Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Page #2

and roads to lay,

and we ain't got no more time

to fool with ya.

Where you are, I could spit in your eye

with no strain at all.

Now, I ain't in no mood for jokes.

I'm going straight and see the sheriff.

I don't care where you go straight to,

just so long as you go,

and take that and them with you.

Now, you know as well as I do

the State of Louisiana

requisitioned this whole area,

including your house,

over six months ago.

Just because some old fool

in Baton Rouge

signed a piece of paper

doesn't make it so.

Nobody ever asked me to sign anything.

And nobody's gonna tear down

my house

to build a piddling bridge

or anything else!

So you just clear off my property

once and for all.

I don't know,

some folk seem to think

they've a natural-born right

to get away with murder

Hey, look out!

You sure had yourself a good time today,

didn't you, Missy?

You just cool down now.

What are you gonna do, boss?

I'm going into town.

Keep those boys outta

sight till I get back.

I'll bring that sheriff back out here

in a half hour if I gotta drag him out.

Ah, you've fixed things up for fair.

Come. Come on.

They were gonna dig up

Papa's grave.

They wasn't within 100 feet

of them graves.

They're fixing to tear down

the whole house.

I don't see what difference ploughing up

the grounds is gonna make. Come on.

Come on, now.

They offered to move

your Pappy's remains.

You shoulda let 'em.

They can't do him any harm now.

Go on in there,

and get yourself quietened down.

You've done enough for one day.

Let me tell you something,

it ain't gonna be but a half an hour

before that sheriff comes over here.

So you get yourself dressed up

real pretty,

and you come on downstairs

and get your breakfast.

If Luke Standish ever comes out here,

he'll be real sorry.

You hush. That ain't no way

to talk, Miss Charlotte.

Now you come on,

get yourself dressed.

Velma'll go downstairs

and fix you a nice breakfast.

And don't you worry about that sheriff

when he comes out here.

Velma'll get rid of him.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

It's not very often

we have a homicide

and never able to find the

victim's head and hand.

I'm not much concerned about examining

your credentials, Mr. Wills.

I'm happy to go along

with anything you say.

I just have my doubts

about what you can expect to find.

Now, we've had newsmen

coming down here for 35 years and more,

and none any the wiser.

I don't expect to unearth

anything extraordinary.

After all, there's nothing really unusual

about an unclaimed insurance policy.

It's just that I don't want

to upset anybody.

So if you'll go along with my masquerade

of a reporter from

one of our more esoteric crime magazines,

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