- 5 months ago
Chris accepts a proposal in order to save the guesthouse. A death at the foundry sees Ewan framed and violently arrested, blackmail his only chance of freedom. No longer able to escape her longing to return to the croft where she was born, Chris leaves Duncairn.
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00:00.
00:30All those in favour?
00:41Aye.
00:43Motion carried.
00:45Unanimously.
00:47That's fine.
00:49That's really good.
00:50I've a good Dovendale's fair persuasive when he sets his mind to it.
00:53Mind you, he'd never have brought it up
00:55if the lads hadn't even been told to work double fast in the same ship.
00:58It doesn't matter how he's done it.
01:00I'll get on to party headquarters and arrange help for the local branch.
01:03What the hell's it go to do with the communists?
01:05We'll take over the running of the strike.
01:07What experience does Tavendale's daft young league have in this sort of thing?
01:11Look, the strike's only the concern of the Gowans workers.
01:13No.
01:14It's every worker's affair that another worker's fighting for his livelihood
01:17and to put down the manufacture of armaments.
01:21I'll be along at the picketing in the morning.
01:23Oh, it's you, Tavendale.
01:39I'd like a word with you, sir.
01:41Don't bother.
01:41I've heard the whole story.
01:43This means one thing's certain enough.
01:45You'll not come back to Gowans and Gloaks.
01:48We'll see about victimisation when the strike's over.
01:51You're striking a good cause.
01:53What about you joining us?
01:54Get out of my way.
01:56Stand away, there.
01:57Stand away.
01:57I'll have you taken it.
01:58What does that big swing think he is?
02:01Hitler.
02:01Don't worry, lads.
02:02We've a legal right to be here to argue with anybody trying to get into the works.
02:06Now's your chance.
02:07Mr. Edwards, as a foreman, you should be setting an example by joining us.
02:13It's no my business, Tavendale.
02:14Let me through.
02:15Dirty blackmail!
02:17We killed Gow and Stone Dead today.
02:24They didn't even get their furnaces going.
02:28Oh, God, I'm tired.
02:30What you want is a bath and your bed.
02:33I suppose so.
02:35Have you made up your mind about the house yet?
02:40Will you carry on without Mrs. Clackhorn?
02:42I suppose I must, since Ma's in heaven.
02:46Or at least in the Kirkyard.
02:50I'll see.
02:53But if you don't get into a bath, I'll be carrying on without you.
02:59You're worried, aren't you?
03:02Aye, a bit.
03:03Miss Urquhart had the valuator in this afternoon.
03:08It valued Ma's share of the house at a price that made me gasp.
03:12Won't she stay in as a partner?
03:14No.
03:15She's determined to sell the gear and her share.
03:18No fancy for the keeping of lodging, she said.
03:21If the lodgings could speak,
03:23they might have answered that they'd no fancy for being kept by her.
03:26Anyhow, I've got a week to decide.
03:39Oh, Ewan.
03:42Funny, Ewan.
03:44It was damnable of you to fall in love with me.
03:47Much better to have stayed out safe.
03:49It's as well to be in love
03:52if we plan to marry.
03:58Oh?
04:01And when will that be?
04:04When I get another job.
04:07You won't be able to keep yours.
04:09They'll force you to leave the school.
04:10Yes, I suppose they would.
04:16How much of a salary would you expect to get?
04:21Perhaps four pounds.
04:23Only four?
04:25But that's as much as I get now.
04:29Goodness.
04:30We'd have to live in the car gate.
04:38Don't fool, Ellen.
04:40Anyway, I'm afraid that's the way it is.
04:45Whoever goes back to Gowans again, I won't.
04:47The manager made that plain enough.
04:50Well, mistress.
04:52And what are you going to do about this bad house?
04:55I've no idea.
04:57Sell my share, I suppose.
04:59Uh-huh.
05:00Then after that...
05:02Something will turn up.
05:04Aye, well, just give some minute of your crack.
05:07Let the folk wait for their morning tea.
05:10Well, I'm in it, then.
05:16What is it?
05:18This is it.
05:19I've a bit of cellar saved myself.
05:23But enough to buy up the share of the place that Mistress Cleghorn left to her niece.
05:28And I'm willing to come in.
05:31It's your partner, like.
05:36Egg.
05:36Oh, Egg, do you really mean that?
05:40Oh, aye.
05:41I mean for to say it's a habit of mine, like.
05:43Ha, ha, ha, ha.
05:46Are you willing to take me on, then?
05:49I'll look after that lad of yours, all right?
05:54Ewan?
05:54Well, what'll he have to do with it?
05:58Well, dammit, as he's stepfather, I suppose I'll have more than a pity to do with it.
06:06One or other of us has gone daft.
06:10You were proposing to share my house, weren't you, Egg?
06:13I was.
06:17And your bed.
06:22I went through that day betwixt anger and laughter.
06:26The first would come in the funniest way.
06:30Poring over me in a sudden red, senseless wave.
