The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1911, Page 27

~ ning Friday. December 8, 1911 The Two-Gun Man The Best Couboy Story in Ten Years By Charles Alden Seltzer The Eve (The New York World), we me eee attain 00, pe By C. M. Payne A) Beautifully Dressed | but Stupid. id) EY CHARLES DARNTON. I they had only kept on whistling at the Casino last night “Peggy” ala 1 BRousHT Iw Pi Ain care g sy Mod ON einess VF} BROUGHT You Loot A GUN On A SwoR = en bered ar it, 1911, the Outing Pubttshing had laughed. Ferguson remem on APIA SHCOTER p gearkiver ofbptny.s that a stranger had wald that the mine te Leet eM at inten” trom the fect that | Passed over his fice; he looked down Gt Ne carries two revolvers art laa dead ict, At| his foot, with Its white hancage so much the frontier town of Drv Bottom he ourshiots 4) in evidence, Then atralght at her, Farman Andy Ne Mien twamond cattle | OYe grave and @t. dy. aoa Tan heen tronhied bean mes | Tm ind to have amused you, him Fevuon.t? | ma'am," he sald. “An' now T rekon have carsied more than one tune to success. But they tried to sing, and as| eet el eattle ier qlee lidn’t happen to be any votces sutted to thie laudable purpose in| ; Ue mimes, Ite armuged jt Ee TH be gettin’ over to the Two Diemond, lomas W. Ryley's preduction of the latest London Gaiety piece the perform- It can't be very far now.” ance fell rather fiat. { are not to know he is Kookiog for the nutier. | “Hive miles,” she eald shortly, St While it may be uttert: ‘had dropped her sewing into her lap and absurd to expect voices In.a musical play, it must 3} granted that t fashioned prejudice in favor of them. Even one oe ie we wre tie Walt elt de--agerey ee a we | ty ‘se ita ; he reeciies avcatine here a ; fairly good voice gives novelty to musical comedy, It comes asa glad surprise, Bint cont “aleeses pha parte a ek te you working for the Two Dis clearing the alr of stale jokes and establishing the composer's right to a little ete Oe, Tal coon 9 eras mond?" she questioned. convideration, Leslie Stuart still writes music that {8 good enough to deserve! Mir thet, “and Swe te"wrangel) | Lookin’ for @ fob," he returned. decent vocal treatment. Even if ft is the sort that the band begins to play! hee, r “on!” when tho sun comes out for a day in the! ‘The exclamation struck him as rather park it has other possibilities. These CHAPTER IV, expressionless, He looked at her. possibilities evidently were not consid- (Contin) ian you know the Two , ered by Mr. Ryley when he arranged A “Different Girl.” “Of course.” re to give “Peggy” an American hearing. Last night's Peggy, for example, cer- account for many things. Firet,| the constraint in her voice. “T tainly wasn’t chosen for her voice. It {t would make plain to him|to have known, They’re neighbors” was a surprise to recognize in her one z he hae tled several | your'n ot the Drama Players ho recently en- s t 7@ -te—| te Nd Unite: daring toate talks over ot ee ge not!” ane suddenly fesnee ‘- waged in an uplift movement at the * ee-e things in which he had been able to| Pack at him, 4 Lyric Theatre. Miss Renee Kelly made feo no humor, Then tt would Answer | ouge be ott" basetan tae} Pegyy pleasing enough and appropriately xe the question that had formed in his| he was getting things wrong, “I recken 1 English, but she couldn't make her one mind concerning the fluency of het) there's a lot that I don't know.” . glad song. She had to atand aside when speech, Western girl that he had) “If you are going to work ever at —~ the music threatened to take a turn in met had not attained that ease and) the Two Diamond,” ehe said, her direction and ilsten to Miss Vida} poise which he saw was hers so natur-| “you will know more than you éo e¢f, Whitmore pour out a few cold notes ; FR being from the East would| “Of course,” he repeated, aware@t 4 ally. Yet in spite of this accompiish- | My"—— that sounded Ike cracked ice on & ment she wae none the less a woman—|_ Evidently she was about te frosty morning. Somehow or other this demure eyed, ready to blush and be-| #omething more ee sound Aidn’t seem right. It was rather trying | ‘end ce, areneiag on us, but It must have been still hai come confused as easily as @ Weatern| sewing to the chair. woman, Assured of this, he dropped| “My brother ia coming,” she sei) on Miss Kelly, who could have use’ the slight constraint which up till now, qutetiy. voice to good advantage If she had had been plain In his votce and an in-| Btandini nny. o door she caugté Aft glance. pened to have one on ner person. ward humor seemed to draw the cor-| Ferguson's ewif bod Another former Drama Player, A. ners