Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-20
An ACTORS STORY.
Related by JOHN COLEMAN
INTRODUCTION
ON Tt7r otfFFn 9 HIGHWAY

vh.le we walkei on TO Paisley, where Pike
had friend in the local trage liam, Mr..
Janiieson-popularly known as LAM
Willie''-who would be good for SOW
ereign A'nsl when we got to Paisley, we
founl LANG Wilien was under the
weather. himself and the expected SOW
ereign dwindle1 down to five shillings-
which was the entire amount Of his nights
share for acting "Bertram," in the gloomy
but powerful tragedy of that name
When the play was over Mr.. Jameson
took us to his lodgings, gave us hearty
welcome and a hot supper, after which
sat and listened while the veterans acte
.stheir young encounters DER again" Amidst
their pleasant "reminiscences Pike happened
to nention the name of "Curly.n At the
sound Jameson became sad and silent
After while Pike inquired:
sWhere Is he the noof'
s'tod knowsr replei the other 1--WE
not seen him for n month or more. He aye
bursts out when the anniversary of that
awful time comes round He generally
stays away for month or six weeks, AMI
comes back without word, and resumes
his life where he left off. just as If nothing
had happened. Poor Curly Poor Floral
But there; what is it Mistress Macbeth
saysl-
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard; what's done is
done'
So sup up and clear out-that Is, IL you mean
10 go TO Kilmarnock tomorrow. Goodbye.
young gentleman hope you'll be luckier
than this weather beaten old villain and
myself. Stick TO the text; study night
and day; and, who knows. you may take
the world by storm one Of these days"
''rll try l said
"Good ladi Coed lad Remember, there's
no such word as fail Goodbye, Pike good
luck TO you at Kilmarnock.
And so we toca our leave of Lang VII
lie" and sought our humble hostelry, where
ten minutes later lay fast asleep not even
dreaming OF the influence that accidental
encounter with Mr. Jameson and another
yet to come were to have ON my future de'-
tiny.
Next morning, after we had paid onr
score, we had only eighteen pence left; but
what Is money when you have youth,
health, strength and ambitioni Thank
I Godi / had all these; as for my COM
panion, poor fellow, he had had so mnny
rubs of fortune that he was equal TO any
fate. BY the way, his name was not ''Pike'
at all; he had merely arrived at that
sobriduet from his marvellous voracity, and
bis extraordinary facial resemblance to the
pike fish. He had fulfilled one short engage
ment in Edinburgh or Glasgow some thirty
wears before met him. but all the interreg-
MN had been nassed yaqobon LIKING about
In bnlls md harms in the small town, of
Scotland. He was always in debt. ALWAYS
in difliculty. Int somehow or other he always
- kent aaoat always kent n liobt heart and
ALWAYS had j ,leasant WORT for avery bolv.
ALTHOUGH II was in tho month Of Nav the
snow vas ON the oround. Fortunately for ns
N had been Trojan into n f,na ,fisn com
sistencv The sun flushed the horizon with
/. tender violet lighting tine billtons with
fire. and making tie distant road. which Law
before us. alive with rubies and emeralds
and other precious stones. set in great
masses of COLL and silver. OF course. when
we came IN with them nur MAGIC Jewels
xsn;sbed-no not ouite vanished thew Ind
only gone n little further Oft: and so we fol-
Lowell In their track. inst as the people fol-
low in the pursuit of pleasure In Noel
Patop's picture. Il was. indee1. a lovely
morning. and the -vounv blood ran riot In
INV veins while the birds chirped and sane
10 MS from every hedge was in love with
nv ri. and The uresent ordeal seemed To
me fine s,~ourb brake through which great
mess mist ,assn | flattered myself that
was another Edmund Kean ia embyro-bs-
sides WINS not,about TO open at the Theatre
Royal. Kilmarnock. I'm Romeoi tAiasl this
Theatre ROYAL turned out TO be barn over
a stebleD / was Romeo already. l must
\ confess NV mind was sorelv exercised ne tn
INV futnre JpIiet. Miss Madeline Montmo-
| rancv WINS she short or tall. slim or stout