Chapter 23

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​​​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​⁠Well, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time. When the place couldn’t hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and went around the back way and come on to the stage and stood up before the curtain and made a little speech, and praised up this tragedy, and said it was t