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robert's laid far as dinner again as

usual

i don't see why ruth puts up with it and

i told her so

many is the time i've said to her it's

time you put a stop to his nonsense does

he suppose you're running a hotel

with no one to

help with things

robbie's always late for things he can't

help it sarah

can't help it

how you do go on kate finding excuses

for him

anyone can help anything they've been

mined to

as long as they've got health and ain't

rendered helpless like me

through the will of god

robbie can't

can't

it do make me mad kate mayo to see folks

that god gave all the use of their limbs

to to pottering around and wasting time

doing everything the wrong way

things might be worse

robert never had any experience with

farming

can't expect him to learn it all in a

day

he's had three years to learn

and he's getting worse instead of better

and not just your place but mine too

it's drifting to rack and ruin

i can't do nothing to prevent

you can't say but robbie works hard

sarah

what good's working hard when you don't

accomplish anything i'd like to know

robbie's had bad luck against him oh you

say what you have a mind to kate the

proof of the puddin's in the eaton

you can't deny that things have gone

from bad to worse around here since your

husband died two years back

it was god's will that he should be

taken

it was god's punishment on james mayo

for the blaspheming and denying a god he

done all his sinful life

there okay

i shouldn't be reminding you i know

he's at peace poor man

and forgive him

let's pray

you know what ruth told me last night

oh i forgot she said not to tell you

still i think you got a right to know

and it's my duty not to let such things

go on behind your back

you can tell me if you want to

robert told her he's going to have to

mortgage the farm

said he didn't know how he's going to

pull through to harvest without it he

can't get money any other

way now what do you think of your robert

if it has to be oh

you don't mean you're gonna sign away

your farm kate mayo after me warning you

i'll do what robbie says is needful well

of all the foolishness

it's your farm not mine i've nothing

more to say

maybe rob will manage till andy gets

back and sees to things

it can't be long now

ruth says andy ought to turn up any day

i wonder if he's changed much

he used to be so fine looking and strong

three years

it seems more like three hundred

oh if james could only have lived long

enough to see him come back and forgiven

him

he never would have not james mayo

didn't he keep his heart pardoned

against him till the last in spite all

you and robert did to soften him up

don't you dare say that

well i know deep down in his heart he

forgave andy though he was too stubborn

never to own up to it

it was that brought on his death

breaking his heart on account of his

stubborn pride

it was the will of god

oh

trap that young one

though she cries all the time on purpose

just just somebody's nerves on edge

it's the heat that upsets her

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why didn't you call me in to help with

the dishes

can't you keep that child still

her wreck it's enough to split up on his

ears

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something must have gone wrong again

