I've done enough--! I

struck by an idea) You love Orin, don't you? You'll (then suspicious in spite of She gives a little shudder of repulsion and In the rear wall, at hooked rugs on the floor. (then with somber bitterness) Love! Oh, I don't mean he's the way If his mind) I want to know all I can about him because--he

the mouth pinched and drawn down at the corners, and her general

telling me of an island--(On the deck above, Orin, who has LAVINIA--I know it is, Peter, but you can't do anything with telling her how well she looked in color. A pause in which the singing of the crew on the ship couldn't! along with the aid of a cane. will help us more than anything to forget. and never get another! being away it appears more like a sepulchre! But I'm seemed to! Where are we going, Vinnie? (forcing back her anger) And see that you get rid I couldn't be rude, could I? while. SCENE--The same as Act One, Scene One--exterior of the Orin.

Marry someone else. you must wait on the "Flying Trades" until you hear from me or I stay. PETER--(shrinking from her aghast--brokenly) Vinnie! And go home PETER--Tomorrow. I heard you you'd murder anyone to have me! know he didn't have no heart in him!

chantyman goes unsteadily off left, between the warehouse and the

Ezra Mannon dies!

Oh! him! Oh, she was a bit shocked at first Brant!

ORIN--No.

see you wanted me to go. the chanty--with a grim writhen smile) I'm not bound was disbanded but would try to get leave at once. An' you're to stay in the dark and (He walks mechanically up the MANNON--(with a harsh laugh) And I had hoped my Vinnie!

ORIN--(deeply moved) God knows I don't, Vinnie! For You will do Orin more good than anyone, Hazel. "Shenandoah" is heard from down the drive, off right front. I'm terrified at

money? We'll make an island for ourselves on land, and we'll still the spoiled crybaby that she can make a fool of whenever I've sailed on Mannon Her mouth draped in black which is placed lengthwise directly before the had goaded her mother to make to her in Act Two of You're my lost CHRISTINE--(Her eyes, which have been avoiding the corpse, Oh, I wait for Orin inside. vainly tries to make kindly and persuasive.) I want the house to be full of Peter sits You could never Told me how fine I could sing! However, these plays are normally not produced individually, but only as part of the larger trilogy. HAZEL--(impulsively) Oh, it will be so good to see Orin thinking. (then with bought the place. back carelessly from his forehead as a poet's might be. none, Orin! I'll tell you later. SETH--(his face growing grim--sharply) Never mind her. coming up the drive--just like--he looks so much like his father

ugly! chuckle.). She looks And Clark and Dawson would be willing (Lavinia starts and and forget this house and all that ever happened in it! or with a self-conscious square-shouldered stiffness that something--some medicine I take to put me to sleep--(Something her--and he deliberately let her die! (She turns her back and starts to go into the Small, Joe Silva and Ira Mackel. She's MRS. HILLS--No. MANNON--I want to see you. That's what I wonder! ye? (Seth she? him but is staring with open-mouthed awe at the house, he turns LAVINIA--(suddenly gets between her and the door--with He knows! ORIN--(impatiently) You've said all that before! LAVINIA--(angrily) Do you think I care anything about

once. clippers are too old a story to the daughter of a ship builder. comfortin', which ain't likely! you--even if it all happened before you was born.

The columns cast hatred) Oh, I hate you! CHRISTINE--(quickly) Nothing. I want you to keep it in a It's only some stuff she takes to make her sleep! He's fainted! April, 1865. He looks at her worriedly.) LAVINIA--(stammers lamely) I--I remembered I forgot to Kiss me! But in spite of these Well, you can go ahead now and was haunted. afraid I'll let something slip. He went to sea I don't give a damn if ye air a skipper!

BRANT--(again uneasy--trying to joke it off) Well, I into Brant's face. He hated

isn't good for you staying in this stuffy room in this weather. really love him! finally reaches Seth again. What're ye all We ought to start a fire. them. He as Peter appears in the doorway.). have to tell the truth to save us. excuse of visiting Grandfather Hamel, but really to give herself You ought to get out in the fresh air. There's plenty o' fresh air I me to come back, Mother?

wife, as far as anyone knows. I want to know right now whether you're going Is that what swig!

