The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-10-31
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 scheme than hlackmail!"
 "What ?"
 :" Playing your best friends fer wearing apparel"
 i. "Oh, thatl That's all right; III stick
 "And so wlll l.; good night"
 That day Billy Bedapple dropped in on Terwilliger, and adrcitly drew the conversation into the dramatic channel
 |" By the way," said Terwilliger, ~dont your people have opportunities of m aking the acquaintance of the most eminent ac- tors and actresses?"
 "Oh, yes, we see a good deal of the principal stars as we'll as the members oi their companies"
 Know Miss Clara Van Applet ack, the rising young emotional actressF"
 "oh, yes"
 Say, Bedapple, can't you contrive tc get me an introduction some evening be- fore the play ?"
 Possibly"
 !" l wish you would; I'd give a good deal to know her. Fact is, it is quite a feather in one's cap to be on terms ot speaking intimacy with a star."
 " But another fact is,' ," said Bedapple soberly, "it costs like sixty to rag out in a style worthy of companionship with a gentleman seeking the acquaintance of an actress. You know they are pretty gorgeous, themselves, and a poor devil of reporter with old style, back number clothes, can't plead business suit when introducing bowling swells. you know"
 Terwilliger caught the bait of this gen. tie hint in his minds mouth, and swal- lowed it. Then he said:
 "Bedapple, my boy, here's a fifty. Make your little arrangements and when they are all complete drop me line, or drop in yourself"
 Flushed with his ne~ success, Redap- pie hunted up George MeVacuous, and got measured for the pants. That even. ing he fulfilled his contract with the gambler, and the actress returned his ef- fusiveness with a frost.b bitten smile, pleaded immediate demand in the green room and fled. But Bedapple got the pants. With the fifty gleaned from the rich field of rerwilliger he added a coat, vest and hat. Bedapple was slowly working his way out into the sunshine Of ife-a gaudy butterfly escaping from the cocoon of povery.
 Terwilliger told Vermouth and Yer mouth told Tuckup. Alter talking about the drama and the personal characte.is- tics of actors and actresses, Tuckup ex- pressed desire to be introduced to Miss Diana Chalkandwater, a popular sou. brette playing at McVicker's.
 Married, you know" said Bedapple.
 "No! Can it be possible9 Miss, you know, on the bills"
 "Thats all advertising gulf Chalkand. water is only stage name; Mrs. Pene. lope Brown is her real name-husband lives in Kalamazoo"
 Well, well, life is great kaleidoscope, sure enough. But I'd like the introduc- tion all the same. Couldn't you-some- how-arapge it-in some way2"
 Certainly, coulI, but the cold fact is, MT. Tuckup, when met Miss Chalkand. water during her last engagement in the city, was not quite so beas,ly seedy as the unfortunate present finds me. I've run down terribly since then, and the long and short of the matter is, I don't, actually, get hold of ready money enough to support the style necessary on such oc. casions as you speak of. put it to you, now, you would prefer an introduction at the hands of, at least, an outwardly ap- bearing gentlemen ?"
 "So that's where the shoe pinches, eh 2 We will proceed to remove the pressure {; filled out half dozen small cheeks to- day for my personal use-take this one for Sioo rag out--stand not upon the order of thy raging, but rag at once. And try and bring that little affair around as soon as possible"
 "I have to-"
 It's all right; can see through miilstone get thee to tailory, ge, !"
 Heretofore the journalistic soil of Chi cago had been found by Billy Bedapple, barren of pay dirt" And it did seem to him that the recently discovered bo- nanza. so unexpected, was far more in the nature of special dispensa. of Providence than any ordinary run of good luck.
 "Verily, the gods are good to me-" he