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Thest.

Son when I was twelve.

And my sister Lily Dale was eleven.

And she was eleven.

And my father died.

And soon after my mother married again

Again and soon after my mother married again

and work and support themselves.

So I got a job clerking at a plantation store.

When I was 19, I got a letter from my mother asking me

to come visit her and my sister in Houston.

I decided to go.

The key is a key.

She walks across the street.

Tails and lady off, something off.

I can't stand a train trip without a little company.

Where are you going?

Houston.

So am I. Houston, you're home?

No, ma'am, I'm going on a visit.

Who are you visiting, your grandma?

No, my mother.

Your mother?

Your mother, not your daddy?

No, my daddy's daddy.

She's married again.

Well, I live in Harrison now.

I just live in Houston.

But my husband lost his job and got a position at the gym in Harrison.

He's a bookkeeper.

I hope he'll keep that.

We have a problem.

My husband, I mean, he drinks.

Oh, he's fine on a job, but then he gets to drinking.

I have two or three months and they let him go.

He's taking the key.

He'll cure more times than I can count.

I'm going in to see about shipping out furniture to Harrison.

We sold our home in Houston.

Whose house are you renting in Harrison?

Well, they call it the old Rubidone Place.

They say it's a sad house.

The man was a brilliant lawyer and drank himself right into the grave.

Mr. Kool.

That was my house.

At least it was my father's.

I lived there until I was eight until my mother and father separated.

Separated?

Mercy.

That's a terrible thing.

I hope it didn't end in divorce.

No, ma'am.

Is it that your daddy died a drunkard?

Yes, ma'am.

I feel sorry for you, son.

I know what that can mean.

Are you a Christian, son?

Here's some. Guess so.

What do you mean you guess so?

There's no guessing about being a Christian.

You're either saved or not.

Are you baptized?

I don't know, ma'am.

What do you mean you don't know?

Well, I hadn't thought about it one way or the other.

I mean, if I was baptized, I was too young to remember it.

Mercy.

Well, you ask your mom, the first thing you see,

or you ask if you're baptized.

Your soul is in terrible danger, son.

If you're not, do you attend church?

No, ma'am.

The church, my people, go to doesn't have a congregation in Glenflora.

What church is that?

The Pescaple.

I guess not.

They only have a small one in Harrison.

I am a Baptist.

Yes, ma'am.

If we baptized you, you would have remembered.

Yes, ma'am.

I was baptized in the river.

Made clean in the river.

Gave all my sins to Jesus in the river,

washed in the blood of the Lamb in the river.

Did you go to school in Harrison?

As far as the sixth grade, then, I quit.

My father was an educated man.

All his family were.

They were Greek scholars and Latin scholars.

Do you know the Harrison spectator?

Read it every week?

My uncle started that.

One of them never worked at all, they said.

He just sat around and read books in Greek all the time.

My mother says she'd rather see me dead than that way.

She said he lived a useless life.

I like to read, though.

I can't help it.

I don't tell my mother.

And your Bible?

Do you read your Bible?

No, ma'am, I don't have a Bible.

You don't have a Bible?

No, ma'am.

Do you say your prayers every night?

No, ma'am.

Well, then you start praying every day

on your knees morning and night.

You can hear my prayers all over town, no?

Mr. Cooons says, Mrs. Cooons,

you're praying too loud.

You're keeping people awake with your prayers.

It'll do them good, I said.

Let them hear the prayers of the true Christian.

And then I just pray that much louder.

Sometimes I even shout.

Shout the devil down, I say.

You have to shout loud too.

Shout the devil down.

Would you join me in a little prayer now, sir?

No, ma'am, that's all right.

I don't think so.

Oh, don't be embarrassed.

I'll never be ashamed to let people know

that you are a Christian.

Lord, take this boy here.

What's your name?

Horace.

Horace.

Cleanse Horace.

All his worldly ways.

Far open his eyes to the need of baptism.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm not a Christian.

Someone's at the door, ma'am.

Okay, you open the door, honey.

I'm scared, too, Mama.

I can't do it.

I can't do it.

Doris Fahler says the city's alive.

With beggars and gypsies and white slaves,

she says her mother forbid her after opening her door.

I'm sure that's fine when you're alone, honey.

I don't think you have to worry about me in the house.

Just a minute.

Horace.

Horace.

Horace.

Lily Dale.

It's Horace.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Hello, brother.

We thought you were the gypsies.

Mr. Davenport in Atlanta visiting his kin.

And Mama and I are alone here.

And my girlfriend, Doris Fahler, says it's very dangerous for ladies and young girls to be left alone in this wicked city.

Yes, it is.

How do you like my piano?

It's very nice.

When Mama and Mr. Davenport first got married,

he got me a second hand piano straight off.

And then after I learned how to play some,

he said he wouldn't have me playing a second hand piano.

And he went out and bought this one for me.

Brother, you never heard me play the piano, have you?

No.

You want me to play something for you now?

Honey, your brother just got here.

He's tired.

Doesn't let him rest for a while first.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Oh, wow, first.

Yeah.

What time do you get up this morning?

Four.

Mr. Davenport's up at four every morning,

even on Sunday, isn't he, Mama?

Yes, he is.

Hars.

You've grown into a nice-looking young man.

Thank you.

How long do you plan on staying, brother?

Oh, I don't know exactly.

You mentioned a week in your letter and I thought that-

Now, if I fixed you the same, which would you eat it?

Sure.

And I have a cake.

I made just this morning.

You like a piece there, too?

Yes, ma'am.

Oh.

This is a two-story house.

We rent one of the upstairs bedrooms to a quiet couple.

Do you think I've changed?

Yes, you have.

Would you have recognized me if you'd passed me on the street?

I think so.

I'll keep having this terrible dream that I've been kidnapped.

And they won't let me go until I'm an old woman

and when I come back home, no one recognizes me.

And I keep saying, I'm Lily Dale.

I'm Lily Dale, Roberto.

But no one believes me.

You ever have a dream like that?

No.

You ever have dreams?

Sometimes.

Once I dream.

I forget.

We didn't think you were coming when you didn't answer

Mother's letter.

I didn't get the letter right away.

And when I did get it, I just decided to come on.

How much did it cost you to get here?

Two dollars.

Where'd you get the two dollars?

Mama sent it to me.

She did.

Mama said she'd give me the money to come back once I got here.

Three, three, four, three, four, three, four.

Mom, the vegetable man's out front.

I can hear you, honey.

How much longer will Mr. Dad report be gone?

He was to be gone three weeks.

But we got a letter from him yesterday.

And he said things that changed so in Atlanta

that it didn't feel like home any longer,

and he longed to get back to us.

So he's cutting his trip short.

When Mama got the letter, she said it was a blessing you hadn't come.

She would have been a nervous wreck having you here

and expecting Mr. Dad and Port to walk in any minute unexpected.

