before I go." "I'm sure none of you wanna make a mistake." "I understand there's some charges against Miss Norton." "Ah, listen to him." "Listen to what he's sayin'." "No, Mr. Fowler." "No charges." "But there is a report that, uh..." "Well..." "Well, that's what I mean, I think." "Jenny, uh, told you that, uh, we were in the barn," "Miss Norton and me." "That's right." "Well, I was wondering where the other witnesses were." "Other witnesses, Mr. Fowler?" "What are you talkin' about?" "What other witnesses...?" "What's he mean?" "You remember, Jenny?" "You don't have to say nothin', Jenny, love." "Then why'd you bring her here?" "Hush." "Now, Jenny, you, uh..." "The little boy." "Don't you think he ought to be here?" "Jenny, remember, he was playing with another boy." "They were playing cops and robbers or something." "Miss Norton told them they weren't permitted to play in the barn." "Well, maybe you couldn't see them, Jenny, because you were hiding in the barn and we were over by the truck." "Well... anyhow, the truck was..." "I mean..." "What's the name of the little boy?" "Marvin Sturgis." "Marvin?" "My son was there?" "Yes, Mr. Sturgis." "Is he coming down here?" "Certainly not." "I don't want him involved in this." "Involved in what, Mrs. Sturgis?" "This." "This- This what?" "It was so unimportant to your son, he didn't even think to mention it to you." "Jenny." "Jenny, were you lying?" "Mama." "Mama." "You never lied to Mama, did you, Jenny?" "You ask your son and some of the other children." "There were quite a few around." "Take the trouble to put together the facts." "You'll come up with the truth." "You did lie to Mama, didn't you?" "You lied to Mama and made her look the fool." "I'm gonna have to whip you for this, Jenny." "I'm gonna have to whip you good." "Get away from me!" "Get away!" "Oh, Mama." "Oh, Mama." "I-I" " I'm sorry I lied." "I'm sorry." "I-I was scared of him." "I-I was scared." "Because what really happened was, that man chased me." "What?" "That man chased me through the woods and he tore my dress!" "Mr. Chairman." "Mr. Chairman." "Mr. Chairman." "Jenny, um... let's start at the beginning." "And if... one of us makes a mistake, the other'll correct it, all right?" "You scared me." "You know you did." "Jenny, I may have scared you, but that's not the same as chasing you." "You scared me and then you chased me into the woods." "And now you're calling me a liar." "No, I'm not, Jenny." "I..." "It's just... that when people are scared, they sometimes get mixed up." "I know I do." "And, Jenny, I'm scared now." "I need your help." "Then you shouldn't have chased me and made me tear my dress." "Her dress was tore." "I remember that." "Had to mend it myself." "Jenny, why did I follow you into the woods?" "Wasn't it to do you a sort of favor?" "No, no, no!" "What do you mean, followed her into the woods?" "Mrs. Ammory, I never denied that." "I-I may have scared her, but" "Oh, not now, you ain't." "I never have." "Oh, yes, you did." "Didn't you come to-?" "To pick up a load of wood this mornin'?" "And didn't I ask you had you seen my Jenny?" "You said you didn't." "You told me that to my face." "You said you had never seen my Jenny." "There was a reason." "I'll bet there was." "You stay there, Fowler." "This man's under arrest." "Come on!" "Time comes, I'd- I'd really like to know what happened in that barn to make her tell a story like that." "Oh, Miss Norton, if I was wrong, I'll be the first one to say so." "Please, Mrs. Ammory, w-would you sit down?" "I'd like to talk to Jenny, if I may." "Well, all right." "Go on, Jenny." "Come on, dear." "Sit over here." "Now, Jenny," "I want you to think very seriously about what you've seen, not what you've heard." "A man who- Who really doesn't know me and who certainly didn't have to expose himself to help me..." "Jenny, this man is in terrible danger." "Do you remember I told you that was a dangerous story?" "What story?" "When?" "This morning." "Jenny was late for school without her homework." "Oh, Jenny." "He..." "He made me lose my homework." "Well, you never told Mama." "Hold on." "Well, why would you tell the