Brothers, help! We're fast! We're fast! FOURTH VOICE. Pick up the rug, Pete! Let's be off! (_Forms of men loaded with the spoil of the mansion are seen hurrying out left_) VOICES. (_Entering right_) 'Tain't fair! 'Tain't fair! FIFTH VOICE. (_Left_) Make for the river! SIXTH VOICE. Sam, this ain't fair! SAM. (_Entering right_) Hold on there, comrades! VOICES. Some's got it all and some ain't none! SAM. Put down that stuff! CRIES. That's right! That's right! An equal divvy! An equal divvy! OTHER CRIES. No, no, you don't! That's mine! That's ours! SAM. Comrades, we're one! CRIES. (_Of those who have nothing_) We're one! We're one! OTHER CRIES. (_Of those with their arms full_) Every man for himself! Every man for himself! (_Sounds of scuffling and fighting_) CRIES. Let loose, God damn you! Knock him down! (_The sounds die away left_) CRIES. (_Far left_) 'Tain't fair! 'Tain't fair! (_The walls are heard sighing_) VOICE. (_From above_) Who will go down Where all is sorrow, woe, and strife, Where unshaped things are jostling into life? Who will go down? HARRY EGERTON. I will. VOICE OF MRS. EGERTON. (_Full of anguish_) Harry! Harry! (_There is a thundering and crashing in the darkness_) HARRY EGERTON. (_Quickly staggering to his knees, then to his feet_) Here! here! Mother! mother! (_Instantly the darkness disappears. Morning is breaking over the mountains_) HARRY EGERTON. (_Looks about. Clasps his head in his hands_) Horrible! horrible! HARRY EGERTON. (_Sees the ashes of the fire. Recalls the incidents of the early night_) And went away. (_Notices that the boulder is gone. Looks down the slope, left_) The boulder thundering down the steep. I must have slept upon the ground. Ah, what is this? (_Gets down on his knees where the boulder lay_) The Mine! _The Mine!_ THE MINE! ACT II THE MILL