GOV. C. Exactly. No time can be lost. I ordered the expedition off with all speed. Lafitte must be captured. Since the five hundred dollars reward be of no avail, we’ll try fire.
CHAIR. It is like the British to league themselves with those hellish pirates. (exeunt; enter Lafitte.)
LAF. She is not here and I can find no clue as to where she has gone. (leans against mantel; enter several ladies and gentlemen.)
1st LADY. She must have reconsidered her determination to become a nun.
2d LADY. No wonder! I think Don Manuel d’Acosta (Lafitte starts) is the most perfectly fascinating man I ever met.
1st GEN. Oh, now. A little quarter!
1st LADY. He seemed so tender to her—so protecting and gallant! (exeunt ladies and gentlemen.)
LAF. I must find her, or she will be duped, trapped, as she was trapped into a belief that I could be a traitor! (enter Governor Claiborne and the Chairman; Lafitte goes up to them.) Governor Claiborne, allow me to present to you—Jean Lafitte. (bows.)
GOV. C. What!—Do you know that there is a five hundred dollar reward for your head posted over this city?