She sent for you behind his back.

She kind of hinted around for his permission

to have you while he was gone.

But he said he didn't think it was a good idea to encourage you to take off from work.

So she didn't press it further, but then she decided to write to you anyway.

Which at the time I thought was a mistake.

I always think to see you as a mistake, don't you?

Mama, why didn't you tell me?

You sent brother two dollars for a train ticket.

Well, that was just my secret, honey.

We've all got to have our secrets.

Don't.

Can I play my A-tune for you now, brother?

Sure.

Mr. Dambor says he'd pay his last cent to pay for my music lessons.

Do you have musical ability, brother?

I don't know.

Have you been to Harrison Lane?

I try to get in every week.

I get up early Sunday morning and walk into Harrison along the railroad tracks.

I have a Sunday dinner with Aunt Verge or Aunt Inazure.

Sometimes I get glad.

I get up early Monday morning and walk back to Glenford to get the store open.

How long does it take you to walk in?

Three hours.

Oh.

Aunt Verge has taught me to dance.

Oh, she would.

I mean, it's been a minute.

Verge was some kind of dancer go out.

Well, I'm not going to play if y'all are going to talk.

I'm sorry, sister.

Mm.

We'll talk after the day is finished.

She's very sensitive.

Mama.

She's a sheep.

I think that's very rude of him.

Oh, I need her need to be rude.

I just don't think he's using hearing music like this.

You know, he's probably just very tired from his train.

How long is he playing?

I don't know.

First invited him.

I missed him stay awake.

That was before.

I heard from Mr. Devinport that he was cutting his trip short.

What would you do if Mr. Devinport weren't here right now?

I don't know.

Just hope horror sleaze before Mr. Devinport gets back.

I don't think he'll be back until the day after tomorrow.

We'll just have to let it yesterday.

It takes two days from it later.

I'm going to have to go back to the store.

I'm going to have to go back to the store later.

Brother, how long do you plan to stay?

I had planned on staying a week.

And I thought while I was here, I might look for a job.

Where?

In Houston.

Why?

I thought it might be nice to live near you and Mama for a change.

You couldn't live here, brother. There's no room for you here at all.

I didn't mean here.

I meant, in Houston, somewhere, but near you.

So what could you do in Houston, brother?

You know, I thought I'd ask Mr. Devinport to help me find a job at the railroad.

Do you know they're laying off people down the rail yard every day?

And if Mr. Devinport wasn't such an exceptional worker, he'd be a mortal danger of losing his job there.

Why do we go down and see you play this afternoon?

Would you like that, Aris?

Sure.

Good, I'll go get dressed.

Son, I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm afraid you will be able to stay a week after all.

You see, Mr. Devinport.

I'll be told that Mr. Devinport.

Is your brother money for a train ticket?

Yes, I am.

Where are you getting all this money from?

That is none of your business, Leverdale.

Anyway, son, I'm afraid you'll all be able to stay today.

Tomorrow...

At this time...

Yes, ma'am.

I'm all for sorry.

Don't worry about it.

Do you have a sweetheart, brother?

I have one.

Don't tell Mama I told you that she'd have a fad.

He's a lovely boy.

Mr. Devinport can't stand him.

He won't even let him come to the house.

He says he's disillusioned.

I have to slip out, even to see him.

Mr. Devinport found out about it and he was in fury.

He wouldn't even speak to me until the morning he left Atlanta.

This is a ring my boyfriend gave me.

He wants to marry me.

He says I'm beautiful.

He says I'm pretty enough to be an actor.

He's very handsome too.

He does drink, though, and he smokes cigarettes.

But I told him he'd have to stop both before I married him.

I told him I had a father who was a drunkard and a cigarette fiend

and that those habits would kill him.

Do you remember Papa?

Sure.

I don't have a picture of him, do you?

No.

I wonder if anyone has a picture of him.

I tell you I can hardly remember what he looks like anymore.

I can hear his voice, though.

I can remember the way you always used to call me sister.

And you, brother.

You never called you sister or me, brother.

Yes, he did.

No, he didn't.

He always called me Horus, Jr. and you Lilydale.

Well, then who called me sister and who called you brother?

I called you sister and you called me brother, Papa.

What's that?

This is Papa's watch.

It didn't run, I would fix someday.

Look, it had its initials engraved, see?

Where do you get it?

I found it stuffed and and brought the house when I came back after y'all left that time.

Look.

This is Mama's wedding ring.

How do you know?

I'm looking tired.

Just...

To see T from HR.

Yes, it does.

I used to have some of Papa's books.

Where they now?

I don't know.

They just disappeared after I went to work out at the GoTier plantation.

I used to read all the time.

I read newspapers now, mostly.

I can't stand reading.

My father doesn't like to read either.

Mr. Davenport says he's never read a book in his entire life, and he doesn't intend to.

And once my mama told him about how Papa used to like to read, he said no wonder he drank.

Look, this is my sweetheart.

Isn't it good looking?

He plays baseball on the city team.

He's a first-based man.

He's a one-platly.

He's 25.

Mr. Davenport says he's old enough to be my father, but I think a boy should be quite a bit older than a girl, don't you?

Oh, I'd never thought about it one way or the other.

Are you ready?

What are we gonna see?

I don't know, but I'm sure it's gonna be good.

It always is.

Isn't this exciting, brother?

I like music best.

We came to hear Gally Kirchee when she sang here, and Petarevsky and John McCormick.

I would have loved to have heard him.

I love Irish tenors.

I heard John see all kinds coming on children.

We're going upstairs.

Did John McCormick sing another one?

Yes, he did.

So did Chancey Alcott as an encore.

We have a recording of John McCormick singing, don't we, sister?

Yes, we do.

Rilla!

Lily Dale?

I'm sorry about that.

I don't believe you can't have for the play, brother.

Yes, I did.

when I could understand.

He's probably never seen a play by Shakespeare before,

precious, and he's hard to understand.

He fell asleep twice once he was snoring so loud at a Pokey.

There he is.

Mama, what did Papa call me?

Did he call me sister?

Did he call me Lillidae?

No, I don't remember.

Well, I think he called me sister,

but brother says he called me Lillidae.

Hey, T-Call, you've been a deal.

I remember that.

All of a time?

I expect so.

He thought that we should all be coba, given names.

How old were you when you married our father?

Oh, 18.

And how was now his 19?

How old was our father?

22.

We were all moving around so much after the war.

Look, and go, yes, and Luri Island.

And then back to Harrison.

Well, my papa, when he'd back his land,

he felt his papa been cheated out of.

I think your daddy's people were already there by then.

I'm sure they were.

His brother's ran the newspaper.

He had a lot of office.

He's very handsome.

That's stinkwashed, given as a young man.

Oh, oh, it's like we've fried.

Oh, my god.

I didn't know who you were.

What do you want?

I don't know if it's a fratina or mine.