teacher when you wouldn't tell your own mama?" "Eh, shut up a minute." "Jenny... didn't you tell me this morning you never done your homework?" "Jenny?" "Jenny, you come back here!" "All right." "Come on, better get your guns, boys." "We'll flush him outta the woods." "Oh, Naiad, please, please." "Oh, Naiad, please." "Ma and Dad, they're awful mad at me." "They're awful mad." "Mama's" " She's gonna whip me on account of me lyin' about Mr. Fowler." "You have to help me." "You have to." "Jenny, if you scream, those men'll kill me." "Thank you, Jenny." "Now you're scared too." "I told you that at the church." "Now you're really scared." "Jenny, will you help me?" "Jenny, I..." "I've never done anything bad to you, you know that." "You helped Miss Norton." "You can't be my friend and her friend too." "She hates me." "She doesn't hate you, Jenny." "She's got my ma and pa on her side." "They all hate me." "You mean you haven't got any friends?" "My Naiad is my friend." "Well, didn't...?" "Didn't she tell you I wanted to be your friend too?" "No!" "Well, now... why not?" "Why didn't you tell her-?" "Tell her the truth?" "You're a very bad friend." "She is not!" "But, Jenny, she..." "She makes everyone say that you're a liar, and she makes you late for school, and..." "And she gets you into trouble." "She does not!" "All right, Naiad." "You get Jenny out of this." "You get her out of it right now." "She can't." "She's only a doll." "You see, Jenny, we have to help each other." "We're both in trouble." "Fowler." "Get away from that girl." "Hey, everybody!" "I found him." "At the mill-pond." "Jenny." "Jenny." "Quit talkin' to her." "Get out of the way, child." "No, don't." "No, don't." "He didn't do anything." "Don't kill him, please." "Step aside, honey." "Now, Jenny." "Leave him alone!" "He never did anything." "Don't kill him, please." "He never chased me." "I lied." "I lied." "I lied." "All right, folks, I believe we can all go home now." "Good morning, teacher." "Good morning." "Hi, teacher." "Good morning." "Well, I know Miss Norton feels alone." "I know she needs a friend." "Do I have to?" "No, you don't have to." "You don't have to take those books back." "That was your idea." "You see, you were, uh... such a good friend to me last night." "Well, I thought you might come up with some idea of how to help her too." "They've been gone a long, long time." "I'm tired of 'em anyhow." "Maybe there are some different ones you'd like to read." "Come on." "Give you a lift into town?" "Bus station?" "Thank you." "Get in." "Next town you decide to settle down in, you need some references, you call on me." "I'll be proud to oblige you." "This is Jim Fowler, about to die." "He will last long enough to take the bus out of Hainesville, Missouri, and then a new identity must emerge." "A new identity to hide the path of his flight, and the path of his search for the man whose crime has made Richard Kimble" "The Fugitive." "doctor of medicine." "Destination:" "Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted for the murder of his wife." "But laws are made by men, carried out by men." "Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove he encountered a man running from the vicinity of his home." "A man who has not yet been found." "as he looks at the world for the last time and sees only darkness." "fate moves its huge hand." "ANNOUNCER:" "A QM production." "with guest stars:" "Frank Sutton," "R.G. Armstrong." "What used to be a town before the coal mine gave out." "eight months a fugitive." "Is there a bus through here?" "Whiskey?" "Talking to me?" "Where you headin'?" "North." "No place special or nothin'?" "What's the idea?" "You wanna break up the game?" "Come on, I'm good for it." "You better hightail it someplace else." "Plan to, soon as I can get a lift." "How much money you got?" "I heard you." "Enough to get me where I'm going." "North." "Got enough money to buy me a beer?" "You gonna buy me a beer?" "Just leaving." "You mind?" "Why, you big jerk." "Hey." "Come on, will ya?" "Who started it?" "Look, it's not very funny." "Oh, now, wait a minute- Let's go." "Look, I didn't