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It is clearly stated throughout God's holy Bible that he made the difference

between man and woman for his own wondrous purpose.

In chapter and verse again and again, his word is clear, his purpose

Woman is the mate of man. She is to be his wife, to bear his children and to

nurture them.

She is to stand beside her husband to follow him.

Whither thou goest, I shall go. And as we pronounce in the ceremony of holy

matrimony, she is to love him, to honor him, to

obey him.

Now and forever until death do they part.

For a faithful, caring wife shall always be the foundation

of the home.

And her goodness, the measure of her marriage.

Amen.

five more than you usually take.

Well, that's what I'm taking this week.

I got four kids, Mr. Gresham. I mean... I like that crap still, Will.

You want to work here?

Of course, Mr. Gresham. I mean, it's just that I'm... Just what?

Mr. Gresham?

The name.

We... We're looking for work.

I'm open.

You remember me?

No.

How come you boys ain't been drafted? They ain't called me yet.

My leg's lame.

And you want to work in the mill?

We can work, all right.

Mr. Gresham, last fall you said... I'm headed down to Saloon.

Now, you boys want to buy me a drink?

Maybe we can talk about things.

You said you'd give us jobs.

I said we could talk about it.

It seemed more than that, Mr. Gerson.

You said if we bought you a drink, you'd talk to us about some work.

Okay.

There is no work.

You lousy liar.

You what?

Come on.

Try something.

Nobody. Nobody meant to harm Mr. Griffin.

Get the hell out of my...

Okay.

Is your brother up?

I'm up.

Let's get going now, kids. I've got to take you over.

Daddy's not here?

No.

Boy, did you hear them dogs last night? Yeah, they scare me.

Oh, they're just dogs.

They're wild dogs, hungry and mean.

Now you be sure and go straight to your uncle's shoes.

Why can't we move into town?

I miss you all week.

Oh? Yeah, Blanche makes us study all the time. Well, school's important.

Now enough of that.

It's only during the week that makes the weekends more fun.

All I did was clean it and put it in here where you always keep it.

You coming back tonight?

No.

When?

The children have school Monday morning.

I'll be back to take them.

You just have them ready for me.

Do you have to go to town?

I go wherever I want.

Leave me alone.

And keep this damn thing out of my sight.

Well, they carry off whatever they can.

Like Vinny's baby.

your daddy's boat over there?

Pink, is that you?

Quit fooling, Pink. I ain't in the mood.

I got the shotgun. Don't scare me.

Denny, it's Maggie Gresham. I know who you are. What do you want? I need your

help. My husband, Mr. Gresham, he's dead.

He's been killed.

There's somebody out there.

Your man, he knows my husband.

Yes. Well, I need your help.

My boat's gone and your boy. Can you send your boy for help?

You got the gun.

For God's sake, help me. Send your boy to town for help.

Send my boy out there and them dogs running wild again? I can't do that.

Well, let me come inside here and we'll think of something. I'm sorry about your

trouble, Miss Gresham. I can't help you. Ellie, Ellie, let's get inside.

I can't take her.

Vinia? Vinia, you can't just leave me here.

Them dogs took off my baby, you know that?

Yes. You know I asked for help?

I asked your man to let my husband off to help us look.

I had to do it alone.

Go out there and find that baby.

He's all chewed up.

I brought him home here.

What can I do?

Go on to the ferry.

It ain't but two more miles. You got the gun, you'll be all right. No, Vinnie,

Vinnie, don't. There's somebody out there. I'm sorry.

Who is that?

Is this Pink Gresham's house?

Do you know my husband?

No, ma 'am. My cousin said that Mr. Gresham might have work.

Who might that be?

That's Liddell Phillips over in Jasper.

I know him.

When did you see him last?

Oh, I saw him yesterday.

I saw the new baby.

Lila said to say hello.

I'm Baston Morris from Oakman, and is there something wrong?

What? I seen you in the woods with that gun, and now I'm wondering if you need

any help. No, no, it's okay.

Have you been here long?

I came over in the fair in daylight.

Oh, you look hungry.

Yes, ma 'am, I pulled a few of your greens.

Oh. I was real hungry.

Sorry. Well, it's all right.

Will you want to come on in?

I'll make you some breakfast.

Thank you.

So... So you don't think Mr. Gresham will be home today at all?

Well, that's not likely, is it?

They're busy at the mill. What was the war and all?

Yeah, that's why I thought there might be work.

