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Chiefied

Chiefied

I'll teach you.

No!

No!

You...

I'll be able to get up.

Hey! You there, boy!

Easy, boy.

Easy, nobody's gonna hurt you.

You boy. Easy.

Lord of mighty, what's been done to you, boy?

No, Mr. Blake.

Leave the center be.

Don't hurt him.

No! You did this to the boy?

He is in danger to me.

I may go with him as I please.

Get away from him!

No man does what you did to a boy.

No matter what reason.

No man!

All right, you.

You tell me why you do that to a boy.

Why would you be to go like that?

He who gave service to the sinner,

his eyes to the sinner,

and must suffer penance.

One day or fast,

which I proclaimed,

you took bread from the larder.

I'm really sick.

I repent, Master,

as he must repent,

for sharing my sin.

Now, spoke.

Learn him well.

Daniel's boom was a man.

Yes, a big man.

With a die like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was he.

Daniel's boom was a man.

Yes, a big man.

He was brave.

He was fearless and as tough as a mighty old tree.

From the coon skin cap on the top of old band

to the heel of his raw high choo.

The ripenest roar in the spindest man

the frontier ever knew.

Daniel's boom was a man.

Yes, a big man.

And he fought for America to make all Americans free.

What a fool to do, what a king to murder was he.

Look at this sweet man.

Sweet friend and queen and queen and then sweeping.

I declare one of these days I'm going to get myself a handyman around here.

Well, why not pay out wages for something you can do for yourself?

Besides, square dancing that broom is good exercise.

Well, if you don't mind, Daniel's boom,

I just assume get my exercise, square dancing with a woman.

Everyone's mean.

Paul, there's a man coming through the gate.

He looks like he's hurt himself pretty bad.

I think he better come.

Hey, Daniel, over here.

Nice job.

What are you saying?

Well, what's this all about?

I'll get it out.

It was Mr. Blake. He was my friend.

We were traveling together and we camped about ten miles up the road.

I went to fetch some water and then it happened.

What happened?

What? How'd you get beat up like that?

I don't know. I was hit from behind.

And when I came to, he was dead.

The whole camp was just torn apart.

I forgot it was terrible. I don't know.

Who are you?

Who is this Blake that this friend of yours?

Hemmet.

Hemmet Morgan. That's my name.

Mr. Blake, he was just a friend of mine.

He was coming to see his brother.

His name was Ben Cyrus?

Cyrus. Cyrus Blake. That was his name.

Get in here, Blake.

I'm already here.

Now, what's all this about?

Your brother's been killed, Enoch.

The Lord just brought the word.

Cyrus, Dick.

Tell me boy, how did my brother die?

Who did the killing?

I don't know. I don't know.

But I found this. I found this sticking in his back.

That's my cause. I know it anywhere.

One of my chores has been his home.

I keep it clean and sharp for him.

I...

It's Gideon's all right. I ought to know why I gave it to him.

I wanted to make no sense.

How would Gideon's knife get...

How unless he put it there himself?

This killed my brother.

He was stabbed from behind.

And we all know who did this stabbing.

No, my father didn't do nothing. He couldn't have.

That's right. Gideon wouldn't do anything like that.

He just wouldn't kill somebody.

That man must be wrong.

You said yourself, you gave it to the black man.

Well, that doesn't mean that he did the kill and he could have lost that knife.

That's right. Now, just don't go off half-cost or we know all the facts.

Calm down, folks.

The only way we're going to know is to go out and take a look.

And that way we'll know the truth.

There we are. I'll wait for the facts.

But when we find the murder...

I'm going to take my revenge, son.

Let's get the boy inside and the wigs are standing.

Here, sure. Go tell your mother she's neither.

Yes, sir.

Now, the rest of you men that want to go meet me here in 15 minutes.

I'll go with you, Mr. Boone. I know right where it is.

You stay here once you need right now is food and rest.

I'll take you.

Lord, I'm mighty.

That looks like a mad man must have done his, Nanna.

Backstab, just like the boy said.

The virus, Blake.

