lest powers
Are often unemployed, obscured, and lost.
'Tis better I should have to make my way;
And with my guiding angel, Isabelle,
And the example of my noble father,
I surely shall succeed.

GODFREY.

Give me your hand.
You are God's noblest work, an honest man;
True to the witness your own spirit bears;
And so does every man's, would they but hear
And follow as you do--that worth is won,
And not inherited. 'Tis circumstance
That makes the difference in our mortal lot;
And Providence arranges this at will.
How kind the lot that gives you Isabelle!

JUDGE.

My son! my son! may you be worthy of her,
And love her alway. Know she is the one
That, in your boyhood, was your "little wife!"
The Isabelle De Vere we mourned as dead.
You stand amazed; but all shall be explained.

HENRY BOLTON.

Oh, let me go and tell her!

GODFREY.

I'll go with you:
And, as we go, will make the mystery plain.

JUDGE.

And bring her here. Order the carriage, Henry,
And bring her home with you. Tell her I long
To fold her to my heart and call her daughter.
[_Exit_ YOUNG BOLTON _and_ GODFREY.

DR. MARGRAVE.

How strangely and how wisely Providence
Directs the course of life! How oft we see
That bitter medicine was kindly given.
Had Isabelle remained your ward, brought up
With Henry here, they might, indeed, have married;
But never would have felt such certainty
Of true, unbribed affection as will be
The blessing and the memory of their life.

DENNIS _and_ MICHAEL _are heard singing as they enter._

DENNIS _and_ MICHAEL (_song_)

The rogue and the ruffian love darkness and night,
But we will go forth when the morning is bright,
And the joy of the world shall the happiness be
Of Dennis O'Blarney and Michael Magee.

DENNIS (_seeing the_ JUDGE).

Bless your honor's house--the rogues are taken.

MICHAEL.

They've taken Captain Pawlett and another.

DENNIS.

The other murdering villain entered here.

MICHAEL.

The officers are coming now to search.

(_As the_ OFFICERS _enter, the report of a pistol is heard._ LUCY BOLTON
_and the maid_ RUTH _rush in._)

JUDGE (_catching_ LUCY _in his arms_).

What is it, Lucy? What has happened, bird?

LUCY.

Oh, father,