"¶ CHORUS:" "Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ The soldiers of the King feared his name" "¶ Scarecrow" "¶ MAN:" "On the southern coast of England" "¶ There's a legend people tell of days long ago" "¶ When the great Scarecrow would ride from the jaws of hell" "¶ And laugh" "¶ With a fiendish yell" "¶ With his clothes all torn and tattered" "¶ Through the black of night he'd ride" "¶ From the marsh to the coast like a demon ghost" "¶ He'd show his face then hide" "¶ And he'd laugh" "¶ Till he split his side" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ The soldiers of the King feared his name" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ The country folk all loved him just the same" "¶ Scarecrow!" "¶ He would always help the farmer" "¶ When there was no gold to bring" "¶ He'd find a way for the poor to pay the taxes of the King" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Every man would sing" "¶ So the King told all his soldiers" "¶ Hang him high or hang him low" "¶ But never return till the day I learn he's gone in flames below" "¶ Or you'll hang with the great Scarecrow" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ The soldiers of the King feared his name" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶ The country folk all loved him just the same" "¶ Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "Scarecrow!" "¶" "(HORSE NICKERING)" "Load up and away, lads." "We'll tweak King George's nose." "Hurry, hurry, or I'll lose the tide." "Come on." "He gives me the shudders." "Do what he says." "That's the whole cargo, Monsieur Scarecrow." "Your payment, Captain." "Horsemen on the sea road, Scarecrow." "Excise men." "Douse the lights and go." "You all know your orders." "Hellspite, Curlew, follow me." "(ALL URGING HORSES)" "(NEIGHING)" "(CACKLING)" "It's him." "The Scarecrow." "After him!" "There's nobody hiding in here, sir." "We headed them this way." "They must be around somewhere." "They've vanished." "What are they, ghosts?" "Oh, no, they were real enough, sir." "But where the devil are they?" "LEAD EXCISE MAN:" "Search the place again." "All right, men." "We'll give it up." "There's nobody here." "They've gone." "They're miles away from where our lads should be by now." "Light the lantern." "It's the reward for your capture they're after, sir." "Not the contraband we landed." "Mmm." "John, give us five minutes' start." "If you don't hear any shooting, then you two can go on your way." "My lord..." "Hmm?" "I can't understand why you'd allow riffraff like this in your coach." "Christian charity knows no social barriers, my dear General." "The man seemed ill and tired and asked my help." "General Pugh's right though, my lord." "You take chances." "The marsh abounds with The Gentlemen at nights." ""Gentlemen"?" "That's what they call the smugglers in these parts, sir." "Pack of scoundrels, I'd give them, gentlemen." "Eh?" "I've my briefing here from the War Office and Customs and Excise." "We have plans to smash these Gentlemen, my lord." "Well, the whole countryside protects them, General." "Their friends are everywhere." "I don't envy you your task." "No, I relish it." "The law enforcement's been too slack down here." "You'll see a change, I promise you." "(TRUMPET BLOWING)" "Halt there, in the King's name." "COACHMAN:" "Whoa." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "What's this?" "Why are we stopping, hmm?" "We're looking for a..." "Sir." "General, sir." "Well, what are you looking for, Sergeant?" "An escaped prisoner, sir." "Convicted for preaching treason." "Was to be hanged at Dover in the morning, but he..." "He got away, sir." "Treason?" "Yeah, an American, from the Colonies, my lord." "You, there." "There he is." "After him!" "(GUNSHOTS)" "(GRUNTS)" "SERGEANT:" "Jeffrey, over there." "Search the bushes." "MAN:" "Go on, get up!" "SOLDIER:" "No sign of him, Corporal." "SERGEANT:" "But he can't be far away." "Try over there!" "MAN:" "Heave ho!" "Come on, get up!" "SERGEANT:" "Go on, you." "Take the stream." "(SERGEANT EXCLAIMING)" "(URGING HORSE)" "GENERAL PUGH:" "Mr. Brackenbury." "No sign of him, Mr. Brackenbury?" "No, sir." "The impertinent rogue." "Sergeant, continue the search." "Sir." "Forward!" "Here you are, Vicar." "Sixty-eight kegs of brandy and 19 bales of silk." "Captain Delacroix." "On Thursday it's the Dutchman's turn to deliver." "We are doing well, Sexton." "Why do you go on taking these chances, Vicar?" "You're not getting rich on it." "And since they don't know, the parish don't thank you." "Well, they can live and clothe themselves and their children, and pay the taxes in a countryside bled white by the King's Parliament which represents them, and which buys and sells votes as if they were dealing in cattle." "Ah, you can't change the way of the world, Vicar." "No?" "Unjust laws can be altered, as well as made, by men." "There's a new spirit in the world, Mipps." "Taxed out of existence, robbed of their independence by the King's Government, the people must fight back how they can." "Men can't beat armies, sir." "Ideas can." "Faith can move mountains." "What we're doing here is just a pinprick, but a thousand pinpricks put together will... (KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Who's that?" "Who are you, stranger?" "Gently, Mipps." "(PANTING)" "Dr. Syn, Mother Hathaway sent me, sir." "There are troops out searching for me." "Why?" "What have you done?" "You're American, are you not?" "Yes, sir." "I've been branded a traitor and sentenced to death for preaching sedition." "You should know this because I ask for sanctuary." "Sedition?" "That's what King George calls our wish for freedom and independence, yes." "I can't deny you sanctuary, Mr..." "Bates." "Simon Bates, sir." "Mr. Bates." "But it would not be safe for either of us to hide you here." "You'll give me up?" "No." "But, Mipps, take him to Mrs. Waggett's inn." "My sexton will know what to say to her." "She'll hide you till the coast is clear." "You, say nothing." "Then, take this, sir." "I stole it in my escape." "Stole it?" "Why?" "I thought to get it to someone hereabouts." "A man I heard about in prison," "I think they call him the Scarecrow." "It concerns him." "I was going to trade it to him in the hope that he'd help me in return." "For all I hear, I don't think you'll find him." "Many have tried and failed, Mr. Bates." "Aye, he's like the devil himself they say, riding the marshes like a ghost." "He comes and goes, they say, nobody knows where..." "I'll deal with this if I can." "But you must go, and quickly." "Thank you, sir, and God bless you." "Quickly." ""General Pugh." "Dispatch of troops," ""subjugate the whole marsh area." ""Whatever means