Excerpt from My Brother's Keeper: A Drama in Three Acts

Sprinkle the clothes with bits of isinglass for a general soused appearance, change to Base Ball suit, with the letter G on breast. Act 2, Business suit. Act 3, Neat evening dress.

Grace Benton. Act 1, Fashionable summer dress, with shawl and hat. Act 3, White evening dress, rich and tasty.

Rachel Allen. Acts 1 and 2, Neat and pretty street dress. Act 3, White.

Betsey Benton. Act 1, Black silk dress, scant, old-fashioned shawl and hat, gray front of hair. Act 3, Black silk dress, white bertha, front, and cap.

Act 1. Scene. - Abel Benton's counting-room. Desk against wall, R. Desk against wall, l. Writing table, C., with drawer opening at back. Chairs before desks, R. and L. Chair R. of table. Lounge behind table, c. On desks inkstands, pens, paper, &c., The entrances are from R. and L.: that on the R. is from the warehouse and the street, that on the l. leads to Abel Benton's private room. Richard Carnes discovered seated at desky L.

Richard. 56 - 65 - 72 - 81 - 90. Figures, figures, figures! I'm heartily tired of this drudgery, day after day, casting up columns that add no sum total to my earthly happiness. If one could be as lucky as our head centre, Abel Benton, patience would indeed be a virtue. But he's one in a thousand.

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