Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28

| very serious, SO he explained that he had
no card, but told her his name and ad-
! dress. She then entered her carriage
again, and as her rescuer closed the door
| after her and stood with his hat raised
| while she was driven away, she reached
her pretty hand from the window and
| claspsd his with q fervor that meant the
fullest gratitude.
The young lady tells the sequel of her
adventure herself. For her father she
drew vivid picture of her adventure
aud of the modest, handsome young man
who saved her life. Her father join ed
her, as was natural, in her alteration Of
the brave fellow, and at her suggestion
wrote letter to him expressing their
consciousness of obligation to him and
begging HIM to do them the honor of
dining with them on a certain evening
that was named. To this letter came q
reply which might be probably printed. .
81 am proud, - said this communica-
fion, "to have found 1t in my power TO
to stand for one moment between your
beautiful daughter aud possible injury
My reward consists in knowing that she
remains to the world an unmarried and
splendid ornament. / cannot dine with
you as you SO kindly suggest, for the
simple reason that l am not Of the class
of men that your daughter can meet on
an equal footing. In word, l am
dealer at faro in one of the most notori-
Gus gambling houses in the city. Con-
vey to your daughter the assurances OF
my deepest con sidsration and assure her
that shall ALWAYS honor her for having
shown ne one glimpse of feminine
courage and charm, such as it has not
been my good fortune to meet be-
fore.'
Even the tough masculine In the dra-
matio profession suffers considerably
when he lie compelled to wear q suit of
steel armor. and therefore it may be i'm
agined that when tender young woman
is forced by the exigencies of a stage
character to array! herself in such guise,
the pressure is not agreeable. A pretty
actress, now performing ct city the.
atre, found that either her armcr had
shrunk, or she had swollen, on the first
night of the historical tragedy in which
che was performing, and it was with diff
fculty that she compressed herself with
IN the hard embrace Of the glistening at
tire. When once she had got herself
securely fastened, by dint of long inhal-
atoms aud straining, all went fairly we'll
until point Of the play was reached when
she was called upon to kneel. She be-
gun this action with striking grace and
delibsrateness, but when she was about
half way down an expression of discom-
fort came into her face and she paused
short IN her descent. After an instaut's
thought of what to do the actress at
tel pted TO get down still further by an
heroic exertion that showed itself
TO the audience In spasmodic jerks.
When, at last, the knee of the young
woman had reached its final point OF hu-
mility. she was deadly pale, and wav-
cred to and fro as though in pain. A
woman in the ranks of supernumeraries,
who may have been the actress maid,
spoke up at this moment, and as the or
chestra chsnced to cease its music Just
then her words were audibls to the oc.
eupants of the front orchestra row.
"whsre do they hurt you?'' ex-
claimed tho woman. "Ease up q little
on that right leg. -
As the star performer rose to her feet,
and crossed the stage with q straddling
limp, the man who plays the trombo
in the baud laughed until the tears ran
down the side Of his nose. That the suit
Of armor pinobsd the lady somewhere
was evident, tbut just where it would be
impossible to state. CLARA BELLE.