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>> Keep her out, Liz.

The tide runs strongly here.

Keep a weather eye on the sweep of it.

Well, at least nothing else afloat.

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>> Brings us more luck.

Oh, take that thing off your face, for

goodness' sake.

Here, give me hold of this, Gaffer.

Oh, no, no, Father. I can't, indeed.

Come on. Father, I cannot sit so near

it. What hurt can it do you?

>> None.

None.

Just can't bear it.

It's my belief you hate the very sight

of this river.

>> I

I do not like it, Father.

As if it wasn't your living.

As if it wasn't meat and drink to you.

How can you be so thankless to your best

friend, Lizzie?

Why, the very fire that warmed you when

you was a baby

was picked out of this river alongside

the coal barges.

The very basket you slept in that tide

washed ashore.

The very rockers I put on it

I cut out of a piece of wood

that drifted from some shipwrecked

rudder.

He's in luck again, Gaffer.

I thought he was in luck again

by your weight as you came down. Huh?

Yeah. So, you're out, are you? Yes, I

was.

I said to myself, I said to myself, "As

soon as you are in to view, I'll say

it."

As Gaffer Hexham said, "And he's in luck

again, by George, if he ain't."

Don't worry, Gaffer.

I didn't touch him.

He's been touched enough not to want any

more, by the look of him.

He's been knocking about in too many

tides, by the look of him, don't you

think, partner?

Such is my out-of-luck way, you say,

partner.

I must have missed him on the tide when

he passed down.

As I was waiting under the bridge here.

I think I I think we're like one of the

vultures, partner.

If you can scent them out, hey.

Anyway, we'll fix it betwixt us.

Shall I uh

Shall I order him a board, partner? No.

No.

You haven't been eating nothing that's

disagreed with you, have you, partner?

Why, yes, I have.

I've been swallowing too much of that

word partner. I'm no partner of yours.

No.

And since when have you not been a

partner of mine, Gaffer Hexham, Esquire?

Since you was accused of robbing a man.

Accused of robbing a live man.

And suppose I've been accused of robbing

a dead man, Gaffer?

What is a dead man any use for money?

Is it possible for a dead man to have

money?

A dead man belongs to the other world,

money belongs to this world.

Don't you stand and find any rights and

wrongs with it that way.

But it's a sneaking spirit that robs a

live man.

I'll tell him what it is. Tell him what

it

>> Oh, no, you won't. I'll tell you what it

is.

You've got off with a short time for

putting your hands in the pocket of a

sailor.

A live sailor.

Well, make the most of it and think

yourself lucky. But don't think after

that to come over me with your partners.

We have worked together in time past.

But we work together no more, not in

time present, nor yet future. Now, leave

go. CAST OFF. HELLO, GAFFER. YOU THINK

I'M GETTING RID OF ME THIS WAY?

>> IF I DON'T GET RID OF YOU this way, I'll

get rid of you another and chop you up

with THIS BOAT HOOK. CAST OFF.

Pull you, Lizzie.

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>> Is your cousin, Lord Snigsworth, in or

out of town? Oh, out of town. At

Snigsworthy Park.

>> Yes, sadly, sir. Oh, yes, thank you very

much.

I assure you, my dear Veneering, that it

Hm? I assure you, my dear Veneering,

that it is the oddest affair.

Like the advertising people, I don't ask

you to trust me without offering a

respectable reference. Mortimer there is

my reference, and he knows all about it.

He's a solicitor, and he knows

everything. I insist that you tell us

all there is to be told about the man

from Jamaica.

>> Not Jamaica. Well, the man from

somewhere. Hm? We're all very much

interested in the man from somewhere.

It's quite exciting. The man from

nowhere, perhaps.

I find it

immensely embarrassing to have the eyes

of Europe upon me to this extent.

Especially as I find the man from

somewhere a bore.

Where he comes from escapes me, but it's

where they make the wine. There, Martin.

>> No, that's where they make the port.

