The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1911, Page 19

\ _ The Evening _ “Mrs. Avery” an Amateurish ZN) Little Play. BY CHARLES DARNTON. NB hat to be “up” in arithmetic to solve the plot of ihe play at Weber's { O last night. 1 put in @ large part of the time adding and subtracting—and i'm not very good at figures, either. But as near as ft could make out tite fe how Airs. Avery stood: Owed on furniture, $505; pald collector with $1,000 Hl alipped her, along with $9,000 more, by “distinguished Mnancler’ with corn- Gtarched hair; got $465 in chan d tainted money with $00 that thought- fal young Englishman happened to remember he owed her husband; picked up $8 carclossiy lying on the table; got obliging young Englishman to give her a $1,000 itl for her $500 plus $466 plus $35; then sent the whole $10,000 back to corn- starched gentleman. ‘see? ‘The hard-up heroine who figured so readily in “Mrs, Avery" had been run- Ming Dehind in her accounts, that was all. Morally, ehe was as good as gold. To be mure, she did waver for a moment when Ivan Barzias, the Austrian ‘ @aencier with the Russian name, urged her to go with him and sway empires, ‘Te away empires when @he can't even move a bill collector must be @ temptation | that only a strong woman can resist. And Mrs. Avery wasn't Weak, she was Just @ trifte dizzy. She wavered—ah, yes!—but she did not fall. You may well ask why the upright young wife took 610,000 in the first place. Let me say at once that this was quite in keeping with the domestic character @f the play. The covetous financier asked her if she was interested in Oriental Tugs. She satd she was—provably because those in the houge hadn't been paid for, though she didn't go into sordid details, The point ts that her middle-aged edmirer, having drawn her out on the subject, promptly handed her, with his! @empliments, a book entitled “Oriental Rug Now you might not see anything in such @ book. But when Mrs. Avery opened it, after the giver had taken his dignified departure, #he eaw in it $10,000! | 3 turned out to de a very valuable book after all. One doesn’t pick up @ book of that sort every day. Circulating Ibravies, for instance, couldn't afford to heve it drawn upon unless they were prepared for a rush, It was the only “dook of the play” I've ever seen that seemed worth thirty cents, No wonder then that Mrs, Avery hugged its contents to her grateful bosom! Mere was a way out of her debts, And then, too, her anxious husband needed Money to bring out his electrical invention. Mut do you suppose he touched a Penny of it? Not be! ‘There weren't any pennies. And those notes went back to } the man who had sent them Just as I told you in the beginning. é The hopeful finan and tried to Kiss Oirs. Avery. She was properly horrified and exclaim Phen her husband walked in and gave vent to a deep and bitter “Oh!” He tadked about the matter and his {nvention and Thomas A. Edison an@ ‘his youth y Fn things dear to him untt! Barzias had heard enough. It was evidently \e ‘distinguished financter'a” dignity that saved him from being kicked out. , at least, seomned the only explanation, ‘Then the husband announced that Mr, Edison had given him a $29,0% job, and all was well. Mr. Edison figured as the absent hero of the play and got a lot of free advertising. little play was written by Howard Estabrook and Gretchen | le, who acted, the leading parts. I'm not going to say how they acted them, | La in a frankly boyish epeech at the end of the second act Mr. Estabrook | explained that the par! | groducer of the play. had been thrust upon them by Charles J. Ross, the ‘This ingenuous speech marked the most natural and tateresting moment of the whole amusingly artificial evening. Emmett Corrigan did the best work as Ivan the Yellowbtll, whose manners were good and Whose morals weren't altogether bad. He wan always ready with an answer when Mrs. Avery asked “Why do you say that?’ In this way the meaning of the play was brought ov i At other times there were Ibsen- | tke pauses that made one wonder whetier the stage manager was enjoying @ | qvod night's rest, f Likes Her “as a Friend.’” 