His Bible with his name in it.

I give my life to serve, listen.

Amen.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I want you to serve, listen.

There, man.

So he did.

May I rest in peace?

.

Bob Boone.

What do you got to say now?

I say we don't know any more than we did.

There, what's this?

Put it on the set.

Well, what is it?

Here go Gideon wrestled down a grisler

with not much more in his knife.

Made himself a necklace out of his teeth.

Well, that's proof enough for me.

Now, what you view is going to join me

will I hunt and kill it down?

Hey!

Now wait a minute.

What more do you want?

Good night.

Berenretslas.

Both Berenretslas is a black man.

Yeah!

Yeah!

No, I won't believe it.

My prop couldn't.

He wouldn't.

Didn't you hear what the boy said?

Why would he lie?

Look at him!

Beaten half to death.

Are you deaf?

Didn't you hear him?

He knocked if you say one more word so well.

Again.

Are you sure you're not much to do about this knife?

And this necklace.

From no, sir.

No, sir.

Those teeth.

I never seen nothing like him before.

They were around his neck when he was beaten on me.

And the black man was beaten on me.

Boom!

I've waited long enough.

There's only one black man in these parts.

And his name's Gideon.

That's right.

Everybody, Gideon, let's make men and men and men and men.

Get out of here.

You got to admit it.

Looks bad down on him.

There's still something to do with closure, sir.

You're lying.

My prop's a good man.

He didn't hurt you.

He didn't hurt nobody and he didn't kill nobody.

I love my prop.

You hear?

I love my prop and I don't believe you.

I don't believe none of you.

I don't.

I don't.

I don't.

Thanks.

Here we go after him now.

And when I say we've got to do what's right...

So we ain't hurt but all who's got to say.

I don't care about him.

Why don't you all go on home?

I'll be along.

There's nothing more we can do here now.

What about them in there?

They're entitled to their say.

They can think what they want.

They think my paws are killer.

Well, Lenny, we know, dear friend.

Don't we?

Well, don't we?

Yes, we do.

We all do.

Now, let's do what your father said.

Go on home.

Don't be long, Dan.

Bill, Donald?

Things are going to work out.

You just keep on believing.

I'll be back in a minute.

You just sat right there, sir.

I'll get you some bit.

Thank you.

I know it was my kin that was murdered.

Not yours.

But my point is that if he kills once,

he's after kill again.

So I say, for all our sakes,

I say we stop him now.

Anyone disagree with that?

Well, I sure don't.

If he did it, he's got to be punished.

That's right.

Do you argue with that?

Yes, I'll argue that.

Until he's proven guilty, he's as innocent as any of us.

That boy, Hemmett.

Pointing the finger again.

And the black man's knife when he's necklace.

The fat, he can't deny.

Sure, that's right.

The way he's denying anything.

Don't you think we ought to hear pity inside of it?

Yeah, I sure do.

And the sooner the better.

If he ain't the killer, why isn't he here now?

You all know he's trapping.

Probably hiding out someplace.

There ain't many places he could've got to.

We'll find them.

Dad, wouldn't we do?

Now, wait a minute.

You're beginning to sound like a lynching party.

You saying we shouldn't go after him?

Not me a vouch for what he might do in the future.

Enoch's right.

If Gideon killed like he'd done, then how do we know who's next?

How do we know he ain't gone wild?

Maybe kill it again, right now.

Go to the bar.

All right.

I agree we ought to go after Gideon.

And I agree we ought to treat him fairly.

And that he'd be tried in a court of law.

And if any of his rights are denied him, by any one of us,

then we're murderers ourselves.

Is that what you want, Enoch?

All right, go on home.

Your women and children will be wondering.

Tell them what you're doing.

And meet me back here after supper ready for the trail.

I don't trust him, then, especially that Enoch.

He'd want to try all he wants to hang him.

If he gets him all heated up again,

they'll lynch Gideon when they lay eyes on him.

Well, that's why I'm not going after Gideon.

For them, I'm going after him alone.

Take care of that boy back there.

Oh, he's well.

Took care of.

No, not that way.

I want him here.

I want him here.

When I get back, I have an idea he's not telling all he knows.

Please, if you bring him back, they'll hang him.

I got too little, Dannel.

There's no other way I got to find your paw.

But, Paul, you're his friend.

He's very best friend.

That's why I have to go after him.

There's a chance that he might be hurt.

Now, I'm not saying it's likely, but there is a chance.

Then I can't have him all walking into all that hate.

And for that matter, if he stays away,

they'll say he's guilty no matter what.

He even in horse.

Pa, oh, Pa!

Pa, where you been?

This ain't all kinds of things about you.

Pa!

Oh, what is it, Pa?

It's all right, son.

My back is just scratched up a bit.

It's like the time.

The bear got his claws under me.

Before I could get my knife in here.

You remember, Paul?

I'm not going to get my knife in here.

I'm not going to get my knife in here.

I'm not going to get my knife in here.

I'm not going to get my knife in here.

Before I could get my knife in here.

You remember, horse?

You sure had a good time taking care of me, Rebecca?

What happened, Gideon?

Oh, Pa!

If I could get some hot water, here's where we'll get some bear grease.

Now move!

Pa!

Ah!

Somebody been on you, Pa!

Somebody been on you something terrible!

It's all right, son.

Who did it, Gideon?

Horse?

I don't know.

All I can remember was fighting with a man called Blake.

I had him down, and then I let him go so I can talk to him.

But that time somebody hit me from behind.

Did you see anybody else?

Oh, boy.

Blake's bound boy.

But he's in bad shape.

I never really got a good chance to look around.

Are you sure the man you had the fight with was named Blake?

Oh, I'm real sure.

And when as soon as I get rested up, I'm going out looking for him.

I got a few questions. It needs some answers.

You're not going to find any answers there.

He's dead.

They found your knife in the middle of his back,

and he had a handful of your bare tooth necklace.

You think I killed him, horse?

Not if you say you did.

But there's a lot of other folks that got dead.

Hey.

Would you put up some grub for me?

Why? What are you planning to do?

I reckon I'd better be moving on. I can't stay here.

I'll sit down.

We're going to take care of your back.

Where is he?

He said after supper, didn't he?

We're here, ain't we? We're moved.

Well, he went home to get his pack like the rest of him.

He'll be here directly.

Every minute goes by that black man gets further away.

Well, why don't we go without him?

Where are you going to look for him?

There ain't a man here who knows his country any better than Dannell.

Get in two for that man.

I'm going to get in two for that man.

I'm going to get in two for that man.

I'm going to get in two for that man.

I'm going to get in two for that man.

Now, you'll never find him without Dannell and you know it.

Now, just wait. He said he'd be here any will.

Yeah.

All right.

See, not this old. I saw Gideon.

Quiet, quiet, where? Where is he?

Under way here, I come by Boone's cabin.

And there he was going through the door.

Ah, and you asked that you'll wait here for Boone.

All right, man.

Why don't we wait and sit?

How about a little more hot stew?

Oh, no, no. Thanks. I'm full. I feel better. I hate better.

You were sad?

I was frightened with this blink because of what he'd done to the boy.

Could you have stabbed him while you were fighting?

No, I'd remember that.

I didn't aim to hurt him. I was just trying to defend myself.

You let you on the head.

I don't know.

I was just lying there, horse, with my head down, half-drowned in this little stream.

I reckon it was the water that drowned me, too.

You haven't gotten any idea how you got there, or who what you.

Like I said, the last thing I remember was being hit over the head.

The next thing was that I was lying there in this stream.

Maybe I crawled there. Maybe somebody carried me. I don't know.

I just don't know.

Well, your knife and your necklace.

I don't know about those either.

It ain't too convincing a story, is it?

Don't talk like that, Pa.

Somebody could have found you.

Taking your knife and your bare teeth.

It could be.

But that's awful hard to prove.

Looks like I got caught between a rock and a hard place, horse.

What am I going to do?

I reckon the only thing you can do.

Give yourself up.