of his mouth slightly downward hen it ain't a husband after eff Hyltom Alien, played a hotel manager “1 reckon that folks where you come | %¢ #4, pretending surprise, nye without bursting into song\ Then there! Dorie Bartle. were the English Pony Ballet and a toc- | from don't wear guns at all, ma'am," ae Miss Vida Whitmors bie dancer from “Phe Wife Hunters,” which he sald slowly CHAPTER V. She looked up quickly, surprised into mi h disappointment at the Herald Square Theatre and gave up the chase @ few days a meeting hin gaze fairly. His eyes ata) The Man of Dry Bottom, :, So you se the company was a queer mixture. Then, too, there was @ sug- not waver, She roc! vigorous! YOUNG man rode around showing some embarrassment and «lv: corner of the cabin and Kestion of Lew Fields in a barbershop acene with Harry Fisher spreading the ing undue attention to her sewing. ed his pony beside tl lather, not to mention a bar with flzz-water going off half-cocked. A supposedly “How do you know that?" she ques sitting quietly in the tioned, raising her head and looking at and gazing inqutri comic duel merely served as a reminder of what Sam Bernard had done in I with eaaaenty aa . a much funnier fashion on the same stage tim with suddenly deflant eyes. “I am the two. not aware that I told you that T was| He was about Ferguson's age, and, months Miss Whitmore, no longer interesting- Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), ore, a ptrani ve! Don't you think you like the latter, he wore two heavy Sing, ow? There was about him, as he sat there AN’ 1 WANTA_HORN AN’ I WANTA SET O° AN! I WANTA TROLLEY CAR THAT GOrs BY SOLDIERS ‘AT COME OFF TH’ HORSES- “LECTRICITY- AN’ A SET O’ BUILOIN’ BLOCKS ly thin, sang often and weirdly. For her 8 narrowed cunningly. eoping a slow glance 0" the ‘ ere was , , ? = don’t think I need to do any guess-| and the man, a certain atmosphere blend ede babe AeA lat ane | ON Neal alin Ainge int ma’ he returned, “When a| deliberate certainty and quiet cold v called “Beautiful Ocean” that marked CHOO-CHi IN AN’A TO pata he don't have | that gave an impression of readingam, the low-tide of the performance. The ‘AT YY? WIND UP= AVTERMOBILE s8_none."* | for er mish! ovcur, vn beat number of all, “Whistle and the WHAT You WIND “different” girl was regarding | Ferguson's eyes lighted with sattsthi Girls Come Running Round,” caught the UP- Pa him with furtive glances, plainly em- tion, The girl might be an Eastern Gir early and held it late, Tt raised the etal barragsed under his cfrect words, But but the young man was plainly at none hope that there would be more of this there was mucl defiance in her eyes, in this country, Nowhere except . 4s though she was aware of the trend the West could he have acquired of his words and was determined to serene calm that shone out of hie eves: twit him, jin no other part of the world could he think you must be a remarkable have caught the easy assurance, the man,” she sald, with the faintest trace Unstudied nonchalance, that seems the of mockery in her votes, “to be able to, inherent birthright of the cowpuncher, | discover such a bhing so quickly, Or| “Ben,” said the girl, answering tam perhaps It 1s the atmosphere—dt Is mar-| Young man's glance, “this man vellous, bitten by a rattler. He came here I expect tt ain't exactly marvellous,” I treated him. He says he was on his he returned, laboring with the last Way over to the Two Diamond for a word, “When a girl acts different, a | Job. man 1s pretty apt to know it” He leaned forward a Uttle, speaking earn- “Stafford hire you?” he asked. estly. “I know that I'm talicin’ pretty "'m hopin’ he does,” returned Fere plain to you, ma'am,” he went on, | #uson. 3 | ‘But when a man has been bit by a| The young man’s lips drooped snegr- [rattler an’ has sort of give up hope | ingly. ‘ jan’ has had his life saved by a girl,| “I reckon your're wantin’ @ job he's some acquainted with the girl. | Mighty bad,” he said. ay An’ then when he finds that a! Ferguson smiled. different from the gris he's been used| ‘Takin’ your talk, you an’ Stafford to seein’, I don't see why he hadn't|ain't very good friends,” he ret ss ought to take a lot of Interest in her.” | The young man 41d not answer, i “Oh! abe exclaimed, her eyes droop- | dismounted and led his pony to « «mall Ing. And then, her eyes dancing as| Corral and then returned to the poreb, they shot a swift glance at him—“I| carrying his saddle, # should call that @ pretty speech.’ For an instant after the young man He reddened with embarrassment, | had left the porch to turn his pony in- “IT expect you are laughin’ at me|to the corral Ferguson had kept kis now, ma'am,” said. “But I wasn’t] Seat on the porch, but something tm thinkin’ to make any pretty speeches, | the young man's tone hed brought him 1 was tellin’ you the trut out of the chatr, determined to She soberly plied her needle, and he|®° More of his hospitality. | If wat back, watching ner. young man was no friend of Stafford, 1 expect you ate @ stranger around|!t followed that he could not feel well here yourself,” she said presently, her|4!#posed to a puncher who had avowed eyes covered with drooping lashes,|that his purpose was to work for the) “How do you know that you have any| TWO Diamond manager. P right to sit there and teli me that you| Sereuson wae on his feet, clinging to take an Interest in me? How do you] ne of the slender porch poste, 8, know that I am not married?” tory to stepping down to go to his ae was not disconcerted. He drawled| When the youug women came out. Mat; tly over his words when he sharp exclamation halted him. ‘i. tYou're not going now! ghe eat@:! ‘ou wouldn't listen at me at all,| “You have got to remain perfectly quiet. m. You cert’nly wouldn't stay | Until morning! liaten to any speeches that you| The brother dropped hie aaddle to the ht was pretty If you was mar-|P0Teh floor, grinning mildly at Ber "he sald, Plainly, he had not] Use. "You don't need to be im | lost faith tn the virtue of woman. @ barry,” he sald. “I was “But if 1 did listen?” she questioned, | t® Fun your horse tnto the corral. What her face crimson, though her eyes were|! Meant about Stafford don't apply sort of thing, but there was little to keep this hope alive. The next best thing was “Go Back to School.” The evolutions of the handsomely dressed chorus gave both numbers lots of “go.” Mons. Maurice and Mile, d'Harville waltzed so charmifigly that it was a naw joy to watch them. Miss Louise Alexander also danced cleverly in a more sensational way, Harry Fisher had such a bad part that he could make nothing of it, while Charles Brown was as dismal the silly lines that fell to his hard lot. Farren Soutar led the whistling song Uke a gentleman with a sense of fun, and Miss Alva York, while fairly amus- Mr. Harry Fisher Cecil Custard ing in a cockney rote, gave nothing more Suruthers, than « careful imitation of that inim- itable stage cockne: Miss Connie Edias, The book by George Grossmith sr. was positively stupefying. As a result “Peggy.” though beautifully dressed, proved unusually stupld, Mr. Ryley has produced the plece upon @ very handsome scale, but @ few more rehearsals and two or three people with voices worth hearing would help # immensely, "Peggy" | should be taken in hand without a moment's delay, AN A PAIR OF ROLLER SKATES-AN’A SLED-AN’ ANOTHER SET 0’ SOLDIERS~ AN? A BOX OF TOOLS-AN?’ A WAGON- ~a-OH PAPA! , I FORGOT SuMPIN. Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers A Baa Combination, | Gi don't try to combine business and society. It ts! impossible to do it successfully, and you are the chief sufferer from the failure, | A girl writes me: “I am employed in a targe office a stenographer, and a certain young man frequently comes in on business, He has always been very nice to me, and the last time he was in he asked me to dine with him some evening. But, of course, I don't know whether or not he ie married. What shall I do about it?” _ 5 ‘ ™ lied y to the upbringing of : ou.” He looked up at his sister, vs Neither you nor any girl working in an office should Will.ng to Staud. tien Mec eT Tae ret tecr uate, ite ie tiaras | Ta ee ica her with pleased eyes,| sTinning. ‘Il reckon he ain't get . Belty Vincen= Pk* sia! engagements with people whom you meet in a FARMER owned a young steer which he — that I'atarted on three more. | familiarity — with ‘istant fat » the! stve been lookin’ for a weddin' ring,”|!"€ to do with itt’ y Vince: ousiness way. It is unwise and unsafe to a degree. Be- A wanted to break in to the plough, and, Ch rs 6 yelling man sitting across the table from me | Hawailan Star, Fi ue baby | \Tve i ung wor in blushed. “T hope sides, you are exceedingly likely to lose your Job. | having no other animal to harness wit jeape vce, aid Girl to hier and ke woukt Wad ep | HE BAG: ss aucipualoms |r: deat e said in. low votce, ! fetee: jhe decided to grt into the yoke himslf, giving TEE people of Nodaway County are proud of Sirangrr, 1 reckon tt would have, teen, a | i otograph, ps Betury Fo the) SS ae ee Ie ee ela, meets re gomn' to bet pretty sccm,” alan her, but she goes to amusement, the teins to his eon, Tes fee ha: i heap cheaper for you to eat at a livery stable,’ '—- | eb’ ow om, ta “ M la A Correspondence, by