The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. e and heard my own voice break thing I'd never heard before. stood at last with the handcuffs vour own fault, you damned lit- ump!” he said to me, as they went out. You lie, Mag Monahan, he’s no such He may be a hard man to live but he's mine—my Tom—my witk Tom! What? Latimer? Well, do you know, it's funny about He'd told the cop that TI'd ed—peached on Tom! So they nt off without me. what he said himself when » alone. r to insure for myself an- other of your most interesting visits, I uppose, Miss—not Omar? All right. . Tell me, can I do nothing for Aren't you sick of this sort of et Tem out of jail.” He shcok his head. I'm too good a friend of yours to do ch a turn.” ; want any friend that iso’t don’t threw the pistol from hir{l and d himself up, till he sat looking at that to you?” I turned to go. me? Things of that sort are of course, to me—me, that < pot he marr'd im making.’ But, can a girl like you tell the What made you hesitate when »id you with his eyes to that fellow murder me “How did 3 “How? The glass. See over yonder. I could watch every expression on both your faces, What was it—what was it. child, that made you—oh, if you owe me a single heart-beat of gratitude, tel! me the truh!” “You've said it yoursel “What?" ; “That line we read the other night about ‘the luckless pot'.” Hie face went gray and he fell bac:k on his pillows. The strenuous life we'd been leading him, Tom and I, was too much for him, I guess. . Do you know, 1 really felt sorry I'd eaid it. But he is a cripple. Did he ex- pect me to say he was big and strong and dashing—like Tom? I left him there and got out and away. But do you know what 1 saw, Mag, beside his bed, just as Burnett came to put me out? My old blue coat with the buttons— the bellboy’s coat I'd left in the house- keeper's Toom when I borrowed her Sunday rig. The coat was hanging over a chair, and right by it, on a table, was that big book with a picture cov- ering every page, still open at that verse about— Through this same Garden—and for one Im vain! Iv. No—no—no! No more whining from Nance Olden. Listen to what I've got to tell you, Mag, listen! You know where I was coming from réay when I passed Troyon's window and grinned up at you, sitting there, framed in bottles of hair tonic, with that red wig of yours streaming about you? Yep, from that little, rat-eyed law- ver's office. 1 was glum as mud. I felt as though Tom and myself were both flies caught by the leg—he by the law and I by the lawyer—in a sticky and the more we flapped our wings and struggled and pulled, the nore we hurt and tore ourselves, and he sooner we'd have to give it up. Oh, that wizened-faced little lawyer that lives on the Tom Dorgans and the Nance Oldens, who don’t know which way to turn to get the money! He looks at me out of his little eyes and measures in dollars what I'd do for Tom. And then he sets his price a nctch higher than that. When 1 passed the big department , next to Troyon's, 1 was thinking and I turned in there, just aching for some of the boodle that s iteelf in a poor girl's face when desperate, from every silk and in rag, from every face and jewel 1 the place. The funny part of it is that I didn't w it for myself, but ror Tom. 'Pon soul, Mag, though 1 would have filled my arms with everything I saw, wouldn't have put on one thing of the duds; just hiked off to soak 'em and pay the lawyer. 1 might have been as old and ugly and rich as the ipned woman opposite me, turning over laces on the counter, for all these things meant to me—with Tom in jail. thinking this as I looked at r, when all at once T saw— You know it takes a pretty quick touch, gharp eyes and good mnerve to get away with the goods in a big shop like that. Or it takes something alto- zether different. It was the different way she did it. She took up the piece of lace—it was a big collar, fine like a cobweb picture in threads—you can guess what it must have been worth if that old sinner, Mother Douty, gave me $15 for it. She took it up in a quick eager way, as though she’d found just what she wanted. Then she took out a lace sample from her gold-linked purse and held them both up close to her blinky little eyes, looking at it through a gold lorgnette with emeralds in the handle; pulling 1t and feeling it with the air of one who knows a fine thing when she seees it, and just what makes it fine. Then she rustled off to the door to examine it closely in the light, and—Mag Monahan, she walked right out with it! At least she got beyond the inner door when I tapped her on the shoulder. “I beg pardon, madam.” My best style, Mag. . She pulled herself up haughtily and blinked at me. She was a little, thin mummy of a woman, just wrapped away in silks and velvets, but on the inside of that nervous, little old body vest vellow wh of hers there must have been some spring of good material that wasn't all unwound yet. She stood blinking at me without a word. “That lace. it,” I said. 