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Show THE HERALD REPUBLIC AN, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH -- 5, 1916 'imjr'i'j .j "T A4 .w- m - tba FCI uw3 r-- v. ir jr. j . v - ft- .- --. . .i t - " - .tlLklUll' 1 - - - -- UUtti'UtlUUHt P ictures by mm Author of "What Happened to Mary" ... - arMfiMBiii-- - r ii i 1 ayiiij mu V By FREDERICK LEWIS, i fix 3BS .i - ... -? ..a.TTr, --- .- Each Chapter Shown in Pictures at the Isis Theatre on Tuesdays in the Proper Order . ut si.?. fcH..; an. apclr.trr.ent ca:ne on; ir. the In Mary thnt she was an actress now choice everybodv knows that rr must binder the careless words there was lth rhe ?ld he - sudden deeper note of sincerity, and man, bui he was scrapping with onejii&i. 1 had the door all nicely and had to hustle. Then Mr. Langdon have intended us to hear, but what hs ".ier eyes were alight with pity and af- - of his 'romantic leads' you could hear opened for him. I told him sweetly had to be told all about it, and the re- dldn t give any high sign for. was rection wnen sne caugnt a glimpse oi them clear out to the front hall and it that I'd opened it for him to get out, sult was we had to run three blocks to for Mr. Langdon to make a Jump and the defendant, who tried to smile at was a long time before I could per- but I'd be shot before it ever opened to get in at the stage door before they be- grab him by the throat, shouting her. In fact, so Intent was she upon suade his little cerebus to go in and let him in again. He glared at me, but gan to keep .tabs on the late comeri. he'd have to eat his words or he'd that kill the prisoner that aha took the oath tell him I was waiting. At any rate, he didn't say anything, and a3 soon as Mr. Langdon was to go with mother him. Old Ecky is deathly afraid Of a carelessly, and the moment she was cn he came out at last blowing blasts of he was out of sight I ran back to the and Mrs. Page, and I soon spotted fight and began to holler for the stage to find Mary in a dead them up in the balcony, for the man- Screw, but I got out my little old trusty the stand turned to the Judge and red fire after the actor and then he sitting-roosaw Mary. Talk about Hons and faint. It was such a long time before agement doesn't hand out boxes for the hat-pi- n said: and anybody that "I don't know what I am supposed to lambs! Why, he purred when he saw she came round, and then she was so families of its front row of the chorus, came near twopromised or three inches of it, so do. your Honor, but I want to tell you her, and he was so sweet to me I al- dazed and terrified that we were all but in one of the boxes I did see a tne men Just stood around swearing right here, that Mary Tage is the best, most got a leading lady's contract out scared to death, and I swore a solemn familiar face that of Dave Pollock. and grinning behind their hands till and the bravest and the truest girl In of him before he woke up, and began vow then and there that I'd be the He was all gotten up in soup and fish, Mr. Pollock was licked to a standstill to ask me questions about Mary. busiest little stage mother and cha- but he was alone, and I could see that and asked Mr. Langdon to let up. the whole wide world." For the first time the Judge smiled; Something In the way he looked when peron and advice giver to Mary that any he was taking Mary all in, and then Then Mr. Langdon, acting like Froh-ma- n, some. Mary had told me a lot about then he leaned forward and said kindly: I said she was out for a Job, made me girl ever had." Lee Shubert, and Dave Belasco "The Court appreciates your admira- wish I was a full sized chaperon, but Her voice, which In spite of the care- him, and the piker way he'd acted, and rolled into one, ordered him out of the tion for the prisoner, but you must when he said to 'send her in to talk less slang had a vibrant sweetness hat she'd also told me a lot about Mr. Lang- theatre, and he went! But while he confine your remarks, while on the to him, he might be able to place us carried conviction, suddenly trembled, don, so I decided that I wouldn't put was, on his way I'd spied a pen and stand, to the answers to questions both, I didn't dare turn down the and the quick tears filled her eyes as, her wise to the fact that Pollock was some ink on the prompt desk, and chance of a double meal ticket, so I turning to Mary, she cried eagerly: which will be asked you." there, but would let her play to the made Mary write out our joint resiganshe did. She was so nation which we handed to old Ecky was I In." she out told went went and I've "Oh, yes, "And, Mary, that," kept my word, balcony, which Mary "Was there any one in the office at haven't I? Haven't I?" swered readily. "But I forgot." Then pretty and so happy that she got a with business of much pomp as soon Mary nodded, smiling through her silly song over big, and even the tenor as the stage crew had gone back to turning to Langdon she added cheerlls', the time?" offlce-boy Mr. I'm soon as all own as "Fire away, beat it "No, the tears, and the spectators who had the decency to make her go on and work. It was' a knockout for old Ecky. Langdon, the actor had and the 'stenog' throughout the breezy testimony of the take a curtain with him, which was You see, he knew Mary had made a gone, ready." A little gust of laughter that was had already deserted the keys, so we young actress had. been in gales of enough to turn the head of any of the hit, and that the show had got over like a west wind sweeping through the had the suite to ourselves. That was laughter, suddenly sobered. They saw chorus. But Mary was scared blue in- good, and to have to train in two new haze of bitterness of old tragedies rip- what made me leery. At any rate, the brave heart under the butterfly ex- stead of pleased, and she was so fun recruits for our parts before the next pled through the court, and the young- when Mary was in the private office I terior, and realized the wisdom and the ny and old fashioned and startled by night was some job. So he turned on her own success, that the little old the soft soap and pretty nearly proest Juryman settled his tie with a ges- sneaked up and played the keyhole goodness behind the vulgar words. monster didn't hit any of posed marriage in his anxiety to do the ture that was as natural as It was un- game to a finish. It was a Yale lock, But Langdon. seeing the judge green-eye- d and there wasn't a single right thing by us before he got through. the conscious when Amy's bright apprais- so I couldn't get an eyefull, but I've frown at this shattering of legal precegirls, room. Everybody Then he got mad and our in hint an next Instant upon him. been there myself too often not to know dent, asked his question quickly. catty ing eyes rested for began to sling "You and Miss Page did secure posi- Just made a fuss over her till Mary language to make a stage hand blush, Then Langdon, coming close to the the sort of note that a manager gets witness stand said quietly: Into his voice when he's putting on the tions in the same company, did you fairly cried, she was so happy. And and so we beat it towards the door, and the part that seemed to please her Mr. Langdon marches up to Ecky and "Miss Barton, you know the defend- soft pedal and telling you that you're not?" ant. Mary Page, do you?" a peach and he'll star you next season "Oh, yes, in 'The Blue Feather'. You most was that she had seen Langdon hands him his card, saying calmly, course I of 'These girls are quite within their If to could be she him. I nice do, you goat!" "Why, see, I'd made up my mind that it was applauding his hands off up stairs." you'll only "Did you join your mother and Mrs. rights because of what has happened. answered with a bubbling laugh that hear him getting confidential, too, and both of us or none, but we didn't have found an echo in the room. But Lang- Mary's voice sounded so frightened I any trouble, because while I'd had the Page after the show?" interrupted Added to which I understand that you don frowned, and his voice was more took my longest and best hat-piand experience Mary had the looks, so we Langdon warnlngly; and with a start told Miss Page? you didn't need her if harsh as he said. "Please answer yes, began to turn the Knob a little at a were booked up for rehearsals in a Amy brought herself back from her she wouldn't accept the attentions of or no, and remember that if you want time to see if the door was locked. It week or so. Mary took to it like a reminiscences and turned to him with men obnoxious to her. Well, I'm a to aid Miss Page, you must make your wasn't, thank goodness, and when I duck to water, and made a hit with a smile. lawyer