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"THE QUALITY OF MERCY)
THRILLING DRAMA OF THE ICELAND SEAS.
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Mr. Hall Caine has written for the Express the following story of the plot of his now play, "The Quality of Mercy," which was produced for the first time on the 6th inst. at the Theatre Royal, Manchester,
ACT I
The play opens in Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, twenty miles south of Whitby. The period is the last days of the stage coach.
of
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advantage over the ordinary tonics. son, Harry, whom he brings home with bina ranging from iron and quinine to arsenic and Inspired by a scoret desire-to-get-id-of-Lar atrychnine, that its use does not derange rence Chancellor, in order to possess himself of
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to his wife for the suffering and shame he has brought upon her by a career of extravagance, which has left them homeless, accepts the offer.
He is making known to Lucy his intention of going away for a while to recover his fortunes. and self-control when sho, who still loves her husband, in spite of the rain he has brought upon her, reveals to him the motive of Captain Crow's proposal, as she has gathered it from the whaler himself. Enraged by the treachery which has given itself the appearance of bene volence, Chancellor wats off late at night for Captain Crow's rooms, intending to charge him with his daplicity,
ACT HI,
The second net opons in Captain Crow's rooms, where he is seen writing the treacherous letter which Chancellor is to carry-away to Iceland in order (as the victim has been led to think) to make his lines easy in the far country, but really to instruct the skipper of the whaler in which he is to sail for the Greenland seas to expose him to the greatest hardships, as that he many nerer return lome to bis wife.
It is then that Chancellor arrives, and, think. to appointment to
ing he comes acer Crox is proceeding receive the letter, to make sach final arrangements as will leave kin course clear with Lney after news of her husband's fate has come back to England, when Chancellor bursts ont upon the map with an exposure and denunciation of his treachery. The result is a violent scene in which Crow struggles te recover possession of the ingriminat ing letter and Chancellor te retain it, both men fighting in their consuming rage unit a shot. from a receiver in Crow's own band leads to his death.
Feeling no guilt in his share of the tragedy Chancellor immediately sets off to the police anthorities to tell what has occurred, but he is
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of the county, who had expressed his intention shown to the magistrate by the chief constable of executing it.
How the identity of Captain Jon Arnus- Bon with Lawrence Chancellor is brought home to young Henry Crow and his wife, Lucy,
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By the timely arrival of the midnight mail ecach at the moment when the tragedy has been discovered and the hue and cry has been raised, he is able to escape, passing through his par Ivers by a smart device and being sent of in pursuit of himzelf.
ACT III.
Twenty years have passed when the third aot
take sides with the sconsed man, how Tom Arnasson pleads for Lawrence Chancellor on every ground of meroy, how at last be reveals and defends himself, and demands justice, pro- ducing the treacherous lotter which would have sent him to his death, and how the new law, which permits a prisoner to festify on his own behalf row makes his oridence legal and his acquittal certain all this must be left to the play itself to tell.
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then was true Korean wifehood P. Mr. Ku felt lesland captain (Lawrence Chancellor) is
great pride in Korean women as wives. Their pre. paring young Harry Crow for his return fidelity and meekness towards their husbards home when he in confronted by one of were admirable. They would never oppose his crew who has tried in vain to carry out a the word of their busbands, and 179 vendetta against Captain Crow (for causing by only care of their whole life was how gross cruelty the death of bis Icelandic wife) best their husbands could be pleased. Their FAR CATHAY and now seeks to execute his vengeance on the attention to the food and all other comforts of their husbands was faultless, and their sympathy From this peril Lawrance Chancellor, in a for and kindness to their husbands were to such violent scene, saves the young man at the risks degree that few Japanese ladies could imagine of his own life, and sands him safely back to his it. A Korean wife would fool lits regret in daughter in England, promising in answer to porting with her finger-rings and holiday wir entreaties to visit them there some day. clothes in order to treat the friends of her hus
band In a word, Korean women would sacrifice Nearly ten years more have passed, and sil, soul and body, to their husbands. Mr. Ku Rues, Lawrence Chancellor, still bearing the name of recalled the Captain Jen Arnasson, the Locander, returns to gentleman who ience of a certain Japaness his native place full of a yearning desire to see winter that gentleman visited Seoul and engag- now a peer. Опа his children. He finds grerything changed, theeda Korsen maid-servant. She was a very old civilisation that preceded the adoption et kindly girl, and served her master faithfally. steam and electricity having given place to the even sacrificing dele of her sleep to him. The new, the old ways of the being one, the only Edelity of the Korean girl in very high for
gentleman one day talked to Mr. Ku of tion to which he belonged being dead; himself remaining alive, and he is old and
nd added that she was kinder then his wife at bome. Mr. Ku expressed his earnest hope that him to be a reincarnation of his dead wife, Korean idea of wifehood, and by their reform He sees his daughter Lucy, who some to Japanese women would learn a lesson from the
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ed attitude towards their husbanda iespire In the Korean masonline mind some desire to of his own assumed name on the Greenland marry Japanese girls." seas, Finally he moots his son-in-law, Henry Crow (now a magistrate and a power in the county), who is at once overcoms with joy and
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