Dobleman
(Greeting Margaret, and addressing Starkweather.) This check. You said you would sign it yourself.
Starkweather
Yes, that is Rutland's. (Looks for pen.)
(Dobleman offers his fountain pen.) No; my own pen.
(Unlocks dispatch box, gets pen, and signs check. Leaves dispatch box open.) (Dobleman takes check and makes exit to right.)
Starkweather
(Picking up documents from top of pile in open box.)
This man Knox. I studied him yesterday. A man of great energy and ideals. Unfortunately, he is a sentimentalist. He means right—I grant him that. But he does not understand practical conditions. He is more dangerous to the welfare of the United States than ten thousand anarchists. And he is not practical. (Holding up documents.)
Behold, stolen from my private files by a yellow journal sneak thief and turned over to him. He thought to buttress his speech with them this afternoon. And yet, so hopelessly unpractical is he, that you see they are already back in the rightful owner's hands.