New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1921, Page 5

A story of a wife and a successful star entrancingly told. (Copyright, 1916, by Harper & Bros.) (Continued from Saturday’s Herald.) Sheila flushed pressed further: “And that's another point. Wouldn’t it be more—er—artistic if you didn’t :how the embrace even then—just have the lovers start toward each other?” Reben was skeptical of this. “Noth- ing like trying things out, though.” Rehearsals had reached their final stage and Bret still stayed on. An opportunity to get into Chicago turned up, and Reben cancelled his other bookings, for Sheila was liked in Chicago, and he detérmined to make for there. The first perfor- mance was shifted from Red Bank, N. J., to Grand Rapids, Mich. Sheila was in dismay and grew unmanageable. They must be married secretly at once. At the luncheon table he fairly challenged her to marry him immediately. She accepted, almost in bravado, they went to the Little Church Around the Corner, waited their turn at the al- tar. and then there was a furious scurry back to the theater. . CHAPTER X. A Stormy Honeymoon. Shortly after Sheila’s appearance the company took up the act at a point at which Eldon caught Sheila’s hands in his and lifted them to his lips. As Eldon took those two beloved palms in his and bent his gaze on her fingers, it fell on Sheila’s shining new wedding ring. “My God, no!” he groaned. with her victory, Bret On Your Vacation Whether you are at the shore or in the mountains, you will want to keep in touch with the folks at home. Have the Follow You While you Herald’s staff of reporters will be on the job and you can get the New Britain news daily as you do when you are at home by having the paper mailed to you. Sent by mail daily, the sub- scription price is the same as at home 18c a Send in your order before you leave for your vacation, CLIPPED WINGS | By Rupert Hughes. and no one would know of her tryst. |nock met her with exciting “1 beg you!” she whispered. “What's that?” called out Batter- son, who had been speaking to Prior. “I lost the line,” said Eldon. At dinner she told Bret about incident. “Mighty white of him,” he “Didn’t anybody else notice it?” “I ' put my glove on right after- | ward,” said Sheila. “I don’t dare| wear it again. | “Don’'t dare wear your wedding fing!” Winfield roared. ‘“Say, what kind of a marriage is this, anyway?” “I hope it's not dependent on a piece of metal round my finger,” Sheila protested. ‘‘Your real wedding ring is round my heart.” Sheila telegraphed to her parents. Winfield’s situation was summed up In a telegram to his home. At length they were driven to the appalling hardship of separation for the journey. Bret would take an earlier train and arrange for their sojourn at the quietest hotel in Grand Rapids. She would join him there the said. ' 'On’ the way west Reben told her he had wired ahead for the room in the best hotel for the star. ; Sheila was aghast at this compli- cation, for Bret had arranged to leave a letter at the theater instructing her where they were to pitch their tent. She went directly to the theater and found a corpulent envelope in the mail box. As she set out to find a telephone and explain to him the delay for re- hearsal she was called back by Re- ben. She was aflame with impatience, but could not leave. The rehearsal over, she dashed to the stage door, only to be called again by Reben. He offered to walk te the hotel with her. She dared not refuse. He invitgd her to dine with him. She said that she would be dining ih her room. At last she escaped him and flew to her room to telephone Bret. Pen- news. Certain articles of her costumes had not arrived as promised. Shopping must be done at once. She reached the telephone at last. He had gone out, and she ate her dinner alone while her_.lover searched for her at various hotels, to find her at last by telephone. Numberless mishaps punctured the opening presentation of “The Woman Pays,” but Sheila was fascinating. There was no doubt of that. The last curtain fell just before the lovers moved into each other’s open arms. This was the “artistic” effect Sheila had persuaded Reben to try. Even Bret felt a lurch of disappoint- ment in the audience. He had prepared a little banquet in their rooms, but Sheila did not come. He did not know that the best new company had been held after the per- formance for criticism. The first rough cuts were announced and a HERALD are away the Week BRITAIN DAILY {{FRALD, MONDAY, JULY Princess Nagako, center, is to marry the crown prince of Japan. is shown here with her father, sister and mother (in background) ‘arriving @t the imperial palace to view movies of the crown