 of Wilmington Delaware, makers of better things for better living through chemistry, presents the cavalcade of America, tonight's star and blithe, tonight's play, That More Girl. If you were living in the South Carolina village called Edgefield, in the Revolutionary Year 1780, you might have heard talk of impending battle, and you might have heard talk about the toy night riders, but you certainly would have heard talk about That More Girl. That plague, take me if she ain't done it again. What you been up to this time, settin' the river of fire? No sir, but I swear she could if she'd have a mind-o. Yeah, this happened last week, out of Stepfather's farm, Sam Savage's place. What happened? Well sir, a trooper brace, home patrol rides up. The captain comes bumpin' in, slappin' his jackboots with a weapon. Did it? Yeah, and demands provisions for his men. All the food now. No. Yeah, layin' up steps, little risk by hesslin' more. Give him a tongue lashing, did you? Prayer peeled his head off, goin' to Sam's. What happened? What happened? Well, after about five minutes that captain backed out, bowin' and scrappin' and apologizing all over the place. Good sir, our best. What a little beauty, too. Ain't she, huh? Yeah, it looks like a peach tree in Boston. Well sir, it seems all we do around here is talk about that. I declare I don't know what Edgefield's comin' to. Her entail, when that nice red nixon came accortin', he threw dishwater all over him and called him a dirty Tory scallywax. Well that was last week, this week, her stepfather locked her in a room so she couldn't get out to see that lieutenant butler. She's so crazy. Billy butler? Yeah. That's wild, young limousine. That's for one. So what does Bessie do? But put on a pair of her brother Robbie's branches, pants mind ya, and climbs down the rain spout. I declare the little snippet. That Moore girl. And what they say is true. Some of it anyhow. Somehow I seem to be made to get myself into trouble. My true name is the Heslund Moore. My father found that somewhere in the Bible, I guess. I don't really know. But folks mainly call me Bess. Only my stepfather, Mr. Savage, calls me by Heslund. And that shows how much she likes me. He locked me up again, of course. And I got out again, I always do. And I met Billy butler again, as I said I would, in a forest clearing down near the river. My but Billy looked handsome in his fine new uniform. And when he saw me, come on. Bess! Thank heaven you got away. I've been waiting since sundown. Young Robbie let me out this time. Good for Robbie. He's a brother in a million. And now that you've come here... I wish you could hold me close forever, dear. I'd like to. There's nothing at all I'd like better. Why can't we be together then always? We can. When the war's over and we're married. When your stepfather sees the lights. Why does he hate me so? Heaven knows we're on the same side. He says you're wild. They all say you're wild. They say I'm a fool to care for you. Do you believe him? No. No, I'll never believe him. I was wild, Bess. Plenty wild before I met you. But now I've settled down. I've won a commission. But Billy, the arm of your coat, it's torn. There's blood on it. Oh, it stopped bleeding. Now just a scratch. I had a brush with a troupe of tory raiders off the road of peace. You might have been killed. So I might, so I always might. But I found out plenty of this trip. Bess, do folks around here know you saw me last weekend? Yes, they've been talking about nothing else. Their tongues have been going like so many shuttles. Clackity clack. Good. I want you to let them know you've seen me again. But my stepfather, Mr. Savage... Are you afraid of your stepfather? No. I'm scared of no one at all. Spread the word then. Tell them you've seen me again. And that I had bad news for you. Tell them I said the Americans under Captain Wallace are running away. Say that we're crossing back over the river into Georgia for good. Say we're holding up in Augusta. But you're not... No, no, we're not. But Wallace wants the British to think we are. Bess, the main body of the enemy is moving south tomorrow along the river road. Well, we'll be waiting for him in ambush. Just below the rapids where the road along the river runs through a narrow pass. The place is called Red Rock Point. Do you think they'll believe me if I say Captain Wallace is leaving the whole county? Of course they will. Half of them because they're Tories. The other half because they always believe bad news about militia troops. Will you do it, Bess? Very well. Lieutenant. That's a good soldier. Another kiss to seal the bargain. A hundred if you want him. Now I must leave. I have only two hours to get down river. And the British cavalry screen will be moving south before dawn. You be careful, Billy. Don't worry, Bess. I'm always careful these days. The army takes a lot of that wildness out of a man. It makes you cautious. Something's coming. No, no, that's my own mount down by the road. Must it truly leave so soon? Bessie, both roads down river will be crawling with enemy troops in a matter of