Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-18


but after few weeks / fancied she
looked sad and discouraged. She went
through her work mechanically, and l
could see that our manager was dis
pleased. / trembled for the princess,
but dared not speak to her in regard to
her private affairs. [ did make few
inquiries, however, and what l learned,
together with her distract manner,
convinced me that the doctor went no
more to see her.
Gone day she was not at rehearsal; IN
fact, several days passed without our
seeing her. We were putting on new
play, and Miss S. and myself had very
little time to look the princess up. At
said she had been i'll, and she quietly
dressed for her part. In the meantime
the manager had seen her.
"'What are you doing here" he
asked abruptly.
"She looked up in surprise.
al am she began, then, confused
by his manner, she stopped. DO you
mean to imply that have no right to
be here p she asked at length.
"I don't see that you have. You
have been absent several days
"'But | was ill-too i'll to 60 out
"'Yes? | am sorry, but you sent me
no word. The rule here is no excuse
for absence save d doctors certificate.
Your place has been taken
''Too proud to explain, if she might
have done SO, the poor girl stood there
fully a minute, then she tottered into
her dressing room.
81 fully Intended seeing her before
she left the theater, but when [ went to
her room she had gone. The next day
| called at her boarding place only to
find that she had moved without leav-
ing any address.
eve saw no more Of her for long
time, but used often to speak of her,
and whenever we were seated costly
around a glowing fire, the curtains
drawn and the wind bowling, | would
think with shudder of my poor prin-
cess and wonder where in that big cruel
city she had found home.
''At last we knew.
ga messenger came suddenly with a
summons-our princes Wsas dying.
''ShOcked, We-Miss S. and myself
jumped into a cab and were rapidly
driven to wretched quarter of the city.
In miserable room, gasping and with
ing on the bed, lay the emaciated form
of the dying princess.
"She was conscious. She thanked us
for coming. She had taken an over
dose Of medicine. She was poisoned.
Poor girl she found life uncomfortable.
She begged me to find DR.. W., and
though | inwardly cursed the villain,
searched with such success that she died
in his arms, and will do him the JUS
tice to say that he seemed truly
shocked and touched by her sur
roundings and her death. AS for her
you may not believe me-but she looked
positively radiant, and, in spite of the
agony she must have suffered, she died
smiling
"The attaches of the theater, together
with the members of the company,
made preparations to bury her in a de-
cent though modest style, when tele-
gram came from Canada which was
thunderbolt to all but me:
"'Have Miss WIS body embalmed;
will be shipped to England; spare no ex-
pense; start on the next train
"The dispatch was from Montreal and
was signed with a name which | with
hold, but it proved beyond doubt that
our princess was really lady of high
degree.
'"The dignifed parsonage who arrived
to take charge of the remains was very
non-committal, but we discovered that
our princess was the daughter of a
nobleman; that she had been forced by
him to marry at an early age wealthy
old lord, with whom she was so I'M
happy that she had fled to America
Her name was Lady Ivy HI.
''The rest" continued the young man,
as he replaced the dainty handkerchief
in it's scented box, II have to supply
with my Imagination. You know old
rip asks Are we SO soon forgotten,
when we're gone" Well, if all the
world forgets my poor princess, | never
shall, and the next time | 60 to England
[ mean to hunt that little island over
till find her grave"
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