I should have.

Yeah, I've been here too.

I want to.

Took a nap.

We got you later if we didn't expect you to tomorrow.

I'm so glad you're home.

I missed you so much.

I learned who knew pieces while you were gone.

I just...

Pete, I was surprised, though,

but it's walking in here this morning.

Took a day off from work and decided to pay us a visit.

Hello, sir.

Hello.

Did you have a good time?

I guess so.

How will you help people?

All right.

He is mad.

I've only seen him mad once.

I hope never to see that again.

Horace.

There's no room for you here now.

Do you stand there, honey?

I want you to take that train back to Horace tonight.

You go to Bergey.

You tell her what happened.

She'll just let you stay with her, OK?

I don't have any money for the ticket home.

Oh, yeah, I'm so sorry.

I have some money upstairs in my closet.

I'll go get it.

You wait right here.

What's on your mind?

Elfa.

The golden porcelain,

golden porcelain,

red porcelain,

the golden porcelain,

the golden porcelain,

the golden porcelain,

the golden porcelain,

your white porcelain,

the golden porcelain,

the Wonder Woman.

Oh, yeah.

The Paper does her plastic and lottooney.

ダt Ст פ Erermuts,

Anne Frenze,

winning a lottery for the cowboy museum.

I'm sure pretty selfish that I would get it biscuits.

The gold part,

that Walden ensure a little bit of money or money test.

I'm Harrison.

All right.

Willie Rosebury left.

Mama just went to get him some money to get back home on.

She sent him $2 to get you.

You're giving him money?

Will, you seem Mr. Devon Port.

You're grown, man.

You ashamed to take money from your mother?

Well, when I was your age, I was supporting my mother and brother in the sisters for seven years.

Nobody ever gave me anything.

You know what kind of man you're going to make?

Taking money from a woman at your age.

He doesn't mean that, son.

He's not as bad as his house.

Now look, you take this money.

And he's a little extra for a sandwich on your train.

Mr. Devon Port is gone.

Listen to my new pieces.

Please, let it go.

Just be quiet. I'll swear to you, headache.

Just be quiet for once.

Look at that A2, I like.

All right.

I'm not going to play if you're going to read the paper.

I'm not going to read the paper.

What do you want?

I forgot my suitcase.

I brought some presents for you all.

Oh, thank you, son. Isn't that pretty?

This is for you, Lily Dale.

It's a memory book. It's for school.

Oh, I have one of these already.

Anyway, I haven't been to school in four years.

Mr. Damperwood says I could stay at home and practice the piano and compose music.

She wrote a rag. She calls it the Davenport rag.

Not a stepdaddy.

Well, Mr. Damperwood, what a horror spring you.

Oh, isn't that nice?

Would be for a smoke.

Oh, you can just give it to somebody down in the real world, yeah.

I'll explain to you.

Horace, will you say Vergey?

And everybody else, you just tell them half of me, would you?

I will.

Thank you, son. Bye again.

Bye.

Mama, what did you do there?

Well, Mr. Damperwood about the rag I composed, I wanted to surprise him.

I'm sorry, honey.

It was to be his Christmas present. I was going to play it for him on Christmas Eve.

You can write me another one for Christmas, honey.

We'll call that one the Christmas rag.

You just play this one for me now.

All right.

What are you looking at the window for?

What are you looking at the window for?

What?

I said, why are you looking at the window?

I just want to save your brother, man.

Street call, all right.

You go on playing.

No, I don't want to play unless everybody's going to listen.

How much, honey?

You're not listening if you're looking at the window.

All right.

Now I'm listening.

I'm listening.

I'm listening.

I'm listening.

Mama.

Yes?

Can I see Will again?

No.

Why not, Mama?

Now you know why not, Lily Dale, because Mr. Deppinport does not approve of all of you.

I like him, Mama.

You are too young to know whether you like someone or not.

If they promise to stop drinking, will I see him then?

No, because he won't.

Yes, would. I know people.

That's Will. He's come to serenade me.

For the mountain breaks the day's due.

What's that?

With Will, Cater.

Come, serenade.

Let it day again.

Doesn't he know they're working people to live here?

Mr. and Mrs. Westhawks.

Go to bed at 8 o'clock.

They were called all day long and they were tired.

Now you send him away, Lily Dale.

I forbid you to have anything to do with him.

I told you and told you that.

And I told him and I told him Mr. Deppinport.

But he says he'll just die if I never see him again.

He says he's going to reform and never drink again as long as he lives.

I don't believe it.

He'd tell you anything just to see you.

Now you tell him to clear out of here I'm going to.

I think he's crazy coming around people's houses this time and after that waste.

What is the matter with you, Lily Dale?

Oh, break it up.

That's what's wrong with me.

It's just breaking up.

I love him.

And he loves me.

No, just don't.

I can't help but my heart is breaking.

It's just breaking.

I'm so happy and I'm so miserable.

Yeah, yeah, come on.

Hey, Dale.

He's not stuck.

Right.

He's right.

I want to hear the same.

Don't cry now, Lily Dale.

You won't have to send him away.

Just please don't cry.

Will you speak to him?

What about?

About how he's going to reform and about how he intends to behave himself from now on?

Well, I'll try to guess so.

We'll...

We'll...

Come on inside. Mr. Dan Bort will speak to you now.

Evening folks?

Hello, Will.

I hope you didn't mind us, Sarah and I'd...

No, it's very pretty.

One of my favorite songs.

Lily Dale says,

You object to our scene each other because of my habits.

Well, did Lily Dale tell you that I'm changing my habits?

I've stopped drinking.

Well, I think that's very wise if you will.

You'll never regret it. I'll tell you that.

Your man, I know that.

I never did drink a whole lot anyway.

What do you call a whole lot?

I saw you drunk three times.

The only three times in my life I was ever drunk.

I said, Lily Dale, wouldn't you know the only times in my life I ever got drunk I had to meet you step-dad.

She is too young for you. She's 18 years old.

And 18-year-old girl has no business.

What?

I'm almost 19, Mr. Dan Bort. I'll be 19 on my next birthday.

Well...

Well, if you want to come call on her here, I'll ride.

But you're going to have to sit right here.

She can't leave the house with you until she's 19.

You might so much as smell one drop a leka on your breath.

You're not being allowed back in here ever again.

Yes, sir.

Now go on so we can get to bed or anything.

Thank you. You're the sweetest man in the whole world.

You made me so happy. You were so happy.

What's up, Elaine?

Dan Bort, is someone at the door?

Oh, this was a matter. I took the wrong street car.

By the time I got to the railroad station, the train was gone.

There's no train to Harrison until the morning.

I'm so sorry, son. Did you hear that, Mr. Dan Bort?

I didn't know there was different street cars.

The one I took ended up in the...

Hitesome place.

Well, why are you trembling? Are you sick? You look so pale.

You alright, son?

