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rayer._) JOHN TALBOT. Kit! Kit Newcombe! (_Motions him to window._) NEWCOMBE. I cannot! I-- JOHN TALBOT. Look forth! Look! And remember--when you meet them--remember! (NEWCOMBE _stands swaying, clutching at the grating of the window, as he looks forth._) Lads! (_Motions to_ BUTLER _and_ FENTON _to carry the powder to the stairhead._) The time is short. His orders! (DRISCOLL _raises his head and gazes fixedly toward the centre of the room._) FENTON. Yonder, at the stairhead. BUTLER. Aye. (FENTON _and_ BUTLER _carry the keg to the door._) NEWCOMBE. Not that! Not that death! No! No! JOHN TALBOT. Be silent! And look yonder! Driscoll! Fetch the light! Newcombe! Come! You have your places, all. DRISCOLL. But, Captain! The sixth man--where will the sixth man be standing? (_There is a blank silence, in which the men look questioningly at_ DRISCOLL'S _rapt face and at one another._) JOHN TALBOT. Sixth? FENTON. What sixth? DRISCOLL. The blind eyes of ye! Yonder! (_Comes to the salute, even as, a few moments before, he has saluted_ HUGH TALBOT, _living._ NEWCOMBE _gives a smothered cry, as one who half sees, and takes courage._ FENTON _dazedly starts to salute. Outside a bugle sounds, and a voice, almost at the door, is heard to speak._) VOICE OUTSIDE. For the last time: will you surrender you? JOHN TALBOT (_in a loud and confident voice_). No! Not while our commander stands with us! VOICE OUTSIDE. And who might your commander be? JOHN TALBOT. Hugh Talbot, the Captain of the Gate! The light here, Phelimy. (JOHN TALBOT _bends to set the candle to the powder that shall destroy Cashala Gatehouse, and all within it. His mates are gathered round him, with steady, bright faces, for in the little space left vacant in their midst they know in that minute that_ HUGH TALBOT _stands._) [CURTAIN] GETTYSBURG[1] Percy MacKaye SCENE: A woodshed, in the ell of a farm-house. The shed is open on both sides, front and back, the apertures being slightly arched at the top. (_In bad weather, these presumably may be closed by big double doors, which stand open now--swung back outward beyond sight._) Thus the nearer opening is the proscenium arch of the scene, under which the spectator looks through the shed to the background--a grassy yard, a road with great trunks of soaring elms, and the glimpse of a green hillside. The ceiling runs up into a gable with
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