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lorna dune
a romance of exmoor england
1673
if anybody cares to read a simple tale
which i will set down in order
god's sparing my life
at the time my story begins the people
of exmoor valley were ruled by sirens or
dune and his kinsmen
overlords of all the valley farmlands
dune castle stood on a craggy mountain
to which there was only one known
entrance
a narrow cleft in the hills guarded by a
strong drawbridge
but in this castle burned an ambition so
great
that even the king found need to curb it
he ordered his lord sheriff dwight
chelsea
to draw up a proclamation against them
it decreed
but for their part in cromwell's
conspiracy against the crown
all dunes were outlawed but their lands
confiscated
but charles ii was in london
with heavy and greedy hands
now that we're outlaws in sir it seems
my sons are well prepared for it if
crown will have lived we'd have tripled
our lands and you might have been prime
minister of england
yes councillor he did us a bad turn by
dying
as well as himself but regrets won't
heal the past nor help live traitors
grandfather what's a traitor anyone who
differs with the king lorna my dear
does this mean that yokos won't have to
obey us now this parchment says they
don't cover
what do we say father yes brother
charlie with us a fair question do we
stand our ground or cut and run for
scotland
i'm a bit too old for running brother
and lorna's much too young
we'll be outlaws here and explore do you
agree
the walls of dune castle are thicker
than this parchment and the king's
troops are busy in france
will continue as overlords of exmore
with or without the law
it is herewith decreed that sir and sir
dune and all members of his family are
outlawed
and their lands are declared confiscated
be careful annie sign the which you'll
see so lads with three men at last
the land is ours to till and the
prophets from the harvest ours to keep
hey for john we've only changed one
master for another it's now
king's land i have farmer snow but the
crown's taxes are but a drop of water
compared to the blood the dunes have
sucked for generations
all right so here's to his majesty king
charles
i'm a writ the dunes
he said that today he refused to pay the
quarterly tax orders
i owe the dunes nothing now get off my
land
so it's your land now it's the king but
it's mine to till
there's nothing here belongs to any dune
he speaks for all of us i
think he does that case we'll take from
all of you
livestock equal in value to the tax
drive off ten head of farmer red's best
cattle can
bring my mustard
the following day jan try road to
tibetan
to fetch me home from school
but jan you still haven't told me my
father didn't come for me himself
we're with shorter hands lad you have to
be a man now
do a man's work i can do it easy 11
years old is more than halfway to being
a man
eighteen head of my best catalytic and
half my sheep
there'll be nothing left to pay the
king's tax there's those that have lost
more
red lumpy where's your master
father i'm home
mother where's father who are the
neighbors here
easy land
he's in there you best let the boy in mr
smith
yes doctor go to your father
john
we fly unto thee for comfort o lord
in behalf of this thy servant here lying
in great weakness of body
is that you john yes
father
sorry i couldn't come for you myself
this time i missed your father
welcome homeland
there's a strength in your hand
we need it here that red flame
it was murder milord sheriff
cold-blooded murder
grievous charge good sirs but can you
say master snow which doom fired the
fatal shot
there was no telling the fog was too
thick you empty my hands of power to
assist you since unfortunately the
bullet penetrated the fog better than
your eyes didn't
arm me with evidence friends clear
evidence
isn't a mananese grave evidence enough
don't you see my law this act of
violence means that the dunes will defy
the king's decree
they'll force us to pay double taxes if
you don't help us i have boundless
sympathy sir but unfortunately only a
handful of deputies to cover all of
somerset county
it will require an army to storm dune
drawbridge it would take no army
lord if we could find another way up to
dune glen
there's only one other break in the
cliffs the cut made by dune waterfall
no man could climb that
my child's mind was fired by the grim
purpose of avenging my father
jan frye had said no man can climb that
cup made by the falls
but i had it in mind that maybe a boy
could do what a man could not
so
so
so
foreign
so
i must have laid unconscious for several
hours for the sun had dried my clothes
oh
what a scare you gave me i thought you
were dead
i thought so too but if you're alive
so must i be you are aren't you
of course silly your hand
it's bleeding only a scratch
i must have got it when i slept on the
cliff you should know better than to
play so near the edge
i wasn't playing i was climbing from the
valley
of the rocks by the falls now you're
making up fairy tales
no i'm not honest they cross my heart
not to die
cross my heart and hope to die you see
it was the only way i could get to doom
glenn
i've got to see sir and sir dune well
i'll take your grandfather but first
keep your wrist there while i tie this
knot
grandfather then
senor lorna dune what's your name
john ridd john red that's a nice
name there now the goblins won't suck
your blood
i i can't take it don't untie it you
must keep it covered
take your hands off here
speak up loud came to spy on us didn't
you
i'll speak to none but certain
charlie
the claude's manners need mending he's
come to the right
place down on your knees and beg our
pardons
kill him
oh
who are you my name is john ryd farmer
ridge boy
how'd you get here you climbed up by the
falls to see you grandfather
young man i admire your boldness but
just what did you want of me
you're a knight sir and bound by a
knight so
it's your duty to help me find the man
who killed my father
killed yes and when i find him i'll have
the right to challenge and
kill him well brother i hope our men
don't hear him
might frighten them away hey boys
it's been many years since anyone has
appealed to my nightly honor
but it's an appeal that cannot be
disregarded our measure of a man is the
doorway of dune castle
when you believe you can fill it come to
me again with your challenge
i won't forget sir no matter how long it
takes meanwhile brother what do we do
with this trout who swims up waterfalls
let him rot in the dungeon grandfather
please
don't let them i won't my dear
i'd say the lad's father's already paid
his debt
want to guide this young man to the
drawbridge tell garth to see him safely
home
and you led keep away from waterfalls
they might stunt your growth good day
sir
my wrist just stopped bleeding mr sloane
you'd just keep my handkerchief with you
thank you you can return it later john
red
and you come back to fill our doorway i
will carver dune
and i hope you'll be standing in it
the boy had grown into a man but
although the years had only given us
fleeting glimpses of each other
i could not forget i had grown older
but not in memory and the day came when
i rode homewood after five years abroad
in the king's service
a man grown and trained in arms
ah john sorry young woman i mistook you
with my freckleface brat of a sister
so you've taken to kissing first and
looking afterwards eh
we learned that in the army oh
john thank heaven you're home and safe
mother you're prettier than ever and
you've learned to flatter the ladies or
is it only because there's food on the
fire
i've come a long way to this fire mother
we kept it burning for you lad
freshly baked i'll need plenty of this
to get strength for the harvest
i saw the fields as i rolled by never
have we known such
aye it's cause of them that parson
bowden's called a meeting here today
you'll find new hope in exmoor lad
we thank thee lord for this bountiful
harvest
may it strengthen us against our
oppressors that we may reap new courage
from the soil of our servitude
amen
and now you'll be back with your friends
and neighbors john red we'll make better
use of your good right arm than carving
foreign folk
on every top of grain to thrash that
long wait you're coming
oh my name's not calvin oates and many
another good man of eczema has lost his
life by trying to stand against the
dooms
their father was the first giant but not
the last and you've had no help from the
king
the king has his hands full with his
foreign wars he can't spare troops to
patch the troubles of one little village
and his majesty sheriff is full of fears
and warnings
but no help then it's time we take the
plow into our own hands and help
ourselves
ready gathering at red farm hey carver
we'll join it charlieworth
and now that our harvest promise a
return well over the blood money taken
by the dunes
i make you this proposal but every extra
pound and shilling
our harvest brings us be spent in the
gunsmiths of bristol to buy swords and
muskets
we'll defend our rights against the
dunes and pay them no more taxes
and if need be we can drive the dunes
out of their stronghold
perhaps you'd like to start now
we've just been admiring your fields and
meadows we think it only fitting that we
too
should share in the profit of eczema's
greatest harvest
you're not welcome here carvadoon our
boyhood companion returned from the wars
you've been away too long john rid
you've forgotten who's master of this
land
disarm
i must remind you that only dunes bear
arms here
and to remove you all from any such
temptation
perhaps we'd better add the profit of
this harvest to our taxes
i'll see i was rotting the ground first
