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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40120 ***
+
+  Price 25 Cents
+
+
+  The Vampire Cat
+
+  By
+
+  GERARD VAN ETTEN
+
+
+  SERGEL'S
+  ACTING
+  DRAMA
+
+  No. 641
+
+
+  ART WORKERS LEAGUE
+
+
+  PUBLISHED BY
+  THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
+  CHARLES H SERGEL, PRESIDENT
+
+
+
+
+  Practical Instructions for
+  Private Theatricals
+
+  By W. D. EMERSON
+
+  Author of "A Country Romance," "The Unknown Rival,"
+  "Humble Pie," etc.
+
+  Price, 25 cents
+
+    Here is a practical hand-book, describing in detail all the
+    accessories, properties, scenes and apparatus necessary for an
+    amateur production. In addition to the descriptions in words,
+    everything is clearly shown in the numerous pictures, more
+    than one hundred being inserted in the book. No such useful
+    book has ever been offered to the amateur players of any
+    country.
+
+  CONTENTS
+
+    Chapter I. =Introductory Remarks.=
+
+    Chapter II. =Stage, How to Make, etc.= In drawing-rooms or
+    parlors, with sliding or hinged doors. In a single large room.
+    The Curtain; how to attach it, and raise it, etc.
+
+    Chapter III. =Arrangement of Scenery.= How to hang it. Drapery,
+    tormentors, wings, borders, drops.
+
+    Chapter IV. =Box Scenes.= Center door pieces, plain wings, door
+    wings, return pieces, etc.
+
+    Chapter V. =How to Light the Stage.= Oil, gas and electric
+    light. Footlights, Sidelights, Reflectors. How to darken the
+    stage, etc.
+
+    Chapter VI. =Stage Effects.= Wind, Rain, Thunder, Breaking
+    Glass, Falling Buildings, Snow, Water, Waves, Cascades,
+    Passing Trains, Lightning, Chimes, Sound of Horses' Hoofs,
+    Shots.
+
+    Chapter VII. =Scene Painting.=
+
+    Chapter VIII. =A Word to the Property Man.=
+
+    Chapter IX. =To the Stage Manager.=
+
+    Chapter X. =The Business Manager.=
+
+  Address Orders to
+  THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
+  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
+
+
+
+
+  THE VAMPIRE CAT
+
+  A PLAY IN ONE ACT FROM
+  THE JAPANESE LEGEND
+  OF
+  THE NABESHIMA CAT
+
+  BY
+  GERARD VAN ETTEN
+
+  COPYRIGHT, 1918
+  BY
+  THE DRAMATIC
+  PUBLISHING COMPANY
+
+  CHICAGO
+  THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY
+
+
+
+
+CAST OF CHARACTERS
+
+
+  PRINCE HIZEN, LORD OF NABESHIMA....
+  BUZEN, HIS CHIEF COUNCILLOR........
+  RUITEN, A PRIEST...................
+  ITO SODA, A COMMON SOLDIER.........
+  KASHIKU, A MAID....................
+  O TOYO, WIFE OF THE PRINCE.........
+
+TIME: Medieval Japan.
+
+SCENE: The room of O Toyo in the palace.
+
+TIME OF ACTION: Between 10 and 12 p.m.
+
+NOTE.--According to the old Japanese legend, the soul of a cat can enter
+a human being.
+
+
+
+
+THE VAMPIRE CAT
+
+
+SCENE. _At R. is a dressing table, upon it a steel mirror, toilet
+articles, and two lighted candles with ornate shades. R. U. a section of
+shoji leads to another room, this section is now closed. At R. C. a
+large section of shoji is open, giving a view of the garden. To the R.
+of this entrance is a small shrine and Buddha. At L. of the room is a
+sleeping mat and head rest. By the head rest a lantern, now unlighted.
+Down L. is an open section of shoji leading to the_ PRINCE'S
+_apartments. Just above it stands a screen. As the curtain rises the_
+PRINCE _is standing R. C. looking out into the garden._ RUITEN _is down
+R. and_ BUZEN _slightly above him._ BUZEN _crosses L._
+
+
+  PRINCE. [_Comes down between_ RUITEN _and_ BUZEN.]
