They'll feel like dogs, too, goin' in that gate, After the bluff they've made, lickin' his hand. Me for some other town. I'd rather starve. SILAS MAURY. They're 'ranging to bring in a lot of scabs To-morrow, when the Governor will be there. BILL PATTEN. Much as to say, 'Now knock 'em!' Son of a bitch! HARVEY ANDERSON. The Governor? CAP SAUNDERS. What's the trouble? BILL PATTEN. Cakes and pies. SILAS MAURY. It's Egerton's big reception. HARVEY ANDERSON. (_To Cap Saunders_) Explains the lights. They're getting things in shape. SILAS MAURY. Yes. (_He and Anderson walk a little way left and look back toward the mansion_) BILL PATTEN. When the boys First talked of strikin' when they made the cut I said, 'Don't do it. Egerton's a man-- You'd better fight the Devil than fight him. He'll show no mercy on you if you cross him.' I guess they know by now that Bill was right. Sam Williams though he thinks he knows. 'Hang on.' All right, hang on; but you will see what comes. It's hell. I'd rather die out on some rock. SILAS MAURY. There ain't no room for poor men in this world. I don't know what God ever made us for. (_He and Anderson return to the fire_) BILL PATTEN. The man that's got no home's a lucky man. SILAS MAURY. I said to Willie, 'I'm glad mother's dead.' (_A pause_) WILLIE MAURY. Think she can see us, pa? SILAS MAURY. I don't think so. BILL PATTEN. She's better off. SILAS MAURY. That's true. I hope she can't. She died a-thinkin' Willie would be rich Some day, if they ever found the mine. BILL PATTEN. (_Bitterly_) Give 'em your apples and expect the core. SILAS MAURY. It came so quick, though, Bill; he didn't think. BILL PATTEN. If he had just kept still and called to Chris And had him help and roll the log aside And then at night let some of us men know, We could have slipped it out and hidden it, And gone to Egerton and said, 'See here, We've found the log that you've been lookin' for These years and haven't found it----' CAP SAUNDERS. You don't mean---- BILL PATTEN. 'And if you'll do the square thing we'll cough up; If not, we'll go and find the mine ourselves.' CAP SAUNDERS. You don't mean 'twas the boy that found the log! SILAS MAURY. Willie here found it. CAP SAUNDERS. Well, well, well! H-u-rrah! Hurrah, I say! (_Throws his hat into the air. Harry Egerton comes through the darkness rear right_) CAP SAUNDERS. If I could call the men, Call up the men, my son, who've spent their lives Tryin' to get a peep of that there trunk-- You hear that, boys, you up there in the air? BILL PATTEN. He'd come to terms, all right, you bet your life. HARRY EGERTON. Good evening, men. I'm turned around a bit, Or seem to be. Just where is Foreston? HARVEY ANDERSON.