and i'll apply mine under i'll burn my
costs and pay your taxes
you bring us a plague of disobedience
we'd best begin to cure it
john ridd have you changed your mind
about the harvest
give him ten more
mistress lorna asked me to tell you that
sir answered watch you at the castle
hear me well the punishment you've just
seen is mild to what you'll get
there is any more talk of destroying
crops or purchasing arms
when the harvest is ripe you'll reap it
we have to drive you into the fields
with whips i'd best ride with you
the clods are in ugly mood as you wish
follow with my horse
was it enzo who wanted to see me or you
my dear
he will want to see you when he finds
out you started tax collecting with a
lash
so you tricked me into stopping the
punishment
no i merely stopped your temper from
getting you into trouble with
grandfather
you should be grateful and uh was this
concern
for me the only reason you stopped it
i think it was very well my dear
i cannot object to your motive as the
future lady of exmore
in time we may rule together
dune lands as far as the eye can see
isn't that rather a wild dream carver
perhaps not
what a king takes away he might restore
a king cannot restore the people's love
of the dunes
i do without it if i have yours
the welts of the lash still burned my
skin
and the threat to seize our harvest
burned in our hearts
we were of a mine to end doom power once
and for all time
for this we met in badgery forest in the
still of the night
i say we attack and storm dune castle
we're all for that
but the dunes have a hundred fighting
men they'd cut us down like you reaper
cornfield
he's right there it would take an army
well but a handful of farmers
perhaps we're not an army now but we can
be
you calvin oates you can swing a side
better than a dragoon can swing a saber
and you walt snow i've seen you shoot
the eye out of a fox that was raiding
your hen coop
and in all the king's forces there's not
a grenadier can throw a straighter stone
than you todd
we're a handful now but this valley is
full of men who only need to trade their
sickles for muskets and swords
she says true enough john but where do
we get the arms
that's my question too there are plenty
of weapons in this valley
the wrong hands perhaps we can remedy
that mistake
yeah so
no hurry friend not now it is well
if to die you're unwilling pass over
your shilling
i gather you haven't improved your
rhymes or your occupation
put away that young cannon and take off
your mask cousin tom vegas
oh no not john
red back from the wars and still
breathing powder and smoke
were the picking so poor around the
highways of london that you had to come
back here and rob your own relatives
oh since i've come to that devil take me
if i don't ride to delverton and let the
sheriffs hang one make me a head taller
if you're that set on dying i have a
better way we'll name it master john
an empty purse is a highwayman's curse
i'm finding too many in these slim times
ride with me to rid farm from now on you
shall rob nothing but dunes
well i might give it a try my conscience
grieves to
steal from thieves
every patrol was ambushed sirenser only
five of us got away
threats and lashes aren't improving
their obedience cover
it appears i was too gentle did you
recognize any of them i know counselor
and they attack us from every likely
spot in the valley sounds like part of a
well-planned uprising very well planned
master carver
and they seem more after our weapons
than our lives
weapons
who's there open up
friend could you be using some pig
stickers and dune exterminators in fine
condition come in man before you fall
down
i'm a walking arsenal from toes to teeth
the dooms must feel undressed your men
didn't leave many to skin
but i did my best
oh pardon me um
this is a a distant cousin tom fagas um
traveler tax collector
inspector of highways my little sister
annie
sister oh
this is an unexpected pleasure miss
annie i didn't know he had such an
important cousin
oh it's unfortunate that my profession
keeps me traveling the highways
the misfortune was ours master vegas or
we would have enjoyed more of your
company
then for past failings we'll feel no
sorrows but see they do not hinder our
tomorrows
you're a poet too master vegas ah mr
zanny
the site of beauty makes all men poets
my
there's a flight of crows coming master
tom
good morning farmer red good morning
master carver excuse my lack of
deference but i can't rise quickly don't
try
stay where you are i'm uh
sorry to see you so helpless i'd hope to
find you swinging aside
not even a sickle today my lord you
sleep last night
reasonably well i've learned to sleep on
my side no nightmares
the clash of steel the thunder of hooves
fallen riders
i dream only of getting well in time to
help reap our harvest excellent
a good day master it ah don't fall into
bad company