and I'll look after their interme the stage manager before he'd got answers short and to the point." The heard Mary shriek and say, "That was the big Idea," she said ests. You can send your attorney to me at any time.' And he walked out and joined us. The girls had all come -out by that time, and the crew were ,".. -- . e m, Publications. ed I shall never marry anyone.' Pollock looked relieved at that, but there was a hint of a sneer in his voice as he asked. In that case, may I ask if you are poln? to return to New Town, and if so who Is l?o!nf-- to support you? You have no rlglit to ask, she answered quietly. but I don't -mind answering. We are not golnf- to New Town; we are going to New York, where I hope to secure a position." "Did Mr. Pollock show any surprise opyHght, 1315, by McCIur SYNOPSIS. arry lar aclrei murder cf Darkl Toiloek aceusM l ar..l 1 !ovr. rMIIp tAn4on. hr Intoxicate!. At Mary'a tr!l by rf th dfpn1i I'otlock h ad-ml- t.i bal th rerolvr. Her maM ttartlfl thai Mary threaten! I'olJock wj;j it prtTiotiftly. an! Mry' leading man implicate Lane ton. How Mary l a of th crlm frrm th ah iK-en- a ef a atransr-primystery. IJranJon trU nhooWer. Further aw on lUry'a h vMac a how a that horror of lrink pro-dThe at that?" temporary Inaanlty in Miry. Wit-tte la nt or lfen reprejtsl ntxfct pycho!." "No, but he was obviously chagTlned. from her Itary'a aulrl-leAnd then I interfered and reminded her anJ father fathra Mrs. Page that they would miss their Karsi Walton deacrtbea tha ktJoapSns of train If thre was any further delay, Wary by roUoc. anil they left. Pollock driving away In dejtrrtbe-- . his machine almost directly back of CHAPTER VII. Stag Aspiration. slnca tha famous trial that the expression "brain jplnninj? down tfcrouRh tha years, has th testimony NOT tlr-m.- " "Did MI?s Page seera calm and col- lected?" "Yes, outwardly; but there was a look In her eyes that made me fearful for her future, and her hands had resumed their nervous twitching when I put her Into the autorhobll. It made me realize that the great Influence to fear for her was Pollock, and it Is my of an alleniat mo rreatly stirred fn excited world as did th phrase "Repressed rychosts," vith which Dr. Fos- decided opinion that if. as I have heard, ter summed tip the temporary Insanity he continued to persecute the defendsf Mary Pas. ant, the result would " It spread through the court and th "I object!" stormed the District Atthrona In the corridor; it sped over torney, leaping to his feet. "Dr. Fosthe telephone wires to the waiting ter's last assertion that the defendailment was atrjrravated newspApera of the city, and by Asso- ant's mental continued the persecution of through ciated Presa to othr papers In every David is evidence, and Pollock, hearsay atate. Editorial writers delved for the a, direct a man." dead of maligning works of IJaln, Fechner, Ilclmhottx and "I that sustain objection," said the 2.innsterberg-- and the more learned judge sternly, adding to the doctor, aarched the records of Psychophyslcs "You must restrict yourself to anand recalled the fact from their college swering questions. Dr. Foster. Let the days that It came from the Greek words answer be stricken out" from the words, "Nature" and "Soul." ISefore lor.jr It 'into the automobile.' The doctor, a flush of annoyance on even reached the zenith of publicity carhis face, turned questionably toward and became the Inspiration of the was after that day Langdon, but the latter, after a motoonists, but all this more once upon the ment's hesitation said coolly: when Dr. Foster, witness-stan"No more questions." told with technical InBut the prosecutor had. II got to Influence, how of prenatal brevity his feet with the alacrity of ,a fighting creased by fear and suffering, a upon the delicate brain tissues under man going into battle. Here was man man a foe of his shock. a steel, of worthy strain the great Much of what he said was entirely whose testimony was, he felt sure, full unintelligible to the excited audience. of littlo weaknesses into which he of his wit and his It was therefore with a little rustling could dig the rapierHe hated Dr. Fosaisrh of relief that they heard Landon legal questioning. ? him admired he and exulted in abruptly change h! line of question-In- ter, yet of him. before the wits game and say: 's was a tongue Dr. With