THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Price, 50 Cents Alabama A Drama in Four Acts AUGUSTUS THOMAS PUBLI5hED'BY ICPUDL15niNQCO I iili CHARLES M 5ERGEL PRE5. Practical Instructions for Private Theatricals By "W. D, EMERSON Author of "A Country Romance," "The Unknown Kival," "Humble Pie," etc. Price, 25 cents Here is a practical hand-took, 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 usefwl book has ever been offered to the amateur players of ai\v country. CONTENTS Chapter I. Introductory Remarks. Chapter II. Stage, How to Make, etc. In drawing-room* 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, Break- ing Glass, Falling Buildings, Snow, Water, Waves, Cascades, Passing Trains, Lightning, Chimes, Sound of Horses' Hoofs, Shots. Chapter VTL 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 ALABAMA A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS BY AUGUSTUS THOMAS Mtmber of American Dramatists' Club, Author of "In Miezoura," "The Burglar," "A Man of the World," "TAe Hoosier Doctor," "The Capital," ' The Man Upstairs," " Tkejack- lin's Afterthoughts," "A Proper Impropriety," etc., etc. CHICAGO: THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY. COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL. COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND WARNING. This play is fully protected by the copyright law, all requirements of which have been complied with. In its present printed form it is dedicated to the reading public only, and no performances of it may be given with out the written permission of the author, who may be addressed in care of the publisher. The subjoined is an extract from the law relating to copyright : SEC. 4996. Any person publicly performing or representing any dramatic or musical composition for which a copyright has been obtained, without the consent of the proprietor of said dramatic or musical composition or bis heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages therefor, such damages in all cases to be assessed at such sum not less than one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent performance as to the Court shall appear just. If the unlawful performance and representation be willful and for profit, such person or persons shall be guilty of a mis demeanor, and upon conviction be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year. CAST OF CHARACTERS In the original production, Madison Square Tfitater, April 1, 1890. COLONEL PRESTON, an old planter, MR. J. H. STODDARDT. COLONEL MOBERLY, a relic of the Confederacy, MR. E. M. HOLLAND. SQUIRE TUCKER, a Taladega County justice, MR. CHARLES L. HARRIS. CAPTAIN DAVENPORT, a Northern railroad man, MR. MAURICE BARRYMORE. MR. ARMSTRONG, his agent, MR. EDWARD BELL. LATHROP PAGE, a Southern boy, MR. HENRY WOODRUFF. RAYMOND PAGE, a party of business, MR. WALDEN RAMSEY. DECATUR, an ante-bellum servant, MR. REUB. Fox. MRS. PAGE, a widow who thinks twice, Miss MAY BROOKYN. MRS. STOCKTON, another widow, Miss ANNE GREGORY. CAREY PRESTON, an Alabama blossom, Miss AGNES MILLER. ATLANTA MOBERLY, Colonel Moberly's daughter, Miss NANNIE CRADDOCK 7571 58 ALABAMA ACT I TIME : An evening in May, 1880 SCENE : MRS. PAGE'S garden. Walks and beds laid out. Trained vines, plants, etc., about cottage and porch showing right, 2. Picket fence set obliquely from back of cottage to 1, left, with gate, center. Plain bench inside of fence and right of gate. Sack drop showing low per spective of bayou and swamp land with old- fashioned Southern mansion on a distant eminence. DISCOVERED : MRS. PAGE with pruning shears, twine, and watering-pot busy training and tying vines and plants. MRS. PAGE [ With shears, crosses to flower-bed.'] Well, that is the best I can do at any rate. Poor heartsease ! Somebody has stepped upon you, as somebody is always doing upon everything that has a heart in it. ALABAMA [Uses shears.] I suppose you think I'm cruel with my surgical attention, but I mean that kindly too. [ Goes L.] This poor bed is a regular hospital with its broken limbs. [ Up.] The fever of the noon has gone, little fellows, and left you thirsty. [Uses watering-pot.] [Enter LATHROP PAGE to porch.] LATHROP How long before tea, mother ? MRS. P. The usual time, my dear. Are you starving? LATHROP Not even hungry, but if there's a half-hour I'll run over to Clayton's and make a sketch of his end of the bayou. MRS. P. [L] Would you mind getting me that ball ef twine from the back-room mantel before you go ? LATHROP Not at all. Is there a half hour yet ? MRS. P. I don't know, I'm sure. Ask Mandy. [LATHROP exits into house.] LATHROP [Off.] Mandy! Mandy! ALABAMA MRS. P. [ With string.] Dear Latlirop, it really looks as if he had a little of his father's business talent. I hope so. It nearly kills me to think of his passing a life here, where humanity is almost vegetation. But I don't wonder at it. The bayous are so sluggish, and the sun stands still so long at noon-time. [Re-enter LATHEOP. Takes coat from gate where it has been hanging.] LATHROP Here's the twine, mother. Mandy says twenty minutes. MRS. P. Then why go ? LATHROP [Putting coat on.] I can make it in that time if I run. [ Outside gate] MRS. P. Well, don't overheat yourself, my boy. We will wait a few minutes for you. LATHROP Oh, I'm all right. [Exit running easily, L. 2.] MRS. P. Run ! Is there another boy in Coosa County that would run with the thermometer in the nineties? ALABAMA Perhaps you'll live fast enough, dear son, to catch up with some opportunity who knows ? [Looks off JR.] Or will he settle down into such an indolent old bunch of swamp moss