20 signs his letter “L. M." writes: MAN w A “T call upon @ girl and like her v much us a friend. However, she is always giving me advi and telling me what I should or should not do. ‘This ts somewhat annoying to me. What can I) tains other young men. Do you think dor Tf you cannot jokingly cure the young lady of her advice habit you will have / to give up he? friendship, providing her advice {# sufficiently troublesome | tm make you do 40, Is Bashfal, A YOUNG man who signs his letter BR writes know @ young girl and ad- this Is right The young lady has every right to en- tertain as many men as she pleases, provided you are not engaged to ner. A Pass'ng Fancy. GIRL who elgns “Recently I met a young man whom I ought 1 loved, but T now find it was only a passing fancy, ring. her letter “M. He has my Is it my place to ask him for tt, mire her, but ene ts quite @ flirt. Us oi ( ually Lam not bashful, but she makes |" Should he return it himeelf? Fee tal ec. What shall 1 dot’ You would best wait until the young < Try to think lens of yourseif and more| AN Feturns the ring of hie own ac- cord. It was silly of you to give it to Ni SeBoe ween vou are in the young 1049's] vim under the circumstances. } , | Other Men. LOCATED, Willis-What became of the fellow who constructed the watch with 10,000 separate pieces? GillleL think I've got one of hi mobiles now.—Puck. A Thousand Wells. AST of the Missourt River, in South E Dakota, more than one thousand artesian wells now exist, drawing thelr water from the supply carried by the underlying sandstone formation, and Supposed to come from the Black Hillis where else, and it !mpresnes some ob-|and the Rocky Mountains, These wells, servers as weird, ghastly and awe-| used mainly for irrigation purposes, are igapiring. The ocean has a milky look | from five hundred to one thousand feet and the ship seems to be passing |“eep, and tho pressure of water in the through a kind of luminous fog, in| astern part of the State de sufficient to which sea and sky appear foined and| ve a surface flow, except on the high- the sense of distance is lost. The phe-|@st lands. One well yields 3290 gallons ta believed to be due to nome |% Minute and furnishes power for @ chen flour-mill by day and for an electric form of phosphorescence, Dut @ satis- light plant by night. The development factory explanation of it ts yet lack-/of this source of water supply is atill ing. MAN who G.” writes. | “Tam in love with a about signs his letter ‘ my own age. She seems to care for me. uto- But when I am not with her sie enter- “White Water.” Na recent pilot chart of she B Meteorological Office many observa | tlons &f the singular phenomenon called “white water” are collected, It fg more frequently seen tn the tropical parts of the Indian Ocean than any. r didn't know how he was coming out until he returned | PoP Im PLAYIN’ You ARe A Pirate. ANIGOT You Tied To THE , MAST. TLL Go AN GET A BROOM FOR A GUN AND ME HERE ALONE WITH Comvright_ 1911 by The Pree Publishing Co (The New York World) PER CENT AND= Copyright, 1911, oy The Press Publishing Co, vee. Phe’ Now York World). MENTS. i» iu France stun. the Apartments and there tiody Af. Genet hanging Lifeless from a ring in the ceiling, He is charged with murdering 8 arti Bamed Maratiion. ¢ Winton, Jealous of bal Of madness and fi shot, kills Mme, tine aud . gore gttide at stig Blt Me Rudy ges tu renet | —_— [me wita w certain ate of suspicion that belied his words ef welcome. “Have you's carriage for mey Field?” I asked, T haven't any—that {you un- derstand—sit down, Mr. Kady.” He en- f in explanations that ex- 1 nothing. Would do Metter to spend the dutnot. | Bady an escape dn the night at the Unicorn. 1 tell you this, Mime Cruel 1 Niaration’'wivy | because 1 Wag told @o—between ours selves, this is confidential, isn't it?