"that you'd be picking a fight with yourself?" "You follow my logic?" "Every interesting step of the way." "This is really excellent lemonade." "I must have the formula for this elixir." "I'll pay you if you wish." "I can very easily." "My family's very well fixed, ever since my grandfather developed and patented air." "Oh, that's very clever of your grandfather." "Not at all." "He was simply sagacious enough to see that all people must breathe." "Yes, Mrs. Vallon, I have definitely decided that all the women must surely look like you." "And so I hope you won't find it an imposition if I borrow your face as a model for the distaff side." "Not at all, Mr. Henried." "I'm very happy you feel this way." "Thank you, my dear." "And Mr. McLain," "I hope you won't mind if I don't use your face as the model for the male half of the world's population." "You're the right size, but your face..." "Well, it seems as if you've been struck a blow on your nose at one time or another and you've a slight scar over your left eye, and your face is just not suitable, I'm afraid." "Yeah, that's too bad." "When are you going to turn this thing loose, this secret weapon?" "Oh, well, I've not yet decided that, because, you see, there is one slight flaw in my secret weapon." "If all men and women look exactly alike, how could husbands and wives recognize their rightful mates?" "Yes?" "I fear some enormous mistakes would be made." "People going into wrong houses, husbands quarreling with the wrong wives." "In short, an appalling amount of domestic discord." "Well, you see my problem, Mrs. Vallon?" "Let us say, for instance, that you were married to Mr. McLain here, and I was married to your exact duplicate." "Well, the possibilities are downright hideous." "You see my problem, Mrs. Vallon?" "I certainly do." "So, you've met our Mr. Henried." "He's harmless." "Let me talk to him." "It's for you." "Pardon me." "Mr. Henried, we have a very important mission for you to perform." "Thank you, Chief." "Yes, I shall leave at once." "Well, those people will get into trouble." "The White House has another problem." "That means I must fly to Washington at once in my new jet plane." "But on second thought, I may just fly over without it." "At this point, a certain investigator is entitled to something stronger than lemonade." "And the investigator's girl." "A great deal of our information comes from people we would never have found." "they seek us out, they tell us something for the good of their country." "Come in." " Mr. Lexiter?" " Yes." "I'm Jim McLain." "This is Mal Baxter." "House Un-American Activities Committee investigators." " Oh, yes." " You wrote a letter to Washington?" "Yes." "Gentlemen, this is Mrs. Lexiter." "How do you do?" "Sit down, please, gentlemen." "Mama, will you go in and bring out that newspaper, please?" "It's awfully hard on Mama." "It's hard on me, too." "Believe that, please." "It seems so far back to think when we were first married, when we came away from Poland, the hard country." "We came to New York." "Mama was carrying the little baby in her arms then." "In New York, we..." "I'm sorry, gentlemen, I'm just talking too much." "Well, take your time, Mr. Lexiter." "Gentlemen, I wrote you that letter because my son is a Communist." "Our son, Papa." "We came out here to the West Coast." "In San Francisco, I worked on the docks." "That was hard." "But we were free and we lived." "In high school, our boy was bright." "A prize he got, up there on the stage with everybody looking at him." "Mama cried." "The prize was a trip to Russia." "Other students went." "Then came his letters from Russia." "He wanted to stay there a while, another year more." "He wanted to study." "When he came back, he was different." "Then I heard from the office where he was working that he'd been giving out information on the sailing and docking of ships." "He was a Communist." "I didn't argue with him." "I showed him the door." "Mr. McLain, I was raised in the land of the pogrom." "I know how useless it is to try to reason with those heartless men." "Men that have turned their backs on God." "This was just before the war?" "Yes, sir. 1940." " You haven't seen him since?" " No." "After that I brought Mama over here, where we could retire on my pension, live free in the sun." "Since then, we haven't seen him or heard from him." "Well, thank you very much..." "But this..." "This, we have seen." "That's why I wrote you the letter." " This is your son?" " Yes." "Now he calls himself White." "He's probably ashamed of his real name." "But that's all right, I'm ashamed of him." " Well, can we keep this paper?" " Why, surely." "Well, thanks a lot." "I know how hard it was for you to..." "Mr. McLain, Mama and I are just living out here on our union pension, free and in