Yes.

(_Starts for the door_)

I'll tell the boys.

HARVEY ANDERSON.

Then come back, Buck.

BUCK BENTLEY.

I will.

(_He goes out. Anderson stands staring at the door_)

NURSE.

I'm so, so glad.

These weeks and weeks----It's been so hard to bear.

You see when Death comes, Mr. Anderson-- It ought to be a lesson to us all.

You'll stay, of course.

HARVEY ANDERSON.

I? Sure.

NURSE.

He's felt so hard, So bitter toward you.

(_Buck Bentley enters quickly. Looks from Harvey to the Nurse_)

HARVEY ANDERSON.

What?----

BUCK BENTLEY.

It's Sam and Chris.

(_Sam Williams and Chris Knudson come in with a lantern_)

HARVEY ANDERSON.

See anything of Egerton coming up?

(_The men show surprise_)

BUCK BENTLEY.

They sent for him.

SAM WILLIAMS.

Is he as bad as that?

HARVEY ANDERSON.

He hasn't been himself.

(_To Bentley, who starts out_)

Then come back.

BUCK BENTLEY.

Yes.

(_Anderson turns and shakes his head at the Nurse, who goes into the bedroom, closing the door after her_)

HARVEY ANDERSON.

He spoke of both of you.

CHRIS KNUDSON.

Too bad! too bad!

HARVEY ANDERSON.

I thought you'd like to be here.

(_They sit silent about the stove_)

HARVEY ANDERSON.

Colder.

CHRIS KNUDSON.

Yes.

(_They are silent_)

HARVEY ANDERSON.

Things going all right, Sam?