I don't feel well, Mom. Oh, my God, you're burning up.

You know how malaria do? You've been taking that clarinet and the caramel.

Yes, ma'am. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Boris.

Mrs. Dan Bort.

Dan Bort's horus is faint.

Yeah, probably. He's gonna die.

I know he's gonna die. That's just another of my terrible dreams.

I'm always seeing brother dead and his coffin.

Sometimes he's been in a terrible train.

He sometimes has been around here ever.

Oh, dear, I'm sorry.

Not going to die.

He's not a terrible fever. He's feeling sparse.

He's burning up.

He is, he is.

Oh, God, he's supposed to hear his malaria.

He just arrived at home.

One thing about malaria, I'm not from the swamp to the bottoms and from Atlanta.

Remember?

I'm the scientist of the world.

It would be alright if he stays here tonight.

What else can he do?

He's still being lazy to job, preparing for another country like this.

He was gonna quit his job.

He said he thought maybe you could find him a job working at the railroad yard.

He better not ask me for a job.

He didn't find his own job. Nobody ever gave me a job.

I don't have asked anybody for anything.

Not one solitary thing.

I don't have too much pride to ask help of anyone.

There's a lot in my heart, which no call in me own.

There's a left in my soul, never sounded or known.

There's a place in my memory, my life, that you feel no other can escape me.

No one ever will.

Sure I love the deer still, the shines in your hand.

As the frow that's all for road and a rink with him.

I hit the deer finger so tight, warn for me.

God bless you and keep you.

Father, forgive me.

Hello, Lily Dale.

Hello.

How is your brother today?

I think he's all right. He's been sleeping all day long.

That's good for him, I'm sure.

Good day, old woman.

You're on breakfast this morning.

I want to get up town for the stores.

But what if brother gets to learn music?

I'm not going to get up town.

I'm going to get up town for the next morning.

I'm going to get up town for the next morning.

I'm going to get up town for the next morning.

I'll be back as soon as I can.

Bye.

Sure I love the deer still, the shines in your hand.

As the frow that's all for road and a rink with him.

I hit the deer finger so tight, warn for me.

God bless you and keep you mad.

Brother?

Yes.

How do you feel?

Better?

I'm glad to hear that.

Welcome back to the land of the living.

Thank you.

This is the first time in a whole week you've even responded to us at all.

You were so afraid for me brother.

We thought we were going to lose you.

What's that sick?

Sick. I guess you were sick.

You got the point of death for nearly two weeks out of your head the whole time talking.

And while this kind of nonsense, you thought Mr. Damperboard had a butcher knife and was trying to kill you.

He's trying to slip my throat.

Please don't let him slip my throat.

I tell you it was awful.

There's good come from it though.

You know what happened?

The next night Will came to call and he made himself so helpful that Mama and Mr. Damper were fell in love with him and he's been invited over every night to supper.

And when Mr. Damper found out that Will had lost his job, he took him down to the railroad yard and got him a job working there.

Isn't that thrilling?

Where am I?

What brother?

Where am I?

Where are you?

Heaven's brother.

Don't scare me that way. You're in Houston.

Don't you know where you are?

How did I get here?

How did you get here on the train?

How long have I been here?

Two weeks. You've been sick the whole time.

Don't you remember I had to go to my girlfriends to practice my music?

Have I been baptized?

What honey?

Have I been baptized?

No brother, I don't know.

Have you been baptized?

I don't know that either.

What makes you ask a question like that at a time like this?

Is Mama here?

No. She went to the store. She's making me a ball gown.

Will's taking me to dance next week.

Would you like some music to cheer you up?

I've just gone crazy over rags.

I wrote the Damper Port rag for Mr. Damper for it.

And the Willie rag for Will.

And now I'm working on the Lilly rag,

which I'm dedicating to myself.

Hello.

He's feeling much better now.

Oh, I'm so happy to hear that.

He doesn't remember a thing that's happened to him,

but he's talking some sense now.

Well, let it go.

I had to go to four stores before I found the right fabric

and padded for your dress.

It took me forever.

Yeah.

You all see what I got?

Of course I certainly do.

I am so excited.

I hope you like it.

Now.

Oh.

Yeah.

Oh.

It's beautiful.

Isn't it beautiful, brother?

Yes.

So happy to hear that you were feeling better.

Did you get many nourishment in the day?

No. He just woke up.

Would you like some brassin?

I bet you would.

I'm going to get you some broth.

You're going to get that strength back.

Have I been baptized, mama?

Oh.

Well, no, you're here.

Well, me, you asked me a question like that.

I met this lady.

She said I was in mortal danger if I wasn't baptized.

I thought for sure I was going to die.

I was going to die without being baptized.

Well, you didn't die.

Was I baptized, mama?

No.

How come we were baptized?

Well, every time I started to get you baptized when you were baby, then...

Well, something prevented me from doing it.

I got sick, and you got sick, and your father.

And then...

Well, I trouble started.

I just never got ran to.

Well, look his home.

How's the young man feel?

Yeah, I think he's going to live now.

He's strongest in ox.

You tell him I had to wrestle with him to keep him on that bed?

He thought the peat here was trying to kill him.

How's work?

Fine. I like it better every day.

I think they like me, too, don't they, Pete?

Oh, yes they do.

They said today he was good at working as they ever seen.

Now, is that a day off?

Why don't you show well that fabric I got for the dress?

Yeah, that is mighty good looking.

I'm going to have the prettiest and best dress girl in the ball.

See if he does, isn't it, Freddie?

Sure is.

Young man, you better get well and come go with us.

I'm going back tomorrow.

No sign.

No, I'm going to.

First, I'm going to get dressed and get baptized.

I'm going to find me a preacher.

I'm dirty and I want to be washed clean.

Don't be hilarious again.

Come on, Freddie.

Don't come near me.

I'm going to give him here.

I'm just trying to kill him before I get baptized.

I think he's putting on an act.

Just to get us to keep him here.

So you can get free room and bowl.

Why would anybody do that?

He's sick and you know he's sick.

He's been shaped yourself.

You know he lost his jargon, Glenn Flore?

He didn't lose his jar.

He's laid off temporarily.

About my job?

No, it's okay.

Don't get excited.

Just touch.

What about that?

I was talking about that another time.

What about my job?

I don't know.

I have my job in Glenn Flore.

Brother, there's been a terrible fire in Glenn Flore.

Mr. Galbra's store burned down.

Oh my God.

Mr. Galbra said we heard that he was going to rebuild his store.

And then you were going to have to get your own job back there.

Okay.

Now, you just rest, honey.

Go home, grow up with it.

Any hope that'll keep you friendship back.

Girl, now I'm her husband.

Where's Lilydale?

She's upstairs in her room, getting dressed for the dance.

You'll call me when she's all dressed.

I'll, will.

Wow, I'm an actor.

Excuse me, are you all feeling?

