AGNUS
Here! Quit that! Quit!
THE DEVIL (fixes him with a look that makes him fall back) For the sake of the thousands of lives Magnus has taken to make his millions—(the dagger descends)
SCHWARTZENHOPFEL (on his knees, howling lustily)
Police! Police! Police!
[Judge Critty appears at the window looking in from garden, sees the tableau inside without being seen himself, and runs off with a shocked, terrified expression on his face.
SCHWARTZENHOPFEL
Police! Police!
THE DEVIL (throws down the knife and laughs heartily)
The police? An anarchist bawling for the police! The police! If the Anarchist Council heard that, they’d boil you in Standard Oil. Get up! (Sneers) Anarchist!