Raidler: Now ain’t that a horror?
Jennings: God damn the crooks that run this state!
Joe: Oh, po Jimmie Valentine!
Valentine: Take it easy, boys—I expected it.
Raidler (strikes his fist on the table): They kept the news for today!
Jennings (shaking his clenched hands in the air): And you can’t do a damned thing! You’ve got to take it!
Valentine: Forget it, forget it.
Porter (rises suddenly, pale with anger): This is the end for me! I’ll stand no more! (starts toward the door)
Jennings (in alarm): What do you mean, Bill?
Porter: I mean I’m going to have it out with the warden.