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.