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>> Now, come along. Come along.

A man called John Harmon was the only

son of a tremendous old rascal who made

his money as a dust contractor.

Coal dust, vegetable dust, bone dust.

This old vagabond lived among great

mountain ranges of it.

His His highest gratification in life

came from turning his relatives out. He

began, as was natural, with his wife.

Then his daughter. He He He found a

husband for her

entirely to his own satisfaction, not in

the least to hers. And proceeded to

settle upon her a considerable amount of

dust as a marriage portion.

But the girl said she was engaged to

what the novelists call another.

And that such a marriage would make dust

of her heart. So,

he turned her out. A little claret, sir.

Ah.

Pray go on.

Well,

despite the fact that another

[clears throat] was hard up, she married

him and lived in some humble dwelling

until she died.

We now return to the man from somewhere.

At the time of his sister's expulsion,

he was a boy of 14 being cheaply

educated in Brussels. He absconded,

burst in upon his father to plead his

sister's cause.

Venerable parent probably turns him out.

The boy takes flight and seeks his

fortune abroad.

So, he was only discovered the other day

after having been expatriated about 14

years. How discovered and why? Ah.

Venerable parent dies.

His will is found.

It's dated very soon after the son's

flight. It leaves the lowest of the

range of dust mountains with some humble

dwelling house at its foot to a an old

servant who is sole executor.

The rest of the very considerable

property he leaves to the son.

He directs himself to be buried with

certain eccentric ceremonies and

precautions against his coming to life

with which I

needn't bore you.

And

that's the end of the story.

Except

that the son's inheritance is made

conditional upon his marrying a girl who

at the date of the will was a child of

four or five years of age, but is now a

marriageable young woman.

Advertisement and inquiry discovered the

son and he a man from somewhere and at

the present moment he's on his way home

from there. No doubt in a state of great

astonishment to succeed to a very

considerable fortune and to take a wife.

Is she a young person of personal charm?

>> I'm unable to report. What

becomes of the fortune if he does not

marry her? It then goes to the old

servant who has already been left a

small legacy. Also, if the son is dead,

the same servant inherits everything.

Everything?

This is

Boy, it seems so.

Who? A boy. This this this

This arrived in an extraordinarily

opportune manner. This note is the

conclusion of the story of the same man.

Already married?

>> Declined to marry?

>> Corpse left among the dust. I know a lot

couple of things is you're all wrong.

The story is rather more exciting than I

supposed.

Man's drowned.

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>> Are you the boy about this paper?

Yes, sir.

Whose writing is this?

Mine, sir. Who told you to write it?

My father, Jesse Hexam.

What is your father?

He gets a living alongshore. Is it far?

Is which far? To your father's.

It's a goodish stretch, sir. I come up

in a cab.

And the cab's waiting to be paid.

Well,

any means taken, do you know, boy, to

ascertain if it was possible to restore

to life?

Well, no, sir, if you knew his state.

Pharaoh's multitude that were drowned in

the Red Sea ain't more beyond restoring

to life. Hello, you

seem to be at home in the Red Sea, my

young friend. I'll read of it with

teacher at school.

But don't tell my father. We'd have no

peace in our place if that got touched

upon.

It's my sister's contriving. You seem to

have a good sister.

Oh, she ain't half bad, my sister. She

ain't half bad. And if she knows her

letters, then that's the most she does.

And them I learned her.

I hope you'll know me again.

I'll go with you if you like.

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>> I have been, you Jane, up on the

honorable roll of solicitors of the High

Court of Chancery and attorneys at

common law five years.

And except for gratuitously taking

instructions on the will of Lady Tippins

who has nothing to leave,

I've had no business at all but this

romantic business of harmony. I've been

called to the bar seven years and have

never had any business at all, and never

shall have any.

If I had, I shouldn't know how to do it.

I hate my profession.

Shall I incommode you if I put mine up,

too?

Thank you.

