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Ha! my foreboding

[''Noise of thunder. Enter and'' .]



Mr. Dollarson, we assume that under these circumstances you will pay us the quarter’s salary you promised



—including bonus and allowances



—in accordance with the terms of the service agreement.



Everything, only keep quiet. Oh, this is impossible!

[Exit. Noise of thunder.]



This morning there began an earthquake, the storm-centre of which was the New Continent. The sea rose high, and amid a terrible noise of thunder and subterranean crashing the New Continent is subsiding into the ocean.

(staggers to the right):

Oh



At this moment even our flags are being submerged.