Well, look at you. Tell me you're feeling better.

I am, thank you.

You brought me the papers?

We all did. I asked him to.

I thought they were right.

Oh, yes, I like them.

Well, yes, you already wanted. I said, oh, anything matter, time.

What do you get?

New Orleans Picky and St. Louis Stark from Galveston News.

Galveston News?

It's not very far away.

I know, but I like it. It's my favorite paper.

Is that so?

Well, I don't know one for the other.

I never read the paper.

It's my eyes, I guess.

At the end of the day, my eyes are so tight, and all that's sewing.

Maurice, you remember Mrs. Clint Harris?

No, ma'am.

Oh, sure you do. She's kind to the barn.

Well, Mrs. Vaughn, I guess.

She and I were friends back in Harrison.

Before I left the Marginis, the Davenport.

Well, Mertel Harris lives in that house across the street.

And more of the big stone lines in front cost all kinds of money, they say.

So, when I first moved here, she came calling on me,

and I never returned the call because I'm always working.

So, Vergey writes me,

that Mertel Harris goes to Harrison.

And she tells Vergey that I had heard her feelings

because I had never returned the call.

So, Vergey says,

oh, I'm sure it's because she's always working.

Oh, Mrs. Mertel, what does she do?

Well, says Vergey, she takes in sewing.

Oh, well, heavens, Mrs. Mertel Harris.

Well, heavens, what says Vergey?

She's just as poor as you were when you lived here.

She just didn't marry a rich husband.

Vergey said that, shut her up.

Oh, I like the girl with some papers so much.

I don't know, I've always loved girls too, you know.

Oh, no.

I didn't know that.

Oh, yeah.

Poppy used to talk about it sometimes.

You know, when he was growing up there as a boy.

Oh, honey.

He didn't grow up there.

No, he's about two years old when the wall was over.

His daddy was killed.

And Mama had to go to Thailand and start that morning here.

Mama?

Mm-hmm.

Well, Keter tells me that for $50, you can go to a business school here in Houston.

I think I'm going to do it.

Where would you stay?

Well, honey.

I thought nothing better than to ask you to stay here.

But I can't.

You understand?

I have no room.

We made room while you were sick.

No, I know.

I wasn't expecting to stay here.

Well, where would you get the money to pay for all this?

I'll try and borrow it.

I can't help you, son.

I wasn't going to ask you, Mama.

Oh, where would you get the money?

I thought I'd ask Aunt Vergey or try the bank.

Well, what if you couldn't borrow it?

I can't go.

Why do you want to study so much, son?

I don't want to clerk in and draw a good store on my life.

I thought if I had a business course, I might have a few more opportunities.

I'd say.

Well, I could do this much.

I could make sure you have a good breakfast every day.

Mr. Tavenport goes to work about 5, 5, 30.

If you came here about 6, 6, 30, make sure you had a good hug breakfast.

You have a girl, son.

I go with several.

No particular one.

I've been seeing quite a bit of Dolly Parker.

She lives at the Garrett's.

They have a piano.

There's always lots of young people over there.

Rosa Garrett has a lovely voice.

It's Dolly pretty, honey.

Yes, ma'am.

She is pretty.

And Rosa?

Well, Rosa has a very nice disposition.

Like I say, her mother and father are always very kind and hospitable.

They sell his poor church masks.

Yes, ma'am, I guess so.

But there's always a hammer at chicken or at turkey on the table.

And sometimes they invite as many as 12 or 14 of us to stay for dinner.

I guess you'll be thinking about getting married soon, will you?

I suppose so.

Well, you been thinking about it?

Mom, I can't think of getting married.

I don't even have a job.

And I think that's very sensible of you.

I wish I'd been sensible as that when I married your father.

Hope your sister will be.

Oh.

How do I look?

Just beautiful. Like a picture.

How do I look, brother?

You're a pretty sister.

Thank you. I feel pretty.

I thought that just now as I looked at myself in the mirror,

not a girl at that ball, I don't care how rich they are.

I'll have a dress. That's pretty as mine. Thank you.

Oh, sugar.

Where's Mr. Danboard? Don't want him to see me.

Well, he's out in the garden. I'll go get him.

And today is all dressed now.

She wants you to come in and see you.

Almost got it. If you had to hold that lantern up there,

she'd better let him do it.

I was thinking lying on the couch here this afternoon.

Lily Dale.

Papa used to sing a song to the two of us called Lily Dale.

Do you remember how it went?

No. And I don't want to.

You always want to talk about the past.

That's why I love Will. He only wants to talk about the future.

What he's going to do with his life, how much he's going to accomplish.

Why do you always want to talk about the past?

What Papa did I didn't do?

I don't care what he called me.

All I know is he smoked cigarettes like a fiend and was a drunkard

and broke my mother's heart and died and left a penniless to go out in the world.

To work to support two children.

No one supported me since I was 12 years old.

Well, she supported me.

And she's the only one I want to talk about.

Except Mr. Davenport had been more than a real father could have been.

What is the matter with you?

Why have you turned your face away?

I thought you were going to lie there forever on that couch.

You should make yourself get dressed now every day and start walking around the block, at least.

Why are you so sad, brother?

Why are you always so sad? It's not fair.

Turn around and look at me.

I can't help it if I have a happy disposition and you don't.

Brother, I want to be close. Let's be close, please.

We're not close as a brother and sister should be.

Why should I be able to come to you with my troubles? And I can't.

Sister, I feel close to you.

Do you?

Yes. And you're not jealous of me?

I don't know what you're talking about.

I've never been jealous of you in my whole life.

I'm relieved to hear that.

I thought you were jealous of me because Mr. Davenport exposed me and prefers me to you.

But that's only natural brother that he would.

You're stranger to him, Rillin. I was raised up here in the house with him.

He's always been so sweet and considerate to me, brother.

I remember when Mama decided to marry him.

He took me in his arms and he told me he was going to be a daddy to me.

And he has. He certainly has.

You must love him for that. Say you do.

I can't stand him.

Don't say that.

Do you think I'm faking lying here on this couch?

Do you think I don't choke on every piece of his food that I eat?

I mean, how can I get well eating the food of a man I despise?

Well, stop it.

I despise him.

I would never have come here if I would have thought he would come here.

And I would have gotten sick and then if his mind stopped, I despise him.

I despise him.

If I had the strength, I would get up and walk across this room right now.

I'm going to leave.

No.

I'll be ready.

Horace. Horace.

Horace.

Did he tell you?

Did he tell you?

Did he tell you?

I can miss them but quick out in the yard.

Horace. And get those spellings out.

Pete, Mama needs you.

Brother Spainer again.

What?

What's happening now?

I don't know what came in just found him on the floor.

Yeah.

You know that?

I despise him.

I despise him.

I despise him.

I despise him.

Are you dealing with his boy?

I despise him.

What were you talking about, Dad?