necessary."" "Well, well, well." "I'm giving you fair warning, Sir Thomas." "And if you're Justice of the Peace in these parts, you'll want to see justice carried out." "Mine or any other." "And it hasn't been up till now, has it, eh?" "Are you telling me my duty, sir?" "I'm a blunt man." "I say what's in me mind." "You're the law here and the law is being flouted." "Revolutionaries and smugglers walking the roads." "Wasn't I robbed last night, not ten miles from here, in your district?" "In your parish, Parson." "Very well, then, you wait and see my justice." "I don't care for your manner, sir." "There is a definition of a gentleman that says, "He is one who" ""never wittingly gives offense."" "And what do you think of that, sir?" "(SCOFFS)" "And my definition of a good soldier, sir, not having had my commission bought for me by a gentlemanly father, but having made me own way in the army, is, "One who achieves his aim and gets results," ""in the end justifies the means."" "KATE:" "Father." "JOHN:" "General." "And what means do you intend to use, sir?" "My son, John, General." "Know that everybody has a price, young man, and for the price of freedom from the harrying of my troops, someone will come forward in the end and inform against this smuggling fellow, this Scarecrow, as he calls himself." "And I'll not only be using troops, either." "What then, General?" "I must warn you, I'm afraid that the men of this parish are sturdy independent folk." "They do not frighten easily." "And their women?" "Women, sir?" "Women?" "You'll frighten women?" "I'll do whatever I think fit to achieve my purpose here." "I think the women will talk when they start to lose their men folk." "The Navy needs sailors." "I've asked for the press-gangs, whose job it is to get them to come and help themselves here in the King's name, and none too gently." "General Pugh!" "Father, no." "You keep out of this, Kate." "Press-gangs." "Don't dare mention those blackguards in this house." "In fact, sir, I've had all your talk I can stomach." "Good day." "Sir Thomas!" "Well, what have I said wrong?" "My brother was press-ganged into the Navy, sir." "Clubbed insensible and dragged away to sea on his 18th birthday, four years ago." "KATE:" "And no word from him since." "Now can you understand my father's feelings?" "I can, Miss Banks, believe me." "The Navy needs men and must get them how it can, Mr. Brackenbury." "Do you deny that?" "BRACKENBURY:" "No, sir." "Then hold your tongue." "Thank you for your hospitality." "If I upset your father, I'm sorry for it." "But I'm under orders, and orders are written to be obeyed." "Madam, Dr. Syn, Master Banks, good day." "Your men of the marshes have asked for rough treatment, and that's what they're gonna get." "I tell you, I will not tolerate your troops burning cottages on my land." "Why not?" "Because the people here are my people, General Pugh." "My family have been squires of Dymchurch for 200 years." "I'm acting under orders that you're under, too, to maintain the law." "You're Justice of the Peace." "Peace, yes, and you've brought war here." "This is a war, against time." "Offering a reward for the capture of this Scarecrow fellow who leads this rabble has been useless." "Yes, and so will be burning, terrorizing." "My people hate you." "All right." "I'll make a bargain with you, hmm?" "I'll call off my men if you'll help me try another way." "Yes, well?" "Now then." "The marsh people share equally the proceeds of these smuggling runs, that's the story, is it not?" "So, you're the squire here." "Who among your tenants has been behind in his rents and then paid up recently, suddenly, inexplicably, perhaps?" "Well?" "Yes, I see what you're getting at." "I'll go through my accounts." "Yes, do that." "Give me the names and get the fellows round to your house for questioning." "They won't suspect anything if you ask them there." "Then you leave them to me." "There's one that comes to mind, you might make a start with him." "Mmm-hmm." "Difficult fellow." "Bad farmer, too." "A widower with two sons and an old mother he treats none too well." "Ransley's the name." "Right." "He'll do for one." "Send for him." "Very well." "He'll be round at my house tomorrow morning." "Stop this burning, do you hear?" "Your servant, sir." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Come in." "Joe Ransley, sir." "Morning, sir." "Joseph Ransley, North Farm, Bonnington?" "You're not much of a farmer, are you?" "Three years of bad harvests, your sheep flock down to 60 head." "It's poor land, sir." "I do my best." "Yet you stayed on it." "You got six months behind with your rent, and suddenly paid it." "And you've been paying it ever since." "Yes, sir." "Well, I..." "How?" "I've been selling off some of my sheep, sir." "(GENERAL PUGH SCOFFS)" "Sir Thomas never questioned it, sir." "No?" "Well, I do." "I don't think you sold your sheep, Ransley, I think you're a smuggler." "Smuggler?" "I'm an honest man, sir." "Yes?" "You suddenly raise money from selling sheep?" "Where?" "To whom?" "Prove it with dates and bills of sale." "I don't keep no bills, sir." "Don't try lying to me, Ransley, you paid with smuggler's gold." "You know who I'm after." "The man who leads you, pays you off." "I don't know what you mean, sir." "Oh, yes, you do, and I'll give you a simple choice." "I'll throw you into jail on suspicion and I'll keep you there for questioning until you rot or..." "Jail, sir?" "Let me finish." "Or you'll turn King's evidence." "Tell me all you know about the Scarecrow's smuggling gang." "Their movements, where they meet and when." "Nobody'll know you talked, Ransley, but it's you or them." "I don't know nothing, sir." "I swear I don't know." "You're under arrest." "No, no, wait, sir, wait." "Well?" "I said I don't know nothing, sir, and I don't." "But I may be able to find out, sir." "I'd try, if you'd give me a little time, sir." "I'll give you 48 hours." "You'll either come forward with the names of the men you know to be in this madman's gang, these so-called Gentlemen of the Marshes, or you can rot in jail." "You've got 48 hours, Ransley, you understand?" "Now get out." "RANSLEY:" "Yes, sir." "I'll find out all I can, sir." "You'd better." "Well, that's what I heard, sir." "And one traitor's enough to get you hanged." "The rest of us as well." "Hmm." "And there's a shipment due from France tomorrow." "General Pugh is staying at your father's, did you say?" "Your head's really in the lion's mouth, isn't it?" "They don't notice me, sir." "You're going to let me ride with you tomorrow night, aren't you?" "No, I'm afraid not." "It's too risky." "I don't see why." "I said no, and you'll obey orders." "Your task is to keep your eyes on General Pugh." "And