06:34Marry a lout like him.
06:37Lose all that I'd ever gained in my life with Robert, the manse, my son.
06:40The impudence of him.
06:44Oh, the beast.
06:46The beast.
06:47With his sneering, half-kindly, half-bull-like face.
06:51The face of the how throughout.
06:53Canny and cruel and kind in one facet.
06:56The face of the bothies and the little tunes.
06:58Aye, me, Mrs. Cajun.
07:00You're fairly looking right well today.
07:03Has your lad been sending you a love letter?
07:05Silly old butcher.
07:07No.
07:08But it's much the same.
07:10I had a proposal of marriage this morning.
07:14Did you?
07:16And who's the lucky man?
07:18Are you to accept, then?
07:30Aye, mistress.
07:33Will you cook a day tasty meal?
07:36A bit of word in your lug.
07:37Try no tricks wi' me.
07:43I'm not your fool nor anybody's fool.
07:48I'm sorry, Ake.
07:50It was a silly caper.
07:54That's fine, then.
07:54And when will you let me know about this partnership business?
07:59I don't know, but soon, anyhow.
08:03Aye.
08:04Well, whatever you decide about the other matter,
08:08I'll let you have the money anyway.
08:12Whatever you decide.
08:17Ake.
08:17Why do you want to marry me so bad?
08:20Why do you want to marry me so bad?
08:22Just to sleep with a woman, is that all?
08:24Well, I've been married twice already, you know,
08:28and it doesn't seem it was lucky for the men.
08:31Och, I'm willing to take the risk.
08:33I don't suppose Cahoon or Tavondale thought themselves cheated,
08:37however they ended.
08:39Well, I've little mind for any man again,
08:41and that's the plain truth of it.
08:44If I married at all,
08:46it would be with little liking
08:48and necessity only the drive.
08:50Never fear, we'd soon alter that.
08:54If there's no woman yet,
08:56I couldn't contend.
09:00Leave us alone!
09:01Give me your lances for this!
09:03Leave us alone, you fuckers!
09:07Get away!
09:08Get away!
09:09Lads, please, I cannae swim!
09:12My God, he's gonna hurt.
09:16Look out, lads!
09:17It's the police!
09:18Here, Alec.
09:20Come on, lads!
09:21Come on!
09:22I don't...
09:23Come on!
09:32Well, I'm sorry about old Edwards.
09:35It was an accident.
09:36A scab's a scab, Alec.
09:38Oh, well,
09:40I'll away home and wait for them to arrest me.
09:42Why should they?
09:43They always do.
09:45Oh, but don't worry.
09:46I'm an old hand at this.
09:47I won't tell them anything.
09:48And besides, I know the law inside-outside,
09:51so they don't dare bash me.
09:53Come on, Steve.
09:55Aye.
10:07God, you sure have seen a big sergeant when he got it in the face.
10:10I wonder if he stops sneezing yet.
10:12The rest of you might think that pepper-throwing business was clever, but I don't.
10:19Whose idea was it?
10:22Well, it was mine, if you must know.
10:26Yes, it would be.
10:27It worked, didn't it?
10:28Oh, it worked all right.
10:29This is just what they need.
10:32I thought you'd more sense.
10:33Now, just a minute, Tavindale.
10:35Don't come at it.
10:35Anyway, I didn't see you doing much of the fighting.
10:39No, you didn't, you tyke.
10:42A fight's just what they wanted.
10:43Don't talk to me like that.
10:45God, Ewan, I hope we don't take trouble like we had yesterday,
11:07and I'll hear the soldiers out.
11:10I think today will be quiet.
11:15Ewan, I was thinking,
11:24I'm sorry about that wee argument we had.
11:30You were right.
11:33No hard feelings.
11:36No hard feelings.
11:45I knew him back in Saget.
11:51As close a loon as you could find on he way.
11:53And his dead fellow was another raid.
11:55He felt demoralized the whole parish before he died.
11:58Still, there's nothing we can arrest the morning.
12:07Don't you, lad.
12:08All right, now, move along.
12:13I will have you on for loitering.
12:17Sergeant, did you see that?
12:19Oh, I saw it.
12:20Assaulting the police.
12:23All right, lad, you can come up to the station.
12:25Don't talk rot.
12:26Aye, we tripped over his own feet.
12:28I saw it myself.
12:29Aye, you keep out of this.
12:30I will take you as well.
12:32Now, are you going to come quietly or not?
12:34I suppose so.
12:37But anyone can see this is a put-up job.
12:40Oh, the bastards.
12:42It was self-defense.
12:44All right, pick him up.
12:46There'll be trouble over this.
12:48Are you trying to prevent an arrest?
12:57Turn the jet pockets.
13:04Oh, aye.
13:27And what do you say to this?
13:31Some groceries I was buying for my mother.
13:33Is that so?
13:35If she knows you when we are finished with you,
13:38she'll be a right discerning woman.
13:40Take him to the cell, Sergeant Leslie,
13:42and see that he doesn't try to assault you again.