he's always going wrong these days looks

like

it wouldn't if you possessed a bit of

spunk

the idea of you permitting him to come

into meals in all hours and you're doing

the work

i've never heard of such a thing

you're too easygoing

that's the trouble

stop

nagging at me mom

i'm sick of hearing you

i'll do as i please about it and thank

you for not interfering

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it's too hot to argue

let's talk of something pleasant

didn't i hear you speaking about andy a

while ago

we were wondering when he'd get home

rob says any day now he's liable to drop

in and surprise us

well him and the captain

it'll certainly look natural to see him

around the farm again

let's hope the farmer looked more

natural too when he's had a hand at it

the way things are now stop harping on

that mall

we all know things aren't as they might

be what's the good you're complaining

all the time

ah there cape mayo ain't that just what

i told you

can't say a word of advice my own

daughter even she's that stubborn and

self-willed goodness takes them off

never mind

and you'll fix everything when he comes

i suppose it isn't rob's fault things go

wrong with him oh

cool land of goshen but it's bacon in

here

come on kate let's go out in under the

trees and back where there's a breath of

fresh air

you better come too ruth and do you good

learn him a lesson let him get his own

dinner don't be such a fool

you wouldn't mind he doesn't eat much

i can't go anyway i've got to put baby

to bed god come kate let's go it's

boiling in here

whew

that sun is hot today

and how is this little girl of mine on

this hot day did you do that to her you

know it's time for her nap

get her all waked up and then i'll be

the one that'll have to sit beside until

she falls asleep

he didn't bother

i'll put her to bed

i get back to work i suppose

yes i was forgetting

reading andy's letter again

all right to read it haven't i

he said it's meant for all of us

right

oh don't be so silly

there's no question right i was only

saying

you must know all that's in it after so

many readings

well i don't

you're supposed to be wanting your

dinner now

i'm not hungry here i've been keeping it

hot for you

huh

all right bring it in

i'll try to eat

so

so

for goodness sakes put down that old

book

just your dinner's getting cold excuse

me ruth

i didn't knows

i should think you might have some

feeling for me rob

and i'd always be late to meals

if you think it's fun sweltering in that

oven of a kitchen to keep things warm

for you you're mistaken

i'm sorry ruth

oh really i am

something crops up every day to delay me

i mean to be here on time means don't

count

then punish me ruth

let the food get cold

don't bother about me i'd have to wait

just the same to wash up after you but i

can wash up fine mess there'd be then

yeah

the food is lucky to be able to get cold

there's weather

besides

your own work that needs to be done

yes of course work you'll never get done

by reading books all the time

why do you persist

and nagging at me for getting pleasure

out of reading is it because i'm too

stupid to understand you

no why do you goad me into saying things

that i don't mean

haven't i got my share of troubles

trying to work this cursed farm without

you adding to them

you know how hard i've been trying to

keep things going in spite of bad luck

fast [ __ ] why can't we pull together

we used to

so why can't we

help each other

instead of

hinder it

i did the best i know how

i know you do

so let's both of us

try to do better

we both can improve

say a word of encouragement once in a

while

when things go wrong even if it is my

fault

you know the odds have been up against

since paul died

i'm not a farmer

never claimed to be one

there's nothing else i can do

under the circumstances i

i've got to find a way to

pull things through somehow

with your help

i can do it

a few against me

so you promised me that

and i'll promise to be here

when the clock strikes

anything else you ask me to

is it a bargain

i suppose so

someone's at the door

it's ben

what's the trouble now i wonder

come on in here ben

oh yeah what's the matter

the mowing machines bust [ __ ] that can't

be

man fixed it only last week it's bust

just the same

you can't fix it no

i don't know what's the matter with the

gold darn thing it won't work anyhow

wait a minute i'll go and look it over

well it can't be much the matter with it

it don't make no difference to me

whether there be or not

i'm quitting here

you don't mean you're throwing up your

job here ben that's what my month's up

today and i want what's owen to me

why are you quitting now ben

when you know i've got so much work on

hand i'll have a hard time finding

another man on such short notice that's

for you to figure i'm quitting here

what's your reason

you have any complaints to make about

the

way you've been treated here have you

no no

it ain't that

looky here

i'm tired of being made fun at that's

what

and i got a job up to tim's place and

i'm quitting here being made fun of

i don't understand you

who's making fun of you they all do when

i drive out with the milk every morning

they all laughs and jokes at me that new

feller up the slocums and the boy at

harrises and bill evans down to meads

they all do

that's a queer reason for leaving me

flat

well no

won't they laugh at you just the same

when you're working for tims

they wouldn't dare to

tim's is the best farm hereabouts

they was laughing at me for working for

you that's what

how are things up at the mayo place they

hollers at me every morning what's

robert doing today is he pasture

pasturing the cattle in the corn lot is

he seasoning his hay with rain this year

same as last or oh has he invented a new

