Convicts Page #4

I don't want them next

to mine. In my graveyard.

My mama and papa buried out there.

My sister's buried out

there. And her baby.

Howdy, Mr. Billy.

Good morning, Mr. Soll.

- Is he dead?

- Dead drunk.

Who's that on the ground?

Mr. Billy Vaughn. He's drunk.

I thought he was

another dead convict.

- Lot of them out here now.

- How many?

God knows. Always room for

one more, though, ain't it?

I'm a convict, you know. They made me

a trustee so I can walk about free...

but I'm still a convict.

- Is that a convict?

- No.

- Who the hell is it?

- Who it look like?

Wake up, Billy.

The son of a b*tch is

drunk. Billy's drunk.

- Where you taking him to?

- Over to the house.

Did Overseer get them convicts back

out in the field like I told him to?

- All but one.

- Why isn't he out in the fields?

- He's sick.

- What the hell's wrong with him?

I don't know. You have to ask him.

Boy, come here.

Tell that Overseer to get that

convict out in the field with the rest.

- Yes, sir.

- Don't go over there.

What'd you say, woman?

I told him not to go over

where them convicts live.

- Let Jackson, Ben go over there.

- I'll go, god damn it.

Then you go over there.

You think I'm scared of

any goddamn sick convict?

I'm scared of no goddamn convict,

sick or well. I'll go over there.

- He ain't gonna be sick long now.

- Which one is it?

The brother to the

one that got killed.

- What if he is sick?

- Ain't gonna help him.

Gonna have to work out in

the fields just the same.

Mr. Soll didn't bring

him here to get sick.

- You know Mr. Billy Vaughn's divorced?

- Yes.

What happens if you're not

divorced, but your first wife dies...

and then you marry again?

When you go to heaven, which

woman do you claim as your wife?

I don't know.

Take Sherman Edwards.

He's got a white daddy

and a colored mama.

Now when they all go to heaven

together, what's gonna happen?

How would I know all that, Horace?

I worry about things like this.

'Cause my daddy died and now my

mama's married to another man.

Got to wondering last night, who's

gonna be her husband in heaven.

Kept me awake half the night.

Read the Bible. All that's

in the Bible someplace.

Keep moving.

Gotcha.

I love pecan pie.

There's a boy out here says I owe

him some money, Ben. You pay him.

What am I gonna pay him

with? I have no money.

- Take it out of the cash at the store.

- What cash?

You know everybody's been

buying on credit since October.

- Everybody?

- How else they gonna buy?

- I got a lot of money, you know.

- I know you do.

- Where'd the hell I put my money?

- I don't know, sir.

When you find it, or I find it...

I'm gonna pay the boy.

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