I hate mine. It was forced upon me

because it was understood we wanted a

barrister in the family. It was forced

upon me because it was understood we

wanted a solicitor in the family.

>> Am I to rush out into the street, collar

the first man of wealth I appearance,

shake him and say, "Go to law upon the

spot, you dog, and retain me all day the

devil?"

Precisely. I mean, what what can one be

energetic about? You show me something

worth being energetic about, I'll show

you energy.

>> Answer what I Oh, this is a confoundedly

out of the way place.

Ah.

You have to walk the rest, sir. Here at

the White. Not many yards. My father's

house is by the light.

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>> Uh the uh gentleman's father.

You're Mortimer Lightwood, Esquire. How

I see.

Mortimer

Lightwood is my name.

What you found

is it here?

I'm not to say here,

but it's close by.

I do everything regular.

I've give notice of the circumstance to

the police, and the police have took

possession of it.

Right being no time lost on any end.

The police have put it in a print

already.

And here's what the print says on it.

Any papers on the unfortunate man, I

see? Only papers. No money but three

pence in one of the skirt pockets. Three

penny pieces. Trouser pockets empty and

turned inside out. Now, well, that's

common. Now, could be the wash of the

tide.

You can't tell.

Now, here.

His pocket was found empty and turned

inside out.

So was this one's. So was that one's.

I can't read,

nor do I have any need to,

for I know them by their places on the

wall.

This was a sailor with two anchors and a

flag and GFT on his arm. Look and see if

he weren't.

>> Quite right. Yeah. And this was a young

woman with gray boots and a linen mark

with a crossed. Look and see if she

weren't. Quite right. And this was him

there at a nasty cut over the eye.

And this was them two young sisters what

tied themselves together with an anchor

chain.

And this was a drunken old chap with a

pair of slippers and a nightcap

who'd offered to eat afterwards come out

to make a hole in the wood over a

quarter of rum.

Stood a fore-end.

And he kept his word to it for the first

and last time in his life. Yeah.

They practically papered a wall, you

see.

But I know them all.

I'm scholar enough. You didn't find all

these yourself, did you?

And what might your name be now? This is

my friend, Mr. Eugene Wrayburn. Ah, Mr.

Eugene Wrayburn is it?

And what might Mr. Eugene Wrayburn have

asked of me? I asked you simply if you

found all these yourself.

And I answer simply,

most of them. Do you suppose there's

been much violence and robbery

beforehand amongst these cases? No, I

don't suppose at all about it.

I'm not one of the supposing sort.

There.

Body missing, body found, which?

I'm lost.

Lost?

I'm a stranger and I don't know the way.

I want to find the place where I can see

what is described here.

This gentleman, Mr. Lightwood's on that

business.

Mr. Lightwood? I think so. You did me

the honor to mention my name.

I repeated it after this man. You said

you were a stranger in London. I'm not a

stranger. Will you come with us?

I'll have a liver.

I want a liver.

Let me out

The body was I

Yes, gentlemen.

No clue to how the body came into the

river?

Very often.

Two medical men are satisfied that the

injuries were received before or after

death?

One excellent surgeon's opinion says

before and another excellent surgeon's

opinion says after.

Steamer ship

which gentleman came back passenger?

Been around a few.

Split of identity?

Likewise with split clothes.

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>> And then you see you had the papers,

too.

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>> How was it he totally disappeared on

leaving ship?

To have found him in river.

Oh, probably upon some little game.

Probably thought it a harmless game.

Wasn't that the thing? It turned out a

fatal game. Inquest coroner, no doubt

open verdict.

Knocked him over completely over.

Knocked him completely off his feet.

Yeah, that's given him a bad turn, to be

sure.

>> He's not a friend.

Indeed, where did you pick him up? Yeah,

by.

You wanted to identify, I think.

Turned you faint, sir?

Seems you're not accustomed to this kind

of work.

No.

It's a horrible sight.

You expected to identify him, Tooter?

