We're the windows! They made us sand, then made us shine! We've touched their faces and their hair! VOICES. (_From up the stairs_) We're coming, and there's thousands of us! VOICES. (_Far up_) We're holding up the roof! LION. Come down! You've held her up too long already! (_There has been a pounding of hammers and a creaking as of timbers being loosened. Sighs and groans fill the hall. The lights burn unsteadily, flashing or going out or glowing with a tint of blue_) VOICES. Help us, Sam Williams! Help _us_! Help _us_! OTHER VOICES. Let 'em alone! They're scabs! They're scabs! (_Carven figures, still rigid, come from the walls. From everywhere they come, in the most fantastic postures, some hopping with one leg lifted, some gliding with raised axes, others bent and in pairs carrying cross-cut saws, still others with peavies in their hands. Up through the floor all round come dark figures with torches in their caps. Stealthily and with muffled voices they gather about the Lion. Suddenly the pounding ceases and all is still_) A VOICE. He's coming, and the Powers are with him! SECOND VOICE. Justice is all we want! SEVERAL VOICES. Right! Right! LION. Are we one, comrades? ALL. We're one! We're one! A VOICE. Ask him to release us, Sam! (_Donald Egerton, with Governor Braddock and Bishop Hardbrooke at his heels, comes hurriedly through the centre door right_) DONALD EGERTON. (_Peering about, sees the Figures_) What does this mean? Back to the walls! LION. We are the walls! FIGURES. We are the walls! DONALD EGERTON. I made you what you are! LION. That's true! And we made you! FIGURES. And we made you! LION. We made each other! You are our father and we your mother! FIGURES. That's true! That's true! LION. And now make us as we made you! GOVERNOR BRADDOCK. Be careful, Colonel Egerton. See that one there with axe uplifted! DONALD EGERTON. Braddock, as a citizen of this commonwealth I call upon you to enforce the laws! GOVERNOR BRADDOCK. My friends and fellow citizens. This is unwise, this course you are pursuing, And cannot in the end but injure you. The laws were made for these disputes, And you like others must obey. LION. He made the laws! FIGURES. He made the laws! DONALD EGERTON. Hear that, Braddock! This is anarchy! GOVERNOR BRADDOCK. I urge you to go peaceably to your homes! LION. Our homes? FIGURES. What homes? LION. We have no homes! (_Egerton says something to the Governor_) GOVERNOR BRADDOCK. Then by the---- BISHOP HARDBROOKE. One moment, brother Egerton; One moment, Governor; let me say a word. (_Steps toward the Figures_)