+  Settle for me tonight
+  My sicknesses and my fears--
+  [_To_ BUZEN.] Settle them for me,
+  Sir Buzen, councillor crafty.
+  [_To_ RUITEN.] Settle them for me,
+  Priest Ruiten, the prayerful.
+
+  RUITEN. So are we trying in all ways
+  Thy pain to relieve
+  Yet nought seems availing.
+
+  PRINCE. Wracked is my body
+  With tortures unending
+  Born of the dreams
+  That are surging forever
+  Backward and forward
+  Thru my brain, weary.
+
+  BUZEN. [_Indicating door L._] Around thy bed each night
+  Have I placed thy samurai
+  In number one hundred
+  To guard thy sleep--
+
+  RUITEN. Zealously have I prayed
+  In the temple called "Miyo In,"
+  And during the night hours
+  Have knelt at thy house shrine
+  Praying to Buddha, the lord of the world.
+
+  PRINCE. Yet have I not slept
+  Entirely untortured.
+  Slow are thy prayers
+  In fruit bearing.
+
+  RUITEN. Slow because contending with evil--
+                [_Approaches Prince._]
+  With evil in form strange and subtle.
+  Over this house hangs a spirit
+  Ne'er resting and ready always for dire deeds.
+
+  PRINCE. Such a spirit there must be--but what?
+
+  RUITEN. Evil takes many forms but the form of a cat
+  Is favored by many devils.
+
+  PRINCE. [_Startled, the others watch him closely._] A cat--aye, truly
+  And if a cat stalked here
+  That evil thing must we kill.
+
+  RUITEN. Yet such is their power malignant
+  That they take other forms than the forms of cats--
+  Even human forms.
+
+  PRINCE. Ha!--And the spirit that visits me?
+  Mayhap that--
+  Only twice hath it failed of its visit.
+
+  BUZEN. And those lost visits, when?
+
+  PRINCE. The last two nights.
+
+  BUZEN. [_Swelling with pride._] Then, oh Prince, the cure may
+    be found.
+  Better than prayers is the cure [_Eyeing_ RUITEN.]
+  For prayers have not ears--have not eyes--
+  Have not weapons--better than prayers is it.
+
+  PRINCE. Tell me this cure. It is grudged, Sir Priest?
+
+  RUITEN. [_Bowing._] A cure for my lord could not be grudged.
+
+  PRINCE. Well spoken. Say on, Sir Buzen.
+
+  BUZEN. First I must beg clemency
+  For thy hundred samurai
+  For faithful they are to the bone, yet--
+
+  PRINCE. Yet? Why clemency? For what?
+
+  BUZEN. On guard, they slept.
+
+  PRINCE. Slept?
+
+  BUZEN. Aye. Soundly as though deep in saki.
+
+  PRINCE. And none roused?
+
+  BUZEN. They were as dead
+  From shortly after the hour of ten
+  Until dawning.
+  Awakening they knew they had slept
+  Yet knew not when the poppy was thrown in their eyes.
+  Even as one man none knew
+  And were deep amazed and full of shame.
+  Each night it was the same.
+
+  PRINCE. [_Angrily._] So, they slept.
+  While I, on my couch,
+  Through the hours writhed--
+  Writhed and twisted--
+  Weakening ever--
+  Not sleep, yet dreaming--
+  Oh, horrible dreams.
+
+  RUITEN. Of what were these horrible dreams?
+  What was their substance?
+
+  PRINCE. [_Mystified at the memory._] There would come a soft
+    stealing--
+  As of draperies hushed and lifted
+  For silence in walking;
+  Like soft, silken draperies
+  Wrapped about stealthy limbs.
+  Then a shape clothed for sleep
+  As women are clothed--
+  Sinuous and vague in movement,
+  Then taking form slowly--
+  The form--a lie!--a lie! [_Covers his face and goes upstage._]
+
+  RUITEN. The form?
+
+  PRINCE. [_Turns._] O Toyo!
+
+  RUITEN.
+  BUZEN. [_Rubbing their hands._] Ah!
+
+  PRINCE. [_Comes down R._, RUITEN _and_ BUZEN _are together a
+    little L._]
+  Came she to me--
+  Leaned o'er me--
+  Caressed me
+  Yet soothed not.
+  Her lips to mine--
+  Her lips but not sweet.
