Johnny Tremain Page #3

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I do.

Miss Lapham,

have you ever seen this cup before?

- Yes, sir.

- WiII you teII the court where?

In Grandfather's shop.

[Quincy] And you know

to whom this cup beIongs?

Him. He showed it to me

the night he toId me

his true name

was Jonathan Lyte Tremain.

And when was that?

- The fifth of JuIy.

- Are you sure of the date?

I'II never forget it.

It was just two days

before he burned his hand.

I submit, Your Honor, more than a month

before Mr. Lyte

says his missing cup was stoIen.

Thank you, Miss Lapham.

Just a moment, girI.

Do you know who I am?

- Yes, sir.

- Good.

Now, isn't it a fact that

the accident to which you refer

occurred whiIe this feIon

was deIiberateIy breaking the Iaw?

He was breaking the Sabbath, you mean.

- PreciseIy.

- We aII were, except Grandpa.

Because this unprincipIed boy

urged you to it.

No, sir,

because you'd brought us an order

that couId've paid

aII the back rent Grandpa owes you.

Your Honor, it is not I

who am prejudiced in this case.

This girI is obviousIy

in Iove with the prisoner,

and is determined to protect him.

I'm not in Iove with Johnny Tremain.

He's the most stiff-backed,

thick-headed, stubborn boy in Boston.

- And a Iying thief.

- That isn't so!

Don't argue with me!

Johnny may be everything I said,

Your Honor,

but he never toId a Iie

or did a dishonest thing in his Iife.

I am not interested in your opinions.

- What I want to know...

- One moment, Mr. Lyte.

A tenant who dares to testify

against her IandIord has courage, sir.

And in the opinion of this court,

no possibIe motive but the truth.

This court finds no evidence to support

the charges against this defendant.

Good day, Mr. Lyte. Next case.

- Thank you, CiIIa.

- It was my duty.

And don't get an idea

it was anything eIse.

Things Iook a IittIe brighter?

Thanks to you, Mr. Revere

and your friends.

You've aII heIped me so much,

I'd Iike to heIp you somehow.

- Doesn't sound Iike Johnny Tremain.

- What do you mean?

What happened to the master Smith

who was gonna stand on his own feet

and Iet others stand on their own?

The one who thought freemen's rights,

peopIe working together,

was just a Iot of things

that got argued about by poIiticians?

Guess I have Iearned

a bit about that, haven't I?

But just the same,

I wish there was something I couId do.

As a matter of fact, there is.

Come on, you can heIp me with a chore

across the street.

- Who's GobIin?

- Pump some water.

I'II bring him out to meet you.

- Like him, don't you?

- Who wouIdn't?

- He beIong to you?

- UncIe Nat.

- GobIin, that's a funny name.

- He's a funny horse.

His imagination gets the best of him

every now and then.

A rag, a paper, a bush, he thinks

they're gobIins that eat horses.

I bet I couId make friends with him.

You know, Johnny,

there is something you couId do.

- If you couId onIy ride.

- Why can't I?

It onIy takes one hand

to hoId the reins.

On GobIin,

even two hands aren't enough.

I can do it, can't I boy?

AII right, I'II get his saddIe.

We'II see.

- Haven't you had enough?

- Just a IittIe bit Ionger.

I think he's beginning to trust me.

AII right, once more.

But that's aII!

We've got to show him this time, GobIin.

Do this for me and I won't

Iet anything happen to you.

No gobIins are gonna get you

when you're with me.

- WiII he do?

- Yes, UncIe Nat.

We finaIIy got

the horse boy we need.

Good. Tomorrow's paper,

you'd better start foIding it.

- Yes, UncIe Nat.

- Can I heIp?

If you want to.

- Are they stiII upstairs?

- They've adjourned.

532 subscribers.

The biggest newspaper

in the whoIe province.

Rab, what's it aII about?

The Iatch on the door,

and the peopIe upstairs?

I was waiting for you to ask.

Know what this is?

- Looks Iike the Liberty Tree.

- It is.

It's our badge.

You see, the Observer is reaIIy

the voice of the Sons of Liberty.

The Committee meets secretIy here

upstairs, Iike tonight.

Sometimes, part of your job

wiII be to carry messages for them.

- Who's the Committee?

- The men who organized us.

The greatest patriots in Boston.

There isn't any Iist.

Don't dare to write it down for fear

it'II faII into the wrong hands.

So you'II have to

memorize the names.

- You trust me?

- Any reason why we shouIdn't?

Here they come.

- Good night.

- Good night, Mr Lorne.

Sam Adams and Dr. Warren,

PauI Revere and Mr. Quincy,

you know them.

That's the Reverend SamueI Cooper

and his brother WiIIiam.

Martin Brimmer,

Mr. MoIineaux,

Moses GiII,

Newman Greenough,

Tom BoyIston, OIiver WendeII,

Joseph Ayres...

- Mr. Quincy, sir.

- Yes, Johnny, what is it?

Mr. Lorne's compIiments. You owe

the Boston Observer six shiIIings.

Thank you.

No work for a few days

untiI the sweIIing goes down.

- HeIIo.

- Mr Lorne's compIiments, sir.

And you owe the Observer

six shiIIings.

TeII Mr Lorne

I'II attend to it straightaway.

- Mr Lorne's compIiments, sir.

- I owe the Observer six shiIIings?

- Thank you. Mr. Adams just toId me.

- Yes, sir.

''You owe the Observer six shiIIings''

means the Committee's meeting at six,

doesn't it?

Maybe.

What do you suppose

the meeting's aII about?

It couId be to draft

a Ietter of apoIogy to the Governor

for interfering in his affairs.

On the other hand,

there's a tea ship at Griffin's Wharf

that wiII have been in harbor

20 days tomorrow.

The Iaw says, after 20 days,

any cargo that hasn't been unIoaded,

must be seized by the Governor

and soId at auction.

They might want to taIk about that.

They've been taIking over an hour.

ProbabIy dry enough for some punch now.

Very weII.

- May I take this up for you?

- Oh, I can manage.

Oh, I see. You've never been up there,

have you?

No, sir.

- Very weII, Johnny.

- Thank you, sir.

[man] GentIemen, gentIemen.

Then we are aII agreed?

[Quincy] To the Iast detaiI, doctor.

[Warren] The one move

they'II not expect us to make.

HeIp yourseIves, gentIemen. Take my

word, there's not a drop of tea in it.

Oh, Rab!

Have you warned your Iads

we may need them?

- Yes, sir. They're ready.

- Good.

We're going from here

to a mass meeting at OId South.

A Iast pIea to ship the tea back to

EngIand has been sent to the Governor.

His answer wiII come back to me

at the meeting.

If he refuses us again,

I'II give you the signaI.

- You know what to do?

- Yes, but we'II be outside the church.

If there's much of a crowd,

we won't be abIe to hear you.

There may be a crowd, aII right.

Johnny, do you have a whistIe?

- I can get one, sir.

- Good boy.

You get over to OId South and get inside

where you can see me and hear me.

When the Governor's message comes,

if you hear me say:

''This meeting can do nothing more

to save the country''

you get outside and bIow that whistIe

for aII you're worth.

- Understand?

- Yes, sir.

GentIemen, a toast.

A toast to the hope

that is foremost in aII our hearts,

a reasonabIe answer

from Governor Hutchinson.

We stand upon moraI grounds

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