O’MALLEY.—­“All is lost.  ULICK has betrayed us.”

DUQUESNE.—­“All is lost.  ULICK has followed the national custom.”

PATRIOTS.—­“All is lost.  Hurroo.  What’ll we do now, boys?”

O’MALLEY.—­“Come with me to France.  We’ll fight somebody there.”

PATRIOTS.—­“We will go this minute.” [They go.  Enter Tragic Heroine.]

O’MALLEY.—­“Can I belave the eyes of me.  Is it you, darlint, or some other ghost?”

TRAGIC HEROINE.—­“’Tis I. Fly, O’MALLEY.  ULICK insists upon marrying me, and hanging you.”

O’MALLEY.—­“I will fly to-morrow night, and you shall fly with me.  I would go this minute, were it not that Mr. BOUCICAULT’S play would be spoiled if I 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.]