Man in the Wilderness Page #4

if we are dead?

Winter's on us,

Rickarees just waiting to make their move,

and him.

Captain?

Do you think he's alive?

Captain, what the hell's so special

about Zach Bass?

Why can't you let go of him?

He's about the only man

I ever truly respected

or ever feared.

Zach was a stowaway.

He'd run off from an orphanage,

swam out to my ship in Boston Harbor.

I liked his unfearing look and kept him on.

He'd become like a son to me.

Didn't see me as his father.

He learned young to live alone.

Be his own man.

All the years we was together,

never let me come close enough to ask

"What's on your mind, Zach,

what's bothering you?"

He drew a circle, like, around himself.

Nobody dared enter it.

You do think he's alive,

don't you, Captain?

Yes, Fogarty, he's alive.

I've known it all along.

You keep away, Zach Bass!

You go back to hell, where you belong.

What is it?

Out there! I got him. I got him!

Benoit! Ferris!

Is it Bass?

Well, is it Bass?

It's Lowrie, Captain!

I can't stitch this one up, Captain.

He's got a hole in his chest

as big as me fist.

Lowrie?

But it can't be!

It was Zach Bass!

I seen him.

Well, it's done.

We'll bury him.

Say some words.

Move out in the morning.

Come on, get up there!

Get up!

Come on, keep moving!

Captain!

- Captain!

- Whoa, whoa!

The river. What is left of it.

The spring thaw will fill it again,

won't it, Captain?

No.

We're too late.

Too late.

Hey. Hey, listen to this.

"If a man dies shall he live again?

"For there is hope for a tree

if it be cut down, it will sprout again

"and that its shoots will not cease

though its root grow old in the earth,

"and its stump die in the ground."

"Stump die in the ground."

Henry.

Captain.

Battle stations! Man the guns!

Prime your weapons!

Fire!

They're coming at us.

Fire.

Ferris.

I believe that's my gun.

I've got a son out there.

I'm going to find him.

I'm going home.

English - SDH

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