Why didn't you just look for Mr. Gresham at the mill?

Oh, I did.

Yesterday.

He wasn't there. They said they didn't think it'd be likely that he'd be there

today, either.

Them dogs been out there long?

Have you seen them?

Yes, ma 'am. I had to fight them off all this morning.

Once I get a sense and you could do me a favor back in Paris

When you go to see my husband Can you find Sheb Shepard?

He's my brother Yes, ma 'am. I intend to head back this morning. Please tell him

that I want to see him just as soon as he can Okay Okay

You can leave that. I'll do it. No, no trouble.

No trouble.

You sure you're all right?

I can take care of myself.

Well... I'll be off now.

Shep Shepard.

He's the minister.

Yes, ma 'am. I'll tell him.

And if Mr. Gresham comes by again, you tell him about me, Baston Morris, that

I'm looking for work. I will. I surely will.

Thank you.

Oh, Baston Morris.

You want to take that ax along with you for the dogs?

You could just leave it with my brother.

Oh, no, ma 'am.

I don't think I need it, thank you

It's you.

You have his pistol.

Yes, ma 'am.

Uh -uh, Miss Gresham. Don't, uh... Just stay still.

All right? I don't mean you no harm.

And the axe?

I have it.

Oh.

Well, what do you want with me?

You're younger than I imagined.

Oh.

Now, Miss Gresham, no, I'm not gonna hurt you. I don't, uh...

Let's just go on in the house now where we can be safe.

Come on now.

Miss Gresham, come on now.

Come on.

I'm not going to hurt you.

Come on now.

Let's get inside.

Hi there, kids.

How we doing? Fine, Sheriff.

The dogs are back again.

Oh, they're just dogs.

Well, Dad usually chases them.

I'm sure he'll do that when he gets the time.

Don't worry.

run away, Mr. Gresham. How would I?

Those dogs might get there before me.

I'm no fool, Mr. Gresham.

Make a plan.

Maybe go up river.

What about me?

I never hurt nothing. I didn't have to. But I always done what had to be done.

So please, ma 'am, there's no trouble.

Else I have to do something I don't want to do. And I will. I'll do it.

And that pained me.

More than you know.

So did you fight with Pink in town?

I wanted to talk to him.

But one of the other boys, he got mad about the drinks and all.

He started to fight.

Mr. Gresham pulled out this pistol.

I think he wanted to shoot us.

I mean, I think he was hoping to, you know what I mean?

He could be like that sometimes.

Make you feel real small.

He was an evil man.

But still, I tried to reason with him. I come over here real early this morning.

I took his boat over and then took the other one back across and then rode back

over myself.

Last night, last night I followed him after he left the balloon.

I saw where he went.

There was a girl.

I'm sorry.

I thought you'd know about that anyway.

I wanted to talk to him.

I waited down along that path.

But the dogs come, and I had to back off.

And then Mr. Gresham come, and I stopped him down yonder. I said, Mr. Gresham,

I'm Bastion Morris, Liddell's cousin.

He just laughed, called me trash, said I was trash just like my cousin, just

like my cousin's wife.

He said things about Lila, about her baby.

He said it was his baby.

That's right.

Now, I'm sorry, Mr. Gresham, but you have to know why.

And I said, I said to him, I said, you take that back.

And he just laughed again, told me I was a dumb son of a bitch.

Started to reach up under his coat for his pistol.

I had the axe. I just swung it.

Hardly didn't even... But it was done.

God almighty, I didn't mean it.

I swear.

Maybe.

I'm not for killing, Ms. Gresham.

Lord knows that.

All I want was a job.

They'll be coming to look for him.

Not for a while, I suppose.

I sent his boat to drift downriver.

Till they'll come. One day, two.

That'll be time enough.

But they won't have me.

Uh -uh.

Never jail.

Never.

I can understand that.

Locking up would be in it.

I'm not going to forgive you nothing.

Nothing you did or might do.

Blessed Master, we give thanks for this food which you have set before us, for

our bountiful garden, and for these, our children, who are here with us now.

We pray that they will grow in your service and be deserving of

the love you offer so freely to us all.

Bless their mother and father and our whole congregation. We ask these things

Jesus' name.

Amen.

Well, it sounds like they're out at the smokehouse.

Maybe they'll get in.

They can't.

Fix that.

Tomorrow we'll take care of them. We should have done that today.

It's cool enough out there. He'll be all right.

Cold never bothered Pink.

