--"All is lost. ULICK has followed the national custom."
PATRIOTS.--"All is lost. Hurroo. What'll we do now, boys?"
O'MALLEY.--"Come with me to France. We'll fight somebody there."
PATRIOTS.--"We will go this minute." _[They go. Enter Tragic Heroine.]_
O'MALLEY.--"Can I belave the eyes of me. Is it you, darlint, or some
other ghost?"
TRAGIC HEROINE.--"'Tis I. Fly, O'MALLEY. ULICK insists upon marrying me,
and hanging you."
O'MALLEY.--"I will fly to-morrow night, and you shall fly with me. I
would go this minute, were it not that Mr. BOUCICAULT'S play would be
spoiled if I did not stay long enough to get into difficulties. I will
hide in the cellar of my ruined castle, and will give ULICK the worst
'hiding' he ever had if I have a convenient chance at him."
SCENE II--_The front parlor in O'Hara's castle. Enter the Dutch General
and O'Hara._
DUTCH GENERAL.--"O'HARA, I dinks you pe ein repel. ULICK is searging
your bapers. If he finds something you shall be hanged." _[Enter
Ulick.]_
ULICK.--"I have searched O'HARA's trunk, and the drawer where he keeps
his other stocking. I have found nothing."
DUTCH GENERAL.--"I still pelieve him a traitor, but I gannot brove it."
_[Exit.]_
ULICK.--"O'HARA, listen. I have lied. I hold here in my left coat-tail
pocket the proofs of your treachery.
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