GRAINE
I didn’t have him moved.
JEFF
Aldine, I told you, the sheriff said he escaped.
ALDINE
How? That place was completely sealed!
THRINH
Escaped? You mean he’s gone?
ADAM
It looks that way.
JEFF
The sheriff said he checked on him when the jury went out and just now, when he went to get the kid to bring him back over here, he was gone. This was in his cell.
JEFF holds the same Bible from Scene One.
ADAM
Okay, let’s not panic. We’ll go in and hear the verdict. Then we’d better call the FBI.
GRAINE takes the Bible from JEFF.
GRAINE
That’s mine!
ALDINE
I’ll call the FBI. And when this goes to federal court, which I’m sure it will, I’ll make sure you’re out, Adam Crawford! You too Graine! You’ve all turned this trial into a spectacle and I won’t stand for it anymore! Come on, Jeff!
JEFF and ALDINE exit.
ADAM
Christ! I hate this case. It never ends.
THRINH
Are they sure he escaped?
ADAM
No, Thrinh. They think he might have turned himself into a butterfly and flown out the window. He’s going to be in a lot more trouble when the FBI catches up with him.
GRAINE
How did this get in his cell?
ADAM
Who knows? I might just save Aldine the trouble and quit this damn case myself.
GRAINE
He marked a passage: “And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal…the time is at hand…
YOUNG GRAINE enters. She carries the stuffed rabbit from the first scene.
YOUNG GRAINE
…and they shall see his face and hear his voice.” Hear his voice. I wonder what he’ll say.
Blackout. End of play.
About the Author
Lea Ann Douglas is a playwright, essayist, poet, and fiction writer. She is best known for her World of the Sidhe stories and the colorful Sidhe heroine, Sionne Angbarad. She is a professor of English and anthropology in Virginia.
Also by Lea Ann Douglas
Alligator Mansion
Grand Opening
Children of Freedom
Tuatha de Danann
The Queen’s Rune and Other Tales of the Sidhe
(as Shannon Avery)
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