do you believe in carver not a word of
it
such a fine broad bank has carved
bring me a dune jacket
i'd come to believe there might be a way
to attack dune castle by the cliff from
the top of the falls
there was only one way to find out
now i knew for certain that a handful of
men could approach the castle
and attack the drawbridge gate from the
rear
mr lorna john i'm sorry if i frightened
you
but i saw the horse and expected to find
a doom sentry
how did you get here i chose the same
way a boy once took you
chose your death if they see you that's
why i wear this jacket
for once i hope to be mistaken for a
doom
the years haven't changed your hate for
us have they john nor did carver's whip
but i'm grateful to you lorna for saving
some of the skin on my back
you mustn't stay the patrols are apt to
find you let's hope the dune who sees me
doesn't live to report it
john can't you see where this bitter
hatred will bring you
for your own sake put it from you
only
and for me
see here until a storm has passed
and the storm with this will that pass
mistress lorna
mr florina
mr florina i'm here
i'm taking shelter from the rain you may
continue your round
very well milady
you love me i can't jump
you do your heart your lips i know i
know
but storms within us cannot change the
lives we have to live
mine in the dune castle and yours in the
valley below
what else is stronger than our hearts
the plans that were made for us john
almost before we were born we each have
a duty to our people
i promise to wake carpa dude
but our lives aren't made by dreams
for a moment i thought ours were
now that the storm has passed we can go
our ways
i'll pray you find a safe road home
i'll take the road i must john
so it came to be that i who was to lead
this fight against the dunes
must first fight my own heart
oh my dear carver i observe siren says
beast seems to have found himself a new
master in dune castle
i appreciate your flattery sheriff but
i'd rather hear news of the valley
and of the farmers who disappear by
night oh
shrewd rogue is my good sir devilish
rude
by day they work their fields docile as
lambs
and do you know how these dasa lambs get
through our patrols after darkness
if i may charge you to be patient just a
little longer how long
until we've robbed enough arms to storm
the castle no no no perhaps only until
tonight
you see officially the valley men could
not ask my aid at weapons stealing
now that's over i've been asked to
attend a meeting
it may decide how the illegal weapons
may be legally used against you
and you've been told where this
meeting's to be held my good friend you
may count on it i will know later
but of course i will not know should i
be followed
a white horse is most easily followed in
a dark forest
my dear carver
i found this path along the clifftops i
plan we use it and take the drawbridge
here from the inside
what with eight men it would take a
regiment no what the regiment would fail
but eight men climbing the falls by
darkness
with knotted ropes could use this path
and take the bridge guard by surprise
what are you sure we can make this climb
as sure as i'm here
once we hold the bridge gate our valley
men can enter by the drawbridge
did tom distribute the weapons yes by
hay wagon
well boys that sets us up as soon as
time arrives we'll move out
we strike tonight my good friends you
have my unbounded gratitude for inviting
me here to share your confidence
it is my deepest regret that the only
assistance i can give you is to be
somewhere else officially
at the time you attack
well if the law can't help us at least
it won't hinder us now we know the
sheriff won't have a shot as poachers
when i get up to doomglenn i'm not
coming down while there's a single dune
left alive
hi to the last dune be dead that's for
me i'm with you we'll kill them all
spare no one
amen to that there was only one dune
in my mind
follow me to my old hideout i'll try and
leave them up if you succeed meet me at
castle rock
that didn't take long looks like you
saved our skins that time john all right
but
it's a bit worried for a while your old
highwayman's ruth came in handy tom
yes it saved my neck from a noose or
time or two the dunes shaved us too
close
it's my guess it wasn't just luck are
you thinking we will follow john
it's possible i didn't see hide or hear
of him in the valley when we came
but somebody might have told them but
who'd do that the only ones who knew of
our meeting were here
there's one that isn't i never did put
much trust in sheriffs
well perhaps the sheriff himself was
followed tom
we've no way of knowing meantime they've
killed our chances for tonight
we'd best hide up here a while and hope
none of us were recognized
they must have sprouted leaves we'll
never find their hideaway in the
darkness
know any of them the two snow brothers
farmer snow
