The Burgomaster of Stilemonde _A Play in Three Acts_ BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK _Translated by_ ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS [Illustration: Colophon] NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1918 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1918 BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. _All rights reserved_ All applications for dramatic rights to be addressed to Mr. Oscar Osso, 1457 Broadway, New York City. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHARACTERS _Age_ CYRILLE VAN BELLE, _Burgomaster of Stilemonde_ 60 ISABELLE, _his daughter_ 25 FLORIS, _his son_ 14 MAJOR BARON VON ROCHOW 45 LIEUTENANT OTTO HILMER, _the Burgomaster’s son-in-law_ 30 LIEUTENANT KARL VON SCHAUNBERG 28 THE MUNICIPAL SECRETARY 30 CLAUS, _the Burgomaster’s head-gardener_ 62 JEAN GILSON 30 THE BURGOMASTER’S FOOTMAN A GERMAN SERGEANT A GERMAN SOLDIER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCENE OF THE PLAY _The Scene is laid at the end of August, 1914, at Stilemonde, a small town in Belgian Flanders._ _The first_ ACT _begins at 10_ A.M. _and ends at 12 noon; the second begins at 2_ P.M. _and ends at 4_ P.M.; _the third begins at 5:30_ P.M. _and ends at 7_ P.M. _on the same day._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BURGOMASTER OF STILEMONDE ACT I _The_ BURGOMASTER’S _study, a large and very comfortably furnished room on the first floor of the house, used partly as an office, and partly as a horticultural laboratory. Leather easy-chairs, a glass book-case. A large table laden with papers and with vases, dishes and baskets full of flowers and fruit: orchids, peaches, plums and magnificent bunches of grapes. In the various corners, a grandfather’s clock, garden-tools, pulverizers, retorts, test-tubes, bee-hives, etc. At the back, a French window opening on a balcony. On the right a heavy door._