  SCENE: A Hall of Judgment in the palace of Saul at Gibeah. The walls, pillars and ceiling are of cedar richly carven with images of serpents, pomegranates and cherubim in gold. The floors are of bright marble; the throne of ivory, hung with a lion’s skin whose head is its footstool. On the right and left, doors, draped with finely woven curtains of purple and white, lead to other portions of the palace. Seats toward the front. Lamps burn low. The Hall, supported on pillars, is open along the back, where a Porch, surrounding the Court of the palace, crosses. Through the Porch, on the environing hills, glow the camp-fires of the Philistines, the enemies of Israel. JUDITH, LEAH and ZILLA are reclining restively on the floor of the Hall. JUDITH [Springing to her feet impatiently.] O for a feast! pomegranate wine and song! LEAH Oh! oh! ZILLA A feast indeed! the men in camp! When was a laugh or any leaping here? Never; and none to charm with timbreling! [She goes to the porch.] LEAH What shall we do? JUDITH I’ll dance. ZILLA Until you’re dead. JUDITH Or till a youth wed Zilla for her beauty? I’ll not soil mine with sullen fear all day Because these Philistines press round. As well Be wenches gathering grapes or wool! Come, Leah. [She prepares to dance.] LEAH No, Judith, I’ll put henna on my nails, And mend my anklet. [She sits down.] ZILLA [At the curtains.] Oh! oh, oh! JUDITH Now hear her! Who, who, now? who, who is it? dog, fox, devil? ZILLA All! JUDITH Then ’tis Ishui! [Bounding to curtains.] Yes, Ishui! And fury in him, sallow, sour fury! A jackal were his mate! Come, come, we’ll plague him. ZILLA And too—with David whom he hates! JUDITH Aie, David! A joy to rouse men up to jealousy! LEAH Why hates he David, Zilla? ZILLA Stupid Leah! JUDITH Hush, hush, be meet and ready now; he’s near. Look as for silly visions and for dreams! [They pose themselves. Ishui enters—sees them. Judith sighs.] ISHUI Now timbrel-gaud, why gaping here! JUDITH O! ’tis Prince Ishui! ZILLA Prince Ishui! Then he Will tell us! he will tell us! LEAH Yes! JUDITH Of David! O is he come! when, where, quick, quick, and will He pluck us ecstasies out of his harp, Winning until we’re wanton for him, mad, And sigh and laugh and weep to the moon! ISHUI Low thing! Chaff of the king! JUDITH The king! I had not thought! David a king! how beauteous would he be! ISHUI David? JUDITH Turban of sapphire! robe of gold! ISHUI A king? o’er Israel? JUDITH Who, who can tell! Have you not heard? Yesterday in the camp Among war-old but fearful men he offered Kingly to meet Goliath—great Goliath! ISHUI What do you say? to meet Goliath? JUDITH [Laughing in his face.] Aie! [He thrusts her from him. She goes dancing with Zilla and Leah.] ADRIEL [Who has entered.] Ishui, in a rage? ISHUI Should I not be! ADRIEL Not would you be yourself. ISHUI Not? [Deftly.] You say well. I should not, no. Pardon, then, Adriel. ADRIEL What was the offence? ISHUI Turn from it.—I have not Bidden you here for vapours; yet they had Substance as well for you! ADRIEL For me? ISHUI Who likes Laughter against him! ADRIEL I was laughed at? ISHUI Why, It is this shepherd! ADRIEL David? ISHUI With his harp! Flinging enchantment on the palace air Till he impassions to him all who breathe. ADRIEL What sting from that? He’s lovable and brave. ISHUI Lovable? Lovable? ADRIEL I do not see. ISHUI This then: you’ve hither come with gifts and gold, Dream-bringing amethyst and weft of Ind, To wed my sister, Merab? ADRIEL It is so. ISHUI And you’ve the king’s consent; but she denies? ADRIEL As every wind, you know it. ISHUI Still denies! And you, lost in the maze of her, fare on Blindly and find no reason for it! ADRIEL How? What reason can be? women are not clear; And least unto themselves. ISHUI Or to their fools. [He goes to curtains and draws out Adah.] Your mistress, Merab, girl, whom does she love? Unclench your hands. ADAH I hate her. ISHUI Insolent! Answer; I am not milky Jonathan. Answer; and for the rest—You hear? ADAH She loves— The shepherd David! ADRIEL Who, girl? ADAH I care not! She is unkind; I wilt not spy for her On Michal, and I’ll tell her secrets all! And David