start this." "I don't even know those fellas." "You gonna live?" "Yeah." "Four days to Saturday." "He say where he was from?" "No driver's license." "You're gonna have to find the next of kin." "That's his." "That is his." "No letters." "Just have to wait till he wakes up, I guess." "he ain't the kind that'd talk much." "might as well draw me a beer." "Almost pays for the nuisance." "Looks like you lost yourself a chicken." "Take South Street." "No, he ain't nowhere back there." "Sure had a bur under his tail." "Just picked up for fightin'." "He took off like the place smelled of skunk." "It does." "Tell George to run this over to Bluefield." "Take off any prints and put 'em on the wire." "Tonight." "You got it." "How long would you be gone?" "Couple of days." "Phil, they lost him." "You might be going down there for nothing." "I hope not, captain." "So do I." "So do I." "You sure it was worth it to bring them dogs up?" "The worst you could've done was fine him just a couple bucks." "It's important enough for him to run, it's important enough for me to find him." "What time you want the truck back?" "Uh, couple hours, I'd say." "That means I gotta go down and come back up again." "That costs you another couple of bucks." "Up and down is two bucks." "One time or a dozen." "Supposin' we just make it the once." "I ain't gonna just hang around out here." "Not unless I deputize you." "And I deputize you." "Drive on up above and take a look." "If you see anything, haul tail right back." "Now get." "Coy, put your dogs to workin'." "I got this out of his bag." "Here." "Stop." "Boy, I never seen a man so pure mean." "What are you tryin' to do, kill me or somethin'?" "You were following me." "I was no such thing." "I was just walkin' along." "I been walkin' this mountain my whole life." "Just so happened I was walkin' the same way as you." "You all right?" "Well, sure." "Little hill like that?" "I mean, I slid down twice the size." "Come on, I'll help you up." "Well, you better help yourself up." "From the looks of yourself, well, you're gonna need it too." "Oh, that must be two miles up, the least." "Mountain does that." "It plays tricks on ya." "That's the same with them dogs." "They must be five miles down the valley." "I was you, I wouldn't worry none." "Who said I was worried?" "Jesse Hobart came up to the house this mornin'." "He said, uh, some fella run out on the sheriff." "Some fella that, uh, he picked up for fightin' last night." "Oh, uh, it was a city feller." "I'll race you to the top." "Oh." "Twice in one day." "That would've been somethin'." "You headin' over the mountain?" "Maybe." "I figured." "Wouldn't nobody wanna stay this side." "I'll show you the way." "That's the third time they've brung us right up to the water." "Oh, he musta crossed." "Ain't no dog in the world can track a man through water." "Them dogs couldn't track a bear through a flour mill." "Five lousy bucks a day for nothin'." "Day's not over yet." "There ain't nobody home except Grams." "She'd be proud to have you stay and eat." "You wanna go hungry?" "Sheriff must be kinda mad at that fella." "I mean, just gettin' the dogs out and all." "He's gonna find you too, unless you get some help." "I know every foot of this mountain." "I could show you the way." "After you eat." "Grams!" "Hey, Grams." "Grams, we got us company." "This here is Mister." "He's gonna sit and eat." "It's a good 60 miles." "A trip like that costs money." "How much?" "Hundred and 50." "I'll give you a hundred." "How soon can we leave?" "Let's go." "You can't hold a feller like that." "You can't keep him for a pet like he was a rabbit or somethin'." "Well, I found him." "Ain't nobody gonna take him away." "Child." "Oh, you rather give him to Coy Peters' dogs?" "I warn you." "You scare him off, and I'll sit you down on your skinny old shanks." "Grams, uh, when I get him cleaned up, uh, he's gonna be pure pretty." "You won't find anything in that." "No, there ain't nothin' in it, so there's no harm done." "You ain't gonna go." "Mister, you ain't gonna get far, not knowin' the way." "And them dogs." "Only chance you got is if I help you