'Ob, mercy! “I »m a detective for and—" “But—" “Sh! We don't like any noise made about these things, and you yourself wouldn‘t enjoy—"" “Do you know who I am, young woman?”’ She fumbled in her satchel and passed a card to me. Glory be! Guess, Mag. Oh, you'd never guess, you dear old Mag! Be- sides, you haven’'t got the acquain- tance in high society that Nance Olden can boast. You haven't paid for You—you don’t—" the store, | MRS. MILLS D. VAN WAGENEN Oh—Mag! Shame on you not to kncw the name even of the Bishop of the great State of—yes, the lean, short little Bishop with a little white beard, and the softest eye and the softest heart and—my very own Bishop, Nancy Olden’s Bishop. And this was his wife. Tut—tut, Mag! Of course not. A Bishop’s wife may be a kleptomaniac; it's cnly Cruelty girls that really steal from stores. “I've met the Bishop, Mrs. Wagenen.” I didn't say how: wouldn't appreciate that story. “And he was once very kind to me. But he would be the first to tell me to do my duty now. I'll do it as quietly as I can for his sake. But vou must come with me or I must arrest —" She put up a shaking hand. little old guy! “Don’t—don’t say it! It's all a mis- take, which can be rectified in a mo- ment. I've been trying to match this piece of lace for vears. 1 got it at Malta when—when Mills’ and I—on our honeymoon. When I saw it there on the counter I was so delighted—I never thcught—I intended taking it to the light to be sure the pattern was the same, my eyesight is so wretched—and when you spoke to me it was the first inkling I had that I had really taken it without paying! You certainly un- derstand,” she pleaded in agitation. “T have no need to steal—you must know that—Oh, that I wouldn't—that I couldn’t— If you will just let me pay vou—" Here now, Mag Monahan, don't you get to sneering. She was straight— right on the level, all right. You couldn’t listen to that cracked little voice of hers a minute without being sure of it. 1 was just about to permit her gra- ciously to pay me the money—for my friend, the dear Bishop's sake, of course—when a big floorwalker hap- pened to catch sight of us. “If you'll come with me, Mrs. Van Wagenen, to a dressing-room, I'll ar- range your collar for you,” I said very loud. And then, in a whisper: “Of course, I understand, but the thing may look different to other people. And that big floorwalker there gets a com- mission from the newspapers every time he tells them—" She gave a squawk for all the world like a dried-up little hen scuttling out of a yellow dog's way, and we took the elevator to the second floor. The minute I closed the door of the little fitting-room she held out the lace to me. “I have changed my mind,” she said, “and shall give you the lace back. I will not keep it. I cannot—I cannot bear the sight of it. It terrifies me and shocks me. I can take no pleasure in it. Besides—besides, it will be dis- cipline for me to do without it now that 1 have found it after all these years. Every day I shall look at the place in my collection which it would have oc- cupied, and I shall say to myself: ‘Maria Van Wagenen, take warning. See to what terrible straits a worldly passion may bring one; what uncon- scious greel may do!" I shall give the money to Mills for charity and I will never—never fill that place in my col- lection.” “What good will that do?” I asked, puzzled, while I folded the collar up into a very small package. “Ycu mean that I ought to submit to the exposure—that 1 deserve the lesson and the punishment—not for stealing, but for being absorbed in worldly things. Perhaps you are right. It certainly shows that you have at some time been under Mills' spiritual care, my dear. 1 wonder if he would insist—whether I ought—yes, I suppose he would. Oh!" A saleswoman’'s head was thrust in the door. “Excuse me,” she said, “I thought the room was empty.” “We've just finished trying on,” I said sweetly. “Don’t go!" The Bishop's wife turned to her, her little fluttering hands held out appealingly. “And do not misunderstand me. The thing may seem wrong in your eyes, as this young woman says, but if you will listen pa- tiently to my explanation, I am sure you will see that it was a mere eager oversight—the fault of