Must we put on the handcuffs, boy?

Bar.

[Moaning.] Help me, Mother! You’ll never see me again! I shall drown in the dirty, stinking sea!

1st Policeman.

[Crossly.] Come, come! Let go of the door jamb! [Seizes his wrists.]

Bar.

[Clinging harder.] No! [Shrieking.] Cut off my hands! Oh God, Oh God, Oh God! [Crawls up against the wall, beside himself with terror.]

Kneir.

[Almost crying.] The boy is afraid——

1st Policeman.