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Excerpt from The Fire Escape: A Comedy in One Act Scene: An apartment, top floor of the building. Doors R. U. E. and L. U. E. A broad window C., showing fire escape outside. A table L. C. Fireplace R. 2. Couch and easy chairs. In extreme L. U. E. corner a baby's cradle. At rise of curtain a sound of fire engines puffing off stage, red lights showing at window. Baxter, dressed in pajamas and bath robe, and carrying a stuffed parrot in a cage, comes down fire escape, enters through window. He seems to be unconscious of the fact that he is carrying anything, looks around room, finds no one, at last calls out: Baxter. I beg your pardon - is anybody at home? (Pause.) I say - I'm sorry to break in like this - (lowers his voice). They're either asleep or out looking at the fire. It's up to me to try to find somebody. (Exits L. U. E.) Gwendolyn, in nightgown and negligee, and boudoir cap, enters through window, coming down fire escape. She carries very carefully an empty hat box, looks about the room inquiringly. Gwen. Mercy! I wonder whose apartment this is? Must be the Haddon Hall apartment house - it's the third door from ours - and I've come across two roofs. I hope there is a woman here. It would be awful if I have dropped into a man's rooms. (Looks out of window.) Oh, dear, what a fire! I wonder if everybody escaped. Fireman comes down fire escape. Does not enter. Gwen. Mister Fireman, is there any danger of its reaching here? Fireman. No, miss; don't you worry. We've got it under control. (He continues on down fire escape.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.