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BETSY:
You can't really believe that.
A star falls. They both follow its flight with their eyes.
HOLLAND:
(pointing to it)
Everything good dies here -- even
the stars.
He leaves his position by the mast and walks aft.
The group of negroes at the mainmast. They have stopped
singing and they sit about the charcoal brazier. They are
eating, tearing at the meat with cruel, greedy, animal
gestures. Holland walks past them on his way aft.
Betsy is puzzled and a little alarmed by Holland's strange
utterances and his queer behavior. Over this shot of Betsy
looking off at him, we hear her as narrator.
BETSY:
(narrating)
It was strange to have him break in
on my thoughts that way. There was
cruelty and hardness in his voice.
Yet -- something about him I liked --
something clean and honest -- but
hurt -- badly hurt.
FADE OUT:
FADE IN:
EXT. VILLAGE OF ST. SEBASTIAN -- DAY
St. Sebastian is a drab little West Indian village. The
shacks and houses of wood, lath and plaster seem to be
falling apart. Over the doorway of one of the buildings --
evidently an administrative office -- hangs an American flag,
indicating the government of the island. The hard-packed
dirt in the roadway is overgrown with weeds. Everywhere, and
moving indolently, are the little, badly nourished negroes,
some of them tending stalls and sidewalk vending booths,
others walking idly. Betsy, followed by a black sailor with
her suitcases, comes down the gangway. Parallel to this
gangway is another.
Up the second gangway, in file, black stevedores with bundles
of sugar cane and small bales of sisal hemp on their heads,
go up to the boat.
On the dock, Betsy makes her way through a group of clamorous
children, vendors and beggars. As the black sailor puts her
luggage into an umbrella-topped surrey drawn by a gaunt mule,
she stops, delighted, before a great basket filled with
enormous white flowers. The man seated beside the basket
seems to be asleep, his face hidden by the drooping brim of a
straw hat. Betsy picks up one of the blooms, smells it and
then looks at the vendor.
BETSY:
How much is this?
The vendor wakens and lifts his head, revealing a face
bloated and scarified by yaws, a hideous nightmare face.
Betsy, startled, steps back, letting the flower drop. Paul
Holland, passing her, looks at this little tableau of horror
and disgust.
HOLLAND:
(in passing)
You're beginning to learn.
Betsy looks after him as he walks away into the village.
DISSOLVE:
EXT. ROAD TO FORT HOLLAND -- DAY -- (PROCESS)
An umbrella-topped surrey, drawn by a gaunt mule and piloted
by an old coachman in dirty white singlet, a top hat with a
cockade on his graying hair, is making its way along a dusty
road between fields of sugar cane. In the distance, the sea
is visible and above it the great billowing white clouds of
the Caribbean. Betsy, seated on the back seat of the
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