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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Second-Story Man + +Author: Upton Sinclair + + +Release Date: July, 2002 [Etext #3302] +The actual date this file first posted = 03/22/01 +Last Updated: April 25, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECOND-STORY MAN *** + + + + +Text file produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading team + +HTML file produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + THE SECOND-STORY MAN + </h1> + <h2> + By Upton Sinclair + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + <b>CHARACTERS</b> + </p> + <p> + JIM FARADAY: the second-story man.<br /> <br /> HARVEY AUSTIN: a lawyer. + <br /> <br /> HELEN AUSTIN: his wife. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + <B>SCENE</B>: Library of the Austin home. + </p> + <p> + Time: 2 A.M. + </p> + <p> + [The scene shows a luxuriously furnished room. In the centre is a table + with a lamp. To the right is the entrance into the front hall, the front + door of the house being visible. In the corner is a cabinet of curios. In + the rear is a large window opening on the street. Open fire-place. There + are two entrances at the left. There are book-shelves, several + easy-chairs, etc., in the room.] + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + [At rise: The stage is empty, and the room is darkened except for the fire + in the grate. Sounds of breaking wood are heard at the window.] + </p> + <p> + JIM. [A roughly-dressed young fellow with a patch over one eye, enters + through window, stands gazing about nervously, looks into the hall, etc., + then flashes a dark lantern.] This looks pretty good. + </p> + <p> + [Goes to mantel, takes silver cup and puts it into bag which he carries; + then exit left.] + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Enters at front door without much noise. Hangs up coat and hat, + and then stands in entrance. He is a smooth-faced young man in evening + dress.] All gone to bed, hey? + </p> + <p> + [Takes out cigarette case and is about to light one, when a crash is heard + off left, as of a vase falling. He starts, then runs to table, opens + drawer, takes out revolver, and examines it, and steals off through the + other entrance at left, saying, "That noise seemed to come from + downstairs."] + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Enters panic-stricken.] God! What a thing to do! [Gazes into hall + and upstairs—long pause.] Don't seem to have waked them. + </p> + <p> + [Proceeds to examine room, stopping now and then to listen. After placing + several articles in bag, he goes to cabinet and tries to open it. This + takes some time, and while he is crouching in the shadow, with his back to + the entrance right, MRS. AUSTIN appears.] + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [She is young and beautiful, and wears a night-robe and + dressing-gown. She stands looking about anxiously, and then goes to centre + of room, when she hears a sound from JIM, and starts wildly.] Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Leaps to feet, lifting revolver.] Hold up your hands! [She starts + back in terror.] Hold up your hands! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Half complyingly.] I'm not armed. + </p> + <p> + JIM. Never mind. [Long pause while they stare at each other.] I don't want + to hurt you, lady. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Calmly, after first shock.] No, I suppose not. You only want + to get away. + </p> + <p> + JIM. That's right! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Very well, you may go. + </p> + <p> + JIM. And you yell for the police the moment I get out of the door, hey? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. No, I don't want the police. I don't believe in sending men + to jail. + </p> + <p> + JIM. Humph! + </p> + <p> + [Another pause.] + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Why do you do this? + </p> + <p> + JIM. It's the way I live. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Isn't it a rather trying kind of work? + </p> + <p> + JIM. It ain't all play, ma'am. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Smiling.] I should think it would be hard on the nerves. + [After another pause.] Is there no honest way you can earn a living? + </p> + <p> + JIM. I don't know. Maybe so. I got tired of looking for it. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. I might help you if you would let me. + </p> + <p> + JIM. I ain't asking any help. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. No, but I'm offering it. [After a pause.] Have you been doing + this sort of thing very long? + </p> + <p> + JIM. No. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. How long? + </p> + <p> + JIM. [After hesitation.] This is my first job. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. What! You don't mean that? + </p> + <p> + JIM. It happens to be true, ma'am. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. What made you do it? + </p> + <p> + JIM. It's a long story. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Tell it to me. + </p> + <p> + JIM. It ain't just a good time for story telling. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. You are afraid of me? I have no quarrel with you. I don't + care anything for the things you have in the bag; and, besides, I suppose + you won't take them now. I'm only sorry to see a man going wrong, and I'd + like to help if I could. I'll play fair, I give you my word of honor. + </p> + <p> + JIM. There ain't much honor in this business. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. No, I suppose not. But you can trust me. Put up that gun and + talk to me. + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Surlily.] It can't do any good. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. It can't do any harm. Put up that revolver, and tell me + what's the matter. + </p> + <p> + JIM. You'll let me go when I want to? No tricks! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. I give you my word. + </p> + <p> + JIM. All right. I'm a fool, I guess, but I'll trust you. [Puts revolver in + pocket.] Sit down, ma'am. It must be cold for you. This is a queer kind of + layout for a burglar. [Sits opposite her.] You heard that racket I made in + the other room? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Yes. What was it? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Some kind of a jar. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Oh, my Greek vase. Well, never mind... it was an imitation. + What were you doing? + </p> + <p> + JIM. I was looking for something to eat. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. It would have been the first thing I've had since the day before + yesterday. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. What's the matter? + </p> + <p> + JIM. No work. [A pause.] I suppose you'll give me the old gag... there's + plenty of work for a man that's willing. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. No, I happen to have studied, and I know better than that. + Else I should have fainted when I saw you... instead of sitting here + talking to you.... Do you drink? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Yes, but I didn't use to. Any man would drink... that went through + what I did. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Are you married? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Yes... I was married. My wife is dead. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Any children? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Two. Both dead. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. It ain't a pretty story, ma'am. It's a poor man's story. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Tell it to me. + </p> + <p> + JIM. All right. It'll spoil your sleep for the rest of the night, I guess, + but you can have it. [A pause.] A year ago I was what they call an honest + working man. I had a home and a happy family; and I didn't drink any too + much, and I did well... even if the work was hard. I was in the steel + works here in town. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Startled.] The Empire Steel Company? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Yes. Why? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Nothing... only I happen to know some people there. Go on. + </p> + <p> + JIM. It's no child's work there, ma'am. There's an awful lot of + accidents... more than the world has any idea of. I've seen a man sent to + hell in the snapping of a finger. And they don't treat them fair... they + hush things up. There are things you wouldn't believe if I told them to + you. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Tell them. + </p> + <p> + JIM. I've seen a man there get caught in one of the cranes. They stopped + the machinery, but they couldn't get him out. They'd have had to take the + crane apart, and that would have cost several days, and it was rush time, + and the man was only a poor Hunkie, and there was no one to know or care. + So they started up the crane, and cut his leg off. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Oh, horrible! + </p> + <p> + JIM. It's the sort of thing you couldn't believe unless you saw it. But I + saw it. I didn't care, though. I was a fool. And then my time came. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. How do you mean? + </p> + <p> + JIM. A blast furnace blew out, and a piece of slag hit me here, where you + see that patch. If it wasn't for the patch you'd see something that would + make you sick. It was a pain you couldn't tell about... it was a couple of + days before I knew where I was. And the first thing when I came to my + senses... in the hospital, it was... there was a lawyer chap with a paper + waiting for me. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [In agitation.] A lawyer? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Yes, ma'am. Company representative, you know. And I was to sign the + paper... it was a receipt for the hospital expenses... the operation and + all that... you see they had to take out what was left of my eye. And of + course I couldn't see... I had to sign where he told me to. And when I got + well, I found they had trapped me into signing a release. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. A release? + </p> + <p> + JIM. I had accepted the hospital expenses as a release for all the company + owed me. And I couldn't get any damages... and my eye was gone, and all + the weeks without any wages. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. My God! + </p> + <p> + JIM. And they turned me out so weak I could hardly walk; and... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Greatly excited.] Who was this man? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Which? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. This lawyer? + </p> + <p> + JIM. I never heard his name. He was a young fellow... handsome... + smooth-faced... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Whispering.] Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. Ah, they don't mind it... they're smooth. They do that all the time. + It's what they get their pay for. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Covering her face with her hands.] Oh, stop! + </p> + <p> + JIM. What's the matter? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Looking up with white face.] Nothing. Go on. + </p> + <p> + JIM. It was two months before I could work at all. And the rent came due, + and they turned us out... it was winter-time, and my wife caught a cold, + and it turned to pneumonia, and she died. That's all of that. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Go on. + </p> + <p> + JIM. And then, you see, the panic came... and the mills shut down... + sudden as that. The lawyer told me the company would see I always had a + job, but that was only to get me to sign. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Feverishly.] Did you try him? + </p> + <p> + JIM. I went to the office and tried; but they wouldn't even let me see + him. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. I see. And then? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Then I went out to look for work. I had the two babies, you know ... + and God only knows how I loved those babies. I said I'd fight and win out + for their sakes. But Amy... she was the little one... she never had been + very strong. When you're a poor man, you can't get the best food, even if + you know what it is. It ain't fit milk they sell for the children in this + city; and the baby died... I never knew what was the matter exactly. And + there was only one left... and me tramping the streets all day looking for + a job. How was I to take care of him, lady? How could I have helped it? + [His voice is breaking with emotion.] And oh, ma'am, he was the loveliest + little fellow... with hair like gold. And so well and strong. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Whispering.] What happened to him? + </p> + <p> + JIM. A street car killed him. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. Run over his chest, ma'am. I came home at night, and they told me, + and I near went out of my mind. Can you think what it was to see him... + with his eyes starting out of his head like, and his beautiful little body + all mashed flat... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Wildly.] Oh, spare me! + </p> + <p> + JIM. I told you it wouldn't be a pretty story. Do you think maybe you + wouldn't take to drink if you saw a sight like that? [Sinking back.] Since + then I've looked for work, but I haven't cared much. Only sometimes I've + thought I'd like to meet that young lawyer... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Starting up.] Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. Yes, it all began with him. But I don't know... they'd only jug me. + Anyway, tonight I was sitting in a saloon with two fellows that I had met. + One of them was a second-story man... a fellow that climbs up porches and + fire-escapes. And I heard him telling about a haul he'd made, and I said + to myself: "There's a job for me... I'll be a second-story man." And I + tried it... but you see I didn't do very well. I'm not good for much, I + guess, any more. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Enters left, revolver in hand; stands watching, unobserved.] Good + heavens! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. You can't tell. You may have better success than you look + for. + </p> + <p> + JIM. No... there's nothing can help me. I'm for the scrap heap. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Eagerly.] Wait and see. You are a man... you can be helped + yet... + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Coming forward.] What does this mean? + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Starts wildly and reaches for revolver.] Ha! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Raising weapon.] Holdup your hands! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Rushing forward.] No. Stop! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. What do you mean? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. I say stop! I promised him his freedom! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. My dear... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Give me the weapon. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Why... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Give it to me. [Takes revolver.] Now sit down. + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Has been staring wildly at AUSTIN.] My God, it's the lawyer fellow! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Yes, it is he. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. What does all this mean? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Look at this man! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Staring.] Why? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Don't you know him? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. No. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Look carefully. [Turns up light.] Have you never seen him + before? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Never that I can recall. What is his name? + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. I don't know. [To JIM.] What is it? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Humph! [Hesitating.] He could find out, anyway. Jim Faraday. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Faraday... it sounds familiar. + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Grimly.] You've served the trick on a good many, I guess. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [To Mrs. AUSTIN.] What does he mean? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Don't you remember the Sisters' Hospital? The fellow that had his eye + burned out in the big explosion? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Startled.] Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Sneeringly.] Ah, yes! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. You are the man? + </p> + <p> + JIM. I'm the man. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey, you took this man some paper to sign. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Yes... I remember. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Did you tell him what was in it? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Hesitates.] Why... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Answer me, please. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Why, my dear... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Did you tell him what was in it? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. But, my dear, it wasn't my business to tell him. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. I was representing the company. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN, I see. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. It was his place to see what was in it. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey! This man with one eye burned out, and not yet over + the accident? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. My dear, you don't understand... + </p> + <p> + JIM. [Wildly.] You didn't leave me to find out for myself. You lied to me! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. At least you permitted him to be misled. You did not tell him + the honest truth about the paper, and what would be the effect if he + signed it. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. My dear, you do not understand. I could not have done that. I was + the representative of the interests of the company. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. And that is the sort of work you do for them? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. That is the sort of work that has to be done. I cannot help it, + much as I would like to... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Wildly.] You have done that sort of thing before. And you + will do it again! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. My dear... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. And you take money for it! You bring that money home to me! + And you never told me how you got it! You make me sharer in your guilt! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Helen! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. This was how you earned your promotion! This was what you + came to me and boasted about! This was what we married on. This money ... + blood money... that you get for cheating this helpless laborer out of his + rights... out of everything he had in the world! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. My dear, you are out of your mind. You do not understand business. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. I understand it all... a child could understand! It is only + you... the rising young lawyer... that doesn't understand! Harvey, Harvey! + Do you know what you have done to this man... what you and I together have + done to him? We have wrecked his life! We have driven him to hell! We have + murdered his wife and his two children. We have turned him into a tramp + and a criminal. We have climbed to success on top of him... we have made + our fortune out of his blood! This house... this furniture... these + pictures... all this beauty and comfort... all this we have coined out of + his tears and agony... out of the lives of his sick wife and his two + little babies! And you have done this for me... you have made me the cause + of it... you have put the guilt of it upon my young life... a thing that I + must carry through the world with me until I die! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [Starting toward her.] Helen! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. No! Don't touch me! Speak to HIM! It is with him you have to + do! What have you to say to him? Don't think about me! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. My dear, be reasonable! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. What have you to say to him? That is what I want to know! + Harvey! Don't you understand it is your character that is up for judgment? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. It can't be as bad as you say. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Why can't it? Find out. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. [After a long pause, turns to Jim.] Faraday. + </p> + <p> + JIM. Well? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Is what my wife says true? + </p> + <p> + JIM. It's true. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. You got no damages from the company? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Didn't you fix it yourself? What do they pay you for? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. And had you no money saved? + </p> + <p> + JIM. My family had to live on it. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. And didn't you get your job back? + </p> + <p> + JIM. Until the shut-down, I did. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Oh, that's so. I forgot that. + </p> + <p> + JIM. Humph! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. That's too bad. I will have to do something for you. + </p> + <p> + JIM. Will that bring my wife and babies back to life? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Oh, your family died! My God... that's terrible! [A pause.] + Faraday, I can't help that. What can I do? Listen, man... you see how + unhappy my wife is... you don't want to make the thing impossible for me, + do you? + </p> + <p> + JIM. I ain't doing anything. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Be reasonable, and let me atone for the mistake. We'll say nothing + about this... about tonight. We'll start over, and I'll see that you get a + good job, and a fair chance. + </p> + <p> + Jim. Humph! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Will you do that? I'm honestly sorry about it. And perhaps if I + can give you some money for a start.. + </p> + <p> + [Takes out purse.] + </p> + <p> + JIM. Put up your money. It ain't likely you've got as much there as I'd + have got from the company. + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. Oh, is that it? Well, maybe that is fair. I'll fix it up with you + on that basis. + </p> + <p> + JIM. And what about the other fellows, hey? + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. The other fellows? + </p> + <p> + JIM. That you've done out the same way you done me. What about Dan + Kearney, that lost his life the day after.. and you and the rest of the + company sharks fixed it up so that his widow couldn't prove how it was + that he got hurt! + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey! + </p> + <p> + JIM. Yes, ma'am, they done that. And it ain't the first time they done it, + either... nor the last. And they've bought juries... and judges, too, I + reckon... there ain't much work of a dirty sort that the Empire Steel + Company ain't tried in this city... and you can bet their smart young + lawyers know all the game! I'm sorry for you, lady... you're white, and + I'd be glad to help you. But I've seen too much of the company and its + ways, and I won't lie down and lick its hand... not for any money! I ain't + so low I've got the value of my wife and two little babies figured out and + ready to hand. I reckon I'll stay on the outside of the fence and take my + chances. I'll wind up in jail, I suppose; but there's many a better man + than me done the same. So I guess I'll go, and we'll call it off. + </p> + <p> + [Starts away.] + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey! + </p> + <p> + AUSTIN. My dear... + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Is that all you can say to him? You will let him go? [To + JIM.] Listen to me. You are right. We can never undo what we have done. We + cannot repay you. But at least we must do what we can. We cannot let the + evil go on. You yourself have no right to do it... you have no right to + give up your life. + </p> + <p> + JIM. I see what you mean, lady; and I'm sorry for you. I'd help you if I + could. But it's too late... I know that. There can't anybody save me. I'm + rotten... I'm a boozer. I couldn't stop if I wanted to. And I ain't got + any reason to want to. I ain't in the running. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. [Stretching out her arms.] But what can I do? + </p> + <p> + JIM. You can look after them that ain't down. Look after them that your + husband and the rest of the company's sharks will do up tomorrow. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. No! + </p> + <p> + JIM. Oh, they'll do it! I know what you mean... you'll make him stop... + but they'll have another man in his place. It's a machine. .. it goes + right on. Yes, and you won't do as much as you think you will, either... + you'll think it over, and you won't go as far as you mean to now. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. No! No! + </p> + <p> + JIM. Ah, but you can't help it... you're in the mill, too. It's the class + you belong to. You can talk and feel sorry... but you ain't made to do + things. You have to have your houses and your fine dresses ... and you + couldn't live without them, and there'd be no use your trying. And that + means you have to live off my class... you have to ride on our backs. And + it don't much matter which part you ride on, as far as I can see. You'll + make your husband get a new job, maybe; but he'll do the same thing in + another way... only you won't find it out. But any way he gets his money + it'll come out of me and my kind. D'ye see? I do the work... I'm the man + underneath. I make the good things, and you get them. [A pause.] Good luck + to you. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. You are cruel. + </p> + <p> + JIM. Nothing of the kind. I've just told you the facts. I feel sorry for + you. I'd do anything I could for you. [Stretching out his hands.] See what + I've done! I've given you your husband's life. + </p> + <p> + MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + </p> + <p> + JIM. Yes, just that. You've no idea how many times I swore it... that I'd + kill him on sight... that I'd strangle the life out of him, if ever I laid + eyes on him again. I used to sit when I was half drunk, and brood over + it... my God, I even swore it by the body of my little boy! And I've got + my gun, and you've taken his away from him. And I don't shoot him. [A + pause.] I leave him to you. [Grimly.] You punish him. + </p> + <p> + [Exit right.] + </p> + <p> + [AUSTIN stretches out his arms to his wife. She sinks upon the table, + burying her head.] + </p> + <p> + CURTAIN + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Second-Story Man, by Upton Sinclair + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECOND-STORY MAN *** + +***** This file should be named 3302-h.htm or 3302-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/0/3302/ + + +Text file produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading team + +HTML file produced by David Widger + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Second-Story Man + +Author: Upton Sinclair + +Release Date: April 25, 2013 [EBook #3302] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECOND-STORY MAN *** + + + + +Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading team + + + + + + + +THE SECOND-STORY MAN + +By Upton Sinclair + + + +CHARACTERS + +JIM FARADAY: the second-story man. HARVEY AUSTIN: a lawyer. HELEN +AUSTIN: his wife. + +SCENE: Library of the Austin home. + +Time: 2 A.M. + + + +[The scene shows a luxuriously furnished room. In the centre is a +table with a lamp. To the right is the entrance into the front hall, +the front door of the house being visible. In the corner is a cabinet +of curios. In the rear is a large window opening on the street. Open +fire-place. There are two entrances at the left. There are +book-shelves, several easy-chairs, etc., in the room.] + +[At rise: The stage is empty, and the room is darkened except for the +fire in the grate. Sounds of breaking wood are heard at the window.] + + +JIM. [A roughly-dressed young fellow with a patch over one eye, enters +through window, stands gazing about nervously, looks into the hall, +etc., then flashes a dark lantern.] This looks pretty good. + +[Goes to mantel, takes silver cup and puts it into bag which he +carries; then exit left.] + +AUSTIN. [Enters at front door without much noise. Hangs up coat and +hat, and then stands in entrance. He is a smooth-faced young man in +evening dress.] All gone to bed, hey? + +[Takes out cigarette case and is about to light one, when a crash is +heard off left, as of a vase falling. He starts, then runs to table, +opens drawer, takes out revolver, and examines it, and steals off +through the other entrance at left, saying, "That noise seemed to come +from downstairs."] + +JIM. [Enters panic-stricken.] God! What a thing to do! [Gazes into +hall and upstairs--long pause.] Don't seem to have waked them. + +[Proceeds to examine room, stopping now and then to listen. After +placing several articles in bag, he goes to cabinet and tries to open +it. This takes some time, and while he is crouching in the shadow, +with his back to the entrance right, MRS. AUSTIN appears.] + +MRS. AUSTIN. [She is young and beautiful, and wears a night-robe and +dressing-gown. She stands looking about anxiously, and then goes to +centre of room, when she hears a sound from JIM, and starts wildly.] +Oh! + +JIM. [Leaps to feet, lifting revolver.] Hold up your hands! [She +starts back in terror.] Hold up your hands! + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Half complyingly.] I'm not armed. + +JIM. Never mind. [Long pause while they stare at each other.] I don't +want to hurt you, lady. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Calmly, after first shock.] No, I suppose not. You only +want to get away. + +JIM. That's right! + +MRS. AUSTIN. Very well, you may go. + +JIM. And you yell for the police the moment I get out of the door, +hey? + +MRS. AUSTIN. No, I don't want the police. I don't believe in sending +men to jail. + +JIM. Humph! + +[Another pause.] + +MRS. AUSTIN. Why do you do this? + +JIM. It's the way I live. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Isn't it a rather trying kind of work? + +JIM. It ain't all play, ma'am. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Smiling.] I should think it would be hard on the nerves. +[After another pause.] Is there no honest way you can earn a living? + +JIM. I don't know. Maybe so. I got tired of looking for it. + +MRS. AUSTIN. I might help you if you would let me. + +JIM. I ain't asking any help. + +MRS. AUSTIN. No, but I'm offering it. [After a pause.] Have you been +doing this sort of thing very long? + +JIM. No. + +MRS. AUSTIN. How long? + +JIM. [After hesitation.] This is my first job. + +MRS. AUSTIN. What! You don't mean that? + +JIM. It happens to be true, ma'am. + +MRS. AUSTIN. What made you do it? + +JIM. It's a long story. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Tell it to me. + +JIM. It ain't just a good time for story telling. + +MRS. AUSTIN. You are afraid of me? I have no quarrel with you. I don't +care anything for the things you have in the bag; and, besides, I +suppose you won't take them now. I'm only sorry to see a man going +wrong, and I'd like to help if I could. I'll play fair, I give you my +word of honor. + +JIM. There ain't much honor in this business. + +MRS. AUSTIN. No, I suppose not. But you can trust me. Put up that gun +and talk to me. + +JIM. [Surlily.] It can't do any good. + +MRS. AUSTIN. It can't do any harm. Put up that revolver, and tell me +what's the matter. + +JIM. You'll let me go when I want to? No tricks! + +MRS. AUSTIN. I give you my word. + +JIM. All right. I'm a fool, I guess, but I'll trust you. [Puts +revolver in pocket.] Sit down, ma'am. It must be cold for you. This is +a queer kind of layout for a burglar. [Sits opposite her.] You heard +that racket I made in the other room? + +MRS. AUSTIN. Yes. What was it? + +JIM. Some kind of a jar. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Oh, my Greek vase. Well, never mind... it was an +imitation. What were you doing? + +JIM. I was looking for something to eat. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + +JIM. It would have been the first thing I've had since the day before +yesterday. + +MRS. AUSTIN. What's the matter? + +JIM. No work. [A pause.] I suppose you'll give me the old gag... +there's plenty of work for a man that's willing. + +MRS. AUSTIN. No, I happen to have studied, and I know better than +that. Else I should have fainted when I saw you... instead of +sitting here talking to you.... Do you drink? + +JIM. Yes, but I didn't use to. Any man would drink... that went +through what I did. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Are you married? + +JIM. Yes... I was married. My wife is dead. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Any children? + +JIM. Two. Both dead. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + +JIM. It ain't a pretty story, ma'am. It's a poor man's story. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Tell it to me. + +JIM. All right. It'll spoil your sleep for the rest of the night, I +guess, but you can have it. [A pause.] A year ago I was what they call +an honest working man. I had a home and a happy family; and I didn't +drink any too much, and I did well... even if the work was hard. I +was in the steel works here in town. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Startled.] The Empire Steel Company? + +JIM. Yes. Why? + +MRS. AUSTIN. Nothing... only I happen to know some people there. Go +on. + +JIM. It's no child's work there, ma'am. There's an awful lot of +accidents... more than the world has any idea of. I've seen a man +sent to hell in the snapping of a finger. And they don't treat them +fair... they hush things up. There are things you wouldn't believe +if I told them to you. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Tell them. + +JIM. I've seen a man there get caught in one of the cranes. They +stopped the machinery, but they couldn't get him out. They'd have had +to take the crane apart, and that would have cost several days, and it +was rush time, and the man was only a poor Hunkie, and there was no +one to know or care. So they started up the crane, and cut his leg +off. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Oh, horrible! + +JIM. It's the sort of thing you couldn't believe unless you saw it. +But I saw it. I didn't care, though. I was a fool. And then my time +came. + +MRS. AUSTIN. How do you mean? + +JIM. A blast furnace blew out, and a piece of slag hit me here, where +you see that patch. If it wasn't for the patch you'd see something +that would make you sick. It was a pain you couldn't tell about... +it was a couple of days before I knew where I was. And the first thing +when I came to my senses... in the hospital, it was... there was +a lawyer chap with a paper waiting for me. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [In agitation.] A lawyer? + +JIM. Yes, ma'am. Company representative, you know. And I was to sign +the paper... it was a receipt for the hospital expenses... the +operation and all that... you see they had to take out what was +left of my eye. And of course I couldn't see... I had to sign where +he told me to. And when I got well, I found they had trapped me into +signing a release. + +MRS. AUSTIN. A release? + +JIM. I had accepted the hospital expenses as a release for all the +company owed me. And I couldn't get any damages... and my eye was +gone, and all the weeks without any wages. + +MRS. AUSTIN. My God! + +JIM. And they turned me out so weak I could hardly walk; and... + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Greatly excited.] Who was this man? + +JIM. Which? + +MRS. AUSTIN. This lawyer? + +JIM. I never heard his name. He was a young fellow... handsome... +smooth-faced... + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Whispering.] Oh! + +JIM. Ah, they don't mind it... they're smooth. They do that all the +time. It's what they get their pay for. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Covering her face with her hands.] Oh, stop! + +JIM. What's the matter? + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Looking up with white face.] Nothing. Go on. + +JIM. It was two months before I could work at all. And the rent came +due, and they turned us out... it was winter-time, and my wife +caught a cold, and it turned to pneumonia, and she died. That's all of +that. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Go on. + +JIM. And then, you see, the panic came... and the mills shut down... +sudden as that. The lawyer told me the company would see I always +had a job, but that was only to get me to sign. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Feverishly.] Did you try him? + +JIM. I went to the office and tried; but they wouldn't even let me see +him. + +MRS. AUSTIN. I see. And then? + +JIM. Then I went out to look for work. I had the two babies, you know +... and God only knows how I loved those babies. I said I'd fight +and win out for their sakes. But Amy... she was the little one... +she never had been very strong. When you're a poor man, you can't +get the best food, even if you know what it is. It ain't fit milk they +sell for the children in this city; and the baby died... I never +knew what was the matter exactly. And there was only one left... +and me tramping the streets all day looking for a job. How was I to +take care of him, lady? How could I have helped it? [His voice is +breaking with emotion.] And oh, ma'am, he was the loveliest little +fellow... with hair like gold. And so well and strong. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Whispering.] What happened to him? + +JIM. A street car killed him. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + +JIM. Run over his chest, ma'am. I came home at night, and they told +me, and I near went out of my mind. Can you think what it was to see +him... with his eyes starting out of his head like, and his +beautiful little body all mashed flat... + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Wildly.] Oh, spare me! + +JIM. I told you it wouldn't be a pretty story. Do you think maybe you +wouldn't take to drink if you saw a sight like that? [Sinking back.] +Since then I've looked for work, but I haven't cared much. Only +sometimes I've thought I'd like to meet that young lawyer... + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Starting up.] Oh! + +JIM. Yes, it all began with him. But I don't know... they'd only +jug me. Anyway, tonight I was sitting in a saloon with two fellows +that I had met. One of them was a second-story man... a fellow that +climbs up porches and fire-escapes. And I heard him telling about a +haul he'd made, and I said to myself: "There's a job for me... I'll +be a second-story man." And I tried it... but you see I didn't do +very well. I'm not good for much, I guess, any more. + +AUSTIN. [Enters left, revolver in hand; stands watching, unobserved.] +Good heavens! + +MRS. AUSTIN. You can't tell. You may have better success than you look +for. + +JIM. No... there's nothing can help me. I'm for the scrap heap. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Eagerly.] Wait and see. You are a man... you can be +helped yet... + +AUSTIN. [Coming forward.] What does this mean? + +JIM. [Starts wildly and reaches for revolver.] Ha! + +AUSTIN. [Raising weapon.] Holdup your hands! + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Rushing forward.] No. Stop! + +AUSTIN. What do you mean? + +MRS. AUSTIN. I say stop! I promised him his freedom! + +AUSTIN. My dear... + +MRS. AUSTIN. Give me the weapon. + +AUSTIN. Why... + +MRS. AUSTIN. Give it to me. [Takes revolver.] Now sit down. + +JIM. [Has been staring wildly at AUSTIN.] My God, it's the lawyer +fellow! + +MRS. AUSTIN. Yes, it is he. + +AUSTIN. What does all this mean? + +MRS. AUSTIN. Look at this man! + +AUSTIN. [Staring.] Why? + +MRS. AUSTIN. Don't you know him? + +AUSTIN. No. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Look carefully. [Turns up light.] Have you never seen him +before? + +AUSTIN. Never that I can recall. What is his name? + +MRS. AUSTIN. I don't know. [To JIM.] What is it? + +JIM. Humph! [Hesitating.] He could find out, anyway. Jim Faraday. + +AUSTIN. Faraday... it sounds familiar. + +JIM. [Grimly.] You've served the trick on a good many, I guess. + +AUSTIN. [To Mrs. AUSTIN.] What does he mean? + +JIM. Don't you remember the Sisters' Hospital? The fellow that had his +eye burned out in the big explosion? + +AUSTIN. [Startled.] Oh! + +JIM. [Sneeringly.] Ah, yes! + +AUSTIN. You are the man? + +JIM. I'm the man. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey, you took this man some paper to sign. + +AUSTIN. Yes... I remember. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Did you tell him what was in it? + +AUSTIN. [Hesitates.] Why... + +MRS. AUSTIN. Answer me, please. + +AUSTIN. Why, my dear... + +MRS. AUSTIN. Did you tell him what was in it? + +AUSTIN. But, my dear, it wasn't my business to tell him. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + +AUSTIN. I was representing the company. + +MRS. AUSTIN, I see. + +AUSTIN. It was his place to see what was in it. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey! This man with one eye burned out, and not yet +over the accident? + +AUSTIN. My dear, you don't understand... + +JIM. [Wildly.] You didn't leave me to find out for myself. You lied to +me! + +MRS. AUSTIN. At least you permitted him to be misled. You did not tell +him the honest truth about the paper, and what would be the effect if +he signed it. + +AUSTIN. My dear, you do not understand. I could not have done that. I +was the representative of the interests of the company. + +MRS. AUSTIN. And that is the sort of work you do for them? + +AUSTIN. That is the sort of work that has to be done. I cannot help +it, much as I would like to... + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Wildly.] You have done that sort of thing before. And +you will do it again! + +AUSTIN. My dear... + +MRS. AUSTIN. And you take money for it! You bring that money home to +me! And you never told me how you got it! You make me sharer in your +guilt! + +AUSTIN. Helen! + +MRS. AUSTIN. This was how you earned your promotion! This was what you +came to me and boasted about! This was what we married on. This money +... blood money... that you get for cheating this helpless +laborer out of his rights... out of everything he had in the world! + +AUSTIN. My dear, you are out of your mind. You do not understand +business. + +MRS. AUSTIN. I understand it all... a child could understand! It is +only you... the rising young lawyer... that doesn't understand! +Harvey, Harvey! Do you know what you have done to this man... what +you and I together have done to him? We have