)
REDDY:
Oh, come on. It don't cost you nothing.
(The light from the candle is seen approaching the curtains.)
HATCH:
Hush! Look there!
(He rises, lifting his chair above his head, and advances on tiptoe
to right of curtains, where he stands with the chair raised as
though to strike.
HARRY points revolver at curtains.
REDDY shifts the lantern to his left hand and, standing close to
HARRY, also points a revolver.
ALICE appears between curtains. She is dressed as before, and in
her left hand carries the candle, while the forefinger of her right
hand is held warningly to her lips. For an instant she pauses, in
the ring of light from the lantern.)
ALICE:
(Whispering)
Hush! Don't make a noise. Don't make a noise, please.
(There is a long pause.)
REDDY:
Well, I'll be hung!
ALICE:
(To REDDY)
Please don't make a noise.
HATCH:
(in a threatening whisper)
Don't YOU make a noise.
ALICE:
I don't mean to. My mother is asleep upstairs and she is very ill.
And I don't want to wake her--and I don't want you to wake her,
either.
REDDY:
"Well, I'll be hung!
HATCH:
(Angrily)
Who else is in this house?
ALICE:
No one but mother and the maid servants, and they're asleep.
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