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To the left of the house, part of the adjoining building is visible: the motor entrance to a storage warehouse. Crude boarding across the large driveway and rough planks across the sidewalk and curb indicate that an excavation is in progress. On the boarding is painted in rude lettering: “Keep Out”; and at the curb is a small barrel bearing a sign with the words: “Street Closed.” To the wall of the warehouse is affixed a brass plate, bearing the name: “Patrick Mulcahy Storage Warehouse Co. Inc.”
To the right of the house, scaffolding and a wooden sidewalk indicate that the house next door is being demolished. On the scaffolding is a large, wooden sign reading: “Manhattan House-Wrecking Corp.”
In the close foreground, below the level of the curb, is a mere suggestion of the street.
AT RISE: The house is seen in the white glare of an arc-light, which is just off-stage to the right. The windows in the janitor’s apartment are lighted, as are also those of the ground-floor apartment, at the right, and the two windows at the extreme left of the first-floor. A dim, red light is affixed to the boarding of the excavation at the left.
In the lighted ground-floor window, at the right of the doorway, Abraham Kaplan is seated, in a rocking-