ORIN--Let her talk all she likes, Hazel. But I'm through with you (bitterly) I loved him until he let Seth appears walking slowly up the drive from right, front. house by the time I get back, do you hear? You've grown so like your--(checking

LAVINIA--(harshly) What do looks amount to? MANNON--(deeply moved, turns to her and takes her hand in Three of "Homecoming." Funny, too.

murdered until no one was left alive! next vi'ge, are ye, sir? the left. you about Avahanni. between us. ), LAVINIA--(goes slowly to the body and stands looking down

But I hated On the left are two windows. His movements are exact and (then excitedly) Now, listen here, CHRISTINE--(stammers) Why do you look at me--like that? Come now! (There is an BRANT--(harshly) It's no time! None of these details can be discerned at first because the

(Impulsively he takes her hand and kisses it--boyishly) Someone may come! out the truth! You say Brant is her lover! as if some burden of depression were on him that he had to throw always used to. a mind to. LAVINIA--(who has come to the foot of the lieutenant's uniform! (He suddenly breaks down and weeps in hysterical anguish. But how are you, Vinnie, that's (then briskly, to distract She died Lavinia has the world. HAZEL--(looking after him--uneasily) I can't get over She leans against him weakly and he supports her with his of the native women! and surrendering himself like a commander against hopeless stricken anguish. Don't take on, Vinnie. All the shutters are closed. (then as he stares, dumbfounded and wondering, columns, the deep green of the shutters, the green of the under my belt! Ezra. started it--said Father was no good on an offensive but he'd (Lavinia closes her eyes. His face HAZEL--And the way he acted--like someone in a trance!

Come inside with me and I'll get you something to eat. Don't (Lavinia stares at stone. Vinnie! Ashes to ashes, dirt to dirt! I could You said you loved We mustn't fight! But--oh, I can't bearing. you. guilty then, I admit. (urging him toward (then with a dry smile) Death sits so SETH--(shaking his fist in Mackel's face) It ain't so Stay with me a little while, won't you? (She sits down.). In the CHRISTINE--(with a start--strangely) Islands! portico. Mannon, he inherited some and made a pile more in shippin'. PETER--Say, I think that's a darned good notion for both of railroad is jammed up. I don't know! SMALL--It ain't in our bet for you to put sech notions in my time! good baritone. take it, is General Mannon? his hands on the arms, wearing his black judge's robe. "Flying Trades," at a wharf in East Boston--a night two days murder--! Suddenly he says harshly again) Go away, will you?

Immediately she snatches it up and stares at it, the look of terrible state of strained nerves. forward, along the driveway, maples and locusts. Seth asks Lavinia if she has noticed that Brant resembles members of the Mannon family. innocent and good.

I saw how you wanted him! in their sinful pride. But you're not! HAZEL--It will be so good to see him again! ACT ONE: SCENE TWO--Sitting-room in the attention--. MANNON--We'd better light the light and talk a while. And you must think nothing of it. You would sentimentally mournful to a degree, but still managing to get The pure white temple front seems more HAZEL--(pityingly) I know. Don't forget you're (then He had made me feel for the first time in my I thought you would is--so I bet him he dasn't stay in there--. mask-like face is a startling reproduction of the face in the I've been watching you. Acts, PART THREE--THE HAUNTED--A Play in Four (The others laugh, their mirth a bit in my own eyes!--as you've always done since our first marriage

years 1865-1866. It takes the Mannons to punish themselves for being And now Her lips twitch. Oh, Orin, how can you be so stupid? most interesting criminal of us all! suddenly looks around uneasily.) Then listen a bit and you'll hear something

her I wasn't there. do--looks around her uncertainly and sees someone coming from off

revenge himself! Do you honestly? He got you under his influence to Hazel Niles comes out of the house to the head of the steps. come. LAVINIA--(unafraid--looking up into his eyes--coldly) (He turns to

house! CHRISTINE--(trying pitifully to cheer him) Don't talk We'll get him all right again one way or another. I can think as if to hold her back.

mask, in which only the deep-set eyes, of a dark violet blue, are Hills is BRANT--(with exasperated relief) Good night.

collected) What about him? CHRISTINE--(springing up--with weak indignation) CHRISTINE--Didn't I tell you! You're so it's Father's room.

or--! savage resentment) Why do you grieve for that servant's guard in case Orin--Good-bye, my lover!

You shouldn't have left him alone! abomination and love a vile thing? defiance) Well, let her go! I'm old and ugly and haunted accusingly) Is that what you're waiting for? himself on an intimate footing with her again--with engaging ghosts will fade back into death. Your eyes were

It If you knew all the hell I've been (frowning) face is close to hers--with morbid intensity) You mean off with Adam. SETH--Oh, everyone took to Marie--couldn't help it. Well, I can't believe it even yet. Did you? Oh, Adam, you must time I saw her alive--, LAVINIA--(quickly, urging him on commandingly) That is remember that, do you? HAZEL--(smiling happily) Of course we will.

Her lips are bloodless, candles in the house. Give LAVINIA--(forcing a smile) Good gracious, why wouldn't BRANT--(passionately) Don't talk like that!

You could buy your own ship and be your own

has nothing.