Part 61 (1/2)

HARRY EGERTON.

Yes, father.

EGERTON.

I thought so.

HARRY EGERTON.

I want the mill.

GEORGE EGERTON.

And thought you'd blackmail father.

HARRY EGERTON.

Listen to me!

For probably in all my life I'll never Speak to you as I'm speaking now, my father.

MRS. EGERTON.

Donald, I beg of you----

GEORGE EGERTON.

Well, I'll be----

MRS. EGERTON.

George!

HARRY EGERTON.

In these six years for one cause or another There've been three strikes that have cost the Company thousands In money, to say nothing of those things That all the money in the world can't buy.

Now let me ask, my father, if this loss, Instead of springing from these strikes, had come Through breakdowns of the machinery, or in the camps Through failure to get the timber out in time, Wouldn't you have dismissed the man in charge?

Then why do you let Jergens run the mill?

Hasn't he failed, and miserably, with the men?

GEORGE EGERTON.

What have you to do with it?

EGERTON.

I'll attend to this.

(_George Egerton walks away and stands by the pine trees, picking off and biting the needles_)

HARRY EGERTON.

Is it because the earnings have increased?