does not love her—and she raves. ISHUI Off to your sleep; now off— [Makes to strikes her.] ADRIEL Ishui, no. [Adah goes.] ISHUI And see you now how ‘lovable’ he is! I tell you that he stands athwart us all! The heart of Merab swung a censer to him, My seat at table with the king usurped! Mildew and mocking to the harp of Doeg, As it were any slave’s; the while we all Are lepered with suspicion. ADRIEL Of the king? ISHUI Ah! and of Jonathan and Michal. ADRIEL Hush. [Enter Michal passing with Miriam.] Michal, delay. Whom lead you? MICHAL Miriam, A prophetess. ADRIEL How of the king to-night? MICHAL He’s not at rest; dreads Samuel’s prophecy The throne shall pass from him, and darkens more Against this boundless Philistine Goliath Who dares at Israel daily on the hills, As we were dogs! ADRIEL Is David with him? MICHAL No; But he is sent for—and will ease him—Ah! He’s wonderful to heal the king with his harp! A waft, a sunny leap of melody, And swift the hovering mad shadow’s gone— As magic! ISHUI Michal.… Curst! MICHAL What anger’s this? ISHUI Disdaining Doeg and his plea to dust, His waiting and the winning-o’er of Edom, You are enamoured of this David too? MICHAL I think my brother Ishui hath a fever. [She goes—calmly, with Miriam.] ISHUI Now are you kindled—are you quivering, Or must this shepherd put upon us more? ADRIEL But has he not dealt honorably? ISHUI No. ADRIEL Why do you urge it? ISHUI Why have senses. He With Samuel the prophet fast enshrouds Some secret, and has Samuel not told The kingdom from my father shall be rent And fall unto another? ADRIEL You are certain? ISHUI As granite. [Voices are heard in altercation.] Yonder! ADRIEL The king? ISHUI And Samuel With prophecy or some refusal tears him! [They step aside. Saul followed by Samuel strides in and mounts the throne.] SAUL You threat, and ever thunder threatening! Pour seething prophesy into my veins, Till a simoon of madness in me moves. Am I not king, the king? chosen and sealed? Who’ve been anathema and have been bane Unto the foes of Israel, and filled The earth with death of them? And do you still forbid that I bear gold And bribe away this Philistine array Folded about us, fettering with flame? SAMUEL Yes,—yes! While there is air, and awe of Heaven Do I forbid! A champion must rise To level this Goliath. Thus may we Loose on them pest of panic and of fear. SAUL Are forty days not dead? A champion! None will arise—’tis vain. And I’ll not wait On miracle. SAMUEL Offer thy daughter then, Michal, thy fairest, to whoever shall. SAUL Demand and drain for more! without an end. Ever vexation! No; I will not. SAMUEL Then, Out of Jehovah and a vast foreseen I tell thee again, thou perilous proud king, The sceptre shall slip from thee to another! [He moves to go.] SAUL The sceptre.… SAMUEL To another! SAUL From me! No! You rouse afar the billowing of ill. I grant—go not!—I grovel to your will, Fear it and fawn as to omnipotence, [Snatching at Samuel’s mantle.] And vow to all its divination—all! SAMUEL Then, Saul of Israel, the hour is near, When shall arise one, and Goliath fall! [Samuel goes slowly out, Saul sinks back.] ISHUI Oh,—subtle! SAUL Thus he sways me. ISHUI Subtle!—subtle! And yet I must not speak; come, Adriel, No use of us here. [He makes as if to go.] SAUL Use? subtle? Stand! ISHUI No, father, no. SAUL What mean you? ISHUI Do not ask.… Yet how it creeps, and how! SAUL Unveil your words. ISHUI Do you not see it crawl, this serpent scheme? Goliath slain—the people mad with praise, Then fallen from you—Michal the victor’s wife.… SAUL Say on; say on. ISHUI Or else the champion slain— Fear on the people—panic—the kingdom’s ruin! SAUL Now do the folds slip from me. ISHUI And you see? Ah then, if one arise? If one arise? SAUL Death, death! If he hath touched this prophet—if Merely a little moment!