13:44Psh!
13:45It was you that drowned old Edwards, wasn't it?
14:10No.
14:11And organize the throwing of the pepper.
14:15Go to hell!
14:26Right, you bastard.
14:28I'll ask you again.
14:30It was you that drowned old Edwards, wasn't it?
14:32And who threw the pepper?
14:34Go to hell!
14:35Right, lads.
14:39Strip him.
14:39I will do what we can of course and maybe a wee thing more but I still don't think you should
15:01come to the court I fear they'll have been bashed a bit oh and bandages you know a bit broken up
15:08but he didn't try to resist arrest the rest of the picket saw that
15:11aye but he's a communist again no he isn't he will be by now
15:16ah his fancy league was no more than the dream of an earnest lad anyway the bobbies think he's a red
15:25and the I get reds they resist at the station if what you say is true then it isn't fair
15:31aye it's fair enough you see mistress we're now out to cure the system
15:38we're out to down it cut its throat
15:40my god are those the folks that you and stay in up with
15:48aye aye that's them
15:51aye jim
15:52aye steve
15:53lads
15:54we'll demonstrate later lads eh
16:00better disperse now
16:02no razor oh in view of the seriousness of this charge and the discovery of incriminating evidence I will
16:12order a remand remanded until next Friday
16:15what did Ewan say to you as he went past oh just that he was all right and uh that they'd get nothing out from him
16:24ah it's it's bad all right although the party will do everything it can to help him
16:30exploit the case for the whole
16:31oh why for your own ends not for Ewan's he's nothing to them is he
16:36mrs. Cajun neither would I be
16:39then thanks but I'll look for help elsewhere
16:44I'm damnably sorry mrs. Cajun
16:49if it was up to me but I'm only a sub-editor
16:54and besides the paper didn't make any comment on a case that's sub-judice
16:59not that it would if it could
17:02well I do find it rather difficult to believe that Ewan was tortured
17:07it sounds like red propaganda
17:09as it's done Cairn no Chicago
17:11you know it's
17:15it's a pity he's been led away by those people
17:18he's in bandages
17:22Mr. Piddle
17:25you were in court you saw him
17:27oh yes and I'm dreadfully sorry for the young man
17:31but I have to report the charge as presented
17:34and the public must have its news
17:36news? is that what it is?
17:40a ween of lies? news?
17:43well it may not all be lies
17:45wasn't it the case that your late husband
17:48the minister of Segget also held rather extremist views
17:53look I don't think there's any point in going into that just now
17:56but you see Mrs. Cajun
17:59there's nothing what can do
18:01so it would seem
18:04I don't suppose you could let me have a picture of Mr. Ewan for the paper
18:08no
18:10no I thought not
18:13I'm really very sorry Mrs. Cajun
18:18but I have my position to consider
18:21as an employee of Robertson's
18:24they are fair to respect the way you can
18:26so
18:28I'm afraid I can't stay here any longer
18:31I understand Mr. Cushney
18:34and a week's notice will be fine
18:37aye
18:38well
18:40as long as that's alright
18:42I wonder if there'll be any others leaving
19:00I'm so sorry Chris
19:03if there's anything I can do
19:07anything you want
19:07that's what young Archie Clearmont said
19:10but there's nothing either of you can do
19:12but it's me that started him on it
19:15and he's a socialist
19:17not a red
19:18it's all a ghastly mistake
19:20Chris
19:23how did he really look?
19:26I told you how he looked
19:28Chris I'm sorry
19:30I'm a fool to cry
19:35he'd think me a fool
19:37Ake I've no power to interfere with the police
19:43and I've no influence with courts or bailings
19:45oh for God's sake don't talk wet
19:46you're the provost
19:47and you and I bathe ken
19:48there's as much graft in the average Scots tune
19:50as there is in only damn place
19:52on the other side of the Atlantic
19:53you can
19:53now just you watch what you're saying
19:55who invites contracts for agreed on tenders
19:58who arranges the sale of public land
20:01and buys it up before the affair can be made public
20:04and as for the bobbies
20:05is there a bookies pitch in Duncairn
20:08that doesna pie out to them
20:09damned lies
20:10just coarse rumour and scandal
20:12aye well maybe
20:14so you'll see that young Davindale's let off
20:18with a caution
20:19if it ever flimmeries necessary
20:21I'll be damned if I will
20:22as you wish
20:23I know some things that aren't a gist
20:26rumour and scandal
20:27and I'll be damned if I'll be badgered this way
20:30because of a mistake I made when I was young
20:32a mistake was it
20:33raping a lass in a hedge
20:35with a darkness to hide your face
20:36I've told you Ogilvy
20:37I'm no being blackmailed by you any longer
20:40tell what you like
20:42maybe you'll see the inside
20:44of a gile yourself
20:45as you say
20:48only a proposition before you
20:51if you can help young Davindale
20:54I'll never breathe another word again
