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Now, Governor Braddock, show your stars and stripes.
GOVERNOR BRADDOCK.
Yet you don't seem to dwell in unity.
I recollect, and it's not years ago, Receiving a pet.i.tion, and a large one-- Some six or seven thousand?
THIRD STAFF MEMBER.
About that.
GOVERNOR BRADDOCK.
Demanding a withdrawal of some troops.
BISHOP HARDBROOKE.
We're not responsible for our lower cla.s.ses.
EGERTON.
(_Significantly_)
You didn't withdraw them.
(_An embarra.s.sing silence_)
RALPH ARDSLEY.
(_Slaps the Governor on the shoulder_)
Good American!
FOURTH STAFF MEMBER.
(_To Bishop Hardbrooke_)
Jesus of Nazareth was a foreigner.
GOVERNOR BRADDOCK.
The Bishop would hardly say so though.
BISHOP HARDBROOKE.
And you, You, Governor, do you go before the people With all you know? No secrets, not a one?
GOVERNOR BRADDOCK.
O I'm not saying.
EGERTON.
Editor Ardsley?
RALPH ARDSLEY.
Here.
BISHOP HARDBROOKE.
It eases the heart, brother, to confess.
RALPH ARDSLEY.
It's my stockholders, Bishop.
(_Points to Egerton_)
EGERTON.
General Chadbourne?
GENERAL CHADBOURNE.
I, Colonel, get my orders from above.
(_Points to the Governor_)
GOVERNOR BRADDOCK.
We all do.
(_Points to Egerton_)
RALPH ARDSLEY.
Egerton?
EGERTON.
Then come along.
I've got some good Americans up here Who don't send in pet.i.tions.
GOVERNOR BRADDOCK.
A model mill.
FIRST STAFF MEMBER.
