Middletown transcript., 1896-06-27

way apart I think I shall make hi
live up north) they did not see NUT
/ of each other"
"Quite so." / broke in, ssbut whs
about the scenery2 You know the stag
: can't be made like the man of Englan
' with the hero standing in Northun
i berland and throwing kisses to tn
: heroine in Knit
ibid I suggest any such thingP"
Il mo, of course not.u Laughed.
"Ons day the mans part was out TO
a walk, when suddenly pony cam,
prancing madly along, almost throw
ing young lady, who was driving
out of the slight pony trap"
i "Of course the hero stops the pony
and saves her life-but you can't pui
that on the stage" again interrupted
| with this little aside, to show Amy ]
was following her; but she took the re.
mark unkindly.
/ 81 suppose you will say next that !
can only get my play on the stage OF
the wide, wild world"
iBy no meaDs-do go on, please"
"As you foresaw, he does stop the
pony and saves her life-but here comes
the point-it gets into the papers,"
"That can be of little use to any
| one.'
'.But the worst of all it gets reported
into the country papers in a fsarfnlly
inaccurate way. and being copied into
London dailies, it gets published abroad
that the reseuer was driving with the
lady. to whom lie was shorty to be
married."
sBut that wasn't so.n I conjectured,
"and it could easily have been CONTRA
dicted.n
"Yes. but if everything sensible and
proper was done on fhese occasions how
could you get play out of them at
all?n
Itacity admitted the truth of the
assertion.
"We are getting nearer the difficulty
now-the real financee, the girls part
read this in the papers, and being very
upset. and kind friends saying that per-
haps it was for the BEST she writes off
to the hero to tell him that there can
be no possible explanation, and that by
parcel post she is returning her ring
and other presents. About six..months
afterward she gets positive and abun-
dant proof that the newspaper was
wrong. Now how can she put it
right?"
My dear Miss Milford, don't quite
see how You intend making out your
play"
"That's just what want you to tell
me how to do. Iwant nice ending.
Do tell me what he ought to do, she
ought to have done."
Then, getting up from the little chair, |
upon which she had only just sat down.
Amy looked all of asudden quite DIFF
ferent. AS she brought the MS. over
to me felt that there were emotions
In me which were breaking the bars of |
their restraint.
As she handed it to me she asked.
tom, do you see how | Can end the
play?o caught sight of a tear up
On her cheek, aid taking her hand in
mine could feel it qniyering intensely.
was man, so | couldn't cry. But
Amy was weeping bitterly AS she knelt
by my side, h' r hand srill in mine.
amy l said. .'yeu just now said
,hatyour play might have to be put upon
,he stage of the wide, wide world. and
10 it will if it is to be ended, for as a
, lay it is, of course, quite impossible.
But know it all-know now what l /,
rave longed to know ever since We
'arted. You have only put the slighes I
covering over the facts which eighteen
months ago separated US. Your letter
md the return of the ring and II
he suggest ion that your people had said
t was for the best were too m uch for
ne. Foolishly Ishaye remained silent. {
let don't think dear that blame you j
or having put The play befor me and
sked for denouement. Ihave changed /
n no way, l have been yours notwith- 8
tai ding, for knew the time would I
ome-it has come now-when you +
would see how you wronged me. The d
My way-but don't Amy, don't cry q
Ike this, you will make yourself ILL r
he only way to finish your play is to f
AXE up ourselves our places on the
tage, and making Cupid the machine n
IT, bring the hero in Northumberland b
nd the heroine in Kensington onto r
he stage at once, and then change the q
Gene to a pretty little house wherever
gu may choose to tell him. Do you .
mink, dear, we can let the curtain :
rop on your play?" !.
"Yes, Tom, 1 do; if you can but 9
,rgive me?n .
81 have never let myself remember. !" .
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