Dada [in a tragic voice]. It’s too late!
All. Too late?
Dada. Too late for the world to end this afternoon. I must have missed the date by two thousand years. [Wringing his hands.] I shall destroy myself!
Dada tries to destroy himself. He produces a pistol, aims at himself, and fires. He flounders down—but he has missed.
Doris [standing over him and shaking her finger]. You miss everything! I’m going to send for the lunatic-asylum wagon—if it’ll come!
Dada [shaking his finger back at her]. Your parents brought you up very unsuccessfully——
Judge Fossile. Silence! I will pronounce sentence of impeachment on this enemy of mankind. Look upon him!
They all look dourly at Jerry.
Now, gentlemen, the astronomers tell us that in the far heavens, near the southern cross, there is a vast space called the hole in the sky, where the most powerful telescope can discover no comet nor planet nor star nor sun.
They all look very cold and depressed. Jerry shivers. Fish picks up Dada’s abandoned telescope and begins an eager examination of the firmament.