as this? Good-evening, Squire. [Enter SQUIRE back of fence, with pail and gig, M. y hangs pail on picket.] SQUIRE Good-evenin', Mrs. Page. [Pawse.] Workin' in you' garden, I see. \He leans indolently over the fence R. of gate. Seams on MRS. P., showing by facial expres sion that he loves her.] MRS. P. Yes, Squire. SQUIRE Certainly does look pretty. [MRS. P. goes to vines at house.] How's the Madery vines ? MRS. P. They are doing very nicely indeed. SQUIRE No bugs? MRS. P. None that destroys them. 4 ALABAMA SQUIRE Some folks says the meada' larks eats the Madery vine bugs, an' I reckon that's so, 'cause we ain't seen none since the meada' larks been so thick. MRS. P. Are your vines doing well ? SQUIRE We ain't put out none this spring. Fact, mother ain't makin' no garden at all, except enough for table greens. MRS. P. And you had such a pretty one last year. SQUIRE Yes, but it took so much time, Mrs. Page took so much time I didn't have a chance to read up on some of my mos' important cases, an' had to decide 'em jes' off-hand like, an' whatever way I think was right. Then the railroad kind-a skeered us. MRS. P. Why so? SQUIRE Well, folks do say that like as not it '11 run right across this bayou. MRS. P. Yes, there is a chance of that. 5 ALABAMA An* in J>t se yents 'ud go up so mother J n me couldn't staj where we are. MRS. P. Oh, I don't think reats will be affect 3d. SQUIRE Well, property certainly will increase. MRS. P. Values will, a trifle, I suppose. SQUIRE Well, anyhow, we ain't makin' no garden. [Pause.] Say, Mrs. Page. MRS. P. Yes, Squire. SQUIRE What's this young feller's name comin' along ovah yondah with Miss Carey ? MRS. P. [Going to gate.'] Where? SQUIRE Over yon - To right. Don't look now 'cause he'll think I'm talkin' about him. Been presented to him twice, an' can't remember his name. 6 ALABAMA MRS. P. [Looking incidentally.'] Oh, that's Mr. Armstrong. SQUIRE Armstrong Armstrong. Funny I forget that name. Couldn't think of it yesterday when Mrs. Clayton said it certainly did seem strange that Miss Carey 'd take such a shine to him, when they was so many promisin' young fellers in Talladega. MRS. P. [L. of gate.] I hope it doesn't worry Mrs. Clayton. SQUIRE [Crosses to L. of gate.] Well, it did seem to dis tress her certainly. An' you know Mrs. Clayton ain't very partial to Northern people since her Beatrice run off with that Yankee drummer. MRS. P. Well, the Yankee drummer makes a very good husband. Carey gets letters from Beatrice. She is happy and has a pretty home in Chicago. SQUIRE Now now don't that show? H-how could any body be happy in Chicago after livin' in Talladega ? MRS. P. I never thought of that. 7 ALABAMA SQUIRE Jes' see him switchin' that cane of hisn, cuttin' the heads off of the four o'clocks. Seems they must always be doin' somethin', them chaps from up North. MRS. P. They don't lose much time. SQUIRE He's certainly not lost much ovah Miss Carey. He's only been here a week. [Miter ARMSTRONG and CAREY. H.] ARMSTRONG Good-evening, Mrs. Page. MRS. P. Good-evening, Mr. Armstrong. You know Squire Tucker? ARMSTRONG Oh, yes ; the Squire and I are old friends of five or six days' standing. SQUIRE Yes, yes. CAREY Good -evening, Squire. [JZnters gate, kisses MRS. PAGE.] How are the larkspurs, Cousin Mildred? 8 ALABAMA MRS. P. They are doing very well indeed. [ Crosses with CARET, MJ\ One or two little fellows at this end of the playground, however, seem to have suffered sun stroke. See what a pretty colony this is. [They goL.~\ SQUIRE [Still back of fence with ARMSTRONG.] Mr. Arm strong. ARMSTRONG Yes. SQUIRE [ Crosses to R. of gate.] Some folks says you all going to run that new railroad o' yourn ovah the bayou yondah. ARMSTRONG That is one proposed route. SQUIRE Well, see here, will that make a dam ovah it? ARMSTRONG A dam? SQUIRE Yes. Won't you' embankment stop up our end of it? ALABAMA ARMSTRONG Oh, no, there will be no embankment. The cheapest construction would be cypress piling with free play to the water below. SQUIRE Well, I'm glad of that. A dam would be a very paramount objection to the road. ARMSTRONG Yes? SQUIRE Yes. Y> see, that bayou is jes' rich with frogs. See heah [holds up pail], I gig them twenty-one in about forty minutes. ARMSTRONG Frogs ? SQUIRE Oh, yes ; their saddle's jes' as sweet as chicken. Now fifteen is a very good meal for mother and myself. ARMSTRONG Yes, but what has that to do with the railroad ? SQUIRE Nothing if you put in piles, but a dam might stop the water, and discourage the frogs ; and most of our citizens is bitterly opposed to that. 10 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG Oh, I see, yes. [Musingly '.] That is a difficulty I hadn't anticipated. MRS. P. [ Up to bench, sits.'] What is that, Mr. Armstrong ? ARMSTRONG I am just learning that the possible inconvenience to the frogs in the bayou is one of the objections to the proposed railway. MRS. P. [Smiling.] Yes, we guard our institutions very jealously. ARMSTRONG Do you suppose any kindred considerations are responsible for Colonel Preston's reluctance ? CAREY [. (7.] Mr. Armstrong, how can you joke about grandpa ? ARMSTRONG I am not joking. SQUIRE [ Calling off L.] Yes, yes, I'm a-comin'. [All turn to him as he picks up pail and gig.] Mother is wav- in' me to come home. I suppose supper is waitin* on these frogs. ii ALABAMA MRS. P. It isn't because you are gossiping with the widow, is it, Squire ? SQUIRE [Laughing.} No, I reckon not, ha, ha ! [Starts and stops L.