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You mind if I have a look?

It is a fine horse you have.

Beauty. Yes, he is.

I will buy a horse from you.

How much do you want for him?

He's not for sale.

Could I please have my bridle back?

We will pay you well.

He's mine. I wouldn't dream of selling him. Nobody can own such a creature.

Don't you understand plain English?

He is not for sale.

You cannot keep or cannot be kept.

What did they say to you?

It's not just what they said.

They were strange.

That girl looked like she could see right through me.

Why have they come here?

Well, gypsies are wanderers, Vicky. They go from place to place, having odds and

ends and doing tinkering.

Is it true that they're horse thieves?

Like everyone else, there's good and bad among them.

They're horse traders more than horse thieves, I'd say.

People are suspicious of them because they have their own customs.

And they keep themselves to themselves.

I think people are quite right to be suspicious.

Gilda, you're a genius.

You're the genius, Manfred.

Thinking, yes, but what would my thinking be without your doing?

We're a good team, Hilda.

Thanks.

Hilda, what's wrong? You look so sad.

Well, it is sad, really.

Manfred and I are a better team than Samuel and myself.

Your husband.

What do you mean?

It's our 10th wedding anniversary today.

He's completely forgotten about it.

Maybe he's got a surprise waiting.

I doubt it.

Forgot the other nine, too.

Something's taken me for granted for too long and I'm sick and tired of it.

I don't know why I'm burdening you with me problems, young lady.

You know, I think that some men find it hard to... to show what they

feel.

Come on, settle down.

That isn't like you.

Those new shoes nipping a bit.

Could you get to the point, Manfred? I'm a busy man.

I've got there.

Well, I must have missed it.

Electricity will be the power of this century.

And what has that got to do with me?

Well, I could light up the front of your store with electrical light. But

there's no electricity here.

Not until today.

Well, tomorrow, really.

I've built a generator.

I didn't come down on the last show, Manfred. Even I know that you need

something to drive the generator. Yes, I have. Wind.

Wind?

You're asking me to give you five pounds so that you're able to light up my

store with wind?

Yes.

That's a good idea, no?

No, go.

But I could... You're a trickster. You're as bad as those thieving gypsies.

is not a trick. This is science.

Go.

Ah, Vicki, why do the people only see what is in front of them?

Still no luck with Mr. Burton, then.

Wind is not weak.

They think of a breeze, but think of the storm more powerful than dynamite.

Never mind, Manfred. One day the others will catch up with you.

Soon, I hope.

There.

Beauty's shoes perfect, Vicki.

Just I've never known him to behave like that before.

I've had hundreds of horses in my time. They've all got their own personalities.

They can't tell you what's going on in their minds, can they?

He's got a warm, dry stall.

Good food.

And I love him more than anything else in the world.

First two aren't nearly as important as the last.

Believe me.

You didn't remember your anniversary at all?

I'm going up the valley today to show the shady down forces.

I've a good mind to keep on riding.

No, Hilda, you can't do that.

You're the best friend we've got.

We've missed you.

There isn't a law against it. There ought to be.

Cheaping vagabonds. Until they actually do some thieving, the law has no cause

to interfere with them, Mr. Burton. They're interfering with my business.

They're so cunning, we won't know what they've done until they've been and

They're not as black as you paint them. You've fixed my camp up enough like new.

They're just lulling you into a false sense of security.

Let the shirt at the back before you can say Jack Robinson.

You've met the girl, haven't you, Victor?

What do you make of them?

I don't know whether they're thieves or not.

wouldn't trust that girl. She's strange.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, Constable, the girl's

That's just part of this slideshow act. I've been almost serious. So you believe

in the hocus -pocus?

I suppose.

Still, she's the oddest girl I've ever met.

They're troublemakers, and no good will come of them. You mark my word.

What do you want with my horse?

Take your hands off him. Nobody can own a horse with such a free spirit.

In these parts, if you own a horse, he's yours.

So don't go getting any ideas.

You do not know it yet, but this horse will leave you soon to go on a journey,

to find happiness.

But Beauty's happy where he is.

Keep away from him.

Oh, boy.

Hey, Carmody!

I've got a complaint.

Someone's been stealing me chickens.

How many have gone?

Two last night, one the night before.

I'll keep my eyes peeled, then.

You reckon you can start by searching their camp?

Could have been any one of 50 different people, Mr. Coates.

Well, the chook started to disappear the night the gibbos arrived.

Doesn't that make you just a little bit suspicious?

Could have been wild dogs, stoats.

Well, I'm going to Mount Guard tonight.

And I shoot vermin.

You make sure you get a good look at what you're shooting.

I won't have any vigilantes in my district, Mr. Coates.

