WEBVTT - The Grave 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.359 The Seventh Daughter contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:13.960 It is intended for mature listeners. Oh see before you, 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:19.840 the Virgin robed in white, surrounded in an aureole of light. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.040 Twenty one days ago we welcomed the Seventh Daughter into 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.080 our presence. We placed her on a pedal stool and 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.160 genuflected at her feet, as if she were the Virgin herself. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.519 We shared the loving cup as if she were one 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.960 of us. But at the core, she is not one 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:54.840 of us. She is different. But tonight we shall all 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.800 become the same, unified in a ritual of trans substantiation. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.720 Just as the Roman Catholics consume the body and the 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.160 blood of Christ as wavers and wine, so shall we 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.479 feast on the flesh of our girl, who would be queen, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:27.000 And thereafter may her powers flow through our veins. Have 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.360 you come seeking knowledge? Do you wish to know the truth? 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:38.040 Allow me to show you. Close your eyes and follow 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.920 the sound of my voice. Allow it to lead you 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:49.080 further into the past. When I will move my blindfold, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:54.480 you may look into my eyes. Don't just look at them, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:02:05.480 look through them, and you will see what they have seen. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:32.440 M the Seven Daughter in her right hand, she shall 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:37.960 hold the snake, the symbol of the first deceivered true God. Ok, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.160 don't squeeze it, just let it rest there. It's heavy, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:49.079 don't be frightened. It's not venomous. In her left brooke, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.840 representing her earthly master and King, who shall unfurl a 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.639 blanket of darkness upon the lamb. Hold out your left 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.400 arms further out out like that. Yes, for as long 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:08.600 as you have I have it now, thank you. It 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.360 is tradition that every wedding be attended by a witness, 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.360 and for that role we have found someone quite special 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:26.320 to the girl. Yes, right down here in the front 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:34.440 where she can have a clear view. Rose surprised, my dear, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.000 What have you done to her? Why? Nothing at all. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.320 She's been a guest here. She has been shown every courtesy, 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.600 and for her own benefit, we have denied her the 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.440 narcotics that have poisoned her body. But it appears that 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:58.040 sobriety does not entirely suit her silence. Is she in 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.480 her right mind? You know her better than I, and 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:08.040 perhaps you can tell tell me, Pandora, is she really 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.440 your mother? Or is that another of her fabrications? It's 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.840 a lie. My mother was called Davina. Oh, but my dear, 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:23.719 that is Davina. Didn't you know, darling, you've you've suddenly 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.839 gone pale. You see, I knew her before you knew her. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.359 I didn't recognize her at first. She certainly is a 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.839 mistress of deception. But Baron von Shrink, bless his soul, 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:46.039 made the connection. We don't look at her, look at me. Yes, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:51.000 that's better. You mean to tell me that all this 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:57.960 time she never told you. You never knew psychic powers. Indeed, 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.960 allow me to speak to her, will find the truth. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.880 Oh it's a little late for that. We've obtained all 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:10.280 the information we need. Besides, we have a ritual to perform. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:17.680 Yes we do. Are you not reluctant to proceed? I'm 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:22.840 ready to do what I came here to do. Then 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:37.040 let us commence. Step forward, Pandora, approach the star carved 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:48.799 in the floor, Take your place at its center. Yeah, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.520 the blood is the life, and only through the shedding 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:59.000 of blood can sacrifice be made. Only by bathing in 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.479 the blood of the beast of the wild, and the 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.920 blood of the fruit of the lamb, and the girl 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:11.480 a woman become hold by the horns, raise its head 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:19.000 back as far as you can. That's it, mysterium buffo 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:31.680 matis revelate to impuri tarts convicted. I never miss stop it. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:40.120 Blood of the beasts, my dear, Just following the script, Pandora, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.719 I had such high hopes for you. I so wanted 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.480 you to be real. I'm more real than you know. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.480 Are you now? Be that as it may. In an 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.200 hour's time, it won't matter whether your powers were a 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.280 gift from the gods or mere pol tricks. They will 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:08.680 be gone. Try and take them. Is there anything you 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:14.840 wish to say before we begin? Yes, I thank you 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.920 for the privilege of being brought before you to carry 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.800 out the prophecy of the ancestors. I wish to pay 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:27.520 tribute to Da Vina, my mother, before whose eyes I 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.600 shall fulfill the promise of my youth. May I have you? 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:36.480 Is it true? Rose? I have nothing to say. I 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:41.680 want no part of May I have your blessing? It 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:46.000 is true? Neither angel nor devil shall tell my mother 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:51.520 who makes a command? What is it you wish to know, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.840 my child? I wasn't talking to you, go fucker. Let's 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:03.600 say it's the great deceiver. Rose. The great deceiver says 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.600 render unto Caesar was a show him for saying and 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:13.040 to all who follow and you killed them all as 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.720 you speak. Just do I create? No ho, no, no, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.520 don't release the raven yet, Pandora. Don't put down the serpent. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:29.560 It isn't time yet. It's time. Get back on your place, Pandora. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:34.320 That's enough. Would you follow my way? If you don't? 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:41.440 Get you one he has a knife. Oh no, Corbo, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.040 I've gotten blood on my wedding dress, just as you predicted. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.720 O Holy One, stop her. Tonight I meet my destiny. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.080 Do you hear me? What do I pay you for? Tonight? 0:08:54.679 --> 0:09:16.840 We all meet our destinies. One more step, you little 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:22.720 tease Rose, and I'll put a bullet through both sides 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:28.920 of her head. Kill the blackbird. Drop the knives, Rose, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:35.920 drop the knives, forget about meat, Drop the knives, Pearl. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:44.600 I can't. I'm not as strong as I thought I was. Rosy, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:10:06.520 Let me go. M Who am I? You are? My daughter? 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.200 But you are so much more. You may only be 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.600 a child, but you shall tear down the walls of 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.880 his temple. You cannot correct all the wrongs in the world, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.640 but you can put an end to this one. When 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:40.080 when when I tell you put her Let's just just 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:46.040 lay her down here, take my jacket. You're sure our 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:51.800 hands are tied tightly? She's not movie fine, Now get out, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.800 find out where the hell backstairs and have her weight outside. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.640 Lock the door, double lock it, and no matter what 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.080 you here, no matter how loudly she screams, do not 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.840 open that door. Are sure you don't need me to 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.360 stay here? And I have the key. No one else 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:24.600 opens this door. Now begne yes, sir mum. I can 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:29.000 do this. I can do this if I if I 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:36.920 concentrate and imagine, this is what you wanted corbea all along? 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.120 Why bother with all the rest of it, the rituals, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:46.200 the hair, brain philosophy. Truly, what is the purpose of 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:51.480 all that? It fortifies me, gives me strength and power, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.280 as you will soon discover. Then I suggest you start 0:11:55.320 --> 0:12:05.559 your incantations quickly. Whit will wait? Where are you going? 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.720 What harm could a teenage girl with both hands tied? 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.600 Possibly due to the earthly lord of darkness? M hmm, 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:23.599 what is that? If I'm not mistaken, it's a g 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:33.680 sharp you little witch, an old Muslim buggie trick right now? 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.120 The wires working as a noose. But if I give 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:44.160 it one strong tug, please, it will become a razor. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:54.800 But right now, listen, if you like, I can loosen 0:12:54.840 --> 0:13:00.240 the noose for you to summon the beast from the hit. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:12.840 Just like that, squeeze and release, squeeze. This is your 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:17.240 last camp Scrabo. If there is a god or a devil, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:23.000 now is the time to share itself his hand against 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:28.040 the show me the power of darkness, Corebo. Go on, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:35.120 make a believer of Satan, strike me dead, the lord 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:41.640 of Satan. There is no god, but there is a 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:49.520 woman named China Rose. She is the great deceiver. And 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.520 for what you did to her, Thus do I and 0:13:53.640 --> 0:14:10.120 the name of Davina do until you m hm red. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:39.560 He's the blood shed by all men. M h. Don't worry. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:47.480 It's not my blood. It's there's mhm. I brought a 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:56.920 trophy for you, just like Salamy. He's even uglier in death. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:05.200 Oh Rose, I realized I was harsh with you, pearl, 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.880 and for that I am sorry. But I didn't mean 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.680 to be cruel. I truly didn't. And if I was cruel, 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.960 it was to keep me from loving you. What would 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:26.800 have been so bad about loving me, Rose, Why didn't 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.640 you just tell me the truth? The truth was too painful. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.640 I was strong. Not too painful for you, too painful 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.960 for me. It was bad enough that I gave up 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.240 my child and allowed her to be raised by strangers. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.320 But for a mother to tell her child that she 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.480 abandoned her. You can't imagine what that would be like. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.520 To admit that I had betrayed my child, that I 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:56.760 deprived you of a mother's love. I just couldn't. It 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.800 was easier for me to be a stranger to you. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.200 That way, I could be close to you without having 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.920 to reveal my betrayal. I didn't mind that you hated 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.880 me as the great deceiver. I relished your hatred because 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.320 you hated the role I was playing, not the person 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.960 I actually was. If you had known I'm your mother 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.800 and hated me for leaving you, I could not have 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:31.120 borne it. So I concealed the truth. You'll tell me now, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.640 what do you wish to know? Everything you've hidden? What 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.360 does it matter? Now? You are the princess, the queen. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.880 You have everything you could ever hope to possess. Tell 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:50.880 me now, I haven't much breath. Then speak slowly and 0:16:51.040 --> 0:17:03.320 spend it wisely, oh pearl, mm hmm. For a time, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.840 we were going to be a family. There was only 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.840 the two of us, then your father and I. When 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.720 I found out I was carrying you, I was ecstatic. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.080 I think in his own way, even your father was 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:26.240 happy about it. But I swear that man had a 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:34.360 demon inside him. Caglios, your father was his own worst enemy. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:42.400 He had to win every argument, every game of cards, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:48.240 every fight. He was a talented psychic, he was a 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:54.080 lousy card player and a pitiful fighter. He couldn't stand 0:17:54.119 --> 0:18:00.400 to lose. He used to take twenty dollar gold points, 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.560 punch holes in them, and sew them like buttons down 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:08.040 the front of his vest. Oh. On more than one occasion, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.000 I saw him having a run of bad luck in 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.720 a card game, pulled the last gold button off his 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.640 vest and put it in the pot, leaving the club drunk, 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:26.760 his vest hanging open like a tramp. Corbo was everything 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:33.440 Caglios wanted to be and wasn't. Corbo had succeeded where 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:39.040 your father had failed. The more Caglios learned about Corbo, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:45.440 the arrogant, wealthy Corbo, the more he yearned to take 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:52.320 advantage of him. Somehow. Corbo was always looking for women 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:58.080 to participate in his sex magic. Everyone knew it, and 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.480 sometimes I think his whole tem pool was just an 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.320 excuse to have sexual relations without any of the obligations 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:12.960 that come with what some people might call love. As 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.879 long as it was part of some workings, some ritual, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:24.119 then he could have other men's wives, teenage girls, women 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:30.199 of all races, and men too. It was silly that 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.840 he needed this to justify his puerile hobbies, but that 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:42.000 was Corbo in a nutshell. Beneath all his demonic rituals 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:47.879 and outrageous behavior, he was still a repressed English schoolboy 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:53.040 at heart. He couldn't just pay a prostitute for sex. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.199 He had to perform a magical working, even if it 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:05.280 was between two garbage cans in ark Alley. It wasn't 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.840 the sex that attracted all his followers. There are some 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.639 who seek power and are willing to ally themselves with 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:20.720 the worst possible tyrant upstanding church going folk willing to 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:25.000 excuse his immoral behavior because they stand to gain wealth 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:29.600 and influence at the feet of this man who cares 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:37.160 about no one but himself. Eventually, your father found Corbo's weakness, 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:43.520 the one thing that Gorbo believed in, hoped for, yearned 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:49.960 to possess, and was willing to pay for, but had 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:57.240 been denied him the seventh daughter. Finding a seventh daughter 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:04.560 was an almost impossible task, but Caglios spent years creating 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:10.280 the illusion of one. Of course, we didn't have any children, 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:18.159 but your father wove an elaborate tapestry of deception. He 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:25.439 found a photographer who specialized in memento morii, photos of 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:31.879 the dead children in caskets surrounded by flowers. Caglios paid 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:36.720 the photographer for a gallery of images to represent our 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:41.639 dead children and had him etge his name in the 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:48.320 negative plates. Caglios pushed the photographer to go further, provided 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.399 him with a sash bearing the family name so he 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.480 could drape it across a casket and take a picture 0:21:54.560 --> 0:22:00.040 when the family wasn't watching. Another time, he put a 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.359 name on a reef and placed it by the body. 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:08.560 We got the photos. The families of those dead babies 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:15.359 never knew. Death certificates were easy to obtain. For a 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.280 county clerk to earn a few dollars by issuing a 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:22.359 death certificate for someone who didn't exist, where was the 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:30.520 harm in that? Once Corbo was reasonably convinced that was 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:34.600 about the time that I became pregnant, and your father 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:41.679 thought the past to resistance, let Corbeo see and feel 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:49.879 the baby within me. Wait, yes, you have a question. No, 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.800 So once it became obvious that how did you know 0:22:55.840 --> 0:23:02.480 I'd be a girl? Oh pearl, mhm, do you really 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:07.280 think that badly of me? It didn't matter whether you 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.560 were a girl or a boy. We had no intention 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:14.159 of giving you to Corbel. It only mattered that I 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:19.800 was with child, and yes he had a doctor examined 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:25.560 me to be sure. This was our plan. In those 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:31.880 days in the tenement district, abandoned children were quite common, 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.199 and for a modest amount of money it would be 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:43.320 possible too um adopt a child from the unwed mother 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.800 or a family with more mouths than they could afford 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:51.280 to feed. We'd take her on as an apprentice and 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:57.520 sell her to Corbel. He'd give her a life of luxury. 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.560 We'd take the twenty thous and and run like hell. 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:08.080 We would obtain an infant. Girls have less earning potential, 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:12.280 so this would be simple. I would have my child, 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:15.480 which we would hide, and we would hand over to 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:19.760 Corbo a changeling, the baby we had obtained from some 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:25.760 wretch of the slums. And so, as I said, Caglios 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:30.440 had never been able to beat Corbo in anything, and Corbo, 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.800 being suspicious, wanted to be sure that the child he 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:39.119 had purchased, my child, the one in my belly, was 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:45.800 the one he received. He was suspicious of Caglios, but 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:54.560 in me, in the child, he always believed h For 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:59.560 a while I was happy, he just needed to warm 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:04.640 in the Then a little longer we were a family 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:14.040 that had a future together. But oh, your father never 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:18.800 told me our little plan had been foiled. But he 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:23.919 didn't have to. I told you he was a terrible 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:28.119 card player. I could read his face as if it 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:34.160 were a newspaper, and the headlines were bad, very bad. 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:43.439 Corbeau has a great many influential friends, many in the 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:49.240 medical profession, men who know how at the appropriate time 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:53.399 to cut open a woman's belly and extract the child. 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:58.440 He wanted to see it, see you come out of me. 