[Steps heard scrambling down the entrance-way.
[Enter MICHAEL in mad haste. They rush upon him with exultation and
relief. He shakes them off, doggedly.

PIPER
So!--You had like to have hanged us.

MICHAEL
--What of that?

PIPER
All for a lily maiden.

MICHAEL
Ah,--thy pipe!
How will it save her?--_Save her_! Tune thy pipe
To compass that!--You do not know--

PIPER
I know.
Tell me no more.--I say it shall not be!
To heel, lad! No, I follow,--none but I!
Go,--go! [MICHAEL rushes out again.
[To CHEAT-THE-DEVIL, pointing to the Children]
Do you bide here and shepherd these.

CHILDREN
Where are you going?--Take us too!--us too!--
Oh, take us with you?--Take us!