[_The two men who have been bending over the body rise, stretch to relax, and come into the room._ BRADFORD [_Pushing back his arms and putting his hands on his chest._] Work,--tryin’ to put life in the dead. CAPTAIN Where’d you find him, Joe? BRADFORD In front of this house. Not forty feet out. CAPTAIN What’d you bring him up here for? [_He speaks in an abstracted way, as if the working part of his mind is on something else, and in the muffled voice of one bending over._ BRADFORD [_With a sheepish little laugh._] Force of habit, I guess. We brought so many of ’em back up here. [_Looks around the room._] And then it was kind of unfriendly down where he was--the wind spittin’ the sea onto you till he’d have no way of knowin’ he was ashore. TONY Lucky I was not sooner or later as I walk by from my watch. BRADFORD You have accommodating ways, Tony. Not sooner or later. I wouldn’t say it of many Portagees. But the sea [_Calling it in to the CAPTAIN_] is friendly as a kitten alongside the women that live _here_. Allie Mayo--they’re _both_ crazy--had that door open [_Moving his head toward the big sliding door_] sweepin’ out, and when we come along she backs off and stands lookin’ at us, _lookin’_--Lord, I just wanted to get him somewhere else. So I kicked this door open with my foot [_Jerking his hand toward the room where the CAPTAIN is seen bending over the man_] and got him _away_. [_Under his voice._] If he did have any notion of comin’ back to life, he wouldn’t a come if he’d seen her. [_More genially._] _I_ wouldn’t. CAPTAIN You know who he is, Joe? BRADFORD I never saw him before. CAPTAIN Mitchell telephoned from High Head that a dory came ashore there. BRADFORD Last night wasn’t the _best_ night for a dory. [_To TONY, boastfully._] Not that _I_ couldn’t ’a’ stayed in one. Some men can stay in a dory and some can’t. [_Going to the inner door._] That boy’s dead, Capt’n. CAPTAIN Then I’m not doing him any harm. BRADFORD [_Going over and shaking the frame where the boat once swung._] This the first time you ever been in this place, ain’t it, Tony? TONY I never was here before. BRADFORD