22 INT. COURTHOUSE - DAY 22
JUDGE RAND sits against a black background, as if in a dream,
reading from a piece of paper.
JUDGE F.D. RAND
As the servant of the law, the court
decrees that you be imprisoned in the
State Prison at Concord until the 19th
day of January, in the year of our Lord
1877, and that on that day, between the
hours of 10 in the forenoon and 2 in the
afternoon, you be hanged by the neck
until you are dead.
Le Page stands, also against a black backdrop. he looks angry
as he hears the sentence being read.
JUDGE F.D. RAND
Order. Order in the court.
(Focusing on LePage)
Pardon me if I say that all the days that
are to come to you in this life must be
full of sorrow.
INTERCUT -- shot of William Drew, standing where Le Page was,
then Waldo -- as if all are hearing the same sentence.
Let the sorrow be softened by penitence,
so that that other life that opens out of
the dark Valley, and is so full of
shadows, may not be without the light of
hope. The Court stands adjourned!
The Judge pounds his gavel.
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