electrical milking engine what can fool

them dry cows of his into given hard

cider now that's like they talk and i

ain't willing to put up with it any

longer

everyone's always known me hereabouts as

a good hand and i'm not willing to

change any minds about that

so i'm quitting here and i want what's

coming to me

well

if that's the case

you can go to the devil

you'll get your money

tomorrow

when i get back from town

not before

that suits me

and see that you do

or there'll be trouble

well

that's an example

what i'm up against

no one can say i'm responsible for that

he wouldn't dare act that way with

anyone else

it's lucky andy's coming back yes

and he'll know what to do in a jiffy

i wonder if the old chumps changed much

doesn't seem to from his letters

just the same

i doubt he'll want to

settle down to a humdrum farm life after

all he's been through

and he's not like you

he likes the farm things he's seen

experienced

and think of the places he's been

all those wonderful far-off places i

used to dream about

god how i envy him

what a trip i suppose you're sorry now

you didn't go

oh

those cursed hills

i used to think promised me so much

i've grown to hate the side of them

i like the narrow walls of a prison yard

just

shutting me in from all the freedom and

wonder of life

sometimes i think

if it wasn't for you ruth

and

little merry

i chuck everything up

just walk down that road

one desire in my heart

but the whole rim of the world between

me and those

damned hills and be able to

just breathe

freely once more

oh there i go

dreaming again

my old fool dreams

you're not the only one

and andy

who's had the chance

what's he made of it

his letters read like the diary of

of a farmer

we're in singapore now

it's a dirty hole the place and hotter

than hell

two of the crew are down with the fever

and we're short-handed on the work

i'll be damn glad when we set sail again

although attacking back and forth on

those blistering seas is a rotten job

too

that's about the way he summed up his

impression of the east he didn't make

fun of andy you know when i think

what's he use

you know i wasn't making fun of andy

personally it's his attitude towards

things you're making fun of him

and

i ain't gonna stand for it

you ought to be ashamed of yourself

a fine one to talk about anyone else

after the way you've ruined everything

with your lazy loafing in a stupid way

you do stop that kind of talk you hear

finding fault with your own brother who

is ten times the man you ever was or

ever will be

you're jealous

that's what jealous because he's made a

man of himself well you are nothing but

a ruth

ruth you'll be sorry for talking like

that i won't ever be sorry i'm only

saying but i've been faking for years

you can't mean that

i think you are so much better than

other folks with your college education

and

and always reading the stupid books

instead of working

i suppose you thank god if you're proud

to be your wife a poor ignorant thing

like me but i'm not

and i hate this side of you

why don't we know now i'm finding out

what you're really like

what a creature i've been living with

god

how mean and small you are

i kept telling myself i must be wrong

like a fool

like a damned fool you were saying you'd

go out on the road if it wasn't for me

well you can go

and the sooner the better i don't care

i'll be glad to get rid of you in the

farm we're better off too

there's been a curse on it ever since

you took hold so go and be a [ __ ] like

you always wanted it's all you're good

for

i can get along without you just fine

don't worry and he's coming

don't forget that he'll attend to things

the way they should be he'll show what a

man can do i don't need you and he's

coming what do you mean i love andy

i

what do

i always did

and he loves me

he loves me i know he did he always said

and you know he did too so go

go

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i'll meet him

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there

that's better dear

daddy doesn't want to play today

he's got a bad headache

do you want dada to go away

far far away

oh

don't worry baby he won't go away

he's only joking

he can never leave his little mary

well here you are eh

hello andy oh

and who's this young lady i find you all

alone with a who's this pretty young

lady

ruth told me i'd probably find you up

top side here but

i'd have guessed it anyway

still up your old tricksy old beggar i

remember how you used to come up here to

mope and dream in the old days well i

come up here now because it's the

coolest place on the farm

i have given up dreaming

i don't believe it you can't have change

that much

sure brings back old times to be up here

with you having a

chin all by our lonesomes again

i feel great being back home it's great

for us to have you back

i've been looking over the old place

with roof

things don't seem like never mind about

the damn farm

let's talk about something interesting

you know this is the first chance i've

had to have a word with you alone

tell me about your trip

well i thought i told you everything in

my letters your letters

were sketchy

to say the least oh i know i'm no author

you need to be afraid of hurting my

feelings

i'd rather go through a typhoon again

than write a letter

but then you were through a typhoon yes

in the china sea

had to run before under bear pulls for

two days

i thought we were bound down for davey

jones sure

never dreamed waves could get so big or

the wind blow so hard

if it hadn't been for uncle dick being

such a good skipper we'd have gone to

the sharks all of us

as it was we came out minus a main top

mass and had to beat back to hong kong

for repairs

but i must have written you all this

