3d PIR. Burned out of house and home!
4th PIR. Thrown into dungeons!
5th PIR. And liberated only in order that we might defend them!
ALL. (in rage, making a lunge at Duval.) Ah!
DOM. (darting in front of Duval.) Back, cowards! Respectable odds await you! (the British open fire; pirates stand irresolute.)
1st PIR. (to the men.) Come.
DOM. (jumps on a knoll; levels his gun.) I’ll shoot the first man who retreats. (men face about irresolutely; firing continues; one man is wounded.)
WOUNDED P. (in a rage of defiance.) Ah! (switches out a large white handkerchief; strings it to the barrel of his gun; advances towards the British.) We won’t retreat! (pirates cheer and rally marching around wounded pirate; firing ceases; Dominique shoots down the flag of truce; the men in rage close upon Duval and Dominique; another flag of truce is raised and the march towards the British re-begun; meanwhile, above the sound of their frenzy; are heard approaching cheers and hoof-beats by the hundred; enter Lafitte followed by scores of his men.)
LAF. Men of Barataria to the front! (snatches down the flag of truce.) Death to Wellington’s soldiers! (exit; firing begins.)
ALL. Lafitte forever! (exeunt; furious firing, becoming momentarily more remote; enter Bella, Mariana and Baptiste.)