The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-07-17

- snail walk she said sodly. and
I shall carry a little brown bag After
/ have walked to probably hundred
more trains l shall ut last walk to
trafu to Bond Fill, where. ever after,
shall ride In carriages"
"You told me-" said Ned. that II
YOU ever had chance to sing the lead
Bond Hill would be postponed. And
then perhaps
Little boy,'' she interrupted, I'm
not to have chance to sing It ana
I'VE rehenrsed it until I've two more
notes than had at the beginning OF
the senson."
..If YOU could sing 1t in Denver" he
said sohcriy, they might engage you
for something bettcr-if you sang II TO
please them" lie added.
..Lf sang IT to please them indeed.
she poured Then the tears weIled up
1T isn't a question Of singing 1t well.
Nod" she declared ''It's question
Of singing 1t MT all only want the
chance only the chance"
ar Won sang 1t tomorrow night" he
began. you would have been prtma
donna. II only for night. Then you
wouldn't need TO 20 back to Bond Htll'
and there wouldn't be any reason why
you and r.
IF any dire thing happens to Miss
Eur.on," she declared. 'nnd do Sing
tomorrow night. then there will be no
reason Why shouldn't do anything.
"Then you promise?'' he asked her.
doesn't Miss Burton look healthy
ana strong?" she answered.
There was confusion on the train
CARRYING the company from DreNel to
Denver before twenty-five miles OF the
200 mile run over the mountains had
been covered. No prilna donna was
on board, nor was there another train
reaching Denver before $50 that night,
which was too late to hold curtain
for any one. Miss Burton for the first
time that season had missed train.
There seemed to be no other solution.
ST told the man to call for her with a
carriage ut 1920" reiterated the nd
vEiice man to everybody. couAuh
do anything more"
1T begins to look said Ned, las If
YOU might be forced to siI the part
tonight"
The managers thought SO too. She
was taken by them to the baggage car.
where trunks were hurriedly over
hauled. Miss Burton's costumes, she
knew. would not fit her. So they were
ruthlessly cut up and cut down ngnin
to 1T In fact, she was so busy with
the gowns and the music, which she
ran over while she was not being mt
ted, TINT she was Mt the theater almost
before she had time to think OF any
thing even of Ned.
Denver didn't know that the very
pretty girl who got three encores TOT
the Moon Song was not Miss Burton.
Denver didn't know Miss Burton
ka1t
herring an understudy? thought the
managers. But somehow, when the
dramatic men got back to their offices,
they found that some one had tele-
phoned during their absence that Miss
Burton had missed the train at DreSel,
and that they had heard her under
study.
1--WE trust" one of them wrote the
next morning that Miss Bondhill, who
appeared in Miss Burton's stead last
night, will continue in the part during
the week. 1t would be hardly possible
to improve upon her work"
Miss Burton, greatly excited, arrived
ut the theater in time to see the last
act.
at seems to me-" she said, that that
horrid cabman purposely missed the
train. 1t wouldn't surprise me to learn
that some one had bribed him to leave
me behind" she finished.
Ned, did you hear what she saidT
the understudy whispered.
1T occurred to me ut Drexel, !" re
piled Ned bIandly, that 1t might be
possible to do what she suggested was
done"
..Ned. you don't mean she began.
II mean" he interrupted, when you
sign your next prirna donna contract
don't have inserted in it carriage
clause. Some one else who didnt Wish
to return to Bond Hin might 90 II 70
Won. and although can't offer you
carriages and acreage can offer you
a.
II don't care for carriages anyway"
she said.