The Wayfarers
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Excerpt from The Wayfarers: A Rural Play in Four Acts Act I. - Exterior of Uncle Billy´s home, a day in June. Uncle Billy and Miss Philura discuss old memories. Philura suspicious. "It takes a woman to see which way the wind´s a blowin´." The stranger. A slave to drink. "I knew someone by that name years ago." Dudley and Emmaline. Dudley goes to town. The constable. "Who is that feller, Billy?" The bank robbery. Josh an unsuccessful suitor. The Animal Poet. "Are you doin´ anything for it?" The arrival of the Wayfarers. "A ham sandwich and a leming pie." The Wayfarers find a home. The little minister. "That chapter of my life is closed forever." The accident to Philura. Act. II. - Kitchen of Uncle Billy´s home same evening. The quarrel. Dudley´s return. Josh tells of the robbery. "Laugh, gol darn ye, laugh!" Emmaline and Dudley. Clytie learns a few things. A general clean-up. The minister and Clytie. "She couldn´t cuss, could she?" The Animal Poet interrupts. Washing dishes. Watson in search of Dudley. The partnership is dissolved. "I´m not even good enough to be a thief." The little room upstairs. The meeting of Dudley and Bessie. "One of us must leave here." Dudley in an ugly mood. Clytie and the mutt. Act III. - The little room upstairs, a few hours later. The sad story of Uncle Billy´s daughter. "This was her room." Clytie parts with the mutt. Confidences. Bessie´s goodnight song. Clytie investigates. The photograph of Margaret. The resemblance. Watson comes to steal. He discovers the photograph. "Then this was her home." Remorse. The apparition. Act IV. - Same as Act II. Next morning. Josh and Hez. as minions of the law. A deputy honey fido. Billy gives a few points to Josh. Dudley´s insinuations. "We´ll cross that bridge when we come to it." The mutt decorated. A nameless little beggar. Watson able to speak. "Where is my Margaret´s baby?" A wreck of a man. "If she can forgive me, perhaps God will be as good." Clytie learns she has a family. "I´m going with you." Billy relents. "You gave me a home once," Josh and Hez. in the nick of time. 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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