I despise him.

And Pete, Mr. Dan body says he hates and despises him.

Shh. Don't say that. He doesn't mean that.

Never.

Don't repeat something that someone says when they're out of their mind.

He was not out of his mind.

He's ruined this night for me by his hate.

What do you have?

Why, Johnny?

Don't ruin this evening ever.

She said something a little happiness in her life.

Hello, young lady. How do you feel?

Well, come on in. Help me.

Oh, I just followed you to get him back on the couch. Come on.

Come on, boy.

Come on. Where'd she think you were going?

Yeah.

There you go.

Oh.

There.

You feeling better, honey?

Shh.

Yes, quite a scare.

Shh.

You were delirious.

You can't look at Mr. Davenport and see how you despise him.

But he knew you were delirious and didn't mean a word of it.

Where's my girl? I thought she'd be all dressed and waiting.

Now she walks.

Why, there?

I brought the fell down and she got all nervous and upset

and just ran out of the room. I'll go get her.

Lily, now tell you about my new job.

I'm leaving the railroads.

I'm going into the produce business.

A great new company that she started up.

They got the rights to handle some great new products here in this area.

Now, admiration coffee.

That's one they advertise is the cup of so-and-hospitality.

And, uh...

I say, you need a job.

You speak to Pete about getting my job for you out of the railroads.

Anyone can do it.

Lily, they'll be down in a minute.

Plenty of time, Pete, plenty of time.

I just had a great idea.

What about horse for my job at the arts?

No, it was already taken. It was filled this afternoon.

Oh, well, it's too bad.

We just went on the ball. Where we peed.

But, let me think about it sooner.

Say, look here.

This sight was worth waiting for her.

My, my.

You are beautiful.

Thank you, Will.

Mama made the dress.

And it is something. Yes, it is.

Couldn't she look gorgeous, Pete?

Yes, she does.

Shoot.

She'll be the prettiest girl there. I'll tell you that.

What do you think of your sister, horse?

They'll put a waltz on the big troller.

Pete, Lily, Dale, and I will show you the Texas castles.

Irene and Vernon.

I don't feel like it. We don't have a headache.

A headache?

Well, get over it.

No headaches are allowed on this night.

We're going to dance all night.

How is that?

You do make a beautiful couple.

And your most wonderful dances.

Hmm.

Now, when you're going to bring her home.

Don't wait up for us.

Oh, I'll always do.

I don't shut my eyes until she's home.

Don't you trust me, lady?

Don't you trust me to take care of your daughter?

I trust you, Will. You know that.

You go to sleep.

No, I don't shut my eyes until she's in the hands.

What are you going to do when she's married, not living here anymore?

Then I can't help but she's someone else's responsibility.

What if we're out till dawn?

Then I won't sleep until dawn.

For your teasing about dawn, you'll bring a home by 12.

Or one?

12.

All right. 12.30.

Let's go princess.

Yeah.

Have a wonderful time.

Both of you?

Thank you.

Thank you, Mama.

Not honey.

Good night.

Not Pete.

Don't take any wooden nickels.

No, I'll try not to.

Take care of it, miss.

I will.

After.

Thank you, Peter.

Not young man, you take care of yourself.

She sure look credit, isn't she?

Yes.

Are you all right?

Yes.

I told Mr. Downport that whatever you said to him just now, you were delirious.

I wasn't delirious, Mama.

I knew what I was saying.

I'm leaving here tomorrow, Mama.

How can you do that?

You can't even get yourself across the floor.

I'm going if I have to crawl out of here.

I'm going to ask Will to come and help me out of here.

I'm going to have some with me on the train.

Or I'll make it myself.

I don't want you to do that now.

I'm going, Mama.

Nothing will keep me here.

Nothing.

Where will you go?

You haven't got a job.

What you do?

I'll go to Aunt Ruggie.

She'll nurse me.

I want to nurse you.

I want to do something for you.

Please let me.

Well.

Well.

Anyway, if you decide to come back and study at that business course,

I hope that you'll remember to come over here and have a good breakfast in the morning.

Morning.

You're tired of just letting your ears.

Mama, yes, son.

Do you remember the song called Lillie Dale?

The one Papa always sings his sister.

Well, let's see now.

I think you'll remember him singing it, but I can't remember how it goes.

Try to remember it, Mama.

Why, honey?

Why?

Because I want to remember it.

All right.

I'll try.

I'll certainly try.

Right now.

Yes.

I just can't.

But I'll keep on trying.

I think we made it better.

I think we were a little bit better.

I had to win it.

No.

Are you going to tell your mom what that report from the paper said to you?

I don't remember what it said.

Did you don't?

I mean, I think you said you were the most beautiful dancer of the whole dance.

I think he said I was the most graceful dancer that was you.

I thought you forgot what he said.

You're not saying I never hold my clothes.

You haven't even used it.

Wonderful leaf, honey.

It was your present.

Oh, my goodness.

What do you think of that?

Well, it's beautiful.

What do you think it cost me?

I have no idea.

Plenty.

But I thought nothing is too much for my sweetheart.

What was it mean?

It means we're engaged.

I've asked you to marry me.

Darling.

You're too young to get married.

Well, please believe me. She's too young.

I have nothing, absolutely nothing in the world, Gays.

You can't believe that.

What's the matter with you?

I'm getting married tomorrow.

I have some sense, you know.

I'm making my plans.

I'm going to work hard for a year.

Save my money?

And I have a few thousand in the bank, then we'll marry.

Do you have any objections to that plan?

I guess not.

Did you promise me your way here, won't you?

Well, I'm not making any promises.

I might want to be married tomorrow.

Please, please, please, please, Sir.

I'm sorry.

Well, wait as long as you want us to.

What we had.

Let me tell you.

Sure we are.

She's been a little upset all evening.

I think he's being here gets her upset.

She told me to her tonight.

No, I don't know what all went on.

He's upset too. He told me.

He wasn't you taking him to the station, Marley.

He wasn't at home.

I just don't think he's strong enough to make it on his own.

Yeah, he needs to turn me to go.

I'm sorry, Will.

How about you think I'm crazy?

No, I don't.

Just think you're sweet, Bernie.

Can I kiss your good night?

We're engaged.

All right.

Okay.

Good night.

Good night.

Matt and Miss Cruella?

Good night, Will.

Well, he's a good boy.

I'm so pleased for you.

Yeah.

I better get to bed.

Mama.

What do they do to you when you're married?

Make your head children.

Oh, don't ask me such questions this time of night.

Let the day of heaven stop.

The veneer says your husband does terrible things to you.

Does he?

He's not so terrible.

What is it?

Er, it's just what a husband does to a wife when they're married.

That's all.

Will you find out when you're married?

Does it hurt?

I've heard some people say that it hurts, but never hurt me.

Does it hurt to have children?

Yes, and I'm afraid to go. You never have to go through that.

