The Galleon, Volume 10, Number 1 Page: 30
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John (getting up and starting for
the other room). I'm going to phone
Clarkson that I'll be in to change my
will tomorrow.
Virgie (Looks at his back a second
then runs to the door and blocks
his passage). John, you're not going
to do it.
(They stare hard into each other's
eyes for several seconds, all charac-
ters are tense. Finally John breaks,
he rubs the back of his head.)
John. Virgie, will you swear on
the Bible Jack hasn't been here to-
night?
Virgie hesitates a second, then
turns without a word and goes into
the other room and returns with a
black-leather-bound volume. She
places the book on the table and
keeps her left hand on it and her
right raised above it.
Virgie. John, as I believe this
book to be the word of God, I have
not seen Jack this night.
John (turning and leaving). Well,
I guess I'd better go put the car up.
Virgie looks down at the book with
a queer smile and goes out into thekitchen.
Jim. Arthur, I've known Virgie,
girl, bride, and mother for forty
years and I've never known a lie to
pass her lips. Yet I am sure as I
am of Death, that was Jack I saw in
that bright colored sweater go
through that gate tonight.
Arthur. There's a time when cer-
tain circumstances require a person
to do some daring things. The same
northers, drouths, sandstorms, that
have made John as proud as Lucifer
and hard as nails have tempered her
like a Mexican knife. She was fight-
ing a battle, a battle for love, and
all's fair in love and war.
Jim. Yet there's something queer.
I can't believe Virgie would deliber-
ately lie, but she stood there with her
hand on the Bible and said 'John, as
I believe this book to be the word
of God, I have not seen Jack this
night." (He goes to the table, picks
up the book, and looks at it. Then
a quaint, little smile crosses his lips
as he reads.) "Webster's Revised
Dictionary, Jack Morgan, Texas
Tech."30-THE GALLEON
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