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A Waterbury om torn the play by George Scarbor Scarboro 1 which i h wa Wall first presented at tho thi ninth Street theatre New York rights held hold and nud copyrighted by banal News New ew Service iho tho ignorant Filipino boy could d that w words ma may bo be poisoned t to torture a woman to death in Stony agony that makes make her a led ii And of of- cou course couo e ho ha never hear bear heard of ot a bill fib file as a ah ah h dealing weapon So he was very vory fw ful indeed to the captain who brought him hini to the land of free freo freesen sen and en-and and brave men and arid Mines Aline s 's was WM quito quite safe from afe from h him all m an i ila it la hi the pocket rocket of pi Holbrooks Holbrook's u coat Oat 6 door opened and Captain Hoi Eel holding bolding in hi his hand the that mi might ht send ends enda a woman to he her aa U it pictured how ho a man nian had hac hadt t to ta hI his doom great gret Chinese lamp on his table its glow on the tho gB glass plato plate Fear FeaT r t to certainty in la Holbrook Holbrooks s 's eyes eJe would certainly erase forever th the glow tIo of f love Jove Can Cana ana a man still love woman when om n when he be knows know tho the worst I Larry Holbrook wa was to learn all alli all all- i here t here tonight h t. t it is lB A thara thAre he ho hein thed in a q quiet t voice Poor Po r little little- la lady therea there there's th the whole ti 0 4 0 With that cursed vil vii over her and her and the file in hand land Ie looked about in n elow sloW pain rain But Ion n D' D must be quick for for who could when interruption would comet That hat japanned box He un took it it from fromI I table table and and crouching by tho the fender fonder vainly to open it with the poker Y w ii f. f J 3 h lift wp-nt wp n Aver I in tn t buffet and et and selected a a ast st steel e k knife kii ii He pried it slowly under the theof of ot the box and the lock yielded t w Then Tien he be came camo Back to th the leand i and spread the pitiful Ul story of ifo e bose II contents before him Letters a Honorable e house houe of taUve ladra lady's ladys band hand blackmail Oh all Oh-all all the tho poor I little red morocco book that would tell toll him the sad end f wy y the girl he be loved the loyed-the loved the girl yee said eaid I love you you II had deia de de- ia in words word the message that gave gaveL L hop hope Address Addres indexed initial tia I G G. 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Y Tea cs Graham Aline dan Mine daughter of Jon Graham district attorney One pr r r-ow r own hand and arid signature be e book dropped to the floor and Holbrook rose roee t to- to his hie feet with aj linos Jines of hopelessness forming a work of pain across his a e In Ju he voiced his bie bitter dj discovery covery Alino eret marriage Alino ia Wu d in a broken tone of despair heed ho he hoed ed hi pain in ono word word word-H Aline would iJ faith die diet Would he voice cynic g answer anWer to knowledge such a as u this thiB burning b blast ast from the hell bell like f furnaces of tho own purgatory Women they're Women they're all aU all alike alike all of em after all alit would he say any this think this and this and leave leavo Aline to her doom Ho lie picked up tho the little ittle packet of all all- revealing ib betraying all letters Jetters as if to search for what had taken Aline Alino into tho the toils toile of destruction Then he straightened up like liko the soldier sol sol- dier he hew wa w wae No by Jove Jo I 1 cant can't look at any letter that is is here hore She killed Flagg to try to get it his hand on her throat poor little lady Jady And then Capt Lawrence e Holbrook walked over to tho fireplace and ground that glass lass plato with the story 0 of of death printed on it beneath the tho iron poker Ho did not desist until it was shattered to very ery atoms atom And then he raised a transfigured face lace and said his with tho the devotion of oC a worshiper at al some pure puro altar Not Nol Sho ho is ie a a good woman woman woman-or woman orl or 1 never met one Tea is is' is here captain spoke Barfey's Barney's Barneys Bar Bar- ney's feys precise voice Holbrook started c Pour mo a cup and let it t cool a lit tIe tle Cream I captain t 4 No No cr cream am and no sugar engar Just Juet tea sir ir Tho The captain thrust his hiB hands 8 again through h their accustomed place in n tho the cuffs of his shirt he put on his bis coat and slipped into its pockets the packet of letters an ami the tho tell tale morocco book The Tho phone was a again ain in in demand Hello Hello hollot Give mo rue Main Barney clean dean cleanup up that mo mess s I made on the hearth bearth and nd put tho pan and aud the tho red rod lamn sir i. i I Hello nelIo f Your night nihL editor please leas I Hollo ni Holo-ni night night ht editor This is I Capt Lawrence Holbrook ys Holbrook ye sir same bamo You promised Graham this a afternoon to publish a a. denial of ot tho en- en Aa of oC his daughter Miss Alma Alino Graham to me Well WeIl never mind tho the denial denial that's that's it exactly lot exactly lot t tho the matter mat mat- ter go so as it Jays Java Yes sir this is halbrook Hoi hal brook himself Exactly Exactly premature But Quite mate right and Im I'm sorry to have troubled Doubled you at all sir Those black brows had bad lifted a at t the corners 8 to their quizzical triangle and ho tho bit of bro brogue e had bad deepened as it always al always al- al ways ways did in moments of determination excitement or just mischievous bedevilment bedevilment bedevil bedevil- ment of tho the powers that wore were soon to o close in in on him bim and tho the girl ho be lo loved d supremely in spite of all the evidence against her When Aline's Allne's father had bad objected to Holbrook because they knew BO so little of ofus his us past the girl irl had haa championed him hinl with tb the tho warmth of love lovo and the tho Knowledge Knowl ed edge c of her own bitter memories lIe He Heis is is interesting unu unusual a traveler a world t man mann mana a real man ho is genial and frank no rank no ono can fail to like him But his lis past t interest uie we any more father ather than m iny my pa past past interests interests t-interests him himl But Aline's Alinea past I must lUst int interest r st Hol Hol- brook now for now for on it bin hinged ed her ber future perhaps b her r life The Tho captain with the geniality Aline Alias had haa commended Sand and concluded his its chat with ith tho the n night t city ity I Thank you you the the same samo to you ou and many of ot thorn them Ho Tile hung hunt up tho the phone with a si sigh h hof of f relief The statement of his engagement engage engage- ment moat to Aline Alias Graham Graham taker taker of life life life- and anti another mans man's wife or wife or discarded would love ovo would go 0 as it lay Holbrook stirred his tea and pre pre prepared pared for a draft of it There was was wasa a knock kuock on the tho door To bo be continued tomorrow |