the sun, and we..." "It was my duty." "We appreciate what you've done." "If I could only pick a fight with this real tough Ed White on my own time..." "That we can't do." "Chief Liu put a 24-hour tail on Ed White." "So then we tailed this mug to the Royal." "He went in one door, came out the other, changed cabs three times." "We stayed with him till he finally went to this warehouse." "Since then we've taken pictures of everybody that went in or out." "That's about it, Chief." "Good job, Gallagher." "Ed White led us to seven out of ten of the secret cell." "We went to work on the missing three." "Hello?" "Yes." "Just a moment." "For you!" "Female!" "Oh?" "As long as I'm spying, I'm going to listen." "Or maybe I'm just jealous." "Hello?" "Who?" "Remember me?" "Oh, I never forget a beautiful blonde." "Bag, I'll bet." "A certain gentleman with which I had a date was called away on very important business." "So, I thought you'd jump at the chance to take me to the Royal for dinner." "Well, thank you very much, but I can't make it." "I have a date with a maiden aunt." "I wouldn't want to hurt the old girl's feelings." "Don't hurt my feelings, 76." "I've got something for you about Nomaka." "Well, I'll send a man over right away to pick it up." "Nope, you gotta bribe me." "Pick me up at my place." "I'm sorry, Nancy." "This woman has some information on Nomaka." "You'll have to have dinner alone." "Not necessarily." "Just because I'm not dining with you doesn't mean I have to eat alone." "Especially while you're out with a beautiful blonde." "A bag." "Oh, quick switch." "Give me a description." "Oh, she doesn't look like anything in particular." "Listen to the trained investigator who remembers every detail." "Now, just a minute." "Suppose you come home late some night and give me some mysterious story about how you're on top-secret business and you can't tell me for security reasons." "Oh, I don't think I'm going to like being married to an investigator." "Me, I'm gonna like you being married to an investigator." "Good-bye." "Bye." "I hope you appreciate the fact that I'm showing you the charm of our island." "But since this is the first time you're over here," "I thought I ought to show you how we kamaainas live." "I want to show you, 76, it's just wonderful." "You've shown me 18 saloons I couldn't possibly have found in Altoona, Pennsylvania or Lansing, Michigan." "Now, how about giving me that letter?" "In due time, 76, in due time." "Take it easy." "Relax." "You always get the job done better if you take it real slow and easy." "You know, over here in Hawaii we do things much slower than they do on the mainland." "What's that mean?" "Well, it's hard to say in English." "It means to take it easy, never to get angry at anybody." "Why don't you keep your big fat feet out of the aisle?" "So that's what it means." "Easy living and good manners." "Yeah, I see what you mean." "Now, could we eat?" "Oh, not just yet." "One more little drinkie and then I'll take you to a real quaint little restaurant." "Don't worry." "We'll get everything done." "Just remember..." "Take it slow, take it easy." "Oh, let's not order yet." "Bring us another round." "I'm hungry." "Supposing we order now and eat after this round." "Nope." "I like to get a little glow before I eat." "Okay." "Why don't you stop playing games and give me that letter?" "Because I like playing games, old 76." "And if I give you the letter, you might blow, and the deal was for a dinner." "You think I'm a heel?" "Oh, 76, what I think about you has to be said in the dark." "Give me a quarter." "I gotta phone." "Has the lady decided yet?" "On food?" "No." "I don't think the lady's mind is on food." "I think you're right." "Shall I bring some more drinks?" "Not unless we have to." "This is the most perfect evening I've had since my return from tour of duty in Guam." "Really?" "I mean it." "You're so lovely." "No." "You know, a guy gets pretty tired of brunettes." " You think so?" " I know so." "Well, hello, Jim." "How do you do?" "Badly, thanks." "As long as I introduced you two, which I'm beginning to think was a mistake," "I'm entitled to make a speech." "It concerns the Navy." "When I was a Marine, the Navy kept putting me on boats and taking me places." "My bunk was always too short." "The Navy would take me to an island someplace, put me on a beach where a lot of angry people would start shooting at me." "And when the shooting died down, the Navy would put me back on a boat where the bunk was too short, and take me to another island, where more people would shoot at me." "Now, during this I became very annoyed with the Navy, but I kept my temper." "I did not strike even one sailor." "However, there is a limit to my patience." "And if I have any more trouble with the Navy, you