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diff --git a/39178.txt b/39178.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b13c89 --- /dev/null +++ b/39178.txt @@ -0,0 +1,872 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of "Der Tag", by J. M. Barrie + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license + + +Title: "Der Tag" + The Tragic Man + +Author: J. M. Barrie + +Release Date: March 17, 2012 [EBook #39178] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "DER TAG" *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, David E. Brown and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + "DER TAG" + OR + THE TRAGIC MAN + + + + + BOOKS BY J. M. BARRIE + + PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS + + Half Hours _net_ $1.25 + + "Der Tag," or The Tragic Man _net_ .25 + + Peter and Wendy. Illustrated _net_ $1.50 + + Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. + With 16 Illustrations in Color by + ARTHUR RACKHAM _net_ $1.50 + + The Little White Bird _net_ $1.35 + + Sentimental Tommy. The Story of His + Boyhood. Illustrated _net_ $1.35 + + Tommy and Grizel. Illustrated _net_ $1.35 + + Margaret Ogilvy. By Her Son _net_ $1.25 + + A Window in Thrums. 16mo _net_ $1.25 + + Auld Licht Idylls. 16mo _net_ $1.25 + + + + + "DER TAG" + OR + THE TRAGIC MAN + + BY + J. M. BARRIE + + + NEW YORK + CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS + 1914 + + + COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J. M. BARRIE + _All rights reserved_ + + Published December, 1914 + + + + + "DER TAG" + OR + THE TRAGIC MAN + + + + +CHARACTERS + + EMPEROR + CHANCELLOR + OFFICER + SPIRIT OF CULTURE + + + + + "DER TAG" + OR + THE TRAGIC MAN + + _A bare chamber lighted by a penny dip which casts shadows. On a hard + chair by a table sits an EMPEROR in thought. To him come his + CHANCELLOR and an OFFICER._ + + +CHANCELLOR. Your Imperial Majesty---- + +OFFICER. Sire---- + +EMPEROR (_the EMPEROR rises_). Is that the paper? + + (_Indicating a paper in the CHANCELLOR'S hand._) + +CHANCELLOR (_presenting it_). It awaits only your Imperial Majesty's + signature. + +OFFICER. When you have signed that paper, Sire, the Fatherland will be + at war with France and Russia. + +EMPEROR. At last, this little paper---- + +CHANCELLOR. Not of the value of a bird's feather until it has your royal + signature. The---- + +EMPEROR. Then it will sing round the planet. The vibration of it will + not pass in a hundred years. My friend, how still the world has grown + since I raised this pen! All Europe's listening. Europe! That's + Germany, when I have signed! And yet---- + +OFFICER. Your Imperial Majesty is not afraid to sign? + +EMPEROR (_flashing_). Afraid! + +OFFICER (_abject_). Oh, Sire! + +EMPEROR. I am irresistible to-day! "Red blood boils in my veins. To me + every open door is the gift of a world! I hear a thousand + nightingales! I would eat all the elephants in Hindustan and pick my + teeth with the spire of Strassburg Cathedral." + +OFFICER. That is the Fatherland to-day. Such as we are, that you have + made us, each seeking to copy you in so far as man can repeat his + deity. It was you fashioned us into a sword, Sire, and now the sword + must speak. + +EMPEROR (_approvingly_). There the sword spoke--and yet the wise one + said: "Take not your enemies together, but separately, lest the meal + go to them instead of to you." One at a time. (_To CHANCELLOR_) Why am + I not a friend of Russia till France is out of the way, or France's + friend until the bear is muzzled? That was your part. + +CHANCELLOR. For that I strove, but their mean minds suspected me. Sire, + your signature! + +EMPEROR. What of Britain? + +OFFICER (_intently_). This--The Day, to which we have so often drunk, + draws near! + +EMPEROR. The Day! To The Day! (_All salute The Day with their swords._) + But when? + +OFFICER. Now, if she wants it! + +EMPEROR. There is no road to Britain--until our neighbors are subdued. + Then, for us, there will be no roads that do not lead to Britain. + +CHANCELLOR (_suavely_). Your Imperial Majesty, Britain will not join in + just now. + +EMPEROR. If I was sure of that! + +CHANCELLOR. I vouch for it. So well we've chosen our time, it finds her + at issue with herself, her wild women let loose, her colonies ready to + turn against her, Ireland aflame, the paltry British Army sulking with + the civic powers. + +EMPEROR. These wounds might heal suddenly if German bugles sounded. It + is a land that in the past has done things. + +OFFICER. In the past, your Imperial Majesty, but in the past alone lies + Britain's greatness. + +EMPEROR. Yes, that's the German truth. Britain has grown dull and + sluggish; a belly of a land, she lies overfed; no dreams within her + such as keep powers alive--and timid, too--without red blood in her, + but in its stead a thick, yellowish fluid. The most she'll play for is + her own safety. Pretend to grant her that and she'll seek her soft bed + again. Britain's part in the world's making is done. "I was," her + epitaph. + +CHANCELLOR. How well you know her, Sire! All she needs is some small + excuse for saying, "I acted in the best interests of my money-bags." + That excuse I've found for her. I have promised in your name a secret + compact with her, that if she stands aloof the parts of France we do + not at present need we will not at present take. + +EMPEROR. A secret bargain over the head of France, her friend! Surely an + infamous proposal. + +CHANCELLOR. The British Government will not think so. Trust me to know + them, Sire. Your signature? + +EMPEROR (_gleaming_). I can fling a million men within the week across + the border by way of Alsace and Lorraine. + +OFFICER (_with a frown_). There are a hundred gates to open that way. + +EMPEROR. My guns shall open them. + +OFFICER (_with meaning_). You can think of no easier road, Sire? + +EMPEROR. I think of it night and day. + +OFFICER. One further north--through Belgium? + +EMPEROR. If I could dare! But no, that road is barred. + +OFFICER (_misunderstanding_). On the contrary, Sire---- + +EMPEROR. Barred by a fortress no gun of mine may bear against--by honor, + by my plighted word. + +OFFICER. Yet, Sire---- + +EMPEROR (_after hesitating_). No, no! I will not so stain my name. + +CHANCELLOR. I am with you, Sire, but I fear it will not be so with + France. She has grown cynical. She will find the road through Belgium. + +EMPEROR. You seek to tempt me. She also signed the treaty. + +CHANCELLOR. Your Imperial Majesty judges others by yourself. I have + private ground for fearing that in the greed for a first advantage + France will call the treaty but a scrap of paper. + +EMPEROR. I think your private ground may be your own private newspaper. + +CHANCELLOR. She will say that necessity knows no law, or some such + dastard words. + +EMPEROR. Belgium is no craven. She will fight the betrayer. + +CHANCELLOR. France will hack her way through her. + +EMPEROR. My Chancellor, that is a hideous phrase. + +CHANCELLOR. I ask your pardon, Sire. It came, somehow, pat to my lips. + +OFFICER. Your Imperial Majesty, the time passes. Will it please you to + sign? + +CHANCELLOR. Bonaparte would have acted quickly. + +EMPEROR. Bonaparte! + +CHANCELLOR. The paper, Sire. + +EMPEROR. Leave it now with me. Return in an hour and you shall have it + signed. + +OFFICER (_warningly_). The least delay---- + +CHANCELLOR. Overmuch reflection---- + +EMPEROR. I wish to be alone. + + (_They retire respectfully, but anxious. He is left alone in + thought._) + +EMPEROR. Even a King's life is but a day, and in his day the sun is only + at its zenith once. This is my zenith; others will come to Germany, + but not to me. The world pivots on me to-night. They said Bonaparte, + coupling me with him. To dim Napoleon! Paris in three weeks--say four, + to cover any chance miscalculation; Russia on her back in six, with + Poland snapping at her, and then, after a breathing space, we + reach--The Day! We sweep the English Channel, changing its name as we + embark, and cross by way of Calais, which will have fallen easily into + our hands, the British fleet destroyed--for that is part of the + plan--Dover to London is a week of leisured marching, and London + itself, unfortified and panic-stricken, falls in a day! _Vae victis!_ + I'll leave conquered Britain some balls to play with, so that there + shall be no uprising. Next I carve America in great mouthfuls for my + colonists, for now I strike the seas. It's all so docketed. I feel + it's as good as done before I set forth to do it. Dictator of the + world! And all for pacific ends. For once, the whole is mine. We come + at last to the great desideratum, a universal peace. Rulers over all! + God in the heavens, I upon the earth--we two! (_Raising his brows + threateningly_) _And there are still the Zeppelins!_ I'll sign! + + (_He sits in thought. He is very tired, and soon he is asleep. The + lighting becomes strange; he dreams, and we see his dream. The + SPIRIT OF CULTURE appears, a noble female figure in white robes._) + +EMPEROR. Who's that? + +CULTURE. A friend. I am Culture, who has so long hovered well-placed + over happy Germany. + +EMPEROR (_who gives her royal honor_). A friend--a consort! I would hear + you say, O Queen, that I have done some things for you. + +CULTURE. You have done much for me. I have held my head higher since you + were added to the roll of sovereigns. I may have smiled at you at + times, as when you seemed to think that you were the two of us in one, + but as Kings go you have been a worthy King. + +EMPEROR. It was all done for you. + +CULTURE. So, for long, I thought. I looked upon Germany's golden + granaries, plucked from ground once barren; its busy mills and + furnaces, its outstretching commerce and teeming people and noble + seats of learning, all mellowing in the sun, and I heard you say they + were dedicate to me, and I was proud. You have honored me, my Emperor, + and now I am here to be abased by you. All the sweet garments you have + robed me in, tear them off me and send me naked out of Germany. + +EMPEROR. You would not have me sign? + +CULTURE. I warn you first to know yourself, you who have gloated in a + looking-glass too long. + +EMPEROR. I sign, so that Germany may be greater still, to spread your + banner farther; thus I make the whole world cultured. + +CULTURE. My banner needs no such spreading. It has ever been your + weakness to think that I have no other home save here in Germany. I + have many homes, and the fairest is in France. + +EMPEROR. If that were true, Germany would care less for you. + +CULTURE. If that is true, I have never had a home in Germany. I am no + single nation's servant, no