MRS. BYRD I think, Senator, that we will not remain longer. [_MRS. ROOT returns._ MRS. ROOT Mary was just coming. Now we’ll have dinner! BESSIE Yes, a little family party to celebrate the happy-- PEYTON [_Again bent over his family history._] Grandmother! Here’s something about your ancestor, Gustave Phelps. GRANDMOTHER [_Rising. With weight._] Peyton--close that book. (CURTAIN) * * * * * THE OUTSIDE A PLAY IN ONE ACT * * * * * First Performed by the Provincetown Players, December 28, 1917 ORIGINAL CAST CAPTAIN _of “The Bars” Life-Saving Station_, ABRAM GILLETTE BRADFORD, _a Live-saver_ HUTCHINSON COLLINS TONY, _a Portuguese Live-Saver_ LOUIS ELL MRS. PATRICK, _who lives in the abandoned Station_ IDA RAUH ALLIE MAYO, _who works for her_ SUSAN GLASPELL THE OUTSIDE SCENE: _A room in a house which was once a life-saving station. Since ceasing to be that it has taken on no other character, except that of a place which no one cares either to preserve or change. It is painted the life-saving gray, but has not the life-saving freshness. This is one end of what was the big boat room, and at the ceiling is seen a part of the frame work from which the boat once swung. About two thirds of the back wall is open, because of the big sliding door, of the type of barn door, and through this open door are seen the sand dunes, and beyond them the woods. At one point the line where woods and dunes meet stands out clearly and there are indicated the rude things, vines, bushes, which form the outer uneven rim of the woods--the only things that grow in the sand. At another point a sand-hill is menacing the woods. This old life-saving station is at a point where the sea curves, so through the open door the sea also is seen._ [_The station is located on the outside shore of Cape Cod, at the point, near the tip of the Cape, where it makes that final curve which forms the Provincetown Harbor._] _The dunes are hills and strange forms of sand on which, in places, grows the stiff beach grass--struggle; dogged growing against odds. At right of the big sliding door is a drift of sand and the top of buried beach grass is seen on this. There is a door left, and at right of big sliding door is a slanting wall. Door in this is ajar at rise of curtain, and through this door BRADFORD and TONY, life-savers, are seen bending over a man’s body, attempting to restore respiration. The captain of the life-savers comes into view outside the big open door, at left; he appears to have been hurrying, peers in, sees the men, goes quickly to them._ CAPTAIN I’ll take this now, boys. BRADFORD No need for anybody to take it, Capt’n. He was dead when we picked him up. CAPTAIN Dannie Sears was dead when we picked him up. But we brought him back. I’ll go on awhile.