DEVLIN Life is made up of comin’ and goin’, and what we lose to-day we may gain to-morrow, and lose again the next day.

NAGLE
One man’s loss is another man’s profit, and that’s how
the world keeps movin’.

DEVLIN True.  And there’s no use in being alive unless we can help each other.  Sure ’tis for each other, and not by each other, that we should live.

NAGLE
’Pon my word, but to know how to live is the greatest
problem of all.

DEVLIN That’s so.  Sometimes ’tis foolish to be wise and other times ’tis wise to be foolish, but the sensible man will always look out for himself and let his friends look after his enemies.

NAGLE
Every word you say is true, but I must be goin’ or I’ll
lose the train.  So I’ll bid you good-by and good luck.

DEVIN
Good day and good luck to you also. (Exit Nagle)
The stranger was right.  A man with a watch and
chain like this, and able to tell every one the time of
day, could get as much on his word as he’d want.

[Buttons his coat and takes up the newspaper, sits in the chair and commences to read.  He is soon disturbed by the entrance of Bernard Falvey, Michael Cassily, two policemen, and several of the townspeople.

FIRST POLICEMAN (pointing to Devlin)
Is this the man who gave you the letter of introduction?

FALVEY That’s the man who has brought all this trouble on me, but I’m as innocent as the babe unborn of the charge of burglary.

FIRST POLICEMAN
Hold your tongue, I say.  What greater proof could
we have than the torn coat which you’re wearin’?

FALVEY
I tell you that I got this coat from a stranger I met
in this house, this mornin’.

FIRST POLICEMAN And sure you’re the one who can look innocent, believe me.  But this won’t be much good to you when you go before the magistrates.  Now we’ll deal with your partner. (Places his hand on Devlin’s shoulder) I must arrest you on suspicion for being an accomplice of this strange man here who broke into Mr. Michael Cassily’s establishment last night, and stole five pound notes, two silver candlesticks and a silver watch and golden chain.

DEVLIN
Is it madness that has come upon the crowd of you? 
Me that never stole anythin’ in my life, to be accused
of robbin’ from a dacent man like Michael Cassily!

SECOND POLICEMAN
Search him, constable.

FIRST POLICEMAN
Of course, I will. (He opens his coat, finds the watch
and chain, takes it off, hands it to Michael Cassily)
Is that yours?

CASSILY
Yes, constable, that’s the watch and chain that was
stolen from my house this mornin’.

FIRST POLICEMAN
What have you to say for yourself now?

DEVLIN
Nothin’, only that I paid ten shillin’s to a stranger
less than half an hour ago.

FIRST POLICEMAN And where did you get the ten shillin’s, you that haven’t had ten shillin’s of your own altogether for ten years, but always borrowin’ money and tellin’ the people that you are goin’ to inherit a fortune from America?