Well, once they have children.

Well, then he is a fool.

And don't you ever let him talk you anyway.

Women die in job or something.

Every minute of the hour, when I had you and your brother,

I prayed to God that I would die.

What?

Because it hurt so much.

I was in terror the entire time.

Is the dance over?

Oh, honey, I'm sorry. Walk you up. Go back sleep.

How is the dance a little deal?

It's very nice.

Lididaeal is a gaze to be married.

Show your brother your ring.

It costs $125.

How do you know?

Well, tell me.

He paid cash for it.

You know Papa did sing Lillidaeal to you when you were a girl.

And you got your name from that song. Mama told me.

I don't care whether you're right or not.

It doesn't mean a thing to me one way or the other.

Mama, I don't remember how the song goes.

You. That's it. That's how it goes.

You'll have to learn it and teach it to your children, Lididaeal.

I'm not going to have children.

You know. No. Why?

Because.

Anyway, if I did have children, I wouldn't see them that song.

Why?

Because. I want to forget everything that happened back then.

Everything.

And I want you to quit talking to me about it.

Every time I feel the least bit good, you begin on all that.

What did Papa call us? What did he sing? Did Papa do this? Did Papa do that?

I don't care about him. How many times I have to tell you that.

I don't care if I ever hear his name again. Mr. Davenport is my father.

He's the only one I want. You have no father, but that's not my fault.

I have one. The only one I want.

She doesn't mean that sign. You know. She's just all excited about the dance,

getting engaged and everything.

I don't care, Mama. That's how she feels.

Ors.

No, maybe you shouldn't talk so much about your Papa.

Mr. Davenport is very sensitive and I don't think he likes it much.

I don't talk to him about my father. I wouldn't thank you.

Let me tell you something else.

Mama didn't love Papa. She loves Mr. Davenport because he's been good to her and to me.

So don't let me ever hear you say another word again.

Because if you do, I'll tell him exactly what you said.

And hook the road you out of this house and never let you in here again.

Drops at me and Mama. Never, never, never, never, never.

You'll never get the chance to throw me out.

I'm getting on my clothes. I'm getting out of here.

I'm killing now. I can't.

I'm going to win. If I have to crawl out of here on my hands and on my knees.

All right.

Brother.

I'm so sorry, brother.

I didn't mean a word of the terrible things.

I said not a one. I don't know what gets into me sometimes, brother.

I have a terrible disposition.

Terrible disposition. It's a robot. I'll come and help with me.

Brother.

Please, please forgive me, please.

Please, I love to pop up.

But I'm out there.

This is much easier than better words for me so much to talk about.

And it scares me too. You don't know how it scares me.

Sometimes I...

I can hear pop up.

I can't think of struggling to breathe like he is to.

And I didn't mean what I said about you leaving.

I want you to stay into your own well and struggling to get me.

Because you're the only brother I am.

Sometimes it makes...

I think I could see you dead and then you're gone.

And I cry in my dreams.

I'm heartbroken.

And I'm really crying too because my cry makes me...

I'm saying to myself, the rather the life is not dead at all.

That dream would still...

I just feel so miserable with this love that's so...

My mom will cry.

Sometimes Mama hears me and she comes in and she's a little day old while you're crying.

And I say, because I'm having an affair with her.

I didn't even let us.

Damn.

Damn.

I know that your brother forgives you.

He's just...

It's a fair week. You can't talk much now.

We just better get Mr. Davin more.

Don't you call him. I don't want him to help me.

I don't want him.

You touch me.

I'm going to get you to find myself.

That hell's going on out here.

Mr. Davin Paul, our sister's still here, but he's all right.

What time is it?

It's more than an after.

Get the bed, my god.

Be up at five, you know. Not to work for a living.

We'll just get up here. We'll get you a rest.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

I just buy some.

Shhh.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Okay.

You're great, good.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

We all.

I'm a baby, self.

Mom and brother just went for a short walk.

Sit down.

Baby, self.

We all.

I'm not leaving you sad till you promised to marry me.

I promised to marry you.

A year from now.

I won't wait a year.

Well, you promised mom you would.

Why are you going back on your word? Why are you doing that?

I quit looking at me that way.

You make me very nervous. Now go sit down in that chair over there.

Well, I'm going to go find mom and I'm going to tell it that you're not behaving like a gentleman.

Is this how Janon behaves?

Yes.

Thank you.

Little Dale.

What?

Something's wrong with you.

Nothing's wrong with me. Just be quiet and let me practice.

Little Dale.

What?

Tell me he's struggling you.

I don't know where I'm just...

I'm just very nervous.

I think it's brother's being here.

You don't want to be over here. You're leaving tomorrow.

I must say it will be a relief to have the house back to ourselves again.

Brother just doesn't fit in.

We all try, but he just doesn't fit in.

Now you fit in.

You're not funny.

You're here for five minutes and you cheer everybody up.

Mr. Davenport starts to talk like a normal human being again.

But once you leave, well...

Silent and gloomy and unhappy.

A horus? How you feeling?

You all go back now?

Just remember.

Come on, honey.

I had a dream about brother, again last night.

I remember he was dead.

Only this time I didn't cry.

I said a terrible thing.

I said it's about time.

Mama said we'll bury him here in the family plot in Houston.

No, we won't. I said I won't have him next to you.

I want to bury him with his father where belongs.

Isn't that a terrible thing for a sister to have a dream like that about her brother?

I found eight something that didn't agree with you for supper.

Will?

What?

Look away, I want to ask you something.

Where should I look?

Anywhere, away from me.

I don't want to get married.

Why?

Don't look at me, please.

Why?

Because you'll hurt me if you do.

How I hurt you?

You know.

What?

What makes you think I'll hurt you? Who told you I would?

Sister Douglas.

She's a fool.

I asked Mama about it too.

What did she say?

She said, but she didn't want to talk about it.

She said Papa didn't hurt her, but some women told her that they were her by their husbands.

I don't know. I don't want to hurt you.

How do you know?

I just do.

Oh, really? What's the matter?

I'm scared, Will.

I want to marry, but I'm scared too.

I'm scared. I'm going to have a baby.

I know it hurts when you do.

I'm going to die while I'm having it.

Mama says it's the worst pain in the world.

Don't you want to have children?

I do, but I'm scared too.

I'm scared of the terrible pain and I might die.

You don't have parents now.

You mean you can be married and not have children?

Yes.

How?

There are ways.

You're beating your mama.

You're married for 10 years now and I have no children.

What are you saying, Will? You're saying Pete and Mama.

I think they're married.

I want to. Well, well.

No, they're not. Your mama's only 40.

She could still have a child if she wanted to.

Oh, my God. I don't want to.

I wish you wouldn't tell me things like that.

God knows the kind of terrible dreams I'm going to start having now.

Honey, I only told you so you can understand.

As married people don't always have to have children if they don't want to.