20:57in public or in private
20:58about that other matter
21:00and I'll never seek for any advantage of it
21:03would that be a promise
21:04you'd have my word
21:06and you'll leave my sawmill
21:09aye
21:12all right
21:14Jimmy
21:15well mistress
21:35you're looking at an unemployed man
21:38why's that
21:41I had a word with the provost
21:44about Ewan
21:44we have an arrangement
21:47I'm finished with Jimmy
21:49and he's finished with me
21:50but that's neither here nor there
21:53for the moment
21:54the main thing is
21:56that Ewan will be safe
21:57egg
22:00egg is it true
22:03why
22:04there there mistress
22:10don't take on so
22:10he's safe
22:12they won't push the case
22:13that's the quality of justice
22:16in Duncairn
22:17aye
22:19it's a great thing
22:23scandal
22:24Trice got up a demonstration
22:30outside the court
22:31that day Ewan was released
22:33and they cheered
22:34when they heard
22:35he'd been let off
22:35with a fine
22:36I paid the fine
22:39and wished they'd left me alone
22:40with my son
22:41come on you
22:42give us a word
22:44I'll do that
22:47comrades
22:52I got no more
22:55than anyone might expect
22:57if they choose to work
22:59for the revolution
23:00but one thing I have learned
23:04the communists are right
23:07only by force
23:09can we beat brute force
23:11plans for peaceful reform
23:14won't work
23:14we must organise the masses
23:17make them think
23:19make them see
23:20that there is no way to power
23:22except through the fight
23:23of class against class
23:25until we've dragged down the masters
23:27dragged down the masters
23:30and ground them to pulp
23:32my mistress
23:41I want a bit crack with you
23:43yes
23:44well we've held up this business of a decision
23:48but now we have to come to an accounting
23:51one way or another
23:52I know
23:53ma's nieces agreed to settle at what I offered
23:56so
23:57are you going to have me then
23:59as your man
24:01yes
24:04if you'll have me
24:06I'm nothing of a bargain
24:09for all that you've done
24:10they've all gone cheerily back to work again
24:16making their bit armaments
24:17it's even said that
24:20Gowans are going to install
24:21a gas loading plant soon
24:23then we achieved nothing
24:25oh
24:26the speeding up was slowed down
24:28and there was a bit of an increase
24:30in all of the peace rates
24:31oh well there would be of course
24:33Bolivia and Japan
24:34are in a hell of a stramash to get arms
24:36and Gowans are just dancing in tune
24:38and I went through
24:41what I did
24:44just for that
24:45aye
24:49just for that
24:50and for the same kind of result
24:54I've been going through the same sort of thing for 15 years
24:57and likely I'll go through it for another 15
25:00unless the bobeys manage to get me down in some bit riot
25:04and kicking my skull
25:05you've got to understand this Ewan
25:11it's me and you that's the working class
25:15no these poor muckers have gone back to Gowans
25:17it's a hell of a thing to be history Ewan
25:22Ewan
25:25go away
25:27Ewan listen
25:37tell me what's wrong with you
25:39what have I done that you've been avoiding me
25:43do you hate me so much
25:46and so suddenly
25:48no
25:48I don't hate you at all
25:51what are you doing this weekend
25:58nothing
26:02read a book I suppose
26:05I want to go out on a long ride on a bus
26:10somewhere
26:11I get so sick of Duncairn
26:13will you come with me
26:16if you like
26:20I'll be putting off company
26:22I'll risk that
26:25oh
26:27hello Ellen
26:28you come to help
26:29no Mrs. Gowans
26:33Ewan's not well
26:36oh
26:37where is he
26:38oh nothing new has happened
26:40but
26:41ever since he came out of jail
26:44I know
26:45I want to take him out to the country somewhere
26:50and I want to know if you'll mind
26:52well you can surely go where you like
26:54you're neither of you Bairns
26:56I don't know if we'll be back tonight
27:00I won't worry
27:05but
27:08Ellen
27:09yes
27:10it's your life and his but
27:12I think I can Ewan
27:15he's like this for the time but once he's better
27:19he's a funny lad
27:22and I don't think he'll ever be any lasses lad
27:26we're only going hiking
27:56we're only going to do
27:57I don't know you
27:58I don't know you
27:59I don't know you
28:01but I'm not sure you can do that
28:02hell
28:03I don't know you
28:04but if you're not
28:05I don't know you
28:06I don't know you
28:07it's been a couple of years
28:08yeah
28:09he was just a two people
28:10and he was just like
28:11in the city
28:12I don't think I love you
28:13I don't think I'll even know you
28:14but you really need to do it
28:16yeah
28:17even though
28:18you
28:19it's been a good
28:20Hello, Weary.
28:30Perhaps you've heard my mother speak of it.
28:33I don't think so.
28:35But being here must bring back a lot of memories for you.
28:40Not many.
28:50I do remember as a little lad watching a man in soldier's gear going out of the close and not looking back.
29:02Your father?
29:04I suppose so. Going off to the war.