— ISHUI I have seen Your David with him. SAUL Death! if—Come here: David? ISHUI In secret. SAUL Say you? ISHUI Yes, SAUL The folds slip further; To this you lead me—hatred against David! To this with supple envy’s easy glide! ISHUI I have but told— SAUL You have but builded lies, As ever you are building and forever. I’ll hear no more against him—Abner—No. [To Abner, who enters.] David, and with his harp. ABNER My lord— SAUL Not come? He is not come? And never! but delays. ABNER Time’s yet to pass. SAUL There is not—Am I king? [A harp is heard.] See you, ’tis he! ’Tis David, and he sings! DAVID [Bravely, within.] Smiter of hosts, Terrible Saul! Vile on the hills shall he laugh who boasts None is among Great Israel’s all Fearless for Saul, king Saul! [Entering with people of the palace.] Aye, is there none Galled of the sting, Will at the soul of Goliath run? Wring it and up To his false gods fling?… None for the king, the king? [He drops to his knee, amid praise, before the throne.] SAUL [Darkening] Forego this praise and stand Away from him; ’tis overmuch. [To David] Why have You dallied and delayed? DAVID My lord, delayed? SAUL Do not smile wonder, mocking! DAVID Why, my lord, I do not mock. Only the birds have wings. Yet on the vales behind me I have left Haste and a swirling wonderment of air, And in the torrent’s troubled vein amaze, So swift I hurried hither at your urgence Out of the fields and folding the far sheep! SAUL You have not; you have dallied. [He motions. All go but David, whom he comes down toward, indeterminately.] You have dallied. DAVID Deep in the king I see a darkness foam And sheeted passion, as a lightning gust. Shall I not play to him? SAUL You shall not, no. [Slowly draws a dagger.] I’ll not be lulled. DAVID Is it a tiger gleam, Terrible fury stealing from the heart And crouching cold within the eye of Saul? SAUL I’ll not endure. They say that you— DAVID They say? What is this ravage in you. Does the truth So limpid overflow in palaces? Never an enemy to venom it? Am I not David, faithful, and thy friend? SAUL I’ll slay you, and regretless. DAVID [Unmoving] Slay, my lord? SAUL Do you not fear? and brave me to my breast! DAVID Have I done wrong that I should fear the king? Reed as I am, could he not breathe and break? And I should be oblivion at a word! But under the terror of his might have I Not seen his heart beat justice and beat love? See, even now…! SAUL I will not listen to them! DAVID To whom, my lord, and what? SAUL Ever they say, “This David,” and “this David!” DAVID Ah, my harp! SAUL But think you, David, I shall lose the kingdom? DAVID [Starting] My lord…! SAUL Pain in your eyes? you think it? Deem I cannot overleap this destiny? DAVID To that let us not verge; it has but ill. Deeper the future gulf is for our fears. Forget it. Forget the brink may ever gape, And wield the throne so well that God himself Must not unking you, more than he would cry The morning star from Heaven! Then, I swear it, None else will! SAUL Swear? DAVID Nay, nay! SAUL You swear? DAVID But words, Foolishly from the heart; a shepherd speech! Give them no mood; but see, see yonder fires Camping upon the peace of Israel, As we were carrion beneath the sun! Let us conceive annihilation on them, Hurricane rush and deluging and ruin. SAUL Ah, but the prophecy! the prophecy! It eats in me the food of rest and ease. And David, nearer: Samuel in my stead Another hath anointed. DAVID Saul, not this! This should not fall to me, my lord; no more! You cannot understand; it pains beyond All duty and enduring! SAUL Pains beyond…? Who is he? know you of him? do you? know you? You sup the confidence of Samuel? I’ll search from Nile to Nineveh— DAVID My lord! SAUL Mountain and desert, wilderness and sea, Under and over, search—and find. DAVID Peace, peace! [Enter Michal joyously.] MICHAL O father, father! David! Listen!—Why, All here is dark and quivering as pain, And a foreboding binds me ere I breathe! David, you have not been as sun to him! DAVID But Michal will be now. SAUL Child, well, what then? MICHAL Father, a secret! Oh, and it will make Dawn and delight in you! SAUL Perhaps; then, well? MICHAL Oh, I have heard…! SAUL Have heard?—Why do you pale? [She stands unaccountably moved.] Now are you Baal-bit? DAVID Michal! MICHAL [In terror.] David!