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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 w.i.l.l.ys, 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 w.i.l.l.ys!
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 w.i.l.l.ys?
w.i.l.l.yS
I am.
ANDROS
Where is the charter?
w.i.l.l.yS
Your pardon, sir, but how should I know?
ANDROS
You were a member of the Charter Committee, were you not?
w.i.l.l.yS
I was!
ANDROS
Then where is it?
w.i.l.l.yS
I am informed that the charter--
ANDROS
Yes?
w.i.l.l.yS
Was placed--
ANDROS