single race's Queen. I am not of German + make. My banner is already in every land on which you would place your + heel. Culture spreads not by way of maiming freedom. I'll not have you + say you fight for me. Find some other reason. + +EMPEROR. The jealousies of nations---- + +CULTURE. All are guilty there. Jealousy, not love of money, is the root + of all evil; that was a misprint. Yet I know of nothing those others + want that is yours to give, save peace. What do you want of them? + Bites out of each, and when they refuse to be dismembered you cry: + "The blood be on their heads; they force me into war." + +EMPEROR. Germany must expand. That is her divine mission; I have it from + on high. + +CULTURE. Your system of espionage is known to be tolerably complete. + +EMPEROR. All Germany is with me. I hold in leash the mightiest machine + for war the world has forged. + +CULTURE. I have seen your legions, and all are with you. Never was a + Lord more trusted. O Emperor, does that not make you pause? + +EMPEROR. France invades little Belgium. + +CULTURE. Chivalrous France! Never! Emperor, I leave one last word to you + at the parting of the ways. France, Russia, Britain, these are great + opponents, but it is not they will bring the pillars of Germany down. + Beware of Belgium! + + (_She goes. He is left in two minds. He crosses to sign. He flings + down the pen. He strikes the bell. CHANCELLOR and OFFICER + reappear._) + +CHANCELLOR. Your Imperial Majesty has signed? + +EMPEROR. Thus (_he tears the paper_). + +OFFICER. Sire! + +EMPEROR. Say this to Russia, France, and Britain in my Imperial name: So + long as they keep within their borders I remain in mine. + +OFFICER. But, Sire---- + +EMPEROR. You know, as I do, that it is all they ask for. + +CHANCELLOR. You were the friend of Austria. + +EMPEROR. I'll prove it. Tell her from me that Servia has yielded on + every point which doth become a nation and that Austria may accept her + terms. + +CHANCELLOR. Nay, Sire---- + +EMPEROR. And so, there will be no war. + +OFFICER. Sire, we beg---- + +EMPEROR. These are my commands. + + (_They have to go, chagrined, but deferential._) + +EMPEROR. The decision lay with me, and I said there shall be peace. That + be my zenith! + + (_He goes back to the chair; he sleeps peacefully; in the distance a + bell tolls the Angelus, and suddenly this is broken by one boom of a + great gun, which reverberates and should be startling. The SPIRIT + OF CULTURE returns, now with a wound in her breast; she surveys him + sadly._) + +CULTURE. Sleep on, unhappy King. (_He grows restless._) Better to wake + if even your dreams appal you. + + (_He wakes, and for a moment he scarcely understands that he has + been dreaming; the realization is tragic to him._) + +EMPEROR. You! You have come here to mock me! + +CULTURE. Oh, no. + +EMPEROR. I dreamed there was no war. In my dream they came to me and I + forbade the war. I saw the Fatherland smiling and prosperous, as it + was before the war. + +CULTURE. It was you who made the war, O Emperor! + +EMPEROR (_huskily_). Belgium? + +CULTURE. There is no Belgium now, but over what was Belgium there rests + a soft light, as of a helm, and through it is a flaming sword. + +EMPEROR. I dreamed I had kept my plighted word to Belgium. + +CULTURE. It was you, O Emperor, who broke your plighted word and laid + waste the land. In the lust for victory you violated even the laws of + war which men contrive so that when the sword is sheathed they may + dare again face their Maker. Your way to Him is lighted now by + smouldering spires and ashes that were once fair academic groves of + mine, and you shall seek Him over roads cobbled with the moans of + innocents. + +EMPEROR. In my dream I thought England was grown degenerate and would + not fight. + +CULTURE. She fought you where Crecy was, and Agincourt, and Waterloo, + with all their dead to help her. The dead became quick in their + ancient graves, stirred by the tread of the island feet, and they + cried out: "How is England doing?" The living answered the dead upon + their bugles with the "All's well." England, O Emperor, was grown + degenerate, but you, _you_, have made her great. + +EMPEROR. France, Russia? + +CULTURE. They are here around your walls. + +EMPEROR. My people? + +CULTURE. I see none marching but men whose feet make no sound. Shades of + your soldiers who pass on and on, in never-ending lines. + +EMPEROR. Do they curse me? + +CULTURE. None curses; they all salute you as they pass. They have done + your bidding. + +EMPEROR. The women curse me? + +CULTURE. Not even the women. They, too, salute you. You were their + Father and could do no wrong. + +EMPEROR. And you? + +CULTURE. I have come with this gaping wound in my breast to bid you + farewell. + +EMPEROR. God cannot let my Germany be utterly destroyed. + +CULTURE. If God is with the Allies, Germany will not be destroyed. + Farewell. + + (_She is going. She lifts a pistol from the table and puts it in his + hand. It is all she can do for her old friend. She goes away with + shining eyes. The penny dip burns low. The great Emperor is lost in + its shadows._) + + + + +TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: + + Text in italics is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of "Der Tag", by J. M. 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