BRIGHTLY. Sentinel, bring out the prisoner. (_Meantime Zina is tugging to get off a board. Sentinel finds door fast._) Break down the door; there is an attempt to escape! (_Rebs rush at door, one with an axe. Zina gets off first board at word “escape.” Heavy firing, long roll, L._) Some to the roof! Smash the door! (_Zina gets off second board at word “door;” then fires at rebs climbing up sides, when they retreat. Brightly to rebs retreating, sword drawn. Gets off third board._) Back to the roof, cowards, or I will spit you like dogs. Get a log and crush it! (_Meantime, she fires again, drives them back, and gets off fourth board._) SOLDIER. (_Entering L. in haste._) The Yanks are bridging the river. BRIGHTLY. Fight them like hell! (_Fourth board drops; rebs crash in the door. Zina screams, flings rope into tree, and drops it through hole. Meantime shots inside cabin, and rebs tumble out door. Halcom climbs up a rope to roof. Rebs climb cabin to catch him on roof. As H. arrives on roof, Zina pushes him off rear into the water, and turns on the rebs._) ZINA. (_Drawing knife._) Back, you cowards, or I kill you this time! (_Brightly dashes to R. rear. Curtain. Encore._) (_Curtain rises on last tableau, except Zina has seized the rope. Suddenly she places her knife in her teeth, springs off rear, and swings into the water. Brightly dashes off building to L._) SOLDIERS ON ROOF. (_Rising._) She is swimming the river! (_Brightly seizes a rifle from a soldier, dashes round L., and, during a flash of lightning, fires at her. D’Arneaux dashing in L., knocks the rifle aside, too late. Brightly springs to R._) D’A. You have murdered that heroic girl! Take your knife, coward, for, by heaven, one of us shall follow! BRIGHTLY. (_To soldiers._) Arrest that man for treason! (_Soldiers surround D’A. with a cordon of bayonets, when he drops his knife and hangs his head._) BRIGHTLY. I have waited for this! A court-martial and the bullet shall end it! (_Curtain._) ACT IV. SCENE 1. _Night._ Heavy forest. Gen. Sherman disc. looking away to R. Occasional flashes of lightning, and thunder in the distance. Occasional picket firing, R. Staff, L. SHERMAN. A terrible storm! The men must be wet and hungry. Orderly! (_Enter Ord. L. U. E._) Tell the commissary to hurry the hot coffee and fresh food to the front at once. (_Ex. Ord. L. U. E._) I must cross the river before daylight, or my opportunity is lost. Martel! (_Enter Telegraph Operator, L. U. E._) Tell Schofield and Howard they must force a passage of the river at four o’clock, at all hazards. (_Op. works machine and waits._) Do they understand? OPERATOR. They do. (_Enter Halcom, R. U. E., coatless, hair dishevelled, wounded._) SHERMAN. (_Rushing to grasp his hand._) In heaven’s name, Halcom, from where do you come? HALCOM. The rebel camp. SHERMAN. How did you escape? (_Men offer clothing._)