+  Then here on my throat
+  Would she place them
+  And all my life seemed to smother--
+  Out of me flowed the life-blood
+  In a deep stream
+  Like a tide
+  Forced by the gods,
+  Against its will,
+  To flow far away and yet farther.
+
+  BUZEN. So does a vampire
+  Sucking her victim
+  Draw from him
+  His blood and his marrow.
+
+  PRINCE. Guard thy words!--
+  As my strength ebbed
+  She drew back
+  Red-lipped and smiling,
+  Smiling and laughing
+  Though her laughter was silent.
+  Then with a final shimmer
+  Of silent silks she vanished--
+  So was it done.
+
+  RUITEN. So always the dream?
+  If dream it were.
+
+  PRINCE. The dream--I think yet it was a dream--
+  So was it always.
+
+  BUZEN. But the last two nights?
+
+  PRINCE. Came she as usual
+  Flowing over the floor
+  Like a spectre enrobed
+  And beautified.
+  But as she bent o'er me
+  She paused as if startled
+  And, slowly gazing about,
+  Turned and was gone.
+  Last night she paused
+  As if speaking to someone
+  Though I could see no one.
+
+  BUZEN. But the cause of her turning?
+
+  RUITEN. Turned she startled--
+  Turned she slowly--
+  Turned she wonderingly?
+
+  PRINCE. Slowly, as if she felt
+  A strange presence.
+
+  RUITEN. Feared she?
+
+  PRINCE. She left me.
+
+  BUZEN. But trembling or calm?
+
+  PRINCE. Calmly, as from a thing hated
+  And more powerful than she
+  Whom she would not rouse to action.
+
+  BUZEN. [_Rubbing his hands._] Good.
+
+  PRINCE. What is good?
+
+  BUZEN. That which thou speakest of.
+
+  PRINCE. How so?
+
+  BUZEN. [_Comes forward towards the Prince._] It proves that I have
+    humbly succeeded--
+  [_Grudgingly._] Through the help of another, 'tis true--
+  But yet succeeded in bringing my lord honorable help.
+
+  RUITEN. Indeed it is so.
+
+  PRINCE. Say on, very wise councillor.
+
+  BUZEN. [_Puffing up._] Without more words than are fit
+  This then is the way of the cure.
+  When long had thine illness ravaged and worn thee
+  And many nights had you tossed by weird visions enthralled,
+  No cures affecting, no prayers availing thee [_Glances at_ RUITEN.]
+  Then councilled I with thy wise ones--
+  And, too, with Priest Ruiten--
+
+  RUITEN. I, you should name first,
+  For without my prayers your wisdom was nought.
+
+  BUZEN. To continue briefly.
+  All our heads together brought no solution--
+
+  PRINCE. True, true.
+
+  BUZEN. [_Bowing._] Humbly I acknowledge my head
+  Empty and brainless.
+  Yet even from idiots lips
+  Wisdom oft falls unexpected
+  And therefore more wonderful.
+  Now it is told in old tales
+  Of how Iyaiyasu met--
+
+  RUITEN. Short, abrupt is thy tale.
+
+  PRINCE. The cure, Sir Buzen,
+  The hour passes.
+
+  BUZEN. [_Bowing._] I crave honorable leniency.
+  To be brief--
+
+  PRINCE. Aye, brief.
+
+  BUZEN. Discouraged and sick at heart
+  At the sufferings of my great lord,
+  I was retiring to my room
+  By way of the garden
+  And the hour was the Hour of the Fox.
+  I heard a splashing in the pool
+  And drawing near
+  Saw a young soldier washing.
+  I spoke to him asking,
+  "Who art thou?"
+  "Retainer to my Lord Nabeshima,
+  Prince of Hizen," he answered.
+  Then talked I with him. Of thy sickness
+  We talked. And he was ashamed of thy samurai's sleeping.
+  He begged to be allowed to guard thy sleep
+  Also for, being a common soldier, it was not permitted.
+  So earnestly talked he that I promised to consult
+  With the other councillors and see what could be done.
+  "So tell me your name, young sir," I said.
+  "Ito Soda is my name, honorable sir,
+  And for your kind words I thank you."
+  So I consulted and the result was
+  We granted his request.
+
+  PRINCE. And he, too, has watched the two nights past?