farmer snow was given fair warning but
he listened to other voices
you ought to preach them a sermon on
false prophets parson
a prophet is not without honor save in
his own country
your village profits will lose more than
their honor
here is a list of the men who are
missing from their farms tonight
john ryd walt and jonas snow
calvin oates todd
gurney platt and william davis
these are the men who have taken up arms
against us i give them two days to
surrender
you here who are their fathers at best
see that they do
or for every sun in the forest a father
will hang here
there now stand very still while i
measure the length
granny hand me my tape
but mrs lacey the tape is about your
neck
heard i'll thank you not to speak of
next with a hangman's rope so busy and
ex-moss
i was in the village this morning mr
sloane there was one of them
swinging back and forth stiff
swaying in the wind if she keeps on
we'll be cutting a shroud instead of a
bridal gown
well they do say though
before it's done they'll all be hung
that young
master is the highest
mrs lazy i think we'll continue the
measuring another time
but mr slaughner the gown will never be
finished in time for the wedding
but is there nothing you can do about
this reign of terror carver's brought on
the valley
i hope so lorna but it's harder to stem
a flow of blood then started
do you mean to try uncle good morning my
dear
you sent for me this trouble in the
valley is getting out of hand
out of whose hand uncle yours carver
and it must stop post this proclamation
in the village under my name
it promises that if john rid and his men
return peaceably to their farms
there'll be no further reprisals and is
this your answer to rebellion
you brought it on us carver i know the
valley people
lashings and hangings won't make them
obey us are you thinking of anyone in
particular
ron is right carver the people will pull
a full load if there's a firm just hand
on the reins
but if you use the whip and saw it the
bit you'll have a runaway
your firm just handmade outlaws of his
uncle but if my tighter reigns can make
john ridden his rebels lay down their
arms before tomorrow night
we may not lose all authority he's right
and sir it's my opinion carver's making
the best of a bad situation
it's not mine counselor i bear the blame
for our past mistakes but i'll not let
you add to them
there'll be no more hangings than exmoor
carver
you and charlotte remain here
i'll read this next more myself so the
people will know who's the master of
dune castle
who is uncle why don't you summon the
guard and see if they'll obey you
i shall it's useless answer the garrison
has exercised its ancient privilege
as do men at arms to choose their new
master
it seems the outlaw years have changed
our ravens into vultures
it's very well covered i call upon
another
ancient dune tradition
please don't have to talk now i'll send
for the position
we met in the church yard buried farm
snow
it's hard news to be bringing here but
it's best you know
they're holding calories father until
tomorrow he'll be the next
i'm going to exmore to give myself up
no cal you'd be paying them a higher
price than eating your father's life
if any one of us surrenders now we lose
our last chance to break the dunes you
have us hide here in this this whole
a father's swing hi you can't argue that
he's right john
no what we do is up to us all carver's
hangings have sent us a time and a task
to follow our plan and attack the castle
tonight
spread the word to meet on dune road at
moonset the eight of us will be there to
let you in the drawbridge gate
aye john we'll be there night onto a
hundred of us with our borrowed weapons
and we'll be praying they'll still be
out of you to let us in
amen to that
you must rest quietly now
yes to rest quietly
do you remember what i used to tell you
of your father and mother
how mother died when i was born and
father in the war with spain
your only son i had no son lorna
your father was the son of my bitter
enemy at court
the duke of lorne
you're not a doom at all you have royal
blood
cousin of his majesty the king
but i've lived here all my life not
quite all
you're a year old when i had you stolen
from lorne manor in county kent
to hold us hostage here against the duke
but i never used that secret
because a baby girl captured my heart
i can scarcely realize it
after all these years my my name a lot
your true grandfather richard duke of
lorne
is one of the king's ministers
i'd thought to use your marriage to
restore the dunes in his majesty's favor
does carver know this yes my dear
but the blame was mine for involving you
in this devil's steep
chase of mad ambitions
the race is lost to me lorna i'm at the
last
jump here
here child my full confession
carver can never force this marriage if
you can get this safely to the duke
after all these years will he still