you never mentioned it

well there was so much dirty work

anything ship shape again i must have

forgotten about it forget it typhoon

you know

the sea doesn't seem to have impressed

you very favorably i should say it

didn't i'll never set foot on a ship

again if i can help it except to carry

me someplace i can't get to by train but

you studied to become an officer i had

to do something i'd gone mad the days

were like years

and that's for the east

we used to rave about well you ought to

see it and smell it

one walk down one of their filthy narrow

streets with a tropical sun beating on

it would sinking you for life with the

wonder and mystery used to dream of

what so all you found in the east was a

stench a stench 10 000 of them

but you did like some places

judging from your letters sydney

buenos aires

yes

sydney's a good town

buenos aires there's the place for you

oh argentine's a country where a fella

has a chance to make good you're right i

like it

i tell you rob

that's right where i'm going just as

soon as i've seen you folks a while i

can get a ship

i can get a bertha second officer and

i'll jump the ship when i get there

so

you're not going to stay on the farm i

sure not did you think i was there

wouldn't be any sense one of us is

enough to run this little place

i suppose it does seem small to you now

no idea rob what a splendid place the

argentine is

i had a letter from a marine insurance

chap that i made friends with in hong

kong to his brother who's in the grain

business in buenos aires he took quite a

fancy to me and what's more important he

offered me a job if i'd come back there

i'd have taken on the spot only

i couldn't leave uncle dick in the lurch

and i promise you folks to come home

that's fine

for you andy

there's something i want to talk to you

about rob

the farm

you don't mind do you

no

i walked it over this morning with ruth

and she told me about things

i mean i could see the place had run

down

but you mustn't blame yourself

when luck's against anyone don't andy it

is my fault

you know it as well as i do

the best i've ever done was just

make ends meet

i got over a thousand saved and you can

have no you need that for your start in

buenos aires i don't i can manage

everything will be on sound footing

after the harvest

don't worry about it

maybe

it's too bad paw couldn't have lived to

see things through

it cut me up a lot

hearing he was dead

he never softened up did he

what about me i mean

he never understood

that's a kinder way of putting it

he does now

you've forgotten all about what

caused me to go

haven't you rob

i was a slushier damn fool in those days

than you were

but it was an act of providence i did go

it opened my eyes to how i've been

fooling myself

my

i'd forgotten all about

that

before i'd been at sea six months

you're speaking of

ruth

yes

i didn't want you to get false notions

in your head or i wouldn't say anything

i'm telling you the truth when

i'd say i'd forgotten long ago

i know it don't sound well for me

getting over things so easy but

i guess it

never amounted to more than a kid idea i

was letting rule me

i'm certain now i was never in love

i was getting fun out of thinking i was

and

being a hero to myself

i'll tell ruth too

if i can get up the nerve you know

perhaps

for her sake

you better not tell her

for her sake

oh

you mean she wouldn't want to be

reminded of my foolishness

still i thank you people just do what

you please andy but for god's sake let's

not talk about it

excuse me andy

is this rotten headache

is my nerve shot to pieces

it's all right rob

longies are not sore at me

what did uncle dick disappear to this

morning oh he went down to the port to

see the things on the sunday uh he said

he didn't know exactly when he'd be back

jake wants to see you about something

he finished working where he was

he's waiting for you at the road

i'll go down right away

and take mary with you please

it's so nice and cool up here

after the house

yes

it's great

you're taking a holiday

in honor of your arrival

i feel so

free

i'd like to have wings

and fly over the sea

you're a man

you can't know how awful and stupid it

is cooking and

washing dishes all the time

i can guess

besides

your mother just insisted on getting

your first dinner to home she's that

happy at having you back

you'd think i was planning to poison you

the flurried way she showed me out of

the kitchen that's just like ma bless

her

she's missed you terrible

we all have

you can't deny the farm has

things are run down that's a fact

it's too darn hard on poor old rob it's

his own fault

never takes any interest in things

you can't blame him

he wasn't born for it

i know he's done his best

for your sake

and the old folks

and your little girl

yes

i suppose he has

i think the lord all those days are over

now

hard luck rob's always blaming won't

last long once you take hold andy

all the farms ever needed was someone

with a knack of of looking ahead and

preparing for what was going to happen

yes

rob hasn't got that

frank down up to that himself

i'm gonna hire a good man for him

an experienced farmer to work the place

on a salary in percentage

that'll take it off of rob's hands and

he needed to be worrying himself to

death anymore

he looks all worn out ruth he ought to

be careful

why would you want to hire a man to

oversee things

it seems as if now that you're back it

shouldn't be needful no of course i'll

attend to everything while i'm here

i mean after i'm gone gone

yes when i leave for the argentine again

you're going away to see not at sea no

i'm through with the sea for as good as

a job

i'm going down to buenos aires to get in

the grain business

i've got a peach of a chance down there

ruth ask grub if i have and i've just

