| Show THE GREENEYED MONSTER As Exhibited at a September Mountain Hotel DRAMATIS PERSONS Tom I Alav f A recently 1 married couple brFrank Frank l Ditto Edith fuiu f ° Tom and Edith are standing the piazza ailing for their respective partners lom with sigbGirls take forever to go anywheres Edith Do they Men are almost as bad it seems to mo Frank has been twenty minutes Tom Thats nothing May went up an hour ago Sighs again Lets take a w ulk around the lake till they come down Edith looking back to make sure that Funk was not m sightAll right Just as they fio down the walk May and Frank come out on the piazza May pointing to tho retreating couple Well I never Frank erimlyHumph MayWhy dont you say something Frank still more grimly I thought you might object May decidedlySo I would A moments silenceJ Frank puddenly Ill tell you May What f Frank Como with me for a row on the akeMay MayThats not telling me anything butall right They go down to the landing and seat themselves in a boat Frank singing Oh for a life on the ocean wave May Thats not polite besides they might hear you Frank uncousciouslyWho might May Whv Tom and Frank Edith 1 I dont care MayWe 1 neither do I Sing again FrankOh no it wouldnt be polite By the way are you going to the hop tonight to-night May They can see us now Frank Who tho frogs I was talking of hops MayOh I enjoy them very much Was that what you said Frank Yes Theyre going back May What will Edith say to you for de sorting her Frank I didnt desert hei She left me May But thats different You should have gone after her Frank Indeed Now whatll Tom say i lIayI dont care Ho can come after me if he likes FrankHell drown if he cant swim May You cant drown here Iheardyo tell Edith so last week Frank Well you can get stuck in the mud and thats worse Now wouldnt he make a pretty picture trying to wade out here and sticking half way in the mud r May tries to pick up a lily pad and finding the under aide of it covered wit > i spiders and water Lugs drops it quickly FrankYou cant always judge by appearances ap-pearances MayNo FrankAnybody coming along might think that Tom and Edith were ty M yNow please dont be foolish They might just as well think that you and I Frank Thats decidedly foolish Anyway Any-way wo wont fight even if your sweet heart does run off with my best girl May He didnt take her they went off together and left us Frank To fight Hello there they aro May Who are they FrankDont you know May Love is blind you know FrankWell he has no business to be May Aro you going ashore Frank I dont know why t May Well Edith wants you Frank sulkily Sne hasnt said so MayAs if a girl would call right out FrankOh I see you want to go to TomMayNo MayNo I dont Frank with a feeble laugh ana a glance toward the shore Well Ill take you to him anyway Utter silence reigns for a moment until the boat reaches the landing and the two men greeting each other coldly I exchange partners gey Frank to Edith and Tom to May as they go off on differentpaths Whatdid he say Harpers Bazar |