… the dread. What does it mean? I cannot speak! It shrinks Shivering down upon my heart in awe! DAVID So piteous are you? suddenly so numb? And you are faint? let it rush from your lips! Can any moving in the world so bring Terror upon you! Speak, what is it? MICHAL Ah! I know not; danger rising and its wing Sudden against my lips! DAVID To warn? MICHAL It shall not! There—now again flows joy; I think it flows. SAUL Then—you have heard…? MICHAL Yes, father, yes! Have you Not much desired discovery of whom Samuel hath anointed? SAUL Well? MICHAL I’ve found [David blenches.] Almost have found! A prophetess to-day Hath told me that he is a— [She stops in realizing horror.] SAUL Now you cease? Sudden and senseless! MICHAL David?—No! SAUL God! God! Have I not bidden swiftly! Ever then Vexation! I could—No. Will she not speak! MICHAL I cannot. SAUL Cannot! Are you flesh of me! DAVID My lord, not anger! Hear me… SAUL Cannot? DAVID Hear! Her lips could never seal upon a wrong. Sudden divinity is on them, silence Sent for the benison of Israel, Else were it shattered by her love to you! Believe! in all the riven realm of duty There’s no obedience from thee she would hold. If it seem other— [Enter Abner hurriedly.] ABNER Pardon, O king. At once! SAUL I will not. Do you come with vexing too? ABNER The Philistines—some fury is afoot. A spy within our gates—and scorns to speak. SAUL Conspiracy of silence!… Back to him. [Abner goes.] [To David and Michal.] But you—I’ll not forget. I’ll not forget. [Saul goes] DAVID Forget! anointing! peril! what are they all! Michal?—for me you have done this, for me? [She stands immovable.] I am swung with joy, as palms of Abila! [Goes to her.] A princess, you, and the veins of you live warm With sympathy and love unto your father, Yet you have shielded me? MICHAL You are the anointed? DAVID I am—oh do not flint your loveliness!— I am the anointed, but all innocent In will or hope of any envious wrong As lily blowing of blasphemy! as dew Upon it is of enmity! MICHAL Anointed! You whom the king uplifted from the fields! DAVID And who am ever faithful to him! MICHAL You, Whom Jonathan loves more than women love! DAVID Yet reaches not my love to Jonathan! MICHAL You—you! DAVID But, hear me! MICHAL You, of all! DAVID O Hear! Of my anointing Jonathan is ’ware, Knows it is holy, helpless, innocent As dawn or a drift of dreaming in the night! Knows it unsought—out of the skies—supernal— From the inspirÈd cruse of Samuel! For Israel it dripped upon me, and For Israel must drip until I die! Or till high Gath and Askalon are blown Dust on the wind, and all Philistia Lie peopleless and still under the stars!— Goliath, then, a laughter evermore!… Still, still you shrink! do you not see, not feel? MICHAL So have you breathed yourself about my heart, Even as moon-lit incense, spirit flame Burning away all barrier! DAVID But see! MICHAL And all the world has streamed a rapture in, Till even now my lids from anger falter And the dew falls! DAVID Restrain! O do not weep! Upon my heart each tear were as a sea Flooding it from all duty but the course Of thy delight! MICHAL Poor, that I should have tears! Fury were better, tempest! O weak eyes, When ’tis my father, and with Samuel You creep to steal his kingdom! DAVID Michal!… God! MICHAL Yes, steal it! DAVID Cruel! fell accusal! Yes, Utterly false and full of wounding! [Struggling, then with control.] Yet, Forgive that even when thy arrows drive Deeper than all the skill of time can draw, I spare thee not the furrowed face of pain.… Delirious wings of hope that fluttered up, At last to fall! [Moves to go.] MICHAL David! DAVID Farewell! MICHAL … You must not! DAVID Peace to you—peace and joy! MICHAL You must not go! [He turns. She sways, then reaches out her arms. As irresistibly they move toward each other, Doeg and Merab appear through the curtains. Michal utters a low cry. They vanish.] MICHAL [In numb affright] Merab and Doeg! DAVID Yet what matter, now! Were it the driven night-unshrouded dead! Under the firmament is but one need, That you will understand! MICHAL But Merab! ah, She’s cunning, cold and cruel, and she loves thee; Hath told her love to Ahinoam the queen! And Doeg hates thee—since for me he’s mad! DAVID Be it, his hate, as wild, as wide as winds That gather up the desert for their blast, Be