The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-08-19

her way came neal costing her her
life.
BY the time for Zarena's appearance
| had become so n over
wrought through anxiety and excite
ment that 1 could have wished the
French mink and all the rest OF the
aerial female rs "in the deep posom
of the ocean buried"
How many times in the course OF his
career does a manager solemnly vow
that he will never admit another dan
ger-defying aerial act to his theater,
and then go and put the most danger
GUS one he can find in his programme
at the first opportunity?
Everything was at skies and sevens,
anyway, in front of the house that
night, because the Frenchwoman had
drawn to an overflow, and there were
too many people in the house for COM
fort. The doorkeepers seemed to nave
lost their heads, and were snappisn
and ~unciviI, and the ushers were any
thing but polite and obliging. On the
whole, l guess I was ratified myself.
Here she comes! Amt she a daisy?'
called an irrepressible small boy in the
top gallery.
The Frenchwoman came out and l
went out.
From my office den I could hear the
cheering reception to the lady from
France; then came a crash from the
orchestra, and the great midair perils
begun. I didn't want to see them, put
1 couldn't keep away, and I felt rather
surprised at myself when I became a
part Of the audience and was n
my neck to catch a glimpse of the
tiny figures as they appeared e%voluting
at a giddy height aloft.
1t made me feel quite dizzy to look
at them, and I turned away to note
the averted gaze of others. l started
to return to the Office, mentally VOW
ing:
This is the last
At the office door l turned back again
to view the dangerous performances. A
great hush was upon the audience. l
believe that l could hear everybody's
heart beat. Mine was humping at a
fearful rate.
OuC OIL CU6 SllllucSS 1 ucdlu d hAooAA9
command from the lips of the man!
The Frenchwoman answered in an
excitable undertone. There was a
quick passage of words, the lennon Of
which no one could catch. Were they
quarreling up there over the heads OF
the audience?
Words, more words, and fierce words!
- - fcorzx, 10 thou uYoro nnt
Suddenly the woman made a dash
down the elaborate rigging suspended
from the act; to me it appeared as If
she was attempting to escape the man,
her pursuer, who was close upon her.
The audience took the movement for a
part of the performance, and applaud
ed. but intuition told me that some
thing was occurring mot down on the
bills
Evidently fear lent celebrity to the
woman's movements. I took it that
she was fleeing from him.
The pursuer shrieked a horrible oath,
and was upon the little Frenchwoman
inst as she reached the bar of a sus-
pended trapeze.
Help! Help! My God. the nan is
mad!"
At her agonizing cry many Of the
audience sprang to their feet, just as
many others woone
Who was to help, and from whence
was the aid to come?
The Iunatic was already attempting
TO unloose the woman's hold on the
trapeze.
Part of what next occurred I did moi
see. l heard the voice of a man in ar
upper circle cry in French:
Hold! l comet"
The next instant the figure of a mar
clinging to a rope required for the fin
ish of the flight for life" shot acros.
the space with unerring aim, and
powerful arm wrested the woman from
her perilous position. And then tn,
fools of auditors, thinking that wha
they had seen was "a part of the show,
made the theater ring with cheers.
AS that act, thank the Lord, was tn
last number on the bill, such of tn
audience as were not overcome foun,
their way out, and the others wer
sent home when they were sufficiently
recovered.
The shock to the Frenchwoman wa
: a terrible one, but she came out of
thankful for her narrow escape an
grateful to her former discarded part
ner, who had devotedly followed he
from Paris and been the means of say
ing her life.
In all the hubbub the lunatic ha
walked off in his tights, and such at
tire in the street being unusual, h
had promptly fallen into the hands G
the police, and in due time was place
in such keeping as to insure safet
- both to himself and others. Upon aft
err investigation it was learned that tn
=, unfortunate aerialist had suffered a Sc
!, we're fall during the previous season
- resulting in an injury to his hea,
which untitled him from following h
calling.
For the remainder of the engagemer
!, the Frenchwoman's now accepted az
mirer appeared in their astoundin
:. aerial act. After that they returned
Paris, to indulge in the perpetual bill.
which forever finds place in two lovin
hearts.
J.. A Bad Name.
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