are nominated." "Shall we dance?" "Oh, yes, let's." "The music is divine." "Hey, what's the idea of table hopping?" "When a gentleman's out with me, I don't go for no table hopping from him." "You're my date tonight, and don't you forget it." "You men are all alike." "You see a good-Iooking dame and there you are." " Let's eat." " Let's have one more round." " Steak and potatoes." " Please?" "Sliced tomatoes." "Listen, if I give you the letter now, can we have one more round?" "Yeah." "Another round." "Nomaka must have wrote it to these people in Japan, and they didn't live at that address, so it came back." " You opened this?" " Well, sure." "The postal authorities get very peevish about people opening other people's mail." "There's a law." "So?" "I'm a woman, and women are curious." "Didn't do you much good." "No." "It's written in Japanese." "So here you are." "So, sure." "So here I am." "I knew it." "It come to me just like a dream." "I was just passing the buoy off of Diamond Head, and it come to me just like I was in a transom." "And I says to myself, "She had that look in her eye."" "So I gives the rudder a full turn and brings my good old garbage scow back to the wharf." " Please, not so loud." " Blow, bud." "I'll probably lose my contract." "For 20 years, I've been living up to my contract." "For 20 years I've been hauling Honolulu's garbage out to sea." "My reputation, right down the drain." "Go down the drain with it." "It's like I was stabbed right through the heart." "You maybe will be." "You must keep quiet." "Don't waste time." "Call the bouncers." "I want to fight." "All right, I will." "My name is McLain." "I can explain this." "Yeah, your name will be mud if you wanna step out in the parking lot with me." "I don't." "It's been delightful knowing you two lovebirds." "Oh, yellow, huh?" "Very." "Get him out of here." "Well, at least I've still got one pleasure left in life." "Don't twist that thumb so hard." "You'll break it again." "So long, 76." "Why didn't you bring your friends over?" "They seemed charming." "Yes, she's a Sunday School teacher, and he has something to do with transportation." "As a hobby, he bites silver dollars in half." "So nice that you could join us again for just a minute." "I'm looking forward to seeing you again sometime." "You know, Clint is one of the bright boys of Naval Intelligence." "Expert on Asiatic languages." "He reads, writes and speaks Japanese." "And fifteen dialects of Chinese." "Also Tibetan, Manchu, Siamese, and six or eight others which modesty forbids me to mention." "Translate this." "You bring it in to the office first thing in the morning, and I'll be glad to." "Thank you." "That I will." "And I'll tell Admiral Clay that it's probably some clue to a naval sabotage, that you wanted me to wait until morning." "Ouch." "The music is divine." "Shall we dance?" "Pretty smug, huh?" "Sure, I'm smug." "The greatest girl in the world's stuck on me." "Mr. McLain?" "I asked you to come out here today because I thought you could be of some assistance to us." "Well, I had hopes it'd be the other way around." "We're a security agency, Mr. McLain, and I think you've stumbled onto something that concerns us." "This Nomaka was mixed up in a sabotage operation involving a U.S. Naval vessel." "One of the crew members who was killed was a boyhood friend of Nomaka's, and they swore some brotherhood in a Shinto shrine." "We know when, where, and how this sabotage occurred, but we don't know exactly how many others are involved in it." "And, well, we're still working." "Well, you wanted me to do something?" "Yes." "This woman." "This landlady." "How well do you know her?" "Not well." "Sir, if I may say so, I think McLain is being overly modest." "When I observed them together, she seemed quite..." "Well, "taken" is the word." "Do you think that you could worm your way into her confidence?" "I'm sure he could, sir." "I wasn't addressing you, Commander." "I'm sorry, sir." "I only spoke because I am familiar with Jim's excessive modesty." "Really, a certain type of woman has always found him most attractive." "This is that type of woman." "I see." "Will you send Lieutenant Edwards in, please?" "Well, McLain?" "Well, I'll do anything I can, sir." "Fine." "Commander Grey will brief you in detail." "Lieutenant Edwards, I'm assigning you to this case to assist McLain." "Stay within our jurisdiction." "Yes, sir." " Yes, Admiral?" " Captain LeYton." "In going through the report on the Nomaka case..." "I have visitors, sir." "I'll be right in." "If you gentlemen will excuse me." "Excuse me." "I'll get my desk cleaned off and be right with you." "Now, this is the same envelope, but there's a dummy letter in it." "You take it back to your innamorata and tell her to give it to anybody who asks for