it as Sheol deep, stronger than stars That fling fate on us, and I care not, care not, If I am trusted and to Michal truth! Hear, hear me! for the kingdom, tho ’t may come, I yearn not, but for you! MICHAL No, no! DAVID For you! Since I a shepherd o’er a wild of hills First beheld you the daughter of the king Amid his servants, leaning, still with noon, Beautiful under a tamarisk, until All beauty else is dead— MICHAL Ah cease! DAVID Since then, I have been wonder ecstasy and dream! The molded light and fragrant miracle, Body of you and soul, lifted me till When you departed— MICHAL No, you rend me! DAVID I Fell thro’ infinity of void! MICHAL No more! DAVID Then came the prophet Samuel with anointing! My hope sprung as the sun! MICHAL I must not hear! DAVID Then was I called to play before the king. Here in this hall where cherubim shine out, Where the night silence— MICHAL David! DAVID Strung me tense, I waited, shepherd-timid, and you came, You for the king to try my skill! you, you! MICHAL Leave me, ah leave! I yield! DAVID And often since Have we not swayed and swept thro’ happy hours, Far from the birth unto the bourne of bliss? MICHAL And I— DAVID To-night you did not to the king Reveal my helpless chrism, give me to peril. Say but the reason! MICHAL David! DAVID Speak, O speak! MICHAL And shall I, shall I? how this prophetess Miriam hath foretold— DAVID Some wonder? speak! MICHAL [Springing up the throne.] Hath told I shall be queen of Israel! DAVID Michal, the queen? the queen! We two are then Yoked of eternity unto this end! MICHAL [Shrinking down.] No, no! horror in me moans out against it! Wed me with destiny against my father? Dethrone my mother? Ah! DAVID Not that—no wrong! MICHAL Then swear conspiracy upon its tide Never shall lift you! DAVID Deeper than soul or sea, Deep as divinity is deep, I swear. If it shall come, the kingdom— MICHAL “If!” not “if.” Surrender this anointing! Spurn it, say You never will be king though Israel Kingless go mad for it! DAVID I cannot. MICHAL Guile! DAVID I cannot—and I must not. It is holy! MICHAL Then must I hate you—scorn you— DAVID Michal! MICHAL And will. But to reign over Israel you care, Not for the peace of it! DAVID Thus all is vain; A seething on the lips, I’ll say no more … Care but to reign and not for Israel’s calm? I who am wounded with her every wound?… Look out upon yon Philistine bold fires Lapping the night with bloody tongue—look out! [A commotion is heard within.] As God has swung the world and hung forever The infinite in awe, to-morrow night Not one of them shall burn! MICHAL You pall me! DAVID None! MICHAL What is this strength! It seizes on me! No, I’ll not believe, no, no, more than I would From a boy’s breath or the mere sling you wear A multitude should flee! And you shall learn A daughter to a father may be true Tho paleness be her doom until she die! [She turns to go. Enter Jonathan eagerly.] JONATHAN David! DAVID My friend—my Jonathan! ’Tis you? [They embrace. Michal goes.] JONATHAN Great heart, I’ve heard how yesterday before The soldiers you.… But Michal gone? No word? DAVID The anointing. JONATHAN Ah, she knows? DAVID All. JONATHAN And disdains Believing? tell me. DAVID No, not now—not now. Let me forget it in a leap of deeds. [The commotion sounds again.] And all this murmur misty of distress, What is it? sprung of the Philistines? new terror? This sounding giant flings again his foam? Jonathan, I am flame that will not wait, What is it? I must strike. JONATHAN David.… DAVID Tell me, And do not bring dissuasion more, or pause. JONATHAN The king comes here. DAVID Now? JONATHAN With a spy who keeps Fiercely to silence. DAVID Then is peril up! Jonathan—! JONATHAN David, you must cool from this. Determination surges you o’erfar. I will not see you rush on perishing, Not though it be the aid of Israel. DAVID I must.