THE SECOND
[Very gently.] Come. [The music begins again. All three exit at back, LILIOM leading, the others following. The stage is empty and quite dark save for the candle which burns by the stretcher, on which, in the shadows, the covers are so arranged that one cannot quite be sure that a body is not still lying. The music dies out in the distance as if it had followed LILIOM and the two POLICEMEN. The candle flickers and goes out. There is a brief interval of silence and total darkness before
THE CURTAIN FALLS
[SCENE SIX]
SCENE—In the Beyond. A whitewashed courtroom. There is a green-topped table; behind it a bench. Back Center is a door with a bell over it. Next to this door is a window through which can be seen a vista of rose-tinted clouds.
Down right there is a grated iron door. Down left another door.
Two men are on the bench when the curtain rises. One is richly, the other poorly dressed.
From a great distance is heard a fanfare of trumpets playing the refrain, of the thieves’ song in slow, altered tempo.
Passing the window at back appear LILIOM and the two POLICEMEN.