Carbine Williams Page #6

Sure want to thank you captain.

I am upping you to B grade again.

- Does that mean I got a chance to work inside?

- May be.

How about the blacksmith shop?

- Why the smiting?

- I used to work in one.

Tress been. Mays new

barbeque pas dalmatic.

- Oh no!

- Goode Night, Williams.

Keep clean shaved.

Are you deaf? Its free time.

A paper and a pencil.

Give my regards to your wife.

Let me see that.

- That's personal.

- Nothings personal in here. Give it to me.

Shooting your way out of here is

not as easy as shooting your way in.

- I wasn't figuring on busting out.

- What was you figuring?

I got the idea when I was in the hole.

After 6th day I thought I was

a goner. No light, no air...

My back was killing me.

I didn't see how

anybody can stand a week.

Then I thought about the Hindus, You

know the people who sleep on nails.

- What do they do?

- What is this?

You ever tried to think about

two things at the same time?

- What?

- You can't do it.

Nobody can do that, Captain.

It's impossible to keep two thoughts

in your head at the same time.

What are you talking about?

That's the trick.

The only way to lie on nails

or stand solitary for 30 days...

You got to make yourself

think about something else.

You got to get your

mind on something else.

At first I could only not think about my

pain, My back for 2-3 seconds at a time.

But then it got longer and longer, and pretty soon

I could take away pain for 2-3-4 hours at a time.

You are on level, Williams?

You try it! You try to think two things

at the same time, you cant do it, Captain!

What I did, I tried to think about

the good days when I was a kid.

In the woods, hunting and fishing.

When I wasn't shooting a gun, I was making

one, and that made me think about guns again.

And I kept thinking about them.

The more I thought about them, the

lesser I thought about solitary.

And the guns were all over the place.

up on the ceilings. Up on the walls.

Down the floor...

I kept them taking apart piece by

piece, and I put them together again.

Pretty soon, I started experimenting

on new ways to make guns.

That's a new kind of a gun.

That's a new kind of a gun, captain.

But a drawing for a gun,

we can't have that in here.

You can't keep me from thinking about guns,

Whats the difference if I draw pictures of guns?

None I guess.

As long as you make them out of paper.

Free time, Williams.

- Is my gun fixed yet?

- Pretty soon.

Lets go.

You mind if I finish it.

You know how Mobel is?

It's your time.

By the way, Williams, we were

watching you. You are a cool operator.

Didn't you learn anything

from the other time?

It's not going to be nothing like last

time. We have got everything worked out.

You do what you want! I won't move.

Its up to you

I am telling you I am not going...

Don't! Give me that

gun. It ain't finished.

We better get out of here.

Kruger!

- What's that you are carrying?

- Walk between us!

Spread out everybody! The next man moves

gets it. Spread out. Put up your hands.

Get him in the barracks.

Give me the gun, Williams.

Told you can make your gun out of paper

But you had to by your own

rules again. Look what happened!

The gun didn't had nothing

to do with the break.

Kruger been set on for

busting out for a long time.

- You sure you weren't in on it?

- You don't think I knocked myself out! Do you?

They didn't get that gun away from

me I have been working on that gun

On my free time for 2 years.

I have got to finish it.

Can't do it right now Can't let

you go on work on it after this.

Captain, This is something entirely new.

Every automatic rifle has a piston

that moves 3 and half inches.

What I am trying to get this chamber

in my rifle to move a tenth of an inch

And still activate the breach mechanism,

eject the shell and load in another one.

A tenth of an inch, that's not possible.

If I was to tell you That I

took a part of a fence post and

An axel part of a tractor and made me

a rifle with no way, no machinery...

except a file and my own hands...

Would you say that possible?

You were lucky this time.

Another break, prisoner might get it away from you

- Nobody is ever going to get away from here!

Captain, would you let

me go on Working in it.

All right Williams, I

will go along with you.

Thank You, Captain. I wont let you down.

Work on it on your free time.

Do you think it's alright, cap?

"Marsh is changing,

"But I wonder if I have changed

him, as much as he has changed me.

"If anyone from yesterday,

"Said a prisoner is going to make a gun in

my yard I would have said that he was crazy...

"May be I am crazy,

"I am beginning to believe

Marsh is going to invent

"A new kind of gun.

"Even if he doesn't It

will be a useful person.

"He has finally found

something that interests him.

"It is the first time I feel that

Marsh in his way is helping himself out.

"Sincerely, Captain H.T. Peoples. "

The gun was your Dads life.

But even I couldn't have imagined

how much a gun can change a life.

After a while I made him

a trustee. He earned it.

He has stopped fighting himself

and the rest of the world.

He didn't had time, he was

fighting a piece of steel.

he made a timeline A notch for

every year he had been working on

6 years is a long time to

keep a story like that secret.

There had to be a leak

sometime. And there was.

It finally came out! With

interest. Plenty of interest.

Despite efforts by Warden H.T.

Peoples to keep it a secret,

This newspaper learns

that his Pet Prisoner,

David Marshal Williams,

Whom he allowed to make a rifle

While serving 30 years on the Caledonia

'Tinfoil Chain Gang' for murder,

"Will test his gun with real

bullets tomorrow at the prison firm,

Now known as the "Caledonia

Street and Gun Club".

Why should I listen to this bum!

Most of these are vicious lies.

Why should any of it be true?

"Pet prisoner", "Tinfoil chain gang"...

You have made this prison commission

the laughing stock of the country.

Who is running Caledonia?

Me or those funny papers?

On the looks of things,

Marshal Williams is.

As long as I am warden of

Caledonia, I will run things my way.

Now, if you don't like it,

you can get somebody else.

Because of your record,

We are going to overlook this outburst

of temper and give you another chance.

I hope you will show as much spirit

in Caledonia as you have here.

Lets have no more of

this Williams nonsense.

That's all people.

I let Marshall Williams make a gun because I

honestly believed, that he had something new.

I have heard enough of

this Williams and his gun.

I said that was all.

- He is outside.

- Williams?

- Whats he doing here?

- I brought him here.

I want him to let you show

the gun of his and himself!

Absolutely not.

What's the matter, you are

afraid he will convince you too?

If he doesn't prove to you men that

he really got something worthwhile..

I will forget about it

and never mention it again.

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