loser. he Put at r.Isrht the Ions? after the "How sanatorium did Miss Page remain steeped in vitriol he attacked the testimony of the alienist; he held Mary in your hospital?" "It was nearly three weeks before Pape up as a hysterical girl who had he was able to po. and even then it sought notoriety; he fiun doubt upon waa with trepidation that I con- the possibility of a "temporary" mental derangement, but though he torto her leaving." tented "Did you fear a return of her iSl- - tured Mary until with shuddering horror she sank forward in her chair, her nss? knerr that excitement or a hands pressed against her ears to shut "Yes. nervous strain cf any art would have out the sound of his voice, he could not an Injurious effect, and I warned both phake the smiling Imperturbability of Mrs. Fasre and Mr. Inclon to protect Dr. Foster. Cross examination meant nothing to the latter, and much as he her as much as possiMe." "Dr. Foster. 1U you ever se David regretted the strain tipon the pitiful pitpollock after the r.Uht he took Mia little prisoner, he really enjoyed ting hli power against that of the Paiee to Zellars? "Yes. I saw him again on the day prosecutor. Ho his nr.swers came with cool deleft my sanatorium." when M!j! Pa "Will yon tell us the circumstances liberation, and a hint of Insolence that won the admiration of the spectators cf that second meeting, please?" Mr. were divided between zest In the who nnd mother Pasre nnl h"f "Mls In to were leave. about stirring battle and pity for Mary. Hut Ianscion Jut York it was the sympathy that came upperrder to take a train to New sanmost when at last, unable to bear any th drove x:p whn Mr.InPollock was I motor. his very longer the brutal wrangle over her atorium at hla daring to rono to the sanity, she leaped to her feet, a little from Ii05pltal after what had occurred, and moaning cry of protest wrung and Mr. LAnsrdon to hr white lips. Ixingdon was at her asking the I'aceji I wont to side in an Instant, his hands drawing go lato ray ofTl. and lips the door my?r'.f and prcmptort!y or- her down into her chair again, hiscomto leave the pround. dered Mr. Poll-hlsjerlng encouragement and wavat him a lie refused to C), sajingr that he had fort, till she smiled up emfle. little to say ering, pathetic fomethinc of great Importance to Miss Pace. He would not, he said, To the prosecutor in his present sav-a- g humor it seemed a carefully planher alor. but it was ask to s yet he could so to see h- -r if h wished, because ned hi? of se efToct not its broken. upon the jury, and plainly thtdr enajrement had so was could read it In circumstances the clearly the antagonism I felt that rein Miss their and see eyes when they lookhim let to growing Page be3t I took him ed at him, that with an abrupt shrug ceive his dismissal. Ho he swung upon his heel and sat down Into the office s Ml.-a curt. "That's all." with at distress show any "Did Page released Dr. Foster, and sent That him? of slcht "Yes. She gave a little cry almost of him back triumphantly to the witness- two newcomers fear and clunir to her mother, and room. There were sweet-face- d a now, hi answer not thre matronly preetinsr." would looking woman of middle age, rather "What did MK Pollock say?" In her dress, and a young "He said. 'You have no re?son to twenty-fiv- e of who was diabout that. Mary. At girl shrink from me nervous 'fears and between vided been I done has have worst what to be zest. She destined You wag have promI youthful loved yuu. because ised to marry me. and ao far that the next witness, and Dr. Foster smiled when he saw her. Most promise has not been taken back, and Involuntarily smiled at Amy, for that matter, know to come what people you now I have was over with youth she for me seems to do. bubbling that It to are poln laughter, but for all that, her gaive ouKht to be married at once asfa- and was backed up by the shrewdness ety as i have information that your of modern the without girl who fights her own ther's death has left you battles and successfully. I will comforts promptly the that well, without be irlad to rtve yotl. I have waited f r Her tailored suit and soft blouse throat were smartly cut, three weeks for some word from you. open at the was a hint daring in its and her fianhat and now I have come to claim my and the it was tilted over way shape cee!"" her when the bailiff little nose, and "Did Miss Iajre reply?" called "Miss her name, and him to Amy Barton," went Sha boldly up "Yes. agitation led her to tip at an even said without any alsrns of nervousness her angle as she tried to of the moment before. 