~\ When these is dressed, Mrs. Page, I'll do myself the pleasure to bring you down half a dozen saddle. MRS. P. Thank you, Squire. SQUIRE Not at all, ma'am. Evenin', Mistah Armstrong, evenin'. [Exit SQUIRE calling.'] Yes'm, I'm comin'. MRS. P. Good-evening, Squire. ARMSTRONG Good-evening. [CABBY bows and smiles.'] MRS. P. Won't you come inside, Mr. Armstrong ? ARMSTRONG I will, thank you. [Enters gate.] These are your friends ? [Indicating flowers.] MRS. P. More than friends, Mr. Armstrong, they are my family. 12 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG Stupid of me not to see they were at least rela tions, Mrs. Page. [Looks at CAREY. ] MRS. P. [Rising.] Carey is affecting an unconsciousness, but I bow. CAREY What was that ? MRS. P. Only a lost opportunity, ray dear. Youth is filled with them. Do you admire flowers, Mr. Armstrong ? ARMSTRONG [ C".] Very much. I've never been familiar enough with them to do more. MRS. P. Not even at home ? ARMSTRONG Not even at home. We live in a brick row in Boston, where the houses are close together like front teeth. A dear old grandmother of mine has put a smile over one window sill with a box of geraniums, but is scarcely generous never prodigal. MRS. P. Well, Carey shall gather some for you. Take my ALABAMA shears, dear. [Passes them.] I'll be gone only a minute. Excuse me. Cut bachelor-buttons, dear. [Exit to house.] CAREY Very funny shears. ARMSTRONG But appropriate. CAREY Appropriate ? ARMSTRONG Very. CAREY [Kneeling at bed up L. C.] Oh, I suppose because of the spring in them. Was that your joke? ARMSTRONG There was no joke. CAREY Do you want me to ask you why appropriate, then? ARMSTRONG No, I meant to tell you. CAREY [JRising and handing him some flowers.] Well, tell me. Hold these. 14 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG And let me hold these [kissing her hands] ;i moment too. CAREY [Half alarmed but wholly willing.] Mr. Arm strong ARMSTRONG Little woman every artist who has tried to put on canvas or in stone his idea of the Fates, has pictured one of them holding a pair of shears just as you hold these ; just as with a pressure of those little fingers, you can turn the tide of a human life. Miss Carey, don't look down. CAREY [Looking up.] Mr. Armstrong ARMSTRONG I am very much in earnest. CAREY You have known me only a week. ARMSTRONG I have been with you only a week, but I have known you always. CAREY Known me ? 15 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG Yes. A dear old man in Boston once wrote, " There are words that have loved each other since the birth of the language, and when they meet that is poetry." Miss Carey CAREY Yes. ARMSTRONG There are lives that have been in rhythm always, and when they meet that is love. I love you, Carey Preston. CAREY [Archly.] But, are there no girls in Boston? ARMSTRONG [ Waiting and becoming amicsed.} Yes, a few but they're in Boston. CAREY [Smiling.'] Oh ! ARMSTRONG Don't smile, little girl. CAREY You smiled. ARMSTRONG Yes, but I I am very serious. I said, I loved you. 16 ALABAMA CAREY And I I- ARMSTRONG Well CAREY I am very glad. [Puts her face on his breast.] MRS. P. [After pause, and off.} Carey CAREY That is Cousin Mildred. ARMSTRONG [Keeping hold of CAEEY'S hand.} Yes, that is Cousin Mildred. [Enter MRS. p.] MRS. P. Well, what have you done ? CAREY [ Undecidedly.} I've cut some bachelor-buttons. ARMSTRONG Truly. MRS. P. An implied significance. ARMSTRONG Yes. Mrs. Page [Pause.} This little lady has told me something of herself. 17 ALABAMA MRS. P. Pleasant confessions ? ARMSTRONG They are proving so. She tells me she does not remember her parents. MRS. P. No. Carey's father went North at the begin ning of the war. The mother died when Carey was too young to remember her. ARMSTRONG She tells me you are the only mother she remem bers. MRS. P. She was a very dutiful daughter too, till her Grandpa Preston took her home. CAREY And am I not still ? MRS. P. Oh, yes; but you understand, Mr. Armstrong, I am no longer in authority. I am only Cousin Mildred. ARMSTRONG Which is quite a good deal, judging from her frequent testimony. [Pause.] You see, Mrs. Page [Pause.] ALABAMA MRS. P. [Smiling.] I think I see, Mr. Armstrong. ARMSTRONG [Brightening.] Thank you, I thought you would. MRS. P. Yes, nearly everybody in the neighborhood has done the same. ARMSTRONG [Inquiringly.] That is MRS. P. Seen. ARMSTRONG Really ? MRS. P. Really yes. ARMSTRONG Well, I hadn't thought that. I've been here only a week. MRS. P. But you have been together all the time. ARMSTRONG True. But then I was Colonel Preston's guest. He had been kind enough to ask me to stop there, 19 ALABAMA and naturally I that is, Miss Carey and I were thrown together. MRS. P. Thrown together ? I don't think " thrown " is the best word under the circumstances. ARMSTRONG Well, perhaps not thrown. [Pause .] But it would be difficult to improve on " together," wouldn't it ? MRS. P. Not only difficult, but misleading. ARMSTRONG Yes. [Pause.'] MRS. P. Well? ARMSTRONG [Still holding CARET'S hand.] Thank you. I I was hesitating for the best form of expression. MRS. P. Verbally, of course. ARMSTRONG Oh, yes, verbally. I understand that pictorially this [looking at hands] is sufficiently effective. CAREY [Trying to disengage hand.] Please don't. 20 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG [Reassuringly.] But why not ? Mrs. your cousin Mildred understands it, don't you? MRS. P. Perfectly, Carey, dear. Come here. [CASEY crosses to MRS. P., who kisses her] ARMSTRONG Mrs. Page, I'd like to say something out of the commonplace to show my appreciation of your encouragement. MRS. P. The commonplaces are more in my way, Mr. Armstrong. ARMSTRONG And mine, but I felt I ought to