CAPTAIN. Letting them all escape.

GUY. There is no other question.

CAPTAIN. Your father, sir——-

GUY. Your duty, Captain Lascelles, is to hand your prisoners to the authorities to be dealt with as the law provides. Meanwhile, send me the men I want.

CAPTAIN. Very well.

(Exit Captain Lascelles. Guy sits to his plans. After a moment Ruth comes to him and touches his arm.)

RUTH. Guy!

GUY (not looking up). Don't go, Ruth. I want you here.

RUTH. I was not going, but——

GUY. Then oblige me by silence. These plans of mine must reach an architect to-morrow. (Takes knife from pocket and erases something on plan.) And the new machinery must be ordered to-night.