absent-minded- ness, hardly the sin of covetousness, and surely not & crime. I am making this confession—" The tender conscience of the dear, blameless little soul! She was actually giving herself away. Worse—she was giving me away, too. But I couldn’t stand that. I saw the saleswoman's puzzled face—she was a tall woman with a big bust, big hips and the big head all right, and she wore her long- train black rig for all the world like a Cruelty girl who had stolen the ma- tron’s skirts to “play lady” in. I got behind little Mrs. Bishop, and looking out over her head, I tapped my fore- head significantly. The saleswoman tumbled. That was all right. But so did the Bishop's wife; for she turned and caught me at it. “You shall not save me from myself Van he Dear and what I deserve,” she cried. “I am perfectly sane and you know it, and you are doing me no favor in trying to create the contrary impression. I de- mand an—" “An interview with the manager,” I interrupted. “I'm sure Mrs. Van ‘Wagenen can see the manager. Just go with the lady, Mrs. Van Wagenen, and T'll follow with the goods.” She did it meek as a lamb, talking all the time, but never beginning at the beginning—luckily for me. So that I had time to slip from one dressing- room to the next, with the lace up my sleeve, out to the elevator and down into the street. D've know what heaven must be, Mag? A place where you always get away with the swag, and where it's always just the minute after you've made a killing. Cocky? Well, I should say I was. I was drunk enough with success to take big chances. And just while I was wishing for something really big to tackle, it came along in the shape of that big floorwalker! He was without a hat, and his eyes looked fifty ways at once. But you've got to look fifty-one if you want to catch Nance Olden. I ran up the stairs of the first flat-house and rang the bell. And as I sailed up in the elevator I saw the big floorwalker hurry past; he’d lost the scent. The boy let me off at the top fleor, and after the elevator had gone down I walked up to the roof. It was fine 'way up there, so still and high, with the lights coming out down in the town. And I took out my pretty lace collar and put it around my neck, wishing I could keep it and wishing that I had, at least, a glass to see my- self in it just once, when my eye caught the window of the next house. It would do for a mirror all right, for the dark green shade was down. But at sight of the shade blowing in the wind I forgot all about the collar. It's this way, Mag, when they press vou too Zar;and that little rat of a lawyer had got me most to the wall. 1 looked at the winCow, measuring the little climb it would be for me to get to it—the house next door was just one story higher than the one where 1 was, so its top story was on a level with the roof where I stood. And I made up my mind to get what would let Tom off easy, or break into jail my- self. And so I didn’t care much what I might fall into through the window. And perhaps because I didn't care, I slipped into a dark hall, and not a thing stirred; not a footstep creaked. I felt like the princess—Princess Nancy Olden—come to wake the Sleeping Beauty; some dude it'd be that would have curly hair like Tom Dorgan's, and would wear clothes like my friend Latimer's, over in Brooklyn. Can you see me there, standing on one leg like a stork, ready to lie or to fly at the first sound. ‘Well, the first sound didn't come. Neither did the second. In fact, none of 'em came unless I made 'em myself. Softly as Molly goes when the baby’s just dropped off to sleep, I walked to- ward an open door. It was a parlor, smelly with tobacco, and with lots of papers and books around. And nary a he-beauty—nor any other kind. 1 tried the door of the room next to it. A bedroom. But no Beauty. Silly! Don’t you tumble yet? It was a bachelor’s apartment, and the Bach- elor Beauty was out, and Princess Naney had the place all to herself. 