what about Ransley, sir?" "He's under orders for tomorrow's run." "Ransley's one of my men, and has to be protected." "I'm going to Bonnington this afternoon." "I'll see what frame of mind he's in." "Hello, Mrs. Ransley." "Nice to see you getting about again." "Thank you, Vicar." "I've brought something to cheer you up." "Oh, Vicar, you shouldn't, and to come all this way." "I've a big parish, Mrs. Ransley." "Not as big as your heart, Vicar." "You're too kind." "Well, how are you?" "Joe and the boys looking after you properly?" "Joe?" "My stepson looks after himself, sir." "He don't care for nobody else." "Oh, that can't be true." "Whatever comforts we have here, sir, me and the boys, is no thanks to him." "It's because of the..." "You won't say I told you?" "I'm not supposed to tell nobody." "I'm as secret as the grave, Mrs. Ransley, you know that." "It's because of the Scarecrow and his smugglers that we ain't in debt no more." "And Joe's one of them." "I know it." "Surely not that villain." "He's no villain, sir, to us poor folk." "Believe me, sir, if it weren't for him, there's many hereabouts would starve." "Joe would betray the Scarecrow himself." "I heard him today, telling the boys, making them agree to what he's going to do." "They're afraid of him, sir." "And I'm... (DOOR OPENS)" "Well, Vicar, you wanted to see me?" "Just to say good day to you, Ransley." "And I brought these few things for your mother." "Stepmother." "Time for your rest." "Upstairs." "Yes, Joe." "Yes, Joe." "Yes." "I'm going." "I'm going." "Can I get you a glass of brandy before you go, Vicar?" "Why, thank you." "Yes, you may indeed." "Oh, Vicar, I wanted..." "Take care of yourself, Mrs. Ransley." "Thank you, sir." "I'll call again." "God bless you, sir." "And you, Mrs. Ransley." "Well..." "You're very generous with the brandy, my friend, at the price it is today." "Ah!" "It's a bigger price than you think." "I regret to say that a great deal of it in this parish has been smuggled in by some misguided men under the leadership of this..." "This Scarecrow fellow." "I don't know about that." "Scarecrow, Scarecrow." "Why don't nobody talk about somebody else?" "I'm surprised that among all the men who work for him, none has betrayed him yet." "Ah, 'cause many of them are scared of him, that's why." "Otherwise they would betray him?" "I don't know." "I'm not aiming to stay and find out." "There's many men don't want to spend the rest of their lives in this part." "It's about no choice." "But there's ways and means of getting away." "Don't you forget that." "I've got plans." "Well, never mind." "Thank you for calling, Vicar, good health." "Well, I must get on my rounds." "I've a busy afternoon ahead of me." "So have I." "Good day to you, Ransley." "Good day to you and goodbye." "JAMES:" "I've got another horse and cart, Dad." "RANSLEY:" "Good." "Leave it in the barn, Jim." "You, George, load everything we can take on our cart, and you help him." "Take it up to the old Oast House, at Knoll Hill." "I'll meet you there." "Dad, what are you planning?" "I'll tell you when we get to the Oast House." "Go on, hurry." "What are you going to do now, sir?" "Make an example of Ransley that'll teach the others a lesson they won't forget in a hurry." "Mutiny among the Scarecrow's men is a worse danger than the soldiers are." "Will you have to postpone tomorrow's run, then?" "Oh, no." "That cargo from France is too valuable for that." "Yes, but if Ransley thieves part of it, he'll make the Scarecrow look a fool to all the rest." "The government has sent an army to protect us." "The army shall protect us." "That's where you come in, John." "Go and tell Philip Brackenbury to be at the Knoll Hill Oast House..." "SCARECROW:" "Help unload." "RANSLEY:" "Come on, hurry, lads." "Steady." "Hold them." "For your captain." "RANSLEY:" "Throw the kegs out first." "Scannel, Davis, this is the Romney Village share." "Take the marsh road eastward." "Hurry, right and loud." "Sam, to the Hathaways." "This load is for Dymchurch." "Sir." "Ransley, your load is for the people of Bonnington." "Here we go, lads." "RANSLEY:" "Get a move on, George." "Hurry up." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Now, load our gear." "Come on, we've no time to waste." "What are you going to do about Granny, Dad?" "Nothing, leave her, she'd be in the way." "Yeah, but, Dad..." "Come on, get on with it." "Halt, in the King's name." "Run for it, lads." "SERGEANT:" "Hold, Ransley." "(GUNSHOT)" "(GROANING)" "Hold your fire." "(RANSLEY SCREAMING)" "The court has heard the evidence against these wretched men." "They were caught red-handed with 20 kegs of contraband spirit in their possession, defrauding His Majesty's revenue." "They have no defense." "I demand that an example should be made of them as a warning to all men and to their infamous leader." "I demand that they suffer the extreme penalty of the law." "(BEADLE BANGING STICK)" "Unless..." "Unless, as I am instructed by General Pugh, they here and now confide the name of their leader, called the Scarecrow." "In which case, the Crown will not press for their death by hanging." "I don't know who the Scarecrow is, sir." "I tell you, I don't know, nobody knows." "But you've seen him, spoken to him." "Only to get orders." "When he called a meeting..." "I haven't..." "Where does he hold these meetings?" "Tell me that." "Different places, sir." "Different every time." "On the beach, on the marsh, in somebody's barn." "(DOOR OPENS)" "Why protect him now?" "He betrayed you." "Who is the man, Ransley?" "I don't know, sir." "Or else I'd tell the court." "I don't want to swing for the likes of him." "(SPECTATORS CHATTERING)" "Silence." "Silence in court." "That concludes the case for the prosecution, Your Worship." "Joseph Ransley." "George Ransley." "James Ransley." "The court is left with no alternative but..." "DR. SYN:" "By your leave, Your Worship," "I've just returned home and I found this note." "It's a threat, sir, and I do not care for threats." "What's this?" "Hmm?" ""If the Reverend Dr. Syn speaks for the prisoners on trial," ""he will answer to the Scarecrow with his own life."" "(SPECTATORS EXCLAIMING)" "(BANGING STICK)" "Who would want to threaten you, Parson?" "Were you about to speak for these ruffians in the dock?" "How would he know that?" "Well, General, words get spread," "I suppose." "I had mentioned to my sexton, Mipps, a point of law that had occurred to me regarding this case, and Mipps is not averse to an audience at the inn where many people spend their evenings." "(SPECTATORS LAUGHING)" "What point of law, Vicar?" "Well, one which, if you will allow me, would certainly save these unhappy prisoners from punishment, were it proved