Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-27

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Nance oiden. the light fingered who has Just re.
6oxsn seeks @ S an as0@ em as5 pal
belonging to Bishop Van wasenen Nance acts
the part Of young lady from boarding school
for whom she has been waiting. -.
With cropped hair and In buttons Nance 10
bell boy, N Brooklyn hotel. where
.,s Stopping 9! hn'I9 MIS- ktnfdon wealthy widow.
for her money. Mrs. Kingdom misses : BAY Il
diamonds and excitedly rings for bell boy.
WaS Fesp0nas ana Snebseryed finds the jewels
and pursued BY Norway Nance Jumps over a
Low garden wall and darts into the house.
women's clothing. In these she arrays herself
and descends into the garden. where she Is
f"timsr !, BY ,, the owner Of the place Mr.
entry upon his domain. and, crsvipg excite
men ment T. determined to see It through when
duces Nance as Miss Omar. who reads to him,
The police explain their errand and Norway
Ms SUSPICIOUS s 1 OF Mics Omar but Nance outwits
NERDS to him. Nance puts Tom Dorgan onto
IS r. t. o the
to nd T.. She enters store
PR:nlsins . piese Of Matt. PACE sce' Passing 2iS
s nsr:sf 81 a.. a. floor walker Nance gets pos
-h~ao ahA
makes her way to the roof A window Of the
nepi 5, s9en and she climbs in and
room He 10 a vaudeville manager. who sees
into Nance the making Of an actress Nance soes
p %1sd the up n with Of -:
Charity Girl in a sketch and outshines the star
and late. makes sensation as leading lady
private house p.rty and is followed to her
nat BY the reprobate. Mr.. Ramsay whom she
Of y pfs ag t G..
the "pen'' and VISITS Nance in her dressing
room but the Crib will have nothing to do
the entrance Of Obernuller. Mrs. Ramsay,
who was guest Mt the house party. suspects
nance OF having stolen her purse. Nance's fat
taken before the cHief Of police but the mys-
terry OF the purse. is not solved. Finally It is
Ssns a aa on Mr. III. asstv Of Ss the ss
cides to save Obermqller from the grasp of the
Vaudeville .s syndfsa'e by appearing to. 60 over
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showing a conspiracy to crush ObermuiIer as
an independent manager Tausig of the syndi-
paper. But she mas kntten rid Of # Nv mining
1t to the skirt Of lost child which she found
on the street. hoping 10 find it later
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All me, Maggies the misera BILE, Nance that
'ent way from that station! To have Had
our future II. YouF.Sfasp4 like that one of
ne fates with the string, and then to have
snatched from you by an impish breeze
nd blown away. goodness knows where,
don't know just. which way 1 turned
fter l left that station. / didn't care
here 1 went. Nothing ] could think of
ave ME any comfort. 1 tried to fancy
lyself coming home to you. 1 tried to see
lyself going down to tell the whole thing
} Obermuller But l couldn't do that.
mere was only one thing l wanted to say
Fred Obermuller. and that thing 1
Duldnt say now.
But Nance Olden's not the girl to go
'und long like melting hen. There was
My one chance in hundred, and that was
lie one took. of course.
Back to the square where you found
10 baby. Nance"~I cried to myself
There's the chance that that admirable
ragon has had her suspicious aroused by
our connection with the baby, which she
adn't known before, and has already duti-
lily notified the sergeant. There's the
nance that the baby is home by now, and
lie paper found by her mother will be
irned over to her papa: and then it's good
y to your scheme. There's the chance
lat--'
But In the heart of me 1 didn't believe In
ny chance but one-the chance that I'd
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lst once more on that precious paper.
l blew In the A. DIS nickel on cross
,wn car. and got back to the little square
here was another organ grinder there
rlndlng out coon songs. to which other
ccan innies danced. But nary little
mite bundle Of fluff caught hold of my
and. walked that square till my feet
ere sore 1t was hot. My throat was
irched l was hungry. My head ached.
was hopeless. And yet 1 just couldn't
we it up. 1 had asked so many children
nd nurse-maids whether they'd heard of
le baby lost that morning and brought
lex by an officer that they began to look
me as though l was not quite right in my
ind. The maids grabbed the children if
icy started to come near me. and the
hlldren stared at me with big round eyes,
though they'd been told 1 was an ogre
no might eat them
was hungry enough to. The little fruit
and at the entrance had fascination for
II got AFRAID l might actually try to get
I with peach or bunch of grapes. That
iought haunted me- Fancy Nance Olden
arved and laundering into the cheapest
nd most easily detected species of thiev-
g!
suppose great generals In their hour of
afeat imagine themselves doing the feeb-
ST. foolishest things. AS l sat there on
ie oench. gazing before me. saw the
mole thfng-Napcy yOlden. after all her
Raging. her skirm1shing. her hairbreadth
'capes and suceesses arrested In broad
ayhght and before witnesses for having
oien a cool, wets bunch of grapes worth
nickel, for her hots dry. hungering throat!
saw the policeman thatd do 1t: he looked
ke that Sergeant Mulhill l met way, way
ack IN Latimeris garden. l saw the Of
GER thatd receive me: he had blue eyes
ke the detectives thatScame' for me to the
anhattan. l saws the woman jailer-oh,
he was the A. Dai albright. who'd receive
9 without the slightest emotion, show
e TO cell and Jock the door. as calm.
httle triumphant or affected. as though
hadn't once outWatsed that cleverest OF
eatures-and oNtwitted myself In fore
Mag guess w sT + saw. No. truly: what
really saw? It fkada me jump to my feet
I'd grab 1t with "a seaeai.
saw my own purse lying on the gravel |
most at my feet. near the little fruit |
and that had tempted me.
Blank empty 1t was. stripped clean. not |
penny left In 1t. not a paper. not stamp, |
u even my, key. Just the same l was |
al to have It, 1t linked me In a way to |
e place. The clever little girl that had |
Glen 1t had been here in this park, on |