ir! [_noise of window going down_]

Here, sir, I'll light the candles. I'm right sorry, sir. Now, where did
I put my flint? Ah, here it is. There you are, sir. I'm right sorry I
put you out, sir. I didn't think--

ANDROS

Fool! Now, Treat, hand me the charter.

TREAT

The charter--why, sir--you had it.

ANDROS

Had it? What are you talking about?

TREAT

Why, sir! I saw you put your hand on it the moment the lights went out.

ANDROS

Indeed I did not. Give it here!

TREAT

But, sir--

ANDROS

Hey--you--Captain--

WADSWORTH

Sir!

ANDROS

Wadsworth, give me the charter!

WADSWORTH

But, sir, I gave it to you.

ANDROS

You did not!

WADSWORTH

But I have here your receipt for it!

ANDROS

Give me back that receipt!

WADSWORTH

I shall certainly do nothing of the kind, sir. I gave you the charter;
you gave me this receipt for it. I have here twenty witnesses to the
transaction!

ANDROS

I'm being tricked! I say I will have that charter. It's somewhere here,
and I'll have it. [_calling_] Colonel Bligh!

BLIGH [_distance_]

Yes, sir!

ANDROS

Surround this place with your soldiers. Don't let a single man leave
until he has been searched!

TREAT

Sir, this is illegal! You have no search warrants!

ANDROS

Indeed! I'll do it whether it's legal or not. I'll have that charter, I
tell you, if I have to search every spot in this town! I'll have it, I
say I'll have it.

ANNOUNCER

And so the great search began. All that night and into the next day the
Governor, the Colonel, and their soldiers searched high and low for the
missing charter. At last they came to the house of Charles Willys, in
front of which stood the great oak in which the charter lay safely
hidden.

ANDROS

Who lives here?

TREAT

This is the home of Charles Willys!

ANDROS

Indeed! One of the Charter Committee, eh?

TREAT

Yes, sir!

ANDROS

Good! Search this place inside and out, Colonel. Don't leave a thing
unturned.

BLIGH

Very good, sir! Search this place, Captain--thoroughly. Tear up the
floors, dig up the garden, rip the upholstery off the furniture, but
find that charter!

VOICE

Yes, sir. Follow me!

ANDROS

Bring out the master of the house. The rest of you back up against this
tree and don't move!

TREAT

Sir, I protest again--

ANDROS

Protest all you like. It will do you no good until you produce that
charter.

TREAT

I don't know where it is. Yo