stopping! See all the smoke! There's flames--don't you see? Out of
the window of the little restaurant! Oh, gee! Look how the firemen
run! They've got axes! Oh! Oh! Oh! They're smashing in the windows!
Look, they're running out the hose! See them--they're going into
the restaurant! One after another--into the smoke! Look at that,
Peggy! Hurrah! Hurrah! Charlotte russes to burn!

CURTAIN.






ACT III.





_Scene: The attic, the following evening. The Play-play shows a
tenement room. Entrance to hall Left; also a small stove. In center
a table. Entrance to another room, Right._

_At rise: The Real-play, showing Will buried in his manuscripts,
Left. Peggy Right at the cot, where there is a substitute child,
representing Bill asleep._

_Peggy (goes and watches Will)._ Well, how goes the Pot-boiler?