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:03.960 Caglios couldn't even pretend to be happy. All the liquor 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.280 in the world could have hide the panic that was 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:10.639 eating away at his guts. He turned hateful towards everyone, 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:18.159 myself included where are you going out out? Where to 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:21.680 earn money? To get food? One of us has to work, 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.600 not by yourself. You don't, I'll send someone with you. 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:28.080 How about you go work and I take care of 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:32.440 the baby. I was nothing to him but an incubator, 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:38.320 a bit heavy with pups, the goose preparing to lay 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:45.159 the golden egg. Me. Don't feel bad. I loved you. 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:49.800 I suppose in a perverted way. He loved you too. 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:55.159 Your birth represented to him a chance for wealth, a 0:26:55.240 --> 0:27:00.280 new beginning. You were worth more to him and anything 0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:04.560 else in the world. Maybe not all the gold in 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:12.560 the world, just gold. Mmm. That's right, That's exactly how 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:18.240 much he loved you, pearl, and not a pennymore. All 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:21.479 the while, I pretended not to notice his trembling hands, 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:25.399 pretended not to notice that he could no longer hold 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:32.040 my gaze, pretended everything in our marriage was fine, bided 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:39.200 my time. Caglios burned through all the money we'd sucked away, 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:44.640 including the thousand dollar down payment Corbo had given us, 0:27:45.640 --> 0:27:48.879 And even if we tried to return his money and 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:54.119 cancel his deal, he wouldn't have allowed it. So what 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:58.600 did you do? We had to go back to work 0:27:59.840 --> 0:28:04.520 to survive. All right, you can relax. I booked an 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:07.280 eight week run with the Sewer Brothers, Suel Brothers, that 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:10.280 lousy ragtop that you swore you'd never work with again. 0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:14.439 I'm pulling the corpse routine. You want to take me 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:17.880 back to the South while I'm carrying a child work 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:21.080 for those Georgia crackers that already swindled. Do you care? 0:28:21.160 --> 0:28:24.199 You don't gotta work. I'm the one working. That's what 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:28.280 you wanted, right, I'm pulling the corpse routine. And while 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:30.600 I'm in the ground, you stay in the wagon and 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:37.320 don't go out. What is the corpse routine? Ah, the 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:44.360 amazing hypnotic corps. M hm, it's buried alive routine. Not 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:47.640 many people have the nerve to pull it off, but 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:51.640 Caglios was desperate and decide from biting the heads off 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:55.920 of chickens. It was all he was gonna get. How 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.200 it works is on the day you pull into town, 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:05.200 you stage a big berryer. You get the whole troop 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:09.360 out there in their Sunday being closed brass band Paul 0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:14.520 Bears a minister invite the newspapers and as many mourners 0:29:14.600 --> 0:29:17.720 as you can scare off. So they put him in 0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:21.360 a coffin, bury him six feet in the ground, and 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:26.800 onto this window they attach a viewing tube, a long, 0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:34.680 narrow box buried in especially designed coff so once he's 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:38.040 in the grounds, people can pay their nickel, walk up 0:29:38.080 --> 0:29:41.440 and look down into that tube and see the face 0:29:41.520 --> 0:29:46.360 of a dead man. He put a little phosphorus paint 0:29:46.400 --> 0:29:49.760 on his face to make himself look pale and starved. 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:54.680 Most that would happen as if someone dropped a nickel 0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:58.600 down the tube, beat open his eyes and snarl at him. 0:29:58.640 --> 0:30:01.240 You could hear him scream. You can see him go running, 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:10.360 and his act pretty much mhm. When no one was around. 0:30:10.360 --> 0:30:12.640 They dropped food down to him and let him have 0:30:12.720 --> 0:30:19.040 a smoke. God forbid another pine of whiskey. Otherwise he'd 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:25.080 just lie there, pockets stuffed with nickels he'd collected, suffocating 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:30.560 in his own filth mhm. For three days and three nights, 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:33.200 just like our Lord and Savior. And on the third 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:38.400 day they'd stage a resurrection. Tickets to that cost of dimes. 0:30:40.000 --> 0:30:45.160 Have a fellow claiming to be the county coroner in 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:49.240 small towns you could get the real buccoy. They dig 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:53.880 him up and proclaim it a miracle. Hallelujah, Pack up 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:57.400 the coffin, move on to the next town, and start 0:30:57.480 --> 0:31:02.840 all over again. The following day, about two weeks into 0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:07.720 the circuit, we're in Birmingham. We can spot just like 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:13.480 any other. They bury him. The band plays the Minister 0:31:13.600 --> 0:31:25.760 praise and everybody mourns on cue. No sooner is he 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:29.560 in the ground than a telegram catches up to us. 0:31:30.920 --> 0:31:36.840 Caglios Care of Soul shows general delivery Birmingham, arranged doctor 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:44.920 in Memphis for Operation Wednesday. Blackbird Unroote, Blackbird in Root. 