The Hearse Page #4

Please get out of my house.

- You ought to see a doctor.

You're beginning

to imagine things.

- Goodnight, Mr. pritchard.

- Goodnight, Jane.

Pleasant dreams.

- Well I'm up for the night.

Help me quickly.

- Now hold on a second.

- Somebody's trying to kill me.

- What's that?

- Please, he's after me.

Help me.

- Hey, we've got

something over here.

- Well isn't this Jane.

- Sheriff, quickly,

somebody's trying to kill me.

- Uh yeah?

- Oh no, come.

- This is getting to be quite

a popular sport around here.

Open season on good

looking city girls.

- Jack, you dumb son of a b*tch,

I'm telling you the truth.

- Hey that's mighty

strong language lady.

You're asking for trouble

talking like that.

- Five minutes ago, sheriff,

somebody tried to kill me

in my house.

Now are you going to come and

do something about it or not?

- These city woman are

goddamn crazy, you know that?

- Oh god.

Oh god, it's happening

all over again.

Please, dear god, I won't be

able to live through it again.

- Hello?

Hello in there.

- See there's the drawer.

I left it open last

night when I ran out.

Come on, you'll see.

I swear, he drove his hand

right through that door.

- All I see here Jane is nothing

so much out of the ordinary

and exactly what

i expected to see.

You had a nightmare.

Produced by all that talk

of the occult in the diary.

- I'm not crazy.

I'm not.

- I said nightmare, Jane.

Now you're not going to

let some dreams get to you,

are you?

You're stronger than that.

- I guess so.

- Good.

Good.

Jane you have got

to rely on yourself.

No dreams, no devils.

Look to yourself, Jane,

and then look to god.

- You may be right.

But what it was

so goddamned real.

- Damn real, but still

all in your mind.

Oh why hello, Paul.

Haven't seen you in

church lately, have I?

- Well I've been sick.

- Yes, I'm sure.

Goodbye, Jane.

Take care of yourself.

Remember, be strong.

- L'll try.

Thank you.

- I didn't know he

made house calls.

- This was a special occasion.

Speaking of appointments,

don't you have one on the roof?

- Yeah, I brought you this.

- It's beautiful.

There.

It's just perfect.

- I hope you like it.

- You don't know how much.

Thank you, Paul.

Now, come on.

I bet you can't get the

roof done by sundown.

- I bet you I can.

- Hey looks like

lover boy's back.

Let's see how he did.

- Hi guys.

- Hey whoa whoa whoa.

So how did it go, hot shot?

Did you get any?

- I don't think that any

of your business, guys.

- That's not a very

nice way to talk, is it?

- I did alright, you know.

- Well come on.

- Sort of.

- Well what do you mean sort of?

I mean you either did

or you didn't, right?

You're all talk.

- Well we made out.

- Bullshit.

- Did she have her clothes off?

- Well kinda.

- You really go to her, huh?

I bet you were hard as a pistol.

- Yeah, better believe it, yeah.

Okay, nice chatting with you.

- See you.

- Oh my god.

Oh what are you doing down here?

- I saw the lights

go out as I drove up.

I thought you might

be in trouble.

- Who me?

And then when reverend

Winston convinced me

that it was a nightmare, i

really felt like killing myself.

- You're a very

strong woman, Jane.

It's good to see you like this.

Most women I know would

have been gone by now.

- Well, out here I'm

learning, for the first time,

how to take care of myself.

It feels good.

It feels great.

If I don't get myself

killed in the process.

- You're beautiful

when you laugh.

- Would you like some coffee?

- Yes, sure.

- Oh don't bother with that.

I'll take care of it.

- No, it's not problem.

- Robert talks of

nothing else now.

I can't bear the thought of

our ever being separated.

He believes we can live forever.

Even beyond death,

if I agree as he has

to do Satan's bidding.

I'm being torn apart

by my love for him.

And this terrible choice

he has asked me to make.

But what can I do?

And that's it.

That's the last entry

she made before she died.

- Incredible.

To live forever.

Do you believe a thing

like that could happen?

- No, but in some

deranged diabolical way,

Robert convinced my

aunt that it could.

- Suppose it could happen, Jane.

Suppose you could live forever.

Span the ages.

Wouldn't that be

worth everything?

- I don't know.

You're not serious, are you?

- Of course, I believe

in all that stuff.

- I was getting carried

away again, wasn't I?

I guess it's all the things

that have been happening.

What it amounts to is

one woman alone

in a lonely house

with a very vivid imagination,

sometimes too active

an imagination.

Tom!

- There she is.

That's the witch.

- There are your spooks.

- Witch witch.

- Oh, no.

- Witch witch.

- Apparently I have

quite a reputation.

Even among the

younger set in town.

- You do live in the

local haunted house.

- And I plan to stay here.

Kids, do you believe it?

And here I thought that scarred

face man was coming back

to get me.

- I don't think you'll

be seeing him anymore.

- Neither do I.

Tom, would you like to

come back for dinner again?

- When?

- Would tomorrow

night be too soon?

- I'd love to.

- Up late last night, huh?

- Oh a little yes.

Would you like some coffee?

- Uh no thanks, I just ate.

Have a good time last night?

- Yeah, pretty good.

- Out with that tom guy.

You must like him, huh.

- Yeah, I like him, huh.

Did he stay here last night?

- I don't think that's any

of your business, Paul.

So, how are things at the store?

- Oh same old thing.

Kind of boring.

I was wondering if you

wanted to, felt like,

maybe we could go

see a movie tonight.

We'd have to drive

a few hundred miles

but it'd be great.

- I'm sorry, Paul.

I'm busy tonight.

- You're busy tonight?

- Mmhmm.

- You going outwith tom?

- As a matter of fact, yes.

- Geez.

Oh, dammit.

I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

Now listen, Paul,

the last thing in the

world that I want to do

is to hurt you.

You know that, don't you?

Come on now.

- Yeah, I understand.

I'm a little young.

- But you're not too young

for us to still be friends.

- Yeah.

Sorry about the vase.

- Don't worry about it.

- Well look if that tom

guy doesn't work out,

I'm going to be back

here in a couple years

to give him a run for his money.

I like you Jane, a lot.

- Where were you when

i was 16 years old?

Nevermind, don't answer that.

I don't want to know.

- I better get back to work.

- I'll see you soon.

Bye, paul

- I'll call you right back.

- I know you see

me, Mr. pritchard,

so you might just

as well look up.

- Good afternoon, miss Hardy,

and good bye.

I am very busy.

I simply haven't got time...

- I've signed the papers.

I'm staying in blackford.

- I trust you'll still need

to put the house on the market

when you leave in the fall.

I might not be

leaving in the fall.

- What the hell are

you talking about?

- Well I simply haven't

made up my mind yet.

- Well I'm damned if you do.

A few days ago, I heard

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