, then
backward and sinks into an armchair.) Helen! (Pause.)

SCENE X

Same as before. The elevator boy. Two chambermaids. A scrubwoman.
MUeLLER. proprietor of the hotel. The valet.

ELEVATOR BOY (enters, looks at GERARDO and at HELEN). Mr.--Mr. Gerardo!
(GERARDO does not move. Boy steps up to HELEN. Two chambermaids and a
scrubwoman, scrubber in hand, edge their way in hesitatively and step
up to HELEN.)

SCRUBWOMAN (after a pause). She's still alive.

GERARDO (jumps up, rushes to the door and runs into the proprietor.
Pulls him forward). Send for the police! I must be arrested! If I leave
now, I am a brute and if I remain, I am ruined, for it would be a
breach of contract. (Looking at his watch.) I still have a minute and
ten seconds left. Quick! I must be arrested within that time!

MUeLLER. Fritz, get the nearest policeman!

ELEVATOR BOY. Yes, Sir!

MUeLLER. Run as fast as you can! (Exit elevator boy. To GERARDO.) Don't
let it upset you, Mr. GERARDO. That kind of thing is an old story with
us here.

GERARDO (kneels down beside HELEN, takes her hand). Helen! She's still
alive! She's still alive! (To MUeLLER.) If I am arrested, it counts as a
legal excuse. How about my trunks?--Is the carriage at the door?

MUeLLER. Has been there the last twenty minutes, Sir. (Goes to the door
and lets in the valet who carries down one of the trunks.)

GERARDO (bending over HELEN). Helen!--(In an undertone.) It can't hurt
me professionally. (To MUeLLER.) Haven't you sent for a physician yet?

MUeLLER. The doctor has been 'phoned to at once. Will be here in just a
minute, I am sure.

GERARDO (putting his arms under HELEN'S and half raising her).
Helen!--Don't you recognize me, Helen?--Come now, the physician will be
here in just a moment!--Your Oscar, Helen!--Helen!

ELEVATOR BOY (in the open door). Can't find a policeman anywhere!

GERARDO (forgets everything, jumps up, lets HELEN fall back to the
floor). I must sing "Tristan" tomorrow! (Colliding with several pieces
of furniture, he rushes out through the centre door.)

ERNST HARDT

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TRISTRAM THE JESTER[A]

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

MARK, King of Cornwall

ISEULT of Ireland (MARK'S wife)

BRANGAENE, ISEULT'S lady

GIMELLA, ISEULT'S lady

PARANIS, ISEULT'S page

DUKE DENOVALIN

SIR DINAS of Lidan

SIR GANELUN

UGRIN, MARK'S jester

STRANGE JESTER, disguise of TRISTRAM of Lyone