29:08Chris paid no heed to him.
29:11I wonder if he'd quarrelled.
29:20Come on, let's climb Drom Tochte and go over to Fenella.
29:36That's Fenella's hill.
29:38Who was Fenella?
29:41Oh, she was the wife of the Sheriff of the Merns.
29:44She led an army against the king in the old wars.
29:48Would that be in the covenanting times?
29:49No, they came long after.
29:55Funny chaps, the covenanters, I always liked them.
29:58They were the advance guard of the common folk of those days.
30:04And the gentry imprisoned and killed them in scores.
30:10There was nothing new under the sun.
30:13Not even torture.
30:17Ewan.
30:19What did they do to you?
30:25All right.
30:26If you want to know.
30:29They took me into a cell.
30:32There were four of them.
30:34Ewan.
30:53Oh, my dear.
31:02You needn't fash for me.
31:12I've been the gaipest of gummerals to let on and vex you so.
31:17But I'm better now.
31:20I'll forget.
31:23You forget everything.
31:27Come on, we've got a hill to climb.
31:32Ouch.
31:37It's only cramp.
31:40Why didn't you waken me?
31:42You must feel half dead.
31:44More whole than half.
31:46But you slept so sound.
31:50That was nice of me.
31:54It's been a while since I've slept sound.
31:58Hungry.
32:00There are still some oranges.
32:02But what wouldn't I give for a cup of tea?
32:05What the devil did you put in that rucksack?
32:08Oh, just some spare clothing and some things I bought today.
32:13Good God, what's the time?
32:16It's just four o'clock.
32:18It can't be.
32:19Your watch must have stopped.
32:21Let me see.
32:27It has.
32:28And the last bus back to Duncairn.
32:32By the sun, I'd say it left off and lay an hour ago.
32:38Is there anywhere near here?
32:40An inn, perhaps, where we could stay?
32:42Yes.
32:43I think there's a little place two or three miles away.
32:54This is one of the things I bought.
32:57Ewan, will you put it on for me?
33:00There you go.
33:16Here you are.
33:17There it is.
33:18Here you are.
33:23All right?
33:40Yes.
33:42That was fun.
33:47Oh, you and...
33:49a funny boy.
33:53I stood that day with gloved hands on the hot May railings
34:14and looked down at Duncairn, where my marriage was waiting,
34:18and I thought, what a reel of things in a few short months.
34:25What an ancient strange world that waited tomorrow.
34:27Well, it wouldn't be the tomorrow I'd expected.
34:40No tomorrow ever was,
34:42though you planned it with care,
34:44locked Chance in the stable and buried the key.
34:47But I didn't fail in my bargain that night.
34:49I'd been glad for the man with kindness and good heart,
34:54giving that which he needed and that which he sought,
34:58neither shrinking nor fearing.
35:01My husband,
35:04Ake Ogilvy.
35:07You and Tramp Duncairn in search of a job.
35:11His coolness was something different now.
35:13That quality I'd likened to grey granite
35:16turning into something darker and coarser.
35:19I've got a job at Stoddart's.
35:22The granite works?
35:23I start today.
35:25As a labourer.
35:27You and...
35:28a labourer?
35:30Now, aye.
35:31You'll be able to study the proletariat at first time now.
35:35Let me know when you get sick of them, boy.
35:38I might be able to find you something bitter.
35:39There's your piece.
35:47Thanks.
35:51I'm sorry to have upset your plans, mother.
35:54What plans?
35:55Well,
35:56didn't you want me to be respectable and genteel
35:59with no silly notions?
36:01And a nice office suit.
36:03I didn't know I'd mothered a gawk.
36:05No.
36:06You mothered a red.
36:07Well,
36:09if you know as little of your own beliefs as you do of me,
36:12then, Faith,
36:13it'll be a long time before you and Mr Treese rule in Duncairn.
36:16Faith,
36:17it'll be long anyway,
36:17I'm afraid.
36:21And as for what you call my beliefs,
36:24they're just plain hell.
36:28But then,
36:29they are real.
36:31And you ought to like them.
36:32You're so much alike.
36:33What do you mean by that?
36:37Why,
36:37you're both real.
36:41Didn't you know you were real,
36:42Chris?
36:44Realer than ever.
36:50And stepfather Ake's pretty real as well.
36:53Real?
37:02Aye,
37:03Ake was real enough.
37:05I watched him through the days that followed.
37:07Manner and act,
37:08gesture and glance,
37:10with a kind,
37:11quiet curiosity.
37:13He was tramping Duncairn for a job.
37:15And at evening,
37:18would sit long hours in the kitchen.
37:21Me sewing,
37:21him reading.
37:23Hardly speaking a word.
37:25Me because I'd nothing to say.
37:26Don't go into bed, lass.
37:27Ake because he'd no mind for clake.
37:36More if you need them.
37:38Might.
37:39I've got another four members for the branch.
37:41Good, good.
37:42Ah, it's well worth bothering about.