No, I didn't mean it that way. I know that.

I just said it.

Blanket and a lantern.

What?

I need a warm blanket and a lantern to keep the dogs off me. You're going

outside?

Yes, ma 'am. That way I'll know where you are, but you won't know about me.

It'll be safer that way.

there, Mr. Gresham.

You won't know if I'm awake or asleep.

You understand, don't you?

Me and the dog.

Start it right here and now.

Oh, the cold.

You haven't got the good sense I thought you had. If you'd have told me about

that boat, I'd have been on it myself and been gone from your life. You

have gone.

It was a dumb thing to do, a stupid thing to do. You should have told me

that boat.

They follow you, don't they?

Yeah, we're learning to get along.

the kids now.

Kids, would you come over here for just a minute?

You children know Sheriff Walker. This is Sheriff Dunlap from Oakman.

He wants to ask you a few questions.

Well, hello, kids. It's Bessie and Warren, right?

Yes, sir. Good. I hear those dogs are over near your place again.

Yes. Yes, sir.

When was the last time you saw your daddy?

Friday, in the evening.

About six.

And your mama is over there now?

Yeah, she's over there. All right, that's enough, Tori. You're going to

your bus. Go on now. Don't be late. You have a good day at school, you hear?

Yes, sir.

Let's go inside and talk there with this, all right?

You want to be getting out of those wet clothes? I'll go chop some wood and make

some fire. Do that. You're damn good with the access, for sure.

There's no call for that, Mrs. Gershon.

The way I see it, you owe me.

Owe you? I saved your life down by that river.

I'm cold.

We got some digging to do today.

That looks like Pete's boat.

Go get the sheriff.

after you anyway.

I wouldn't.

It's not so bad.

It's hurt.

I'm glad you didn't try to get that shotgun.

I'm not a killer.

Still, it might turn on you.

I'm glad you didn't.

What difference does that make?

I got my reasons.

Hold still.

Hold on, now.

Where'd you come from?

I told you. Hope. No, I mean before that.

All about Tennessee, Georgia, Illinois.

I rode the rails in bad times.

Well, didn't you come from somewhere?

I suppose.

Mississippi. I was born in Mississippi.

On the river.

My daddy made whiskey.

Don't you have a wife and children?

Once.

Well?

Where are you from?

That's none of your business.

Your

daddy

locked your mama up. in a sharecropper shack for two years.

Just like some runaway slaves.

She lived just long enough to testify against them. She died of consumption.

got in that shack. Her daddy died in jail, and you wound up behind some mules

like a sharecropper.

Oh, in the name of God. I know lots of things about you, Miss Gresham.

Who are you?

I told you.

Lift her.

Why lock her up?

She tried to run off.

She tried to run off with another man.

I suppose I...

Thought he did the right thing.

Been ashamed of not helping?

Yes.

Sometimes.

So Mr. Gresham took you out of the fields?

My brother arranged it.

Have a feel like running away?

That's none of your business.

She loved us.

She just hated him.

What about your family?

Like that.

My wife took my kids away with her.

Where'd she go?

I don't know.

That's what I was looking for.

Not work? I thought you said you were looking for work.

I was planning. I was planning to work at the mill.

My wife wasn't a bad woman.

Just a woman.

My daddy might have said something like that.

Do what they think they have to do, Mrs. Gresham. Not necessarily what's right.

Like what you're going to do? Yes, ma 'am.

Like your daddy, like my wife, like Mr. Gresham, and like you, I guess, if you

had the chance.

We have to take care of what's in the smokehouse.

You want me to do that?

It's my husband.

I'll do it.

The right way, too.

you find it?

Over there.

Yeah. On that mud bank?

On that island. Right.

I see.

Bring in that pick and shove. What's wrong?

Just do what I say, woman, before they get here. Who gets here?

God damn you, did I tell you?

Are you with me or against me?

Oh, hell, I don't care now. I'll take them in, you both.

Who's your mother to?

One's the sheriff from Paris.

And the other one's the sheriff from Oakman. Oakman? You're from Oakman.

They don't seem suspicious.

That's good. No guns out. Well, how do they know?

They don't. And if you want your brother to stay alive, you want that damn

sheriff stays that way.

You hear me?

I'm going to be in this room.

I'm going to have both barrels of this gun pointed right at his head.

You just get rid of it.

I'll be listening.

Maggie?

You in there?

Everything okay?

Yes, of course.

Is something wrong? No, dear, nothing.

