The Midnight Charge; a Grand Military Play in Four Acts
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{Puts letter in Cap- tain Danvkrs' coat.) Now, my dear Grace, when your lover is found with that letter on his person his name will be Mc- Ginty, and he will wLsh he were at the bottom of the seas. I wish I knew where the Yankee was sleeping; I'd slip in and give him a taste of his own knife. {Goes to c, cohere he listens carefully.) Pat {appears at l. 1 e., and looks at Ryon; then speaJ^s in a stage whisper). Bedad I there be a dirthy blaguard in the mis- sus' parlor. {JRolls up sleeves.) Oh h...o, me lark, yer in danger av yer loife, fer Oi'm on til yer toime. Ry. I can hear some one breathing heavily, but blast my buttons if I can tell where it is. Pat. Bedad ! av Oi had me ould gun here Oi'd make 'im think it war loaded. {Takes empty whixkey-huttle from his pocket and smells of it ; then looks in it.) Be me soul, av thot had the load in it thot war there yisterday, Oi'd fire it iutil his stom- ach, and begorra he'd be a dead mon. Maybe Oi can fool the varmint. {Takes cord from piano cover, and holding hottle in right hand, like a jnstol, creeps cautiously up behind Ryon at c.
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