hours. I've just time to get out ahead of them. It's goodbye, I'm afraid. Goodbye, my love. Gotta go with you. It's a pretty picture, though. Touching is like a play. Wiping beauty parts from soldier lovers. Tears, heaving, chest, waving. Louette Nixon, what do you mean by following me? I didn't follow you. A number of loyal citizens, myself included, have been on patrol duty this evening. Patrol duty. Whose barn did you burn? Whose stock did you run off? Whose children did you scare? I have to death. No, no. The night's still young. There may well be burning bars in these parts before sunup judging by what I heard. You heard what Lieutenant Butler told me. Of course I heard. I came up on Butler's horse by the roadside. I noticed the militia brand, so I decided to investigate. You sneak in Tory Cowardmore. My dear Miss Moore, you should remain eternally grateful to me. I could have killed your pretty rebel lover quite easily. One shot from yonder- But you are afraid. You are afraid to fire. What I heard was more valuable to me than Butler's death. Oh, I let him live. He'll return to Captain Wallace with the ambush-wacking traitors downriver. In turn, I shall pay a visit to my good friend Colonel Tarth under British headquarters. You tell Tarth and of the ambush you'll sell out your own countrymen and your neighbors? I'll do my clear and simple duty as a loyal subject of his majesty. And you'll sell your information and you'll know it. I have it your way. The result in any event will be the same. Captain Wallace with his dashing lieutenant and all his farm boy louts who play at being soldiers, they'll all be killed or captured. The ambushes will be ambushed in turn. Not if I warn them first. Now get out of my way. No, no, no, not at all. I was wondering when that view of the situation would have hurt you. I'm afraid you're not leaving this charming moonlit blade tonight. Not alive, sweet beds. You wouldn't kill you. No, I think not. I should, you know, it'd be safer. But such slurriness on my part might just possibly cause trouble later on. No, I think I'll just tie you up. Take your hands off me. Let me go. Do you hear me? No! You little dicks! No! Then, let Nixon overwhelm me. But for many a day he bore the marks of my teeth on his hands and on his throats. He tied me hand and foot with raw hide songs and hurried off to carry the story to his British master. I was passed. It must have been midnight before I heard a voice calling. Oh, Bess! Oh, Bess! Robbie, what happened? Who did this to you? You never mind. Now get me loose on top of my hands. There you go. Now help me with this. Get it, Bess. Red Nixon. I'll kill him. I'll follow him wherever he goes and I'll kill him. Oh, Bess, I'm free at last. What's the matter, Bess? Are you hurt? Yes, Mr. Savage. I was searching for you with Tom Powers and Joe Treat. Gosh, he was hot mad when he found you'd run off. He gave me a lyrepin, so... We must find him. We'll need all the men we can find. But you haven't said what happened. I'll make it quick. I met Lieutenant Butler here. He asked me to help him fool the British and lead them into an ambush. But Red Nixon overheard us. Oh, don't ask me to explain now. Now Nixon's gone to tell the British and we've got to warn our folks that that plan is known. We'll need help. Mr. Savage, come along. We're going home. I care. I don't understand it. I don't understand it at all. Where could she go? We looked everywhere. You don't suppose I don't? You mean Joe, she might have run off with that Billy Butler? Could be. Could be. It's happened before this. These lively girls have gone off with Butler. I... Now, same now. If she's gone with Billy, she won't get far. Do you see those roads? They're deep in soldiers. Something's up. I never saw so many troops in town. Something sure is happening, something big. And we're in the middle of it, right? Spank in the middle of it. Question is, where's Beth? What was that? Musket shot clearly. Well, the thing started. She's out there, so's Bobby. What do we do? Nothing. Nothing at all. Let her take the chances she's made for herself. But if she comes back... If she does come back here... What do you do, sir? I... I don't know. Now, leave me alone. Can't you stop harping about that confounded moorker? That was meant for us. For Robbie and me. As we cut across the fuse, but we need it. And after all the angry talk that clattered around me when I got back home, I've pleaded with my stepfather to carry the message that must reach the American commander. Well, tell you girl, you asked the impossible. Now, both river roads are thick with enemy troops. No one could get through. Any man would try. I was glad to see you safe again. I thought to say no more about your wanton disobedience. But surely you can see you've caused this terrible mischance yourself. I'd not lift a finger to save the man I forbade you to see again. You asked me to risk my life for him. Not just for him. For Captain Wallace's whole command, most of them come from this county. Well, they must take their own risk this night. The chances of war. How can you