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MORITURI

(An Episode of the Balkan War)

Dramatis Personæ

Captain Boris Plotkine, Third Bulgarian Infantry.

Captain Memet Abderramann Touati, First Turkish Cavalry.

Lance-Corporal Nadj Haniech, Second Battery Turkish Horse Gunners.

Scene:—Represents a battlefield in Macedonia. It is the early dawn of morning. The sky is pink and silver and orange, and as far as the eye can see, there are the shadowy, grim outlines of dead soldiers, Turks and Bulgarians, dead horses, broken wheels and dismounted gun-limbers. A thick, humid haze rises from the slimy ground, and there is the acrid smell of battle,—blood and powder and putrescence and dirt. In the far distance are heard the crunching wheels of commissariat wagons, the heavy grumble of artillery, and once in a while the sharp hissing of musketry fire.

Time:—November, 1912.

Discovered:—Plotkine and Touati, both badly wounded.

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