herself, Ia St right for her to doe tome tad they started than the scer beied ‘of all other counties on their com ¢ vues Oty Sta o me home, And the baby | you," she sald. “I expect It Is because} the young man. “I reckon that rat + can harasie vit] 902" into a wild runa’ the farmer holding om Dave Hall imew that, and on Pes ER Aree girl, then for 14, was aummoned, “Ce re lan't anything else to do, But you] didn't take your appetite?” a GIRL who signs herse . Ve A the with both hands and keeping the pi ‘8 speech there he tickled | den’ . . “papa has come ntertaining!"" #he declared,| Ferguson flushed. "It was plum yale: . There are many forms of amusement for dear life, Over the ploughed field they fiew, me into your co Training the Child. h for a parting shot ulous, me bein’ hooked by a rattler,” dee Some time ago T met a young| Which it 1s perfectly proper for a young sl 9 be was about to drop for Iack of wind a te seen In ne child gurveyed the oftioes in perplestty ong |fOE 8 Parting aot: | | tM An! I've lived among thea i n at a wedding, I know he would|!ady to attend unaccompanied, But if {hey browse wo ageinet the fence with a mighty {i've been all ver it jae Ate Te Wi emariog locident, i ra some | Garis sicok tie 5 travelling minstrels in Cimarron, Their] long.” ca » my |she ls engaged to you, why does she ‘'™”. “ “ Sd bid ‘rll IIR bore gw y jokes (of an ancient Vintage) had taker “I reckon you let him get away?! espond with me if he knew my As the sn hurried to the scene the tt ved in Nodaway County I wouldo’t eat thing husha: ioe We replied o as ¥ paper ~” naar daa? I know his, would it} 2eed to go alone? farmer managed to gasp: Paniian Gea Se Reson Come fmol ot Perils. \betere iis departare inoutaa phe | ike my ‘papa Well with the audience, for the latter barrrigr py on ured mead be proper 2 send a card with mine eeenmaienenese - ™ — aa nm a ceed eat ooo ————— |non, hie lips straightening with satie on it?" A girl should never start @ corre- spondence with a young man, but wait Ull he asks her permission to write. >? | faction, “he's @ right smart enak Ho related the tne ent of the attadieg ending with praises of the youni! nneneernnnnnerarnnnannnnnnnnannrraanncnnneannacnacnnsefannnnnannnnnnnnnansenrnnnnrnnnnnnnanncnnnannnencarcnsenes|s Sammy and the Subway; the Quest of a Seat ~#@%%- Clare Victor Dwiggins | [Stns cons neon ence to his he's studied media Neel Afra d to See Her. . z A stud MAN who signs himself “T, W." Sise diss Come ot write: ALGN, ARE Yoo SURE T DOESNT matrea, The —, ARDON ME, MISS, ARE YOU ‘ You RE RiciT a she c | A “ ery muc! love w , 3 i HOLOING “THis Seat FOR y , gon sat back In his chair | Tam very much in love with a 4 ta Soe ie CAN CHANGE AT 24 -~ Some ont? THis 19 The WRONG TRAIN ly digesting this bit of Information a girl, but she is poor and T am rich RAW? HAD NT é Excuse me, sonny — ne and writing, What d'd sh My relatives frequc visit in the A ee IL TOR d house where #he works and I will n Joe GUARD ? A Ta 8 sall on her when they are there, She thinks [ am not treating her well Love stories? Fairy taler? rai? He had read several of these. they were absurd and imposgl-_ What do you think?" Lave stort thought, would be$ ‘ i f easy for her. For--he said, mentally 1 agree with the young lady, Don't estimating her—a woman ought to knows be afraid to own her before your rela- more about love than a man, Awd am 4 tives, or else leave her alone, She Must Wait. A RL who signs herself “FP, A.” writes: “A young man has been calling on me for several years and I should lke to marry him, Couldn't 1 speak to him about it? Custom demands that he bring up the subject first. If he 1s so dilatory, why aot permit the attentions of some one else? ‘ Unescorted. MAN who signs himself "P. 0," A writes: “I am engaged to a young girl and am very much in love with for anything being impossible in a love story. Why, most anything could hage™ pen to people who are In love. ’ Supper ls ready,” he heard her am? @ from within 7 preceded the young man at,, the Un wash basin, taking a fresh towel that the young woman offered him from 4] the doorway, Then he followed the Pi young man inside, ‘Tho three took’ | places at the table, and Ferguson wai iped to @ frugal, though wholesome The dusk had begun to fall while they were yet at the table, and the young woman arose, lighting & Kerosene lamp, lacing tt on the table, By the. time they had finished asamt-darkness” : had settled, Ferguson followed the young man out to the chatt en the | porch for @ smoke. (To Be Continast? jal. , inns ooeee seek VneeD Bad beat ee RT ee NW GSK, | Dedman. pi Rasen BL pt STI EE BN IE