Then what?

You'll stand trial.

Where?

Salem, I reckon it's in your place.

In Virginia? Are you forgetting the color of my skin?

There's no such thing as a fair trial for a man like me in Virginia, and you know it.

Might as well put the noose around my neck right now.

Now, simmer down. You've got your papers from Canada.

You're a free man. No one can deny your rights, black or not.

Gideon, trust Daniel.

As you always have, and he trusts you.

It's the only way for you and a little down the chain.

The only way for you and a little down the chain.

What were you saying about a fair trial, horse?

I should have cut and run when I had to chance.

We're now Gideon's in there, Boone.

Bring him out. Oh, we'll come and fetch him.

Now, where you want him now?

I'm asking you a question about a fair trial.

I said you'd get a fair trial, and you will. Now you stand there where I talk to.

Don't lie to us at Gendall. We know he's in there.

I didn't say he wasn't.

Well, then turn him over.

That's what I aim to do, only not to you.

I'm going to turn him over to the magistrate and sailor.

No, I'm turning him over. I get it over right.

Now, you listen. I've heard all the threats and yelling and accusations I want to hear.

Gideon's right behind that door, but if you want to get out of him, you're going to have to come through me.

He's sheltering a murderer. He's only one man.

That's why he was.

Two men.

All right, what are you going to do with him?

It's to satisfy you that I mean what I say.

You want to put him under guard in the fort tonight so you all can see him.

I reckon it wouldn't look right if I were to lock you up and let you keep this rifle.

I don't reckon it would.

Well, I'm ready to go.

All right, go ahead.

Come on, get out of here.

Come on, get out of here.

All right, come on.

Back to me.

Go!

Well, there's no point in your hanging around here. He's not going anywhere until tomorrow.

We won't be any further than the tavern.

Case to change your mind.

Remember that.

We'll take the keys.

I'll take the keys.

Come on.

When we get this all over with little down,

we'll sure have ourselves a time laughing about the night I spent here in the fort.

I spent here in the smokehouse, won't we, boy?

Yeah, I reckon we will, Pa.

And this is all over with.

Pa!

Easy now, boy. Easy.

You got a hold of yourself.

Things ain't that bad.

Please, Pa. Let him go.

There's no man here can catch him if he's free.

If I did, it'd be just the same, the same. He's guilty.

And I'd be just as guilty for doing it.

You'll have to understand that.

Guilty, or innocent, Horsey. It ain't going to make no difference in Salem, Virginia.

I'd be in there and make the difference. I won't have it any other way.

Israel, you little down. Come with me over to Cincinnati.

We're all going to stay there for the night.

You go on, son. Go on now and get a good night's sleep.

We got a long, long trip tomorrow.

Come on, old down.

You're going to have your hands full taking care of me, Horsey.

You know that, don't you?

In what way?

In any way, you want to take it.

You're the one, man. I figured I could trust.

Now you're going to slow me down the river.

You're going to have a trial.

You make me laugh, Horsey. They'll hang me for sure.

Providing that mob over there don't change their minds and hang me first.

They're not going to hang you.

Well, that's an easy thing for you to say.

It ain't your neck that's waiting for the news.

You make it sound like I'm taking sides against you.

I'm trying to help you save your life.

You give me that gun and that gun.

And let me out of here. I'll save my own.

If you were to run for it, they'd put a price on your head and chase you down.

Hmm.

Be quiet or talk sense.

I am talking sense right now.

What would happen to little Donald, your son, if you were to cut and run for it?

What's going to happen to him after they've hung me in?

That young boy.

He's been lying to you, Donald.

No, he may be.

But knowing it and proving it to somebody else are two different things.

You could talk to him.

How?

I don't know those people standing guard over.

I better yet.

You bring him here to me. I'll make him talk.

Get in.

You get some rest and let me get some.

Just kind of talk and get in this anywhere.

What I've got to do is find a way to make him and tell the truth.

Come on, Hammit. Drink up.

No, no, Mr. Cyrus wouldn't like it.

This is medicine.

This is medicine.

