Mrs. F. How thankful I am that it was a mistake; aren’t you, Lewis?
Mr. F. Indeed I am. (A pause.) By the way, Susan, you might as well hand me back the key of the little black trunk.
(Curtain falls.)
DEACON ROBINSON’S PRESENT.
CHARACTERS.
| Deacon Jonathan Robinson, | Delegate to Political Convention. |
| Mrs. Irene Robinson, | His Wife. |
| Doctor Lewis Cummings, | Physician of Rossville. |
| Mr. Chas. Herbert Fitz Howard, | A Young Exquisite. |
| Landlord. | |
| John. | |
| Two Policemen. |
(Deacon Robinson is attired in a blue suit. The coat is short-waisted, old-fashioned, and ornamented with brass buttons. He wears a broad-brimmed beaver, far from new. Charles Herbert Fitz Howard is dressed in the height of fashion, wearing a jaunty little hat on the side of his head, and a suit of clothes cut in the most fashionable style.)
Scene I.—Office of a hotel. Table, C. Landlord present, R. C. Enter Deacon Robinson, L.
Landlord. Good-evening, deacon.
Dea. Robinson. Good-evening. I’ve come down from Morristown to ’tend the convention. I may be here two or three days. Can you give me a room?