ACT IV.--_Sir_ PATRICK _proves that_ GEOFFREY _is married to_ ANNIE,

_and that_ ARNOLD _isn't_. GEOFFREY _takes his weeping wife home with

him. Everybody finds out that_ GEOFFREY _is an enormous liar and an

unmitigated blackguard. Through the open windows are seen the editors of

the Sun and the Free Press, each determined to be the first to offer_

GEOFFREY _a place on the staff of his respective journal. The curtain

falls and_ STOEPEL _directs each member of the orchestra to play the

tune that he may like best. After three hours of this sort of thing a

humane person in the audience brings in a saw and begins to file it. The

rest of the audience are thereupon gently lulled to sleep by the music

of the file--so soft and soothing does it sound by contrast with_

STOEPEL'S _demoniac orchestra._

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