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Sergeant. Though in body and in mind, tarautara ! taran- tara ! We are timidly inclined, tarantara ! And anything but blind, tarantara ! tarantara ! To the danger that's behind, tarantara I Yet, when the danger's near, tarantara ! tarantara ! We manage to appear, tarantara ! As insensible to fear. As anybody here, tarantara ! Tarantara ! tarantara-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra ! Mabel. Sergeant, approach. Young Frederic was to have led you to death and glory.

All. That is not a pleasant way of putting it. Mabel. No matter. He will not so lead you, for he ha* allied himself once more with his old associates. All. He has acted shamefully !

Mabel. You speak falsely ; you know nothing about it. He has acted nobly !

All. He has acted nobly ! . Mabel. Dearly as I loved him before, his heroic sacrifice to his sense of duty has endeared him to me tenfold ; but if it was his duty to constitute himself my foe, it is likewise my duty to regard hira in that light. He has done his duty ; I will do mine. Go ye and do yours. {Exit Mabel E. I. E.)

All. Very well. Sergeant. This is perplexing. All. We cannot understand it at all. Sergean*. Still, if he is actuated by a sense of duty — All. That makes a difference, of course. At the same time, we repeat we cannot understand it.

Sergeant. No matter. Our course is clear ; we must do our best to capture these pirates alone. It is most distressing to as to be the agents whereby our erring fellow-creatures are de- prived of that liberty which is so dear to all, but we should have thought of that before we joined the force. All. We should. Sergeant. It is too late now. All. It is.

Song. — Sergeant. When a felon's not engaged in his employment — All. His employment,

Sergeant. Or nllituring his felonious little plans — All. Little plans,

Sergeant. His capacity for innocent enjoyment — All. -Cent enjoynicnt