speak to someone about it. I never seemed able quite to get her grandpa's attention, and besides you had acted as her mother and MRS. P. And I'm glad you tell me first. Colonel Preston is very old. ARMSTRONG I noticed that. [ Crosses Z.] MRS. P. It is easily discovered. And he is very positive in many views as you also may have noticed. ALABAMA ARMSTRONG Yes. MRS. P. With an old man's tenacity, he retains many prej udices against the people of the North. I don't think he, would look favorably upon Carey's alliance there. CAREY Don't you, Cousin Mildred ? MRS. P. No. ARMSTRONG Well, what do you advise ? MRS. P. Telling him, of course ; but knowing his peculi arities, j^ou can humor them. ARMSTRONG Oh, to be sure. MRS. P. I don't know just how well acquainted you are with our little girl, but her nature is rather a biddable one. CAREY [JHalf mutinously.] I know what I want. 22 ALABAMA MRS. P. [Smiling.] Have you known it longer than a week, dear ? CAREY. \Poutingly .] Oh, I'm going home. [She goes up to gate.] MRS. P. You'd better wait and take your dolls. [Crosses to bench. Sits on bench.] ARMSTRONG [L. of bench.] Of course, Miss Carey's people know very little of me. MRS. P. There isn't much to learn, Mr. Armstrong. Carey is a little, unsophisticated Alabama girl, raised on a bankrupt plantation. She is not an heiress she has few personal allurements. If an honest, energetic man loves her, we think he must be in earnest. And after that, there is really little else. ARMSTRONG You are very good, Mrs. Page, and I am in earnest. MRS. P. Colonel Preston would resent any weakness for the North in Carey more quickly than in any other person. 2 3 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG Why so ? MRS. P. Her father Harry Preston Colonel Preston's son- ARMSTRONG Yes. MRS. P. Grieved the old man very deeply at the commence ment of the late war by enlisting with the North. ARMSTRONG Carey has told me her father was a graduate of West Point. MRS. P. Well? ARMSTRONG That should have meant something. MRS. P. So was General Lee but let us not speak of that. Harry Preston went with the North. He was one of the men who came through here with Sherman. Young Preston at that time visited his wife, Carey's mother, who was living with the old man then. She met him against the wishes of his father. .24 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG But she was his wife. MRS. P. Yes, but a member of Mr. Preston's family, and he resented her action. I am not justifying the old man's wrath I only explain that both of Carey's parents hurt him very deeply. ARMSTRONG I understand. [ Goes to LJ\ CAREY Here is Colonel Moberly, Cousin Mildred. MRS. P. [Rising and going down RJ\ Where ? CAREY Good-evening, Colonel. [Enter COLONEL MOBERLY, L. 2.] MOBERLY [L. <7.] Good-evening, Miss Carey. How are you all over at Colonel Preston's ? Good-evening, Mrs. Page. MRS. P. Good-evening, Colonel. Won't you come in ? MOBERLY Thank you. [Enters gate.~] My dear Mrs. Page, I I kiss yo' hand. [Business.] 25 ALABAMA MRS. P. [J?.] You know Mr. Armstrong? MOBERLY [J?. G.~\ I have met Major Armstrong. CAREY [L. C.] Major Armstrong. MOBERLY Major Armstrong of the Gulf and Midland Rail road. ARMSTRONG Thank you, Colonel, 'but it is only plain Mister. MOBERLY My dear Miss Carey, do not permit our friend to undervalue himself. That he does not bear the title is a mere accident of birth. If he had been born, Mrs. Page, a generation earlier, and when our inter necine strife afforded the opportunity, his gallant bearing alone would have won him the rank of Major. MRS. P. I quite agree with you, Colonel. ARMSTRONG You are very complimentary, Colonel. 26 ALABAMA MOBERLY Not at all, Major, not at all. I am informed on very credible authority that you are expecting you' Captain Davenport here in the morning. ARMSTRONG We are. MOBERLY I shall very much admire to meet him. MRS. P. May I ask who Captain Davenport is ? ARMSTRONG He is the projector of the new road, and its chief engineer as well as president. MRS. P. And he is coming here ? ARMSTRONG He is going over the entire line. I simply precede him in my work of acquiring the right of way. MOBERLY Major Armstrong is what we call a skirmish line in the enterprise. Captain Davenport follows with the heavy artillery. ARMSTRONG Precisely. 27 ALABAMA MRS. P. I see. [To porch.] MOBERLY What is Captain Davenport's idea of a meeting at Colonel Preston's ? ARMSTRONG Simply called there because I am making that my headquarters, I think. But how did you learn of the meeting, Colonel ? MOBERLY Well, sah, an editor hears of most everything, especially in a place like this. Mrs. Stockton told me for one. ARMSTRONG Mrs. Stockton ? MOBERLY Yes, there is some talk of the road going her way, five miles from here. ARMSTRONG Yes. MOBERLY Then I also heard it from Mr. Page, the chairman of the Assembly committee on railroads. Mrs. Stock ton has accepted my offer of escort to the meeting to-morrow, unless you object. 28 ALA BAM A ARMSTRONG Most happy to have you there, Colonel. MOBERLY Thank you, Major. [ARMSTRONG is talking to CAREY at fence, L. (?.] MOBERLY I have called on a little business, Mrs. Page. MRS. P. With me, Colonel ? * MOBERLY Yes. Will you ask our friends to excuse us a moment ? MRS. P. Carey, dear. CAREY Yes, cousin. MRS. P. Show Mr. Armstrong the beds at the lower end of the garden. I have a moment's business with Colonel Moberly. [CAREY enters gate J ARMSTRONG Certainly. MOBERLY I am very sorry, Major, to intrude, but 29 ALABAMA MRS. P. [Significantly.'} But it will only be a moment, friends. ARMSTRONG Oh, we can wait. [Exit /., with CABBY.] MRS. P. [At bench seated.] And now, Colonel Moberly ? MOBERLY [L. of bench.'] My dear Mistress Page, I I am in a most embarrassing attitude. MRS. P. Won't you sit down ? MOBERLY That isn't the trouble. I have been asked to a case against you. MRS. P. Against me ! A case? MOBERLY Yes, ma'am, I'm grieved to say it. MRS. P. What is the cause ? MOBERLY The possession of this property. 3 ALABAMA MRS. P. Well, it is mine, and at any rate has no value, or very little. MOBERLY The new railroad is making things ah look up, Mrs. Page. MRS. P. And is my little property coveted ? MOBERLY The title is questioned. MRS. P. Questioned by whom? My husband's family ? MOBERLY Your husband's brother, yes, ma'am. MRS. P. Raymond Page ? MOBERLY Yes, Mistress Page. He says MRS. P. I anticipate you, Colonel. You need not speak it. MOBERLY I much prefer not to. But he is coming himself. [Crosses to JR.] MRS. P. Here ? [Rising.] MOBERLY Here. I thought it only the chivalrous thing to make you aware of it first. MRS. P. I thank you, but you are his attorney. MOBERLY He has asked me to handle his case. MRS. P. And you accepted? MOBERLY As someone must, I thought it best a friend should discuss your interests. But here is Mr. Page. MRS. P. [ C., calling. ] Carey ! CAREY [ Off^\ Yes, cousin. MRS. P. Come here, my dear. MOBERLY Is it best to tell Miss Carey ? MRS. P. I need a friend. 32 ALABAMA MOBERLY My dear Mrs. Page, I MRS. P. Must act as his attorney. [Enter ARMSTRONG and CARET.] CAREY Well, cousin? MRS. P. Mr. Armstrong, will you be kind enough to say to Squire Tucker that I wish to see him on business ? ARMSTRONG Now? MRS. P. Now. ARMSTRONG With pleasure. [Exits L. U. E.\ CAREY What is the matter, Cousin Mildred ? [Enter PAGE/TOWI _.] MRS. P. This is the matter. PAGE [Entering gate.] Good-evening, Mildred. 33 ALABAMA MRS. P. You have business, your attorney tells me. PAGE Then he has told you ? MRS. P. I prefer to hear it from you. PAGE Shall we go inside? MRS. P. Not in my house. PAGE The young lady Miss Oarey, good-evening. CAREY Mr. Page MRS. P. Carey is with me. PAGE Shall she hear ? MRS. P. Everything. PAGE I will state my case materially as I have told it to my tttorn y. 34 ALABAMA MRS. P. If you please. PAGE You are in possession here of property left to my brother, Dabney Page. MRS. P. And my husband. PAGE Well there we begin to differ. MRS. P. Sir, once before you have affronted me. PAGE I am prepared for your indignation, but my brother told me you had never been his wife. MRS. P. Sir! CAREY Cousin Mildred ! MRS. P. My dear, don't believe him. CAREY How could I ? 35 ALABAMA PAGE^ You have been permitted to live here, but the property is mine. That is my case. MRS. P. Is that a just cause, Colonel Moberly ? MOBERLY . You can prove yourself Mr. Dabney Page's wife, of course, Mrs. Page. [MES. P. buries her face in her hands.] CAREY Of course she can. I've heard grandpa say that Lathrop was the image of his father. PAGE The law does not regard resemblance as proof of legitimate descent. MOBERLY [ Crosses to PAGE. ] But damme, sir, every Southern gentleman should. Mrs. Page, I did not think of you' son Lathrop. [ To PAGE.] I relinquish the con duct of your case, sir. PAGE Very well. There are other lawyers. [Crosses to R. corner.] MRS. P. Colonel Moberly ! [She gives him her hand.] 36 ALABAMA MOBERLY Mrs. Page, I I kiss you' hand. [ Goes to gate.] PAGE We will need some proofs, madam, besides senti ment. CAREY . What is it, Cousin Mildred ? MRS. P. The chaplain who married Mr. Page and me was killed in the war, dear, as Mr. Page was CAREY But my mother was there. MRS. P. Yes, and with this same sweet face, my darling. [Holding CAREY'S face.] If she could but have left her memory with you, as she left her eyes. [JEnter SQUIRE.] PAGE Well, madam ? SQUIRE You wanted to see me, Mrs. Page ? MRS. P. I do not know, Squire. I am in some trouble, I felt the need of a friend a legal friend. 37 ALABAMA SQUIRE Well, Colonel Moberly MRS. P. Is on the other side. MOBERLY [Coming down.] Was approached by the other side, Mrs. Page, was approached. SQUIRE Well, befo' we proceed to business, mother begs you will accept these frogs. MRS. P. Thank you, Squire. SQUIRE [Puts plate of frogs on porch and sits spreadingly on bench.] And now kindly state your case to the court. MRS. P. Mr. Raymond Page, your story again. PAGE My case is simply this this lady and her son have been in possession of this property which belongs to our estate. 38 ALABAMA SQUIRE You have never disputed her title ? PAGE Once, yes. But as it was of little worth we per mitted her to remain. It now has a suddenly increased value, and we assert our claim. SQUIRE [Rising and coming down.] On what ground ? [Miter LATHROP, L. 2.] PAGE One that I trust the lady will not force us to press. We insist that my brother, Dabney Page LATHROP [Entering gate.] My father PAGE Yes, your father was * MRS. P. Not before my son. LATHROP [7b MKS. PAGE'S side.] What is it, mother ? What does this mean ? PAGE It means 39 ALABAMA SQUIRE [Interrupting, and with one hand on PAGE'S collar.] Another word, sah, and as this lady's attor ney, and counselor-at-law, I smash you' damned face. CURTAIN. ALA BAM A ACT IT. TIME -. The following morning. SCENE : COLONEL PRESTON'S premises Two-story brick house with green blinds and white porch, rising two steps from stage, set L. from curtain line to 3. Large umbrageous tree, 2, M. C. JRuined wall, with open gateway crossing at 3. Post R. of gate in ruins. Post L. of gate com plete. Wall and posts covered by vines. Hustic table and two chairs in front of