He's
going now, right away. He came for some medicine. It's all right.
Good night, mother.

VOICE:
Can't I help?

ALICE:
(Vehemently)
No, no. Good night, mother.

VOICE:
Good night.

HATCH:
(fiercely, to HARRY)
That's enough of this! We can't leave here with the whole house
awake. And there's a coachman, too. She'll wake him next. He'll
have the whole damned village after us.
(To ALICE)
That woman upstairs and you have got to have your tongues stopped.

ALICE:
(standing in front of curtains)
You try to go near that woman! She's ill, she's feeble, she's my--
mother! You dare to touch her.

HATCH:
Get out of my way.

ALICE:
She's ill, you cowards. It will kill her. You'll have to kill me
before you get through this door.

HATCH:
(savagely)
Well, then, if it comes to that--

(Three locomotive whistles are heard from just outside the house.
ALICE throws up her hands hysterically.)

ALICE:
Ah! At last! They've come. They've come!

HATCH:
(fiercely)
They've come! What is it? What does that mean?

(REDDY runs to window and opens the shutters.)

ALICE:
(jubilantly)
It means--it means that twenty men are crossing that lawn. It
means that while you sat drinking there, Civilization was racing
toward you at seventy miles an hour!

HATCH:
Damnation! We're trapped. Get to the wagon--quick! No. Leave
the girl alone. We've no time for that. Drop that stuff. That
way. That way.

REDDY:
(at window)
No. Get back! Get back! It's too late. There's hundreds of them
out there.

HATCH:
(running to centre door)
Out here! This way! Quick!

ALICE:
(mockingly)
Yes, come! You don't dare come this way NOW!

(She drags open the curtains, disclosing CAPTAIN LUCAS and two
other policemen. For an instant they stand, covering the burglars
with revolvers. REDDY runs to window. He is seized by an entering
crowd of men in the oil-stained blue jeans of engineers and
brakemen.)

CAPTAIN LUCAS:
Hold up your hands, all of you! I guess I know you.
(With his left hand he tears off HATCH'S mask.)
"Joe" Hatch--at last.
(Pulls off HARRY'S mask.)
And Harry Hayes. I thought so. And that's--the "Kid." The whole
gang.
(To the police.)
Good work, boys.
(To ALICE)
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