+
+  RUITEN. Aye, and he slept not
+  Though the samurai were heavy with sleep-fumes.
+
+  BUZEN. I will tell.
+
+  RUITEN. [_Elbows_ BUZEN _out of the way and comes forward._] You
+    are honorably hoarse.
+  He slept not, as I say--
+
+  PRINCE. How kept he awake?
+  Since many slept spell-bound
+  How broke he the spell?
+
+  RUITEN. With him he brought
+  Oiled paper and laid it
+  Down on the matting
+  Sitting upon it.
+  When o'er his eyes sleep stole
+  And wearily weighted them
+  He drew out his sharp dirk
+  And in his thigh thrust it
+  By pain driving the poppy fumes off.
+  Ever and again he twisted
+  The dirk in the raw wound
+  And the thick blood-drops
+  Soiled not the matting
+  Because of the oiled paper.
+
+  PRINCE. Indeed this is no common soldier,
+  This Ito Soda.
+
+  BUZEN. Indeed not--
+
+  RUITEN. To continue--[_Retires upstage, disgruntled._]
+
+  BUZEN. [_Pushing forward._] As I was saying, oh Prince,
+  His eyes never closed.
+  During the Reign of the Rat
+  He heard, in this room, O Toyo
+  Tossing and moaning
+  As if in great fear of something
+  She could not escape from.
+  Even at the same moment
+  As the beginnings of her moanings
+  Came a cat-call from the garden--
+  Then nearer--then ghostly paddings
+  As of padded claws on matting,
+  And an evil presence seemed hovering
+  And lurking near in the darkness.
+  O Toyo gave a low scream--than all was silence.
+  Soon she came stealthily
+  Through the shoji--cat-like her step--
+  Glassy her eyes--
+  Claw-like her hands--
+  Bent she over you with curled lips--
+  Then she turned, even as you have said,
+  And, seeing a waking watcher,
+  Left as she came.
+
+  RUITEN. [_Comes down._] The second night of Ito Soda's watching
+  She threatened him in low words
+  But he made as to stab her
+  And she melted before him
+  Laughing a little.
+  And he heard the rustle of her garments
+  As she regained this room
+  Though he saw not her passage hither.
+
+  PRINCE. Thicker with each word the horror about me.
+  [_Turns away to R._] Doubts to beliefs--beliefs to actions--
+  Love unto hate. [_Turns to them almost pleadingly._]
+  Tell me it is not O Toyo.
+
+  BUZEN. I questioned her maid, Kashiku,
+  And found that O Toyo's couch
+  Was empty even at the time
+  Of the weird visit to thee.
+
+  PRINCE. [_Overwhelmed._] So, it was O Toyo!
+  In the soul of a flower, a demon--
+  On the sweet lips, poison.
+
+  BUZEN. There is only one course--
+
+  RUITEN. The one road--
+
+  PRINCE. And I take it!
+
+  BUZEN. [_Moves toward door L._] The samurai are gathered.
+
+  PRINCE. Summon Ito Soda. [BUZEN _exits L._]
+
+  RUITEN. Hard is the fate of man
+  Here on this dark earth.
+  Many the shapes and the shadows
+  Stalking abroad.
+  Yet ever the gentle Buddha
+  From the Lotus Fields watches
+  And guards every life that lives.
+
+  PRINCE. [_Puts one hand on_ RUITEN'S _shoulder._] Priest, have
+    not many
+  Vampires bleeding them
+  And dream it is another thing?
+
+  RUITEN. The soul is often a vampire to the body.
+
+  PRINCE. And that evil thing must we kill.
+
+  ITO SODA. [_Enters L., kneels before the_ PRINCE. RUITEN _takes up
+    R. a little and_ BUZEN _re-entering after_ ITO SODA _goes up C._]
+  Honorable Prince, humbly I answer thy summons.
+
+  PRINCE. Rise, Ito Soda.
+  Faithful beyond words art thou,
+  This know I as all hath been told me.
+  No longer call thyself a common soldier
+  But a samurai of the Prince of Hizen.
+  And the two swords will I give thee on the morrow.
+
+  ITO SODA. On my knees I humbly thank thee. [_Rises._]
+
+  PRINCE. Now time presses.
+  O Toyo will be coming
+  In from the garden.