— enne Mr, Milton, your father-in-law, «ave aut is me @ pound not to let you have @ cay." 4 roown tote | 1 burst dnto @ forced laugh, wi k tiy to startle him, Th rowed ts Wreetin oqrae that ‘lus wfe is seeking” « divorce. Ler iawrer, contitms this. PART IF. CHAPTER I. (Continued, ) The Gig With Broken Springs. the name of John Picase I felt my teeth grind—and my face must have turned white, for the solicitor instantly softened the remark: “Don't disturbed. T m too clear-sighted to allow myself to be influenced by too partial a Probation. This John Please, I would stake putting my hand in the fire, knows no more than I do about the explanation witch in fit- teen minutes, according to your state- ment, would mak® everything right—and in five, according to my client's opinton, wottld make you disappear. In elther case it {9 well that you should be on the spot to hasten @ solution which depends on you alone. If I have a piece of ad- vice to give you, Willlam Eady, avotd o scandal by every possible means. I speak as a practical lawyer, Goodby and good luck, my dear air." He took leave of me curtly with the carelessness of a man whose time 1s too precious to waste upon questions of sen- Umerft—the mere questions of sentiment which he thought he divined were betng agitated between myself, my wife and her’ ehildhood friend, John Pleas When I found myself again on the sidewalk, hat in hand, in the darkness of the night which had now fallen, my head was so burning hot? my mind so bewlltered that, an ddiot, I was forced tv ask & po! jan to direct me to my way fn London, the way T knew by heart, which T ‘was to take to go to d, the very atuble keeper, who for- used to place a gig at my dis- powal to go to Malington. "Oh!" erted the groom, aeeing me look pale worn, “how changed you are, Mr. Eady, It is a long time eT have had the honor of serving. you. Come in." IT went into the office at the back of the atables. Field, a apoplectic man, looked at two Pounds sterling on the » 1 cried; That will be three pounds for a gig and, 4 miserable pony, Untews you would prefer to have me go to the very stable in the next atrect? ‘0, no," he eald eagerly, picking up the two gold coins to please everybods With these words toward the stables, where he had a ; Sorry looking jade harnessed which he himself put into an anctent gig, with a split hood, of very shabby appearance. While backing the animal in the shaft he apologized, “I mpould have Itked to give you some- thing better, Mr. Eady, but we have supplied carriages for three weddin; to-day 1 the last passable one w: hired our father-in-law, Mr. Milton. Do you want a little groom or will you drive alone?" “T will bring the ri row morning, Field," tone the In back to-mor- answered in @ f vexation, throwing ight of tern upon the whedls to in- epect the vehicle, Field noticed my @1strust and gaia: “Oh, the springs are good yet on the ‘ right; are bro uly those on the left that but you have no bad roads between here and Malingten. A pleas- ant trip, Mr. Eady. Thad sprung into the gig, seized the reins, cracked the whip—and the stable keeper's wish for a pleasant trip pur- sued 1 the night. The nag went better than Ita app ance Would have led me to expect. But [ was scarcely beyond the sub- urbs of the city—searcely in the dark country—-when the accident I had feared happened, There was a ninister creaking, then a sudden jolt threw me off the seat, T raged against all the gods and all the devils, and with my vehicle flat tn the middlo of the road, my sole resource at firxt was to swear uselessly egainst Field and lis abominable «ig, whose left-hand springs, completely broken, obstructed the Mmehway. ‘A carter who passed me going toward the city, came to my assistance, “Worn to smash!" he said, after hay- ing examined the damage. “Have you Seatless Sam, { FIRST SEAT WE HAD FoR e like a monstrous sarcasm into | By Albert many miles further to go, in this plight?” Tam going to Malington,” 1 replied. You'll never get there! he sald Th vanging his mind Lwill go back with you to the inn at the top of t Wagoners should help each othi lle explained “We can find what we need most at the ropemaker's. With a stout ash bough, passed under the axle and tled y in front, the byaor can be kept n coming of, after all. 5 ‘he new Tope, fem end emooth, dows me is few abillings, and aa for