Word: offstageâ
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...killed. So far, the tragedy is moving, individual and complete. And then comes an act of creaky melodrama?the son of old Pappy Cagle's slayer (a former revenooer) turns up as a deserter from the army?the Widow is about to kill him?business of spiritualistic music offstage???business of the deserter boasting patriotism?and the Widow drops the gun?convinced by special wireless from the lands of ectoplasm that It's a Grand Old Flag, be it Yankee or no, that her son is happy and that everybody ought to love everybody else (except the Germans...
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