Child of Glass Page #6

Inez?

I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.

Inez?

I'm really sorry

for those things that I said.

Won't you come back?

I still want to help you, honest.

We don't have much time.

Say I'm trash, will ya? Hah.

Throw me out of my house

after all these years.

You ain't gonna have a house to live in,

Mr. Rich Man.

For your parties and your pretty family.

Come on, burn! Burn!

Come here, you little brat!

Got ya now!

Let me go!

Come here, you!

When I get hold of you!

Where are ya? Come on.

Em!

Hey!

- Hey, you there!

Joe! Joe! Joe!

- What?

- Alexander's in the barn.

- Oh, my God.

- Wait a minute, Daddy.

I saw him from my window.

Alexander!

Oh, no. Here, Em. Em! No, Em!

Em, no!

No, Em!

Wait, child.

Well, what happened?

Alexander's in the barn!

Hurry. Please, hurry.

1- L-20, 1-L-20, code 1.

- 11-L-30...

It's like I told you before.

Alexander wasn't caught in that fire.

He must've gotten out somehow.

Well, thank the Lord for that.

Where could he be?

He couldn't just vanish into thin air.

We'll find him, ma'am.

Now, don't you fret.

We think somebody

deliberately set that fire.

Poured a can of paint thinner over

the dry hay and touched a match to it.

Amory Timmons.

Ma' am?

Well, I had to fire him.

He, uh, made some remarks to me.

But I never took him seriously.

We seen Mr. Timmons runnin' off

when we're coming to the fire.

Was he alone?

He was all by himself and

headin' for the river.

I'll get out an all-points bulletin.

We'll get him.

L, I don't... I don't care about

Amory Timmons.

I just want my boy back again.

We'll find him, ma'am.

Moppet!

Is Alexander in there?

Is that what you're trying to tell us?

Come on!

Blossom, where's she going?

Is he in there?

- Alexander!

- Alexander!

- Alex.

- Alexander!

Are you in there? Alexander!

Alexander! Alexander, you down there?

I see him!

Where?

- There he is.

He's down there on the ledge.

Do we have any robe around here?

Oh, there.

Get that rope on the wall.

Get it for me, would you?

I'm going down.

- I can't let you do that.

- Nothing can stop me.

No, it's crumbling. Now, look at that.

The whole thing could give way.

Now, I'll get some more men out here

and we'll rig up a winch.

That stuffs not gonna

support the weight of either one of us.

I can do it. Let me take a rope

down to Alexander.

That is out of the question.

It's too dangerous.

Mr. Armsworth, please! I could do it.

Yeah, it might work.

If we tied a rope around her and

let her down easy.

Well, it's worth a try, anyway.

Mrs. Culp, We can't ask your

niece to do that.

I want to, Aunt Vinia. Please.

She'll be took care of.

All right then.

She'll be fine, just fine.

Won't ya, honey?

All right, Blossom.

Now you stay away from the sides.

That mortar is loose.

One of those stones is liable

to break off on ya.

That's it.

Careful, honey. Almost there.

Just a little farther.

I'm here.

He's alive. I can see him breathin'.

Well now, look, I'm gonna

throw you down another rope

and I want you to put it under his arms...

And then pull that noose tight.

Yes, sir.

You all right, Blossom?

Yeah, I think so.

Just hang on, young 'un.

We're gonna try and pull you

back up to the ledge.

Oh, my goodness.

Ow.

Ow. Ow.

- Tie it up, Em. Tie it up, Em.

- Okay.

Alexander,

I got something to show ya.

Blossom?

Yeah, it's me. You all right?

How did you get down here?

On a rope.

Just like Aunt Vinia always says,

good things can come out of bad.

Look, Alexander,

the doll we seen in the crystal ball.

You got it.

That's great.

You better pull him up.

- Careful. Careful.

- All right, dear. Up, up.

Come on.

That's it, come on.

You'll be fine, Blossom.

Almost.

Em, give me a hand.

Give me a hand over here.

Come on, darlin'.

- That's good. All right.

- Come on, darlin'. Come on.

- SHERIFF I got him.

That's it. All right.

Watch his head... Boy...

- Give me some slack.

- I am! I am!

All right. All right.

- You're safe now.

- Okay Blossom, honey. You're next.

- How are you, Alexander?

- I'm okay.

Got 'er'? Yeah, I got it.

Go ahead.

I'll hold it. I'll hold it. Go on.

Atta girl. All right. Got her.

Now. Hang on. Okay.

- Slack.

- I'll give you some slack.

That's a girl.

How are you, Alexander?

You had quite a fall, son.

- How are you feeling?

- Everything's goin' round in a circle.

Here, let me see.

Hey, he might have

a concussion.

You take him back into the house.

I'll go radio for Doc Adams.

We'll lift you up now, darlin'. Come on.

There you go.

There you go.

I don't know how we can ever

thank you, young lady.

Go. Go.

Bless your heart.

"Vainly cries the child of glass. "

That's it, isn't it?

I think so, and we'll have to get 'em

together before midnight tonight.

Oh, I pray that boy is strong enough

to set her soul to rest.

If he isn't,

I'll have to try and do it myself.

Not with that man running loose.

I promised your ma I'd take care of ya.

I aim to keep that promise.

Okay, Phil,

You continue up

Highway 28 to the bridge

and Sam will meet you there.

Come in, Sam.

Right, Sheriff.

Keel) movin' north

along the river shallows.

Deputy Briggs and his men

are headin' across the hills.

We're going south through the swamp.

Right, Sheriff.

Now, You gotta figure this Timmons

might be a little drunk or crazy or both.

So, I don't want nobody

trying to be a hero.

When you spot him,

you give me a holler on the radio.

Now, you got that?

Yes, sir.

Just what do you think you're doing?

You're supposed to stay in bed.

Well, I can't. I gotta do something.

- Something vital.

- Have you freaked? It's after 10:00.

Oh, no.

I gotta get to the cemetery

before midnight.

Cemetery?

Alexander, what kind of

a crazy stunt are you pulling now?

Blossom found the doll,

the child of glass.

We gotta get it to the crypt.

Promise you won't tell?

I'll promise no such thing.

Alexander, get back in that bed.

Connie Sue,

how would you like to be a restless spirit

wandering for a hundred years and

never being able to get to your folks?

You really did get a bang on the head.

Alexander, stop this minute,

or I'll have to call Papa.

I never asked you many favors before,

Connie Sue,

but I'm asking' you one now,

the most important one in my whole life.

Please let me help Inez.

I won't be gone for long. Honest!

- Thanks, Connie Sue.

- Be careful.

Blossom!

Where's Blossom?

She ain't here.

Well, where is she? I gotta talk to her.

She ran off somewheres.

What about the doll, the china doll?

She took it with her.

Code 1.

Calling Sheriff Muncey.

Where are you, Sheriff?

At the Dumaine plantation.

We're setting fresh hounds

on the trail from here.

We seen Timmons along

Shakedown Road.

Chased him a bit

but he gave us the slip in the woods

'bout, uh, two miles from the cemetery.

All right. Stay where you are,

I'm on my way.

That's where Alexander went, Daddy.

What are you talkin' about?

He said he had to go

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