GRIMES. [Springing to his feet.] Jim Hegan, you're mad! [TO ANDREWS.] Go
out, will you? [ANDREWS exit.] Hegan, man... surely you don't mean this?

HEGAN. Yes... I'm sick of it!

GRIMES. But, man, think of the rest of us!... What are we to do?

HEGAN. You can buy just the same.

GRIMES. But without you? Why, we won't be able to corner Murdock! And if
he gets out of this hole, it'll be worse than ever! There'll be hell to
pay!

HEGAN. I don't care.

GRIMES. But, man, you've pledged yourself! Look at what Harris has
done!... What excuse will you be able to make to him? And what will you
tell Henry Stevens?

HEGAN. I'll tell them I've quit.

GRIMES. But you told them last night you were going in with every dollar
you could raise! You told Isaacson he could break with Murdock! And now
you'll tell them you've turned tail and run! Why, Hegan, it's treason!

HEGAN. Listen to me...

GRIMES. I don't want to listen to you! Half an hour from now you'll
be ashamed of yourself... wishing that nobody had heard you! You'll be
begging me not to mention it! You... Jim Hegan... the traction king!
To lose your nerve over a little thing like this! What's come over you,
anyhow... after all the things we've been through together? Why, man...

[The 'phone rings.]

HEGAN. Hello! Who is it? Oh, Isaacson. Yes; I'll speak with him. Hello,
Isaacson! Yes. No; I've not forgotten. I'll do whatever I said I'd do.
Er... yes; that's all right. I've been delayed. Yes. I'll get the
money to you. Right away. Oh, certainly, that's all right. [Hangs up
receiver.] Ah, God!

GRIMES. Hegan, listen here. You're in the midst of a battle. And you're
the general. Everything depends on you this morning. And you've a right
to be afraid.. but you've no right to let others see it. You've no
right... do you understand me? And, by God, I won't let you!... I'll be
a man for two of you! Shake yourself together now! [Seizes him.] Come,
man! Shake yourself together!

HEGAN. But think of the exposure!

GRIMES. The exposure! And this is Jim Hegan talking! How many times have
you been exposed already? And how many times have I been?

HEGAN. But this is different.

GRIMES. How different? We've got the police, and we've got the district
attorney, and we've got the courts. What more do we want? What can they
do but talk in the newspapers? And is there anything they haven't said
about us already? [Takes HEGAN by the arm, and laughs.] Come, old man!
As my frien