The Baron is so amused at their efforts to find the thief that he begins to laugh, rocking himself to and fro, and at last shouts, “I ate it, I ate it.”
Just as they are about to flog him a noise of tramping feet is heard, and they hasten to see who is coming.
End of Second Act.
Third Syllable.
SEA-(CY).
Baron and his faithful retainers are sitting by the seashore, and he is telling them how he made his escape from the robbers.
As they are talking an old beggar comes along. The Baron at once recognizes him as one of the robbers, and gives orders that he is to be seized and bound. Presently the other one arrives, and he is treated in the same way.
Finally the Baron promises to forgive them if they will give up highway robbery and go to sea.
End of Third Act.
Baronetcy
Enter several boys in ragged clothes as newsboys. They are shouting papers for sale, and the chief thing that can be heard is “Extry—Capture of a Baron at Sea.”