tree. Back drop of bayou and vegetation in perspec tive. DISCOVERED : PAGE and ARMSTRONG. Piano heard off, " Down on the Farm" ARMSTRONG [L. of table JR., seated.] Then it is understood, Mr. Page, that your committee will report favorably on our bill ? I would like to be able to say that much to Captain Davenport when he arrives. PAGE [Standing (7.] You may say so, Mr. Armstrong. Of course the bill is not reported yet, but I feel sure 41 ALABAMA that, as chairman of its committee, I can influence a favorable report. There is only one thing in the way. ARMSTRONG And that is ? PAGE Certain expenses that our committee have been put to personally, and which I have defrayed. ARMSTRONG What amount will cover them? PAGE A thousand, I should say. ARMSTRONG I am ready to make that good. PAGE Now? ARMSTRONG Now. Will you accept it ? PAGE Well, not for that purpose. You see the expenses have not been official. ARMSTRONG I understand that perfectly. I have some legis lative experience. ALABAMA PAGE But I am willing to wager you a thousand dollars on the toss of a coin, and let you toss it. ARMSTRONG Done. Head or tails ? PAGE Tails. ARMSTRONG [Not looking at result."] I lose. I will write you a check now. [Business with fountain pen.] PAGE I would prefer the cash, as I need the money to-day. ARMSTRONG I haven't that amount, but this check will be taken by the Talladega bank. I have cashed two there in the past week. Your initials are ? PAGE Make it payable to bearer. ARMSTRONG Oh, I see. All right. [Writes.] It is signed by Captain Henry P. Davenport, our president. [Hands check.] PAGE Thanks. I will now join Mr. Preston. Believe me, Mr. Armstrong, I am as anxious as you can be to gain his consent to the right of way. 43 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG I thank you. I hope you may. [Exit PAGE, R. C. Sound of piano in house.] Well, that's as cold-blooded a bribe as I ever knew. But it's well spent if he can control the committee. [Goes to house. Enter DECATUR, back of house, faith syrup pitcher.] Is that Miss Carey at the piano, Decatur ? DECATUR [ C.] Yes, sah. [Exit ARMSTRONG tO house] DECATUR [At table.] Can't see why New Orleans molasses ain't good enough for Mistah Armstrong. Mars Preston never wants nuffin else, I never wants nuffin else, but Miss Carey says must have maple seerup for Mars Armstrong. Dat Miss Carey she just like her ma used to be. She take shine to young man tain't nuffin too sweet for him. [Enter LATHROP.] LATHROP [-B. C.] Good-morning, Uncle 'Catur. DECATUR Mornin', mornin', Mars Lathrop. How is you dis mornin', s^h ? 44 ALABAMA LATHROP [Smiling a reply. ~\ Mr. Armstrong about ? DECATUR Out in a minute, sab, I guess. He's had his bath and his hot watah to shave, and heah's his maple seerup. LATHROP Maple syrup? DECATUR Yes, sab. Ole Decatur had to ride over nearly to Talladega to buy bottle for him. He he don't like New Orleans molasses. LATHROP Doesn't like it, eh ? DECATUR Dat is, he 'spress a fondness fob maple syrup, and Miss Carey said he must have it. LATHROP Miss Carey, eh ? [ Crosses R. C.~\ DECATUR Yes, sah. [Crosses (7.] Mistah Armstrong talkin' to her now, I 'spects. I jist heah the pyano stop playin'. [ With whispered unction .] LATHROP Well, I'd like a word with Mr. Armstrong ; but if he hasn't had his breakfast 45 ALABAMA DECATUR [Going.'] Dat's mostly Mars Preston's fault, I 'spects, 'cause Mars Preston must have his walk 'roun' de bayou. LATHROP Yes. DECATUR [Second thought.] Has yo' had yo' breakfast, Mars Lathrop ? ' LATHROP . Oh, yes, thank you, Uncle 'Catur. DECATUR Yes, sah. Will you sit down out here, sah ? LATHROP Yes ; wait here. DECATUR Dere's a basket of oranges, sah, sent ovah to Miss Carey from Tallehasse yesterday. You kin try some of them, sah. LATHROP [Sits at table.] Thank you, Uncle 'Catur. [Mcit DECATUE to house.] Armstrong and Carey, eh? Only been here a week, and I I have been born and raised with Atlanta, and can't seem to get on somehow. 46 ALA BAM A [Enter ARMSTRONG from house.] ARMSTRONG Good-morning. An early caller. LATHROP v [Rising.] Mr. Armstrong. ARMSTRONG Pleasant morning.. LATHROP [ <7.] Very. Any news ? ARMSTRONG News ? About LATHROP The road. ARMSTRONG Oh, yes, to be sure. You are the editor of Colonel Moberly's paper, the LATHROP The Talladega Sentinel. ARMSTRONG Yes, yes ! Have you to-day's copy ? [ Crosses to JK. front of table.] LATHROP To-day's ? Why, we print only once a week. ARMSTRONG To be sure. But this is Thursday. 47 ALABAMA LATHROP Yes, we issue Saturday. ARMSTRONG Oh, yes ! LATHROP Colonel Moberly thought there might be some news. ARMSTRONG No ; no change. Mr. Preston still refuses ; we still solicit. LATHROP Your idea is to cross near here ? ARMSTRONG At the head of the bayou. LATHROP We've made a chart of the road, Mr. Armstrong. Colonel Moberly's idea is to print it on our front page. [Shows chart. Gives chart.] ARMSTRONG But not this size ? LATHROP Oh, yes ! ARMSTRONG Indeed ? 48 ALABAMA LATHROP It's quite an important local item. ARMSTRONG But a smaller diagram LATHROP Wouldn't fill our front page. ARMSTRONG ' Wouldn't LATHROP Fill. ARMSTRONG Fill ? Oh, I see. Yes, yes ! News is scarce. LATHROP Yes, and Colonel Moberly is very much interested in the success of this enterprise. ARMSTRONG He has certainly been very kind. [Iteturns chart.] LATHROP Thank you, sir. ARMSTRONG Is the the paper, the LATHROP The Sentinel. 