Présentation de l'éditeur
This powerful, absorbing play is presented to amateurs for the first time with the assurance that it will continue to please audiences for many years to come as it has done in the past. It was originally presented by the Van Dyke Eaton Stock Company and has always proved a financial success. The audience is made to feel that they have actually known and lived among the characters, smiling at their joys, sympathizing with their sorrows and rejoicing in the happy ending. Vhile the story is not a novelty, each act teems with bright dialogue and quick action, the situations are natural and work themselves to a happy ending in a logical, concise manner. It is a melodramatic story of refinement, and while the situations are strong they are not lurid, and the comedy is clean-cut and human. The play opens in a rough lighthouse on the Carolina coast. Ned Blake, from the city, is spending his vacation here and has been captivated with the cheerfulness and artless simplicity of a young girl. Nan, supposed to be the granddaughter of Ichabod Buzzer, the old lighthouse keeper. Nan has grown up in her rough surroundings as a wild flower, beautiful and innocent, with no knowledge of the great world that lies over the mountains. Ned Blake has taught her to read and succeeds in winning her girlish heart. A party of Ned sfriends come to visit him and spend several days at the lighthouse. In the party is Mr. John Enlow, whose baby girl had been abducted many years before by Injun Jim, the son-in-law of Ichabod Buzzer. Jim swife, Liza Buzzer, returns the baby to Enlow after Jim has been sent to the penitentiary, but instead of returning the rightful heiress, she substitutes her own child and Lighthouse Nan proves to be John Enlow sdaughter. Injun Jim meets Hortense Enlow, who is really his own daughter, and tells her the secret of her birth. She bribes him to obtain the proofs o
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