'If I have not more dangerous nose beher and kiss her mother is powder it David, taken back my promise, cause I have been too ill to think of at the same time. "I'm scared blue!" she confided to It. Hut I do take it back now. I will the other witnesses In a 6haky voice. never marry you so lonsr as I live, and "A night is a cinch to this. What I never want you to speak to me do Ifirst to say?" have can since you and niraln. I detest you, reason "You have the only to answer questions," no lender harm my father, Dr. said That cone. "and there Is really is Foster, to you for my promise At nothing to b frightened about." Is all I have to say. Good-bye- .' "I suppose not." she answered as she white and said that Pollock set very went are mean that through the door, "but I wouldn't you hoarsely. Doea that care I'd go be hanged If it anyway, means,' It loln t marry LanJon? has would Mary." help what happen gha sa!J. that after ; n, 'Jt (' r,.,' If" , "- ' . standing around, and Ecky didn't dare say anything more, so we got away 5 4 d, t , '"rsf V 7 "5- - Tit re-act- ed 4t VSw , v - Zel-lar- 4 -- ' i S V X t- int w-al- t. k hi-riK- ht by-pla- y, b-e- old-fashion- ed lU-:-e -- I and went home jobless but happy. Of course when we told them at home Mrs. Page said Mary must give up her stage career, but she was too spunky for that. She said no, that the mistake she'd made was in getting a chorus job, and that if I was willing we might try for some small road company and work our way up in the 'drama'. I would have followed Mary any place, so I said I was on, and we even talked Mr. Langdon down before he left." "That is all, thank you, Miss Barton," said Langdon with a smile as she finished, and Amy, looking around bewildered, asked the judge confidentially, "What do I do now, your Honor?" "You answer a few questions for me," said the prosecutor with a honied sweetness. "Miss Barton, you are a very good actress, are you not?" "Go ask my press agent!" she answered pertly; and he flushed. "Well, at any rate you can be very let's convincing in saying things call it reciting lines that have nothing to do with events that really happened, can't you? Especially in a sympathetic role?" Amy clinched her little hands and frown d at him. "If you're trying to put anything across," she said slowly, "you've come to the wrong shop. I took the oath and I don't swear to tell the truth and then lie. I'm an actress, not a lawyer." A burst of laughter swept the room, and the judge's gavel came down sharply, though the corners of his mouth twitched as he said to Amy: "You must confine your remarks to answering the questions put you. Miss Barton." "I am," she replied imperturbably, and the prosecutor flushed as he asked sharply: "Isn't it true that you said you would do anything in the world to save Mary Page?" "Isn't it true that you're doing everything in the world to ruin her?" "That is not answering my question," roared the prosecutor. "This la contempt of court you have sworn to tell the truth tell it." "Tell it to a policeman!" scoffed Amy. "I have told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and there isn't any more to tell, unless you'll let me tell you what poor business I think you have for your part of the show." "Silence!" roared the Judge and the prosecutor in unison, and now Amy, looking up at his Honor, smiled and brought into view a dimple, as she said quietly, "Your Honor, I don't mind answering questions, but I'm so used to being hollered at in rehearsals that the usual line of chatter just slips out." . Again a gale of laughter swept the room, the hysteric mirth of those whose emotions had been brought over close to the surface by tragedy, and the prosecutor, realizing that the pert-neof the actress was a shield behind which he could not penetrate, and feeling that her testimony was after all unimportant, dismissed her with a shrug. At her glad, "Oh, can I go?" the laughter broke out afresh; but it died away when she ran straight to Mary's side, and before the bailiff or Langdon could stop her, had leaned over and Impulsively kissed her cheek. "You darling!" she cried, and suddenly burst Into tears the genuine childish sobs of one whose heart is overflowing with pity. When she was led back to the witness-rooshe was no longer an obscure little actress she was famous. For the time at least she even overshadowed Mary so much does the old world love those who laugh and yet have tender heart the gaiety. (To be continued. 