+  As usual shall the hundred sleepy samurai
+  Guard my couch. Let Ito Soda
+  Remain here hidden and watchful.
+  When O Toyo rises to enter my chamber--
+  Your dirk is sharp, Ito Soda?
+
+  ITO SODA. [_Draws dirk._] As a moonbeam on a cold night.
+
+  PRINCE. And you know how to use it.
+
+  ITO SODA. I will place this screen, thus. [_Goes to screen L.
+    and opens it so as to form a hiding place between the sleeping
+    mat and the door L._]
+  So will I wait the moment.
+
+  PRINCE. So be it. It is a good plan
+  And on the one road. Let us about it. [_Exits L. followed
+    by_ BUZEN _and_ RUITEN. ITO SODA _goes behind the screen._
+    O TOYO _is heard singing in the garden._]
+
+  O TOYO. [_Outside._] Moonlit convulvus
+  Through the night hours
+  Wan are their faces
+  Ghostly sweet.
+
+  Richer by daylight
+  Drinking of sunshine
+  As thirsty souls drink
+  At a shrine.
+
+  Fair are the faces
+  Glassed in the quiet pools
+  Maidens low-bending
+  Vain ones.
+
+  [_The singing stops abruptly._] Kashiku, is not that a cat
+  Stealing stealthily there?
+  She snarls--quick--[O TOYO _enters B. C. quickly and very
+    frightened, turns and looks back, hurries_ KASHIKU _in._
+    KASHIKU _follows much less disturbed at any fear of a cat
+    than over her mistress' fright._]
+
+  KASHIKU. [_Shuts the shoji R. C. and comes to_ O TOYO.] You are
+    all atremble.
+
+  O TOYO. Quick, let me be safe in slumber. [_Crosses to dressing
+    table._]
+
+  KASHIKU. [_Follows her and attends to her hair while_ O TOYO
+    _kneels before the glass._] Several nights lately have I
+    heard my lady moaning
+  As though even in sleep were she troubled.
+  The worry over your honorable lord hath disturbed thee.
+
+  O TOYO. Your ears are over keen.
+  I am happy when I sleep.
+  How can I moan, being happy?
+  You are dull.
+
+  KASHIKU. Perhaps it was the wind or the echo of my lord's moaning.
+
+  O TOYO. Moaning or was it singing?
+  I would it were singing
+  For singing is sweeter
+  On the lips of those dying.
+
+  KASHIKU. Dying?
+
+  O TOYO. When those whom we love are passing--
+  Even under our hands are passing--
+  And our love weans them from life
+  And our kisses suck out the blood-life,
+  Then would we touch them no more,
+  Then would we kiss them no more,
+  But a power greater than we
+  And a power that we fear
+  Forces us on in our love-killing.
+
+  KASHIKU. There is in your voice a vibration, as even the winds in
+    the pine-tops
+  When, in the autumn, they echo the summer's death-song;
+  There is in your eyes a strange light as if the soul of another
+  Looked out from your curtaining lashes and dimmed the sweet light
+    there abiding.
+  Oh, mistress, surely you are different than what you once were.
+
+  O TOYO. [_Crosses C. slowly._] Even now comes the hour and the
+    struggle
+  And I do the bidding of that which is in me.
+  How I hate the feel of his flesh
+  Quivering under my lips
+  And the loathsome taste of the blood-drops
+  Thick on my lips that would soothe him and cannot.
+
+  KASHIKU. Can anything soothe more than thy lips,
+  More than the lips that love him?
+  I cannot understand the words of your saying.
+  You are happy and tearful all in a moment,
+  Your soul seems a sky full of sunshine and clouds.
+  [_Coming to her._] Even now as my hand touches you, you are
+    trembling.
+  Is it the cat that crept upon us
+  Whose shape still affrights you?
+
+  O TOYO. Thou hast said it--My soul is as thou sayest.
+  My dreams are sweet and again bitter.
+  Once came a dream horrible above all dreams.
+
+  KASHIKU. What dream, my lady?
+
+  O TOYO. The night when you found me there on the floor.
+  Do you remember?
+
+  KASHIKU. Well. You were all distraught and the bosom of your gown
+  Was torn open and you clutched your throat
+  As if you were wounded there. But there was no mark.