talk that way? Don't you know who they are? Yes, I know who they are. A pack of reckless children. Who made them reckless? Who talked him into rebelling against the king whose mouth was loudest crying fight, fight, fight? I love listening to this. You will listen. When the British were far away, it was you who spoke in the square. It was you who promised those boys heaven on earth it was you and Joe Treet there and Tom Powers, the three of you. Talk and talk and talk. He's still good. I will not be still. Now that Tarleton's here right at your doorstep, you're changing your mind. I ask you just once more, will you? Well, just one of you helped me to get word to Wallace. My answer is no, I am not a fool. Joseph Treet, is that your word as well? Your stepfather's right, Bess. Be madness to ride these roads tonight. Tom Powers. You who can shout so loud against the king and the tories when the rum is on you. Is this your word now? I'm a sensible man, Miss Moore. Drink and no drink. The old county's overrun. It's time to hold up. I have my rifle here and I'll use it if they come to take me. But not until then. My answer is no. I, well, I'm a sensible man. Give me that gun then. Give it to me. What are you trying to do? Hand that back. Sam, she took my rifle. Let's then give it back. No. I'm going myself and no one's going to stop me. Not while I have this. Stand back. I swear I'll kill the man who tries to keep me from that door. Yes, I'm coming with you. We won't take the roads. We'll take the river. My canoe's more just below the far pasture. The river? But the rapids, you'll never make it at night. We can. We've got to. Good. Then we'll try. Get the door open behind me. Get the boat out. Now run for it, Robbie. Have the canoe ready. Miss Moore, I run that white water myself in the daylight. I tell you, it can't be done in the darkness. Not with a buoy to steer. Stand back. Robert's a better man than the three of you together. Better. Now, I'm going to slam this door, but I'll not be far off outside. I'll kill the first man that followed me. Goodbye. Dear stepper, should we say? No, let it go. She'll pay this night for her forwardness with her life. Turn to our Cable Cade play. That Moore girl, starring and blithe for years of the revolution. The great danger threatens the small American militia force in South Carolina. Miss Moore and her brother Robbie are trying to bring a warning to the American troops. Bards hid the moon as my young brother and I stumbled down the slope to the river into the Indian dugout canoe my true father had made with Robbie's help so long ago. When I thought we were not to be followed, I ran for it. Robbie was waiting for me already in the stern of the dugout. Get in, sis. Take the bow. Oh, wait. I can't let you do it, brother. I'll go it along. You'd swamp before it even reached the white water. This boat's made for two, you know that? There's got to be one to steal when we hit the chutes and one to paddle. There's nothing else to do, then? Nothing else. And don't be scared, Beth. I've lived in this boat for three years. It was the only way I could keep our old man savages sight. But have you passed the rapids before? Oh, plenty of times. I know every rock. Only the clouds have let the moon come out, but... Oh, well, come along. Yes, we're barely time enough. Who said it? There. Now, I'll push off. Just do paddle like I taught you. Be getting down the straightaway stroke. Easy and slow. All right. We'd best keep her out in the middle. Though it's too close, maybe too soon. And a good thing now the moon's still hit. Hey! Push up and paddle. Keep it quiet. You're out there! Just before we hit the white water. I'm tired. I'm terrible tired, Ron. Can't be much longer now. Listen, we're almost down the rapids. Is that it? That's the fast water, all right. You'd better rest a bit now. We've got to paddle here. Current's strong downstream. Just let me...just let me steer. Robbie. Yeah? Do you know any prey? I don't know. I've got no time for them. I've just been saying to myself, moon, moon, come out. All moon, come out so they can see the rocks. But she just don't want to come out. Clubs look lighter. Clubs are preyin' all the way. Where'd your lieutenant say they'd be? I don't know until you know what that is. No. I guess I liked you, Beth. I've never been this far down the river before. Robert, you never shot the rabbit like you said? No. Until just now, I didn't. All right. Guess we'd better go ashore and take a look around. Look it's quiet. Don't be sure that these are... Then you tell me where I might find Lieutenant William Butler. Can you take me to him? Yes. Billy's right here. Terrible thing has happened. We've overheard talkin' there in the clearing. What? The British know your plans for an ambush. They planned to surround this point and kill all of you. But I don't understand. Oh, there's no time to explain. We're Captain Wallace. We must hurry. We must see Captain Wallace. Thanks to heaven and Robbie's strong arm. What's the come of him? Oh, Robbie. I can't remember this. Then he disappeared. Then you disappeared. Yes, well, I left you with the women folk for a while. As you asked, you were so tired. Billy, what's happened to Robbie? Well, he's joined up, Bess. He's joined up. But he's too young. Your brother grew to be a man tonight out on the river. We need every man we can find. And there's more to it than that. More to it? How can he go home to old man Savage? He said he wanted to talk with me. And that's what he asked me. He said, how can I go home? Well, I told him he could stay on here with the troops. Billy. Yes, Bess. How can I go home? I wondered when you'd start to think of that. You'd begin to realize. I don't have no home either. Not after what you've done. Not with the British in Edgefield. What shall I do? What can I do? You can marry me, Bess. Here and now. There's a Baptist preacher in my own company. Will you do it, Bess? Billy, there's one thing I don't understand. And what's that? Why didn't you ask me long ago? Talk about that too, of course, back home in Edgefield. But when the British surrounded Red Rock Point the next morning, they surrounded M.D.A. Many of our Edgefield boys were saved to fight at Cowpens where Morgan put proud towels into flight. And some of them lived to stand on the fielded Yorktown when Cornwall was surrendered. And back in Edgefield, long after the war there was talk about pensions and talk about taxes and talk about the new land across the mountains. But just as before there was always talk about that more girl. Would she ever rest quiet? Well, she's Mrs. Billy butler now, don't forget. Mrs. the Honorable Congressman will you miss butler, if you please? My such is. She'll always be best more to me the idea best more teaching school and her husband in Congress. Why'd she do it, you suppose? She wants to keep busy and her with six children of her own. Just wants to have a hand in everybody's business if you ask me. Well, me for one, me, I'm not going to talk no more about that more. I know what she's up to now. You mean the Honorable Congressman's wife? What do you want this time? Money. More money. More money for schools. More taxes for schools. Says all the kids ought to have schools. All of them. I bet she runs old Billy Rags. Yeah. Maybe. Well, she ain't changed much. No, no she ain't. Still pretty. Mighty pretty. She looks like a picture in full bloom. She does for a fact. Always did. You know something? No. What? Is that one man in all the Carolina's I.N.D.? It's a Mr. Congressman William S. Butler. Landshake. What a girl. I'll live it down. But my sons, my six fine sons, they grew up with the country and father moved down west to a station that runs in your day from sea to sea. One of them was governor and a state carved out of a wilderness. Another helped build a railroad to bind all the states together. Yes? I'm that more girl and I'm proud of it. Hamilton speaking for the DuPont Company. When you set out to find a place to build a new home, you have certain standards in mind. You want to know for instance what are the controls, what transportation is available, what are the taxes, and so on. 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The factors that influence the choice of a location have meaning for the people who will work there, contributing to their convenience and comfort, and they have meaning for you too. For they affect the cost of the material that will be made for the new plant. And that is why the decision rests in the hands of a group of specialists best suited to evaluate every possibility. For the most part these specialists are engineers representing the variety of skills and talents that make engineering one of the most diversified and rewarding of professions. There are hundreds of these engineering specialists at DuPont and openings for hundreds more. Young engineers in college today will find great opportunity at DuPont in helping to produce tomorrow's better things for better living through chemistry. Bites to Pump Cavalcade was written by George H. Faulkner. Original music was composed by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Voorhees. The program was directed by John Zoller. With our star and live you heard George Petrie as Billy, Stott's Cutsworth as Rhett and Bobby Santon as Robbie. The program was directed by George Petrie and Bobby Santon as Robbie. And by the peers of the courtesy of Universal International Pictures producers of Because of You starring Loretta Young and Jeff Chandler. And this is Si Harris speaking. Ladies and gentlemen, next Tuesday the National Broadcasting Company has preempted Cavalcade time in order to bring you the election returns. But we'll be back two weeks from tonight when the DuPont Cavalcade will present One Nation Indivisible the exciting story of a woman's faith and a man's fight against insurmountable odds. Our star, Thomas Mitchell. The DuPont Cavalcade of America came to you tonight from the Velasco Theater in New York City and is sponsored by the DuPont Company of Bloomington, Delaware. Makers of better things or better living through chemistry. Tonight just for laughs listen to Red Skelton on NBC.