How many hundreds o' times has you been tellin' me that? I knows, Rauchhaupt, that you went off o' your head. Well, what about that? Look at me! My hair didn't get no blacker from that there business; I didn't get no stronger from it neither. Who's worse off right now--you or me? That's what I'd like to know. You got your health; you're lookin' prosperous! An' me? What am I to-day? An' how does I look? Well, then, what more d'you want?--I dreamed o' my own funeral, already!--What do you want more'n that? I ain't goin' to bother nobody much longer. There ain't much good to be got by houndin' me!... An' that's the truth.--An' anyhow, you're a foolish kind o' a man, Rauchhaupt. You're so crazy, nobody wouldn't hardly believe it. First you was always wantin' to get rid o' the boy ... RAUCHHAUPT Oh, you don't know Gustav, that you don't! What that there boy could do when I had him ... an' the way he was kind to children an' such like! An' the way he c'n sing! An' the thoughts he's got in his head! That there time when he ran away from the asylum, he went an' he sat down in front o' the church where he was always listenin' to the bells, an' there he sat reel still, waitin'. You ought to ha' seen the boy then, Mrs. Fielitz, the way all that shows in his face. That's somethin'! Only thing is, he can't get it out the way the likes o' us c'n do it. MRS. FIELITZ Rauchhaupt, I had worse things 'n that. Yes. I lost a boy--an' he was the best thing I had in this world. Well, you see? You c'n go an' stare at me now! My life--it ain't been no joke neither.--Go right on starin' at me! Maybe you'll lose your taste for this kind o' thing the way you did onct before. RAUCHHAUPT Mrs. Fielitz, I'm a peaceable man, but that there ... I'm peaceable, Missis. I never liked bein' a constable, but ... MRS. FIELITZ