Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marius Borror and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XV _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._ _This is No ........._ [Illustration: R.L.S. AND MRS. STRONG (_From an old tin-type, posed and taken by a strolling photographer at a fair in Sydney, N.S.W., in 1892_)] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON VOLUME FIFTEEN LONDON : PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS : IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED : WILLIAM HEINEMANN : AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS PAGE DEACON BRODIE, OR THE DOUBLE LIFE 1 BEAU AUSTIN 91 ADMIRAL GUINEA 145 MACAIRE 205 DRAMATIC WORKS OF R.L. STEVENSON & W.E. HENLEY DEACON BRODIE OR THE DOUBLE LIFE A MELODRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND EIGHT TABLEAUX PERSONS REPRESENTED WILLIAM BRODIE, Deacon of the Wrights, Housebreaker and Master Carpenter OLD BRODIE, the Deacon's Father WILLIAM LAWSON, Procurator-Fiscal, the Deacon's Uncle ANDREW AINSLIE, \ | HUMPHREY MOORE, > Robbers in the Deacon's Gang | GEORGE SMITH, / CAPTAIN RIVERS, an English Highwayman HUNT, a Bow Street Runner A DOCTOR WALTER LESLIE MARY BRODIE, the Deacon's Sister JEAN WATT, the Deacon's Mistress VAGABONDS, OFFICERS OF THE WATCH, MEN-SERVANTS The Scene is laid in Edinburgh. The Time is towards the close of the Eighteenth Century. The Action, some fifty hours long, begins at eight p.m. on Saturday and ends before midnight on Monday NOTE.--_Passages suggested for omission in representation are enclosed in parentheses, thus_ ( ) SYNOPSIS OF ACTS AND TABLEAUX ACT I TABLEAU I The Double Life TABLEAU II Hunt the Runner TABLEAU III Mother Clarke's ACT II TABLEAU IV Evil and Good ACT III TABLEAU V King's Evidence TABLEAU VI Unmasked ACT IV TABLEAU VII The Robbery ACT V TABLEAU VIII The Open Door DEACON BRODIE OR THE DOUBLE LIFE ACT I TABLEAU I THE DOUBLE LIFE _The Stage represents a room in the Deacon's house, furnished partly as a sitting-, partly as a bedroom, in the style of an easy burgess of about 1780. C., a door; L.C., second and smaller door; R.C., practicable window; L., alcove, supposed to contain bed; at the back, a clothes-press and a corner cupboard containing bottles, etc._