Excerpt from The Backfire: A Comedy-Drama in Three Acts Terms of Royalty This play is protected by copyright and the rights of presentation are given only upon compliance with the following conditions: Royalty for one performance - - $10.00Royalty for two performances - - $15.00Each performance thereafter - - $5.00Royalty payable before performance. Cast of Characters Billie - A Clerk in the office of Morrison and Morrison. Harry Langdon - Who thinks Six Months Work a Year should be the legal limit. Winnie - The Source of all of Billie's Joys and Sorrows. Grace - Harry's guiding Star. Bruce Morrison - Part Owner of the firm of Morrison and Morrison; one of New York's heaviest Speculators. Stanley Royson - Who is working from Necessity, t Choice, even as you and I. Dorothy Gray - Morrison's Private Secretary. Brent Locksley - A Rising young Lawyer. Hopkins - Butler at Winnie's Home About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.