it." "We'll have the house covered." "Oh, wait." "I suggest that you spend as much time as possible with the lady." "You know, take her out to nightclubs and picture shows, that sort of thing." " You suggest that, huh?" " Yes, I do." "Well, my counter-suggestion is that you'd look real cute with a lump on your head." "Oh, Jim." "Jim, all kidding aside, this was a real find." "If we can rouse Nomaka from his stupor long enough to interrogate him, we might have something big." "Well, this Edwards, has he been assigned to me to help me, or as a watch dog?" "Oh, he'll help you out." "Okay." " Hi, 76." " Hello." "What're you doing in our neighborhood, huh?" "I wanna ask you to do me a little favor." "Anything." "I found out I couldn't use this letter." "Will you give it to anybody who might call for it?" "Don't tell them I had it." "Oh, sure, 76." "But you better not come around no more." "I got a new deal with Olaf." "He's taking me along on all the scow trips." "Guess he don't want to be lonesome." "No." "I think he just wants to make sure you won't be." "Will you do what I asked?" "Sure." "But you better not come around here." "I don't want to hurt Olaf's feelings." "But don't get Olaf wrong." "He's just a big overgrown kid." "He loses his temper a lot, but he always apologizes." "Where you going?" "I'm gonna save Olaf an apology." "I got a phone call this morning." "I don't know anything about it." "Oh, I'm afraid this'll do it." "That's it." " Well, answer the phone." " I'm winning." " I'll count your hand for you." " Oh, no." "Hello?" "Oh, yes, Chief, he's here." "Hello, Chief." "What's the matter?" "Jim, what's the matter?" "Mal's dead." "Hello, Jim." "Sorry." "After you've made your identification," "I'd like to get some information for an obituary." "You know, married, age, any kids, war record, that sort of thing." "obituary!" "Name, so and so." "Age, such and such." "Does this tell us about a Young lawyer who went in the Marine Corps, who lost eight feet of intestines in Korea, gut-shot bY a grenade made in Czechoslovakia of scrap and by machines that had been shipped from the States to somewhere in Western Europe" "and then transshipped behind the Iron Curtain?" "Does this give You a picture of a guy who let his own teeth go because his kid needed bands on hers?" "okay." "Malcolm Baxter, 34, married, two children, ex-Marine." "There's Your obituary." "Is that Mal Baxter?" "Yeah, that's Mal Baxter." "I'm sorry, Jim." "Yeah." "What happened?" "Sergeant Campbell will give you the report." ""The body of the deceased was discovered by Patrolman Gardner" ""of Sixth Precinct, this department." ""The body was floating in a landlocked lagoon" ""behind the Halekulani Hotel." ""The time was 0913." ""The lungs were free of water," ""which precludes the possibility of death by drowning." ""The Medical Examiner requests" ""that the Detective Bureau, in its interrogation of relatives," ""investigate the past cardiac history of the deceased," ""as there is the possibility deceased suffered a heart attack while intoxicated" ""and fell into the lagoon."" "This was found on him." "Did he have a heart condition?" "Yeah, he had a heart condition." "He tried to keep quiet about it, but it finally got him in trouble." "The Homicide Squad and I checked every lead." "There weren't many." "Three weeks." "Night and day." "We came up with nothing." "Sorry, baby." "Now, don't tell me you were working late at the office." "Just that." "I walked 100 miles of waterfront asking guys if they knew guys." "The French fries are all soggy." "And I was so anxious to show you what a comfy housewife I'd be." "You're comfy without French fries." "Put them on, I'll eat them." "Okoli Maluna club." "Good food." "And the security agencies had been listening to some very interesting conversations." "I didn't tell nancy we were on business." "I wonder what he's coming here for?" "Probably just a coincidence." "I am completely skeptical about coincidences." "Could you pass the ketchup, please?" "Will you pass the ketchup, please?" "I said, the ketchup." "Oh, certainly." "Well, baby, I spend more time in Washington than anywhere else." "It's crowded, but I think we can find a place." "Do you mind living there?" "Home is where your heart is." "That's from Swinburne, or somebody." "I got orders." "To go back?" "I guess this is just another blind alley." "Washington ran all our findings through the sieve and decided it came to nothing." "The Hawaiian investigation is being postponed indefinitely." "But you thought you were doing so well." "I talked like I was doing better than I really was, part of the act." "Well?" "Well, do you want to come back with me, or would you rather wait around a few days and straighten out your personal affairs?" "I don't got no personal