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...ORIN P. BAILEY
...trickery or of collusion with trickery, would require as much evidence as to make me believe that Nemo was guilty of decency. The one stands innocent, by virtue of his record, until proved guilty; the other by virtue of his record, stands guilty until proved--awful thought--innocent. Frederick Orin Bartlett...
...When Orin comes home a struggle between the two Mannon women waxes bitter. Orin is not a little attached to his mother, Oedipus-wise. He never liked his father. But when Lavinia makes him track down their mother's rendezvous with Brant on his ship, Orin's eyes open. He shoots his mother's lover. His mother returns home, commits suicide. That accounts for Parts I and II, "Homecoming" and "The Haunted...
...Hunted," which winds up the play, finds Orin in sorry shape. He mourns his mother's death, blames himself for it. Lavinia has taken him on one of the Mannon ships to China. The trip does only one of them good. Lavinia, having tarried on a Pacific isle long enough to have had a sentimental interlude with a native chief's son, has grown as beautiful as her mother. Orin's mind has become deranged. Peter Niles wants to marry Lavinia, his sister wants to marry Orin. But Orin threatens to air the family's bloody...
...gloomy verandah, Lavinia, aware that "the damned don't cry," speaks her elegy to faithful Seth, the gardener: "I'm bound here-to the Mannon dead! Don't be afraid. I'm not going the way mother and Orin went. That's escaping punishment. . . . I'll never wear anything but mourning again. Life doesn't fit the Mannons. Only death becomes them...