out." "I" " I can do it, Mister." "I can- I can get you clear." "You keep saying that." "But I mean it." "I know this mountain like I" "So you know what?" "We could use a truck." "Yeah, we, uh- We got this old pickup truck." "It's up the logging' camp right now." "Ames Woodruff, he asked could he borrow it for the day." "All you gotta do is just, uh, wait for the truck." "You know, you just sit and eat." "Heh." "I got side meat." "Fresh bread and gravy." "Well, when will the truck be back?" "Well, real soon, that's for sure." "'Cause, uh, Ames Woodruff, he don't like to work past noon." "You're Sheriff Bradley?" "That's right." "I stopped in town." "I'm counting on you to find this man." "I've come a long way to get him." "Lieutenant." "One of them flying' grasshoppers." "They must want him real bad." "I want him, as you put it, real bad." "I swear, I never did see a man eat so clean." "Where you from, Mister?" "Lot of places." "Yeah, well, I was just askin' for one." "You said the truck could be back?" "Yeah, well, uh, Ames Woodruff must've stopped to jaw with Miss Keel." "See, her old man's up in Clarksburg, uh, lookin' for a job." "She and Ames used to be real close till she got married." "I guess maybe they still are." "Well, you ain't got the sense" "God gave a beetle." "If Ames Woodruff, uh, gets one look at you, he's gonna tell it all over the mountain." "Now, you- You just stay outta sight." "She had her way, she'd keep you here." "I guess you know that." "I told her." "Fella like you... wasn't even a chance." "Make more sense, did you take her along." "You mean, y-you'd just pack her away with any man that's willing?" "No matter who or what?" "Matters aplenty." "Been lots of men willing and anxious, but since the mines closed, all we got is the Del Jackson kind." "None of your style." "Seen how she been lookin' at you." "Wouldn't have to be ashamed of her." "She can be real handsome in a dress." "Mister," "I ain't got much time left." "If I just knowed she was down off this mountain..." "Hey, Cassie!" "I got somethin' to show ya." "I just been deputized." "Oh, they swearing' in fools and jackasses now?" "You just ain't got no respect for the law." "Hey, Grams!" "She ain't here." "She ain't here?" "She ain't here." "Said she went out to pick us some berries." "She must've just knowed I was comin' by." "You see any weasel traps around?" "You been deputized." "Deputy, go." "Grams!" "I told ya, she ain't here." "Well, I know she ain't here." "I just wanna get me some coffee." "We ain't got none." "We didn't make none today." "That's the first thing a person does in the morning." "Are you sure you ain't got some other reason?" "Like what?" "Well, like, maybe you got some company." "Like that fella the sheriff's lookin' for?" "I told you once and for all that she ain't here." "She don't need no help." "You ornery little" "Now, Del, you back off." "You climb in that jeep and get outta here." "Go on!" "Well, that's Del Jackson." "He stops by sometimes." "More than Ames Woodruff, huh?" "Yeah, well, it ain't the same thing." "Oh, no, it isn't the same, because there is no Ames Woodruff." "'Cause he isn't bringing a truck back, because there is no truck, because you're lying to me." "Thanks a lot for the food." "Mister, Mister, uh, you can't just walk out." "No, I'm supposed to stay here till he comes back." "Yeah, well, you can't make it alone." "I know." "Yeah, there's no question I was lyin', yet I was just tryin' to help." "I was just tryin' to keep you here until they pulled them dogs out." "Thank you." "Mister, that mountain's pure mean." "Now, there are 10,000 ways to get yourself lost." "Now, you gotta believe me, there are things a lot worse than gettin' took by them dogs." "Now, I can get you to the top, and the other side's easy." "And I can show you how to lose them dogs." "She could." "Lost him again." "Dogs lost him." "Can't expect them to track through water." "Do we need the dogs?" "He crossed somewhere and headed up the mountain." "An instinct as old as life itself." "A hunted animal always runs up." "Hey, sheriff!" "Sheriff." "I found him, sheriff." "I found