But I have here your receipt for it! ANDROS Give me back that receipt! WADSWORTH I shall certainly do nothing of the kind, sir. I gave you the charter; you gave me this receipt for it. I have here twenty witnesses to the transaction! ANDROS I'm being tricked! I say I will have that charter. It's somewhere here, and I'll have it. [_calling_] Colonel Bligh! BLIGH [_distance_] Yes, sir! ANDROS Surround this place with your soldiers. Don't let a single man leave until he has been searched! TREAT Sir, this is illegal! You have no search warrants! ANDROS Indeed! I'll do it whether it's legal or not. I'll have that charter, I tell you, if I have to search every spot in this town! I'll have it, I say I'll have it. ANNOUNCER And so the great search began. All that night and into the next day the Governor, the Colonel, and their soldiers searched high and low for the missing charter. At last they came to the house of Charles Willys, in front of which stood the great oak in which the charter lay safely hidden. ANDROS Who lives here? TREAT This is the home of Charles Willys! ANDROS Indeed! One of the Charter Committee, eh? TREAT Yes, sir! ANDROS Good! Search this place inside and out, Colonel. Don't leave a thing unturned. BLIGH Very good, sir! Search this place, Captain--thoroughly. Tear up the floors, dig up the garden, rip the upholstery off the furniture, but find that charter! VOICE Yes, sir. Follow me! ANDROS Bring out the master of the house. The rest of you back up against this tree and don't move! TREAT Sir, I protest again-- ANDROS Protest all you like. It will do you no good until you produce that charter. TREAT I don't know where it is. You had it, that's all I know. If you lost it, it is not our fault. ANDROS Silence! BLIGH [_a little distance_] Here's the master of the house, sir. ANDROS Ah, indeed! Are you Master Willys? WILLYS I am. ANDROS Where is the charter? WILLYS Your pardon, sir, but how should I know? ANDROS You were a member of the Charter Committee, were you not? WILLYS I was! ANDROS Then where is it? WILLYS I am informed that the charter-- ANDROS Yes? WILLYS Was placed-- ANDROS Yes--yes-- WILLYS In your hands! ANDROS Sir! If you don't tell me where that charter is-- WILLYS What then, sir? ANDROS Do you see this oak tree? WILLYS 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! WILLYS 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