The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-11

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thought of it attcrward.
"Well, the performance went on and
soon 'SnOwy'S turn came. lie went
out in his tights and iinery, mounted
! uD to the trapeZe and was as cleNeras
usual in his feats. | had slipped to
the front of the house again and vas
looking in at him when my eyes sud
denly fell on a figure in a box. 1t was
the same had seen there bctOre--the
Young woman who had tainted there
with thenaval chap. Hooked around
for him bit he vas nowhere to be
found.
Just then Snowy got up to the
perch on the gallery, from which he
took the flying swing to ahttIetraPeze
above the stage. 1t was a perlLous
feat, and there wasn't a breath to be
heard in the house as he prepared for
it. Every eye was watching him. |
saw him in all his gI!ttering spangIes
posing himself, grasping the bar be-
tween his fists and thcnlaunChing out.
He sprang. There was a whlzz in
the air, and then like q fashthe house
was in darkness. Every light had
gone out and you couldn't see the end
of your nose. Heavens! what a hub
hub there was. Every soul, worked
up as it was to intense excitement,
seemed to have a voice in that shrek
that arose. Before | knew what to do,
there was a wild cutlery about my ears
and a lot of people brushed past me:
No one knew what wasthematter, and
in the panic some imp cried Fire |
tried to speak, but | was hustled
against q wall, knocked down, tram
pied on by a dozen feet, and by the
time | got up the house was almost
clear.
""Turn on the gas | yelled, hoping
that some Of the hands would hear
me, and I was making for the meter
closet when stumbled against some
one. | heard a voice, and a maj al
most dragging a woman brushed past
me. We were near the door, ana a
gllmmer OF light from thelamp OUTSIDE
fell on them. Never VII! forget the
tace OF the young wOman l saw reVeal,
ell thereCthe face OF the woman who
had been m n box never sa" Ihe
like with fright ana agony, lnVolun'
tarlIy lent a hah9 TO heip her ouC'
slde; SUI she turned rom me5Iuin,
ed to the man beside her n cree
with a voice tnaC fose ABOVE tne h Op
pup; save nm! o1ve ninh' oA'
"0a! IL IS my OroCher: -
~, men q SCi"tise linz nppP! Iii
55ne man Desloe ~ 49, M on. e -
puS otly ioi =" 9nnLoJ ;nt nc III eH Nj;
n"u iei' hTh VI uann n'I D. ~ CO,
CT 10 ! 1nL \ Meliu ait .;n hIIm nu ~ was
al oark Ihere az sun oniy up aooHe
near GnI oo, onS = oIattrn y
sGlaiplls u = go. anu 80 =,
glasS Wy 'iie Das o on uenn,n LUZ
was ou1 III !lly anu IopT" uu9 ;
% ohe gas meier cioseI. :
open, ana as l leiC aoouC me "a'
suaaenly pusheo asioe anu " S0''
criea oue'
"A rope mere. Give me a rope
Ihere Is one there:
II had seen a on the hoor ant
l know whoever lac asked Tor l
had found 1t, when, a moment after
l heard O tootstep hurrylng away ant
heard something dragging behinC
them. But didn't stop. | turned
on the gas. ran inside and had the Jet
fiarlng up as / entered the at ditoriun
again.
! "What q sight was therel Up nea.
the ceiling, holding by a hand to ;
j shattered gas fixture and likely t,
, drop at any moment, with opel
mouth and staring eyes, Snowy wa
hanging. And lust above, climbin
along a beam-a sort OF rafter-tha
ran up to an apex in the primltiv
/ little hall, was q man with a rop
dangling from him. How he got u,
there I cannot tell. I have seen feat
!, in nv dav. but holding to that rate
and netting along It beats anvthin,
I ever Witnessed. Well he reache1
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