Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-02-03

|foEu .ol I'm, also n "a way. hut they,
fever SPOTS 5s..,, as you would have ex-.
:s,Jacteds& However, that was. their CON
& asil.' and not mine AS said before,
Miss 5sVesterH. Joined asa super and
re1na IEAbly good one she made, SO much
so that Nrkei.: an undersmdy for Pauline
became !increasin ely, necessary she was
singled out fort tt.uSlob. zs ~ (
."One- night 4 har:chance came. Pan
line was b4rsi1 drunk and could hot pos
sibly be- allowed Oh the boards Miss
Western took her place. and never in
all my lie lil:I: eyer 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 elf of us
clean forgot we were playing to. e2 l5s.
Upon MY life nearly fell in love with
her myself that night and when l told
her that r.
We'd sit beneath the arching vines and wonder
| Why earth couli be unhappy,while the heavens
Still left US youth and love-
! why, l 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 she was simply mag
nifcent. After lat the deluge came.
miss Western vanished!
"We heard afterWard that it was a
| letter which had bowled her over Any
way she went and left not. trace be.
| mind, and Dick vanished too Verb.
sat- sap, captain, as the ancients said
| under similar conf; liens, and that's all
| know of Miss Mary Western, and it Z
dry work talking, captain.'
l took tie !!!,:t, and wten Mr.. Van
deleur seemed again quite happy with
his surroundings went on:
'And the man Dick? What did you
say his maze was?"
"Lambert.
"This Dick Lambert-can you tell
me anything Of him?'
'Nothing much to his good Seemed
to be careless toddy crusher-'o only
that and nothing more. He had a
chance many time aud oft, but he
never got beyond the First Gravedigge1
in Hamlet, and a 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 a darned good
judge of horsehesh though, and be said
he once knew Latin, but there was nc
particular reas.n for believing him. He
had been bit of a 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: Oh ums--very much
chun,s 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,
E.ztt -, -; Western was utterly lost sight
of till we recognized the photograph
By the bye, Miss Western seems to have
had a good many admirers The day
after she went a man turned up who
made himself felt like slice of Egyp-
tian darkness when he was told she had
hooked it with Dick There would be
trouble in their camp that week, ven
ture to suggest. y
."What was he like?'
Don't remember In fact, I never
saw him He only staid a few hours
just long enough to make those he met
wish he had gone earlier. He was not a
sociable man that day. captain
is there anything more you can tell
me, Mr.. Vandeleur:'
"Nothing about Miss Western and
the one armed joker, but on present day
matters may say that my benefit takes
place next week and you may then have
your wish gratified of seeing Finnecure
Vandeleur in his finest part. We ara
performing Lost In the Great Sahara
at Ellington next week, sir hope
may rely upon seeing You on my night
-Friday.''
/ '"Yoa may rely upon me, Mr. Vande:
leur, as a slight return for your kind
ness III giving me this information. Hav',
you any tickets on you:'
lyon are man Of business, captain
have Shall we say box? That will
be one guinea. Thank you, sir !; Now !
III ust 60. On Friday of next week, then
Thanks, will have another smoke, al
you insist. You nave a taste in cigars,
captain. Even >landlubber can see
that. -. And with these and sundry 9th
er disjointed sentences Mr. Vandeleur
bowed himself out ~
-: II I. CHAPTER K. .,..... .
was LADY FLORENCE MosTYs> \ THIEF?
/ had a. good deal to think about
while l was dressing for dinner that
evening. The day before I had bemoan-
ed the utter absence Of q clew, and now
Twas in possession of information va
ried and unexpected. Il had got on the
L frapks ~ Mr. hrfhrv nnronf. n, q !, ,,ov q