ALL—(Shriek)— Oh, spare us! spare us!
QUEEN— And now depart. When next your council meets, Strephon will be one of you.
(Slow music. G. P. A.'s bow to Strephon. Business, etc. Curtain.)
ACT II.
Scene—Interior of the Chicago & Alton Railway at Chicago. Luxurious surroundings on all sides. Ticket office opens down to the inlaid mosaic floor. Handsome divans for passengers engaged in the purchase of tickets. At the gate, waiting for passengers as they go through in swarms, is Willis, a handsome man, like all the other servants of this road, and also, like them, he is clothed in an expensive and becoming uniform.
WILLIS—(Sings.)
I often think it's comical, How nature always does incline To place the best of all its boys That's born into this world of mine In the road that only such employs— The great Chicago & Alton Line.