true." "I object to this interruption, Your Worship." "The Crown demands..." "If you please, Mr. Fragg." "What is this point of law that occurred to you, Vicar?" "Well, sir, would this arch smuggler, knowing that the prisoners were false to him, as undoubtedly he did, would he waste 20 kegs of expensive spirit to bait his trap?" "(STAMMERING) I wondered if the contents of the kegs have been examined." "If indeed they contain contraband, then, of course, the prisoners must stand condemned, but should they not be examined first?" "Has counsel for the Crown any objection to this?" "No." "No, of course not." "Beadle, go and open the kegs." "DR. SYN:" "General, I trust I can rely on the protection of your troops for coming forward after this threat to my safety." "Of course, of course." "(SPECTATORS MURMURING)" "Well, Beadle?" "Your Worship, the kegs are filled with sea water." "Every one we've tried." "Sea water?" "Sea water?" "There is no law in England that can hang a man or even imprison him for carrying kegs of water." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "The case is dismissed." "The prisoners Ransley can go free." "You incompetent!" "I thought you were a fool and now I know you are." "You bungled this whole business." "Yes, General." "Trying to take the law into your own hands." "Get out of my sight." "Report back to Dover Castle." "Thank you, Vicar." "Thank you for what you've done." "You've escaped the law, Ransley, but your Scarecrow leader won't let you escape him." "Nor any of his men who know you for a traitor if you stay in this district." "You'd best get away, as far as you can." "You got off this hook, but you're still on mine, Ransley." "You've till tonight, that's all." "Keep a close watch on Ransley." "Off you go." "And you can watch Mr. Fragg, the prosecutor." "(ALL CAROUSING)" "(MERRYMAKING STOPS)" "Good evening to you." "Sherry, please." "Rum for me, Mrs. Waggett, please." "This case you came down for must have been a great disappointment to you, sir." "And who might you be?" "Me, sir?" "Mr. Mipps, sir." "Sexton, verger, carpenter and undertaker." "And what is more, right-hand man, in matters spiritual and otherwise, to the Vicar, Dr. Syn." "Indeed." "You seem to mind every kind of business, except your own." "Oh, that's very good, sir." "Very good." "If you want to know anything about anyone in these parts," "I'm the man to come to." "And being a servant of the church, the soul of discretion." "And on the side of the law." "Mmm." "Well, I suppose you'll be on your way back to London tomorrow, now that your business here is over." "Perhaps it isn't, Mr. Mipps." "Perhaps it isn't." "Allow me, sir." "It's an honor for me." "MIPPS:" "Thank you." "To your very good health, sir." "Yes, I felt for you in the court, today." "FRANK:" "Did you?" "Hmm." "Well, and your very good health, too." "You say you are on the side of the law, Sexton?" "Well, naturally I am, sir." "The law was thwarted today." "You realize that?" "Ah, that Ransley's a villain, sir." "A villain." "It was a wicked miscarriage of justice." "How far away does this Ransley live?" "Oh, about an hour's ride on a good horse, sir." "Can you get me a good horse, without all the world knowing, tonight?" "Tonight, sir?" "Why tonight?" "Can you get me a good horse, Sexton?" "Yes, yes, yes, yes, I can get that for you, sir." "But mum's the word, eh?" "I'll meet you at the fork in the sea road in half an hour." "I'll have the horse for you there." "Right?" "Oh, well." "Time for home and bed." "Good night, Mrs. Waggett." "Good night, sir." "Good night, boys." "ALL:" "Good night, Mr. Mipps." "(BANGING ON DOOR)" "Oh, it's you, eh?" "What do you want with me?" "To talk to you." "The prosecutor's just gone in." "I know, I followed him here." "Are all the Ransleys there?" "No, only him." "The boys have run away and the old lady's gone." "How can we hear what's going on?" "This door leads to the kitchen." "RANSLEY:" "I'm getting out of here." "FRANK:" "Run away?" "Where are you going to run?" "This Scarecrow fellow, or his followers, will stop you going, unless you stop them first." "Your life isn't worth that unless I help you." "Which I won't do without you help me." "You can't touch me now." "You can't try me twice for the same offense." "You were acquitted by a trick." "You didn't know there was water in those kegs." "The Scarecrow knew it, Ransley, and if he knew that, he knows you plan to run." "I've got to run." "Not only from him and the others." "General Pugh's after me, too." "General Pugh?" "To put me in jail unless I turn King's evidence." "You tell me what I want to know and I'll offer you something much better than that." "What do you mean?" "The reward for your leader, Ransley." "Give me the names of the rest of your gang so that I can bring them to trial." "(RANSLEY EXCLAIMS IN CONTEMPT)" "RANSLEY:" "And get me throat cut for certain?" "FRANK:" "You'll get it cut if you stay and if you run." "Oh, leave me alone, can't you?" "Listen to me." "The Department of Revenue will protect you, if you talk." "I can't talk." "They won't even know it was you, and even if they did, you'll be a hundred miles away, with enough money to start another life." "They'll kill me for sure." "They won't know." "You won't even have to appear in court." "Your written statement's all I need and the signal system and the hiding places for your loot." "That'll do you no good." "I don't know who the Scarecrow is!" "He'll come forward when we've hanged a few of his men, or someone will give him up." "You leave that to me." "Give me some names, Ransley." "You owe him nothing." "And you can buy your freedom." "You, the Scarecrow," "General Pugh..." "You're driving me out of my head." "Talk, and there'll be 999 more like this." "The reward, you fool." "Keep out of General Pugh's way." "Bring your list of names to me." "Twenty will do." "I'll meet you this time tomorrow night at the castle ruins, and you can have the rest." "Then you will be safe." "Safe from General Pugh because you'll have done your duty, and safe from all the rest, as well." "Fail me, and you are finished." "Nobody'll know?" "Nobody." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Come in." "Ah, Mr. Prosecutor." "What do you want at this hour?" "I thought you left on the London mail coach." "I'll leave when my business here is finished." "You called me incompetent after today's fiasco." "I've come to tell you that I'll make you eat those words." "You have, have you?" "And how will you make me do that?" "By bringing to justice enough of the smugglers here to smash the Scarecrow gang and probably catch him, too." "Just like that, eh?" "Well, well, well." "And when will this haul take place, may I ask?" "This time tomorrow night." "Hmm." "I want to make sure you'll be here to help me." "Help you?" "How?" "Supply me with an armed escort when I go to round up these criminals." "I don't imagine they'll come along without a struggle, General." "What have you found out, lawyer?" "Have a squadron of your troops ready, standing by at the old monastery tomorrow night at this hour, and I'll tell you then." "I'll show you, General." "Tomorrow night at this hour, eh?" "Very well, I'll ride with the troops myself." "Thank you." "Good night to you, General." "Mr. Fragg," "I hope this time you've not bitten off more than you can chew." "It's a good thing there are more brains in my profession than the evidence would seem to show there are in yours." "Good night again." "Ransley will sell us all, you can be sure of that." "Selling the freedom, even the lives, of 20 of his fellow marsh men won't bother him." "We should stop him now." "Get rid of him, sir." "There'll be plenty willing to do it." "Ransley's planning to hand over to the law." "I have a better plan." "One that'll teach a lesson to all would-be traitors and to King George's revenue men who offer blood money." "(OWL HOOTING)" "(BIRD SQUAWKING)" "Ransley?" "(BIRD SQUAWKS)" "Ransley?" "(SCREAMING)" "(CACKLING)" "(SNEEZING)" "(GRUNTING)" "Why have you brought me here like this?" "I ain't done nothing." "Untie me, curse you." "I'll fight any two of you." "What's wrong with you?" "You're my mates." "I'm one of you, ain't I?" "SCARECROW:" "No, Ransley." "(SCARECROW BANGING)" "This court is now in session." "Uncover the second prisoner's eyes so that he can see the Scarecrow's justice." "You pack of scoundrels." "In the King's name, I demand that you release me." "Gag him." "Now the indictment against the first prisoner." "Joseph Ransley, you stand charged with treachery." "How say you, guilty or not guilty?" "I ain't hurt you none, Scarecrow." "Guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty, curse you." "(ALL GRUMBLING)" "First witness, Curlew." ""I, the undersigned, witnessed the accused Ransley's conversation" ""with the prosecutor for His Majesty's Department" ""of Customs and Excise" ""on the night of the 16th."" "What?" "SCARECROW: "During which conversation, the said Ransley" ""agreed to turn King's evidence" ""against the rest of us assembled here."" "(ALL EXCLAIMING)" "Silence!" ""Further, the accused agreed to hand over 20 names" ""of men in our organization and to sell this list for gold" ""to Prosecutor Fragg."" "That's a lie." "I ain't even spoken to him, except in the court." "That time the parson got me off." "You're lying, Ransley." "You were offered gold to betray your friends." "No." "This gold." "(ALL EXCLAIM)" "SCARECROW:" "Taken from Prosecutor Fragg, who came to keep his bargain with you." "Next witness." "Hellspite." ""I, the undersigned, witnessed the second prisoner, Prosecutor Fragg," ""in the company of Mipps, the sexton of Dymchurch," ""at the fork in the sea road." ""I followed the said Fragg across the marsh to the accused's cottage." ""This on the night of the 16th."" "Lies." "It's all lies." "(ALL MURMURING)" "SCARECROW:" "Silence!" "Stand down." "And now my deposition, Ransley." "On the last run of my Gentlemen, you attempted to steal from us, were caught and put on trial." "I didn't hurt you none, and I was acquitted." "Through the intercession of a parson who disobeyed my instructions not to interfere." "I'll deal with him later." "You told the prosecutor at your trial that you would betray me if you could, in spite of the oath you made with me." "The oath that every man here has taken." "If a man thinks he's going to be hanged, and his sons with him, he'll say anything." "What kind of man will sell his friends to the hangman for gold, Ransley?" "I ain't done that." "And never intended to?" "No." "Empty his pockets." "Here are the names he would sell." "Perhaps your names are among them." "You were taking that note to the prisoner, Fragg, tonight?" "All right, curse you, so I was." "You think you own us all." "You were going to kill me." "You drove me sons away and the army was after me." "Cheat, liar, traitor." "Convicted by your own words." "Gentlemen of the jury, how say you?" "Is the prisoner guilty or not guilty?" "ALL:" "Guilty!" "Guilty!" "(CLAMORING)" "Guilty it is." "And this court sentences you to die accordingly." "You dog, you're not fit to live." "What are you going to do?" "Oh, no." "SCARECROW:" "Gag him, Hellspite." "No, no, don't." "(RANSLEY SCREAMING)" "SCARECROW:" "And spare us seeing him die a coward as well as a traitor." "You, Curlew, cover the lanterns." "(RANSLEY GROANING)" "Uncover the lanterns." "(ALL MURMURING)" "Justice is done." "So end all men who would betray the Scarecrow and the people of the marshes." "(SCREAMING)" "Let him go." "Curlew, give my Gentlemen the King's gold." "Share it among you, and remember the Scarecrow's justice." "Now go, quickly." "Let him down." "(SNICKERING)" "(GRUNTS)" "CURLEW:" "Oh." "I thought..." "I thought he was..." "No." "He's fainted." "I was afraid he'd come to while Fragg was still here." "(GROANING)" "Ransley." "Oh, no, no." "You're dead, Ransley." "Dead." "To all the men of the marsh, who would otherwise kill you." "I give you one hour to cross the county line and away from here, otherwise you'll really die." "You're dead, run for your life!" "(CACKLING)" "Is the coffin ready?" "Aye, sir." "I finished it yesterday." "(LAUGHING)" "Laughter, Sexton?" "Have you no respect for the dead?" "Drive on." "Drive on." "Well, sir, as you said, "So end all traitors."" "And the Scarecrow's men still ride the marshes." "Can nobody stop the villain?" "They'll still try, sir." "Don't worry, they'll still try." "Look." "(SNEEZING)" "Save some space in your graveyard, Parson, for the Scarecrow." "Because I swear to you he'll be there." "(SNEEZING) And soon." "Well, good luck to you, General, and take care with that cold you have." "Forward." "Your orders were to stamp out this smuggling, yet in the weeks you've been down there, it's grown worse." "Well, sir?" "Well?" "The whole countryside protects the smugglers and their leader, Your Majesty." "They see him as a benefactor." "Protects!" "Protects!" "My home secretary bombards me with figures of the drop in excise duties." "I have to listen to sly jokes at my expense, at my army's expense." "Cartoons appear in the public press, showing me dancing like a puppet on strings, held by this fellow they call the Scarecrow." "I sent you extra troops and what happens?" "Nothing!" "Nothing!" "By making a fool of yourself, you make a fool of me." "I'm doing my best, sir, but as I said..." "Your best is not good enough, General." "You let this scoundrel slip