Red Dust Page #7

I've got a fresh batch of young trees

coming through for coagulation tomorrow,

and I gotta be on hand.

I thought we could spend the morning

going over everything I'd done.

No, I'll leave it to you guys.

Mac says you're doing great.

- Say, I think it's too much for you.

- Can't be helped.

Goodbye, kid.

So long, Denny.

Bye, Denny!

It doesn't seem at all worthwhile

for Denny to go back this way.

Six hours in the dark.

Through this weather.

You ought to know whether

it's worthwhile or not.

What do you mean?

Just what I say. You ought to

know your wife better than I do.

What the devil are you driving at?

Why do you suppose he sent

you up on this job for?

He got you up and out of the house

as soon as you could walk, didn't he?

Why, the night before we left,

it was an open book on both their

faces there was something up.

He's been making a play

for your wife ever since...

- Hey!

- Why, you...

- Cut it, you two!

- Get him and hold him!

- Did you hear what he said? Why...

- Now wait.

Don't pay any attention to

his drunken mouth, lad.

He's been drinking all day,

and whenever he gets that way,

he always gets ugly about Denny.

Now forget it.

All right, Mac.

Okay.

Hey, Limey!

Hello, Mr. Carson!

What are you doing so far

off the manor this time of the night?

Communing with nature?

When will you get fixed up?

All ship-shape again.

We'll be dropping her back

again in the morning,

and then I'll head back and pick up that

little girl with the golden locks, eh?

Yes.

Won't you come aboard

and take a nip?

I'm just about to wring the

neck off another bottle.

No, thanks.

See you tomorrow, Limey.

Aye aye, sir!

Well, if it ain't old Master Fred,

back after all these years!

Is the burial private?

Or didn't you bring

the body with you?

You don't look a day older

than when you went away.

We just loved your postcard.

My, you ought to see

how little Emily's grown.

And the twins...

Thanks, old man.

Don't care if I do.

Well now, tell me everything

you've been doing.

Guidon sends you his love.

How is dear, dear Guidon?

As divine as ever?

Say, what's ever become of...

What's his name, that young

fellow with the attractive wife?

You'd be surprised.

Dear me!

And he was so nice too.

Treacherous climate down here.

Where did you get that kimono?

Now Fred, don't change the subject!

What are you trying to do,

get drunk?

That's not a bad idea.

What is it?

Did your team win?

No, we lost.

What's the matter? Wet field?

Sloppy. Sticky.

You know what I've just been?

- What?

- I've been noble!

I give you Saint Dennis,

the big sacrifice boy.

Oh...there isn't gonna

be any funeral.

Sure, mine.

With a lily in my hand!

Little Denny is an angel

now with a harp

and a big, round, rosy halo.

Fred, I'm awful glad.

Are you?

Well, I'm not.

Of all the sap tricks.

He is a nice white kid, isn't he?

What are you gonna do about...

I don't know.

I'll fix it up tomorrow.

You were pretty close to

something there, Fred.

- Yeah.

- Maybe you aren't out yet.

She'll get over it.

I was thinking more about you.

Forget it!

Mind if I get a little

drunk with you, Fred?

So you went noble, eh?

Hallelujah, brother!

Come here.

- Why! Mr. Carson!

- Come here, you lug!

Well, it's about time!

Welcome home, stranger.

You're not a bad kid, Lily.

You know about us?

We belong here.

They don't, those two.

Ah, it's a dirty rotten country.

And we're dirty rotten people,

I suppose, eh?

- Sure.

- Who is?

- You are!

- Take that back!

Dennis!

Wouldn't you know it!

Sorry we woke you up.

Are you?

We were just kidding.

Dennis!

Well Fred, it's not too late.

I don't want you here!

Why, certainly.

Okay, Fred, you can check

the wings and halo at the desk.

- I'll be right up, Vantine.

- Dennis!

What?

- What did you mean?

- I meant what I said.

- What's happened to you?

- Figure it out for yourself.

- You're drunk.

- Sure I'm drunk.

That's why I'm telling you the truth.

You want to hear some more truth?

I didn't say anything to your husband

down there and I'm glad I didn't.

I've just been kidding you all the

time, and everybody knew about it.

- Stop it!

- If you want to come down here,

you come down under our rules.

And if you want to cheat on your

husband, that's okay with me.

And I'm the boy you're

looking for. - Stop it!

And let me tell you this:

I'm not a one-woman man, I never

have been and I never will be.

And if you wanna take your turn...

All right, if it makes

you feel any better.

- Denny!

- I'm hit.

Where?

I'm finding out.

- No bull's eye?

- Naw!

Babs!

What's the matter? What happened?

- I shot him.

- Why?

- Because he...because he...

- Because I made a pass at her.

Oh, Gary! Help me.

Help me!

Then you haven't...

Guidon said that you and...

Guidon's a liar! You ought

to be proud of her.

This bozo's been after

her every minute.

And tonight he comes in drunk

and tries to break into her room

and she shoots him.

The way any virtuous woman,

with a beast like that...

If I were you, Mr. Willis,

I'd take her away from here,

and the quicker the better.

And now, as long as

you aren't dead,

I suppose we'll have

to save your rotten life!

Hoy!

I thought you were a great guy.

Never mind about me.

The boat will get here

in the morning, see?

You two pack your tennis rackets

and go back where you belong.

I'll do that all right.

If she hadn't plugged you,

I'd have done it myself.

Come on, Babs.

Oh, Gary, I'm so sorry!

So sorry.

- Sorry, nothing.

I'm proud of you.

Oh, Denny!

Denny, does it hurt awful?

Oh, stop blubbering.

You've been using your head

pretty well up to now.

Get me the medicine kit.

- Okay.

Oh, Mr. Denny...Mr. Denny...

Oh, shut up! Go heat some water.

- Yes sir!

- Medicine kit coming up.

- That's more like it.

Give me the iodine.

Here now...

Press that thing through there

and pull it out the other end.

You mean, push the bullet

out or something?

No, that bullet's 50 yards

out in the compound.

Come on, clean out that hole!

- Oh, Denny!

- Come on.

One for the money...

Two for...

Two for the show.

- Three to get ready...

- Oh, Denny!

Come on, hurry up, you sap!

Four to...go.

Come on, all the way through.

It was something I overlooked.

"And the next day, when the big

round sun was high in the heaven,

little Bobby Chipmunk could

hardly believe his eyes,

because there across Farmer Brown's

meadows he saw little Molly Cottontail."

A chipmunk and a rabbit!

Say I wonder how this comes out.

"But the faster he ran

across the ground,

the faster she went,

hippity hop hippity hop..."

Fred! Stop it!

Sorry. Once more and you

get the works right there!

Can't you read anything

but bedtime stories?

I've read you everything

four times.

Except one certain item.

- What?

Well, I didn't want to upset you.

You're not well yet, you know.

- Let me see.

- I'll read it.

Where is it?

Here:
"Sailing for San Francisco

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