37:44Best place.
37:45How long before they found out in Sackia?
37:48Oh, a couple of months, maybe.
37:52Damn nuisance.
37:55Getting interested in granite.
37:57Last time it was metallurgy.
38:01How are things at Gowans?
38:03Oh, quiet now since the strike.
38:07We've built a new chemicals wing.
38:09Start filling the gas shells next week.
38:14I've had my suspicions, Mrs. Ogilvie.
38:29So, last night I stayed up.
38:33And sure enough,
38:35I saw them.
38:38It's disgusting.
38:40I just can't stay any longer
38:42in a place that's...
38:44that's no better than a brothel.
38:46Then you'd better pack and get out at once.
38:50What?
38:51Me?
38:51That's done nothing.
38:53You've more need to shift those two dirty tanks.
38:56You'll pack and be gone in an hour.
38:57Misses?
39:08It's not a taxi you want to shift this stuff.
39:11It's a lorry.
39:12I want none of your impudence.
39:14I've had enough of that already.
39:17Living in a brothel.
39:20Faith, now have you so?
39:22And is business falling off that you're leaving?
39:29Well, we've just lost a lodger.
39:33Miss Ena Lyon.
39:35I'll not miss her company.
39:37No, but we'll miss her rent.
39:39We can ill afford to lose her.
39:40Are there any signs of you getting work, Ake?
39:44Not a bit.
39:46Nothing done caring at any rate.
39:48Now, devil the one,
39:49and I'm thinking I know the reason for that.
39:52What's the reason?
39:53Jimmy Spate.
39:55Doubtless he sent word to every joiner
39:57and timber merchant in the town
39:59warning them against employing me.
40:01Surely he'd be feared to do that,
40:03seeing what you know about him.
40:05I promise never to use that knowledge again,
40:08and he knows I'll keep my promise.
40:10Oh, aye, a buddy must keep a promise made.
40:16Even to a daft old scape like the provost.
40:19Oh, I'm sorry, mistress.
40:26What for?
40:28Sorry I drove you into marrying me.
40:33Ake.
40:33Aye, a dumb mistake.
40:37Queer the daft like desires that drive folk.
40:40I might have known you'd never mate wi' me.
40:45You'd been spoiled in the beds of ministers and the like.
40:49And I'd forgotten that like an unblooded loon.
40:52But I've done all I can to make us happy.
40:56Aye, oh, you can, but it hasn't been enough.
40:58Ah, you're not to blame, Chris, so don't fash yourself.
41:08Things all ravel out in time.
41:15I think I'll take a dander round the docks.
41:18I think I'll take a dander round the docks.
41:48Like science and religion, experiment has its matters.
41:52And the treacherous conduct of extremists
41:54in exploiting the natural grief of the Duncairn workers
41:57is utterly to be deplored.
42:00That's us.
42:02We're deplorable.
42:03Aye, well, the Duncairn workers have got plenty to grieve about.
42:07An explosion wiped out half the night shift, by the looks of it.
42:10And they're still dying up in the infirmary.
42:13Your friend Norman Crookshanks is not likely to live.
42:16Still, we haven't done so bad out of it.
42:2020 new members in the past week.
42:22That was a damn fine idea of you as you and to have old man Gowen's windows bashed in.
42:26Aye, and we should pick up more recruits at the meeting on Saturday.
42:29Aye, well, for God's sake, see, there's a decent collection.
42:31London HQ has been badgering me for money.
42:33Is that all you can say?
42:36A dozen men, dead or dying, and all you can talk about is getting money and members.
42:41There's not much more to be said, lass.
42:43The works were well enough protected, and that kind of accident could happen anyplace.
42:50Though we'll suggest there was culpable negligence.
42:53No.
42:54We'll suggest it was deliberately planned.
42:57Planned?
42:58To test the effects of poison gas on a crowd.
43:02But that's a lie.
43:05You know it's a lie.
43:07It's sickening to suggest that they let loose the gas deliberately.
43:14Take that to the printers, will you?
43:17No, I won't.
43:19Ewan, please.
43:22It's cheating.
43:25It's...
43:26It's not communism.
43:27All right.
43:31I'll take it myself.
43:35Egg.
43:37Why?
43:39Just for what I've said, mistress, I want a change.
43:43So I've been on the job of ship's carpenter,
43:46on the vulture bound for Newfoundland.
43:49That's all about it.
43:50But it's not all.
43:54Oh, what's this you're saying about not coming back?
43:59Och, I've never had a minute since my marriage day
44:01when I felt a free and happy man.
44:05Oh, Egg.
44:08Aye.
44:10But it's true, lass.
44:14Have I known how you looked on me?
44:17Thought of me?
44:18Egg, I've done my best.
44:21Oh, I know that, I know that.
44:24Just that we never should have wed.
44:27You were made for somebody different from me.
44:31God knows who.
44:33Neither me nor Cahoon.
44:36But it's been like hell.
44:40We just kind of mix.
