The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-12
.Pianter,s wife" At Cordrax,..

"The Planters Wife" has been billed for
the week by the Cordray management 1t will
undoubtedly prove an attractive production, as
the dialogues are bright, the characters well
drawn and the humorous side we'll developed
The story dates about the close of the civil war
and is laid in the South. Albert Graham a rich
young planter, is in love with Edith Grey a
Northern lady, who resides in the neighbor-
hood He proposes marriage, and before she
accepts his offer she attempts to disclose her
former history, but is chivalrously dissuaded by
him from doing so. she finally consents and
the marriage is fixed to take place Immediately,
as he is obliged 10 join his regiment without de-
lay At the time OF the betrothal, Arthur Blake,
an old friend of Grahams, and an officer in the
Northern srmy who has escaped from a Con-
federate prison, is a guest in the planters home
under disguise and an assumed name Some
time previous he had saved Graham's life and
the latter now runs the risk of hiding him to
prevent his recapture Arthur Blake is intro
duced to Edith Grey by her affianced husband,
and Immediately recognizes in her a woman,
Florence Merrick, whom he had prosecuted in
the North six years before on a charge of
larceny. She had been found guilty on that oc-
easion and sentenced to term of imprisonment
In a private interview she beseeches Arthur not
to divulgs her secret, but he is memorable and
not until she furnishes him with an account of
the unfortunate chapter in her life does he con-
sent to keep his friend Graham in ignorance
n man called Harry Livingstone, six years be-
fore, clandestinely. Soon alter the marriage she
found that Livingstone had misrepresented
himself, and that instead of being a res pectable
man he was leagued with common criminals,
among whom he was considered leader Com
PEELED TO support herself she accepted posi-
ton as saleswoman in store, and her husband
taking advantage of this, sought to gain her aid
in robbing her employer crime which he and
his associates had planned She refused The
store was robbed, notwithstanding. and, in re-
venge. Livingstone implicated his wife. She
was tried, found guilty, and sentenced. After
her release she was informed of her husbands
death and in order to bury the shame of the past
she sought q new home among strangers and
finally settled where the opening of the story
finds her. Arthur Blake, on hearing her tale,
promises silence and the marriage takes place
At this iuncture Hsrry Livingstone appears on
the scene. lie was not dead, as Edith had sup
posed, but had circulated false rumors in order
to throw her off the scent. He is in love with
Dora Graham, sister OF the planter. and by ser
les of clever and INSCRIPTIONS acts
he succeeds in making Edith, 10 whom he dis
covers himself, passive sdherent TO the fur
therance of his suit In the end his villainy is
discovered and ii transpires that his marriage
with Edith-then Florence Herrick-six years
ago, Was no marriage, he having forged the
marriage certificate, and having employed a
bogus clergyman. The story is lit mp by the
light comedy scenes between Angie Gordon and
Simeon Simcoe, whose characters are uniquely
aud humorously drawn: