[_Looks at her long, seems to awaken and change his mind._] All right. [_He replaces the revolver carefully in the cupboard._] You're right, anyhow, Jette! It's hell, Jette, that your name's got to be on the tongue of a crittur like that. All right. The powder'd be too good, too. This here little pistol's tasted the blood o' two French cavalry men! Heroes they was! An' I don't want it to drink no dirt. BRUNO I ain' doubtin' that there's dirt in your head! An' if it hadn't been that you board with my sister here I'd ha' let the light into you long ago, you dirt eater, so you'd ha' bled for weeks. JOHN [_With tense restraint._] Tell me again, Jette, that it's your brother. MRS. JOHN Go, Paul, will you? I'll get him away all right! You know's well as I that I can't help it now that Bruno's my own brother. JOHN All right. Then I'm one too many here. You c'n bill an' coo. [_He is dressed for the street as it is and hence proceeds to go. Close by BRUNO he stands still._] You scamp! You worried your father into his grave. Your sister might better ha' let you starve behind some fence rather'n raise you an' litter the earth with another criminal like you. I'll be back in half an hour! But I won't be alone. I'll have the sergeant with me! [_JOHN leaves by the outer door, putting on his slouch hat._ _So soon as JOHN has disappeared BRUNO turns and spits out after him toward the door._ BRUNO If I ever gets hold o' you! MRS. JOHN Why d'you come, Bruno? Tell me, what's the matter? BRUNO Tin's what you gotta give me. Or I'll go to hell. MRS. JOHN [_Locks and latches the outer door._] Wait till I close the door! Now, what's the matter? Where d'you come from? Where has you been? BRUNO Oh, I danced about half the night an' then, about sunrise, I went out into the country for a bit. MRS. JOHN Did Quaquaro see you comin' in, Bruno? Then you better look out that you ain't walked into no trap. BRUNO No danger. I crossed the yard an' then went through the cellar o' my friend what deals in junk an' after that up through the loft. MRS. JOHN Well, an' what happened? BRUNO Don' fool aroun', Jette. I gotta have railroad fare. I gotta take to my heels or I'll go straight to hell. MRS. JOHN An' what did you do with that there girl? BRUNO Oh, I found a way, Jette! MRS. JOHN What's the meanin' o' that? BRUNO Oh, I managed to make her a little more accommodatin' all right! MRS. JOHN An' is it a sure thing that she won't come back now? BRUNO Sure. I don' believe that she'll come again! But that wasn't no easy piece of work, Jette. But I tell you ... gimme somethin' to drink--quick!... I tell you, you made me thirsty with your damned business--thirsty, an' hot as hell. [_He drains a jug full of water._ MRS. JOHN People saw you outside the door with the girl. BRUNO