ACT III.—"FUTURE."—Same Scene as Act I. Venerable Employés discovered, after twenty years' further service.
First Venerable Employé. Remember the words spoken a score of winters ago—Hope, brother, hope!
Second Venerable Employé. Yes—Hope, brother, hope!
[As the Scene closes, the entire Establishment are left continuing the self-sustaining, but rather profitless employment, indefinitely. Curtain.
A Son of the Pool. By the Author of A Daughter of the Pyramids.
Charles Keene
BORN AUGUST 10, 1823. DIED JANUARY 4, 1891.
What words avail to honour friends departed,