The Name of the Rose Page #8

EXT. THE STAKES

(torch is put onto the stake)

SALVATORE:
(singing)

MONKS:
(notice the fire in the library) Look!

(hurry to put out)

INT. LIBRARY

WILLIAM:
Adso! Adso! Adso!

ADSO:
Master!

WILLIAM:
Go on! I insist!

Leave this place at once!

I insist!

ADSO:
Please, God, save him.

EXT.

(peasants throng toward the stakes)

BERNARDO:
Stay back.

Burn the witch!

(a man picks up a stone)

BERNARDO:
You dare raise your hands to the Church?

Come!

ADSO:
(finds Bernardo mount his horse)

No! You're not going to leave!

All of this your wrong doing!

My master found out the murderer!

(peasants stop Bernardo's coach and try

to fell it)

BERNARDO:
Help me.

Help me! Quick!

Help me! No. No, no!

(the coach fell over the cliff)

(William holding many books appears)

ADSO:
Master.

WILLIAM:
Adso.

EXT.

(William and Adso leave the abbey)

(The peasant girl awaits Adso)

ADSO (V.O):
I have never regretted my decision...

for I learned from my master much that

was wise and good and true.

When at last we parted company, he

presented me with his eyeglasses.

I was still young, he said, but someday

they would serve me well. And, in fact,

I am wearing them now on my nose as I

write these lines.

Then he embraced fondly, like a father,

and sent me on my way. I never saw him

again, and know not what became of him...

but I pray always that God received his

soul and forgave the many little vanities

to which he was driven by his intellectual

pride.

And yet, now that I am an old, old man,

I must confess that of all the faces that

appear to me out of the past... the one I

see most clearly is that of the girl...

of whom I've never ceased to dream these

many long years.

She was the only earthly love of my life...

yet I never knew nor ever learned ...

her name.

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