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Man on the Box By: Harold MacGrath (1871-1932) |
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THE MAN ON THE BOX by HAROLD MACGRATH Author of
The Grey Cloak, The Puppet Crown Illustrated by scenes from Walter N. Lawrence's beautiful production
of the play as seen for 123 nights at the Madison Square Theatre, New
York To Miss Louise Everts
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I Introduces My Hero II Introduces My Heroine III The Adventure Begins IV A Family Reunion V The Plot Thickens VI The Man on the Box VII A Police Affair VIII Another Salad Idea IX The Heroine Hires a Groom X Pirate XI The First Ride XII A Ticklish Business XIII A Runaway XIV An Ordeal or Two XV Retrospective XVI The Previous Affair XVII Dinner is Served XVIII Caught! XIX "Oh, Mister Butler" XX The Episode of the Stove Pipe XXI The Rose XXII The Drama Unrolls XXIII Something About Heroes XXIV A Fine Lover XXV A Fine Heroine, Too XXVI The Castle of Romance
He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all.
Dramatis Personae Colonel George Annesley A retired Army Officer Miss Betty Annesley His daughter Lieutenant Robert Warburton Lately resigned Mr. John Warburton His elder brother, of the War
Department Mrs. John Warburton The elder brother's wife Miss Nancy Warburton The lieutenant's sister Mr. Charles Henderson Her fiance Count Karloff An unattached diplomat Colonel Frank Raleigh The Lieutenant's Regimental
Colonel Mrs. Chadwick A product of Washington life Monsieur Pierre A chef Mademoiselle Celeste A lady's maid Jane Mrs. Warburton's maid The Hopeful A baby William A stable boy Fashionable People Necessary for a dinner party Celebrities Also necessary for a dinner party Unfashionables Police, cabbies, grooms, clerks,
etc. TIME Within the past ten years. SCENE Washington, D.C., and its environs.
I INTRODUCES MY HERO
If you will carefully observe any map of the world that is divided
into inches at so many miles to the inch, you will be surprised as
you calculate the distance between that enchanting Paris of France
and the third precinct police station of Washington, D. C, which is
not enchanting. It is several thousand miles. Again, if you will take
the pains to run your glance, no doubt discerning, over the police
blotter at the court (and frankly, I refuse to tell you the exact
date of this whimsical adventure), you will note with even greater
surprise that all this hubbub was caused by no crime against the
commonwealth of the Republic or against the person of any of its
conglomerate people. The blotter reads, in heavy simple fist,
"disorderly conduct," a phrase which is almost as embracing as the
word diplomacy, or society, or respectability. So far as my knowledge goes, there is no such a person as James
Osborne. If, by any unhappy chance, he does exist, I trust
that he will pardon the civil law of Washington, my own measure of
familiarity, and the questionable taste on the part of my hero hero,
because, from the rise to the fall of the curtain, he occupies the
center of the stage in this little comedy drama, and because authors
have yet to find a happy synonym for the word. The name James Osborne
was given for the simple reason that it was the first that occurred
to the culprit's mind, so desperate an effort did he make to hide his
identity. Supposing, for the sake of an argument in his favor,
supposing he had said John Smith or William Jones or John Brown? To
this very day he would have been hiring lawyers to extricate him from
libel and false representation suits... Continue reading book >>
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