Show Short Story of fhe be Day Dav J In J PARAMORE'S BURGLARS 6 LS is dark as a wolfs wolf's mouth Why will Craggs put up those accursed f The street might be threatened l with a nightly siege There my mych F ch Fh gone too Ming ibling indignantly to himself RI Richard hard Parramore junior partner In of pf f Parramore Sons lawyers rs stalked stalked In at at it the paneled glass-paneled door d directly from an unlighted passage to his private room in hi an old old- 1 1 suite of legal offices He p paused used to thrust into a vest pocket the wl which ch h had d provoked his ls concluding o observation ser then groped in n adjacent mantelpiece hoping hoping to discover thereon a box of the deit deft de- de it ft often priceless by which he had come closed behind him thanks to to a uffer noiselessly his wn o-wn own footsteps had been deadened by the Bub- Bub sub sub- if if faded Brussels that covered the floor fior of the apartment earch earch for the possible rather than probable matchbox proving mele mel mel- ft te he e young solicitor moved in the direction of the silent general office He found his hig way the instinctively the gloom t Vas teas as unrelieved by the glimmer from the shuttered windows anathematized by the lawyer rew I v open the door into the further apartment with a a. Jerk and halted it It was not empty nor dark A small bullseye Iana lan lan- w a steady radiance upon a a patch of worn matting strewn with md nd envelopes of various sizes and more or less legal appearance By Byre Byre re crouched two figures figures figures-a a mans man's and a woman's womans one womans one cloaked and andie ie te other muffled to the ears The latter was In the ac act f of ripping up lp ip Lp envelope which shone whitely in her gloved hands i 1 It had evleen evi- evi een withdrawn with the remainder of those Uttering littering the floor near c 0 entrance of the office from a gaping and shattered letter-box letter at- at hereto I J folse foise oise made by the opening door aroused the two from their absorption of f the figures sprang sprang up P. P It was the mans man's mans man's a square yet huddled and r and and he leveled something something vague but threatening td d where ye arc are If ye dont don't Banter anter lay down fur de last time In yer I oman moved up close to the man and whispered something in his ear nook hook his head gent hand over the key he commanded of Parramore Th Then n well we'll welle t lye 8 e to step inside yer own little iron box here apparent reluctance the lawyer extracted a a bunch of keys eys from his lIs pd md tossed them over oyer iz z de dor door open instructed the cracksman turning to the girl and 5 to the steel vault Its time were we're out o dis the girl girl for for she was but little more unfastened more unfastened and dragged t Clumsy clumsy steel panel In a corner of the office It revealed an ample jed d d compartment slacked with documents Id ld ye commanded the leader of the odd couple who had so sud- sud acome Parramore's captors The lawyer advanced guarded vigilantly nan Inan Parramore lingered Irritatingly on the threshold of the strong 1 L hurry remarked his custodian sharply yawing threateningly the larm and gleaming bar barrel el that had be been n so persistently menacing the L i. i answer Parramore dropped to his knees knee and rolled over over His body bogy met t and nd ankles of the man pitching him forward Into the yawning strong- strong the fhe e lawyer leaped up Jammed to t the te Iron door and locked it the man mart prisoner oner r Parramore turned to that discomfited persons person's veiled and cloaked com com- She had shrunk back into the th shadows the shadows the lantern she held trembling ively Vely I I w a. said the lawyer sternly give me that light woman or it will be Ir r t you jou Yet I would rather no use violence unless you drive me to it lantern was set down Parramore strode to It it snatched It turned its rays on the mysterious She hid her face tace Yet something in her bel bearing and in the lithe young shape that moved under her disguising garment made the lawyer start She was re- re before him At once alarmed and bewildered Parramore once t pursued her 4 1 r but she escaped him she him she was tearing so something ething under under her cloak tearing It I desperately viciously The Time lawyer placed the lantern on the mantel darted after her and sel seized ed edher her in a ruthless grasp The shoulders he had laid laid- hold upon were soft and rounded A pry ry broke from behind the thick chenille veil O 0 0 Dick Dick you hurt me 1 i At the Hie sound of the broken words the tearful girlish voice the lawyer trembled recoiled