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THE CURTAIN FALLS
THE SECOND ACT
_Court room of Justice VON WEHRHAHN. A great, bare, white-washed room
with three windows in the rear wall. The main door is in the left
wall. Along the wall to the right stands the long official table
covered with books, legal documents, etc.; behind it the chair of the
justice. Near the centre window are the clerk's chair and table. To
the right is a bookcase of white wood, so arranged that it is within
reach of the justice when he sits in his chair. The left wall is
hidden by cases containing documents. In the foreground, beginning at
the wall to the left, six chairs stand in a row. Their occupants
would be seen by the spectator from behind.--It is a bright forenoon
in Winter. The clerk GLASENAPP sits scribbling at his table. He is a
poverty-stricken, spectacled person. Justice VON WEHRHAHN, carrying a
roll of documents under his arm, enters rapidly. WEHRHAHN is about
forty years old and wears a monocle. He makes the impression of a son
of the landed nobility of Prussia. His official garb consists of a
buttoned, black walking coat, and very tall boots put on over his
trousers.
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