The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-03-23

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the low COMEDY man who mace 80.
q hit as the count in THE Bally Rag
ger?' No? Well, really! But to return.
say it was Bill Haynes who first drew
my attention to it, and there are others
of our old company who have noticed
it. It'sa dead certainty. captain; take
my word for it,
"Then I will take your word for 1t,
Mr.. Vandeleur, since you are 30 certain,
and I am very much obliged to you Tor
the information. You will still further
increase the debt il you will tell me all
you know Of her. Have another cigar?"
"Thanks, awfully. They really are
good ones. It's long time since sam.
pied such box. Oh. I'll tell you all !
know, although you never did see Lost
In the Great Sahara. Believe me, there
IL treat in store for you. Well. let me
see. It was in some money forsaken
Scotch hole she joined us, but which
particular accursed spot can't remem-
Der now. only know we were all pref
~ we'll stumped. We played to 60 l6s
houses. captain, and il you've never
done that you don't know what It
means. Fact was, we were ruined by the
leading lady. We were playing The
Lady Of Lyons there, and her Pauline
was inst about siokening. Even the
SCOTCH recognized that, and they didn't
much care to SEQ her doundering about
the stage under the influence Of their
own particular still II there 10 any
sampling to be DONE they prefer to do 1t
themselves .,gsE >al.hsa
swell. there we were when Mary
Western joined Us as 'super. Dick
Lambert introduced her, remember, to
Flannery, our manager, and he, being
susceptible, took her on straight OF the
reel. Dick grew rather sick as time went
on, and once he told Flannery he'd kick
him either up stairs or down-he did
not much mind which-if he pestered
the lady So Dick left the company
had to leave-got the chuck-a fort
night from that day, but he followed US
about from town to town, for every
where that Mary went old Dick was
sure to go.
"They were curious pair, captain
as curious as ever saw. He seemed
deuced fond of her in way, and she
fond of him, also in way, but they
never spooned, as you would have ex-
pected. However, that was their con-
Germ, and not mine. As said before,
Miss Western joined as super, and
remarkably good one she made, so much
SO that when an understudy for Pauline
became increasingly necessary che was
singled out for the job.
lone night her chance came. Pau
line was blind drunk and could not pos
sibly be allowed on. the boards Miss
Western took her place, and never in
all my life did ever see a finer bit Of
acting. She literally brought down the
house, and she filled us with SO much
of her own enthusiasm that we all of US
clean forgot we were playing to So los.
Upon my life nearly fell in love with
her myself that night, and when I told
her that
We'd sit beneath the arching vines and wonder
Why earth could be unhappy while the heavens
Still left us youth and love,
why, I wished we were sitting there,
that's all Her career was made from
that night. Juliet was her next success,
and that led to Maude in Hearts Are
Trumps, in which che was simply mag
nificent. After that the deluge came.
"Miss Western vanishedl
"We heard afterward that it was a
letter which had bowled her over. Any
way she went and left not trace be-
hind, and Dick vanished too. Verb
sat. sap, captain, as the ancients said
under similar conditions, and that's all
I know of Miss Mary Western, and it's
dry work talking, captain"
I took the hint, and when Mr.. Van
deleur seemed again quite happy with
his surroundings went on:
"And the man Dick? What did you
say his name WASP"
Lambert.
''This Dick Lambert-can you tell
me anything of him?"
Nothing much to his good. Seemed
to be a careless teddy crusher-'only
that and nothing more He had a
chance many time and oft, but he
never got beyond the First Gravedigger
in Hamlet, aud deuced poor one he
was too.''
"What was he like in appearance?"
"Old Red Sandstone we used to call
him. Red and sandy were his colors,
sir, with an occasional patch of black
about the eye. He was darned good
judge of horsefesh though, and he said
he once knew Latin, but there was no
particular reason for believing him. He
had been bit of bruiser in his time
and had been handy with the shooting
irons in California. He lost one arm
there in an argument.
''Then you think Miss Western went
off with him?''
"Well, what do you think? Female
woman; male man. Chums-very much
chums. Female woman disappears.
Male man ditto Verb. sat- sap, as
said before"
"Were they never heard of again?"
''Dick has been seen, and he is at
large now and no doubt could be found,
but Miss Western was utterly lost sight