44:42Alas, do you think I haven't seen you shiver
44:47over things another woman would laugh at?
44:51Or like?
44:56That's just foolishness.
44:59I like you well.
45:04And I always have done.
45:06Chris.
45:08You look, Bonnie, standing there trying to be kind.
45:12But it was more than kindness I'd hoped to get.
45:19I thought once that glimmer in your eyes
45:21was a fire I could blow into a flame.
45:26And instead,
45:27it's no more than the shine of a stone.
45:32So,
45:45watching from the doorway as he went that last morning,
45:48I minded in pity
45:50and smiled at him kind.
45:54But he wasn't for me,
45:56nor me for him.
45:57I'd finished with men,
46:00or the need for them.
46:08Goodness, we're comfy.
46:11Wish we had a car like this of our own.
46:14I'd have to get Selden's job for that.
46:16And I doubt if it'd be so easy next time.
46:19What on earth are you talking about?
46:22Haven't you heard the news?
46:23It's all round the branch.
46:24No, I
46:26haven't been to a party meeting for a while.
46:30Just being lazy, I suppose.
46:35Well, Selden's done a bunk with the funds.
46:40All of them?
46:41Every last penny.
46:43And there was a decent amount.
46:46Always thought it risky
46:47having him as treasure on so did Therese.
46:50But he'd got in well
46:51with the Executive Council in London,
46:52and that was that.
46:54Cleared us out to the very last copper.
46:56What a filthy thing to do.
46:58The man's a beast.
47:00An intelligent beast.
47:02He showed a lot of sense
47:03in waiting until the branch had some money.
47:07You speak as though you might do the same.
47:10I'm a communist.
47:12He wasn't.
47:13I could tell long ago Selden would rat.
47:18You could tell a rat easily among revolutionists.
47:21Yeasty sentiment and blah about justice.
47:25They think they're in politics
47:27or a parlour game.
47:28The landlady remembered us from last time.
47:49She said she thought we were on our honeymoon then.
47:59Did she?
48:00I wish it were true.
48:08I wish it could be like this all the time.
48:12A place of our own.
48:14Maybe a little car.
48:19Oh, come to bed, will you?
48:21Where are we going?
48:38Where are we going?
48:50To the summit.
48:52Cairnaum out.
49:08Quite a view isn't it?
49:21To me it looks the most desolate place God ever made.
49:26I hate it.
49:27I don't.
49:28I have something to ask you.
49:35What do you want to know?
49:37Do I still love you?
49:39Yes, I do.
49:40Listen Ellen, about the party, why haven't you been to the meetings of late?
49:45Well, just because I can't or I'd lose my job.
49:51Oh?
49:52What's happened then?
49:53Ewan, don't use that tone to me.
49:55You might as well tell me.
49:57I couldn't do anything else.
50:00The education authority got to hear that I was a party member and they put the choice plainly enough.
50:06I had to sign a paper saying that I'd take no more part in what they called extremist activities and that I would stop teaching the children what I'd been teaching them.
50:18Oh, Ewan, I couldn't help it.
50:23Does that mean you've left the party as well as left off attending its meetings?
50:27Yes, I have left the party.
50:29And it wasn't only that.
50:30I've left because I'm sick of it.
50:32It's full of cheats and liars.
50:34Thieves even.
50:35Look at Selden.
50:36There's not one of them a clean or decent person except you and perhaps Jim Trees.
50:43And I've left because I'm sick of being without decent clothes, without money, the money I earn myself, pretty things that are mine, things that I've worked for.
50:57Oh, Ewan, you know they're hopeless, these people.
51:02The Keeleys, remember you used to call them?
51:04Hopeless and filthy.
51:06If ever there's anything done for them, it'll be done from above, not by losing oneself in them.
51:12Oh, can't you see?
51:14Ewan, I've been thinking about it.
51:18You should get away from all those ridiculous jobs you've been taking.
51:23Mr. Quaritch has promised to find you another.
51:26If we saved hard, we could get married in a year or so.
51:29We could get a nice little flat somewhere, maybe even a car.
51:33Oh, you can't have any fun without money.
51:36And it needn't mean we'd have to give up social work completely.
51:41There's the Labour Party.
51:43Go to them, then, in your comfortable car.
51:47What?
51:50Your Labour Party and your comfortable flat.
51:53But what are you doing out here with me?
51:56I can get a prostitute anywhere.
51:59Ewan.
52:02Because that's all you are.
52:05No better than a sixpenny whore.
52:08She never came back to the house on Windmill Bray.
52:19And next day, a messenger came with a little note, asking me to pack her things.
52:25She said she hoped I'd be awfully happy.
52:28And by autumn the following year, I'd said goodbye to the lodgers, sold the house, and made ready to leave myself.
52:38You'll move into a smaller house, then, mistress?
52:42Aye.
52:43And leaving Duncairn.
52:44Oh, aye.
52:45For where?
52:46Aberdeen?
52:47Dundee?
52:48No.