5i 1 - "PLEASE BE GLAD, MARY."' POLLOCK , hint of rebuke startled Amy, and the go!' I shouted, "Barton to the rescue!' tears rushed into her eyes as she said (or I would have if I hadn't been too mad to shout anything) and double plaintively: "I'll try, but It sounded so funny for quicked Into the room in time to see YOU to aFk MK if I knew my best Webster" holding Mary In his arms and friend." telling her that pretty girls were made That's all right; I understand. Now to be kissed, and not to be a silly little will you please tell the court Just when fool. By the time he got that far I had an Inch or so of my hat pin in his and how you first met Miss Page?" arm some "It was years ago, and she and Raid Just above the elbow, and what he then wouldn't be polite to repeat. came to our apartment her mother with a note from Cousin Alice Cowes At any rate, Mary and I beat it while who lived in New Town. Cousin Alice the going was good, and Mary wa3 so had sent them to us because she knew upset we decided to go right home inwe had an extra room we wanted to stead of calling on any of the other rent, and she thought that I could help managers. That was how we happened to run into Dave Pollock." Mary land a job." "Where did you meet Mr. Pollock?" "What sort of er position?" "Oh, he was on the job at the apart"In the merry-merr- y that Is. on the ment stage. I'd been across the foots my- humblewhen we got home. Playing the but persistent swain Wanted self for a couple of seasons and Cousin Alice said Mary wanted to become an to lay his fortune at her feet and give actress and thought I could show her her a life of gilded ease". He pleaded stuff, and how to make the rounds. It's a tough all that sort of she told how her realize cruel didn't In a New York proposition getting job with no friends and no pull," she add- the world was to a girl (men always ed, nodding her head wisely toward the say that) and how she would suffer to mother growing old and lackJury like some pert little robin, but see her she could not earn the ing to Langdon hastened interrupt her for her. comforts Then he pulls out his wallet utterances. philosophical and it, taps saying, 'All that I have is "Will you tell the court, please. Miss If you don't marry yours, Mary, Barton, about the first position secured me.' Business even music!" soft of by Miss Page and of the events that "Were room in the while this you led up to it?" was on?" going "Well, it just happened that the day answered, winning a gale Mary hit the big town I had a date of "No," she from the court-roo''but laughter with Webster, the real boss of the musical comedies. Of course he isn't the you can't brush your teeth in a New sort that you'd want to send your lit- York apartment without the peopleev-In tle sister from the country to see, but the next door flat hearing you, and too much hedging don't go In the show erything that Mary said or Dave Polbusiness worth a whoop. You've got to lock said, might as well have been shouted through a megaphone." trust to a sharp tongue and a hat-pi- n "Did Miss Page seem touched by Mr. till you show them where they get off, and once they're wise, they treat you Pollock's offer?" said Langdon, reall right. Webster was like that, but pressing a smile with difficulty. if he promises you a part he plays fair, "No, she stood up to him spunkily so I never was afraid to buck his offi- and told him flat where he got off. ce-boy even on a busy day. Well, 'I'm going to get work,' she said, but when Mary told me she had a hanker- even If I didn't my mother and I would ing for grease paint and six weeks of never accept any help from you. I being sworn at In rehearsals, I said have only one thing to ask, and that i3 hed better come right along with that you leave here at once and do not T can't promise not to me. and maybe Webster would let us come ngaln do a sister act by getting us Jobs In see you, Mary,' he said; T must and the same chorus. Mary was tickled to will.' 