The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act

by James Branch Cabell

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Clare Boothby and PG Distributed Proofreaders

The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act

By

James Branch Cabell

"Io non posso ritrar di tutti appieno:
pero chi si mi caccia il lungo tema,
che molte volte al fatto il dir vieti meno."

NEW YORK
1921

TO LOUISE BURLEIGH

This latest avatar of so many notions
which were originally hers.

THE AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE

Prudence urges me here to forestall detection, by conceding that this brief play has no pretension to "literary" quality. It is a piece in its inception designed for, and in its making swayed by, the requirements of the little theatre stage. The one virtue which anybody anywhere could claim for The Jewel Merchants is the fact that it "acts" easily and rather effectively.