st staggered paralyzed by Incredulity Margie he gasped what what wh what t nightmare is this I I With a petulant ge gesture ture the girl raised a small hand and put up her veil The face exposed was flushed and youthful a pair of blue eyes shone In the rays of the lantern and two red lips pouted under delicate nostrils O 0 Richard Parramore was told with a stamp stamp how you have spoiled everything There go and let poor Tom out of that horrid den and we will go home hom Im I'm sick to death of of-of of of of practical joking The law lawyer er frowned frowned and lifting the tan lantern tern to a g gas s Jet flooded the apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment with light Miss Ouless he said severely though his brown pupils twinkled this is i io 10 o practical Joke You did not know that I 1 would be here tonight I 1 did not know it myself Look at that lock removed survey that rifled letter-box letter t they ey would get both you and tO Tom twelve months or fr from m that to fourteen years for burglary I Margaret otherwIse Margaret otherwise Margie sat Margie sat down suddenly and wept I I 1 I think youre you're very cruel she sobbed and Tom didn't want to do it it only I I I-I Iper I persuaded persuaded per per- him It was for your our happiness o The young lawyer stooped over the Uie dejected figure Margie dear he said said gently I I 1 I was merely chaffing Dont Don't cry cry- dearest what was the trouble trou trou- ble something ble something you had written and repented of I l' l would not have read It If you had bidden me by say a telegram or an express express letter But why gin go g goIn in for heroics and run all aU sorts of risks risks' It its it's its it's worse than than than-than than that stammered Margie it It It was some let- let teis tema 1 had hd written to some one else else to to to Mr Prout Richard Parramore's countenance darkened Prout he said not Hamilton Ham Ham- iRon ilton Prout the actor Margie nodded miserably They were only silly letters she mur- mur muied but I 1 hated the Idea of your reading them I 1 I-I I I 1 thought I 1 cared for him him before before I 1 met you And I h had d been begging him him for them back ever so long and he he-he he he wouldn't give them to me And today I 1 saw him by appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment to get them I 1 understood But he he-he- he he Her lover waited patiently He showed me me- them burst our Margie Inan inan in inan an envelope addressed to you with a note asking your professional advice about bringing an action against me for breach for breach of promise And he he-he he he mailed It under my very eyes So I 1 knew faltered Margie that they would reach here by the last de delivery de- de livery livery ll I hoped after you had gone And Tom agreed to help me get them before you ou could see them We had managed so nicely when you came came we we had crept down Just about the time for closing closing- the hall door upstairs and arid when all an was quiet Tom had cut a piece out mut of the glass panel there with a diamond J Jand and unscrewed the lock Once we were inside breaking open open the letter-box letter was easy If you could have stopped away another half As it was Tom put you off eff with his bIs talk and I 1 did for one moment believe wed we'd got you in the Then we could have slipped off and you need never have known But no now v. v If you you jou like you can piece the bits together again and read them them every everyone one I With Ith which Incoherent ultimatum Margie laid on the table a heap of torn fragments The lawyer swept them into his palm tossed them Into the fire grate and put a light to them You foolish child was all he said But he bent and kissed her and somehow the kiss took a singularly long while to negotiate I 1 wonder observed P Parramore ramore at length if Tom rom really has as enough air all We may as well make sure I He suited the action to the word and there sta stalked ked forth from the strong strong- room an extremely cool and self-possessed self youth youth like like his sister In the full light with light with a cl cut clean cut an-cut boyish face an incongruous us plaid neckerchief a traveling trav tray eling cap and an ill fitting obviously borrowed overcoat I He He- considered the situation cheerfully Smart trick that of yours Parramore he said assuming a patronizing air well wen I suppose you know all Going to throw Margie over 4 No you young dog answered the lawyer going to see the pair of you home In a cab I Tom Ouless put his hands In his pockets Very well weH he commented make a deuce of a row and blame it on me I shall say I found Margie and you