I don't want to.

I mean, I want to, but I'm scared too.

Well, then we'll never have them.

You promise me?

I promise.

Is everything okay?

Yes, it does.

It's everything.

I am so sweet.

You're the sweetest thing in the whole world.

I am so sweet.

What's going on?

Mr. Devon, I'm nervous enough without you coming in here and scaring me this way.

What do you mean, the scary little girl?

Where's your mama?

She took brother for a walk to help him get his strength back.

Yeah, we're going to lose your boy tomorrow.

Uncle Albert's coming for him.

What time did he leave him?

2.30 a.m.

That is, if Albert doesn't get into a gambling game, then it's full of the same Albert.

If a professional gambling used to know him.

Well, he has to go back. He's got a store now, you know.

Nothing ever stopped here from gambling.

Got a job, know his wife, his children.

I gave him six months. He'd be gone.

He'd be clerked for someone else again.

Did you have a nice walk?

Slow.

I hear you have a job.

Yes, clerking for Uncle and Harrison.

He's going to stay with my sister, Virgie.

I'll just temporarily get some strength back.

She's a wonderful cook and she loves him.

Does she have any children in her own?

Just the one. A little girl.

Her husband said, after seeing what she went through to have just that one,

they could drag him around the courthouse square before he'd let her go through that again.

Young repeat.

Feet holy, son. Never knew a town he wouldn't.

You do pretty well yourself, Will. You're going to stay with supper.

No, man. I'm afraid I ain't got a male over here. You'll send me a board bill.

Oh, come on, now. Stay for supper.

All right. You don't have to twist my arm almost, Dave.

Would you play Lily Dale for me?

I don't know. Lily Dale, how can I play it for you?

I'll sing it for you. Maybe you can play it then.

All right, I'll try.

I'll sing it for you.

Lily, sweet Lily Dale, dear Lily Dale, dear Lily Dale,

Now the wild rose blossoms for her little green grape,

In the shade of the flower reveal.

You certainly have a sweet voice, son.

Can you play it now, sister?

I don't want to. I want to play my classical piece.

Go ahead, honey. Play your classical piece.

I don't want to play it if you don't want me to play.

We want you to, don't we, Pete?

Yeah. Do you have a lot of runs in it?

Yes.

I was lovin' to when he has a lot of runs. Play it for us.

No, Will doesn't want to hear it. He wants me to play rags.

No, I want to play your classical piece.

How about you, brother?

Sure I want to hear it.

It's the last chance you'll get to hear it.

Are you sure now?

Yes, I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I believe I'll step in back and have a seeker on the smokey section.

Yes, sir.

Do you care to join me? I believe I have an extra.

I don't think I'm smoking.

I have some too in the back.

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Will.

I'll see you there's a poker game born on me.

I think I'll get in there.

I feel very lucky today.

Yes, sir.

I know you won't tell my wife a virgin about this.

No, sir.

Brothers never seem very happy to me in his entire life.

Was he ever happy?

I think so.

I hope so.

He's determined, that's for sure.

He took Will aside and asked him to stop by Goggins

to pick up the sheet music for me to play for him.

I'm glad he got a chance to hear it at least once for you there.

Do you think it's a pretty piece?

Yeah, I think it's very sweet.

Do you think the girl on the cover looks like me?

No, I guess she does.

I'm prettier though, don't you think?

Yes, I do.

Do you think I'm beautiful?

Yes.

I do.

Will says I'm beautiful enough to be in motion pictures.

I hope he's sincere when he says it.

Oh, I'm sure he is.

Will says you and Mr. Damonport, if you want it.

Mr. Damonport, do you...

Kubord, I...

Nothing.

I forgot what I was going to ask.

Excuse me.

How'd you, the young man, that I met on the way to Houston three weeks ago?

I just remember.

I thought so.

Was headmaster Al Prathorton of Harrison who was sitting with you?

I thought so.

Please, Markle.

Come on.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Excuse me, Markle.

Of course.

You look terrible, son.

Have a spill in malaria?

I'm better...

I smell something I've been pretty sick.

Well, you still look sick to me.

May I sit and visit with you, Mark?

I don't know why I'm not down myself.

As much as I have to bear.

Mr. Coons is sick again, you know.

No.

Your ass lost his job, of course.

We have to move again.

I've been in Houston where he's starting another keely cure.

He swears this is the last time this will happen.

What has to become of us, Mr. Coons, I said?

I am uneducated.

I can't work.

You get sick and can't keep a job.

Of course, you understand what kind of sickness I'm talking about.

Whiskey, that is the kind of sickness I am talking about.

He just can't seem to leave him alone.

Did you love Papa when you married him?

Yes, I did.

At least I thought I did.

Who did you love most?

Papa, Mr. Dan board.

Mr. Dan board.

He's a very good man.

He's been very good to me.

He just doesn't seem like your brother.

I wish that would change.

Father doesn't like him either.

Who do you love most, me or brother?

Oh, I love you both, honey.

You love me most.

I love you both.

I think you love me most.

Well, you're a girl, so I think you needed me more.

I'm never going to leave you and you're never going to leave me.

Oh, honey.

You'll long get married.

And then you're going to have to live with your husband.

Why can't we all move in here with us?

No, that wouldn't be practical.

That's what we all says, too.

Well, well then we'll just move into the house next door.

And if we can't do that then just as close as we can.

Well, how did you find your mother?

She's well.

And your sister?

Just fine.

I bet they were glad to see you and sorry to see you go.

Did you ask your mom about your baptism?

Yes, ma'am.

I haven't been.

Mercy.

Sick as you look, I wouldn't put it off any longer.

It would be terrible if you died without being baptized.

How would you explain that to your maker?

Pray for me, Mrs. Conson.

What would you like me to pray about?

That you live until you're baptized?

No, ma'am, just pray for me and my mother and my sister.

Oh, right, I will.

I don't know your sister and your mother, but I'll be glad to include them in my prayers.

Now, Mrs. Conson, pray for us now.

It's very moment.

I certainly so.

Father, I'm turning to you on this train.

I turn to you now and ask you to forgive our sins.

And you're blessing us.

My mother and my sister and me, pray for us, Mrs. Conson.

Give me time, son.

I'm getting to you all.

Father, what is your mother's name?

Corrella and your sister?

Louder.

Father, I have been asked to remember in my prayers this young man, Horace,

and his dear mother, Corrella, and his sister, Lily Dale.

Father, mercy, father of goodness, father of forgiveness.

Father, I'm still not, and the moon's bell of the throne's long to be in and be.

Lily Dale married well, kid of soon afterwards.

I married and had my own family.

I saw my mother and sister once in a while afterwards in Harrison,

but I never visited them again in Houston.

Lily Dale, sweet Lily Dale, dear, dear, dear,

Now the wild rose blossomed, over that old green ray,

and is the dream in the flowery day.

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