The Purple Heart Page #3

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(plane engine splutters)

Mrs Murphy sounds like she's getting ready.

Hey, skipper!

Captain Ross, sir!

It's me - Greenie!

Hey! Hey, Greenie! It's me - Clint!

Clinton! Hey, it's me!

It's me - Greenie!

Greenie! Hey!

Over this way! Hey! Hey, Greenie!

- Hey, Greenie.

- Hiya, Clint!

Gee, Clint, I'm sure glad

to see you're all in one piece.

Oh, gee, Greenie, I'm glad you're here.

- Hey, what'd you fall into?

- What did you?

Must be some kind of mud.

Call it mud if you like, but you

needn't be polite. We're in a rice field.

I'll never touch the stuff again

as long as I live, even with raisins.

(explosion)

It's Mrs Murphy.

- Who goes there?

- (Greenie) Hey, Clint, it's the skipper!

(all talk at once)

Hey, no reflection on you, Vincent, but I'm

sure glad we've still got the same skipper.

- So am I.

- So am I, sir.

Thanks, fellas. So am I.

That's too bad.

Mrs Murphy kept a good house.

How about moving away from this fire?

This place may be crawling with Japs.

If you're coming out,

come out with your hands up.

Who are you?

- It's Georgia Tech!

- (Vincent) Bayforth!

(Greenie) Bayforth!

- What happened to your ship?

- I crashed her in the goo.

- Did you burn her?

- I didn't have to. She sunk out of sight.

Burke was killed.

Please, forgive the intrusion, gentlemen.

It is not safe to stay here.

- You haven't introduced us to your friends.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm Yuen Chiu Ling,

governor of Kunwong province.

This is my son Moy.

- How do you do?

- How do you do, gentlemen?

I'm glad to know you.

Where'd you pick him up?

Oh, he picked us up down the road.

He said he was out looking for us.

All China is grateful to you

for the blow at Tokyo, Captain.

How do you know that?

Tokyo radio has talked

of nothing else all day.

How did we do? Was there much damage?

One moment they announce, "No damage",

the next they say,

"Fires are raging out of control."

First they say there were no casualties,

then they estimate

casualties may exceed 4,000.

We put the fear of God into them.

The Japanese do not fear God.

They fear only bombs.

No doubt, Captain, you have

a secret base you are trying to reach,

and perhaps I can guide you.

That's very kind,

but we can't say where we're going

any more than we can say

where we came from. Those are our orders.

A million pardons.

I should not have asked.

It was stupid of me.

- May I make a suggestion, Captain?

- What?

Perhaps His Honour

will lend us the station wagon.

My humble car is at your disposal.

You have done much for China,

but the Japanese patrols are all around us.

You must not travel in these clothes.

You expose yourselves to much danger.

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