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:52.440 The bastard had sold me out. That's the only reason 0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:55.480 he'd taken us on the circuit, so I'd be stuck 0:31:55.800 --> 0:31:59.520 in the hell that is Dixie with no one to trust. 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:05.800 I didn't confront him with it, never asked him. I 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:10.560 simply got up off that bed, rose from the dead, 0:32:11.760 --> 0:32:15.600 grabbed the grip I'd packed two weeks earlier, my traveling 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:19.280 bag and I caught out through the back of the 0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:23.120 banner line. Didn't say nothing to nobody. I just ran 0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:25.880 as fast as my swelled up leg who carried me 0:32:26.520 --> 0:32:28.680 once I was off the fair grounds. An old fellow 0:32:28.680 --> 0:32:31.440 and a fruit cop took pity on me and gave 0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:35.240 me a ride to the station. What happened to Caglios 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:42.480 once he got out of the grave. Yes, well, I'm 0:32:42.520 --> 0:32:49.480 afraid I must say that story for another time. Took 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:52.160 a night train ahead and south open and make it 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:55.880 to New Orleans about. Wasn't used to being on my feet, 0:32:56.400 --> 0:32:58.680 being laid up on my back for so long, and 0:32:59.800 --> 0:33:04.320 I guess you sort of got jostled blues. Made it 0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:07.040 as far as Atlanta. When my water broken, I knew 0:33:07.040 --> 0:33:12.960 I couldn't wait no longer. Got off at terminal station. 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:16.000 I went to the Cator street, where people like me 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:20.640 can move about, found a baby doctor and started having 0:33:20.640 --> 0:33:22.560 you as soon as I lay down on this table. 0:33:23.720 --> 0:33:27.760 Didn't hardly give him time to wash his hands. I 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:31.720 didn't have an easy time of it. You were all 0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:38.160 tangled up inside me. Listen to me, my dear, The 0:33:38.320 --> 0:33:42.200 birth is not going to be easy. The cord is 0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:48.200 wrapped around the child's neck. If if it would bring 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:53.240 you relief, we can leave it as it is for 0:33:53.320 --> 0:34:03.000 about five minutes, and then I'll remove what remains. I 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:05.520 reckon the doctor thought he was doing me a kindness. 0:34:06.720 --> 0:34:09.120 He saw I was alone, and I wasn't wearing a 0:34:09.160 --> 0:34:13.239 wedding band. And this kind of doctor probably loses as 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:16.840 many babies as he delivers. If you get my meaning, 0:34:18.280 --> 0:34:21.080 why didn't you go to a hospital? They would have 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:23.880 kept a record of my name and a record of 0:34:23.880 --> 0:34:26.400 your birth. And I needed both of us to vanish 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:30.439 without a trace. But a man like that, a man 0:34:30.640 --> 0:34:36.719 like that, don't ask questions. If you prefer, I can 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:42.800 try to reposition the fetus. Yeah, do whatever you need 0:34:42.840 --> 0:34:47.759 to do doctor to save the baby. It may take 0:34:47.880 --> 0:34:52.160 some time, and it may be difficult for it difficult, 0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:59.680 don't worry me as you wish. Is there anyone anyone 0:34:59.760 --> 0:35:08.839 we notified should things not go according to plan? Very well? 0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:13.960 Then I paid him twenty five dollars. Part of that 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:16.600 money was paying him to forget I had ever been there, 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:19.960 for allowing me to walk out of there the next morning, 0:35:20.800 --> 0:35:44.480 no birth certificates, no questions, mm hm oh oh she 0:35:46.320 --> 0:35:55.200 she okay. I rented a room the boarding house until 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:59.960 I was strong enough to travel. Then I headed east. 0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:04.960 Had a typist draw up a letter committing you to 0:36:05.080 --> 0:36:10.680 the convent school, gave you the name Lilia Pearl Parkhurst, 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:17.759 daughter of William A. Parkhurst, the third wife deceased. Sent 0:36:17.880 --> 0:36:21.800 the school a wire saying a colored servant would deliver 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:24.960 you to the school and that they would be provided 0:36:25.280 --> 0:36:29.480 one hundred dollars a year to provide for your education 0:36:29.680 --> 0:36:34.760 and care. So you see, they never saw your father. 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:40.400 They just knew your father's name and had his signature, 0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:46.279 your signature, which is why it was so easy for 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:51.920 me to sign it again eleven years later, and I 0:36:52.080 --> 0:36:56.920 left them the tarot card the high priestess, So you 0:36:57.000 --> 0:37:01.800 took me to the Continent school. That's right. They didn't 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:06.120 give me a second glance. I was the delivery girl. 0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:11.560 They only had eyes for you, and maybe that hundred 0:37:11.560 --> 0:37:14.360 dollars a year that I sent them for ten years. 0:37:16.440 --> 0:37:20.640 You see, all the time Corbo knew me, and Cagleos 0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:26.120 he knew me as a white woman, which I wasn't technically, 0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:31.800 everybody thought I was white and believed me. Life was 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:35.399 easier that way. I used to go to painful length 0:37:35.520 --> 0:37:39.560 to bleach my skin and marcel my hair. Well, I 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:44.560