The Harrow Page #4

But his mind was gone

in all directions,

and all of them crooked.

Suspicious of everything.

- What do you do when you're

down there in town, at night?

- There ain't too much goin' on.

- You got yourself a girl there?

- I'm just passing through.

- That's right, I forgot.

- Time was gettin' short.

I knew that much.

Somethin' was gonna happen.

God damn it.

Jesus.

- Thing went out of

it's god damn mind.

Came right at me.

- I think it's back is broken.

- God damn dogs, you trust

'em and they turn on ya.

Help me bury it?

- Next day he got

called away again

to work on the highway,

just for a day.

I told her that was as good

as it was gonna get for us.

So that was that.

We was gonna go.

- Where you goin'?

- Nowhere.

- Nowhere?

Nowhere.

I love you, girl.

Don't you know that?

Don't ya?

- Yes.

- What do you

wanna leave me for?

- I don't.

- Hurts me when

you lie like that.

You know how much?

- Uriah.

- He beat her bad

enough to kill a man.

Broke her neck before

he shot himself.

I wondered ever since

how that musta been.

Her last breath, all that pain.

Police carried her body out

in a white sheet, stained red.

Where the hell was I?

Where in the hell was I?

I can see her dyin', I can

see her eyes starin' at me,

and I ain't man

enough to save her.

God damn it, where was I?

- You'd a done somethin'

for her if you could.

I know you would have.

Tomorrow, you and me, we're

gonna walk outta here.

We're gonna leave

it all behind us.

- It ain't as easy as all that.

- Well it's ain't

impossible neither.

I'll help you.

- I'm sorry.

Every damn day of

my life I'm sorry.

- I wanna come

home, I wanna come home.

Ruth.

- Hello?

Yes, thank you for callin'.

Well I was hopin'...

Well how far from

the city are you?

- Won't you sit down?

I'm awful sorry about her.

My brother loved her deeply.

I don't what you came

here for, exactly.

But I found these for you.

I thought you'd

like to have 'em.

I remember when she showed up.

Uriah took her in like

some kind of lost kitten.

She looked like one too.

Skinny, broke, run

away from somewhere.

He told me once that he knew

she was too pretty to keep.

Well, he went and married

her, all the same.

Too pretty.

Young and wild is what she was.

I apologize for sayin' that.

I don't mean

anything against her.

For two days I got no

answer on Uriah's phone.

I told the neighbors to

go by and check the house.

They called me a few hours

later, told me what they found.

I drove right over.

Police didn't want me in.

Said it'd be more than

I can take, to see it.

Uriah was just a farm boy.

Maybe he wasn't a genius, but

I never knew him to be cruel.

Never once.

- Not to dogs neither.

- What?

- People change, ma'am.

- You think so?

- To do what he did?

- What do you think he did?

- I know what he did.

- None of you knew my brother.

If you knew him at all, you

would know he wasn't capable.

- Well if that's true, then

what did he do time for?

- Time, Uriah never did time.

- Maybe you didn't know your

brother as much as you thought.

- You think I don't

know my own brother.

- I love you Miller.

- Miller.

- What are you doin' here?

I thought...

I got everything packed

up, I was comin' for ya.

- I can't no more.

- What do you mean?

- I love you,

Miller, I truly do.

I ain't goin' with you, I can't.

- Miller?

- Miller?

- He do somethin' to you?

Well then, then what?

- I'm expecting.

Do you hear what I said?

- Well...

Well so you are,

that don't change

nothin' between you and me.

- It changes everything.

- But, baby, I'm

not the kind of man

who's just gonna

run away on you.

You know that, don't you?

- No, you got good intentions.

But...

It ain't yours.

- Well, wait a minute,

you don't know that.

No, this don't make

no sense, you can't.

Is it 'cause you're

still f***in' him?

Are you still f***in' him?

- He's my husband.

- There's no way

you love that man.

Look, we'll go, and we'll

find some place to settle.

- Like where?

- Like somewhere, I don't

know, we'll figure it out.

I'll take care of

you, I swear I will.

- You're a good man, you are.

One think I know, a man won't

ever love another man's child.

- Gale, you...

You hush your head.

You know me, you know I

ain't the kind of man...

- it'd decided, Miller.

- Who says it is?

- Stop, please!

- Wait, you can't go.

Gale, wait.

God damn it, I said wait!

- You down here?

Miller?

- You came back.

- You scared me.

- You been gone so long.

- I left you a note.

I been to see Uriah's sister.

- How come you went there?

- She called me.

- Well what did she want?

- Nothin'.

- Nothin'?

- She uh, I mean,

she's all confused.

She said they found my

mama's body some days after.

That ain't right

though, 'cause you'd a

known right away

somethin' happened to her.

You wouldn't have left

her there like that.

You wouldn't of.

- I got somethin' for ya.

- That's hers.

- It's for you.

I found it for you.

- How'd you get it?

- Take it.

- Uriah's sister, she said he

couldn't of done them things.

I was thinkin' about what

you said, about the dog.

M...

Miller, you, you got them scars.

- No, he did it.

God damn it, he did all of it.

She loved me, she came

here to tell me, she...

She loved me.

- Where, Miller?

Where was she?

Was she here, in this room?

Where!

- There.

She was standin' right there.

- What happened then?

What happened then!

- I took hold of her.

I just wanted her to see sense.

She hit me, hard, and...

I...

I'm somewhere else.

There's blood spreadin' out

around her head like a halo.

I had to stop her

blood from spillin'.

I-I couldn't stop it.

I loved her.

I love her so much, I...

No, it's all wrong

I did not do that!

No, she couldn't have

been bleedin' here.

I mean, why would she do that?

No, she was bleedin' up

there, at that house.

Up there where her

husband killed her.

He did it!

That f***in' killer!

That f***in' murderer!

He's gonna pay for what he done.

- What did he do?

What did he do?

Damn it, Miller!

What did he do!

- He took her.

He took her away f...

He took her.

- Gale.

Gale?

Oh, Jesus.

Gale.

- All this time.

You let everyone believe.

- I ain't that man, I...

I ain't.

It ain't me no more.

It ain't me not more.

Don't be scared of me.

D-don't be scared of me.

She ain't dead, she's here.

She's right her, I see her.

What are you doin',

where you goin?

Y-you said we was gonna

go away, you said that.

- You stay away form me!

- What, you wanna leave me?

- You bastard, you

god damn bastard!

- You said

you was gonna help me.

- Oh god.

- That what you want?

You gonna leave me?

Answer me, Gale.

Answer me!

- I don't.

I swear, I don't.

Please, Miller.

Please.

I wanna stay.

I'll stay with you.

I want to.

- I'm beggin' you to forgive me.

Please, forgive me.

- I love you, Miller.

- I truly do.

- Where are you, girl?

Baby, where'd you go?

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