Yes.

>> Have you identified? No.

It's a horrible sight. Oh, horrible

horrible sight.

Who did you think it might have been?

Well, give us a description, sir.

Perhaps we can help you. No. No, it

would be useless.

Good night.

You have missed a friend, you know.

Or you missed a fool, you know.

Or you wouldn't have come here, you

know.

Well then, isn't it reasonable to ask

who was it?

You must excuse my telling you that

families may not choose to publish their

disagreements and misfortunes except on

the last necessity.

I do not dispute that you discharge your

duty in asking me the question.

You will not dispute my right to

withhold the answer.

Good night. At least you will not object

to leave me your card, sir.

I should not object if I had one, but I

have not. At least you will not object

to write down your name and address.

Uh not at all.

My name is

Julius

Handford.

You can find me at the uh

Exchequer Coffee House, Palace Yard.

>> Staying there, I presume. Westminster.

Staying there, yeah. Consequently, from

the country. Uh from the country, yes.

Good night, sir.

Good night.

Reserve.

Take care of this piece of paper. Keep

him in view without giving offense.

As it pleases, stay in there and find

out everything you can about him.

Do you believe there is something that

really looks bad here?

Couldn't say.

If a murder,

anybody could have done it.

It's your burglary, pocket picking, want

to apprenticeship.

Not so murder.

We're all of us up to that.

I seen scores of people come to

identify.

Never seen any person who was struck in

that particular way.

It might however been stomach, not mine.

If so, rum stomach.

But there to be sure, there's uh

rum everything, sir.

There is not a word of truth in that

superstition about bodies bleeding when

touched by the hand of the right person.

Uh you never get a sign out of bodies.

Oh, you get rye enough out of such as

that.

Yeah, she's good for all night now.

But you get nothing out of bodies.

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>> Where's father?

He's gone for half a pint.

Where did you go, Liz? I went out in the

dark

when the gentleman looked hard at me.

I was afraid he might know what my face

meant.

You will make the most of your time,

won't you, Charley?

Won't I?

I like that, don't I? Yes, you work hard

at your learning, I know.

And I work a little

and plan and contrive a little.

I wake out of my sleep contriving

sometimes. I have to get together a

shilling now and a shilling then. That

will make father believe that you're

beginning to earn a straight living

alongshore.

You're father's favorite. You can make

him believe anything. I wish I could,

Charley.

For if I could make him believe that

learning was a good thing

and that we should all lead better

lives,

I should be almost content to die.

Don't talk stuff about dying, Liz.

Of an evening, Charley,

when you're at the school and

father's at the

>> At the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters. As

I sit and look at the fire, I seem to

see in the burning coal up Look where

that glow is now. Now Now that's gas

that is, coming from a bit of forest

that was under the mud that was under

the water in the days of Noah's Ark. Now

look here. I'm going to take the poker

and give it a dig.

>> disturb it, Charley, or it will be in a

blaze.

No, it's that dull glow near it coming

and going that I mean.

When I look at that of an evening,

comes that pictures to me, Charley.

Well Well, show us a picture. Tell us

where to look. Oh, what's my eyes. Well

then, tell us what your eyes make of it.

Well, there are you and me, Charley.

When you were quite a baby that never

knew a mother.

Now, don't go saying I never knew a

mother. Why, I knew a sister who was a

sister and mother both.

Well, there are you and me.

Father was away at work and had locked

us out for fear that we should set

ourselves a fire or fall out the window.

Sitting on the doorstep or wandering the

streets to get through time.

You're rather heavy to carry and often

have to rest.

Sometimes we're sleepy.

Sometimes we're very hungry.

Sometimes we're a little frightened.

But what is oftenest hard upon us is the

cold.

Do you remember, Charley?

Mhm.

Yeah, I remember. I I snuggled under a

little shawl and it was warm there.

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>> Sometimes it rains and we

get under a boat or the likes of that.

