_[To his servant]_ "CONNER, these
men mean to arrest me. Go and set fire to the castle." _[Connor goes,
and O'Malley, locking the door, throws the key out of the window.]_

EVERYBODY.--"What do you mean by throwing away the key? Do you mean to
surround us, and, making us prisoners, drink up the whiskey yourself?"

O'MALLEY,--"'Tis a custom of our house, intended originally to give
employment to meritorious locksmiths on the eve of election. Listen
while I tell you how one of my ancestors played a nice little trick on
some officers who had come to arrest him for shooting his landlord. He
locked them up as I have locked you up. He then ordered his servant to
set the castle on fire as I have just done, and was baked with them as
we are about to be baked."

DUTCH GENERAL.--"Donner und blitzen!"

EVERYBODY ELSE.--"Tare an ounds!"

TRAGIC HEROINE, _[in the loft above]_.--"S c r r r e e e c h."

O'MALLEY.--"Heavings! That shriek. 'Tis my Grace! TRAGIC DARLING, I come
to die with you." _[Rushes up the chimney, while the Dutch General,
blowing off the lock off the door with his pistol, escapes together with
his friends. The Castle is carefully taken to pieces in sections by the
stage carpenters, while torches are flashed at intervals. Finally a
Roman candle is set off, and the O'Malley Castle falls a prey to a
carefully managed conflagration.--Curtain.]_

ACT III.

SCENE I.--_A quiet place in midst of the turnpike. Enter Cheerful
Heroine and French Officer._

FRENCH OFFICER.--"Fly with me at once."

CHEERFUL HEROINE.--"Why on earth should I fly? I have never seen you but
once."

FRENCH OFFICER.--"'Tis true; but you'll have to settle that with
BOUCICAULT. I'm sure I don't want you to fly, especially with no
property but a low-necked dress and short sleeves; but BOUCICAULT has
arranged it to suit himself."

CHEERFUL HEROINE--"In that case I will fly." _[Enter the_ DOCTOR _and a
band of patriots.]_

DOCTOR.--"O'MALLEY is a prisoner in the fort. We are going to have him
out, dead or alive."

FRENCH OFFICER.--"These are the counsels of madness. Why don't you get
an injunction, or something of that kind, and so get him out peaceably."

DOCTOR.--"It's too late. Besides, Mr. BOUCICAULT wants to end the play
with a fight."

CHEERFUL HEROINE.--"I will manage it all. I will let down a rope from
the fort. You shall all be drawn up and rescue O'MALLEY. Nothing could
be more simple. Come and be drawn up." _[They come.]_