Carbine Williams Page #5

man in this camp. That's me.

You don't make a move around

here unless I tell you to.

Now you can stand right where you are,

at the same spot, at attention, all day.

I notice you haven't been shaved lately.

From now on shave, clean every morning.

Hey Williams, You are wanted

at Captain Peoples office.

Come in.

You are having trouble with

your memory again, William!

Couldn't scrape any finer.

You are to write your folks.

I didn't know that it was a law, I didn't

know that it was anybody's concern but my own.

You are going to write or not?

They keep writing to me inquiring

how you are, makes it my concern.

I ain't writing, and nobody can make me.

Take it to the shop to get it fixed.

Mind if I look at that gun, captain?

Go ahead, give it to him.

The bolts are out of place.

Pretty handy with guns, aren't you?

Yeah! Always have been.

That counts for a lot of trouble too.

How about these? How much

long are you going to fight it?

I ain't fighting. I am resisting.

But they are your own folks. What I

hear they stood by you pretty good.

They are out there, I am in here.

I told them to forget about me.

- They worried, they got right to hear from you.

- What am I to write? How nice it is in here?

You write what you want, but write.

They will never get a letter

from me, with a prison postmark.

You are to write and lots of them.

Go back to your work.

and keep shaved too.

Cap! Stand back! Back away Cap!

- Marsh...

- Come on chow.

Marsh...

Are you hurt?

What's the matter?

Where is the pain?

- Malaria.

- I will get the Doc!

- A little late, ain't you!

- Come on, hurry up!

- What's it now?

- I didn't know I was late.

Kruger got sick! He got malaria.

- We got Doctors.

- There was nobody else in there.

- It was not your business.

- It was my business.

That will cost you your B grade.

I get B grade from saving a man from rattlesnake

and lose my grade for helping a sick man

- No back talk

- I ain't done nothing wrong.

- You want a stretch in solitary?

- I ain't done nothing wrong!

- You are asking for it. Williams!

- Alright, alright, get it over with.

Who is cornered?

You or me?

Mobely!

- Throw him in the hole!

- For how long?

Till he begs to come out!

Ration.

Been there long enough?

He is stubborn and positive he is

right. A tough combination to break.

I will break him.

None of them can take more than 7 days in

the hole, Williams been in there for 30!

Doc! You take care of the

infirmary, Let me handle discipline.

You will be disciplining a corpse.

He can't stay alive much longer.

Let him say so.

You know he won't!

Its up to him.

Then I will have to go over your head

Cap! I am not going to be responsible.

Doc! What makes a fella like him tick?

Might be interesting

to try and find out.

Yeah!

You want a auditory

move, I wont oppose it.

- I think you are making a big mistake

- I know you do, captain.

Alright! I will make the order.

I would like to talk to

him, As soon as possible.

As soon as he gets straightened up.

You wanted to see me captain?

Yeah! Come on in.

- Learned anything in the hole?

- I don't know what I was supposed to learn

I thought I was put in there

because I helped Kruger.

I put you in there because of

backtalk in front of my men.

I have a mind to put you right back.

Is it going to be a lecture or is it

going to be a talk like the Doc said?

- What?

- Lectures all one sided, you know.

If it is supposed to be a talk

then I got a right to my say.

You haven't heard my

side of things captain

I ain't one of them,

I ain't no criminal.

You pleaded guilty to murder and

your still, you knew was illegal.

You are just as responsible for that murder

as you pulled the trigger or one of your men.

I don't go along with that.

Admit if you didn't had the still

The revenue agent wouldn't be dead.

They didn't prove I did it.

That's 30 years without proof.

That ain't fair.

You have got strange ideas William of what's

Right or wrong and what's fair and not fair.

I am going to tell you who wrote these.

"It ain't fair," she says. Your

wife wrote that, and she is right.

It ain't fair, the way you treat your family.

refusing to see, not even answering their letters.

We have been all over this before.

You are great man, Williams.

You just set new record.

Thirty days on hole on bread and water.

You can take it physically,

that's all you can take.

You think its because

I wanted it this way.

It's always about what you want. You

always belly aching about your rights.

Don't you think they got rights too?

I didn't want my wife to

see me, looking like this.

No she ain't.

It's a long talk.

She is outside, waiting.

- She is here?

- Yeah!

You ought to see her

Williams. You know you should.

I am going to give you 24 hours

on the outside without chains.

I ain't a trustee Captain.

Will you come back after 24?

Yeah! I will come back.

I will see that you get

something else to wear.

John is going into real estate and

Mary Ruth will do it in October.

And Leon is serious about Jennings

girl. You remember little Sarah Jennings?

Yeah!

- Did I tell you we got new lawyer?

- Ah?

J.J. Baldwin of Raleigh. They

say he is one of the best.

- What happened to Andy White?

- He is still on the case.

But your father wanted

somebody in the Capital too.

Mr. Baldwin is supposed to

be close to the governor.

You haven't asked me about my

school Aren't you interested?

Yeah! I am interested.

Only one more year in the college and

I will have my teaching certificate.

Why didn't you do what I told

you? Why didn't you get a divorce?

- We took an oath - till death we do not

part! - I am almost as sure as dead Maggie.

A man stays away from his wife for

7 years the law accounts him as dead.

The law put me away for 30 years!

- Don't talk like that!

- I am no good Maggie, you gotta be married!

I am married.

A women is only half a person,

Marsh! You are my other half!

I can't be complete without you.

Don't you understand, I will be an

old man by the time I get out of there.

- Don't push me away, Marsh! I am your wife

- Convicts don't have wives.

- Don't you want me, Marsh?

- For one day a year.

- It's better than none

- No, its worse.

Just helps keep you alive, that's no

good when you cant breathe fresh air.

Its just better to be dead.

A convict can't want nothing.

That's not true.

You don't have to stop

wanting, hoping... I haven't.

I am in a prison too,

Marsh! Without you.

Maggie...

Don't you see..?

If you want love, you got to hare

a husband, A full time husband.

I want a child, Marsh.

I want to stay alive.

I am so lonesome.

No kid would pick a

convict for father now.

- Would he Maggie?

- You are not always going to be a convict, Marsh!

Its not forever.

Unless you make it that way.

Got 10 more minutes.

I bet you a buck he makes it.

You got a bet

Tell him I like to see him.

Captain Peoples would like to see you.

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