through your fingers, didn't you?" "Well, sir?" "Well?" "I did everything in my power..." "Silence!" "I should relieve you of your command, perhaps." "Eh?" "Eh, sir?" "If you'll give me a little more time..." "Time!" "Time!" "I have a war in France, rumors of insurrection in America, and I must give you time?" "More money, more men to deal with a pack of smuggling yokels in my own country?" "You're incompetent and lax, General." "I'll stamp out this business, Your Majesty." "I give you my word." "(SCOFFS)" "Just one month, sir." "I'll give you one month." "The War Office said that you were a hard man, General." "Well, sir, be hard." "Do you hear me, eh?" "Be hard." "Now, go back to your command and use your brains." "SERGEANT:" "Any sign of him?" "SOLDIER:" "No, Sergeant." "Oi!" "Let's make for the hills." "Forward!" "Oh, hang it all, Vicar, you'd think I might beat you once in a while." "He's as clever as a fox." "Do you play, General?" "No, I haven't got the patience for games." "But you hunt the fox though, don't you, sir?" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "GENERAL PUGH:" "Well?" "General Pugh, sir." "Squadron searching the marshes, cooperating with the naval pickets." "I know, I know." "All the press-gang men who jumped ship at Dover have been recaptured, sir." "GENERAL PUGH:" "Good." "SERGEANT:" "Except one." "What?" "A man was seen heading for Dymchurch an hour ago, but we lost him." "Permission to carry out house-to-house search, sir?" "Yes." "Sir." "Every house, you understand, and thoroughly." "Spare no one." "This is the chance I've been waiting for to turn this place inside out." "I don't wonder a deserter would head this way." "Why, General?" "Because your people here are lawless themselves." "They shield this Scarecrow and his smugglers, don't they?" "You have no proof of that." "They do." "And if I find one of them, any of them, hiding a deserter, there'll be some hanging here." "Well, good night, Sir Thomas." "It's time I was getting home." "Good night to you, Vicar." "JOHN:" "I'll see you to the gate, sir." "DR. SYN:" "General." "(WHISPERING) If they search every house, they'll find Mr. Bates, the American rebel you're hiding." "We'll have to move him." "Come on." "If you're the deserter, we're here to help, not harm you." "I'm Dr. Syn, Vicar of Dymchurch." "Dr. Syn?" "I can't believe it!" "After all these years." "Do you know him, John?" "It's Harry, your brother." "I didn't recognize you, either." "You've grown so much." "And you with a beard." "(CHUCKLING)" "JOHN:" "And you used to be fat!" "Have you just come?" "I had to wait till it was dark." "Anyone here would know me." "Why, Harry, come in the house." "Well, Father's there and..." "Really, I can't." "There's soldiers there." "I saw them through the window." "Harry." "You heard General Pugh." "They hang deserters from the Navy." "Harry's the man they're looking for." "The marshes are now under military law, sir." "I have my authority from the King." "If you have any objection, complain to him, sir, not to me." "Thank you for dinner and good night." "Good night to you, sir." "Madam, Mr. Brackenbury." "General." "Won't you let Philip stay a little longer?" "Just as a favor to me?" "Please?" "Very well." "Speak to Father now." "All right, Kate." "Could I talk to you a moment, sir?" "Hmm." "Have I your permission to ask for Kate's hand, sir?" "No, sir." "You have not." "I understand that your family regards you as independent and rebellious, and they've cut you off." "Am I right?" "Well, yes, sir, it's true, my father and I..." "And that you live on your army pay." "How am I to know that you're not more interested in Kate's fortune than her hand?" "As Kate's father, sir, you may consider it your privilege to question my honor, but I'm afraid I do not." "Good night, Sir Thomas." "Good night, Mr. Brackenbury." "I'm leaving." "There's nothing more to say after that." "Isn't there something to say to me?" "Father fights everybody." "He only respects those who fight him back, and so do I." "Aren't you going to fight for me?" "Oh, Kate." "Do you know, when we're in port, we're netted below decks like cattle?" "Fed and watered and penned and driven to the slaughter, we..." "What's this?" "Vicar?" "Hello, Father." "Harry?" "Harry." "It can't be!" "It can't be you!" "After all these years, boy." "I thought you..." "I thought you were dead." "Only half dead, Father." "You look it." "Why are you here, hiding like a criminal, hmm?" "I am a criminal, sir." "Harry's the deserter they're looking for, Sir Thomas." "You deserted?" "Escaped." "They took me by force, and I got away by force." "Four years of my life they've had." "Want to see the decorations I got in the King's service?" "I'm no longer going to be treated like a dog." "My dear boy." "Come over to the house, you look starved." "I am, sir." "You can't go to the house, sir." "Philip Brackenbury's still there." "I must get you away." "Leave this to me, Sir Thomas, will you?" "Yes, but how will you..." "And ask no questions." "If you know nothing, then you'll not have to lie when the Navy comes searching." "I'll see you again, boy." "As soon as I can." "Don't worry, my sexton and I will deal with this." "Go with your father, John." "Good night, sir." "(WHISPERING) Do you think he heard or saw anything?" "I don't know, sir." "But if he did, we'll soon find out, and so will Dr. Syn." "I must warn him to get Harry away at once." "My family." "Hundreds of years of pride and privilege." "I wonder what they'd think of me now, running away like a stray dog." "Cover that lantern." "All well, Mipps?" "Yes, sir." "John warned me just in time." "I got Mr. Bates here out of the inn, five minutes before the soldiers came." "Mr. Harry, I couldn't believe it when I heard." "It's good to see you, sir." "Harry, this is Simon Bates from America." "He's hunted by the law, too." "Mr. Banks." "How do you do, Mr. Bates?" "Deserter?" "No, preaching sedition." "Freedom for the Colonies." "Mipps, tell them where they're to go." "Yes, sir." "Yes." "Mr. Bates, you remember broken barn in the Bonnington Hills?" "Take Mr. Harry with you and hide there till I send word." "Enter through the barn doors, and under the fourth beam there's a trap door leading to an underground stable." "An underground stable?" "That's right." "You'll be perfectly safe there." "We'll get food to you as you need it, but whatever you do, keep undercover." "Mr. Mipps, Dr. Syn, you're taking a big risk." "So are you, and you're wasting time." "Come on, off you go." "There are soldiers and pickets everywhere, sir." "How are you going to get the two of them out?" "By the first ship that delivers for the Scarecrow." "You hope." "Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears." "Two