ORDERLY. Tecumseh and his braves have reached the landing!
[Excitement. All rise hastily.]
HARRISON. This room is smaller than our audience:
Take seats and benches to the portico—
There we shall treat with him.
[Exeunt all but GENERAL HARRISON.]
Could I but strain
My charge this chief might be our trusty friend.
Yet I am but my nation's servitor;
Gold is the king who overrides the right,
And turns our people from the simple ways,
And fair ideal of our fathers' lives.
[Exit.]
SCENE FOURTH.—THE SAME. THE PORTICO OF GENERAL HARRISON'S HOUSE. AN OPEN GROVE AT A LITTLE DISTANCE IN FRONT.
[Curtain rises and discovers GENERAL HARRISON, army officers and citizens, of various quality, including TWANG, SLAUGH, GERKIN and BLOAT, _seated in the portico. A sergeant and guard of soldiers near by.
Enter_ TECUMSEH and his followers with LEFROY in Indian dress. They all stop at the grove.]
HARRISON. Why halts he there? Go tell him he is welcome to our house.