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...like a bee, wrote this play. The silver box, a receptacle for cigarets, is stolen by a rebellious drunkard, Mr. Jones, to express his antipathy toward the upper classes who have deprived him of the privilege of working for a living. His wife, a charwoman, is suspected of the theft; but before the case reaches court, it becomes obvious that the true culprit is vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation, had been assisted into his father's home by Mr. Jones, thereby allowing the latter the opportunity for his theft. The last...
...valueless paper currency coined by the war chiefs in pay for their troops, is forced upon the local people by each succeeding wave of arrivals. Theft and looting have closed or ruined the stores and business houses. Trade is impossible. The railroads have been declaring dividends only to the militarists; troops have been the chief traffic, while the stock has been abused or ruined...
...onetime Crown Prince Carol resides. Just last week the Prince came home from his newly purchased villa in the Orne Valley to discover that two weeks ago a considerable amount of his correspondence had been stolen. The fact that money and jewelry had not been touched argued a political theft, and it was assumed in diplomatic circles that the Rumanian Consulate knew more about the stealing than it was willing to confess...
...appeared that Carol's valet, knowing his master's fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...
...violent superficial distaste and the deep, deeply contradictory love which she feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears of his death and the story reaches its unnecessarily happy conclusion. Despite the weakening of the last...