Chapter 2

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.]_