The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-14


mouthful of language that the voice
was heard no more.
Poor Hendy, poor and trembling,
smeared across the face with pudding,
and staring at the decanJer on the
table without seeing ii, started at that
amazing string of rhetoric Surely
surely the idiOm was somehow famil-
lar
+ Mr.. Barring Spencer came in at the
door, and for the first time their eyes
met in full light. Both were To some
extent disguised in pudding, but Hendy
knew his man at once. Why" he
/ gasped. 'Fitz-Fitz- Howard
En-" grunted the other sharply.
( What's that?" for his own recollec-
ton was slower. But the name
Hendy took a long breath, wiped the
back Of his hand across his face and
sat down unlimited My names Hen
+ dy," he said, Joseph Hendy, juveniles,
/ Trevor Fitz-HOward company, Leeds,
/ also resDOnsibles. Trevor Fitz-How-
ards company. Bristol. You've got
your pudding back; give me my boots"
What? What dye mean2"
All right, all right" Hendy went on.
now clear in mind and dangerous.
/ 'P'rhaps you might bluff 1t off with one
/ stOne-brOke busker. But there's Miss
beaumont here, too, same company.
I 1 on owe her a week or two's salary, I
/ think. An there's NortJn-Teddy Nor
/ ton. Remember him? Walking gentle
I man, Trevor Fitz-Howard's company,
1 Leeds"
mr.. Barring Spencer sat down.
( W ell2" he said. after a pause.
I We'll" Hendy went on slowly you
/ seem to be doing pretty well now.
Praps you can afford to pay off those
| arrears"
%" answered the other laconically.
and there was another pause But
suppose 1 won't? Suppose I just cali
/ the police and put you in Jal2 For, of
/ course, know nothing Of all this non
/ sense you talk Of"
Very we'll" Hendy replied, rising
/ YEARLY. call EN-. But I'm afraid you'll
| get eounty-courted over those salaries.
And when it begins-lor. when viii it
/ stop?"
This was quite true. For if all the
| unliquidated debts incurred in Mr..
Trevor Fitz- Towards theatrical career
| were TO be called UP at once by eredi-
tors all over the country. Mr. Barring
Spencer would be squeezed very tight
indeed. And once the two names were
| ldenuhed the rush would begin. But
there was another consideration Mr.
Barring Spencer was a a critical stage
IN mis- present operations. but his name
Just now stood good for anything
Whereas, Mr.. Trevor Fitz- Howard was
a notorious Swindler. So anything that
! might reveal the fact that the two
names stood for one financial operator
would rean a crash indeed SO Mr..
Barring Spencer, like man of business,
sEent to the root of the matter straight
way
Look here. he said, wen fool about
no longer How much do you want?"
Hendy sat down again. For me"
he said, say four weeks at 80 bob, and
say nothing about the boots. Miss
Beaumont four weeks at 80 bob, too,
and Teddy Norton a fortnight at the
same. That's 10 quid"
The sum seemed enormous in these
lean days, but he was dealing with a
capitalist, and the estimate was honest
enough. And then" he went on. you
might give poor old Leatherby life on
/ the rOad''--
Never mind all that" the other said,
1 unlocking a drawer. You don't expect
/ to make me believe you're interested in
/ all these people, do you? Or that you
give EN- a cent? I amt a baby, no
more are you. See here" He took a
small parcel of notes and counted "One,
I two, three, four. five.-a pony; eos.
/ Take it and clear out, and keep your
mouth shut. As for getting the show on
( the road, do it anyhow YOU please, and
I as soon as you like. Only mind!" And
/ he raised his finger. IF any of those
/ others get on the scent and come here,
L shall tell EN- you've got their money
Now you can go as soon as you like
But indeed Mr.. Barring Spencer was
| just a trifie too clever. He was much
too clever, in fact, to suppose that
/ Hendy-a man just caugh6-stealing
/ pudding, would part with any of that
money unless he were obliged He as
/ sumed, of course that Hendy would
keep the money to himself. say nothing
/ Of the encounter and, moreover, use
every exertiOn to get the show out of
the neighbOrhOOd; because Of the threat
10 set the others after a share Of the
notes if he, Spencer, were troubled by
them. Indeed, he judged it a very cum
ming shift to smut Hendy's mouth and
clear away the players from the town
at one stroke. He was never safe from
recognition among players.
But he miscalculated. For Leather
/ by'6 company signaliZed Christmas by
two dinners at the Crown, one at mid
day and one at Z. And Leatherby gave
the health Of Barring Spencer, founder
/ q the feast, with great fervor. and pro-
claimed him an ornament to the theat-
rlcal profession, which he had so lately
left For Hendy had made no secret of
whence he had the money, nor of the
debts it was to Hquidate. and some OF
/ il he represented as subscription toward
a Leatherby benefit, designed to set the
show on its legs again in the next town.
/ And the company called Mr.. Barring
| Spencer a noble fellow, and, moreover.
| insisted on tearing the butcher from
/ the bOa3m Of his family Cthe drOver was
/ not to be found. and making him drink
/ Mr.. Spencer's health, too, a great many
times. So that they were all mighty
/ merry together that Christmas. and
! every hour was an hOuRioS joy ard
/ feasting, and at last, to cap every
/ thing, ali the male part of the COM
pany, with the butcher in the midst Of
1 them, stood in the early evening on Mr.
/ Barring Spencer's lawn, roaring: For
/ he's jolly good fellOWr' at the top Of
\ their voices. to the amaZement and
/ scandal of all CrOWbridge, and the
! speeches. fury Of the jolly good fellow
/ himself, Till at last he found his voice
! ana threw open a window and shook
/ his fist, flung out such q shower Of
/ the rhetoric that Hendy so we'll remem-
bered. that the players went off might
| lily astOnished.
1t is his mOdesty.' said Leatherby.
outside, with tears Of gratitude trem-
bling in his eyes; Just his modesty.
Truly he is a noble fellow
But the story spread about Crow
/ bridge, and ere long il was very gener-
+ ally known that Mr.. Barring Spencer
was Mr.. Trevor Fitz-Howard. and that
! Mr.. Trevor Fitz-Howard probably mad
/ half a dozen other names as well. And
| it was even said, in the end, that the
{ thing FASTENED his arrest by three days.
, He had bought the house at Crow
bridge. had managed to pay for it in
worthless shares, and had mortgsg ed IL
/ instantly for hard cash. His companies
] were timed to bf1nst lust after the new,