I've got some nice fresh oats for you tonight.

And an apple for dessert.

Maybe if you're extra specially good, I'll give you a lump of sugar.

It's that gypsy girl again, isn't it?

She's up to something.

She wants beauty.

She wants them for herself.

Don't get so excited, Vicky.

He's yours.

Nobody can take him away from you.

But don't you see?

She's not going to steal him.

It's stranger than that.

She's... She's putting ideas into Beauty's head that... No, Vicky, we

She's making Beauty hate me.

Don't talk such nonsense.

You haven't met her.

You don't know what she's like.

Today she went into a...

Dance or something. Right in front of Burton's store.

Now she's put a spell on beauty.

Because it is very silly talk coming from a sensible girl.

I think she's a witch.

There's no such thing.

Oh, yes, there is.

And she's trying to take beauty away from me.

She's gone.

Who?

Hilda, my wife.

Surely not.

Why?

What have I done to deserve this?

Well, it doesn't say she's left exactly.

It just says that things will have to improve.

Which is on a fair airing round. She may never come back.

And I thought we had a perfect marriage.

I'm sure Hilda would be back like a shot if she knew how much you cared.

Cared? Cared?

I care.

I'll cook the roast for Christmas.

Perhaps you take her too much for granted.

Perhaps I should cook on a birthday as well.

Yesterday would have been a good opportunity.

Why yesterday?

It was your tenth wedding anniversary.

How do you know that?

Hilda told Vicky.

She didn't tell me.

She shouldn't have to.

I'd do anything to get it back.

Perhaps you should do something romantic.

Romantic? What do you mean?

Oh, I don't know.

I had flowers, chocolates, gifts.

I'm a little bit short of cash at the moment. I've just paid the dry goods

account.

Where love is concerned, you shouldn't count the cost.

Please, Vicky, I don't want to be an enemy.

How did you know my name?

Please, stay and talk.

You've said enough already.

I never say what is not true.

That old man who stays with you, is he a doctor?

My grandfather is a doctor, yes.

Hello, Vicki.

Hello, Vicki.

Up here.

Manfred, what are you doing up there?

I'm installing the windmill to drive the generator.

Does Mr. Burton know you're on his roof?

Of course, he's my first customer.

But he threw you out last time.

That was before.

Why has he changed his mind?

Such is the power of science.

That's very touching, Mr. Burton.

Yes, it's very expensive.

Still, one must never count the cost when it comes to love.

What a lovely thing to say.

The mail's on the counter.

Have a humbug while you're there.

Are you feeling all right, Mr Burton?

Yes, I'm feeling fine as usual.

Why? Oh.

Oh.

Good humbugs.

Um, I'd better go.

Why do you bother with them?

That girl, she doesn't like you.

Nobody likes us.

It's hard not being friends with anybody.

Being separate all the time.

You stick to your own kind.

Outsiders, they are trouble.

But Mick, I need their help.

I need to see a doctor.

A doctor cannot help.

One of our old women. That's what you need, huh?

But we've tried potions and prayers and magic.

And still I am sick.

It is not sickness.

It is the evil eye.

The same as our mother had.

Only the old people believe in that, Nick.

It's not true.

That's what our mother thought.

She abandoned the old ways and had killed her.

If you'd have got a doctor, she wouldn't have died.

Never say that, Yasmin.

Those who lead the old ways are doomed.

Watch the delay.

Hilda will be here any minute.

Electric energy is very powerful and dangerous. I have to take my time.

It really is.

I love science, Daniel.

Do you realize, young lady, when I was your age, if someone had told me that

light would one day come from an invisible force...

Made by a spinning magnet.

I'd have thought they were mad.

Hey, Manfred.

I'd be interested in having one of these in my yard.

It'd scare away chickens, these, wouldn't it?

Probably, Mr. Coates. It'll be just like daylight and nobody steals in daylight.

It's ready.

We'll get on with it.

Are you sure this thing's safe, Manfred?

Yes, I'm sure.

Manfred says it'll be the power of the future.

Then I'm glad I'm as old as I am.

This century's moving far too quickly for me.

Welcome home, Hilda, to my dear wife, my love, Samuel.

Welcome home,

Hilda.

Samuel, it's good to be back.

Vicky, leave it.

You've already checked on him twice.

I'll find out what's bothering him eventually.

But perhaps it isn't physical at all.

Maybe it is a gypsy spell.

Now, Vicky, that is idiotic talk.

But what else can it be that ruins a horse's temperament overnight?

Whatever it is, it is not witchcraft.

And I'm ashamed at you for talking such nonsense.

You've never met her.

Got close to her.

You want to run free?