Halcom. (To prisoners and Union soldiers.) If this man passes my hands safely he shall go free! (Taking advantage while Halcom is speaking to the Union prisoners, Brightly rushes forward to stab him in the back, treacherously. Zina catches his purpose, drops on one knee, knocks his hand up and drives her knife to the hilt in the ruffian’s heart. Brightly staggers back and falls. Zina springs up, aghast at the result, then drops knife, covering her face, says:—)
Zina. My poor mother! (Drops on her knees, then face, sobbing until curtain falls.)
THE END.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- The stage directions were inconsistently formatted. Some were italicized and some not. Also some were in parentheses and some in square brackets. (As if the typesetter ran out of parentheses or italics occassionally.) They were all altered to parentheses and italics.
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.