wrecked his life! We have +driven him to hell! We have murdered his wife and his two children. We +have turned him into a tramp and a criminal. We have climbed to +success on top of him... we have made our fortune out of his blood! +This house... this furniture... these pictures... all this +beauty and comfort... all this we have coined out of his tears and +agony... out of the lives of his sick wife and his two little +babies! And you have done this for me... you have made me the cause +of it... you have put the guilt of it upon my young life... a +thing that I must carry through the world with me until I die! + +AUSTIN. [Starting toward her.] Helen! + +MRS. AUSTIN. No! Don't touch me! Speak to HIM! It is with him you have +to do! What have you to say to him? Don't think about me! + +AUSTIN. My dear, be reasonable! + +MRS. AUSTIN. What have you to say to him? That is what I want to know! +Harvey! Don't you understand it is your character that is up for +judgment? + +AUSTIN. It can't be as bad as you say. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Why can't it? Find out. + +AUSTIN. [After a long pause, turns to Jim.] Faraday. + +JIM. Well? + +AUSTIN. Is what my wife says true? + +JIM. It's true. + +AUSTIN. You got no damages from the company? + +JIM. Didn't you fix it yourself? What do they pay you for? + +AUSTIN. And had you no money saved? + +JIM. My family had to live on it. + +AUSTIN. And didn't you get your job back? + +JIM. Until the shut-down, I did. + +AUSTIN. Oh, that's so. I forgot that. + +JIM. Humph! + +AUSTIN. That's too bad. I will have to do something for you. + +JIM. Will that bring my wife and babies back to life? + +AUSTIN. Oh, your family died! My God... that's terrible! [A pause.] +Faraday, I can't help that. What can I do? Listen, man... you see +how unhappy my wife is... you don't want to make the thing +impossible for me, do you? + +JIM. I ain't doing anything. + +AUSTIN. Be reasonable, and let me atone for the mistake. We'll say +nothing about this... about tonight. We'll start over, and I'll see +that you get a good job, and a fair chance. + +Jim. Humph! + +AUSTIN. Will you do that? I'm honestly sorry about it. And perhaps if +I can give you some money for a start.. + +[Takes out purse.] + +JIM. Put up your money. It ain't likely you've got as much there as +I'd have got from the company. + +AUSTIN. Oh, is that it? Well, maybe that is fair. I'll fix it up with +you on that basis. + +JIM. And what about the other fellows, hey? + +AUSTIN. The other fellows? + +JIM. That you've done out the same way you done me. What about Dan +Kearney, that lost his life the day after.. and you and the rest of +the company sharks fixed it up so that his widow couldn't prove how it +was that he got hurt! + +MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey! + +JIM. Yes, ma'am, they done that. And it ain't the first time they done +it, either... nor the last. And they've bought juries... and +judges, too, I reckon... there ain't much work of a dirty sort that +the Empire Steel Company ain't tried in this city... and you can +bet their smart young lawyers know all the game! I'm sorry for you, +lady... you're white, and I'd be glad to help you. But I've seen +too much of the company and its ways, and I won't lie down and lick +its hand... not for any money! I ain't so low I've got the value of +my wife and two little babies figured out and ready to hand. I reckon +I'll stay on the outside of the fence and take my chances. I'll wind +up in jail, I suppose; but there's many a better man than me done the +same. So I guess I'll go, and we'll call it off. + +[Starts away.] + +MRS. AUSTIN. Harvey! + +AUSTIN. My dear... + +MRS. AUSTIN. Is that all you can say to him? You will let him go? [To +JIM.] Listen to me. You are right. We can never undo what we have +done. We cannot repay you. But at least we must do what we can. We +cannot let the evil go on. You yourself have no right to do it... +you have no right to give up your life. + +JIM. I see what you mean, lady; and I'm sorry for you. I'd help you if +I could. But it's too late... I know that. There can't anybody save +me. I'm rotten... I'm a boozer. I couldn't stop if I wanted to. And +I ain't got any reason to want to. I ain't in the running. + +MRS. AUSTIN. [Stretching out her arms.] But what can I do? + +JIM. You can look after them that ain't down. Look after them that +your husband and the rest of the company's sharks will do up tomorrow. + +MRS. AUSTIN. No! + +JIM. Oh, they'll do it! I know what you mean... you'll make him +stop... but they'll have another man in his place. It's a machine. +.. it goes right on. Yes, and you won't do as much as you think you +will, either... you'll think it over, and you won't go as far as +you mean to now. + +MRS. AUSTIN. No! No! + +JIM. Ah, but you can't help it... you're in the mill, too. It's the +class you belong to. You can talk and feel sorry... but you ain't +made to do things. You have to have your houses and your fine dresses +... and you couldn't live without them, and there'd be no use your +trying. And that means you have to live off my class... you have to +ride on our backs. And it don't much matter which part you ride on, as +far as I can see. You'll make your husband get a new job, maybe; but +he'll do the same thing in another way... only you won't find it +out. But any way he gets his money it'll come out of me and my kind. +D'ye see? I do the work... I'm the man underneath. I make the good +things, and you get them. [A pause.] Good luck to you. + +MRS. AUSTIN. You are cruel. + +JIM. Nothing of the kind. I've just told you the facts. I feel sorry +for you. I'd do anything I could for you. [Stretching out his hands.] +See what I've done! I've given you your husband's life. + +MRS. AUSTIN. Oh! + +JIM. Yes, just that. You've no idea how many times I swore it... +that I'd kill him on sight... that I'd strangle the life out of +him, if ever I laid eyes on him again. I used to sit when I was half +drunk, and brood over it... my God, I even swore it by the body of +my little boy! And I've got my gun, and you've taken his away from +him. And I don't shoot him. [A pause.] I leave him to you. [Grimly.] +You punish him. + +[Exit right.] + +[AUSTIN stretches out his arms to his wife. 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