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…ut the stage, muttering savage runes with dismal laughter. Her words are inarticulate, when with a last Ho! Ho! the curtain falls.| [The scene rises, and we again see the stage as in Scene I. Maurya and Criospa as in the opening. Criospa is, however, absolutely calm.| Maurya. Criosda, answer ! CriospDa. I obey, having heard. Maurya. This dawn shall see me take the final flight ? CriospDa. It shall.
…y, The tender love for the young flower. And these Are none of the priest’s. Enough ! [Exit. The door clangs again. The curtain falls; a scene drops. WRupna, an aged and wizened hag, of gigantic stature, is dis- covered seated C. The scene represents a lonely hill-top covered with stones. A little coarse grass grows in places. Three great menhirs stand up C. Moonlight.| Rupua. The rune of the breath. The saga of death. The secret of earth. The beginning of birth. The speech of woe. Ho! Ho!
PERSONS CrIOspA. . . . . . Aged 33. . Maurya... . » His Sister, aged 16. RupHaA .. . . . -~ The Hag of Eternity. The scene of the Tragedy is laid in an ancient Scottish Hall, very remote. The time is the One-and-Twentieth Century after Christ. The action of the play occupies many years.
24 ACT II FORTY YEARS AFTERWARDS [The scene is an open and stormy sea. RuPua, with her staff, wave-riding in a cockle-shell,| RupnHa. Ha! Ha! In the storm I ride. The winds bear me. The waves fear me. I appal ; 1 inform Their pride. Let him hither, Drifting ever Wrecked and lost ! His life shall wither. The dirk shall sever His rune ill-crossed. I hear him come Across the foam With a bang and a boom. The winds, hum, hum. The billows comb. Ho! Ho! the doom! Ho! Ho! I have won. I shall win.
… sea with her staff; the storm rises; it grows bitter dark; only their shapes are dimly seen against the dark back- ground of cloud. The scene rises.] Rupua. Break, break, O mist of morning!
30 [The stage, which is full of mist, gradually clears. It shows the Temple as in Scene I. On the throne the embalmed body of Maurya is seated. The altar flames with glowing charcoal, and a thin steam of incense arises. Rupua and Criospa are in front, R. Two priests minister ; @ goodly crew of choristers intone low litanies. A few young folk are at @ sort of barrier by the footlights (centre) in prayer. An old woman enters and brings an offering of flowers, which the priests re- ceive and cast before the throne. Rupna motions Criospa to be sile…
THE GOD-EATER Criospa, Maurya. [The Scene ts an old Baronial Hall, elaborately, yet somewhat grotesquely (from the incongruity) fitted up as an antique Egyptian temple, C. an altar berween two obelisks; on it a censer vomits smoke in great volumes. Above at back of stage 1s a stately throne, square and simple, on steps. In it sits MAuRYA, quiet and silent. She is dressed in sombre green robes, lightened with old rose facings. She is heavily braceleted and ankleted with gold, and her crown is a gold disc supported in silver horns, rising from he…