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83 PRETORIA Father! Mother! It's Pretoria. I've come back.

I came with Indio. I'm going to stay, father. Yes, father. I'm never going to leave again.

CURTAIN CLOSES SLOWLY

HOUSELIGHTS ON

DARIUS STARK

There's no more! That's all. Go home! There's nothing here worth getting yourselves bothered about. You and I know we've got the best protection in the world. Don't go listening to all the tomyrot about corporations and militarists. What we give you is a set of laws that protect a man's hard-earned rewards. Go home and thank God for that. You're all decent people--you know what it means to have your freedom protected. Our way of doing things is under attack in every part of the world. But we've been in trouble before, and we've always come out on top. Go back to your jobs, your families. You can rest assured that if ever the day comes when we in this country have to hand out what we've broken