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e of full morning pours in. He then rushes to the opposite gas burners and turns them off. Kneeling quickly beside her._] _Jinny! My wife!_ My beloved! [_He takes her up in his arms and hurries to the window._ TILLMAN. Are we too late? AUSTIN. I don't know. No! she's breathing--and see--see!--she knows me!--she knows me! [_JINNY smiles at him pathetically._] Send Maggie for the doctor! [_TILLMAN goes out Right._ AUSTIN. Jinny, forgive me! Forgive me! Forgive me! [_She slips her two arms up and joins them about his neck. AUSTIN kisses her._] Father! We've saved her! Oh, thank God, we've saved her! [_Bringing her to big chair and putting her in it, he kneels at her feet._ JINNY. [_Whispers faintly._] _Dear Jack!_ You forgive _me_--all my beastly jealousy? AUSTIN. There's one thing stronger even than jealousy, my Jinny. And that's LOVE! That's _LOVE_! [_He kisses her hands, and_ THE CURTAIN FALLS * * * * * REPRESENTATIVE PLAYS BY WELL-KNOWN PLAYWRIGHTS By MR. CLYDE FITCH Each 75c. net (postage 6c.) The Climbers A keen satire on contemporary New York society, which explains its title thus:-- "There are social climbers, but wealth is as good a goal. I was a climber after wealth and everything it brings." "And I after happiness and all it brings."--_Act II_. The Girl with the Green Eyes A study of the jealous temperament. The play is full of touches of a remarkable intuition, and the heroine's character is portrayed with rare delicacy. The Toast of the Town A comedy dealing with the life of an actress in the period of George III., and with the tragedy of middle age. Her Own Way and The Stubbornness of Geraldine are two original American plays, ingenious and novel in their employment of pictorial devices. These plays are funds of delightful sentiment, unhackneyed, piquant humor, and minute observation. For the faithfulness of his chronicles of American life Mr. Fitch is to be ranked with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones in the English field, and with the best of the modern French dramatists on the Continent. By HENRY ARTHUR JONES Each 75c. net (postage 6c.) The Manoeuvres of Jane An Original Comedy in Four Acts. "The occasional publication of a play by Henry Arthur Jones is a matter for congratulation.... In 'The Manoeuvres of Jane' we see M
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