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.
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