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KAHL
[_Laughing._] I guess ye got a pig killin'?
CURTAIN
THE FIFTH ACT
_The same room, as in the first act. Time: toward two o'clock in the
morning. The room is in complete darkness. Through the open middle
door light penetrates into it from the illuminated hall. The light
also falls clearly upon the wooden stairway that leads to the upper
floor. The conversation in this act--with very few exceptions--is
carried on in a muffled tone._
_EDWARD enters through the middle door, carrying a light. He lights
the hanging lamp (it is a gas lamp) over the corner table. While he
is thus employed, LOTH _also enters by the middle door._
EDWARD
O Lord! Such goin's on! It'd take a monster to be able to close a eye
here!
LOTH
I didn't even try to sleep. I have been writing.
EDWARD
You don't say! [_He succeeds in lighting the lamp._] There! Well, sure, I
guess it's hard enough, too ... Maybe you'd like to have paper and ink,
sir?
LOTH
Perhaps that would be ... If you would be so good, then, Mr. Edward?
EDWARD
[_Placing pen and ink on the table._] I'm always thinkin' that any honest
fellow has got to get all the work there's in every bone for every dirty
penny.
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