Raintree County Page #7

l'm going... l'll be right back

lt hurts

l'll be right back.

Hurry.

Mom, it's happened, can you come over?

Yes.

Can you come right over?

0f course, Johnny,

now you pick a bad day.

What's going on here?

You haven't heard?

They've attacked borders.

The war is more sure as anything

l'm not so sure

I say the Americans will never fight

each other.

We'll settle our difficulties

peacefully.

You mean right over?

Yes, Johnny,

Come on.

Every red-blooded boy in

Raintree County gets into the fight

I'll be big tide, hot tide...

Skined and stretched on the border...

Jack Seanacy.

Flash?

Good to see you.

How are you?

Fine.

Corporal, we want get in the war.

You want get in the army, the first

thing you'll do is disarm.

Look, you jerk...

If you look me the same right,

will you write me down now?

I'll run and get a pencil.

Wear a blue suit like that with a

couple of rifles,

l look like somebody.

Flash... Susana is having a baby...

right now.

Well, that'll be.

Don't you worry, Jack.

With me at this war, it'd be over

with your kid and house, prout.

Your boy has had same guts as we had

back to 1846.

We 'll have them to some states at the

Gulf of Mexico by the 4th ofJuly, huh?

Right

l don't know everyone so full of juice and

vinegard about this war.

All we've done is lose the Fort.

That's for Raintree County.

Just the same, war is...

War is the most

monstrous of man's illusions.

Any idea worth anything

is worth not fighting for.

Mr. Seanacy, your Mom said

you can go in now.

Fastest man in Raintree County.

Hm...

Hello

lt's a boy.

Yeah, it's a boy.

Where is the other, Johnny?

What other?

There was another, wasn't right.

Dear, it's your imagination.

No, there was another, one that was dark.

Did they throw it away, Johnny?

No, dear.

Are you absolutely sure?

Absolutely.

Darling, do get some sleep

Johnny.

What?

I don't want you to go

I'll be right here.

You won't go, will you?

Where do I go?

You won't go to the war?

You won't go to the war.

No, dear, I won't go to war.

GRANT BESIEGES VICKSBURG

SEIGE 0F VICKSBURG ENTERS 35TH DAY

He'll make a runner like his Pap.

Well, another little town will be made

reluctantly immortal by bloodshed.

I 've got another battle of bittership

with your father.

To remove in a battle seems to settle

my stomach.

What did you have for dinner?

No, it's the disease.

Disease is called 'Civilian Paralysis'

l know... l guess l must be about the only

civilian under 40 in this whole county.

You got good reason, Johnny.

I wonder.

There're those you don't.

Galwood would beat for battle

sides Jones for instance

0h, he's a big man in the State Capital.

Maybe they can spare him.

A hundred thousand happy boys have died.

They couldn't spare me either.

Galwood is a copper-head.

Daddy, what's copper-head?

Well, l'll explain to you later.

How's your wife, Johnny?

She's alright.

Hey.

Hello, Johnny.

This girl is a jewel.

She is?

Something about a few years

in a big city.

She left here a school girl

full of sweetness in life.

She returned a full-pledged filthy

newspaper man for the juice in ground.

Come on now... let's get back to work

Nell, how does it feel being back here

and free having?

L like better than lndianapolis,

It's a copper-head town.

Daddy, what's copper-head?

Well, a copper-head is someone

who lives in the north

and who sides with people live

in the south.

You're still teaching,

still searching for the raintree?

That seems a long time ago, doesn't it?

You still think there's a raintree

out there somewhere?

L don't know.

Let's go and see?

Much too parallel business

l know why you don't look for it.

You're afraid you'll find it

0nce upon a time, long long long time ago,

a little boy,

Daddy, when Mommy would come back?

L think she'll be back soon.

Anyway, so there was the little boy

and he...

Is Mommy now.

My darling,

Have you missed me today, Jimmy?

Have you missed me very much?

Mommy, l was afraid.

You're afraid to Mommy,

isn't that sweet?

You don't have to feel

fear anymore, darling.

Mommy is home... now you get to sleep

lt's way to your bed time,

sleep on luck, good boy.

Goodnight, darling.

Goodnight, Jimmy.

Where were you all day?

Now Johnny, you know very well

where l was

l do?

L was in lndianapolis

lndianapolis?

As l very well said on my note,

l just went there a few hours to shop.

What note?

Here, on the dress up.

There, you see?

L can't find it, dear

l can't find the letter.

But l put it there, you know.

Don't worry, dear...

It really doesn't matter.

You don't think they took it, do you?

0h, l must find it before it's too late.

Why don't you look for it tomorrow morning?

No, i must find it now,

What did you have written on it?

Well, l couldn't tell you,

l've promised not to.

You believe me, don't you?

Yes, l do.

You see, l have a great loss,

Dearest thing in the whole world,

Daddy

Jimmy, my precious little Jimmy.

Daddy.

Alright.

What are you doing?

It's in the house, don't you see?

Something terrible might happen to him.

What do you mean 'something'?

Nothing gonna happen to him,

you 're crazy?

I'm sorry, Susana

Jimmy doesn't like me.

He loves you.

You can't expect him to understand

everything

l don't understand either

l thought children were supposed to

create a boundary between parents

l think Jimmy has created

a great barrier.

That's not true.

Yes, it is, you two belong together,

you gonna part from me

lt isn't so

0h, l wish only something l could do...

L gonna have something...

Dear, maybe if you told me

what happened the night of the fire

lt makes no difference now,

don't you see, Johnny?

Things can't get better between us

lt's nobody's fault,

but it's such a pity

0h, Johnny, help me, help me,

you always helped me.

What can l do?

What happened that night?

L know something about that fire,

nobody else knows

l never told anyone

lt started not long before the fire,

Henrietta had been away

l was very excited the night

she came back

l lay in the big house,

l couldn't sleep

l wanted my doll Jimmy, you know.

And l remembered that I left it

in Henrietta's cabin.

The house was so still that

l got downstairs and went outside.

The front door of the cabin was locked.

So l went round to slip in

the back door

lt was all dark inside the cabin

l listened... l couldn't hear anything

l crabbed to the stairs

l peeped up over the lamp

on the upper floor of the cabin.

There were two people in the room

together.

So l had a notion of what was like

between Daddy and Henrietta

l loved them both...

There is nothing

l would have done for one of them

ln a few days Henrietta came up

to live in the big house.

There was my Mom who was so violent

0ne day when Daddy was away,

Mom came

down to find me in Henrietta's room.

There was a terrible thing.

She said awful things to me and...

All the time Henrietta just stood there

with her arms around me.

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