The Burning Page #4

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Hey, what the hell is this?

Some sort of interrogation here?

Don't give me that! Where is she?

All right. Okay.

Hey, Karen!

Cut the act, Eddy.

We've already looked all over.

She's not here.

Are you sure you didn't go

just a little too far?

Hey, take it easy?

"Take it easy"!

Christ, you guys make me sick.

You know, Karen told me

she was really scared of you.

Oh, yeah, she was scared of me, huh?

Then how come

- she went with me last night?

- I don't know.

Maybe it's because she likes you,

you dumb bastard.

Now tell me, what happened?

- Come here, will you?

- What?

Look, all right, I must have come on

a little strong, okay?

Came down here, went swimming,

and I don't know, she...

- Look, what did she do?

- She didn't do anything.

She called me a few names,

swam back to shore,

and I figured she went back

with everyone else.

You jerk!

Michelle! Hey, Michelle.

The canoes are gone.

What do you mean, they're gone?

They're gone. They're not here.

Karen.

- Why would she take the canoes?

- She might have let them go accidentally.

Why?

Because the supervisor

gave her permission

to go back to camp if things got too heavy.

Oh, come on, will you?

We had a fight. Nothing serious.

She's gonna let all the canoes go?

For Christ's sake.

Okay. So they had a fight.

She took one of the canoes back to the

main camp, but where are the other five?

I don't know.

Maybe the kids are just pulling a prank.

Marnie!

Get all the kids together

to where the canoes were moored.

Okay!

Okay, okay. Quiet, quiet.

I'm not kidding now. Does anyone know

what happened to the canoes?

Oh, yeah, Dave sold them

to some Indian guy.

Come on, you guys, this could be serious.

Yeah, they can't just vanish.

I want them found.

There's your answer,

sitting right over there.

What'd you do with the goddamn canoes,

you little freak?

Look, I don't know

what you're talking about.

Yeah, I bet you don't know

what we're talking about?

Glazer, why don't you lay off him?

He doesn't know anything about it.

Yeah, cut it out, Glazer.

Look, here's what we're gonna do, okay?

We're gonna split up

and search this whole area.

They gotta be around here somewhere.

What happens if we don't find them?

I don't know.

We'll build a raft or something.

Why don't we just walk back?

Michelle, take a look around.

It's thick forest for miles.

No, we need those canoes.

Okay, come on, let's start looking.

Come on, it will be fun.

- I'm looking forward to it?

- Come on.

- Come on, it will be fun.

- Yes.

- Better lay off the girl.

- Okay.

Come on, chief.

- What are you thinking?

- I don't know.

I just feel real uneasy.

About Karen.

Yeah, something's wrong.

There's no way

all those canoes can just disappear

and Karen wouldn't go back to

the main camp in the middle of the night.

Well, what are we going to do

if we don't find the canoes?

Are we really going to build a raft?

We're gonna have to.

Man, what the hell are we supposed to

be looking for, anyway?

- Your mother!

- Your mother!

Hey, guys, here's a piece of wood.

I still don't understand how Todd expects

us to build a raft with all this stuff.

Hey, Dave.

You know, you've never failed us.

How about a big speedboat with

a Merkel engine on the back?

Oh, why, certainly!

- Hey, what about this?

- What about that?

What do you expect?

This looks like a houseboat for ants.

- It floats.

- It floats?

- Dave.

- I told you.

Come, Jane. We seek wood.

- Come on.

- Come on, you guys.

Mad at me, Sally.

I mean, sh*t, I try to be nice.

I asked you to go swimming with me.

You wouldn't go.

And then on the canoe ride,

you wouldn't even go with me.

- There's a piece of wood.

- What's the matter?

You won't even talk to me?

What do I got to do?

- I mean, what do I gotta do?

- Glazer.

- What's the matter?

- Just cool your engines.

Come on, we're meant to be

looking for wood.

Yeah, right.

Glazer, no!

Go ahead. Sh*t!

You're something, ain't you?

- Hey, Eddy throw me over that rope?

- All right.

This is going to take

longer than you think.

We'll be okay as long as

they leave by this afternoon.

Hey, guys. Look what I found.

- Oh, great!

- Oh, good.

Eddy, give her a hand.

Take it over to the pile?

- All right.

- Here you go.

No, Glazer! No!

- What's the matter?

- Not here!

What's the matter now?

You know you want to.

Later... Maybe.

- You mean that?

- Sure.

That a girl, Sally.

Listen, you can trust me, you hear?

It's gonna be real good.

Real good, I promise.

Okay, kids, listen up. Eddy's in charge.

All right, Eddy!

Okay? He'll get you back

to the main camp.

Eddy, no side trips.

Straight back to camp, right?

- No lefts, no rights, straight ahead.

- Remember, it's just like paddling a canoe.

Try to make good time

so you get there before dark.

You call this a paddle?

This is an eggbeater.

If we're not back by tomorrow,

send in the Marines.

All right, here we go. Bon voyage!

Come on, paddle together!

Paddle together!

I'll be 84 by the time you get help here.

- Goodbye!

- Goodbye!

Come on, dig in. Dig in.

- I'm tired.

- I'm tired.

What do you mean you're tired?

We're doing all the work up here.

Shut up, Woodstock!

Hey, hey, hey!

Will you all please shut the f*** up

- and just keep paddling. Okay?

- All right.

Let's go.

- Eddy? Eddy?

- What?

How come Karen left, really?

Hey, look, it's like Michelle said, okay?

She was upset about something, all right?

Come on.

- Hey, you guys! Look over there!

- What?

- It's one of our canoes! It is, it's ours!

- It is!

- One of our canoes!

- No, it isn't.

- It is, too.

- It's gotta be.

Yeah, who else would be stupid enough

to lose it?

- Come on!

- Dig in there. Let's go!

Come on, Eddy, strong man, let's go.

- Just keep going.

- I'm paddling, I'm paddling.

- Let's go, Eddy.

- Let's go!

Man, that looks like...

- All right.

- There's some of that muscle.

Hurry up, let's get ahead.

- Come on!

- I'm coming.

- Here we go, Fish.

- I'm going. I got seaweed on here.

Don't worry about that,

we'll have a canoe!

- I can't believe it!

- Eddy, Eddy!

Get ready to grab it, man.

I'm going on board.

- Woody, get ready to grab it.

- All right.

We're going to go on,

so you got to get ready to hold on.

All right.

God, look at this.

We really could get lost so easily here.

That's kind of what I was hoping for.

Get out.

Do you think those kids got back all right?

Probably back right now.

- I hope so.

- Come on, don't worry about them.

Let's go.

Come on, it's gonna get dark soon.

Easy does it.

Those kids really had fun today, though.

I know. Look, the way we built that raft,

- they're probably safer than we are.

- I was impressed.

Where did you learn to build a raft?

Raft building, in the Boy Scouts.

Thank God for the Boy Scouts.

- I've been wondering...

- About what?

Well, about whether

you're ticklish!

Come on, we better get back

before it gets dark?

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