believe he will believe the image of
your mother when he sees your face
but hurry now oil carve is away from the
castle escape tunnel to the foot of the
cliffs
then to the duke of lorne
and godspeed but i can't leave you with
them
even the dunes
cannot trouble me
now
oh forget that
mistress lorna master cow has just given
orders you're not to pass the gate
there is another way out but i'd need a
horse to put of the cliffs by the
wizards bog
there is someone who would bring it to
you
if it's john rid you're thinking of no
gweny he's hidden somewhere in the
forest between our own patrols and
the hangman's rope but mistress lorna
there's no one else we can turn to
i must get to london i know i could find
help there for all our ex more people
milady i could pass the gate and take a
message to rib farm
perhaps someone there could find him in
the forest
it's a very thin hope but the only one
milady
please will you write the message
i beat you in the valley men are as
ready as ever they'll be good
oh annie sent this to you
she said gweny brought it from dune
glenn
watching for ravens john no two rooks
nests
i uh any
knows the truth about my past and uh
she and i well if i can win a king's
pardon and
and hang up my black mask could i hope
you think
would i have the right to my tongue-tied
friend
i'm the last man on earth to know the
right and wrong of love
could i dare gamble even one hour's
delay
but all the time i waited for her signal
i knew there was no choice at all
the voice of my heart was stronger than
my
you're going to help her yes tom i am
a man can't go against his heart jump
i'm for you
the men are ready to start john i'm
delaying our start another hour walt
another hour the valley man will be
waiting near the drawbridge by nine
we'll need all the time we've got to
climb the falls he's right john and
you'll be giving the doomed patrols more
chance to see us
why the delay because it's my order john
i'll leave the loan of your horse tom
oh
the dead can hear a lie guani oh no sir
i i wouldn't lie i know only what i've
told you
that much we know ourselves you've no
knowledge where she is now
i don't know i don't know
that'll be old money for now
sad day my old friend we share a great
loss counselor yes
no man can lose more than a brother but
to balance the scales of sorrow i bring
important news
eight leaders of the farmers are hidden
near the foot of the falls to attack
tonight
who cares about the yokel's lawn is
missing from the castle no but upon my
soul sir trouble breeds trouble
i'm greatly shocked cover
i question the gate cards the owner did
not leave by the drawbridge
she must have used the escape tunnel
without help she couldn't get very far
perhaps she found help the escape tunnel
leads near the base of the fall
charlie not a full patrol we'll search
the forest
i was afraid that i wouldn't come yes
you've got a lot to learn about me
but first tell me why you're running
away from the dunes sirens is dead
i have to reach overton highway before
carver starts his search
i'll tell you as we go you'll be a
running target in this forest for the
dunes and my men alike
i'd better take you back with me and get
help
our locket and certain baby clothes
which may be found in dune castle
given under my seal this state and sedum
the proof of my story is here in syren's
signed confession
if i can get this to the duke of lorne
you'll have the king's help to free
yourselves of the dunes
you've heard her story let's give her
safe escort to the dulberton road
she's not going john don't talk like a
fool todd
she needs our help that's why i brought
her here we're not helping a dune
or believing her she's no dune walt i
know your mind's poisoned with hate but
you must believe her on the word of a
thief and outlaw grandfather
sorrenzo wouldn't set his name to a lie
on his deathbed on whose word her way
that he is dead
put it away john you've already wasted
too much of our time all right
leaders in one of carver's traps more
like i swear to you it's no trap and
what do you swear by mr stoon
your sacred promise to red carver she
wouldn't be running from a man she was
going to marry
she might be leading him to us i say
holder is hostage in case our attack
should fail
you're dead wrong am i you delayed our
whole plan to attack
to bring her here just whose side do you
want john
yes what she do john
my feelings have no part in this she's
got him bewitched
our love's sick maybe will you answer
that jon
you've answered it for me and i'll not
deny it
i mean to help her with or without you
then we'll carry out our plan without
you
the girl stays here we'll have no leader
who loves a dune and we'll match carver
june with the threat of a hanging of
our own her life against my father's now
you start to talk like dunes yourselves
clear back no job i'd rather be their