affairs but you." "Then you'll leave with me?" "Good girl." "Oh, I'm not being noble." "I've seen those airline stewardesses." "I don't want you traveling alone." "Put your fingers in your ears." "Close your eyes." "Everybody gets vibrations." "That character wasn't deaf." "I like you." "Well, I was in the hopes it was more than that." "Love you?" "Of course, but that's different." "I love you because your heart works, and I like you because your head works." "Because you're sharp and clever and real competent in your job." "You know, it's wonderful when a woman has love and all that, too, all rolled up together in the same guy." "Let's get out of here." "I'm having great difficulty keeping my hands off of you." "Is that a threat, sir?" "Yes." "I guess this is just another blind alley." "Washington ran all our findings through the sieve and decided it came to nothing, so the Hawaiian investigation has been postponed indefinitely." "That's splendid." "I told you we were well covered, that they'd find nothing." "Do not be more of a nuisance than necessary, Doctor." "We are one step away from disaster." "But I don't understand." "obviously, You do not understand." "The most primitive of police tricks." "And done in such a clumsy fashion." "This McLain is an exceedingly competent operative." "He had his reasons for doing this in such a manner." "I wish I knew those reasons." "Baxter." "What had you to do with Baxter's death?" "He died almost immediately after the injection of sodium pentothal." "You killed this Baxter?" "I injected 0.3 grams of sodium pentothal, then tried to interrogate him." "A certain number of people are allergic to this dosage, and he must have been." "Quiet." "Now we come to the real stumbling block." "This fool has committed a murder." "No, no, wait." "There might be other ways of phrasing it, Doctor, but you have committed a murder and put the Party in jeopardy." "How was I to know that..." "Doctor, try and look a little less surprised and listen to me attentively." "You will arrange a meeting of the Seventh Cell." "Pay a great deal more attention than seems usual with you to security." "That is all, Doctor." "You may go." "I far prefer to work with mercenaries." "You recite the obvious." "These domesticated Party members, these dedicated Communists, they make me sick." "We need them until we take power, then liquidate." "I'll report that you handled this matter with your usual finesse." "A note of innuendo, my friend?" "I am not given to innuendo, friend." "Hilda?" "Nobody gets down, you understand?" "Nobody but Mr. Sturak." "If anybody gets curious, tell them it's a private party." "Mr. Briggs." "Hi." "I didn't expect you home." "I was just about to leave." "Fix us a couple of drinks, will you, Nancy?" "Sit down." "No, thanks." "I've got a date." "What'd you call me about?" "I want you to stay on tap." "What's the pitch?" "Story breaking?" "Could be." "Tell you all about it in a minute." "Mr. Sturak." "Gentlemen." " Hello." " Hello." " How are you?" " How do you do?" "Edwin White, Comrade." "Oh, yes, a rising young man in the labor union?" " We have good reports of you." " Thank you, Comrade." "You know our bacteriologist, Mortimer." "And this is Whelan, Labor Relations Counselor for one of the bigger interests in the Islands." "I'm well aware of your activities, Mr. Whelan." "Thank you." "Now, you will listen to me attentively." "The Seventh Cell has been penetrated, how badly we do not know." "The important thing now is that we take some constructive steps." "You, my dear Doctor, are about to become a red herring." "You will go to this Un-American Activities Committee investigator and confess to being a longtime Party member, disciplinary head of the top-secret Seventh Cell of Hawaii." "But how will that help, Comrade?" "Since you persist in being so obtuse," "I will blueprint Seventh Cell action from this moment." "We have long had plans to create a paralysis of island shipping and communications." "Word will come from our people when they intend to make their next move either in the Near or Far East." "Where that move will be, I do not know, nor would I tell you if I did." "When the word will come, I do not know, but two things I do know." "The word will come, and when it comes, the un-expendable members of the Seventh Cell must be free to perform their functions." "Now, these three un-expendable members are Whalen and White, who must cause enough dissension to cause a labor stoppage, one as a negotiator for the employers, the other among the negotiators for the unions." "35,000 tons of critical materials clear the Islands every day for the East." "Every day we can stop that flow of materials is as effective as if our people were to put another division in the field." "Dr. Mortimer and his rodents