men coming." "Halt, in the King's name." "What's this?" "We caught him and another one besides, sir." "Call off the search, we have them." "That..." "That's Mr. Harry, Sir Thomas' son." "Who are you?" "All right." "You'll find your tongue, I promise you." "You're going to be sorry you were ever born, the pair of you." "Take them both to Dover Castle." "You'll either give me the information I want, here and now, or I'll hand you over to more forcible persuasion." "I could have you hanged today, both of you." "Apart from your stealing from me, you're already condemned, and you stand condemned a deserter." "But turn King's evidence, I'll spare your lives." "Who sheltered you all this time?" "This Scarecrow who flouts the law down here?" "No." "Then one of his men?" "Must have been." "Answer me." "No." "And why did you head for these parts?" "Who did you think would hide you?" "This Scarecrow, because he helped another scoundrel escape the King's service?" "Who are your friends here?" "Talk, and I'll exchange their lives for yours." "Take them to the dungeons, and see what answers you can get, by whatever means." "Yes, sir." "March!" "SOLDIER:" "The Vicar of Dymchurch, sir." "Dr. Syn." "Well, what do you want here, Parson?" "I have my duties, General." "I'm chaplain to the jail." "I'm here to serve Holy Communion to the prisoners." "I normally report to the garrison commander before I do so." "And Master Banks?" "To assist me, sir." "Well, it's not a duty I relish, myself." "The stench in the dungeon is strong enough to build another wall on." "Our duties are not always made easy." "For any of us." "But the end justifies the means, eh?" "BRACKENBURY:" "Even when those means include torture, General?" "Mr. Brackenbury's talking of those swine who just left." "To be tortured?" "They hold the key to unlock the conspiracy of silence which protects this Scarecrow madman, and I intend to get it." "That's my duty." "Tell me one thing, sir." "If they had told you what they knew when you promised them their lives, would you have kept your side of the bargain?" "(SCOFFS)" "Don't be a fool." "They're to hang, anyway." "Of course, sir." "With your permission, sir, I'll go to the dungeons now." "Your servant, sir." "I need an ally here." "I wonder if I've found one." "Wake up!" "On your feet!" "Show some respect to the chaplain, you dogs." "Kneel." "Lift up your hearts in hope and trust." "Let us pray." "(KNOCK ON DOOR)" "Open up!" "Naval picket!" "By your leave, Reverend." "I want six men." "Come on, step lively if you don't want a rope's end across your backs." "Get them chained!" "Press-ganged, the poor devils." "You lot will board the lugger for H.M.S. Defiant." "Wave your mates goodbye, you dogs." "We're gonna make men of you." "You obstinate dogs." "We haven't finished with you yet." "PETTY OFFICER:" "Here we are again, mate." "Six less mouths for you to feed." "March!" "God be with you and have mercy on you." "I'm about to conduct a service here, Jailer." "I should like to be alone with the prisoners." "But it ain't safe, your reverence." "Let me be judge of that." "Leave us." "Oh, Harry!" "They didn't make us talk." "Hello, Vicar." "We ran out of luck." "Get up, John." "Get up." "The rest of you, kneel again." "And listen to me." "Does the naval picket come and go like that to take men to the ships?" "Yes, sir, we never know when." "DR. SYN:" "I see." "Harry, Mr. Bates, I don't know by what means, but somehow, I'm going to get you away from here before Pugh breaks your spirit as well as your body." "They'll never break us." "And we'll never talk." "There's no way out of here, except in a coffin, not for us." "There must be." "Trust me." "All of you." "Somehow, I will get you free." "Free?" "Free, sir?" "Not so loud." "Repeat after me." ""Letteth now thy servant depart in peace."" "ALL: "Letteth now thy servant depart in peace."" ""For mine eyes have beheld thy salvation."" "ALL: "For mine eyes have beheld thy salvation."" "I wanted to fly at them for what they've done to Harry." "Poor Bates." "You did very well in there, John." "Do you..." "You really think you..." "You'll be able to help them escape, sir?" "I..." "I don't know." "I have an idea." "It's a wild gamble, an outside chance." "Stand against the door a minute, boy." "Hmm, pretty good, though I say so myself." "Here it is, sir." "I hope it works." "It's the key to the whole plan." "What is the plan, sir?" "The Scarecrow will tell you that tonight." "Get word to all our men, there'll be a meeting at 10:00 tonight at Five-Mile Barn." "Tonight?" "Time is running out." "Get on your way, Mipps." "Here they are." "SCARECROW:" "All here?" "SAM:" "All who were asked for." "There's shipment due from Holland tomorrow night." "There's a change of plan." "We will not be taking the cargo." "We shall take the ship!" "ALL:" "Ship?" "I have business, export business, not import, to transact from Dover." "There are some prisoners in the castle." "They have asked for my help." "I intend to release them." "Release them, Scarecrow?" "How?" "Twelve men will board the Dutchman's ship." "Force him to sail her into St. Margaret's Bay, this side of Dover." "Heave to there, and bring two boats ashore." "Six others will report to Hellspite, masked, at Dymchurch graveyard, 8:00." "Sam, Ben Davis, you will be required to enter the castle dungeon." "(SMUGGLERS MURMURING)" "You will be led by the Vicar of Dymchurch, Dr. Syn." "The Vicar?" "Why's that?" "He's under my orders, too." "He has no choice." "And the squire's son, John." "I have proof that they gave shelter to a deserter from the Navy." "This proof will be given to General Pugh if they refuse to help me with my plan." "They will hang." "You mean you blackmailed the Vicar?" "To keep my word to those who ask for help," "I'd blackmail the King himself." "My plan is set." "Ben Davis?" "You trust me?" "All of you?" "Or will you stand forward now, and say that you're afraid?" "I trust you, Scarecrow." "I ain't afraid." "Nor me." "But the Vicar?" "Leave Dr. Syn to me." "I have him like that." "And the boy." "Tomorrow night, the Scarecrow and his Gentlemen will thumb their noses at General Pugh and the King's injustice." "Be on time!" "Our orders are to get the press-gang uniforms." "Who are these men?" "HELLSPITE:" "Never you mind." "Put this on, young master." "Now, follow me." "¶ To you fair ladies now at land" "¶ We men at sea indict" "¶ But first would have you understand" "¶ How hard it is to write ¶" "HELLSPITE:" "Mrs. Waggett will look after the drummer boy." "(GRUNTING)" "(GRUNTING)" "HELLSPITE:" "Right." "Off with their uniforms, mates, and don't tear them." "You'll come to no harm, lad." "Go on, take off your