the ash the road. by anked the worthy man and con- my way an best I could. I no longer dared to touch with the whip the nag, which moved only at a jog trot, and the ride seemed in- terminably long. In truth, jt was my burning curiosity, th desire for an explanation with my wife, that made the way seem endless, ‘The dull Jog of the hired horse kept time with my dark thoughts. All sorts of conjectures were allowable; [ bullt the hypotheses, ui certainly the hideous spectacle waited me, the terrible and logical end of my adventure—or, more truthfully, the love affair of Annie Milton and her childhood friend, poor, unfortunate Jolin Please—in my peace- ful cottage at Malingion, when I sould have reached it as 4f it were the end of the world, exhausted in strength and emotions, with the detestable gig on broken springs. sy ew 1 8 “Seack! Joe! 1 called, springing from the vehicle which had stopped at the gate. “Whe Te you, Joe My old: man, Boack, the best of servants, the gentlest of men, stood tot- tering with fear, ir, William, are Ike a ghost. oe {nto your house.” I turned the rays of the lantern in my hand upon his wild face, and his rigid features, ravaged by @ frightful terr: alarmed me. I drew back a. step. "You're crazy, Joe Seack! Put Fie! ry horse into the sfabie and tell Mrs. Eady I am here. | no! Mra, Eady ordered me to | leave the cottage. T shall obey Mrs. | be a withess—-a witness jo! 7 1 won't. ;. And he fled at full epeed, Ike a lunatte, in the direction of the village. I opened the wooden gate and, holding the horse by the rein, entered the o: he stammered, “you Don't go in—Don't lchard, ‘The house, with tts tiled roof ar sed shutters, seemed sleeping in t still, peaceful monlight. Pip and Pop, my two dogs, fastened In the kennel, ld not even utter @ joyous bark on my ar- rival. Things, animals, was hontile to me! I fastened Field's nag to the first tree, People, everything Bo great qwas my haste to enter my ‘home, T was returning to my own domtojle at this hour of the night like ay lacoursed. I felt Uke a highway robber |with M, Marathon’s iittle fortune tn the inside pocket of my coat. I felt breath. jing upon my neck the voice of Mme. Grenet, prophesying wood, the carter cut It while golng along | World Daily Magazine. Tuesday: October 24: | Boissiere atrive if vain, ins@parable You destinies other,” I grinned lke an idiot. Ah! I lacked only one (hing to have in my hands the Uttle phial of chloroform u will are Our two from each by Comte de Pulliceini, the robber whowe accomplice-no matter what I might say—t had been. TE deadened my footsteps on the gravel walk and, lke a prowler, dike @ read criminal, pressed my ear againat the folding-doors of the dining-room, where had Waht. A mad rage made my heart leap tn my breast, I had just heard the voice ‘of John Please, mingling pleasantly with Annie Milton's. roing down all {dean of useless that Pip and Ps given the alarm, they were ignorant of tval. Copyright, 1911, by The Pree Publ 5—Gen. Horatio C. ~ G with pra active of the civil war offiver affaira of the Loyal Legion a land, Me, in 1837, grad win M. Stanton, who be Ilo entered the army as captain Casey, Meinteelman, Augur, Mer For gallantry nt the Battle of Mive Thomas ©. Devin, who comm that he volunteered as alde-de-camp Forks. Speakiig of tirat battle, Gen, “The cavairy command under Gen morning of March 2, 186, and after nded th force Was about 9,000, and as good a be boast. The road was not in the best of Wan not conducive to a large degree of p and took what came in good humor “Gen, Gibbs had the advance, ‘The fighting. Most of it was heavily wooded every third man being left in reserve to and the Second Massachusetts Cavair works; but, finding they could not r drew for reinforcements and repairs, € and reocoupled the line near Dinwidll | federates made two brilliant charges leaving @ minie ball in che Khoulder of at that time, and wooden leas could “It was at this point that Gen, Devin take him and his brigade where they we done, ‘The enemy's charge, twiee r Devin recognized the act by re nd I received, Fighting dismounted on