LAFITTE
A PLAY
IN PROLOGUE
AND
FOUR ACTS
BY
LUCILE RUTLAND AND RHODA CAMERON
Copyright, 1899, by Lucile Rutland and Lucie Leveque
Ayres, (Rhoda Cameron). All rights reserved
CHARACTERS
JEAN DURAND, afterwards Jean Lafitte.
MARQUIS D’ACOSTA, belonging to the court of Ferdinand VII.
DON MANUEL D’ACOSTA, his son.
MARIANA D’ACOSTA, his niece.
PEDRO D’ACOSTA, Mariana’s brother by adoption.
BELUCHE, a soldier in Napoleon’s army.
DELLONNE, a sentry.
LEON DUVAL, a wealthy Louisianian.
BELLA CARDEZ, his step-daughter.
DARBLEE, proprietor of _l’hotel des Exiles_.
DOMINIQUE YOU, his nephew.
BAPTISTE, his negro servant.
A STRANGER
MOTHER AUGUSTUS, an austere, elderly nun.
LIZBETTE, a voo-doo of Barataria.
FATHER POULARDE, a rubicund, self-confessed optimist.
DOCTOR BORDE, the Pride’s doctor.
FATHER CUTHBERT, the priest of Barataria.
CAPTAIN LOCKYER, of the British navy.
CAPTAIN McWILLIAMS, of the British navy.
GOVERNOR CLAIBORNE, Governor of Louisiana.
CHAIRMAN, on the Committee of War Measures.
SHIP CAPTAIN, of American vessel.
OFFICERS, PASSENGERS, of American vessel.
MATE, of the Creole.
Politicians and legislators, two roysterers, Spanish merchants,
nuns, pirates, hunters, grave-diggers, ladies and gentlemen,
soldiers, servants, guards, and a messenger.
PLACE.
PROLOGUE Bayonne, France.
ACT I. SCENE I. _L’hotel des Exiles_, New Orleans.
” ” ” II. On board ship, bound for France.