At Middleton Page #6

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All right.

- 12.

- What?

Last time I rode a bike, I was 12.

Are you sure you're okay, George?

You strike me as a

helmet-wearing kind of guy.

Oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

I think I lost a testicle.

Oh.

Wow!

Oh...

You okay?

Yeah. Just give me a second.

Unbelievable.

Look, you can see

the entire campus.

- You can see the town.

- Yeah. Yeah.

You can see the one

car parked backwards.

Yeah. Yeah.

- Get over here.

- Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Did you read up ever

on this bell tower?

Hmm? No.

Yeah, there's a legend

of the bell tower.

I saw it here in the...

oh, here it is.

Edith, Edith, don't do that.

Don't lean over like that.

Says here the tower

was completed in 1917,

the year that the United States

entered the First World War.

More than 150 Middleton students

- enlisted for military service.

- Hmm.

And there was a young

woman by the name of...

a freshman, name of

Matilda Reynolds,

whose boyfriend,

Seymour Sternshine,

was among the newly

minted doughboys.

Upon his departure, she ascended

the steps of this very tower

and stood in the east window,

facing Europe, of course, yeah,

where she silently pledged

her eternal love to him,

vowing that she would

rise into the tower

at the same time each day until

he returned safely from the war.

- Aww.

- Young love.

And what happened?

What happened?

It says... oh.

Seymour was killed.

Yeah, he was killed by...

by a stampede of rogue

swine in the Loire Valley

that also claimed the lives

of almost all of his platoon

except for his young

brother, Ernest Sternshine,

who was the bugle man

who lived to tell the story.

Apparently the high C notes

drove off the rogue swine...

the very sensitive ears

that their swine have.

Seymour Sternshine.

All right, so I have a little trouble

playing poker in a brightly lit room.

Come over here.

Come over here.

You can't miss this.

No, I'm good.

There's a nice breeze here.

Huh?

- A nice breeze here.

- Come here.

- No.

- Yes.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

- You're afraid of heights?

- "Afraid" is a strong word.

Let's just say I try to

organize my life in such a way

where heights don't really

play into the equation.

So you will open up

a person's chest

with a very sharp knife,

but you won't stand over

here by this railing?

It's a little more

complicated than that,

but pretty much, yeah.

No. Come on.

I will... I'll help you.

- No, listen...

- I'll help you.

I will take care of you.

I promise. I'll take care of you.

- Edith.

- Come on.

- Edith, I can't go over there.

- You can.

- No, I can't.

- I'll help you.

- No, I can't go over there.

- Yes, you can.

- Listen to me very carefully.

- I'll help you.

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