Copyright, 1920, by Stewart & Kidd Company.
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In The Morgue is reprinted from "The Forum" by special permission of Miss Sada Cowan. Application for right of performing In The Morgue must be made to Miss Sada Cowan, The Authors' League, New York City.
IN THE MORGUE
A Play
By Sada Cowan
[Place: In the morgue of a foreign city.]
[Scene: A small almost empty room with the rear wall of glass. Before this glass black curtains are drawn. An old man ... Caren ... sits at a low table, well forward, sorting and arranging papers, writing from time to time. A lamp upon the table, is so shaded as to concentrate the light and throws Caren's wicked face into sharp relief. The room conveys a feeling of unfriendliness, coldness and gloom. Caren is old, so old he is somewhat decrepit ... hard, shrill and tottering. His features are sharp, his fingers are as talons. He seems almost as a vulture ... perhaps for hovering too long among the unbeloved dead.]
Caren [calling to some one behind the black curtain]. What was the number of that last one?
Helper [putting out his head]. Thirteen. [He disappears.]