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For it was in Madame's little millinery shop in New York that Mordaunt Merrilac, gentleman by appearance, and leader of a desperate band of counterfeiters, met and became infatuated with the heroine. This he revealed in a soliloquy punctuated by frequent tugging at his black mustache, and strode majestically to the rear of the long, gloomy basement in which the first act was laid.
And I would be kind to you." She shook her head vehemently. "Never, never, never would I marry a man who lives as you. Hasty footsteps sounded at the head of the stairway. Ralph, the etcher, dashed down into the room. "The police!" he shrieked. "They are about to raid us!" Merrilac muttered a curse. "Take her away," he growled to his sister of the clinging robes.
Martha threw herself on the luxuriously upholstered lounge in a paroxysm of sobs. Dolores entered, still clothed in dark, clinging robes. Entered also Mordaunt Merrilac, as beetling of brow as ever. Perfervid conversation ensued between the trio in which little Martha tearfully ordered the villain to release her. "My detention here will avail you naught, Mordaunt Merrilac," she quavered.
Through the heavily curtained doorway, closely guarded by the two remaining members of the gang, walked Jack Harkness. "Gee!" gasped John, consternation-struck by this new development. It was evident that the same stupidity which had allowed Merrilac to make his escape in the first act, had led this singularly wooden-headed hero into that villain's trap.
Then came a long, passionate kiss and the curtain. Sid sprang to his feet and helped Louise on with her coat, but John, stumbling after them up the aisle and out on the crowded street, neither noticed nor cared. The play triangle of two men and a maid seemed strangely analogous to his own love affairs. Sid was Mordaunt Merrilac, Louise was little Martha, and he was the heroic Jack Harkness.