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ACT II.--_One year later_--

_Mrs. Lawrence Wolton
requests the honor of your presence
at the Marriage of her Daughter,
Marion,
to
Mr. Edward Houghton Fletcher,
Thursday, February 10th,
at Five o'clock,
St. Hubert's Chapel, New York._

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ACT III.--THE FOLLOWING DAY.

THE MOTH AND THE FLAME

_By_ CLYDE FITCH

COPYRIGHT, 1908

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

BY CLYDE FITCH AND ALICE KAUSER

Copyright, 1919, by E. P. Dutton & Company, Alice Kauser, and Frank E.
Whitman and Bernard M. L. Ernst, as Executors of the Estate of Alice
M. Fitch, deceased.

[The Editor wishes to record here, in memoriam, his grateful
appreciation of the desire shown by the late Mrs. Fitch to have in the
present Collection a hitherto unpublished play by her son, Clyde
Fitch. Through her courtesy, "The Moth and the Flame" is here
included.]

CAST OF CHARACTERS

EDWARD FLETCHER
MR DAWSON
MR WOLTON
DOUGLAS RHODES
JOHNSTONE
FANSHAW
TRIMMINS
CLERGYMAN
HOWES
MARION WOLTON
MRS. LORRIMER
MRS. WOLTON
JEANETTE GROSS
ETHEL
KITTY
GERTRUDE
BLANCHE
MAID
MRS. FLETCHER

_Guests, Bridesmaids, Choristers, Servants and others_.

ACT I.

SCENE. _The First Act takes place in the_ WOLTON'S _house
during a large fancy ball. All the guests are in children's
costumes--that being insisted upon in the invitations. The
stage represents a reception-room; the end of a conservatory,
or ball-room, being seen through a large archway. In the
upper right hand corner of the stage is a small stage built
with curtains and foot-lights, for an amateur vaudeville
performance, which is taking place._

_At rise of curtain the room is filled with guests in
costume, on chairs before improvised stage, and the curtain
of stage is just falling, as one of the Lady Guests--who,
dressed (and blacked) as a small Darky Girl, has been singing
a popular negro ballad ("Warmest Baby.") The mimic curtain
rises again, owing to the applause of the mimic audience. The
chorus of song is repeated and the curtain again falls to
applause. There is a general movement among guests--with
laughter and conversation._

DISCOVERED. MARION WOLTON, _dressed in Empire Child's gown,
is sitting in one of the