him for you." "Where?" "This is Gerard, police lieutenant." "He's after him too." "Where is he?" "Up there, the Boland's place." "They're kin to me." "Cabin near the old mines." "Did you see him?" "Well, no, I didn't see him, exactly." "Sheriff, he's up there and that's for sure." "And Cassie Boland's hidin' him out." "How do you know?" "She wouldn't even let me past the front door." "If I was her, I wouldn't either." "I'm tellin' you, sheriff, she shooed me off with a gun." "And look at what she did to me, she sank half-inch of teeth in my hand." "She do that today too?" "No, that's last week." "It's worth checking out." "How long will it take?" "Ten minutes in the jeep." "And warning' him all the way too, if he is up there." "Every time that old junk pile jounces" "Any other way to get up there?" "Straight up the mountain." "Do you think you can make it?" "I'll make it." "You must want him bad." "Coy, you can rest the dogs in the jeep and bring 'em up in a couple hours." "I'm gonna go around and cover the back, yeah?" "Yeah." "You wait here." "Jackson said there was a gun." "Okay." "I'll go in first." "Why?" "Because it's my job to go in first, not that I don't respect your authority." "Try respecting my intelligence too." "I respect your gumption." "You got plenty of that." "Sure messin' up that fancy suit, ain't you?" "Maybe next time you'll wear Levi's." "If I'm right, sheriff, there won't be any next time." "If you're right, and I ain't sayin' you ain't, you better cover me when I hit that door." "What in the name of the seven sins?" "!" "Del Jackson said there was a feller here," "Miss Boland." "Ain't no young feller been here unless I'm blind." "Where's the girl?" "Your granddaughter?" "I don't see as you got the right to ask." "Miss Boland, Del said that" "You wanna ask, that's different, Sam." "Cassie went out to pick us some berries." "Where?" "Where?" "Anywhere there's berries to be found." "Could be anyplace on this whole mountain." "Sorry to have troubled you, Miss Boland." "That's not gonna give much light." "Ah, it'll give lots more than light." "As long as this burns, you know the air is good." "I guess that's somethin' they don't teach you in the city, huh?" "Be pretty risky, these old tunnels." "Timbers rotting'." "Ain't nobody been in 'em since the mines gave out." "Except me." "I" "I come up here all the time." "One tunnel running out of another." "Oh, you get lost, you'll be in here a hundred years." "One of these go through to the other side?" "Well, sure." "That's how I'm gonna get you out." "Half a day lost." "Well, maybe not." "She said, "young fella."" "Now, how would she know that?" "Somebody washed up." "That's not unknown, even here, lieutenant." "Not too long ago either." "What's the matter?" "It's dry." "They didn't use a towel." "Now, what sort of man wouldn't use a rag like this?" "A man who expects a towel to be clean?" "A special kind of man?" "A doctor, maybe?" "Any idea which way they'd go?" "Well, like you said, lieutenant, up." "Mister, h-hey." "I should've told you." "Them shorings are loose." "Oh, you just touch 'em, and they'd maybe come right down." "See how easy you can get lost?" "Cassie, stop playing games with me." "Y-you said you'd get me to the other side." "And I said it and I meant it, and I'm goin' to." "I" " I just wanna ask you somethin' first." "All right." "A man can get tired running' alone." "You want to go along." "I won't be no worry to you." "I wouldn't hold you back none." "Cassie, you're holding me back now." "If you don't quit, you might as well just hand me over to the sheriff." "Oh, you're still sweating' about him?" "Sheriff ain't gonna find you here." "See, you" "You believe me, don't you?" "Is there any reason why I should?" "Well, sure." "Don't nobody know this old cave except me." "I come up here sometimes just to sit." "You know, uh, what I call it?" "I bet you wouldn't guess in ten hundred years." "The dreaming' room." "Now, I bet you" "You think that's pure foolish." "A grown girl dreaming'." "Guess it depends on what she dreams about." "Well, lots of things, but mostly gettin' down off this mountain." "One