Sometimes it's dark and we get among the

gas lights sitting watching the people

as they go along the streets.

And at last up comes father and takes us

home.

Home seems such a shelter after

outdoors.

And he pulls off my shoes and dries my

feet at the fire and has me sit by him

while he smokes his pipe. It's long

after you're abed.

I notice that father's is a large hand,

but it's never a heavy one when it

touches me. Mhm. It It strikes me that.

Are those some of the pictures you see

in there?

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>> Of what is past, yes, Charley.

Well, give us a fortune-telling one. A

future one.

Well,

there am I, continuing with father and

holding to father

because father loves me and I love

father.

I can't so much as read a book cuz if

I'd learned, father would have thought I

was deserting him. I should have lost my

influence.

Oh, I have not the influence I want to

have.

I can't stop some of the dreadful things

I try I try to stop.

But I go on in the hope and trust that

time will come.

Cuz if I was not faith

Well, there I am.

Where am I, Liz?

Still in the alley down by the flare.

There you are, Charley.

Working your way in secret from father

at the school and you get prizes and you

go on better and better and you rise to

be

What was it you called it when you told

me about it? Fortune-teller not know the

name. Pupil teacher. And you come to be

a pupil teacher.

And still you go on better and better.

And you rise to be a master full of

learning and respect.

The secret has come to father's

knowledge long before.

And it's divided you from father and

from me. No, it hasn't. Yes, it has,

Charley.

I see as plain as plain can be that your

way is not ours.

Still,

it's a great thing to have cut your way

from father's life and to have made a

new and good beginning.

As it is, there I am.

Left alone with father.

Keeping him as straight as I can and

looking for more influence than I have.

Hoping in my wish to turn him to do

better things.

You said you couldn't read books, Liz.

Your library of books is the hollow down

by the flare, I think.

I should be very glad to read real

books, Charley.

I feel my want for learning very much.

I should feel it even more if I didn't

know it to be a tie between father and

me.

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>> And upon the evidence placed before us,

we find that the body of Mr. John Harmon

was discovered in the Thames in an

advanced state of decay and much

injured.

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>> And that the said Mr. John Harmon has

come by his death under highly

suspicious circumstances.

Though by whose act or in what precise

manner,

there is no evidence before this jury to

show.

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>> My respected father has found out that

in the parental neighborhood of wife is

not generally respected son. It's money,

of course.

>> It's money, of course, he'd not have

found her.

My respected father has always in the

clearest manner provided for his

children by prearranging from the hour

of birth of each what his or her course

in life would be.

Do you know the lady?

Not in the least. Hadn't you better see

her? Oh, my dear Mortimer, I have

studied my character. Could I possibly

go down there labeled eligible on view,

meet the lady similarly labeled?

I'm ready to carry out all my father's

arrangements except matrimony. Could I

possibly support it? I so soon bored.

So constantly.

So fatally. But you're not a consistent

fellow, Eugene.

>> It's susceptibility to boredom. I assure

you I'm the most consistent of mankind.

>> but now that you were dwelling on the

advantages of a monotony of two.

>> In a lighthouse, do me the justice to

remember the condition in a lighthouse.

No, no, no, no, no. There's no help for

it. One of the prophecies of my father

must forever remain unfulfilled.

As far as my marrying is concerned, my

father must submit to failure.

It's a strange night.

As if

ghosts do arise.

Evidently one of them's lost his way.

Dropped in to be directed. Look at this

fat.

Who the devil are you? Oh,

I ask your pardon, governor, but might

one of you governors be loyal I would?

What do you mean by not knocking at the

door? I do ask your pardon, governor,

but I didn't know that your door was

already open. What do you want?

I ask your pardon, governor, but might

one of you governors be loyal I would?

Yes, one of us is. Yes, well, governors

both, it's

>> [snorts]

>> it's particular business.

>> What is it?

Governors both, which one of you might

be loyal I would? I am.

Governor,

I'm a man who earns my living and seeks

to earn my living by the sweat of my

brow.