eloping and brought you back force back force by But you had much better let us us sneak out as we sneaked In The lawyer put a little gloved hand on his arm I II I-I I imagine lne I 1 I had he conceded but if it you expect me to screen you Just that lock and never as long as you live let me hear that vile Imitation Jargon of yours again Master Thomas Ouless grinned It was a bit of a Jolly for you wasn't wagn-t it he be chuckled but look at this this this-my my revolver revolved And Ani he held up Up-a Up a v sCle Chicago Tribune 1 1 I t r I INot Herman er Merivale's play play Forget Me Not a similar but much stronger role than Countess In Diplomacy in which Miss Coghlan appeared at Wal- Wal i lacks lack's s with her brother Charles Great as was her success as she surpassed surpassed sur Bur passed herself and all expectations in Stephanie Rose Coghlan's exquisite charm in the scenes which reveal the womanly womanly womanly wo wo- wo- wo manly phase of a h heartless artless adventuress allied to her bold style In the snarling of the broken and desperate weman woman woman wo wo- man shown in the last act her splendid presence vocal ocal power and luxurious f dressing were mainly responsible O I for the gih il success this se play achieved re Her company this season contains several members wh who have supported her in this and other metropolitan poll tan successes The claim made male by the English newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers r recently that Clyde Fitch author of Barbara soon to be produced pro pro- uc d here at the Salt Lake Theatre by James Nelll Neill and company that Mr Fitch used Beau Brummel as the bun foun dation for for Trees Tree's production of 1 The Last of the Dandies Dandles and that he has really stolen from irom himself In so d ding Is not rot a very criminal action in any event Mr Fitch has publicly sta stated tEd that tha t the accusation Is incorrect and that the two pla plays s are dissimilar from every point of view view This brings to the public eye that Fitch's The Marriage Game is founded upon Augiers Augier's s Le Le Marriage D Olympe from which Pinero the English dramatist was accused of conceiving the theme for The Second Mrs but which was thoroughly proven to be just as much an error as the mixing of The Last of the Dandled and Beau Brummel His greatest play lay Barbar Barbara is universally described as the most most con consistent con con- and It stirring irr American war d drama ever Written e The e flag incident takes place in the last act where Stonewall Jackson rides in yiew View with the words Halt Who touches a a. hair hall on yon on Womans Woman's womans woman's wo wo- Wo- Wo mans man's head dies dies- like a dog I GoO Go Way Back has Just come forward as the title of another tew new pla play A drama the title of which may be translated The Girl Savage is making quite a stir In Paris The fhe plot Is understood understood understood under under- stood to allegorize the evolutionary struggle gle le of mankind A savage girl caught ina ina in ina a trap i is rescued by an explorer sent to civilization educated In a convent and In all the line tine arts o of ot European life Ufe She assimilates culture remarkably and ends by falling tal in love with her rescuer But he pointing out her mission to civilize her people sends her back to her native wilds to marry the barbarous king Th The task is too tremendous for her the contrast con ron to too frightful She falls into lasting lasting- despair and lethargy amid her old savage surroundings her splendid education a curse It seems that the dancer known as Littie Little Lit tle tie Egypt of Seeley dinner fame thinks so much of that appellation on she Is suing a a. professional rival whom she charges with having wrongly appropriated it And yet it would Appear very few women would care to have the n name me she has Industry In New that York of they forging have fri devised passes to to a new the amusement houses Effie Erne Ellsler will wll appear later on in Julia Marlowe's When Knighthood Was In Flower i Boker's Francesca da in which h Otis Skinner is so successfully appearing appearing ap ap- ap- ap was first staged Irv in the old Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way theatre In New York In 1855 The cast included Edward L L. Davenport as Charles Fisher as the Jester and Madame in the title role Later Later La La- ter in the year Julia Dean appeared as Francesca in support of Davenport and there Is a a. tradition that Mrs John Drew was also seen in the title role I t All MI sorts of boys have been put on the stage in plays and for next season The Office Boy is announced ed S |