prince in London. JAPAN’S FUTURE EMPRESS he \ rehearsal called for the next morn- ing at 10. Sheila kfew that her poor Bret must have been pacing the alley out- side like a caged hyena. She sent Pennock out to explain. But.when at length she was dressed for the street she found Reben waiting for her with the news that he had or- dered a little supper in a private room at the hotel so that she and Batterson, Prior, and Eldon and the company manager and the press agent, Starr Coleman, and the house manager might discuss the play which it was fresh in their minds. Sheila had never been to one these, inquests before, and she had no* - foreseen the call to this one. Thinking of her ‘husband, she asked Reben to excuse her from the con- ference. His look of amazement and his sharp “Why?"” found her without any available excuse. When the talk ended she went to the roorh the man- ager had reserved for her and slept there like 'a Juliet in her tomb. She found on he: breakfast tray a small stack of notes from Bret, rang- ing from :ncredulous amazement at her neglect to towering rage, and she wrote him a little note of mad Ye- gret, abject apology, and insane de- votion. * The rehearsal was brief and per- functory. Reben had only one sug- gestion: “Put more pep in the love scenes and restore the clutzh at the last curtain.” Sheila gasped. “But I thought it was so much more artistic (he way we played it last night.” Reben laughed. “Ah, behave! When the curtain fell last night the thud could be heard a mile.” Presently Sheila telephoned Bret from a drug store. “I've got a day off, honey. it gee-lo-rious?” When she and Bret reached the hotel they found they had neglected to provide supplies for the chafing dish. Sheila fwas hungry. “We're old married people now,” said Sheila. “Let's have supper downstairs. Nobody'll see us in this little hotel.” of Isn't ful investment. run. Elm They therefore adjourned to the dining room. Thers were only two other people there. They stared at Sheila. “Kind of nice being together in public like decent people,” he beamed. The next morning they had break- fast in their apartment at 12. She called it breakfast. It was lunch for Winfield. They were eating grape- fruit out of the same spoon when the telephone rang. A gruff voice greet- ed Bret.. “Is this Mr. Winfield?” “Yes. Who are you?” “Is—Miss—is Sheila there?” “Ye-yes. Who are you?”’ “Mr. Reben.” That morning Reben had wakened with a head full of inspirations that he wanted to talk over with Sheila, but he could not get her on the tele- phone.-As he fussed up and down the hotel lobby a stranger spoke to him. “That’s « great little star you got there—Miss Kemble—or Mrs. Win- field, T suppose I'd ought to say.” Reben looked his surprise. ‘‘Mrs. Winfield 2" “Yes. She’s stopping at our hotel with her husband. We ate supper in the same dinin’ room with 'em last night. I'm on here buying furniture. I always stop at Emerton. Has she been married long?” Reben rushed for the telephone and clawed at the book till he found the ‘mumber of the Emerton hotel. He was puffing with anxious wrath. ‘When he heard Sheila’s voice could only mumble: “Oh, Sheila, I'd like to have a word with you at the theater—no+—yes, at the theater. _“All right,” she said. as soon as I can.” “My heavens, girl, T'd never have thought it of you,” he said when they met. “You leave that man at once. If he comes near you again I'll break every bone ‘in his body!" Sheila laughed. ‘‘You haven't seen my husband, have you?” “Your husband?” Reben sneered. “He is my husband!” she stormed. “Sheila, you don’t mean that you've gone and got yoursélf married?” “What else should I mean? How dare you think anything else?” “Oh, you fool, you fool! You little fool!” he “I'll be there Sp;ecial ZENITH Carburetor For FORD CARS Every Ford that has been equipped with this new Zenith Aero Type Carbureter has proved a wonder- ECONOMY—Pays for itself in a thousand miles SPEED—Increased speed, PICK-UP—Gets away like a scared rabbit. POWER—Fairly eats the hills. — 10 DAY SPECIAL OFFER — For 10 days we will install on any Ford car.one of our new Zenith Carburetors at a special price of $20.00, complete. Don’t let this opportunity slip by. A. G. Hawker, Agent Street 18, 1921. Feeling the uselessness of wasting reproaches, he left her and found a line at the box office. It was a con- vincing argument. He would trust to luck to keep ‘the news out of the papers till after the Chicago opening. At the rehearsal the first of the new scenes was gone over. It em- phasized the heart interest with a vengeance. Sheila trembled to think what her husband would do when he saw it played. | When he protested next morning at early