+  And you let wild words fall from your lips
+  And none knew their meaning.
+
+  O TOYO. The Prince and I walked in the garden
+  And there at the shoji I left him.
+  As I entered
+  There entered
+  With me a spirit
+  And its breath fell upon me--
+  Dumb my tongue in my mouth
+  And frozen my marrow.
+  Suddenly it leapt upon me
+  And as I fell downward
+  Flashed the spirit into mine eyes--
+  A cat, two-tailed and hairy--
+  And it's teeth sank in my throat here--
+  Can you see a mark? [_Exposes her throat to_ KASHIKU.]
+
+  KASHIKU. The skin is as smooth as satin and perfect.
+
+  O TOYO. Then came darkness upon me--and so you found me.
+  So strong is the dream within me
+  I wonder if it be a dream or no.
+
+  KASHIKU. You had walked that evening in the garden.
+
+  O TOYO. I had rather dreamed I walked--say I dreamed it.
+
+  KASHIKU. The Prince was with--
+
+  O TOYO. Yet it was a dream, question it not.
+  I would go to rest peacefully.
+  He, too, shall rest peacefully--
+  I shall not kiss my lord tonight. [_Crosses L._]
+
+  KASHIKU. Not kiss him?
+
+  O TOYO. I think not I shall kiss him.
+  I would not pain his slumbers--
+  He has paled so and his face is so thin.
+  In the night he lies like a strong flower
+  And a strange flower, bled of its life--
+  Like a strong flower weakened.
+  And at its sight my dreams are bitter.
+  But as I gaze a change comes over all things
+  And I hold in my hands a beautiful flower
+  Which I kiss with my lips
+  Holding my lips long to it,
+  Draining its sweetness.
+  And a cloud passes over
+  And on my lips are clots of blood!
+
+  KASHIKU. Such dreamings are not good.
+  I find the silken coverlets tossed in the morning,
+  Twisted and thrown about as if you slept ill.
+
+  O TOYO. It is not O Toyo who tosses them--
+  It is the dream O Toyo.
+
+  KASHIKU. Two nights lately have I imagined you called to me
+  But entering you were not here--but there with your lord soothing
+    his sufferings.
+
+  O TOYO. Drinking at strange fountains and unknown springs--
+  Drinking of sacred waters sacred to unknown gods.
+  And as I drink another life becomes my life
+  And he is mine--utterly mine, at last!
+
+  KASHIKU. You frighten me--
+
+  O TOYO. Be not frightened--you have no need.
+  Now I shall sleep.
+  He, too, is sleeping. Perhaps--perhaps he is suffering.
+  Shall I touch him with my hands?
+  Perhaps he is hungry for my kisses--
+  Shall I kiss him?
+
+  KASHIKU. It were a fitting thing to kiss thy lord.
+
+  O TOYO. You know not what you say, Kashiku.
+
+  KASHIKU. My lady--
+
+  O TOYO. You have not heard me say strange things, Kashiku.
+
+  KASHIKU. I have heard--
+
+  O TOYO. Nothing.
+
+  KASHIKU. Nothing, my lady.
+
+  O TOYO. Put out the lamps. [KASHIKU _blows out candles on
+    dressing table_.]
+  Go now, Kashiku, and do you sleep deeply,
+  Breathing poppies.
+
+  KASHIKU. My lady--
+
+  O TOYO. Go. [KASHIKU _opens shoji R. and goes out shutting it
+    after her_. O TOYO _crosses, too, and lies on the sleeping
+    mat. The room is almost in total darkness._]
+
+  O TOYO. I shall kiss him--I shall kiss him! [_The lantern at
+    the head of the sleeping mat glows more and more brightly
+    until a cat's head appears on it. At this moment a cat-call
+    comes from the garden._ (NOTE.--If these effects cannot be
+    gotten with no hint of the ludicrous, have the lantern glow
+    with increasing light but use no cat's head or cat call.)
+    _With the increase of light_, O TOYO _has begun to moan and
+    toss and at the moment of the cat-call she rises as in a
+    trance and goes towards the door L. As she passes the screen_
+    ITO SODA _steps out from behind it and plunges his dirk into
+    her back; she falls with a little, stifled cry. Instantly, in
+    utter darkness, the curtain falls._]
+
+
+END OF THE PLAY.
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