'Well, at least I won't speak to y DOES THE CHIVALRY STUNT. through calling the rest of us all the names in his vocabulary. So when it came to one bit where the fat tenor had to choose a girl out cf the chorus to sing an encore with him, Mary got the chance, and made good, too. But that was afterwards." "Well, suppose you tell us what occurred on the day 'The Blue Feather' opened." "Oh, the day was the same as any other opening day. We'd rehearsed half the night and started in at eight-thirt- y in the morning. Somebody had sent a set of scenery that was backwards and the leads had to learn their business all over again, and the hats for the chorus turned up the wrong color. The stage manager had a grouch and the orchestra got all mixed up on the encores, and we were all tired to death and wished we were dead. It's always like that a few hours before the overture on an opening night, so Mary and I were mighty glad to slip out home and rest an hour before going back to make up. We didn't dare late is the stay long, though, for being show-showorst sin in the box at a so it was round about seven when we got on our lids and were ready to beat it back. Just when we were leaving, though, mother came running in and said, 'Oh, Mary, Philip Langdon is here and he wants to see just a minute before you leave.' At that Mary lights all the lamps in her eyes, and went into the sitting room with me a close second. "Mr. Langdon was there talking to Mrs. Page and when we came In she called out, 'Mary, Philip has given up his practice in New Town and has come here to live.' At ' that he came over and took Mary's hand in both of his and said, 'Please be glad, Mary. I heard that Pollock had gone into business here and I worried so about you, I felt I had to come. Let me be your friend and protector, even If I can't be anything more, won't you, Mary?' Oh, but you oughtn't to give up your practice, Phil.' she said, beginning, just like a woman, to kick against the thing that pleased her most. 'You you may not like it here.' But he laughed at that, and they began to talk so much that I Jyou.' she said defiantly; and with that got worried and butted in by remind- soft-mus- ic m, death, so oft we went. p, u V "But it hit the rocks, for when Mary and I hustled into our glad rags and started for the door we bumped squarely Into the stage manager and Mr. Pollock the latter all done up to kill, even to a top hat. 'Oh, Miss Page,' sings out Ecky (that's the manager) 'here's a gentleman from your home town, that wants to take you out to supper and see you home in a buzz wagon.' He laughed nastily as he spoke, and I could feel Mary's hand go cold as ice as she grabbed mine and says, 'I have no desire to take supper with Mr. Pollock, either now or at any other time come, Amy.' But that made old Ecky sore, for there's nothing that's so good for a show in his estimation as to have a few of the crowd take the girls out to supper, so he began to roar like a bull and shouts, 'What's this? But Pollock interAre you crazy? rupted him there was a quick business of being hurt to the heart; the misunderstood soul and the chivalry stunt was pulled off without a break. Then he says, 'Miss Page is quite within her rights. I do not wish an unwilling guest. Perhaps my moment of renewing her acquaintance was inopportune,' and he stalks away for all the world like the heavy in the third act. But old Ecky was up in the air, and he began rowing Mary for fair. He told her, the poor dog, that it was her beauty, not her talent, that 'got the house', and added, 'It's your business here to be civil to your admirers and go to supper when they ask you. If you're goin' to ride a high horse I've got no use for you in this show. " "Did Miss Page answer him?" "No, I think she was too horrified, and old Ecky, thinkin' that silence meant consent, told her to stay there till he brought Mr. Pollock back. The minute his back was turned I gave Mary the cue to get away quick, but we didn't have to, for just then Mr. Langdon came in, and we beat it for him. We didn't have time to tell him what had happened before old Ecky came back with Mr. Pollock and they both stopped short when they saw Mr. Langdon with us, and then Mr. Pollock drawls out, 'You see this Miss Page is not so virtuous as she pretends. She's not even particular in her top-hatt- ed - ss m ba-nea- th |