The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-22
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ised himself that when he wfls thor oughly established he would build a home and ensconce Daisy Butler as its mistress. But beside the firece fire of his longing for this chorus girl
 Daisy was but a child dream. He spoke of the girl on the stage | to his companion, a city man with
 whom he had had some business and l who had courteously suggested the
 theatre.
 "Yes. yes," replied Bronson. care- lessly, Mabel certainly Is in good form tonight and a deuced pretty lit- tie thing at that. Struck on her, hey7"
 He looked at Cameron inquiringly. Then he smiled and added Like to meet her? Might get one
 of the others and her and have a lit- tie supper after the show. How
 would that strike you?'
 Cameron fairly leaped to his feet in his eagerness.
 Can you do it, really?" he asked. T reckon so." replied the other. Anyway we'll try" He wrote a few lines on the margin of his program with his pencil and called an usher. Take that to Miss Howard" he said, and bring the answer here" He handed the program to the usher
 with q dollar bill folded around 1t. A reply came and Bronson secured a carriage and waited at the corner two blocks away. stage entrance too conspicuous" he explained. They'll | come here"
 And come they did, greatly, to the | surprise and delight of Cameron. The events which followed seemed to him like a fatryfand and opened up new vistas to his imagination. The danc- CT of the stage seemed to him no less alluring off. She had brought with her another Of the chorus girls and the four were driven to a restaurant, where an elaborate supper was order ed by Bronson. As 1t progressed and
 the wines had their effect. the fun
 became fast and furious. The shell
 of Puritanism dropped from Cameron like discarded coat and he joined in
 tho very spirit of the occasion. And | through 1t all. about 1t all. permeat- ing 1t all, was the flashing of black eyes. the red cupid lips, the flushed cheeks the merry laughter, the invit- ing glances of the little dancer.
 That was the crisis and the turn ing point. When he retired at his ho-
 tel about dawn he knew in his heart that he would not return to the coun- try. He proceeded deliberately and with the canny spirits of his fathers For long time a certain farmer had been trying to rent his farm Cam eron wrote the next morning and made an offer, which would assure him Of substantial income. It was accep- ted. He arranged his other affairs so his securities would yield a certain in- come without attention on his part and SO he could turn them into cash on short notice. In the meantime ho hn e In hn h Nf NFo
 bers black eyes and leading an exis- tence which 'gay" would describe but coldly.
 When the company of which Mabel was part of left the city he followed 1t, and during the entire season haunt ed 1t. Then in the summer he took Mabel into the far north and lived a few months of widest joy. Then there was a quarrel. a separation and Cameron plunged into new dissipa- tions and found another idol to burn incense to.
 It went on until his health broke and he spent weary months in a hos pital. Recovering he found himself at the end of his financial rope. Dur ing all his illness not one of the friends with whom he had spent the gay later years, came near him. All the human sympathy he received, was Iormal note rom his business agent In Huskville and a box of flowers also marked Huskville. the smell of which somehow reminded him of sweet Daisy Butler.
 Well" he soliloquized. I've tried both sides of my nature and I've giv- en both horses pretty free rein. guess after all the Cameron blood gets me the most"
 So setting his square jaw, ho went back to the morteaged farm at Husk- vile and took up the fight anew And there he still fights with square jaw set and eyes grimly determined Now and then over his evening pipe he glances down the road toward the Butt Ter home and wonders If brown eyed Daisy will be unmarried still when he recoVers his financial balance. And whether he dares to ask her in the light of the past.
 An well, these are the questions of fLa