And before I say anything else,

I'd like to be sworn in. We're not a

swearer in of people, man. Alfred David.

Is that your name? No, I want to take an

Alfred David.

>> But first let us know what your business

is about. It's about 10,000 pounds

reward. That's what it's about. It's

about murder. That's what it's about.

Come near the table.

Sit down.

Have a glass of wine? Yes, I will, and I

won't deceive you, governor.

I won't deceive you.

>> [clears throat]

>> Have another.

Yes, I will.

And I won't deceive you, governor. Now,

what's your name?

Well, before I say that, I'd like the

other governor the other governor to

witness what I said I said. So, if the

other governor would be so good as to

check me his

card, his name and address.

Yes.

>> [clears throat]

>> Now,

you've quite completed your various

preparations, my friend.

You've fully ascertained that your

spirits are cool, not in any way

hurried. What's your name? Roger

Riderhood.

Dwelling place?

Lomas Sal.

Calling or occupation? Riverside

character. Anything against you?

I'll leave the other governors just off

me so. Ever in trouble? Once. On

suspicion of a seaman's pocket. Whereas

in reality I was the man's best friend

and tried to take care of him.

>> With the sweat of your brow. Oh, till it

poured down like rain.

I give information

that the man that did the Harmon murder

was Jesse Hexam, the man that found the

body.

It was the end of Jesse Hexam, commonly

called Gaffer,

on the river and longshore,

that did the murder. His hand and no

other.

Tell us on what ground you make this

accusation. On the grounds that I was

his partner.

On the grounds that only he was wise.

On the grounds that I broke the

partnership

because I knew the danger.

Mind you, his daughter will tell you a

different story.

And on the grounds it's common knowledge

on the causeways and stairs that he did

the murder. And on the grounds that I

will swear he did it.

Well, this is nothing.

Nothing. Merely nothing.

It only goes to prove that you suspect

this man of the crime.

You may do so with some reason.

You may do so with no reason.

But he cannot be convicted on your

suspicion. Then I want to be took down

then. Cuz by George and the Dragon, I'm

coming to it now.

He told me that he did it. Isn't that

enough?

Take care of what you say, my friend.

No,

you take care

and listen to me

because I judge you're going to be

answerable for it.

I,

Roger Riderhood,

Lomas

Sal,

riverside character,

tell you

that the man Jesse Hexam,

commonly called Gaffer,

on the river and longshore,

did the deed.

And what's more,

he told me he did the deed.

And what's more,

he told me with his own lips he did the

deed.

And then he

he falls down, all of a sudden shaking.

"There's been foul play, old friend," he

says.

"And I done it.

I done it for his money.

Don't betray me, old friend. Don't split

on me," he says.

Those were the very words he used.

What more?

Does there have to be any more?

Did you ask him how he did it? When he

did it, where he did it? Oh, no. No, I

was so troubled on my mind then.

You've been troubled on your mind a long

time, man. Hey, Jess. Hey, Jess. When

all that stir was made. When the

government reward was offered. When the

police were on the alert. When the whole

country rang with the crime.

Weren't I troubled on my mind? But you

had not then the opportunity [music] of

earning so much money, you see.

Is it a sin to earn it? Huh?

I've turned that over in my mind strong.

And the answer is no.

No, certainly not, governor. Certainly

not.

I was determined in my mind to take the

troubles off my mind

and earn by the sweat of my brow.

What was held out to me. And I mean to

have it. I mean to have it.

I give you Gaffer Hexam, and I want him

took tonight.

Suppose I must go [music] with this

fellow to our imperturbable friend at

the police station.

>> there's no help for it.

Do you believe him? Believe in this old

rascal.

He may tell the truth

You mentioned, I think, a daughter

[music] of this Hexam's. You don't mean

to imply she had any guilty knowledge of

the crime? No, I don't. You implicate no

other person? It's not what I implicate.