Is Pink home? No, he's not.

Are you all right, sister?

Yes.

Of course I'm all right.

There's nothing wrong with the children.

No, of course not.

Can I come in?

You know Sheriff Walker. This here is Sheriff Dunlap from Oakman. Ma 'am.

Gentlemen.

Sheriff, the house isn't tidy.

The boys can wait out here so long as everything's okay.

I'm fine, really. I don't know what you think is wrong.

Did you hurt yourself?

Oh, cutting some kindling. It's nothing. Scratch the neck, too? It's just the

wood, a splinter.

You look mighty formal today, sister, all dressed up. Well, I saw you come in

with company. I wanted to look decent. Well, you certainly do. So Pink ain't

around? I told you, no.

You try the mill? First thing, but he ain't there. He hadn't been since Sunday

morning. Well, that's not unusual for Pink, you know that.

Is something wrong? Are you sure the children are all right? No, I swear,

sister, the children are fine.

The people at the mill have been talking to me about Pink. This isn't the first

time he didn't show for work, you know.

Well, they say that if it keeps up, they'll have to find a new foreman.

I haven't seen him since Friday night.

We looked for him in all the usual places. With his girl?

I always thought it was his drinking, but there have been women all along.

Isn't that right, brother?

I didn't come here to talk about that. Answer me.

There have been some. You never did without. You sound like Daddy.

Everybody sounds like Daddy. Thank you very much, brother. What I know or don't

know about Pink may not matter now. That's what I come over here to talk to

about, about Pink and Baston Morris.

Who? A man named Baston Morris from Oakman. Now, there's no cause to be

yet. I guess it all had to come out. What?

What? Had to come out, brother.

Sheb!

This Morris fellow, they, um... They say he and Pink had an argument in poses on

Sunday night. Pink argues with everyone.

Reading the scriptures.

Maggie, they say this fellow Morris took an axe to his wife and two kids over in

Oakman.

They say he was blaming Pink for causing it,

saying that his wife was planning to run off over here to perish and

Pink was going to keep her.

Sorry, sister. I truly am.

Now, they only say he done what they say. Maybe he didn't. What, do you

He found Pink's boat downriver near town.

Did he ever take it down there?

Yeah, sometimes.

Could be he left it there. Maybe it just got loose and drifted down.

We called ahead to see if this Morris fella might have jumped on the riverboat

this morning. There hadn't been a train.

Through, but we figure one way or another, he headed downriver away from

and here.

There's people out looking. I don't imagine he got a chance to cross over to

this side anyway.

No, I imagine not.

Come back with me now until this all passes. We have a place for you with

and Warren. No.

No.

When Pink comes home, I should be here.

I thought you might say that.

Them dogs been a bother?

Some. Nothing I can't handle.

Pink's guns are here. I know how to use them. Not here. Hadn't been.

Things will work out, sister. We've been through worse.

Blanche and the kids will be over tomorrow to stay with you. No.

No, I'm fine, Chev.

I swear it, the children need school. No arguments. In the morning, then.

Lance will bring over some dinner.

Please listen to me, Chev.

Watch by the bushes at the top of the path. I think I saw the dogs there this

morning.

All right.

Let's check over there.

Nothing here.

Let's go.

Sit down.

I took it, Mrs. Gresham. The derby?

Last night. I took it last night.

Oh, Jesus.

Come on, ma 'am. I know what you're thinking of me.

Well, then just go ahead. Just go ahead and just do it. Do what?

Whatever you're going to do, but please just don't hurt my children.

Mrs. Gresham, I'm not going to hurt your children. Now, what did your brother

say about me? You hurt him. No, he... Well, I hurt him, but I want to hear

you heard.

He said you killed your wife and your children. No, no, no, no. That's not

he said. I hurt him. He said... that they said that they think I killed them.

Miss Gresham, I was... Miss Gresham, I killed your husband. I told you that

straight out. I killed him, and if I have to burn in hell for it, I will.

But I didn't kill my family. My own family, Miss Gresham. My God, my son was

years old. My little girl, my little girl was 7 years old. She was 7 years

on Saturday when I found them.

Listen to me.

On Saturday when I found them after he did it.

I can't even think straight no more.

Are you saying that Pink... I didn't come here for no goddamn job.

Miss Gresham, I came here for your husband.

For Pink Gresham.

To kill him.

It was last fall, September.

Mr. Gresham come through Oakman looking for men for to work up at the mill.