Rum is good for you. It'll give you strength.

So there won't be any doubt in your mind when you say what you have to say.

Come on.

Wait. You sure you don't want to back out?

Of course not.

We think I am scared of something.

My part is, I've got to help him, but you don't.

Come on.

Come on, Cincinnati. Around the drinks for the boys.

I still don't see the need going all the way to Salem for a trial.

We can hold one here.

It ain't as if we all don't know what the verdict is going to be.

I agree with Hank.

Those people don't have any interest in us.

I see no need going all the way there for them to solve our problems.

What's your feeling, Dean?

You all know my feelings.

I aim to be fair, but Hank and Luke have got a point.

Except they may have overlooked something.

Those Salem people like Luke said don't know our problems and they care less.

So it's just possible if we take the black man there for a trial,

a strange jury might let him loose.

Now, I was planning to let you spend the night here.

So you'd be satisfied that Gideon's had escape.

But if I hear any more talk about you taking the law into your own hands,

I will get down and we'll throw the whole kid in caboodle.

I'll be right out of here.

It's hard to find myself clear.

You make one thing clear.

You're a friend of boons.

And you're a friend of the black man's.

You can bet your Aunt Emma's great cat's foot I'm a friend of his.

And the more I listen to your cat-a-wall and the friend of your eye get.

Farm is in your place since you're naddest.

Well, it just so happens you are in my place, but you ain't going to be for long.

Now, if I hear much more of this.

What I meant was these men are customers of yours.

I think I'd remember that.

Oh, I suppose none of you are going to trade with me anymore, huh?

That's just what might happen.

Well, if I have to cater to a lynch mob in order to make a living,

well, I am just going to retire.

What's the matter?

I'm going to retire.

It's just back up a mic.

You call me that's a lynch mob.

Have you got a better name for it?

Not only was your temper a luke, since an artist didn't mean it that way.

Who said I didn't?

Well, there ain't a man here that thinks he ain't the whole judge and jury.

You've already got a man convicted with no proof.

What more proof do you want?

I want a lot more.

If Gideon said he didn't do it, then that blame it.

He didn't do it.

I don't know of a man who wouldn't buy to save his own skin.

It's a possibility that somebody else might be a liar.

I suppose you'd have fell into that boy there.

I ain't naming names, but it's something you could all think about.

We've already done our thinking.

You all heard Gideon.

Saw him tonight.

Standing with Boone, threatening us.

Why would he do that if he went guilty?

Just a minute.

Just a minute.

Maybe you need a little threatening.

Maybe you need somebody that's going to calm you down to help you think straight.

Now, I said I was going to get Boone and I'm going to do it.

All right, get him.

Go on.

Let him hear what the boy has to say now.

Now there ain't any doubt in his mind.

Now he remembers seeing Gideon stab my brother.

It was like a bad dream.

I couldn't believe it myself.

He must have thought I was unconscious after he beat on me.

I remember it now.

I remember it just as plain.

This is plain.

It is, boy. We understand.

Boone hears that.

There'll be no way he'll be able to justify going to save him.

Well, you know what we need for it.

We got plenty of good straw ropes right here at Boosboro.

Here's what. I'm got Gideon's name on it.

All right, Jim.

Come on.

Damn.

What's the matter?

It's starting up again.

I tried to hold him down, but it's that boy.

That Morgan boy.

Well, what's he saying now?

He says that he's seeing you.

He's seeing you backstab, Blake.

They ain't talking about ropes. They're talking about getting one.

Stay here and keep watch. I'll see what I can do.

Bit of hurry, Dannel.

That boy, that him and Morgan,

seems he's bound to get me hung.

Are you worried long enough?

I know my pa has, but it won't do no harm to take it slow and easy

because we ain't going to get a second chance.

Here's the gun. You got the key?

You know what you have to do.

Don't worry about it.

You never heard me when I'm sick. I sound like I'm dying.

It's real. I'm depending on you.

Now, give me time to speak around.

Okay.

Cincinnati, would you please sit down?

You're making me nervous walking up and down.

