Then call me up.

Dicey.

I will.

Harvey Anderson.

It ain't there now.

(The three men go out around the corner right. Jergens joins Egerton and the Chauffeur. Harvey Anderson watches them in silence)

Harvey Anderson.

And that's another reason I came down
To hear those cannon boom and see those flags.
You'll have a band play too?

(With his eyes fixed upon them he slowly shoves his foot through the cast and it falls to pieces. He stands still for a moment. He then picks up his hatchet and roll of blankets, and, going to the gate, throws them into the mill-yard. He does the same with the fragments of the cast, first carrying an armful which he empties inside, then coming back and picking up the last two or three pieces, which he jerks in after the others.

The First Sentry, coming from rear, signals to the Second Sentry, who is passing on his beat. The latter waits and, having heard what the former had to say, starts off)