He said the war had taken all kinds of men, enlisted and drafted and all.

He couldn't find enough to fill the place.

So I invited him to stay with us while he was in Oakland.

And he promised me a job.

He stayed with us a week.

He kept flashing his money around, buying presents for the children,

and me.

And I guess all that money and gifts and stuff were just too much for him.

Lord God, I loved her, and I didn't see.

And I didn't find out about him and my wife till Saturday.

I never got over it to the mill.

I took sick.

By spring, I knew I'd best get me a regular job, so I told Victoria on

morning, I said, I'm heading over to parish, sign on at the mill.

She just about damn near split her side of the life.

She said, I'm heading over to parish myself.

I said, what?

She said she's coming over to parish to live with another man.

And I said, Stuart, are you crazy, woman?

You can't do that.

You can't leave me.

You can't take our children away.

Just like... There's nothing she says.

You're gonna lock me up as if I tried and died in jail.

That's how you knew about my mama.

I said, this man tell you to run off with him? She says, he as much as did.

And she starts to show me this letter she wrote to him with.

Some talk about that.

So I straight out asked her, I said, what kind of man, what kind of man tell

to take his wife and his children away?

She says a man with money enough to do it right.

She said Pink Gresham was that man.

I felt so small.

This letter says she's coming to me in Paris.

And I let that man in my house.

I went right out the door, down the road to the colored folks.

And I got me some corn and whiskey, I guess. It gave me some Dutch courage.

So I come back and beg her not to leave me.

And when I got back to the house, my

God, they just were some kind of friend.

No whiskey had me, but it was clear that somebody tried to

stop me from leaving. There was blood and things

all over the place.

God and heaven, they're going to ask.

They took an ass to my children.

For God's sake.

It could have been anyone. Could have been a child. No, ma 'am. No, ma 'am. He

wanted to keep them from coming to him. He didn't really want her. He used her.

That's all he wanted.

He came over to stop her. Maybe she warned him or something.

You know, she'd make a fool of him. Maybe he tried to talk to her. You don't

know for sure. I know, but I know.

I'm nobody's fool.

I know it takes an hour and a half to walk over the open.

And I found them at dusk.

When's the last time you saw Mr. Gresham?

It was Friday. It was Friday night.

Uh -huh, and I finally found him Sunday up at the mill and then later on at the

saloon.

But I checked around, Mr. Gresham, and nobody saw him on Saturday.

And I wanted to talk to him.

I wanted him to look me right in the face.

But he didn't even remember who I was.

And then he pulled that pistol on me, and he wanted to use it.

And I was convinced then, I'm no fool, man.

That's why you used an axe on him.

That's right.

So he'd know.

Why didn't you tell the police?

Oh, when I found him, I couldn't believe it.

I just wanted to get to him.

You didn't bury them then? No, Miss Grisham.

You know, I couldn't go back.

How could I prove that you'd believe me?

That's the God's honest truth.

You want to rest a while?

Oh, I think not.

It's getting late now.

I'm sorry about your family.

I truly am.

It's my children.

Here.

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul.

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of...

You're very beautiful.

No, no. Oh, my God. No, wait.

Get away. Get away.

I didn't.

Are you hurt? Just go away from me.

That's all right. Just leave me alone.

What in God's name do you think I am?

He took my wife from me.

He owes me. He owes you?

Killing Pink isn't enough?

I don't know. Well, then what's going to be enough?

It's getting dark soon. You want to say the words over them while I cover them?

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul.

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no

evil, for thou art with me.

Stay behind.

I suppose you've lost a great deal.

You do help my grief.

And tomorrow, which way upriver?

I don't know.

I haven't figured it out yet.

Tomorrow, my sister -in -law will be here with my children.

Then things will be right.

My children?

Yes, ma 'am.

My children.

They're looking for me downstream.

That's what your brother said.

Tomorrow when the children come, we'll have a boat. We'll go upstream.

You want Bessie and Warren to go with you?

And you.

It's only right.

You like this.

This.

Us together.

I can tell that.

And you want to get out of this damn jail.

I got rid of that son of a bitch we put in the hole today. Now what else do you

want?

Did you come here for that?

No, I came here for him, for what he'd done to me.

But when I saw you, I knew it was right.

We can't go with you.

My sister -in -law is coming across with the children.

She don't mean a thing to me.

Take me a minute.

They're just babies.

So am I.

This is Mr. Pink Gresham from Over Parrish Way.

