rt, madam.
(_To Charlotte_) There's one without, enquiring for you. Go to him,
and lose no time.

_Char._ O misery! misery!
[_Exit_.

_Mrs. Bev._ Follow her, Jarvis. If it be true that Lewson's dead,
her grief may kill her.

_Bates._ Jarvis must stay here, madam: I have some questions for him.

_Stu._ Rather let him fly. His evidence may crush his master.

_Bev._ Why, ay; this looks like management.

_Bates._ He found you quarrelling with Lewson in the street last
night.
[_To Beverley._

_Mrs. Bev._ No; I am sure he did not.

_Jar._ Or if I did--

_Mrs. Bev._ 'Tis false, old man--They had no quarrel; there was no
cause for quarrel.

_Bev._ Let him proceed, I say--O! I am sick! sick! Reach me a chair.
[_He sits down._

_Mrs. Bev._ You droop, and tremble, love--Your eyes are fixt
too--Yet You are innocent. If Lewson's dead, You killed him
not.

SCENE X.

_Enter DAWSON._

_Stu._ Who sent for Dawson?

_Bates._ 'Twas I. We have a witness too, you little think of.
Without there!

_Stu._ What witness?

_Bates._ A right one. Look at him.

SCENE XI.

_Re-enter CHARLOTTE, with LEWSON._

_Stu._ Lewson! O--villains! villains!
[_To Bates and Dawson._

_Mrs. Bev._ Risen from the dead! Why, this is unexpected happiness!

_Char._ Or is't his ghost? (_To Stukely_) That sight would please
you, Sir.

_Jar._ What riddle's this?

_Bev._ Be quick and tell it--My minutes are but few.

_Mrs. Bev._ Alas! why so? You shall live long and happily.

_Lew._ While shame and punishment shall rack that viper. (_Pointing
to Stukely_) The tale is short. I was too busy in his secrets, and
therefore doomed to die. Bates, to prevent the murder, undertook it.
I kept aloof to give it credit--

_Char._ And gave Me pangs unutterable.

_Lew._ I felt them all, and would have told you; but vengeance
wanted ripening. The villain's scheme was but half executed. The
arrest by Dawson followed the supposed murder: and now, depending on
his once wicked associates, he comes to fix the guilt on Beverley.

_Mrs. Bev._ O! execrable wretch!

_Bates._ Dawson and I are witnesses of this.

_Lew._ And of a thousand frauds. His friend undone by sharpers and
false dice; and Stukely sole contriver, and possessor of all.

_Daw._ Had he but stopt on this side murder, we had been villains
still.

_Mrs. Bev._ Thus heaven turns evil into good; and by permitting sin,
warns men to virtue.

_Lew._ Yet punishes the ins