… I will not let them ever throng, Staining the hills, and starving us from peace. Rather the last ray living in me, rather Death and the desecration of the worm. Bid me not back with love, nor plea; I must! JONATHAN But think— DAVID I must. JONATHAN ’Twere futile. DAVID Hear; the king! JONATHAN The madness of it! DAVID No, and see; they come. JONATHAN Strangely my father is unstrung. DAVID They come. [Enter Saul with Samuel; Soldiers with the spy; Ahinoam with Abner; and all the court in suppressed dread.] SAUL [To Samuel] He will not speak, but scorns me, and his lips Bitterly curve and grapple. But he shall Learn there is torture to it! Set him forth. [The spy is thrust forward.] Tighten his bonds up till he moan. [It is done.] Aye, gasp, Accursed Philistine! Now wilt thou tell The plan and passion of thy people ’gainst us? SPY Baal! SAUL Tighten the torture more.… Now will you? SPY [In agony.] Yea! SAUL On, then, reveal. SPY New forces have arrived. Numberless; more than peaks of Arabah. [General movement of uneasiness.] Unless before to-morrow’s moon one’s sent To overthrow Goliath—Gods! the pain! SAUL Well?—Well? SPY Then Gibeah attacked, and all Even to sucking babes be put to sword! [A movement of horror.] AHINOAM All Gibeah! A WOMAN My little ones? No, no! [She rushes frantically out.] SAMUEL Then, Saul of Gibeah, one thing and one Alone is to be done. A champion, To break this beetling giant down to death! SAUL There is none. SAMUEL Is none! Call! I order it. SAUL Then who will dare against him! [A silence.] See you now. SAMUEL You, Abner, will not? ABNER It were death and vain. SAMUEL Doeg, chief servant of the king? DOEG Why me? Had I a mother out of Israel? I am an alien, an Edomite. DAVID My lord, this is no more endurable! Futile and death? Alien? Edomite? Has not this Philistine before the gates With insult and illimitable breath Vaunting of vanity and smiting laughter Boasted and braved and threatened up to Baal? And now unless one slay him, Israel From babe to age must bleed and be no more! I am a shepherd, have but seized the lion And throttled the bleating kid out of his throat; Little it then beseems that I thrust in Where battle captains pale and falter off; But this is past all carp of rank or station. One must go out—Goliath must have end. DOEG Ah, ah! and you will! ISHUI You? JONATHAN No, David! SAUL You? DAVID Sudden you hound about me ravenous? Have I thrown doom not daring to your feet, Ruler of Israel, that you rise wild, Livid above me as an avalanche? DOEG A plot! it is a plot! He will be slain— From you, my lord, dominion then will fall! Or should it not … SAMUEL Liar; it is no plot. But courage sprung seraphic out of night, Beautiful and a bravery from God! MICHAL [Behind the throng.] Open, and let me enter! Open! [She enters.] Father, It is not false? but now, the uttermost? To-morrow, if Goliath still exult, There’s peril of desolation, bloody ruin? SAMUEL I answer for him. MICHAL Then to your will, Father, unto will of yesterday I bend me now with sacrificial joy. Unto Goliath’s slayer is the hand Of Michal, the king’s daughter! DAVID [Joyously] Michal! Michal! DOEG See, see, my lord! Do you not understand? ISHUI It is another coiling of their plot! MICHAL Coiling of plot? What mean you? MERAB Ah? You know Not it is David offers against Goliath? MICHAL David? [Shrinking] David? [A low tumult is heard without. Enter a Captain hurriedly.] CAPTAIN O King, bid me to speak! SAUL Then speak! CAPTAIN Fear is upon the host. There will Be mutiny unless, Goliath slain, Courage spring up anew. DAVID My lord, then, choose! Ere longer waiting fester to disaster. SAMUEL Yea, king of Gibeah, and bid him go, And Michal for his meed! or evermore Evil be on you and the sear of shame— And haunting memory beyond the tomb! SAUL Then let him—let him. And upon the field Of Ephes-Dammin. But I am not blind! [To Abner] Let him, to morrow! Go, prepare the host. Yet—I am king, remember! I am king! [Saul goes; there is a murmur of relief. All except Michal follow, with various expressions of joy or hate toward David.] DAVID Michal! [She looks at him; struggles against tears, and turning, goes. David stands gazing sadly after her. Then a trumpet sounds, and soldiers shouting exultantly without, throng to the porch.] DAVID [Thrilled; his hand on his sling] For Israel! For Israel! [He goes, toward the soldiers.] [CURTAIN.] |
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