1 suppose I really ought to have left my card—or he wouldn't know who had waked him—but I hadn’t intended to go calling when I lert home, So I thought I'd look for one of his as a souvenir—and anything else of his I could make use of. There were shirts I'd ltke for Tom, dandy colored ones, and suits with checks in ‘em and without. But I wanted something easy and small and flat, made of crackly printed yellow or green paper, with numbers on it. How did I know he had anything like that? Why, Mag, Mag Monahan, one would think you belonged to the Bishop's set, you're so simple! I had to turn on the electric light after a bit—it got so dark. And I don’t like light in other people’s houses when they're not at home, and neither am 1. But there was nothing'in the bedroom except some pearl studs. I got those and then went back to the parlor. The desk caught my eye. Oh, Mag, it had the loviliest pictures on it—pic- tures of swell actresses and dancers. It was mahogany, with lots of little drawers and two curvy side boxes. I pulled open all the drawers. They were full of papers all right, but they were printed, cut, from newspapers, and all about théaters. “You can't feed things llke this, Nance, to that shark of a lawyer,” 1 said to myself, pushing the box on the side impatiently. And then I giggled outright. Why? Just ‘cause—I had pushed that side box till it swung aside on hinges I didn’t know about, and there, in a little secret nest, was a pile of those same crisp, crinkly paper things I'd been looking for. 20—40—60—110—160—210—260—310! Three hundred and ten dollars, Mag Monahan. Three hundred and ten, and Nance Olden. “Glory be!” I whispered. “Glory be damne I heard behind me. I turned. The bills just leaked out of my hand on to the floor. ‘The Bachelor Beauty had come home, Mag, and nabbed the poor princess, instead of her catching him napping. He wasn't a beauty either—a big, stout fellow with a black mustache. His hand on my shoulder held me tight, but the look in his eyes behind his glasses, held me tighter. I threw out my arnis over the desk and hid my face. Caught! Nancy Olden, with her hands dripping, and not a lie in her smart mouth! He picked up the bills I had dropped, counted them and put them in his pocket. Then he unhooked a telephone and lifted the stand from his desk. “Hello! Spring 3100—please. Hello! Chief’'s office? This is Obermuller, Standard Theater. I want an officer to take charge of a thief I've caught in my apartments here at the Bron- sonia. Yes, right on the corner. Hold him till you come? Well—rather!” He put down the ’phome. I pulled the pearl studs out of my pocket. “You might as well take these, too," I said. “So thoughtful of you, seeing that you'd be searched! But I'll take 'em, anyway. You intended them for— him? You didn’t get anything else?” I shook my head as I lay there. “Hum!” It was half a laugh and half a sneer. I hated him for it, as he sat leaning back on the back legs of his chalr, his thumbs in his arm-holes. I felt his eyes—those smart, keen eyes, burning into my miserable head. I thought of the lawyer and the deal he’d give poor Tom, and all at once— You'd have sniffled yourself, Mag Monahan. There I was—caught. The cop’d be after me in five minutes. ‘With Tom jugged and me In stripes— it wasn't very jolly, and I lost my nerve. - “Ashamed—huh?” he said lightly. I nodded. I was ashamed. “Pity you didn't get ashamed before you broke in here.” “What the devil was there to be ashamed of?” The sting in his voice had cured me. I never was a weeper. I sat up, my face blazing, and stared at him. He'd got me to hand over to the cop, but he hadn’t got me to sneer at. I saw by the look he gave me that he hadn’t really seen me till then. “Well,” he answered, ‘“what the devil is there to be asnamed of now?” ““Of being caught—that’s what.” *OR!" He tilted back again dn his chair and laughed softly. “Then you are not ashamed of your profession?” ‘“Are you of yours?” “Well—there's a slight difference.” “Not much, whatever it may be. It's your graft—it's everybody's—to take all he can get, and keep out of jail That’s mine, too.” “But you see I keep out of jail."” “I see you are not there—yet. “‘Oh, I think you needn’'t worry about that. I'll keep out, thank you: im- prisonment for debt don't go nowa- days.” “Debt.” . “I'm a theatrical manager, my girl, and I'm not on the inside; which is an- other way of saying that a man who can't swim has falien overboard.” ““And when you go down—" “A little less exultation, my dear, or 1 might suppose yo*‘d be glad when I do."” | “Well, when you down for the last to tell me you won’" like—like this?” pdded toward the open window, and desk with all its papers tumbling ou?! y “Not much.” He shook his head, and bit the end of a cigar with sharp, white teeth. “It's a fool grart. I'm self-re- specting. And I don’t admire fools. He lit his cigar and puffed a minute, taking out his watch to look at dit, as cold-bloodedly as though we were waiting, he and I, to go to supper to- gether. Oh, how I hated him! “Honesty isn't the best policy,” he went on; “it's the only one. The vain fool that gets it into his head—or shall I say her head? No? Well, no offense, 1 assure you—his head then, that he's smarter than a world full of experi- ence, ought to be put