Brightly. What is that to me?
D’A. By every sense of even a gambler’s honor, this child is free. If you deny that, it shall be the last time the law shall protect your infamy. Peril her liberty and honor again if you dare, and you shall answer to me. (Curtain.)
ACT II.
Scene 1. Landscape. Whole stage. Gen. Halcom discovered, R, looking away with field-glass. Soldiers “en picket,” rear.
Enter Barney L. U. E., looking badly as if from a drunken debauch.
1st Soldier and Soldiers. Guardhouse! Guardhouse!
Barney. (Stopping, &c.) Close up them holes in your face; the flies may get inside and blow you.
1st Sol., &c. Pull up yer trowsers, they are wearing out your heels. (Soldiers laugh. Barney enraged.)
Barney. I will have that thafe killed that got so many idiots down here.
1st Sol. Turn off the gas or your head will collapse.