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the sound of a step, the mother enters, but recoils at the sight of the empty bed and the maid's pale face, the latter falls on her knees, and supplicates with clasped hands for forgiveness. The mother flies to the bed, lifts her clasped hands to Heaven in agony, then falls upon her knees burrying her face in the bed. Curtain falls.

PART 2nd. SCENE 1st.
On street - At one end the gypsy is seen telling the fortune of two young girls, at a little distance is the boy, seated upon a doorstep, looking tired and sad, a tamborine or some musical instrument, in his hand. The mother passes, dressed in deep mourning, touched by something in the boy's sad face, she stops to give him a penny as she passes, then returns to look again, lifts up the little face with her hand beneath his chin, and studies it earnestly. Smoothing back the hair from his forehead, then catching a glimpse of a necklace which was concealed beneath his dress, draws it hastily forth, and clasps the boy in her arms, the old gypsy, who has been very uneasy, distracted between her fortune telling and the lady's movements, comes forward with vehement and angry gestures, trying to reclaim the child, but the mother warns her angrily, with the boy clinging around her neck, and the two girls who have become interested spectators, point at the old woman jeeringly. She remains unabashed, but the moment a policeman makes his appearance, hobbles off as fast as possible, and the screen closes.

SCENE 2nd

A WEDDING

A young girl enters, strewing flowers upon the ground, followed by