Well, that makes two of us.

Help!

Help!

Please, someone help me!

What in tarnation was that?

It sounds like somebody's hurt.

Help!

Please, someone help me!

Dang, if it don't sound like his real boon, you better go see.

Now, you just wait right there.

Help!

Help!

Hello, Dan.

What are you doing, boy?

Ain't no time for trying, Pa.

I don't care.

Trying to be peaceful.

Help!

Well, how did you get used to the way?

Don't matter. You're going to hang in the pot.

I looked at it. We've got to go.

Israel.

Israel boon. Is that you?

Help!

Help!

What in tarnation?

Israel?

Now, there's one thing you're overlooking.

Hemmet here says that Gideon whipped him.

The thing I want to know is who whipped Gideon.

You've all seen the lash marks on his back.

Now, as far as any of us know, there were only two men present when all this took place.

Hemmet and Gideon.

Now, Hemmet's had his chance to speak.

I say Gideon's entitled to the same.

But not in a tavern.

It has to be a proper court of law.

If you're not out there, you heard it, didn't you, Gideon?

Gideon?

Gideon?

No.

Gideon?

That's brilliant Gideon.

You said you wasn't going anyplace.

Daniel?

Daniel?

Daniel, Gideon's gone.

He's got a horse.

He's got a horse.

He's got a horse.

You double-tracer.

He's been forgotten about himself.

I know that, but I heard this noise.

Well, it's like someone was hurt.

It sounded like Israel.

Israel.

But I didn't say it was Israel. It just sounded like him.

I went to look and I couldn't find nobody. I started back.

Well, and I went over and found out he was going.

Smokehouse was empty.

And he told me he wasn't going noplace.

Then.

Then.

Well.

Even in part?

Even.

You did this.

No.

You did.

You did.

You frightened them into it.

The boys did what they thought was right.

And if anyone is to blame here, you are.

All of them.

They wasted enough time.

Let's get our guns.

There ain't no stopping them now. If they find him.

Will they hang him?

That's what you want, isn't it?

Well, he ought to be punished, oughtn't he?

If he did everything wrong, yes, he should be punished.

Do you agree with that, don't you?

Well, I'm sorry.

After what you say did to you and to Blake, I think maybe you'd want to watch and see what happened when they catch up with you.

Damn.

Well, how about it, you would, wouldn't you?

No, no, I don't want to see no hanging.

Well, you're going to, whether you want it or not.

No, you can't make me see no hanging.

Hey, leave him be. He knows what he's doing.

Israel, it's time for you to go back to the...

Oh, Mom.

Right now.

They're a long way off. They'll be here. They'll be here soon or not.

I don't understand.

But before he gets hung, I want you to meet the man that you condemned to die.

I did no such thing.

Didn't you?

Who do you think stirred that mob up? You didn't. I think you have a reason. I'll get out of here.

Please stop. I've got to rest.

We can't stop. I wouldn't want you to miss anything.

Come on.

I can't go any further. I've got to rest.

Well, rest real fast for it, because, like I said, I wouldn't want you to miss anything.

You've never seen a hanging hanging.

No, I haven't. I don't want to, either.

But why not? It didn't bother you sitting there in the tavern saying when you saw Gideon doing the killer.

In a way, it's your hanging. You're responsible. If it weren't for you, he wouldn't be on his way to trial.

I don't want to see it. Well, you're going.

Not as much as you won't forget. It's not a pretty sign.

Especially when you're responsible.

No!

Well, now you can stop it, boy. You can stop it real easy. Just about telling the truth.

What do you mean? I told the truth.

You knew you'd shoot.

Well, I didn't lie. I didn't.

Come on.

Gideon!

Gideon, is that you?

Yeah, it's me, Ross. Gideon, I've got to talk to you.

It's too late. Go away, Daniel. I don't want to have to hurt you, but I ain't going back to hang.

Gideon, last night you wanted me to bring the boy to you.

Now I've brought him. What do you talk to him?

It's too late for that, Daniel. People think I'm a murderer. So I don't make no more difference.

