Produced by Kentuckiana Digital Library, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration] The Southern Cross ---------------------------- Bryan Station Chapter D.A.R. ---------------------------- THE SOUTHERN CROSS * * * * * A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS * * * * * By FOXHALL DAINGERFIELD, JR. * * * * * _Produced at Opera House, Lexington, Ky., April 13, 1909, for benefit of Morgan Monument_. * * * * * Copyright 1909. PRESS OF J.L. RICHARDSON & Co. LEXINGTON. KY. * * * * * TO THE MEMORY OF GENERAL JOHN HUNT MORGAN. --F.D. * * * * * THE PEOPLE OF THE PLAY. GORDON CABELL MR. McCOMAS CARTER HILLIARY (Charlotte's brother) MR. HARBISON COL. PHILIP STUART MR. OBERCHEIN GEORGE STUART (his son) MR. H. YANCEY BEVERLY STUART (called "Bev.") MR. ROACH STEPHEN WINTHROP (of the 12th Mass.) MR. McCONNELL MAURICE HOPKINS (of his command) MR. SALLEE CORPORAL EVANS (also of the 12th Mass.) MR. THORNTON BILL (a turnkey at the prison) MR. MOORE CUPID (an old negro servant) MR. ADDY THE FIRST SOLDIER MR. YANCEY THE SECOND SOLDIER MR. McGEEVER THE THIRD SOLDIER MR. THIESING FAIRFAX STUART (called "Fair") MISS WHITE MRS. STUART MISS DAINGERFIELD CHARLOTTE HILLIARY (her niece) MISS BUCKNER AUNT MARTHY (Cupid's wife) MRS. BENNETT Soldiers of the 12th Massachusetts. A guard at the prison. * * * * * SYNOPSIS. ACT I. OUTSIDE THE STUART HOME, MAY 11, 1864. "_If love were all_!" ACT II. THE PARLOUR OF THE STUART HOME. ON THE FOLLOWING NIGHT. "_The Signal_." ACT III. THE PRISON AT COLUMBUS. ONE HOUR BEFORE MIDNIGHT, MAY 22. "_The heart of a soldier_." ACT IV. THE BANKS OF THE ASPEN RIVER, SIX MONTHS AFTERWARD. LATE IN NOVEMBER. "_Once more we pass along this way; Once more, 'tis where at first we met_!" Time--1864. Scene--A Southern State. Production under the personal direction of Miss Julia Connelly. * * * * * THE SOUTHERN CROSS. ACT I.