prisoners than come between you and your
people
we're going lorna get back
john keep going john you made your
choice when you left us to get the dune
woman
hand over your arms
don't make me use this walt
stand where you are and drop your
weapons
sirens confession reach the duke if you
can
well lorna it's a strange place to find
you
get john red sword and bind him first
you'll fall down for them
i hope they catch him find them and take
them to the castle
thanks to john we'll all swing now
he's turned his back on all he belonged
to
because he loved the dune
as we rode self blame rode with us i had
sacrificed my man for lorna
now there was but one hope to save them
and her i had to find the duke of lorne
we learned he had accompanied the king
to bristol
your majesty this document from sir
ensor dune is
proof but unfortunately long the only
proof of master rich story
jeffrey's here is inclined to doubt this
wild tale that lorna dune is actually
our cousin
this i presume is the deathbed
confession
though it seems rather thin to list the
crimes of the dunes
sire if i may speak prado lorne informs
us that you're not shy of words to
support your claim
if ever i had doubted the truth of what
mistress lorna told me her majesty
this portrait of her mother would kill
any doubts the countess is the very
image of lorna herself
what say you to that jeffers it is
possible sir it is possible
but from what i can hear master ridge
seems to be an audacious fellow
who's taken the law into his own hands
to organize a revolt to nexmar
is this true red i've done everything i
could to fight the dunes your majesty
they killed my father they've bled us
with taxes and terrorized our people if
i have the luck to return i'll fight
them again
this young man's hatred for the doom
seems to match our own
but what if our law if memory serves we
have a sheriff in delverton your majesty
if this confession is true
sheriff there which will say actually
assisted in the abduction of my
granddaughter
then i'll swear sire his aid to the
dunes did not stop there
his fortunate master read that the crown
had at least one loyal defender
i'm here because i failed your majesty
the men who followed me are doomed
prisoners
if they're not already dead perhaps it
will be more truth to admit that we have
failed
failed to protect our loyal subjects
against a nest of thieving outlaws
have you had any military experience
master red i had the honour to be a
sergeant for five years in your
majesty's service
then i suggest that we entrust to our
sergeant the liberation of our subjects
and of our cousin give him what help he
asks
what a pity no great river connects
bristol with exmoor
or we might send the new ship of war
we've finished
watching the road to exmoor
still expecting a visitor my dear
there's no need of pretense between us
carver that fire in your eyes is very
beautiful
it gives me even more reason to want to
marry you i'm sure you have enough
reasons already
as mistress of lauren castle i'd bring
your king's pardon
or perhaps a knighthood in the place in
court serenzo told me all of your hopes
he didn't have to tell you that i've
always loved you besides i have your
promise
you have the promise of a dune not the
daughter of the duke of lorne
this will come as bad news to the six
valley farmers who are presently
enjoying the hospitality of dune castle
you see i'd hoped to invite them to our
wedding
that is my dear unless you prefer to see
them hanged
however
to the king's law may the doom soon be
safely back within it
good evening sheriff john ridd
i thought you would safely escape the
dunes that would be difficult with you
and explorer sheriff
as his majesty sheriff i protested
you seem dressed for a wedding the doom
waiting perhaps
this is most embarrassing to the dune
spy
you'll feel even more embarrassed to
accompany us where we're going sheriff
your horse is saddled gentlemen i'm
always ready to be of assistance you're
going to be
with the king's dragoons to help us we
now had a better way of getting into
doom castle
than climbing the falls
oh who wants to enter tell them to open
open for his majesty sheriff and wedding
guests
it's the sheriff right enough jump to it
you live two minutes or two hours it's
your choice now
you'd better hurry sheriff the others
are all inside you'll be late for the
wedding
darth sees these men yep
he's an honest sheriff now
hide them in the guard room
we've got to get lawn at first remember
don't move till i fire the signal
watch and be ready
i wish that ensor might have lived to
see this happy day
it's been a long time in coming
the ceremony awaits only the bride thank
you
i hope she's eager to join us father
escort her down after tonight that
pleasure will be mine
yes is that you granny
carver is waiting my dear
i was just waiting for gweny to help me
