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. Give me your daughter and help me
hang O'MALLEY, or I will ruin you."

O'HARA.--"I am in your power. Do as you please." _[Enter Tragic
Heroine.]_

TRAGIC HEROINE.--"Never. ULICK shall neither marry me nor hang
O'MALLEY."

ULICK.--"Young woman, I will lock you in this room for a year or two,
until O'MALLEY is thoroughly hung. Come, O'HARA." _[Exeunt.]_

TRAGIC HEROINE.--"I must escape and warn O'MALLEY. But how? I have it. I
can leap out of the window into the sea: I can then swim in full
ball-dress to O'MALLEY'S castle, which is only twenty leagues from here.
I will warn him, and fly with him. Courage. I will remove my back-hair
and make the hazardous leap." _[She leaps.]_

SCENE III.--_The vaults below O'Malley's castle. Enter Dutch General,
O'Hara, Ulick, and the "Doctor," a rebel prisoner._

DOCTOR.--"I brought you here to show you O'MALLEY'S hiding-place. Now
I've got you. The tide rose the moment we entered, and cut off your
retreat; we'll all be drowned like rats in a hole. Hurroo." _[O'Malley
descends into the vaults by an iron door.]_

O'MALLEY.--"Come up-stairs out of the wet. We'll have some whiskey."
_[They come up.]_

ACT II.

SCENE I.--_O'Malley's ancestral back-garret. Enter Tragic Heroine in
ball-dress, having swum across the bay._

TRAGIC HEROINE.--"Ha! also Ho! I am a little out of breath. I think I
had better faint." _(Faints.) [Enter O'Malley and his rescued enemies.]_

O'MALLEY.--"Sit down, while I go for the whiskey." _[He goes.]_

O'HARA.--"What do I see? My daughter! Take her up-stairs before O'MALLEY
returns." _(They take her up.) [Re-enter O'Malley.]_

O'MALLEY.--"Gentlemen, here is the whiskey. It is Gen. GRANT'S favorite
brand, and you'll find it all right."