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Minnie! PRAG (turning and confronting MINNIE). So! You come back to Foxon Falls, too! MINNIE. You guessed it. PRAG. You follow me? MINNIE. But you're some sprinter! (She seizes him by the arm.) Come on, Prag,--you haven't got any business here, and you know it. PRAG (stubbornly). I come to see Mr. Pindar. I vill see him! AUGUSTA. He isn't home. PRAG. Then I vait for him. MINNIE (glancing toward the study door, where she suspects ASHER is). No you don't, either! You come along with me. (She pulls him, and he resists. They begin to struggle. AUGUSTA cries out and runs to MINNIE's assistance.) Keep away, Mrs. Pindar. If Mr. Pindar's home, find him and tell him not to come in here. This man's crazy. PRAG (struggling with MINNIE). Crazy, is it? What is it to you--what I do with Mr. Pindar. He is also your enemy--the enemy of all work-peoples. (AUGUSTA, after a second's indecision, turns and runs toward the door, left, that leads into ASHER's study. MINNIE tries to push PRAG toward the doorway, upper right, but she is no match for the nervous strength he is able to summon up in his fanatical frenzy. Just as AUGUSTA reaches the study door, it is flung open and ASHER appears.) ASHER. What's the matter? (Then he sees MINNIE and PRAG struggling and strides toward them. AUGUSTA tries to prevent him reaching them. PRAG wrenches himself free from MINNIE and draws a pistol front his pocket. MINNIE flings herself between him and ASHER, who momentarily halts, too astonished to act.) PRAG (to MINNIE). Get avay! He kill my wife, he drive me out of my home--he will not have the unions. I shoot him! Get oudt! ASHER. Stand aside, Minnie, I'll take care of him. (AUGUSTA cries out. ASHER advances, seizes MINNIE by the shoulder and thrusts her aside. PRAG has the pistol levelled at him.) PRAG. Recognize the unions, or I shoot! ASHER. Lower that pistol! Do you think you can intimidate me? PRAG. They can hang me,--I die for freedoms! (He is apparently about to pull the trigger, but he does not. His eyes are drawn away from ASHER, toward the doorway, lower right, where DR. JONATHAN is seen standing, gazing at him. Gradually his arm drops to his side, and DR. JONATHAN goes up to him and takes the pistol from his hand. PRAG breaks down, sobbing violently.) It is no good! I can't--now. DR. JONATHAN (his hand on PRAG'S shoulder). Come wit
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