Now listen, you stay here. Gideon is not going to miss twice.

If you try to go any way, I'll track you. I think you know that.

I meant what I said, host!

Go back, horse! I meant what I said.

Nobody's going to take me in, horse. You know that. You've got to know that.

Nobody's going to take me in, horse. You know that.

You've got to know that.

You've got to know that.

Oh, look out!

Gideon, you've got to listen. Get up! Let me go!

Get him off!

Get him off!

Get him off!

Get him off!

I'll show! I will!

Let him be! Let him be!

No!

Let my son be!

I will if you listen.

All right. All right. All right.

Now listen. Go on and say what you've got to say, but let my boy be.

Him and his waiting for you right over there.

Him and how many others? You think I'm a fool?

You are if you don't trust me.

It's still loaded.

All right, horse. You read the way. Let's go, boy.

Not you, Pa!

He's the one, Pa. He wants you dead.

Easy, boy. Easy. There's no need for harsh words.

I just want to know why. Why me? What did I ever do to you?

You killed my friend. You killed Mr. Blake and you beat me half to death.

You got a bad memory, boy. Real bad.

Now, I was trying to help you. And you know that. That's all I was doing. You know that's true.

I saw you. I saw you with a knife. You. Oh. Drop your gun.

Let's take him, boys.

They were going to kill me. I told you you used to a late horse. Come on.

Hang on.

No, no, I'm not.

Drop it!

Drop it!

See that that notch is good and strong.

It ain't got a give. Not even with his weight.

All right.

Take him up.

At least you can do as that, my boy. Go!

I don't want him to see me. Let him go.

No.

He was seen.

And he will learn not to throw up to be at either like his father.

Hey, Matt! This is your last chance, boy. Tell him the truth.

He has told the truth.

If he has, he's going to have a lot more to talk about when this is over.

Isn't that right, him and Tootsie? I don't know what you're talking about.

I mean, how it is when they pull that rope, I imagine you'll be real proud of yourself.

You'd better be, boy, because you're going to have to live with it.

That's enough. You'll shut your mouth.

Get on with it. Bring him up.

No, don't do it. Please, don't do it.

Please! Get my boy out of here. Hang me if you got to hang me, but don't let him see me.

No, Gideon, let him watch too.

Just like you're going to watch it, and I'd write him it. You're going to watch.

Maybe Gideon will try to talk to you when they lift his feet off the ground.

He's going to try, but he's not going to be able to. So you watch it close.

You watch it close, and then you'll see how it is.

And believe me, you'll never forget it all the rest of your life.

Now get on with it.

Shut him up. Come on.

Come on.

See how it is to kill a man.

Poor!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

Oh, poor!

I just didn't know what to do.

I didn't know. I was hurt and scared.

It was Blake. It was Blake that made me beat him. He made me whip him.

It was either him or me, and I just couldn't take no more. I just couldn't.

Go on.

He made me beat you, and he made me beat you, and beat you, and...

Until I couldn't lift my arm no more.

He couldn't feel nothing anyway. So Blake let me stop.

And then he grabbed a whip away from me. And he started to hit me.

I don't know how many times he hit me.

And I must have gone crazy from the pain. That's when I grabbed your knife.

Lord, have mercy.

That's when you killed him.

I didn't know he was dead. I didn't know until I rolled him over, and so were...

So were he fell. He fell right on the knife.

How come? How come you didn't say? How come you blamed my paw?

Made it look like he did it.

Because I was scared. That's why I told you I was scared.

Besides who believed me.

Apparently quite a few did.

You'll have to stand trial all of you know that.

That you want to do it here.

How about you, Enoch?

May God forgive me.

You forgive me too.

I'll start on back.

I'll head on over to Salem tomorrow.

Will I get a fair trial?

I'll see you then.

Can you be sure?

Well...

When Daniel says he'll see to it,

he'll be there.

He'll be there.

He'll be there.

He'll be there.

When Daniel says he'll see to it,

he'll see to it.

Ain't that right, boy?

That's right, Pa. That's really right.

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