1:35:02
The government's witness
has been murdered,
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but we elect
to proceed.
1:35:06
Just a minute!
1:35:09
I agree that
he was murdered,
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silenced for
what he knew.
1:35:13
I charge that Widgeon drove that ship on
the reef in direct conspiracy with you!
1:35:18
You're off your course,
Cutler.
1:35:19
I told you
he was a bad Yankee.
1:35:21
You can sustain that too,
Will, if you've a mind to.
1:35:24
Certainly this poor, honest seaman
had no knowledge of it.
1:35:27
Then why did he order his stokers
driven under the whip?
1:35:29
- That has not been shown.
- I'll show it now.
1:35:33
Call Salt Meat.
1:35:39
- [Steve] Your name is Salt Meat?
- Aye, aye, sir.
1:35:43
And you're a Barbados freeman
who served as stoker...
1:35:46
- aboard the Southern Cross?
- Aye, aye, sir.
1:35:50
You know Capt. Stuart's
voice, don't you?
1:35:54
I reckon I does.
1:35:56
- Didn't you hear him order full speed?
- Why...
1:35:58
- Objection!
- Sustained!
1:36:03
You were in the stokehold
at the time of the wreck, were you not?
1:36:07
No, sir.
I was in the orlop.
1:36:09
- You were in the orlop?
- Yes, sir. That's where I was...
1:36:12
when the steamer
smashed against that reef,
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and I heard
that dyin' scream.
1:36:21
You heard what?
1:36:23
When the reef tore out
the heart of that ship,
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she screamed like a woman.
1:36:28
You mean you heard tearing timbers,
escaping steam.
1:36:32
Twenty years
I know the sea...
1:36:36
like I knows
day from dark.
1:36:39
But I never heard
no sound like that...
1:36:41
'cept when a woman die.
1:36:43
- [Steve] Was there a woman aboard?
- No, sir.
1:36:47
I think she go ashore
before we sail.
1:36:50
- Who?
- The lady what talked to the Cap'n.
1:36:53
[Steve]
A lady?
1:36:56
- You know who she was?
- No, sir.
1:36:58
What did she look like?