must also be protected from exposure." "The creation of an epidemic in the harbor area is a must." "The fear of infection will provide our people with a talking point during negotiations." "Wages and hours are no longer adequate to that purpose." " What's happened?" " A gathering of the group." "This fellow Sturak is really telling them off." "To sum up," "Mortimer, Whalen and White must be protected at all costs." "So, Doctor, you will inform on these other members of the Seventh Cell." "They will, of course, be replaced, and meanwhile, the authorities will be happily deluded into believing that we have been rendered impotent." "Is your text clear, Doctor?" "We're to be thrown to the wolves?" "A somewhat florid way of putting it, but true." "No legal action can be taken against you." "As for these other members against whom you inform, they will simply plead their constitutional rights." "Well, we'd better alert Chief Liu." "I'll take a couple of your men with me." "And keep Nancy here, will you?" "Shove off." "Get a hold of the Chief, tell him to roll." "All right." "This is the end of my professional career." "Oh, don't take such a defeatist view, Doctor." "We take care of our own." "And so that all of you will be certain to remember that fact, I repeat, we take care of our own." "House Un-American Activities Committee." "I'm sorry, this is a private party." "No trespassers." "Knock it off." "Drop that chain." "You heard what the man said." "Get over there and sit down." "A final rehearsal, so that each man knows his course of action..." "Hey, here's that big cop." "Everyone will remain completely silent." "Any talking will be done through our attorneys." "What are your intentions?" "I pretended like I wanted to make this pinch myself." "That's unusual, of course, but that's what I kept pretending." "The real reason was I wanted to hit you, one punch." "Just one full-thrown right hand." "But now I find I can't do it, because you're too small." "That's the difference between you people and us, I guess." "We don't hit the little guy." "We believe in fair play and all that sort of thing." "So you get a pass." "I have subpoenas for everyone in this room." "You're pretty tough when you're talking to some guy that's only half your size, ain't you?" "Keep your mouth shut." "No, I won't." "I've had a bellyful of this East Texas cotton-chopping jerk." "Did you ever chop cotton?" "No, I'm from the country club set." "That chopping cotton's for white trash and niggers." "Chief, this man, he attacked us without provocation." "Without provocation?" "We all have sufficient provocation to attack you, all Americans." " Dr. Gelster?" " I demand medical attention." "You'll receive that." "An ambulance is on its way." "Right now, I'm placing you under arrest for manslaughter." "Take them away." "That was a very stupid way for a cop to act." "It sure was." "How do you feel?" "Fine." "Just fine." "While I was getting patched up," "Chief Liu had his three men in jail, indicted for murder." "The following month, the House Committee on Un-American Activities opened its hearings in Honolulu." "MYjob was done." "I claim my rights under the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer on the ground of possible self-incrimination." "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?" "I stand under the privileges granted me by the Constitution of the United States and refuse to answer." "I stand especially on the right granted me under that section of the Constitution known as the Fifth Amendment." "Well, I got my men." "You don't seem to be doing so well." "I wonder how Mal would have felt about this Fifth Amendment?" "He died for it." "There are a lot of wonderful things written into our Constitution that were meant for honest, decent citizens." "I resent the fact that it can be used and abused by the very people that want to destroy it." "So, they walked out free again." "We built a case and proved to any intelligent person that these people are Communists, enemy agents, and they walk out free." "Sometimes, I wonder why I stay on this job." "You been waiting long?" "You're not late." "I'm early." "I wanted to be sure to be here when you arrived." "I knew how badly you would feel and I didn't want you to be alone." "I wanted so much to be able to help, even in a little way." "You just keep looking at me like that for the next hundred years and you'll help in a real big way." "Company, halt!" "Company, forward march!" " Showman, P.W." " Yo." " Gross, E.K." " Yo." " Donahue, J.J." " Here." " Lastworth, E.T." " Here." " Cohen, L.K." " Yo." " Grant, J.E." " Yo." " Brie, J." " Here." " Fellowes, R." " Here." " St. John, M." " Yo." "Neighbor, how stands the Union now?" "There stands the Union, Mr. Webster." "There stands our Union, sir."