su venlent distance and take a respite “In response to Sheridan's earnest « ‘The battle was renewed in the rs Warren's Fifth Corps was thon order driven from their works and of over a Week them were surr House. eo’ brave & down thelr arms.” f¥ wan ‘fought to a By Aima Copsriait, LOLt, by The Pree Co My blirsi Maller, SMALL always remember the Abered that between the dight fluttering of my heart the oak Jolats of the ceiling there was @ morning | opened a note from peephole uniting the dining-room and iy Brat would-be ealler!. at my cham With @ wetle ao fvemed #0 formal, so just Uke much T could everything | the popular ; # 5 piles anne Popular girls, to be written to, 4 A covered with Virginia staircase, led to my chamber from the outside, I climbed it In two bounds ke a wild cat. The door was not locked. I gently rained the latch. Every- thing favored ‘the Miche Atnelf was open, thé slendef Iittle bodrd ald level with the floor, T lay flat down anit held my breath. Tt seemed aa if my heart Was on the point of burating, my even started out of their aockets, my carn buzzed an if madness were ap- proaching. And this ts the terrible thing I heard— more territte than aaytiing I had ever experienced {n my life This ia the horritie thing T saw— more hortible thananything T shail ever behold again 5 CHAPTER Il, The Gibbet. f HIS in the first thing I eaw. T eaw my wife under the big brass lainp, with her elbows resting on the table, absorbed In reading the Bible. Fach verse that she repeated in a jow murmuring them through her wt have impressed her as it she had the gift of Imparting a p meaning to the prophetic signifi of the Divine werds, Her face, whose pallor and serenity ave indescribable, was illumined by the Mght falling in a ood ypon her fair, amooth halr. And by her side [ saw John Please, the young Irishman whom her family had sent away in order to give me her hand, and who now seemed animated by a f almost equal to her own. John Please was even paler than Annte but the drawn features his hagward face did not have the eame calm ex- pression, John Please wes young ant lacked serenity. His attitude was that of reatgna- tlon, and 1 thought T parcelved that he responded to the Bible verses only with mechanical words, whlch might be on his stammering lips the exagt ance of the text, but did not tran: thetr epirit. (To Be Continued.) quesiing permission to call My breakfast lay unheeded—{ was trying to compose an effective reply and, djeregarding my mother's anxiety about my loss of appetite, 1 dashed up to my room, took out my best ‘noted Paper and slarted to pen the answer, 1 spotled four e@h: 1 remember, because every time 1 read the lines out loud I could #ee @ Uny change that would improve things, Finally [ sealed {t and ran out, bareheaded, to mail tt, “Things aren't ao hopeless after all, I thought, ‘m only nineteen and @ young man has written asking to call. Why, there's a lot of chance for me. Girls don't’ marry a= young as they used to, anyway I walked on alr four hours, evening dresses in turn, so that Im! decid which Was most becoming. 1 fussed with flutty hair ornament and I spent two hours manteuring my nails, because I played the plano fairly ‘or the next twenty- I tried on each of my sem ight well and I wanted my hands, at least, to be attract! Then, having read about the lure dimmed dights, 1 filled lamps we had in the living room, knows ing that lampligh: {9 muoh less reveni- ing than gas ‘The next night 1 Had diMeuity in even pretending to eat my dinner. If it hadn't been that my father's eyes were fastened upon me ft would have run from the food that I almply couldu’ awaliow. At limif-past eight the bell rang. 1 was upstairs in my room practising polite facial expression before the Mirror, At the sound of that instatent Uttle electric buaa I'm eure my heart miswed a beat. ‘The crucial moment waa at hand! Polly, our mald, just as delighted as T that I had at last caught a stray male | being, came and knocked thmidly a my door. “Mr. Kymball to see you, Mi ¥. HORATIO COLLINS KING, who was at Dickinson ame Secretar teed In New York during