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Updated: May 14, 2025
Millicent picks up the confession and advances dramatically. Millicent. Do not touch that man! Read this! Jasper Beeste! We've had our suspicions of you for some time. Millicent. Of course! Why, he's engaged to me. Aren't you, Dick? Dick. This time, Millicent, for ever! The scene is laid outside a village inn in that county of curious dialects, Loamshire.
Three years! It has been a lifetime! He starts, and then creeps rapidly to the switch, arriving there at the moment when the lights go out. Thence he goes swiftly behind the window curtain. The lights go up again as Jasper Beeste comes in with a revolver in one hand and a bull's-eye lantern of apparently enormous candle-power in the other.
"I, Jasper Beeste, of Beeste Hall, do hereby declare that I stole Lady Wilsdon's diamond necklace and hid it in the hatbox of Richard Trayle; and I further declare that the said Richard Trayle is innocent of any complicity in the affair." At this moment two warders burst into the room. First Warder. There they are! Two-toed Thomas leaps from the window, pursued by the second Warder.
Say the word, guv'nor, and I'll kill him. Stand back! Now, Jasper Beeste, what have you to say? I confess. I will sign anything. I will go to prison. Only keep that man off me.
A diamond necklace, Jasper Beeste, which the other man hid in the hatbox of another man in order that he might woo the other man's fiancee! Bah! The man in the cell next to mine wants to meet this gentleman again. It seems that he has some old scores to pay off. And where is he? Dick. Ah, where is he? Allow me to present you to Mr Jasper Beeste. Two-toed Thomas! I am undone!
The stage is in semi-darkness as Dick Trayle throws open the window from outside, puts his knee on the sill, and falls carefully into the drawing-room of Beeste Hall. The lights go on suddenly; and, he should seize this moment to stagger to the door and turn on the switch. This done, he sinks into the nearest chair and closes his eyes.
I thought I heard a noise, so I slipped on some old things hurriedly and came down. Jasper. Let's have a little light on you. Ha! An escaped convict, eh? Jasper Beeste! Jasper. So you know my name? Yes, Jasper Beeste, I know your name. For two years I have said it to myself every night, when I prayed Heaven that I should meet you again. Jasper. Again? We have met before, Jasper Beeste.
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