But the king awakes from his nap and feeling good, begins to talk about farming. Now the townsmen believe Arthur to be mad and Hank to be a traitor. They try to kill the men, but Arthur rises up to his combative nature and strikes them down. Arthur and Hank take to the woods and soon hear a posse with dogs coming after them. They wade into a stream and climb up a overhanging branch and wait for the search party to pass.
Hank suggests that they move to a neighboring tree in case the villagers figure out their ruse.
After dark, the search party returns, and someone suggests that they might have climbed the tree overhanging the stream. Hank is pleased at his clever foresight but is terrified to find that the blundering villager sent to investigate has chosen the wrong tree the tree that they are currently hiding in. They defend themselves as valiantly as they can against the onslaught of men. However, when the villagers start a fire, they realize their game is up and they come down from the tree to surrender. The mob is about to kill them both when a gentleman comes through and bids them to cease.