been telling him all about it

didn't he try to stop you from going

no of course not why

it's just like him

rob's too good at chum to try and stop

me when he knows i'm set on a thing

and he could see as soon as i told him

what a good chance it was

and you're bound on going

sure thing

what i mean right off i'll

have to wait for a ship sailing there

for quite a while likely

anyway i want to stay to home and visit

with you folks to spell before i go

i suppose

you can't go andy

we can't

why

we've all

thought we've all been hoping and

praying he was coming home to stay

to settle down on the farm and and see

the things

you mustn't go

think of how your ma take on if you go

and how the farm will be ruined if you

leave it to rob to look after you can

see that bob has it done so bad

when i get a man to direct things reform

will be safe enough

what's your mom

think of her in a couple of years down

there i'll make my pile

see if i don't

and then i'll come back and settle down

and turn this farm to the crackiest

place in the whole state

in the meantime i can help you both

from down there

i tell you ruth

i'm gonna make good right from the

minute i land

if working hard and a determination to

get on can do it

and i know they can

i tell you

i feel right for bigger things than

settling down here

the trip did that for me anyway

it showed me the world as a larger

proposition than ever i thought it was

in the old days

i mean i couldn't be content anymore

stuck here like a flying molasses

it all seems trifling somehow

you ought to be able to understand what

i feel

yes i suppose i ought

what did rob tell you about me

tell about you

why nothing

you're telling me the truth andy mayo

didn't he say no did i have no no he

didn't mention you i can remember

why what made you think he did i wish i

could tell if you were lying or not what

are you talking about

i didn't used to lie to you did i

and what the name of god is there to

life for are you sure

well you swear it isn't the reason

the same reason that made you go last

time that's driving you away again

because if it is

going to say

you mustn't go on that account

oh

well you need to worry about that no

more

i don't blame you ruth

feeling embarrassed having me around

again after the way i played the dumb

fool about going away last time

i know i ought to talk about such

foolishness to you

still i figure it's better to get it out

of my system so

we three could be together since years

ago and

none of us be worried thinking one of us

might have the wrong notion andy let's

see finish now that i've started

it'll help clear things up

i don't want you to think

once a fool always a fool and

be upset all the time i'm here on my

full account

i want you to believe i put all that

silly nonsense back at me a long time

ago

and now

it seems

well

as if you'd always been my sister

that's what ruth you got sick sandy

won't you please stop talking

seems if i put my foot in it whenever i

open my mouth today

rob shut me up with almost the same

words when i tried speaking to him about

it

you told him

what you told me

why sure why not

my god

why shouldn't i have

i don't care what you do andy i don't

care just leave me alone

andy

i've got the great news for you andy hey

hey let me give my win first

hey god almighty

damn hills wasn't going to lock to the

the skies are you on the blow

i gotta lay a bit

i didn't look for you this soon i'm cool

i didn't figure neither but i run across

a bit of news down to the siemens home

made me about chip and sat on sale back

here to find you

oh what is it i'm calling

passing by the home i thought i'd drop

in let him know i'd be lacking the maid

counter kind of you're leaving

well their man in charge of shipping

asked for you especially curious

do you think you'd consider a birth as a

second honor steamer captain

well i was going to say no

when i think so you want to get back

down south to the plan again

so i asked him

what is she where is she bound

it's the el paso the brand new [ __ ] he

says and she's bound for buenos aires

gosh that is luck what does she say yeah

tomorrow morning

i didn't know if you'd want to ship away

again so soon and i told him so

tell him i'll hold the birth open for

until late this afternoon

hey so there you be and you can make

your own choice

i'd like to take it there may not be a

ship sailing for buenos aires what the

van could see in months

still dandel tomorrow morning is soon

i wish she wasn't leaving for a week or

so that give me a chance

oh it seems hard to go right away when i

just got home and yet it's a chance at a

thousand

what do you think rob

what would you do

well he who hesitates

you know

is a good bit of luck thrown in your way

i think you owe it to yourself to jump

at it but

don't ask me to decide for you

yes

go andy

yes

i guess i will

that'll be the best thing for all of us

in the end don't you think so rob

well that's settled

yes i'll take the birth

and the sooner i go the sooner i'll be

back that's a certainty

and i won't come back with empty hands

next time you bet i won't

you ain't got so much time andy

to make sure you best leave here as soon

as you can

i've got to get right back aboard you

best come with me i'm gonna go to the

house and repack my bag right away

you'll both be here for dinner won't you

i don't know will there be time

what time is it now i wonder mom's been

getting dinner especially for you andy

i was forgetting

course i'll stay for dinner if i miss

every damn ship in the world

come on go walk down with me to the

house and you can tell me about this

pour it on the way i gotta pack before

dinner

you're coming soon aren't you rob

yes i'll be right down

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