The National tribune., 1893-03-23
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON D. e. THURSDAY MARCH %
; Why. you have the whole thing

Why, you have the whole thing
here, and -
1T is enough to rather seriously embarrass
you, believe you said, if were to press its
payment just now?"
"Yes," returned the manager, coloring still
more. but SEQ here Bracely, / am going to
do the best / can for you. Don't push me; I'll
make it all right in the end. swear if you
will only give me q little longer, you shall
have it ALL u
THAT will do, Mr.. Phillips" said Dir.
Bracely, looking steadily at him, :" send for the
little girl"
Al don't understandable you mean ths?"
he exclaimed suddenly as the light came to
him. Is il condition."
1t is. Let me take the child to my homo
in the country where she can lire, and where
she will have the love she so much needs, or :"
-. He stopped, and the manager frowned
in thoughtful silence for minute.
" You've got me" he said at last but it's
pretty mean trick, my friend" Then he
touched an electric button beside the desk.
go to the hotel, JIM" he said to the boy
who promptly appeared, "and bring Miss Dot
here at once.' The boy disappeared as
promptly as he had come, and returned in q
few minutes with tho little actress.
My dear" said the manager, putting on his
very pleasantest manner, and what his en-
ployees were wont to call his 3" box-otsice
smile -" my dear, this is Mr.. Braceiy, and he
has taken quite fancy to you. He thinks q
month or 30 in the country on his place would
help you good deal, and he is going to take
you there. i have consented to have you go,
as he says he knows you will be quite happy
with Mrs. Bracely to look after you and all the
pretty flowers and brides and-er. so on. We
will let Katie play the rest Of the season in
your place. and you can get nice and rested up
till next Fall"
Tho Girl Innl,o d from, oua IN aoot nh lid
ish astonishment, and then she went to
Bracely's aide, and put her small hand on his
wrinkled one
lyon are good man." she said, looking
earnestly into his face and love you" . &
Why" she went on curiously, yOa look like
my mamma did when she was sick. She had a
picture of you, didn't she2 The one she was
always kissing -
There, there, said Mr.. Bracely hurriedly,
taking her into his arms and holding her there,
we will go now. Phillips, have her trunk
sent to my hotel. We leave tonight
You have the papers, believe? Then accept
that note OF yours as present from-Miss
Dorothy.
The manager stared incredulously at his
creditor, and then recovered himself as the two
moved toward the door.
Bracely," he murmured, "you are gentle
man, and you won't regret this. / thank you"
Then he added aloud, endeavoring to pat the
small actresses hand, Take good care of our
little girl, my dear sir" Dorothy drew away
from him and put her arms lovingly about her
new friends neck.
You need have no fear of that" said the
latter gravely, holding her still more tightly in
his arms And by the way" he added, "you
had best not connt on her for next season. Mr..
Phillips. As she told you herself, believe,
she is going to leave the stage"
Then the gray-eyed old gentleman and the
gray-eyed little girl wen. through the door and
down the stairs leaving Mr.. Phillips alone
with his own satisfaction at his unlocked. for
release from the debt which had so long hung
over him.
The next morning Dorothy woke to find her.
self in that paradise of which she had dreamed
so many times, with Mrs Bracely's smiling face
looking down on her. as she told her it was
time to get up and "play like other childrens";
and so long did the day seem. and so full of
happiness never before tasted, that tho love-
starved child wondered if she were not still in
one of those dreams at the setting Of the sun.
But the manager as they closed the door be-
hind Them ran his hand through his thick hair
in perplexei way, aud frowned down at the
floor
They look alike, by Jove they do" he ex-
claimed, and-I wonder whatever became of
Bracey's hayward daughter. anyway ~
Yankee Blade.