breakfast that the tour would be the death of them both, Sheila looked up from the part she was studying and laughed. “Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. We haven’t made any long jumps yet.” Bret set his coffee cup down hard and growled: “Well, this is where I leave you!" He spoke more truly than he knew. When he took Sheila to the theater for the matinee he found a telegram for him. “Please come home at once your father dangerously ill and asking for you. S “MOTHER."” *x x CHAPTER XI. Smoke of Battle. Sheila_saw the anguish of dread cover Bret's face like a sudden fling of ashes. “Poor old dad!” he groaned. ‘“And mother—I must take the first train.” She nodded her head dismally. “I wish you could come with me. You ought to,” he urged. “Oh, I know it—but I can’t.” “You may never see my father again.” “Don’t say that! honey.” She took his hands and squeezed, them passionately. Reben came along swinging his cane.. Seeing them hold- ing hands, he essayed a frivolity: “Honeymoon not on the wane yet?” Sheila told him the truth. all sympathy at once. “If I could only do anything help you!” Winfield caught at the proffer. “You can! Let Sheila go home with me.’ 3 Reben gasped. It's impossible. in half an hour. making up now.” Sheila went to the train with her h-—sband. When he reached home his father was dead. His mother begged him_not to leave her again, and he rromised he would make her home his. To his shame and dismay he could not give his whole heart to the new work that fell to him; his heart was with Sheila. When he heard the company had gone into Chicago ana the play was enthusiastically re- ceived there, he decided to pay her a surprise visit. Indeed, when he reached Chicago in the early evening he resolved to see the performance before he let her know he was in town. He hardly recognized the scenes. The character Sheila played was emo- tional now, with a mystery .as to her origin and hints of a past, a scandal into which an older weman, an ad- venturess, had decoyed her. When at last Bret was free of the press he dashed round to the stage entrance and saw Sheila. Reben was holding her by one arm; his other hand was on Eldon’s shoulder. He was telling them of the big leap in the box office receipts. Then he called: *‘Eldon!” Eldon looked forward just in time to see Bret coming on like a striding giant, just in time -to see the big arm swing up in a rigid drive, shoul- der and side and all. The clenched fist caught Eldon under the chin and sent him back- ward across a heavy table. The thud of the fist, the grunt of Bret's effort, the shriek of Sheila, the clatter of Eldon’s fall, the hubbub of the startled spectators were all jumbled. Sheila had run between the two men in a panic of horror. All her thought was to protect her husband. Her eyes blazed against Eldon. He laughed bitterly into Bret's face. “We're even now. I struck you when you didn’t expect it because you didn’t belong on the stage. You don’t belong here now. Get off! Get off or—-God help you!” This challenge infuriated Bret. He could find no word bitter enough but “You—you—you actor!” Eldon laughed at this taunt answered with equal contempt: “You business man—you thug!” And now Reben, denounced him in a fury: “Why did you do it? Why? should apologize, you should!” “Apologize!” Bret sneered, loathing in his grin. Eldon flared at the look, but con- trolled himself. “He doesn’t owe me any apology. Let him apologize to his wife, if he has any decency in his soul.” And now the stage was like a church at : funeral after the dead has been taken away. Everybody felt He'll get well, to “My boy, my boy! The matinee begins She should be and You with He was The Pure, Fresh Flavor and indisputable economy of the genuine . TEA .is responsible for its enormous sale, which eclipses that of any other tea New Britain Boys’ Club News VOLUME 1. JULY 18, 1921. NUMBER 28. C. EMERSON, Editor. 'W. KNAPP, Assistant Editor. B. HUCK, Shop Mgr. EDITED BY AND IN T HE INTEREST OF BOYS. WORK AND PLAY. Every one knows that a boy ought to play as well as to work; and usual- ly a boy needs little encouragement to play. But, of course, work is the more important. It is a good thing, therefore, if a man, for that matter, can play in a manner that will put him in a condition to do his work well. Some.boys play so violently that, when they get thrcugh, they are too exhausted to work. Play is to rest the mind and to tone up the body, and those games are the best which will leave a boy in good condition to do his work, whatevdr that may be. THE LAWS OF RIGHT AND 4 WRONG Many a boy imagines that the laws of right and wrong are made by men for the restraint of other men. But moral laws are not really made. They are discovered, and the sooner a boy discovers them for himself, the less trouble he 'will have. No man can break a moral law without suffering. “Napoleon.” said Emerson, “did ev- erything that a mortal man could do; but the moral laws of the universe balked him.”" And what are these moral laws? Among them are Truth, Honor, Justice, Mercy—matters that every boy can well understand. . ACTIVITIES DURING THE WEEK Sunday—The band played for song service at Walnut Hill park. Monday—Printing classes. on the gymnasium floor. Showers. Tuesday—Movies: *“The Postman’s Adventure,” “European War During the Year of 1914,” “The Columbia River.’’