What Gaffer you implicated? I can't tell

you any more than he told me.

"I done it," he says.

Those were his very words.

I must see this out, Mortimer.

I should go.

Let's walk. Give this fellow time to

think on it.

Go downstairs first.

He has a hangdog air. Strikes me as a

hangman air.

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>> What are you putting in that little

boiler of water, Well, it's

self-contained. You, Charlie. What do

you mean?

Well, get washed and dressed and I'll

tell you.

Would you be so good as to look at these

papers?

Uh would either of you gentlemen happen

to have a pinch of snuff?

Have you heard these read?

No.

Then you better hear them.

I shall read them to you and then I

shall ask you if this is the evidence

you mean to give.

I solemnly swear

Charlie, dear.

I've made up my mind that this is the

right time for your going away.

You'll be much happier and you'll do

much better.

Even so soon as next month.

Waiting till so soon as next week.

How do you know I shall?

I don't quite know how, Charlie.

But I do.

You must leave father to me. I'll do

what I can with him, but you must go.

You don't stand upon ceremony.

I tell you what, you're a selfish jade

and you think there's not enough for

three of us and you want to get rid of

me. Well, if you believe that, then yes,

I believe too that I'm a selfish jade

and I think there's not enough for three

of us and I want to get rid of you.

I'm quite

I'm quite

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>> I am satisfied to go, Liz. I am

satisfied.

I know you're sending me away for my own

good.

Charlie, heaven above us knows I am.

Tell me more, [snorts] I said.

Don't think about it.

Kiss me.

Now, listen, Charlie.

You both know it must be done.

You must go straight to the school and

say that you and I agreed on it, that we

cannot overcome father's opposition and

that you'll never trouble them, but

they'll never take you back.

And be sure you always speak well of

father cuz he's got no learning in

himself and is set against it in you.

But say nothing else against him.

And and if you should hear anything new

said against him,

it will not be true.

Remember, Charlie, it will not be true.

I've got nothing more to say, except

be good and get learning.

And only think of the old life here as

if you dreamed it.

Goodbye, my darling.

Now, Gaffer Hexham's out

and his boat's out.

But his daughters are down getting some

supper ready,

so Hexham's expected.

But we we mustn't look business.

All right, Hood.

You watch for Hexham's return.

Now, when you find out, come round to

the window of close it,

tap twice at it and wait for me.

Now, come on, be a good dear.

Now, do you two gentlemen have any

objection to

making a pretense of taking a glass of

something in my company at the

Fellowship's?

It's a well-conducted house with a

highly respectable landlady. I should be

happy to substitute the reality for the

pretense.

That is my meaning, too, sir.

I reserve. You know where to find me.

They burn sherry very well at the Six

Jolly Fellowship Porters.

Hey, Governor.

I just had a thought.

He's uh

he's missed the last high tide.

So, we can't expect Gaffer Hexham to

arrive before the next high tide.

Yeah.

His daughter still awaits his return.

All right.

Father.

Is that you calling me?

Father.

Look, Governor. No one can pass in or

out of the house without being seen.

But it'll be light at 5:00 and then we

will be seen. Oh, well, look, Governor.

What do you say to this?

He may be skulking up and down, you

know, holding his hold betwixt two or

three bridges.

I got my boat here.

What do you say if I cast off

and have a look around?

We all come with you.

This is Gaffer's boat.

Empty.

A drift.

One scull broken.

And the other missing.

Must become of Hexham. I don't know.

Perhaps he dived overboard.

Pull him

Pull him

Easy to say that, Governor, but

ain't so easy to do.

His line's got caught under the keels of

barges.

I'm going to take this boat ashore.

That is what it laughed. Right. Here's a

trifle for

Right.

All right, give me that spare set of

sculls. Here you go, Governor.

That's all right.

Awesome.

Right there.

Hey.

Hey, what's this thing?

I think the lady's done me.

Gus has done me.

Drowned himself

on his own turf.

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