all brides are nervous and all grooms
impatient
they mustn't keep carver waiting any
longer i'll try to
put hurry blade away john red watch out
john
uh
and fire it out of the window yes john
fire through the door
to the courtyard quickly
we'd surprised and trapped all but two
of the dunes
carver and charlieworth had somehow
vanished
and i knew i'd live to regret it if they
were not found
the whole castle is surrounded by guards
carver
maybe after the search parties give up
win of a chance to get away
north to scotland over the border to
wales
and raise another force perhaps from
where charlie
the graveyard
dunes have always been able to raise
followers
in the meantime that this will keep us
from starving
dunes have become rats in their own
castle skulking
and stealing food from their own tables
come in john red we've been expecting
you
your majesty young man we are not in the
habit of being kept waiting
but sire i didn't know that we'd pay you
a visit
no more did we but we wanted to see how
well you cleared out this
nest of vipers and protected our
charming cousin
i fear there are still two dunes missing
your majesty well that's unfortunate
but of more immediate concern is that
our cousin absolutely refuses to leave
exmor
without beating you goodbye goodbye
grandfather expects me to go to london
with him this evening
richard about that logic
john
first it was a wall of hate between us
now it'll be the walls of the palace
grandfather says i'm the only girl of
marriageable age in the royal family
what can i do
what you must do milady
no john i'll not go i'll tell
you cannot change the wishes of a king
nor can i change my heart i'm afraid my
dear his majesty desires to leave now
i observe that master rid has little
regard for the dignity of royal blood
your majesty and so far forgets this
station as to aspire to the affections
of a member of our family
sorry if i may speak certainly not women
speak much too often
there's only one way to deal with this
situation richard your sword
neil
i dub the night rise sir john red
and remember my boy there's nothing
under the sun
that's beyond the reach of an english
knight
yes your majesty now we must hurry to
london
mr snail gwyn is opening in a new play
and as a gift to the bride and groom
doom castle and its lands
see to it richard your majesty
now john there's nothing to worry about
you'll stand there
lorna will stand there and i'll be up
there now go back and join your friends
until we're ready
thank you person
john we we all want to tell you how we
well what walt's trying to say is it he
i know thank you it'd be a strange sight
behind the plow in that garb john
[Laughter]
annie now that i've been promised a
king's pot
all i need to make my uh my reformation
complete
is a fair answer to a fair question
from a fair maid i know it's yes
you've not yet heard the question tom
you silly goose
who do you suppose made up your mind to
ask it the hawk of the highway becomes a
sparrow
when his heart is pierced by cupid's
arrow
the wedding ceremony is about to begin
coverage now is our chance to get to the
bottom of the falls
dearly beloved we are gathered together
here in the face of this company to join
together this man and this woman in holy
matrimony
the ring
place this ring on lorna's finger and
repeat after me
with this ring i thee wed with this ring
i thee went
and with all my worldly goods i the
endow
and with all my worldly goods i the end
our amen
amen oh cover no don't you see a shot
with hanger's boat
a shot will give sir john a wedding trip
to the grave of his own bride i won't
let you go i won't let you
mad let us pray
for eternal father creator and
preservative all mankind
given of all spiritual grace the author
of everlasting life
send thy blessing upon these thy
serpents this man and this woman
whom we bless in thy name
for as much as john and lorna have
consented together in holy wedlock
and have witnessed the same before this
company and they too have given and
pledge their truth
each to the other and have declared the
same by giving and receiving a ring and
by joining hands
i pronounce that they are man and wife
amen may the lord bless you
both now and forevermore amen
oh
break it down all together
there's a secret escape panel somewhere
in sirens room
lorna told me about it
cover the escape at the base of the
cliffs you too cover the gate of the
drawbridge
carver it's john reading he's alone
pack him up to this doorway or not be
waiting for him
here i am john red
uh
so
hmm
for weeks lorna had hovered on the brink
of death while i waited
hour by hour for the final crisis
the physician says you're to come to
lorna john
lord
john
surely you didn't think this would be
the end of our story
this is only the beginning
it's a madcap marital mix-up to the tune
of gershwin
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