NATHAN HALE



    from HALE, and leads her out, her eyes fixed

    upon HALE'S eyes, their arms outstretched

    toward each other. After a few paces, she

    breaks forcibly away from ToM, and, with a

    wild cry of "No! no ! ", locks her hands

    about HALE'S neck. ToM draws her away

    again, and leads her backward from the scene,

    her eyes dry now, and her breath coming in

    short, loud, horror-stricken gasps. HALE holds

    in his hand a red rose she wore on her breast,

    and, thinking more of her than of himself,

    whispers, as she goes, " Be brave! be brave! "

    The light is being slowly lowered, till, as

    ALICE disappears, the stage is in total dark-

    ness.

THE SECOND SCENE. COLONEL RUTGER'S Orchard,

  the next morning. The scene is an orchard

  whose trees are heavy with red and yellow fruit.



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