. Band concert at Newington. ‘Wednesday Outdoor baseball Games practice for the senior team. Print- ing class. Games on the gymnasium floor for all members. Reading room open. Thursday—Shower baths. Reading room open all day. Games on the gymnasium floor. Printing class. Friday—Indoor sports and games. Reading room open all day. - Printing class.. Band played a concert in Ken- sington. Saturday—The W. J. R. C. meeting and target practice at the range at 9.30 a. m. The Juvenile Police court is not having many cases these days, showing improvement over the be- ginning of the year. Showers are all free for every boy in the city from the ages of ten to fifteen. Reading room operr all day. Games. NOTICES The July issue of the Boys' Club News is off the press and ready for the members of the club. The Aug- ust issue will be out soon, as the club will be closed during the entire month of August for cleaning and re- pairs. The band went to Kensington and gave a concert to a large erowd who appreciated the music and sent the boys home happy after having re- freshments. The band outing at Clinton and Hammonassett beach was a success and members were well pleased with the way in which they were received at Dew Drop Inn at Clinton. Bathing and other sports were all interesting to the many people at the beach. The manner in which the boys conducted themselves was a credit to the club. Saturday next there will be regular practice for the W. J. R. C. at the range. Winners'of the unit match will be announced later. that Sheila was dead to the theater. Everybody knew that if Sheila took it into her head to give up the stage there would be no stopping her. Eldon alone did not believe that Sheila would return. Sheila was dead to this play, and this play dead with- out her, and without this play Sheila would die. Of this he felt solemnly assured. - “Why didn't you hand him one?” ‘Batterson asked. “How could I hit him when his wife was clinging to him? I couldn’t hit Winfield. He doesn’t understand. Sheila has trouble enough ahead of her with him. Poor Sheila! She’s the one that will pay.” Meanwhile Sheila was with her husband. “That dog loves you and you—" “Don’t say it!” She put up her hands. “I could never forgive you if you said that now—" “Even if you don't love him, you pretended to, and he took advantage of it—to—to kiss you!" “Why, he didn't kiss me, honey.” “I saw him.” “No, you didn’t. Not that a stage kiss makes any difference. But, any- way, he didn't.” “You'll be telling me make love 1> you next.” “As a matter of fact, honey. We were trying each other up.” “If he wasn't making love to you, what was he saying?” “It was nothing very clever. He accused me of letting the scene lag, and he was whispering to me that I was ‘asleep at the switch, and the switch was falling off’ and I an- swered him back that Dulcie Ormerod would please him better.” “Dulcie Ormerod? Who's Ormerod? “Ah, she’s a little tike of an actress that took my place in the ‘Friend in Need™ company a long while ago. And she’s come on here to be my understudy. I wish I could quit to- night.” “You're going to.” immured he didn't he to didn’t, break Dulcie “If I only could! “I mean it, Sheila,” he declared. “This is your last night on the stage or your last night as my wife.” (Continued Tomorrow) —_— Dr. Leonhardt Says “the cause of Piles is internal; that's why salves do not give lasting relief —why cutting fails.” Hem-Roid, a harmless tablet that “works while you sleep,” removes the cause. Money back if it fails. Clark & Brainerd Co. Skin trouble needs imme- diate attention. Buy s jar of Resinol Ointment to- day and use it regularly. A fewdays of such persi: /ent treatment usually tops the itching, clears soreness, and helps the skin resume its natural healthy condition. At all dreggists. Resinol —DENTISTS— A. B. Johnson, D. D. S. T. R. Johnson, D. D. S. National Bank Bldg. GAS and OXYGEN ADMINISTERER Delicious Iced Coffee in an Instant G. 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