Civil Service an American Drama in Three Acts
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Civil Service an American Drama in Three Acts: A Play With a Punch A comedy drama of American life depicting the joys and sorrows, the heartaches and struggles and temptations of a small group of government employees working in a post-office in a small city in the middle west. There is the stern inspector, the officious postmaster, the busybody mail clerk, the ambitious young clerk who yields to temptation and robs the postoffice, the kind hearted old man who carries the rural route, the raw recruit and the noble hearted, plucky little stamp clerk, who bravely stifles her own feelings and lives for the advancement of her friends. Steve Audaine, the hero of the play, has been living beyond his means and is deeply in debt. He steals two fifty dollar bills from a letter, but soon repents his rash action. The postoffice inspector arrives hot on the trail of the thief. Just as Steve´s guilt has been established "Old R. F. D.," a kind-hearted old man, the rural free delivery carrier, comes forward and assumes the guilt. Years before he has robbed the mails and was sentenced and served fifteen years in the penitentiary. When he was sent to prison he had a baby boy but when released was unable to find him. He now discovers that Steve is his son and resolves to keep him from following in his father´s footsteps. The father-love prompts the self-sacrifice and makes him happy in giving his boy all he has in this world to offer - his liberty. But through the pluck and sagacity of Kate Kenyon, the little stamp clerk, neither Steve nor his father are required to suffer the penalty of Steve´s rash action. All ends happily and Steve and Kate and old R. F. D. (with his faithful old mare, Bess) go out on a homestead in In Montana to begin a new life free from temptation and care and out of the bonds of Civil Service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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