in jail—for his own protection; he's too big a jay to be left out of doors. For five thousand years, more or less, the world has been putting people like him behind bars, where they can’t make asses of them- selves. Yet every year, and every day and every hour, a new ninny is born who fancies he's cleyerer than all his predecessors put together. Talk about suckers! Why, they're giants of intel- lect compared to the mentally lopsided that five thousand years of experience can't teach. When the criminal- clown's turn comes, he hops, skips and jumps into the ring with the old, old gag. He thinks it's new, because he himself is so fresh and green. ‘Here I am again,’ he yells, ‘the fellow that'll do you up. Others have tried it. They're dead in jail or under jail- vards. But me—just watch me!” We do, and after a little we put him with his mates and a keeper in a barred kindergarten where fools that can’t learn, little moral cripples of both sexes, my dear, belong. Bah!” He puffed out the smoke, throwing his head back, in a cloud toward the ceil- ing. I sprang from my seat and faced him. I was tingling all through. I didn't care a rap what became of me for just that minute. I forgot about Tom. I prayed that the cop wouldn't come for a minute yet—but only that I might answer him. “You’re mighty smart, ain't you? You can sit back here and sneer at me, can’t you? And feel so big and smart and triumphant! What've you done but catch a girl at her first bungling job! It makes you feel awfully cocky, don’t it? ‘What a blig man I am!” Bah!” 1 blew the smoke up toward the ceiling from my mouth, with just that satisfied gall that he had; or rather, I pretended to. He let down the front legs of his chair and began to stare at me. “And you don't know it all, Mr. Manager, not you. Your clown-crimi- nal don’t jump into the ring because he's so full of fun he can't stay out. He goes in for the same reason the real clown does—because he gets hun- gry and thirsty and sleepy and tired like other men, and he's got to fill his stomach and cover his back and get a low yourself going e, do you mean grasp at a straw place to sleep. And it's because your kind gets tco much, that my kind gets so0 little it has to piece it out with this sort of thing. No, you don't know it quite all. “There’s a girl named Nancy Olden that could tell you a lot, smart as you are. She could show you the inside of the Cruelty, where she was put so young she never knew that children had mothers and fathers, till a red- haired girl named Mag Monahan told her; and then she was mighty glad she hadn’t any. She thought that all little girls were bloodless and dirty and all little boys were nithy and had black and purple marks where their fathers had tried to gouge out their eyes. She thought all women were like the matron who came with a visi- tor up to the bare room, where we played without toys—the new, dirty, newly bruised ones of us, and the old, clean, healing ones of us—and said, ‘Here, chicks, is a lady who's come to see you. Tell her how happy you are here.’” Then Mag’'s freckled face, her finger in her mouth, looked up like this. She was afraid it might be her mother come for her. And the crippled boy jerked himself this way—I used to mimic him, and he'd laugh with the rest of them—over the bare floor. He always hoped for a penny. Sometimes he even got it. “And the boy with the gouged eye— he would hold his pants up like this. He had just come in and there was nothing to fit him. And he’d put his other hand over his bad eye and blink up at her like this. And the littlest boy—oh, ha! ha! ha!—you ought have seen that littlest boy. He was in skirts, an old dress they’d given me to wear the first day I came; there werg no pants small enough for him. He'd back up into the corner and hide his face—like this—and peep over his shoulder; he had a squint that way, that made his face look funny. See, it makes you laugh yourself. But his body—my God—it was blue with welts! And me—T'd put the baby down that’'d been left on the doorsteps of the Cru- elty, and I'd waltz up to the lady, with her handkerchief to her nose and her lorgnette to her eyes—see, like this. I knew just what graft would work her. I knew what she wanted there. I'd learned. So I'd make her a cuhtsy like this, and in the piousest sing-song T There was a heavy step out in the hall—it was the policeman! I'd forgot while I was talking. 