The Thirteenth Tale Page #4

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...to make sure that you and your

sister are properly looked after.

We're quite used to

fending for ourselves.

Yes, but I... My grandmother

knows the house very well.

She can look in every day, like.

There's no need for your

grandmother to trouble herself.

Well, that's lucky, because

I haven't got a grandmother.

So, who do you think killed John?

It certainly wasn't Emmeline,

if that's what you're thinking.

And Ambrose had no

motive. Quite the contrary.

Then...

We agreed no questions.

Patience, Miss Lea.

That was that. You got away with it.

Mr Lomax was very happy

not to put himself out.

You got away with everything.

I can't understand why the

police didn't properly investigate.

John's death after all the...

I'll tell the story

my own way, Miss Lea!

I think that's probably

enough for today.

'We said no questions.

'It certainly wasn't Emmeline,

if that's what you're thinking. '

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

Sorry. Forgive me.

So you're treating Emmeline as well?

Yes. Yes, um...

As a matter of fact, she's even

more seriously ill than Miss Winter.

Is she?

We tried to move her to

hospital a few weeks ago.

...but she refused to get in the ambulance.

Do you know if anyone's

living at Angelfield?

Why do you ask?

Well, I know it's pretty much a ruin...

I've been there a couple of times...

...and the first time some enormous

man chased me out of the house...

...and the second time,

in one of the rooms...

...there was signs of someone living there.

He's called Aurelius Love.

He's not quite right in the

head, but he's totally harmless.

Bit of a local character. Works

with his mother in the bakery.

Was that what you

wanted to ask me about?

Um... No, not really.

I think Miss Winter may

have confessed to committing.

...a murder when she was a teenager.

Erm, well... Well,

did she or didn't she?

I haven't got the whole story yet

but somebody killed the gardener.

...and I can't see who

else it could have been.

And I don't know what to do about it.

Do you have any evidence?

No, and even if I did...

Hmm.

I'm sure you're right.

Maybe wait until you've heard more?

Emmeline...

Dr Clifton tells me you've

been asking questions about her.

How did you find out?

I saw her one night in the garden...

...and eventually worked out who she was.

I see.

I wanted to know why she

was digging in the garden.

...and what it was she kept saying

all the time. Any theories?

Erm... I think what she's saying

is, "Dead go underground. "

Very good.

Miss Lea, you're doing very well.

So she IS looking for

someone underground?

Who could it be? A child?

When are you going to tell

me your story, Margaret?

I haven't got a story.

Everybody has a story.

If you keep it to yourself, it

dies and comes back to haunt you.

You take my word for it.

Well, I have no intention

of telling anyone my story.

Would you mind passing me that bottle?

Yes, of course.

What is it?

Liquid morphine.

For my wolf.

What did you say?

CHILD:
'I said I'm sorry.

'I was saving it specially. '

HORN BLARES:

'It's me!'

I want to spend more time with Emmeline.

...over the next couple of days.

I always thought of Emmeline as a twin.

MUFFLED ECHO:
I always

thought of Emmeline as a twin.

MUFFLED:
There is something

special about losing a twin.

SHE SOBS:

My dear, whatever's the matter?

I had a twin.

Margaret, I'm sorry.

I'm not talking to you.

I'm not even going to walk with you.

I'm going over to the other side. Don't!

Walk by yourself.

Please forgive me, please!

It was all my fault.

She'd eaten a bar of

chocolate that I'd been saving.

...and... I wanted to punish her.

Oh, all right.

Come on, then!

Moira!

CAR TYRES SCREECH

MARGARET SCREAMS

Feeling guilty doesn't

do anybody any good.

It wasn't your fault.

My mother thought it was.

And she never forgave me.

I've been so lonely all

these years without my sister.

We all have our stories.

You've been here before, haven't you?

You're Aurelius?

I frightened you when you

came here. I didn't mean to.

No, I... It was my fault, I panicked.

Look what they've done. Yeah.

Developers.

Didn't you live here?

No, I just used to camp out, like.

I live with me mum.

I loved this house.

And what's going on down there?

Oh, yeah. Funny thing.

They found some bones.

Skeleton.

'She's an aggressive

and dangerous child.

'I always thought of Emmeline as a twin.

'The twins were missing

each other desperately. '

Ring a ring a roses.

A pocketful of posies...

'Emmeline... '

There were three of you.

There were three of you.

It wasn't just Adeline and

Emmeline, there were three of you.

There were police at

Angelfield. They've found a body.

A skeleton. Mm-hm.

There were three of us.

And now there's one of us.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry, I got carried away.

Oh, I'm sorry.

So, you see, there WAS a

ghost at Angelfield all along.

A ghost with no name.

It was me.

Like it or not, I was the ghost.

Who was your mother?

Oh, I've no idea.

All I do know is that when Isabelle

went away to have the twins...

Charlie went on some kind of a rampage.

What I do know is that I was born

a few months later than the twins...

...and Charlie, God knows if

it ever dawned on him...

... was the father of us all.

How did you get to Angelfield?

All I know is what John The Dig told me.

Which was what?

He started to notice his strawberries.

...and his carrots were disappearing

from his vegetable garden.

And he thought he saw

...signs of someone sleeping

in the potting shed.

Also, this someone was not properly

turning off the outside tap.

Hey, you!

John and The Missus took me in.

Or he did, really.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

The hair? Yes.

Should we tell them?

And I spent as much of the

time as I could with them.

He taught me how to read

out of his seed catalogues.

But of course Adeline never

even wanted to learn to read.

She was?...

Genuinely dangerous, yes.

Violence was always her first instinct.

SHE SCREAMS:

Finally, she killed John.

What made her do it?

She hated him for some reason.

She seemed to think he was responsible.

...for taking her away

from Emmeline that time.

Or perhaps she was jealous of

all the attention he gave me.

He was the closest I

ever had to a real parent.

GASPS AND CLATTERING

HE MUTTERS UNINTELLIGIBLY

After John's death, we

were alone with Ambrose.

It's a lot harder than it looks.

I was never easy in my mind about him.

Don't you touch Emmeline, you hear me?

I haven't touched Emmeline.

Good. Well, don't.

It's not Emmeline I wants to touch.

Even though she's

kinder than what you are.

Why can't you be kind like Emmeline?

'Before long it was obvious

that Emmeline was pregnant.

'and I dismissed Ambrose.

'I decided not to ask for any

help with delivering the baby. '

SCREAMING:

'I read up for it as much as I could.

'So, I was deluded...

'Adeline was insane and

Emmeline was helpless.

'All the same, somehow or other... '

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