Bottoms Up, An Application of the Slapstick to Satire
Bottoms Up, An Application of the Slapstick to Satire
Nathan George Jean
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CHARTERIS H ! 30 BOTTOMS UP EBBSMITH (waving the letters tauntingly under his wife s eyes) C! (Mrs. E. Endeavours to speak. She tries to summon courage to ask Ebbsmith how and where he got the carelessly-guarded, incrim inating letters, but her lips are muffled through fear. Ebbsmith waits patiently, sneeringly. Then, seeing his wife s hopeless struggle to phrase the question ) EBBSMITH (quietly taking a five dollar bill from his wal let, and holding it aloft, with a significant smile) A . CHAR...TERIS (puzzled) A? EBBSMITH (nodding toward entrance at R. 2) V. MRS. E. (beginning to comprehend) O! (she rushes to bell. She presses it in order to summon the bribed Jenkins and lodge her ac cusations against him for his deceit. There is a pause. Enter Jenkins. Mrs. Ebbsmith makes to speak. Ebbsmith interrupts her. ) EBBSMITH (to Jenkins, quietly ) T. (Jenkins nods and exits. There is another pause. Charteris attempts to conceal his ner- BOTTOMS UP 81 vousness by puffing nonchalantly at a cigar ette.
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