Part 13 (1/2)

Yes--yes--

w.i.l.l.yS

In your hands!

ANDROS

Sir! If you don't tell me where that charter is--

w.i.l.l.yS

What then, sir?

ANDROS

Do you see this oak tree?

w.i.l.l.yS

I'm not blind, sir.

ANDROS

I'll have you strung up--strung up in it, sir; I'll have you strung up in it!

w.i.l.l.yS

I should hate to have such a fine tree perverted to such a purpose, sir!

ANDROS

Ah! You would! Colonel Bligh! Colonel!

BLIGH [_distance_]

Yes, Governor!

ANDROS

Send me half a dozen soldiers and a stout rope!

BLIGH

Yes, sir!

ANDROS

Ah! Now perhaps we'll get something from you. Will you tell me or will you be hanged by your thumbs from that stout limb up there until you are ready to tell me where the charter is?

TREAT