of them tunnels goes clear through." "You come out on the other side, and you can see the road, white and narrow like a, uh, fresh-washed ribbon, twisting' and turnin' all the way down, then kinda hurryin' straight across the valley," "like it just plain can't wait to get to the city." "If you could know how often I took that road." "Just, uh, dreaming', I mean." "Doesn't have to be a dream, Cassie." "That's what Grams says." "She run away to Nashville once, she stayed two years." "Came back just before my pa was born." "Takes a lot of gumption, to go down there alone." "I wouldn't know, uh, which foot to set in front of the other." "Unless somebody took me along and showed me." "Cassie," "I can't." "I wouldn't be in your way." "And there" "There wouldn't be nothin' I wouldn't do." "I'm sorry, Cassie." "Well, I mean, can't hardly blame you." "A fella like you and somethin' like me." "Somethin' you could've picked off a berry bush, walkin' down a city street, folks lookin' and whispering', and maybe laughin' behind their hands." "Anywhere, any city in the world, I'd walk with you." "I'd be proud to." "But I can't." "You know I can't." "You know I'm running." "Just for fightin'," "I mean, that ain't nothin'." "You can go back and sit in jail for a couple of days." "And that pays 'em back and then you" "You can stop runnin'." "There's somethin' more?" "Yeah, a lot more." "You did somethin' bad?" "They say I did." "They say I killed somebody." "You didn't?" "No, but I can't prove that I didn't." "That wouldn't be much of a life for you, would it?" "Always on the go." "Always looking back." "You'd never know who'd step out of a doorway, sit beside you on a bus or in a restaurant." "I don't care." "I do." "Yeah, well, it, uh, seemed like a kinda good idea." "Cassie, listen to me." "Now, just don't say anything." "Just listen to me." "You can get down off of this mountain, and you don't need me." "You don't need anybody." "All you need is something to get you started, and you've got that." "You want to go." "It's" "It's just all in yourself." "The wanting to go, that's all you need." "You understand?" "So... just pick up that ribbon and follow it down." "Promise?" "I guess you'd better show me that tunnel." "It's down this way." "Jesse, fire up that lantern." "Not even a decent light." "We're lucky the old woman even gave us this." "Well, this" "Here's the one." "Goes all the way through." "Gonna be hard to find him, lieutenant." "Must be a dozen tunnels branching off of the main one." "Smaller tunnels branching off of them." "You run." "I'll hold 'em back." "Go on." "Uh, sheriff's kin to me, he won't do me no harm." "Go on." "You say one of these goes all the way through?" "Yeah." "Question is, which one?" "Mr. Bradley!" "Mr. Bradley, you lookin' for somebody?" "You know who we're lookin' for, Cassie." "I reckon I don't, unless you tell me." "The feller that got away from me last night." "That's him." "Where is he?" "Where is he?" "You think I found me somethin' like this," "I'd let him get away?" "No use foolin' with her, we got him cooped up." "He can't get out on this side." "What about the other side?" "There's not but one tunnel." "I'll phone Barlow Springs and have 'em close it." "I'd better see if Jackson's come up with the jeep." "Run, Mister, run!" "Run, Mister, run!" "Plenty enough air coming in." "It's a question of digging' out is all." "I'd say, six or seven hours." "And if the others find us?" "Maybe two or three." "He could be halfway across the next state by then." "Ain't a bad place." "You get used to it." "And kind of a nice room for dreaming'." "We got kin in Wheeling, the Iversons, if you find you need some help." "I don't need no help." "Not them, not nobody." "You just remember that." "You don't need nobody." "Above the mountain, leaving it far below and behind him," "Lieutenant Philip Gerard returns home without the man he had come to find and recapture." "The other side of the mountain... of many mountains." "A road twisting and turning into the future, without promise, without assurance for the man who must always go alone." "Richard Kimble, fugitive."