forty-flve years itt and Forks he was given the Conkresstonal Medal of Honor and wa King sald themaelves at night confronting the enemy, and twi nated as Five Forks, about twelve mile “Barly next morning we moved up and se@ if we couldn't get a look at thetr Adventures of an Unattractive Gir] lishing Co. (The New York World), King at Five Forks. ize Advocate General of New York when Grover Cleveland was Governor, is one of the moat * For veara he } r been prominent fh Ile was born in’ Port- Jee in 1858, studio Inw under Lincoln, and has di the hoa of Wa 182 and served on, the staffs of Gene. Devin, He was promoted to major. wravetted colonel and was was walle on the atatt of Gen, Cavalry Division under Sheridan, in the thick of the fight at Five r detou an left Clty Va., tn the early of about twenty-five miles found who bad two divisions of infantry of cavalry defending (ie well fortified position at the cross-roads desig- « frome Richmond. Whit kk Road to develop the enemy, strong works, Our entire effective y of men and horses as any nation could condition, and floundering throwgh mud atriotic fervor, bi the troops pressed on country was hb Ily adapted for cavalry nd the men had to fight dismounted, hold the horses. ‘The Sixth Pennsylvania drove the enemy from thelr temporary nthe fortifications at Five Forkm with- yur s were gradually force? back, ‘ourt House, About 4.9 P.M. the Con- Approaching unpleasantly near we and ‘ol, Bean's horse, Bean was of our staff, He regretted very much the wounding of hia horse and with grim humor wished that the ball had gone an inch to the lett, f o my leg! Horses cost something iad Almont for the asking, requested me to hunt up Gen, Gibde and much needed. * work was speedily peated, was brilliantly repulsed, and tink me for the brevet of colonel, whieh ch a day can bardly be ctassed among popular Amusements, and [am sure the boys were glad to fall back to a con fore the next day's work ‘ all, reinforcements came up in the nighe Sheridan advanced and neld his ground. ed forward and the Confederates werp t flying southward, where after a running fight and brought to bey at Appomattox Court a frazele,’ as Gen, Gordon said, and laid Woodward ashing Qo, ont (The New York World), What @ miseradle ¢ was! Everyihing [ thought would happen, didn’t; and all. the things: 1 bad planned to aay, from the very went wrong, Jn bho first Place he brought me a tovely bunch of violets all tled with, pale green gquse. But, unfortunately, £ had chosen to weer my one red gown and T knew that violet and bright re@ wouldn't look well even in lamplight! ‘Dhen yk. went to wet some water for them and, due to my nervousness, | apiiied it all over my dress and he wiped 4: dry/and the red all camg off on ‘his handkerchief I tried to atrize easy, gracetal, sitting postures, but every muscle In my bedy seemed to have become rigid, unbend- able, I took out some of the latest popular music, Oty Angers were like ice and my playing sounded like an clght-yerr-old's first filght from exercises! * After what seemed to be hou: houre of nervous broughe {n some refreshments. Here at last was neutral ground—conversa- tion Is not compulsory when one tp eft- ing, But those refreshments didn’t last’ any tim And, after about a half hour more of floundering in the depths of tnane Malogue, my caller arose and sald Bo0d night Tome the floor of my room with my arms clasped about my knees until 1 in the morning, thinking the whole thing over--and I got to the bottom of the troub! Thad been ao persistently impressed and haunted by my Heck of geod looks, for #9 many years, that, when ean- fronted by & possible victim, I started instantly to manufacture -fastination. You can’t manufacture jt! It was all a tragedy to me that night { was trying #0 hard to please him—to make him Want to call again. But he didn't-he never even asked to! I kept the violets, after they had faded, in an old notepaper box, They taught me a leseon. Just this: “Be | natural, ALWAYS.” It'e @ good elo) to adopt, mirle. (To Be Continued.) 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