Bill Patten.
So he could have the mills
Blacklist us. Curse you! And curse all your kind!
You've ground us down until we're dogs, damn you.
Silas Maury.
Harry Egerton.
Friend, I did not come
To spy on any man or seek you out
Here on the mountains. For my hope has been——
Bill Patten.
We'll blow you up some day, you mark my word.
Harry Egerton.
That never one of you would leave the ranks
In your great struggle in the valley there,
But that you would stand fast, and somehow win
In spite of everything, starvation, death.
And I have done all that I could to help you.
But you, my friends, O you must understand,
As there are some things that you cannot do,
So there are things I cannot.