The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-05

cennes. after the British. under Colonel
Hamilton had taken il, ne was disguised
as a peddler Father JazOn had known
Beverly, and recognized him: but, more i'm
portant Alice recognized him without ever
having laid eyes on him more than once
Beverly was bound for Colonel Clark's
headquarters but he tarried at Nincennes,
and Colonel Hamilton found in his peddler's
pack papers addressed to him. Beverly
pretended that he was British messenger.
Hamilton was a very poor military man,
and he gave the papers to Beverly to cor
rect on Beverlys statement that they were
wrong.
At this juncture was "A marvellous and in
teresting coincidence. Alice read to Colonel
Hamilton. both sitting at the fireplace In
the Roussillon home, from an old French
enemys camp obtained valuable papers.
took them to a room upstairs, read them
and burned them at a candle. strangied the
guard outside the door. jumped from WIN
dow into a canoe and fed to his own troops.
While she reading her voice rose TO
screaming, for Beverly, in room ABOVE
exposed TO view by the door being open,
enacted the scene as she read it. Thus was
Colonel Hamilton tricked most dramat-
ically.
The manner in which Beverly learned
of Clark's whereabouts was no less unique.
Captain Helm. of Clarks command, was
captured near Nincennes by the Briush
and brought before Colonel Hamilton.
Alice. Father JazOn and Beverly persuaded
him that they were loyal Americans ana
got from him the information tnat clark
was bound north TO Detroit. When colonel
Hamilton entered. Beverly had to play the
British spy. He told Hamilton that Helm
had let out Clark's location. Helm was
astounded and enraged. He yearned TO
spring on Beverly. But when Hamilton
asked Beverly for the information, and
got the reply that Clark was south of
Vincennes and his way to Kentucky,
Helm was equally elated and pressed
Beverlys hand secretly and fervently.
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In all the recent colonial melodramas the
British officers have been villains of the
deepest dye, and Colonel Hamilton is no
exception The English army in the war
OF the revolution must have been Differed
by the most depraved men in his Majesty
King Georges domain Hamilton had
Alice brought to him at the fort. While he
was about other affairs Beverly staggered
in. He was "snow blind" and fainting,
but he told Alice and Father Jazon that
Clark and his men were near and that the
signal for them to attack was a shot from
the fort. He then became unconscious
and was hidden by Father JaZon, but later
he stumbled into the room while Hamilton
was there and betrayed. In his delirious
rawlings, the signal. He was taken away
by the guard Hamilton uncovered his per-
sOnality. When Alice left the fort il would
be in the morning and the people would
know that she had come from his apart
ments. She would be ruined, he asserted
though he gave no reason why the people,
having known Alice should not believe
her pure and him a liar. Alice jerked his
pistol from his belt and ran up the stairs to
the window to give Clark the signal If she
shot, Hamilton sneered, out Of the window,
she would have no bullet left to defend
herself and he would overcome her before
help came. If she shot at him, the report
would not be heard by Clarks men, be-
cause 1t would not carry out of the room,
and though she might kill her aSSailant,
she would betray the Americans and they
would De crushed. So, Alice had to con-
slider whether she valued the more her
personal honor-presuming that a brutal
assault would bereft her of it-or the sue
cess of the American arms. She decided
for the latter and fired the shot out of the
window. Hamilton rushed at her, but she
snatched sword that was handy and
fought him off. Their blades clashed to-
gether a moment and then her skill proved
best and she stabbed him in the breast.
Whether or not the wound was fatal is not
revealed, for the rattle of musketry tells
that Clark men are inside the town and
on the sleeping foe, and the incident is
closed.
Then, with the British driven out, peace
ruled over Vincennes Beverly had shown
himself a brave and shrewd soldier but
when it came to winding up his love af-
fair he a stupid young man. 1t was
a comic change though an improbable one,
and il gave Alice a chance to display fas-
cinating coquetry. She was anxious that
Beverly should not go East, but she would
not tell him so. Her friend Nannette en-
On the snowy ground in front of the house
he explained TO Father Jazon that Alice
had shown that she did not love him. Her
face was cold, he said, and was her
heart. The priest babe him farewell and
left, but raped on the door i'm his going
and Alice came out and found Beverly.
1t was long task for her to make him
know that she loved him, but finally he
got it through his head, when she asked
him 10 put ring on her finger. He was
tiresome blOckhead in this matter and
and Il O.
scribed he did not deserve Perhaps he
did not care for the fire-the girls did not,
trees with their short-armed and low
necked bodices exposing their flesh to the
bitter cold
This is the play i'm which Miss Harmed is
put forward as a star and it is expected
that she will display such ability as will
entitle her to take a sure place among the
few other women stars of this country's
stage She is graceful, quick and earnest
as Alice, but her manner is somewhat too
serious for such pretty light superfcialities
as Alice's affairs. Miss Harmed gives the
impression, and no doubt it is true. that she
is holding back what she ought to have a
chance TO give out and that if the oDpor-
tunity had been given her she would be
finely delighted to have shown what she
could do as an actress, a star. She shows
hardly enough youthful carelessness for
Alice. However. her reception last night
was warm, indeed, and the public may de-
eide that in Alice RoussillOn she exhibits
sufficient ability to make her a star to be
patrOnized by throngs.
William COurtleigh impersonates John
Beverly in heroic spirit and yet a manly
one. Arthur Hoops, another capable actor
plays Colonel Hamilton as a sneering cruel
and sensual gentleman of England Mar
garet Gordon and Sadie Lauer have the
parts of two of Alice's girl friends. Miss
Lauers is a peculiar task AS Jane Bart
lette she must be a laundering girl to be
pushed about by her friends because of her
lack OF bright mindedness. 1t is funny. but
Jane seems to be pitifully simple Never
the less. she wins an Irish sergeant for her
husband while Nanette, a really smart girl
is not provided for in the otherwise happy
ending.