1 was back—back in the empty’ garret, at the top of the Cruelty. I could smell the smell of the poor, the dirty, weak, sick poor. I could taste the porridge in the thick little bowls, like those in the bear story Molly tells the kids. I could hear the stifled sobs that wise, poor children give—quiet c¢nes, so they’ll not be beaten again. I could feel the night, when strange, deserted, tortured babies lie for the first time, each in his small white cot, the new ones waking the old with their cries in a nightmare of what had happened before they got to the Cruelty. I could see the world barred over, as I saw it first through the Cruelty’'s barred windows, and as I must see it again, now that— “You see, you don’t know it quite all —yet, Mr. Manager!"” I spat it out at him, and then walked to the cop, my hands ready for the bracelets. ‘“But there's one thing 1 do know!™ He's a big fellow but quick on his feet, and in a minute he was up and between me and the cop. “And there isn’t a theatrical man in all America that knows it quicker than Fred Ober- muller, that can detect it sooner and develop it better. And you've got it, girl, you've got it! . . . Officer, take this for your trouble. I couldn’t hold the feYlow, after all. Never mind which way he went; I'll call up the office and explain.” He shut the door after the cop, and came back to me. I had fallen into a chair. My knees were weak and I was trembling all over. “Have you seen the playlet Charity at the Vaudeville?”” he roared at me. I shook my head. “Well, it's a scene in a foundling asylum. Here's a pass. Go up now and see it. If you hurry you'll get there just in time for that act. Then if you come to me at the office in the morning at ten, I'll give you a chance as one of the Charity girls. Do you want it God, Mag! Do I want it! Do you remember Lady Patronesses’ day at the Cruelty, Mag? Remember how the place smelt of cleaning am- montia on the bare floors? Remember the black dresses we all wore, and the white aprons with the little bibs, apd the olly sweetness of the matron, and how our faces shone and tingled from the soap and the rubbing? Remember it all? Well, who'd 'a’ thought then that Nance Olden ever would make use of it—on the level, too! Drop the Cruelty, and tell you about the stage? Why, it's bare boards back there, bare as the Cruelty, but oh, there's something that you don’t see, but you feel it—something magic that makes you want to pinch yourself to be sure you're awake. I go round there just doped with it; my face, if you could see it, must look like Molly's kid's when she is telling him fairy stories. I love it, Mag! I love ft! And what do I do? That's what I was trying to tell you about the Cruelty for. 1t's in a little act that was made for Lady Gray, that there are four Charity girls on the stage, and I'm one of 'em. Lady Gray? Why, Mag how can you ever hope to get on if you don’t know who's who? How can you expect me to associate with you if you're o igno- rant? Yes—a real Lady, as real as the wife of a Lord can be. Lord Harold Gray’'s a sure enough Lord, and she's his wife, but—but a chippy, J same; that's what she is, in spite of the Gray emeralds and that great Gra) rose diamond she wears on the tiniest chain around her scraggy neck. vou know, Mag Monahan, that Lady Harold Gray was just ¢ girl—and a sweet chorus it must hav been if she sang the —when she nabbed Lord Harold? You'd better keep your eye on Nancy Olden, or first thing you know she’ll marry the Czar of R —or Tom Dor- gan, poor fellow, wh he gets ® s ¢ Well, just the same, Mag, if that white-faced, scrawny litt ture can be a Lady, a s times her brains dozen tiincs her good looks—oh, we not shy on the stage, Mag, about throwing bouquets at ourselves! Can she act? Don't be silly, Ma Can't you see that Obermuller's j hiring her title and playing it in big letters on the bills fo: cll it's worth? She acts the Lady P: roness, come to look at us Charity girls. She comes on, though, looking like a fairy prin- cess. Her dress is just blazing ‘with diamonds. There's the Lady’s coronet in her hair. Her thin little arms are banded with gold and diamonds, and on her neck—O Mag, Mag, that rose diamond is the color of rose-leaves in a fountain’s jet through which the sun is shining. It's long—long as my thumb —I swear it Mar nearly, and it blazes, oh, it blazes. ‘Well, it blazes dollars into Ober- muller’s box all right, for the Gray jewels are advertised in the bill with this one at the head of the list, the star of them all out! is, (Continued Next Sunday.) You’ll Be Proud of yourself as an economi- cal shopper if you take ad- vantage of the small prices that we are asking for these PETTICOATS. File your claim early for these if low prices and good quality count for anything. 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