I Walked with a Zombie Page #4
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- 1943
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COACHMAN:
Times gone, Fort Holland was a
fort...now, no longer. The
Holland's are a most old family,
miss. They brought the colored
people to the island-- the colored
folks and Ti-Misery.
BETSY:
Ti-Misery? What's that?
COACHMAN:
A man, miss -- an old man who lives
in the garden at Fort Holland -
with arrows stuck in him and a
sorrowful, weeping look on his
black face.
BETSY:
(incredulous)
Alive?
COACHMAN:
(laughing, softly)
No, miss. He's just as he was in
the beginning -- on the front part
of an enormous boat.
BETSY:
(understanding and amused)
You mean a figurehead.
COACHMAN:
(warming up to his
orating)
If you say, miss. And the enormous
boat brought the long-ago Fathers
and the long-ago Mothers of us all
- chained down to the deep side
floor.
BETSY:
(looking at the endless
fields and the richly
clouded blue sky)
But they came to a beautiful place,
didn't they?
COACHMAN:
(smiling and nodding as
one who accepts a
personal compliment)
If you say, miss. If you say.
DISSOLVE:
The jugheaded mule slowly pulls the carriage into the scene.
This beast comes to a somnolent stop without the coachman so
much as touching the reins. As the man climbs down and
starts to take the luggage out of the carriage, Betsy looks
through the wrought-iron gate into the garden.
Fort Holland is a one-story house built around the garden,
with low covered porches to give shade and breezeway. At the
open end of the U is a great gate much like the wrought-iron
gates of New Orleans. Through this Betsy can see the garden
and its profusion of verdure: azalea, bougainvillea, roses --
much like California planting; no exotic orchids or man
eating Venus Jugs -- just ordinary, pretty, semi-tropic
flowers and shrubs.
The separate rooms are open to the garden, but have jalousies
of thin wood to give privacy when needed. At one corner
stands a big, stone tower, obviously a relic of some previous
building. The walls of the house have been built right up to
and around the tower so that it has become part of the
building itself. On the garden side of the tower is the
fountain. The most outstanding feature of this spring or
fountain, which flows from a crevice in the stones of the
tower, is that instead of falling directly into the cistern
it falls first onto the shoulders of the enormous teakwood
figurehead of St. Sebastian. From the shoulders of the saint
it drips down in two runnels over his breast. The wooden
breast of the statue is pierced with six long iron arrows.
The face is weathered and black. Only a few bits of white
paint still cling to the halo above his head. Betsy and the
coachman come up to the grillwork of the gate. Betsy looks
around the garden, while the old coachman reaches up and
pulls a bell rope suspended from the gate. As the bell
begins to ring, he pushes the gate open. Betsy walks
through.
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