The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-18
AMUSEMENTS.

words out of the mouths of the two as
they pace backward and forward. with
black eyes glittering in the half-ltght
Jumping Fox. listen.'
Il give car. Rattlesnake."
Curse that girl III have her. When
have her she will be in my power.'
''Rattlesnake, you are in love.
What else Jumping Fox, what else?
Mould the RattleSnake like 10 know
Speak. Jumping Fox. l will listen"
"A pale face has stolen your white
squaw!'
AT this juncture Jumping Fox bethinks
himself OF an engagement and gives Mrs.
Lamar, the woman with past, an oppor-
tunity TO wander along the trail and CON
verse with RattleSnake. no other than
Henry Arson, and the false attorney OF
Philadelphia. To the meanest intellect II
soon becomes evident that these two have
been much TO each other in the past. for
he halls her his lost Loco" and wants
To clear out at once to some happier spot.
where they may live in peace and quiet.
With noble scorn she spurns his false love,
and he replies, with his face working with
d terrible passion:
Il have spread the net. You are at last
In the tolls; Loco, you are mine!
To this Mrs. Lamar drawing a shining
dagger and pointing ii straight at her pal
plating bosom, replies, with a side glance
This glittering steel will rest in my
bleeding heart before Henry Anson's head
rests upon itr
linen enSueS q mao chase up a convenient
cliff during which the brave and noble
woman outstrips the villainous Arson and
makes good her escape. Not before. how
ever, Nemesis, in the person of the ragged
tramp, prevents Arson shooting the fleeing
woman by getting the drop on Arson him
self. with these brave words:
Hold on, you strawberry blonde, your
game is upi''
The last two acts of the play. while suf
fciently intense to hold the attention Of
the audience TO the last moment let down
a oh a
Act II. AS things work toward the end 1t
develops that the tramp is no other than
Philadelphia detective, who has long
been on AnsOn's trail and who has war
rant for his arrest for the crime of bank
robbery. More comedy is furnished by the
marriage of Editor Barker and Martha
Ann, and the fall from grace of the new
bridegroom in company with jug of rum.
The play ends with the death of Arson,
who escapes the dagger of Arson, and
who falls on his painting breast in an
ecstacy of gratitude and love.
Dazed by the power of a mans genius
the four hundred file out of the theater at
quarter to Il, and with them a reporter
who had failed TO keep eye on the
running Greenfield interurban cars. No
better testimony OF the power Of the play
can be asked than the simple statement
that the reporter came TO only when he
realized the last car for Indianapolis had
gone, and that he had available assets
consisting of only 10 cents and two keys
The fire of another mans genius will not
keep the body warm in the early morning
hours, and it was case of hypnotizing a
hotel clerk or of taking to the open. a
! little luggage was acquired by the pur-
chase of two hamburger sandwiches. done
up in a paper parcel, and fortified by the
sandwiches and the consciousness of in
tegrity, dignified front was assumed
which won bed and the sympathy of the
/ night man.
Literary pilgrimages, for those who are
! peculiarly susceptible to dramatic intensity.
are not without danger, or, at least, dis
! comfort.