THE SAXONS A DRAMA OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE NORTH BY EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER THE HAMMERSMARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, CHICAGO. ILL., 1905 COPYRIGHT, FEBRUARY, 1905, BY THE HAMMERSMARK PUBLISHING CO. CHICAGO [Illustration: JOHN F. HIGGINS PRINT 279-251 EAST MONROE ST] TO MY MOTHER PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. THE SAXON UNIT. CANZLER, chief of the Saxons. FRITZ, a shepherd. RUDOLPH, } MAX, } foresters. CONRAD, } HARTZEL, an old man. WIGLAF, a gleeman. OSWALD, a shepherd, afterward a monk. SELMA, daughter of Canzler. THE ROMAN UNIT. FATHER BENEDICT, the village priest. FATHER PAUL, a friar. JARDIN, the bailiff. JACQUES SAR, an old crusader. JULES BACQUEUR, the smith. HUGH CAPET, the barber. MADAM BACQUEUR, wife of Jules Bacqueur. MADAM VALMY, a country woman. RACHEL, aunt of Madam Valmy. ROSA, granddaughter of Rachel. A BOY. THE GREEK UNIT. THE ABBOT OF ST. GILES. LOUIS, the prior of the abbey. PIERRE, the sacristan. ANDREW, an old acolyte. ELY, the porter. SIMON, } RENE, } BASIL, } monks. SOLOMAN, } LEO, } GUIDO, } MACIAS, a hunter attached to the abbey. THE SUPERNATURAL. SIGURD, apparently a dwarf, really something else. HULGA, a witch. ZIP, } GIMEL, } KILO, } gnomes. SUK, } ZORY, } FAIRIES. Other foresters, monks and villagers, men and women. As for me, Let a man be a man. Outside of that There is no power on earth that dares ask more; No power in heaven that will. THE SAXONS ACT ONE. _SCENE ONE--A road through a forest. On either side trees stand thick and dark. Immediately in front the light sifts down upon a rude bridge spanning a narrow stream. At the roadside, to the right, a large crucifix, apparently_ _new, stands upon a post some ten feet in height. It is_ _elaborately carved and is set in a deep frame to protect it_ _from the weather. At the foot of the post, cut into the_ _mossy bank which slopes toward the road, is a kneeling_ _place with a white sheep's pelt lying upon it._ _A sound of voices is heard. Fritz and Rudolph enter from the left and pause where a path leads off through the wood. The latter has an ax upon his shoulder. Far in the forest a faint sound of chopping is heard._ _TIME--Mid-day in summer, in the early part of the thirteenth_ _century._ RUDOLPH--He's worth six. FRITZ-- I'll give you five, you pick them. RUDOLPH--I'll pick six. FRITZ-- I'll keep my ewes, then. RUDOLPH-- And walk To the mountains? FRITZ-- We have not gone yet.