52:49For a place I doubt you've heard of.
52:52Cairndoo.
52:53It's in echt up in Aberdeenshire.
52:55No.
52:56Then I can't.
52:57It's the craft I was born in.
53:00It sits under the barmican.
53:02Sounds guile only.
53:04Aye, it's that.
53:06It's a coarse little place that hasn't had a tenant for many a year.
53:10But I'll soon set it to right.
53:12Sounds as though you'll have a ween of work doing that.
53:14Aye.
53:15At first they were doubtful of letting me the place.
53:19Doubtful of a woman body at all.
53:21And they'd long forgotten my father.
53:24As well they might since it was 23 years ago he moved to Kinraday.
53:27Kinraday, eh?
53:29Oh, so you'll be used to living in the country?
53:31Aye.
53:32Though it's a while since I lived on a farm.
53:35Lucky young devil.
53:37I wish it was me leading the march.
53:39Still, you'll lead us out with the band, though.
53:42Aye, I'll manage that.
53:45You know the party intends to keep me in London.
53:48As an organiser.
53:49Aye, I know.
53:51So, I'll give you your last orders.
53:54Take care of the line of the march
53:56to stop the swine from straying and stealing and raising up trouble.
54:00You'll get shelter and help from labour branches en route.
54:04But rub it in well that the workers' only hope is the Communist Party.
54:08I'll do that.
54:10I hope we meet again before the revolution.
54:13Well, I doubt if we'll see the revolution in our time.
54:16I know.
54:19Well, so long, comrade.
54:22So long, Ewan.
54:23The last supper, Chris.
54:38Aye.
54:40Well, you manage all right where you're going.
54:44You need to have no fear of that.
54:46I'm going to what I want.
54:47The same as you.
54:49Do you mind second manse and the lawn in spring?
54:59Aye, I mind.
55:01That and other things.
55:06Like Robert dying in the kirk.
55:10Do you mind the creed he bade men to seek out?
55:15A creed as stark and sure as a knife.
55:19Is that what you think you've found?
55:21In a way, I suppose.
55:24Robert would never have acknowledged it as such.
55:28He was a decent sort, Robert.
55:31Though a softy and a sentimentalist.
55:35Ewan.
55:37This creed of yours.
55:40It's just a great rock that you're trying to push uphill.
55:43No.
55:46The rock's pushing me.
55:49There will always be you and I, I think, mother.
55:54It's the old fight that'll maybe never ever finish.
55:58The fight in the end between freedom and God.
56:02No.
56:05Robert's faith.
56:09And this faith of yours.
56:13The world sought faith for thousands of years
56:15and found only death or unease in them.
56:19Yours is just another dark cloud to me.
56:28Sometimes, working in the house or out in the parks,
56:32I close my eyes and think nothing indeed of it all has happened.
56:37I shall look into here.
56:40My hand shall be found...
56:42are now...
56:43others…
56:44Ga'an...
56:45tooford.
56:46Hear out...
56:47Khaws, Ha'an...
56:48Green...
56:49Ours ray...
56:50mantle...
56:51To her life...
56:52And indeed.
56:53vere.
56:54The sea TON...
56:55das membership...
56:57Feas...
56:58Somehow I see that.
57:00Thread...
57:01King Rade.
57:04Crowned with mists, Benahy was walking into the night
57:09And the day that did not die there, but went east
57:13On and on, over all the world till the morning came
57:18The unending morning somewhere on the world
57:22No twilight land anywhere for shade
57:26Sun or night the portion of all
57:29My little shelter in Cairndoo, a dream of no life that could not endure
57:35And that was the best deliverance of all
57:40That that change whose face I'd once feared to see
57:43Whose right hand was death and whose left hand life
57:48Might be stayed by none of the dreams of men
57:52Gods or devils or wild crying to the sky
57:55He passed and repassed in the ways of the wind
58:00Deliverer, destroyer, and friend in one
58:06Lights have sprung up far in the hills
58:13In little tunes for a sunset minute
58:17Time I went home myself
58:20But still she sat on as one by one the lights went out
58:35And the rain came beating on the stones about her
58:38And falling all that night while she still sat there
58:42Presently feeling no longer the touch of the rain
58:46Or hearing the sound of the lapwings going by
58:50And the rain came to highland
58:53And the rain came to the rain
58:54And the snow came to theierra
58:56And she said, you might be attracted to the nothin
58:58And the rain came to the west
58:59To the northau for the rain
59:00But just after the rain came to the snow
59:01With no nature
59:02Andclone start off
59:03Within the mountains
59:04At theierzony
59:05The snow came to the mountains
59:07And the ocean came to the ground
59:08Well, especially next door
59:10And this door
59:10Without the mountains
59:11The snow came to the sea
59:12Without the miami
59:13Of the snow
59:14So long
59:15It was holy
59:15And Italian
59:17So you couldn't
59:18It's splendid
59:19Yes
59:19PIANO PLAYS
59:49PIANO PLAYS
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