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ZINA: THE SLAVE GIRL OR WHICH THE TRAITOR?
A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS.
By Dr. A. THOMPSON, of Lowell, Mass.
[Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by AugustinThompson, of Lowell, Mass., in the office of the Librarian of Congress,at Washington, D. C.]
LOWELL, MASS.:
COURIER PRESS: MARDEN AND ROWELL.
1882.
ZINA: THE SLAVE GIRL.
CAST OF CHARACTERS.
Gen. Francis Halcom. An exile.
Keele Brightly. Slavetrader, gambler, and guerilla chief.
Martelle d’Arneaux. A true type of the old Southern chivalry.
Merald Myers. A gambler, duellist, and slavetrader.
Gen. W. T. Sherman. Commanding the Union Army of the Cumberland.
Gen. J. B. Hood. Commanding Rebel Army of the Tennessee.
Hezekiah Goferum. A striking illustration of what the back towns can produce in a case of emergency.
Barney O’Flanagan. An adopted citizen, who sticks by his friends.
Col. J. H. Gilday. Of the Rebel Army.
Orderlies, Soldiers, ETC.
Zina: The Slave Girl. Property of Keele Brightly.
Sally Rideout. The girl with a farm of her own, who dotes on Hezekiah, and sings to keep her disposition level.
ZINA:
THE SLAVE GIRL.
1
ACT I.
Scene 1.—Streets of Mobile.D’Arneauxdiscovered looking over some papers R. EnterZinaL, carrying a heavy carpet-bag. D’A. recognizes her.
D’Arneaux. Ah! your master and myself seem to be ofone mind today. I did not see you on the train. When doyou return?
Zina. When master has drank enough and played his moneyaway.
D’A. Zina, you have been weeping. Some more abuse?
Zina. Oh, please don’t ask me anything, master.
D’A. Zina, do you like your master?
Zina. Please don’t ask me to say.
D’A. Now, my little one, do you think you would be happierif you should come to live at our cottage?
Zina. Oh, I should be so glad, Master D’Arneaux; but Ican not think of that, it is so impossible!