uniform." "HELLSPITE:" "Then tie the buzzards up." "Upstairs, missus." "Upstairs!" "(SCREAMS)" "Now, come on, hurry up, lads." "(DRUMMING)" "Halt!" "Who goes there?" "Naval picket for the pressed men in the jail, sir." "I'll escort them." "GUARD 1:" "Sir." "Forward." "You wait outside the gate, powder monkey." "What are you trying to do, sir?" "Release the prisoners from injustice and torture." "Isn't that what you want?" "How will you open the dungeon?" "Even the Vicar will hang, dressed like that, if they catch us now." "JAILER 1:" "Why don't you give up, then?" "JAILER 2:" "No." "JAILER 1:" "I'm finished, anyway." "And it's time for me to do the rounds." "JAILER 2:" "Sit down." "Later for that." "JAILER 1:" "I'm late already." "Sit down." "Your deal." "JAILER 2:" "I give the orders here." "Come on, your deal." "You didn't shuffle them cards very well, did you?" "JAILER 1:" "Yes, I did." "You saw me." "It was a fair deal." "JAILER 2:" "Fair to you, maybe." "JAILER 1:" "My trick." "JAILER 2:" "All right, but you can take that grin off your face." "JAILER 1:" "What's wrong?" "It was your idea to go on playing anyway." "My trick." "JAILER 2:" "Your trick?" "Your trick?" "It's unnatural." "There." "Take that one." "JAILER 1:" "Like this?" "JAILER 2:" "What?" "JAILER 1:" "That's mine." "And that." "And the next two." "Your deal." "JAILER 2:" "Wait." "Give me that card." "(LOCK CLICKS)" "(DOOR CREAKS)" "(DOOR CREAKS LOUDLY)" "What was that?" "I'm Dr. Syn." "Keep quiet and do as you're told." "We'll get you away from here." "Will you be able to walk?" "Feel strong enough?" "No noise." "We have to chain you together, so that it looks correct when you are crossing the courtyard, so that one of you doesn't make a break for it and spoil everything." "(SHUSHING)" "DR. SYN:" "Down!" "(THUDS)" "(WINDOW OPENS)" "All right." "Quickly." "Quickly." "Nothing." "The louts have probably been fighting." "Let's get on with the game." "JAILER 2:" "It don't make any difference." "I haven't won a hand yet." "JAILER 1:" "I'm not surprised, the way you play." "JAILER 2:" "All right, then, we'll play one more hand." "Double or quit." "JAILER 1:" "How are you gonna settle if you lose?" "You owe me a week's pay already." "JAILER 2:" "Stop gabbing!" "If I could get half the talk out of them two prisoners" "Pugh gave me to work on as I get out of you..." "Wait a minute." "My trick." "JAILER 1:" "It's my trick." "JAILER 2:" "It's my trick!" "JAILER 1:" "It's mine, I played the king." "JAILER 2:" "It's mine, I played the king!" "JAILER 1:" "No, you didn't, you played the jack." "JAILER 2:" "No, I didn't." "JAILER 1:" "Yes, you did." "You played the jack." "JAILER 2:" "Are you calling me a liar?" "JAILER 1:" "You played the jack!" "JAILER 2:" "I'll crack your skull, you... (DOOR OPENING)" "GENERAL PUGH:" "Halt!" "What's this?" "Naval picket for the pressed men, sir." "(PLAYING DRUM ROLL)" "Straighten up, you mangy dogs!" "You're in the King's service now." "Quick march!" "(JOHN PLAYING DRUM)" "(PLAYING LIVELY TUNE)" "What the devil?" "Hellspite of The Gentlemen, at your service, Squire." "The Gentlemen?" "You smuggling scoundrels, what do you want in my house?" "You, Squire, and your daughter." "Why you..." "Quiet and easy, now, Squire." "No hollering for servants, or my friend here'll have something to say." "The Scarecrow needs you." "The Scarecrow!" "To act as hostage while he does a little business, Squire." "Come quiet, you'll not be harmed." "Make trouble, I'll blow your brains out." "There's a carriage waiting in the lane." "Now, not a word, so no one gets hurt." "I was told to bring you as far as here, then leave you." "God bless you all." "I have to leave you, Harry." "You're a brave boy." "Give my love to Father and to Kate, and say I wish I could have seen them." "Hurry, John." "Coming." "Goodbye, Harry." "Good luck." "Here's payment for some passengers you're to take to Holland." "Passengers?" "From here?" "Scarecrow." "You rogue, what do you want with my daughter and me?" "You'll thank me before the night is out, Squire." "What the devil?" "SCARECROW:" "Here are your passengers, Dutchman." "DUTCHMAN:" "Come on, hurry, hurry!" "Harry!" "Harry, you're free." "How?" "What do you say now, Squire?" "Kate, it's your brother." "Harry?" "Is it really you?" "Why, you've grown into a beauty." "Take them to Holland where they can board a boat for America." "America?" "Take them off, mijnheer." "You're in enemy waters, you smuggling rogue." "Time to go, Mr. Banks." "My men will escort you home, sir." "Your servant, Mr. Banks." "Good luck." "SIR THOMAS:" "So short a time." "Goodbye, Harry." "Take care." "Write to us, remember us." "I will." "Goodbye." "KATE:" "Goodbye, Harry." "SCARECROW:" "Hurry." "Get aboard." "A new life, gentlemen, the New World and freedom very soon." "Bon voyage!" "And you suspected nothing when you took the picket to the dungeons?" "I had no reason to, sir." "Their papers were in order." "(SCOFFS)" "(STAMMERING) They didn't come to me for the key, sir." "Neither did you." "But they had a key." "How?" "Didn't that seem strange to you?" "No, sir." "I'm not familiar with jail procedure." "The men's actions seemed normal and natural." "The deserter, the American, they had the answer to everything I want." "Through them, I'd have smashed the smuggling here." "You fool." "Why didn't you see them or hear them taken, if you were on duty?" "Unless you were drunk or fighting." "No." "No, sir." "Get out!" "Yes, sir." "Imposters walk into the castle and out again with prisoners right under your very nose?" "You saw them, sir." "You were at the gate when they marched through." "It's all in my report, sir." "Yes." "Yes, it's all in your report." "I sent a copy to the Admiral, sir, about the deserter's escape." "To the Admiral?" "And another copy to the Director of Public Prosecutions, sir." "The Director of Public Prosecutions who will report to the King." "Thank you, Mr. Brackenbury, that was very thorough of you." "My duty, sir." "Duty?" "Dismiss." ""General Pugh was at the gate."" "Well, Sir Thomas, this is a strange story you tell me." "But, scoundrel or no, this Scarecrow fellow freed Harry where I couldn't, and arranged for you to say farewell." "As parson and squire, we must hope for his capture, but tonight let's drink to him, shall we?" "Well, I suppose so." "BRACKENBURY:" "We may see Harry again sooner than you think." "Both you and I." "I'm not staying in the army, Kate." "I can't after this." "I'm resigning my commission." "And let's drink to the young people, too." "He's a good lad, right for Kate." "You'll see." "Yes." "Yes, let's drink to them." "To Philip, to Kate, and the Scarecrow fellow." "Whoever and wherever he may be, the scoundrel."