Courage Mountain Page #3

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They love each other.

l have a friend Peter. We love each other.

Really? You have a sweetheart.

You're such a little liar, Heidi.

He gave me this. l know he loves me.

-Are you going to marry him?

-l don't know.

He's very old.

He's 18.

She's making this up.

Honestly, Heidi, it's sickening.

You're such a liar.

Are we ready to go home now, my dears?

Or rather, back to work?

l do so like to mix business with pleasure.

Andiamo!

-What about Giovanni?

-Maybe he got away!

-We can't do anything. We have to escape!

-But how did he find us?

He's a devil!

-When will we be there?

-l don't know!

This is a road, roads lead to towns,

towns have telegraph machines...

...maybe even a telephone.

We'll get to a town

and we'll contact Mrs. Hillary.

You said that about an hour ago!

l'm scared, Heidi.

What if The Bone put Giovanni

down the drain?

Don't be silly! l'm sure he got away.

Your Excellency, you placed the children

in this man's hands!

l demand that you send out

a search party at once!

Your Excellency...

...the silly girls ran away because they

feared they'd be returned to this woman.

l reassured them.

l told them they'd never go back to her.

And they never will!

Signora, please,

you have nowhere to keep them.

And besides, you are only a woman,

and we have a war to fight here.

They'll be safe with Signor Bonelli

when they are found.

Sir, please,

l am responsible for those children!

Look at these men, they are heroes!

Young man, as Governor of Turino...

-...l commend you!

-Please, excuse me.

l implore you, sir!

You must help me find the children

before it's too late!

Capitano, a small request. May l borrow

three or four mounted soldiers?

-Go away!

-Tutti via.

You imbecile!

You realize what will happen if the soldiers

find those children? Stupido!

Don't talk to me like an idiot. l'm a man!

l'll be the judge of that.

Now, listen to me, you idiot.

We're finished, capito?

Jail, if those children talk.

-You must get to them first.

-And then?

Make it look like an accident.

Perhaps they'll fall off a cliff.

Yes, an accident.

A bad one.

A very bad one.

Are they Austrians or ltalians?

lt doesn't matter.

lt doesn't matter.

-We have to get to shelter.

-Where?

The mountain, it's Switzerland.

-Up there?

-Do you have a better idea?

Get a blanket. lt'll be cold up there.

Don't touch him!

Get his knife.

Come on, get his knife before they see us.

Signora.

A soldier spotted the children.

They are alive.

ln fact, it would appear...

...they might be attempting

to go over the border into Switzerland.

Crossing the Alps in street shoes?

Signora Hillary, if l could help you, l would.

As a matter of fact, you could.

You could help me send a message

to Heidi's grandfather...

...and grant me safe conduct to Dorfli.

At your own risk.

-Who takes care of them?

-They take care of themselves.

Can we really climb the mountain

all the way to the top and over?

Anywhere a goat can go, we can go.

Grandfather told me.

l'm not going!

l've never climbed a mountain in my life!

Neither have any of you!

-l want to go with Heidi.

-So do l.

Go back. See how far you get.

We're coming, Heidi.

We'll go and get our things.

Come on, Gudrun.

l am not walking to Switzerland

on a goat trail!

Come on, Ursula, we can make it.

You know we can make it.

Wait!

Where are you, my little darlings?

l know you're out there somewhere.

This air makes me hungry.

Any excuse to eat chocolate.

l'm here to see Peter.

Peter!

Grandfather.

Am l glad to see you.

A telegram has arrived.

Heidi and some children

are climbing the alp to come home.

That's insane. What is Heidi thinking?

Heidi knows the mountain.

They'll have to cross the glacier,

and with the storms...

...nobody should be on the mountain

this time of year.

Peter, go after them.

Please!

How am l going to explain this to Mommy

and Daddy? Stupid Swiss cheese.

Ursula, just walk!

Yeah, walk!

This is ridiculous!

People just don't walk

from country to country.

Not in these shoes! l hate these shoes!

l will have kid leather dancing slippers

for my coming-out party, silver ones.

Mommy and Daddy promised me.

Grandmother will give me

her evening shawl. lt's Belgian lace.

Who cares?

They're just runts with bandy little legs.

l should have overtaken them by now.

Do you expect us to climb that?

There is a pass.

There's snow up there.

We don't have proper boots.

Boots? We don't have proper sense!

We'll die up there in the snow!

Starve and freeze!

We'll never make it.

We'll wander in the snow and get lost!

We're probably lost right now.

Ursula, l live on the other side

of that snow.

l know how to get home.

Don't you know how to get home?

l'm going back down.

l don't care what they do to me!

You can't leave, the hardest part is ahead.

l can't take Clarissa,

llsa and Gudrun all by myself.

Then let's all go back.

-lt's too hard!

-No!

We have to go on so that

Grandfather can notify your parents.

l don't have any parents!

l've no one to notify except Jane Hillary,

and we don't know where she is, do we?

She could be back in England

for all l know.

She's left me here.

l don't have a father.

l don't have a mother.

They took her away!

lt wasn't proper for her to have me.

She was too young.

But l don't understand...

...what l did.

The school was my home.

There's nowhere else.

l'm alone.

lt isn't true, Ursula.

You have us.

You should have told us sooner.

Gudrun and l thought that

we were the only ones.

Our parents never cared much for us.

You should have told us sooner.

Hello!

Hello! Are they here?

Have you found them yet?

No.

l've sent my friend Peter after them.

Come in.

l have been trying not to blame you.

You're welcome to.

l certainly blame myself.

Not that it changes anything.

The world has gone out of control.

The world was never in our control.

You would know that

if you had ever lost a child.

When Heidi first came to me...

...l had lost my wife, my son...

...and l turned my back on God and man.

l did not want Heidi.

Not at first. She was a burden to me.

l had to provide for her,

feed her, school her.

Her little voice was everywhere...

...questions, prattle.

l had no solitude...

...which seemed so important to me

at that time.

But it was not before long l came to see...

...that what l gave her

was so much less than she gave me.

She gave me back my life.

Come on, help each other!

Here, this is good.

Good for what, dying?

Come on, huddle, keep each other warm.

Are there bears here?

Don't be such a ninny.

They would have eaten us by now, Gudrun.

Did you hear that?

Peter!

lt's all right. lt's okay. l'm here.

l wished it were you so many times.

So you didn't forget me.

Never.

Come on, l brought some food.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Will we be home for Christmas?

As soon as l can get a sled

to carry us all back.

Peter.

The snow's much deeper than l thought.

Tomorrow l'll ski back to Dorfli

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