49 ALABAMA ARMSTRONG Yes the Sentinel his only that is, does he con fine his attention exclusively to his journal? LATHROP Oh, no, sir ! Colonel Moberly does most of the law business of this county. ARMSTRONG Attorney ? LATHROP Yes, sir. Then he is the representative of the Richmond Fire, Marine, and Life Insurance Company. ARMSTRONG Indeed ! LATHROP Yes, sir. And he is the colonel of the Talladega Light Artillery. No guns, but a superb organization. ARMSTRONG I can readily understand. LATHROP And the nominee of the out-and-out Democratic party of this district for Congress. ARMSTRONG Well, well ! I'm afraid I haven't appreciated the Colonel. Won't you sit down ? ALABAMA LATHROP Thank you. [ Crosses to steps, L. They sit.'] ARMSTRONG [Musingly.] Yes, yes ! Well, I'm glad the Colonel is interested in our road. But how how do you explain his his enthusiasm ? Local pride ? LATHROP [Looking off.] Local pride, sir, and astuteness. ARMSTRONG [Looking at him quickly .] Astuteness ? I'm afraid I don't quite gather. LATHROP Well, sir ; Colonel Moberly sees if the road doesn't come through here it will go some other way. ARMSTRONG Surely. That's very clever of the Colonel. LATHROP Then if it does come this way, the Colonel thinks his interest in it will help his race for Congress. ARMSTRONG By his interest you mean his enthusiasm ? LATHROP Yes. ARMSTRONG f Well, I I haven't appreciated the Colonel, that is evident. And if the road goes the other way ? ALABAMA LATHROP Then it will probably cross Mrs. Stockton's land. ARMSTRONG And Mrs. Stockton ? LATHROP Is a young widow lady, who people say will one day be Mrs. Colonel Moberly. ARMSTRONG [Rising.'] Well, well, the Colonel is a cuckoo. I remember meeting him at Montgomery with the chairman of the committee on railroads a Mr. Pago, by the way any relation of yours ? I saw him yes terday at your home. [ Goes C.] LATHROP [ Crosses R., back of table.] Mr. Raymond Page. He is my uncle. ARMSTRONG Ah, indeed ! LATHROP There's some coolness between him and my mother, so he doesn't visit us of ARMSTRONG Ah! [Laugh heard off.] 52 ALABAMA \ ARMSTRONG [Up C. Looking off LJ\ Here is Colonel Moberly now. Oh the lady on his right is Mrs. Stockton, isn't it ? LATHROP [ Going to hirn.~\ Yes, sir. ARMSTRONG I remember meeting her. The other ? LATHROP The Colonel's daughter. [ Crosses L.] ARMSTRONG Ah, yes ! [Lifts hat.] Good-morning, Mrs. Stock ton Colonel. [LATHROP bows.] [Enter COLONEL, MRS. STOCKTON, and ATLANTA, L. a] MRS. S. Good -morning, Mr. Armstrong. Has your won, derf ul Captain Davenport come ? [ Crosses to It. , up stage.] ARMSTRONG Not yet. We expect him this morning. MOBERLY Majah, my daughter, Miss Atlanta Moberly. At lanta, permit me to present my dear young friend, Majah Armstrong. 53 ALABAMA ATLANTA Major ? ARMSTRONG [Crosses to ATLANTA.] I have despaired, Miss Atlanta, of escaping military honors, post bellum. ATLANTA Oh, I know papa ! My own name is in memoriam, I believe. COLONEL [R. C.] My daughter, Majah, was born on the day that the city of Atlanta, Georgia, suffered the disaster of an entrance by your General Sherman, sir ; and I called her " Atlanta " in commemoration of that sad event. ARMSTRONG \L. CJ\ A capitol name, Miss Moberly. ATLANTA [Z. o/ ARMSTRONG.] So the members of the second class in geography always tell me, Major. ARMSTRONG Pardon a dull and persevering recruit. [^?.] MOBERLY Mrs. Stockton, you know Major Armstrong of the Gulf and Midland Railway ? 54 ALABAMA MRS. S. [ Up R. ] I have that pleasure. MOBERLY And Lieutenant Lathrop Page, editor of the Sentinel, and second officer of the Talladega Light Artillery ? MRS. S. That too among my benefits. LATHROP [L.] Mrs. Stockton. [They bow.] ARMSTRONG Will you be seated, ladies? [ATLANTA, ARMSTRONG, and LATHROP sit up L. on steps. ] MRS. S. [Sitting down JR. at table. ] Somebody's breakfast so late ? ARMSTRONG Colonel Preston's. He is a little later than usual this morning with his walk. [The threeyoung people talk in dumb show.] MRS. S. [Looking over table. ] Only oranges and syrup so far. 55 ALABAM A MOBERLY [Taking orange.] May I prepare one for you, Mrs. Stockton ? MRS. S. Are you skilled ? MOBERLY [ C] I have studied, Mrs. Stockton. My father used to say that peeling an orange for a lady was a sure test of a liberal education. MRS. S. Liberal, yes especially if the orange belonged to someone else. MOBERLY [ With much manner ogles her.] Ah, Mrs. Stock ton! that is scarcely worthy of you. You must know that, in any matter that concerns you possession, in my eyes, becomes ownership. MRS. S. I prefer to establish a distinction. MOBERLY [ C] The difference in most cases is very slight. [Aside] I wish I knew whether that road was go ing over her property. MRS. S. But where a woman is concerned, Colonel, or I should say may be concerned. 56 ALABAMA MOBERLY [J$y her.] Is concerned, Mrs. Stockton is con cerned, I beg MRS. S. Truly ? MOBERLY Most truly. MRS. S. [Leaning back.] Well then MOBERLY Well [Aside and coming down with orange.] I'm blamed if I ain't on the threshold of a proposal, and I don't know how I got there. [Aloud.] Mrs. Stockton MRS. S. Colonel [ARMSTRONG leaves LATHROP and ATLANTA together.] MOBERLY [Parenthetically. ] Ac accept this fruit. [ Offers orange.] MRS. S. Thank you. [Rises and goes up stage, leaving orange 0*1 table.] 57 ALABAMA [Enter CAREY //*ora house.] CAREY Good-morning. Why, I didn't know you all wer here, [l&sses women.] Good-morning, Colonel. MOBERLY [JR. C.] Good-morning, Miss Carey. You ar as fresh as a blossom. I I kiss you' hand. CAREY Won't you all come in ? MRS. S. On so pretty a morning ? CAREY Then see my garden. MRS. S. You show us that. [Exeunt ARMSTRONG, MBS. s., back of house.] CAREY Aren't you coming, Colonel ? . MOBERLY In a moment, Miss Carey. CAREY Come, Atlanta Lathrop. [Exit back of house.] 