106. COL. BIRD'S ROOM AT CONSULATE. Roland and Rosalie rush in—see the overturned furniture and realize something has happened. Mammy enters from back door. Rosalie runs to her and asks what has happened and she doesn't know. Rosalie asks Mammy where her father is. Mammy says she left him here. Rosalie is terrified. Rosalie and the old servant rush out. Rosalie upstairs and Mammy to kitchen to look for the Colonel. Roland picks up the bits of the telegram from the floor and pieces them together.
Rosalie comes back into the room and the old servant enters and shakes her head. Rosalie in terror, says:
SP: "FATHER IS NOT HERE."
Roland thinks a moment, realizes that they have taken him away, shows his anger at this, calls Rosalie to him, finishes piecing the telegram together and then reads it.
INSERT OF TELEGRAM PIECED TOGETHER.
Rosalie having read the telegram shows hope in her face and says to Roland:
SP: "YOU MUST SEND THAT MESSAGE AT ONCE."
Roland jumps at this and gathers up the pieces in his hand, starts to go, then thinks of the girl, stops and asks her what she will do in the meantime. She says never to mind, but to go on, old Mammy will stay with her. Roland is reluctant to go, but Rosalie goes to the drawer of the desk, takes out her father's old army revolver, and then goes to Roland and says:
SP: "I AM AN AMERICAN GIRL AND CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF."