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the kitchen, followed by Mze with a lantern, which she places on the table.]

Well, Sis, have you come fer the funeral?

[She turns away from him to conceal her emotion.]

[To ]

You didn’t see ner hear nothin’ o’ Sid?

No! What happened to him?

That’s what I’m a-tryin’ to find out.

[Looks at ]

Don’t he know?

’Course he knows, but he ain’t a-goin’ to tell us tell he has to!

[ looks at ''with an expression of dumb hopelessness. He avoids her eyes''.]

[Comes between and  in a burst of rage]

Why don’t you tell what you done with him?