The Horseman on the Roof Page #3

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What are you doing?

I'm taking what's mine!

You scum!

Leave? Where do you want to go?

The whole region is sealed.

We can't get out.

There must be a way.

The army is controlling the roadblocks.

Find me a good horse, I'll find a way.

You might.

Where would you go?

I want to go back to Italy, Giuseppe.

Italy!

You'll be denounced

when you cross the border.

Fine! Then I'll fight.

If I die,

at least it'll be for something.

Here, we will all die for nothing.

Find me a horse, Giuseppe.

I'm leaving for Italy in two hours.

It was decided tonight.

I will go to Milan, to deliver the money

gathered by our patriots in exile.

Giuseppe used to ship it to Genoa,

an impossibility now.

The epidemic has ended it.

Our brothers need this money...

for the fight that lies ahead.

You never told me

revolutions require money.

Milan... will you be there,

or will you have returned to Turin?

I wondered who would

deliver this letter.

In the end, it will be me.

You will read it on your terrace...

with your impatient flick of the hand.

Behind you, the tall poplar tree

I climbed as a child...

to overcome fear.

I don't care about papers.

You can't come through!

Don't stay here, children!

My father.

They've got my father.

I had to...

Is he dead?

- You knew him?

- Since childhood.

Madame! Come back!

They fear contagion.

I see.

And you?

- What about me?

- Don't I frighten you?

Here.

No, madame, no!

Friends?

I don't even know them.

I can't bear them anymore.

Why stay with them?

An officer might get passes for us.

No. There aren't any passes anymore.

He'll put you in quarantine.

To kill you faster!

Why say that?

I've been looking for a way out,

jeered at by drunken soldiers.

If you want to, come with me.

- Where to?

- That way, by the river.

I tried. There's a barricade.

- How many soldiers?

- Ten, maybe twenty.

Are there horsemen?

It should be easy.

- You need a horse.

- I have one.

- Where?

- Up there.

Well, then we can leave right away.

Go get it.

Do you have a bag?

Wait for me. I'll go with you.

You don't trust me?

As you please.

I would have loved to help you...

after what you did for me.

I didn't do a thing.

You gave me tea when I was thirsty.

- There are more.

- I'm worried.

- What?

- No sun.

What are they up to?

Go check, Maugin.

I'll go. Don't move.

- Where are you going?

- I can pay.

Nothing to pay for. Go back!

How much? Seven francs?

- So it's fourteen?

- Stop it!

Twenty then? Who do I pay?

- Dismount!

- More? Just say how much.

You better stop!

Sergeant!

Now!

Shoot! Come on! Shoot 'em!

- Give it to me!

- We can't see!

I was right, you see.

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