58 MOBERLY [Sits at table,] I wonder if there was anything portentous in her leaving this orange. [ATLANTA remains at back while LATHEOP comes down.'] LATHROP [ [Enter CAREY and ATLANTA L. (?.] CAREY Gran'pa gran'pa, forgive me ! PRESTON [ (7.] Carey ! [Embrace.] CAREY [L. (7.] Gran'pa, gran'pa ! [Kisses him, MRS. s. comes down R.'\ PRESTON Let me look at you. No, no ! no need to ques tion. The Eastern sky is not more beautiful with truth. Carey, Carey, Carey ! [Fondles her, ARMSTRONG down L.~\ MRS. P. She has been all night with me. PRESTON And you read that letter ? MRS. P. Yes, because Carey wrote it meaning to go. It might have been so terrible. 140 ALABAMA PRESTON My darling, did you love him so ? Mr. Armstrong, we are rich in something besides weeds, you see. Carey, Carey ! [fondles her.~\ ARMSTRONG Forgive me, Colonel Preston ; my offense and my atonement are one and the same sentence: I love this little lady. PRESTON [To CAREY.] And you'd rather have him than your old grandad, would you ? CAREY Not not for a grandfather, I wouldn't ; but gran'pa [Hides her face.'] PRESTON Yes, yes ; I'm an old dolt, I know. CAREY. Tell us you forgive us. [Takes ARMSTRONG'S hand.] ARMSTRONG Colonel Preston [Enter DECATUR.] PRESTON [To ARMSTRONG.] I like you, sir, I like you. This is rather manly, I think. My darling ! [Embraces CAREY again, DECATUR comes to him C.] Good- 141 ALABAMA morning, Atlanta. Decatur, get two more chickens. You'll all stay, won't you ? CAREY I might have gone away, but for Captain Daven port ; and then he said, " Go to Cousin Mildred's." PRESTON [To table.] Captain Davenport, you take sudden liberties with a stranger's family. DAVENPORT [ (7.] I approved the union. PRESTON You approved it, sir ? DAVENPORT Yes, in the name of Carey's father. PRESTON [Rising.'] What ! DAVENPORT I had his sanction. PRESTON Carey's father, Harry Preston my boy ? DAVENPORT Yes, sir. His letter. [Draws letter, MOBERLY drops down R.] PRESTON A letter to me ? 142 ALABAMA i DAVENPORT [ Withholding letter."] To me. Listen, listen, Colonel Preston ! [Heads.] " My Dear Davenport : I am glad young Armstrong likes my daughter Carey." CAREY [Down X.] My father DAVENPORT Your father, Carey. Listen ! [Heads.] " I ap prove their union. Say that to them for me." ARMSTRONG Carey? DAVENPORT "Tell my father it is my desire. Ask him to waive his objections." PRESTON My boy says that ? DAVENPORT Yes. [Heads.'] " Tell him he does not need the little girl, that I will be with him always in her stead." [Emotion.] PRESTON Go on, sir. [DAVENPORT watches PRESTON closely.] DAVENPORT [Inventing, and not reading letter.] I think of him always. Tell him to remember the day he gave me 143 ALABAMA my pony with the silver tail the old canoe on the bayou. Tell him I long to put my arm about him, as he so often put his strong one around me. PRESTON Oh, thank God thank God ! Let me see that, sir. [Enter DECATUE and goes back of table.] I see no lines Ah, here are my spectacles. Come come ! But there is nothing there, Captain Davenport. DAVENPORT No, there is nothing there, Colonel Preston. PRESTON [Half guessing the truth.'] You were laughing at an old man. DAVENPORT [ Quickly.] I was inventing it. PRESTON [Crescendo.] But you couldn't invent the pony with the silver tail. DAVENPORT [Climax approaching. ~\ I rode that pony that canoe was mine. Why don't you don't PRESTON [ Climax.] Yes yes, I know you ! [Embrace] 144 ALABAMA DAVENPORT Dear dear old father! And we've lost all these years. PRESTON We haven't lost a day. I've had you witn me always. [Joins MRS. P.] MOBERLY [ Crosses E. C.~\ Harry Presfton ! DAVENPORT [(7., shakes hands SQUIRE pats DAVENPORT on back while DAVENPORT is shaking hands With MOBERLY. DAVENPORT tUTHS SQUIRE shakes his hand, and returns to step, wiping his eyes.] Yes, Edgefield, dear old boy, and Squire Ah, Mildred, Mildred I have dreamed of this. [MOBERLY goes H. to MRS. STOCKTON.] MRS. P. [R. C.] And I ! But Carey Carey. [CAREY is hysterically speechless.] DAVENPORT [ (7.] Yes yes, Carey. [She comes to him.] Don't try to say it, darling. I know. It would not be worth the telling if we could speak it. [ Goes up with CAREY and COLONEL PRESTON, j US ALABAMA MRS. P. [ C.] Colonel, I knew this yesterday, but was under bond of silence. You must have thought me heart less but you see MOBERLY [ Coming JR. C] You' composure rather heightened my admiration for you. [ Goes JR. again MRS. P. up.] SQUIRE [ Going C. and slowly picking up letter.] Here is your letter, Captain. DAVENPORT [ Coming down JR. C.] This is not mine. SQUIRE It's the one you read your father. [ Goes to step.] PRESTON ' [Up C.] I'd like to keep it. DAVENPORT [Laughing.] I read the blank side only. Why, forgive me, Colonel, but it was your letter to Mrs. Stockton. [Hands it to her.] MRS. P. AND MRS. S. What? MOBERLY My dear madam it was written under peculiar conditions. 146 ALABAMA DAVENPORT Yes, when he thought he might be dead before you read it. [ Crosses L. ] MRS. S. [Z. of table, reading.'] "Love of a lifetime sincere respect." [/Speaks.] Why, Colonel, I thought Mrs. Page MOBERLY Yes, yes, Mrs. Stockton ; beauty is easy enough to win, but one isn't loved every day. That was meant to be the statement of a post-mortem. MRS. S. I am glad it is not. [Down 22.] MOBERLY [It. with MRS. s.] You do not know how proud you make me. I would never have dared give you that myself. Captain Davenport, you can send the rail road any way you like, and I suppose now it will cross Mrs. Page's land, but I am richer in this possession. 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