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Beyond the Horizon TO AGNES NEW YORK: BONI LIVERIGHT: 1920 Act I Scene I: The Road. Sunset of a day in Spring. Scene II: The Farm House. The same night. Act II(Three years later) Scene I: The Farm House. Noon of a Summer day. Scene II: The top of a hill on the farm overlooking the sea. The following day. Act III(Five years later) Scene I: The Farm House. Dawn of a day in late Fall. Scene II: The Road. Sunrise. CHARACTERS JAMES MAYO, a farmer KATE MAYO, his wife CAPTAIN DICK SCOTT, of the bark Sunda, her brother ANDREW MAYO and ROBERT MAYO, sons of James Mayo RUTH ATKINS, MRS. ATKINS, her widowed mother MARY, BEN, a farm hand DOCTOR FAWCETT. (The right and left of the stage directions are the audience’s.) Act I Scene I SCENE—A section of country highway. The road runs diagonally from the left, forward, to the right, rear, and can be seen in the distance winding toward the horizon like a pale ribbon between the low, rolling hills with their freshly plowed fields clearly divided from each other, checkerboard fashion, by the lines of stone walls and rough snake fences. The forward triangle cut off by the road is a section of a field from the dark earth of which myriad bright-green blades of fall-sown rye are sprouting. A straggling line of piled rocks, too low to be called a wall, separates this field from the road. To the rear of the road is a ditch with a sloping, grassy bank on the far side. From the center of this an old, gnarled apple tree, just budding into leaf, strains its twisted branches heavenwards, black against the pallor of distance. A snake-fence sidles from left to right along the top of the bank, passing beneath the apple tree. The hushed twilight of a day in May is just beginning. The horizon hills are still rimmed by a faint line of flame, and the sky above them glows with the crimson flush of the sunset. This fades gradually as the action of the scene progresses. At the rise of the curtain, ROBERT MAYO is discovered sitting on the