e got to pay in advance.

BOX.

Well, you advance the money and I'll pay.

COX.

No. We'll borrow it from the waiter.

BOX.

Yes, and leave it to be paid by our executors out of the estate. Come.

BOTH.

DUETT.

("_Suoni la tromba._")

Off to the tented field!
Pistols! revolvers they shall be!
Sooner than ever yield
I'll fight for death or victore_e_!

BOX (_aside_).

Yes! he must be my target.
Must the unhappy Cox.

COX (_aside_).

What will they say at Margate
When I have shot poor Box.

BOTH.

Ah!

["Off to the tented," &c. _They repeat the duett and are
about to exit, when they stop at the door and return._

BOX.

Hem! I say, sir.

COX.

Well, sir?

BOX.

I intend to exterminate you.

COX.

I mean to blow you to atoms.

BOX.

But if we _don't_ exterminate each other it will be rather awkward.

COX.

Yes. I shouldn't like to be wounded. It hurts.

BOX.

Besides, if we both came off without our noses, or with only two eyes
between us, we should neither be able to marry Penelope Anne.

COX.

True. I have it.

BOX.

So have I.

COX.

The Lady shall decide.

BOX.

Just exactly what I was going to propose.

[_A female voice heard without, singing a joedel._

[* _This is MRS. FRIMMELY. She sings a Tyrolienne by
Offenbach, and in French. Every one delighted.
Being encored, she appears at the door, curtseys,
retires and sings again, "without."_]

COX.

'Tis she! What superb notes!

BOX.

It's a rich voice.

COX.

She's a rich widow.

BOTH.

She comes.

[_PENELOPE ANNE appears C. in ultra Parisian
watering-place toilette. They bring her
down between them, each taking a hand._

BOTH.

Penelope Anne!

[_Both kneel R. and L.C._

[Illustration: PENELOPE ANNE.]

PENELOPE.

Mr. James Cox. Ah! (_starts_).

BOX.

You've frightened her. You're so ugly.

PENELOPE.

Mr. John Box. Oh! (_faints, and falls into a chair placed C._)

COX.

You've killed her. You Gorilla.

BOX.

Gorilla--(_they are about to fight, when she screams again_). What s