Howdy.

Mr. Gresham's looking for a wife.

Shep?

She's a right pretty young girl.

I'm sure you'd like her, Mr. Gresham.

I think we can do business, Shep.

day to travel.

You want to be getting dressed. I got some coffee up and some bacon, but no

eggs, I'm afraid. The dogs had to wait last night.

Any idea when they'll come? No.

Can't you just leave and leave us be?

That was settled last night, wasn't it? No.

Yes, it was.

We can't replace... We can't be your family.

The children won't understand. They'll hate you.

I love them.

You heard what my brother said. The whole county's looking for you. We'll

slow you down.

They're looking for one man alone.

They're not looking for a man with his wife and children.

Do as I say, all right?

Yes. I want you out on the porch when they come up the hill now. Let's go.

Well, it's cold.

Let me get something to wear.

You walk to the head of the path.

I'll wait up here.

I want him up on the porch before they see me.

I don't want him going back to the river.

did you do, sister?

The children are safe. Well, of course they're safe. You don't think I'd put

them in jeopardy? He might have hurt Blanche.

What's wrong with you? He wasn't going to get close enough to hurt anyone.

Come over here, boy.

So that's how that was here yesterday.

This here is one mighty brave boy, Maggie.

He saw you.

Says he saw you dig a grave.

Then he ran home to his mama, Vinia.

God bless you, Charlie. Your mama, too. Come on.

Come on.

Turn him off upriver.

Can't you just catch him? Do you have to kill him? Go inside.

We'll talk there. Go on.

You were going to shoot him down in cold blood. I couldn't... Lord, help me.

That man is a killer. A maniac. He killed your husband.

He killed his wife and two little children. That's not true.

What? I said that's not true. Pink did it. Pink killed his family.

Morris, he told you that? Yes, he did. He told me that. He told me that Pink

it on Saturday.

She was coming... Morris' wife was coming over here to Paris.

Pink was going to leave me.

No, dear sister.

No.

That isn't the way it was, not at all. Pink was with me all day Saturday.

You? Yes.

You see, the people at the mill had come to me. They have a problem with Pink.

Besides it being way too much, some of the men were complaining.

that Pink was shaking them down. The owners wanted me to talk to him,

they were going to fire him. We spent the whole day talking about it.

The whole day, Maggie.

Beston, Morris told me that... No, it's a lie, a lie. There was a witness.

A colored man.

Morris came to him for some homemade liquor. He stole the man's mule. The man

followed him, hoping to get the mule back. When he came to Morris' house, he

what happened.

He was afraid, but he came to the sheriff in Oakman last night.

across Up River. We thought we could get a clear shot at him, but we didn't

figure that you were.

I'm sorry, Chef.

I truly am.

I thought... So I see.

I'm going to see how things are out there. Why don't you fix something warm

that boy? He looks hungry.

You hungry, boy?

He can't have got away. He was cut off all around. Damn it!

If he gets inland, we've lost him.

Where's the others?

Got them up and down the river. Some's working inland and all along that river.

All right, keep spreading out. I feel he's here.

He's got to be.

Let me get you some more bake.

Who's back?

The man he was with in the woods yesterday.

Are you sure it's him?

Yes, ma 'am.

But he's gone now.

Listen to me.

Get up.

Now, easy.

You walk real slow, and you go into the pantry over there.

Just like that? Yes. Go now.

Close that door, and don't come out until I tell you.

in the house.

You can't get away now. They should have swum the river.

They ain't too smart.

I was halfway up from the river by the time they was going down.

I'll come back for you.

Pink didn't do it. He done it, I say so. No, Pink didn't do it. It don't matter

who held the axe.

He done it.

Not me.

Just go now.

I see it.

Let's go.

You fire that, they'll be here in a minute.

I never meant for things to be the way they were.

In the city, there'll be work. We shall give Pink a proper grave.

Sheb, I'm leaving.

There's nothing to keep me here now.

I told Vinnie if she can have the house, she can have anything she wants.

You'll see to that?

Yes.

I'm hoping you'll find, Maggie, we're your only family.

What Daddy did to Mama was wrong, and what you did to me when you gave me the

pink, that was wrong, too.

I only meant for you to be cared for. You sold me like a piece of property.

I'm nobody's property.

Not now. I never thought...

I never meant for you to be kept over there that way. I'm going to see that

Bessie and Warren never have to live that way.

Never.

Maggie, all aboard!