The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-26

anu wien tney got very nara up-noG DeIore,
though, for he objected to toil-DoyneS
would contrive to get hold of an odd job.
And so things were kept going-somewha
erfat:eally, it is trae-but stoppage was
always prevented.
:" When Liz had been at this game couple
OF years, Doynes, acting on happy inspira-
ton which grew from the hint of one of his
cronles, invested in secondhand pair OF
tlgnts and spangled tunic from peripa-
tetlc circus proprietor. and, henceforward,
LIZ putthe dogs through their PAGES herself.
The girl was good looking in a way. She'd
got wild, fierce sort of beauty, which
seems 10 grow with this kind of life--strong,
Diack hair, you know, and fine, dark.
Violet eyes, and good figure-and she drew
larger houses than Doynes had done
ing that he is heavy looking brute,
rather of the jail-brd type. She liked the
JOB; Doynes fully appreciated a change
when gave him more money and less to do :;
the dogs preferred LIS 'sauviter in modo'
10 Doynes 1ortlter in re-; and so the ar
Iangement suited all parties. But still
LZs pecunlary circumstances remained
unaitered. There was no particular secret
made OF this; Doynes openly boosted that
he was gentleman now, for he got all his
work done for nothing, ana no one ever sug-
gested that Liz had any money. And al
though she may at times have felt the need
OF 1t, she never struck out for regular
salary.
wished, for outside offers were not wanting.
one OF the young women from Coles I'm
perlal Shooting Gallery had eloped with a
rich American. and Liz was asked to take
the vacant tube-her board, keep and eight
shllllngs per week. The proprietor aud
actlng manager Of 'Fizgerald's Iheater of
Varieties said he'd give her two-per-cent
share OF the profits if she'd play boys parts
Tor MN, and the owner of a 'Saccharine
Refreshment Caravan offered her a copart-
nFTsllD and a loving haart if she'd i0in him
But no; unaccUuntable, as 1t may seem, Liz
laughed and said she'd stick to Doynes',
and TO Doynes' she stuck.
Liz is a rum un,' Doynes' friends would
say to him; but DoyneS would only chuckle
and wink, and remark that he'd have AN
other pot o the same And 50 things went
on, Liz doing, by very visible gradations,
more and more, and Doynes less and less.
till at last he was never near the show at all
except when 1t was on the move, and then
lie lay lndolently in his bunk.
LIS friends among the show-folks used
TO comment on these habits of Doynes
pretty freely and pointedly; but Liz would
always laugh In cheerful sort of way, aud
say, ON, never mind Z lad 'e's alus fearful
dry, an likes ter sleek hssen.' ('Sleck' in
her dialect means mOisten.) But all the
same she gave hlm good, sharp lectures on
the quiet and he would swear by all his
dogs, by his caravan. by his eyes, by every
thing lie held sacred, In fact. that he'd not
then when the tent was pitched once more
he would slip of with a jolly laugh and not
put IN an appearance again till turning
out time. And Liz quite uncOncernedy
would shift the platform across to the en-
trance END OF the tent, so that she could
guard the door after the money was taken
ana put the dogs through their places at the
same time.
But at last the climax came.
hey were at village tide in the dales
here, and she had squared up for the night
and was patiently waiting for Doynes' re-
turn. The day had been hot one, and, as
he mad plenty of money in his pocket, she
philosophcally expected him to make wet
night OF IL. But II 80 and u O'Clock struck
by the church clock, and 10 Doynes came
She began to get anxious He usually con-
trlYed TO bring himself or be brought to the
caravan before this. Half-past II! He
must be back directly now. Ouel He has
gone to sleep somewhere. One thirty She
put shawl over her head and opened the
door with the intention of going to LOOK for
him. by the pale moonlight, which illumin-
ated the paper-strewn ground and the scat
tered encaml m"nt she saw half a dozen men
carrying something on sheep-hurdle. Close
10 her was an ayant-c0urier, in whom she
recognized Signor Roberto Vatolski of the
Royal Marionette Theater, commonly known
as Dolly Bobs.
lis he very bad, Dolly?' she asked,
anXlously, for experience had taught her
that an ordinary drunk took only couple
OF bearers, or three at the outside.
Aye, lass, an 'e's 'apened a haXident
an all. L wer' liggin' i'm dahn i t road
blind-an' Jabez 'Olroyd's cart run over
i'm. They fetched t doctor, but e SEE e
cannot do ote for i'm. Pm right grieved fer
thee, lass 'Appeu tha'd best so sleep along
WI, my missis, an to leave Inc to stay along
To be Continued.