The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-04-19

oism, she had to depart for home
without having told him anything
about it. Other girls who also loved
and adored may have sent him notes
and bouquets, but Hattie would have
been frightened at the idea. She de-
parted for home, hiding her feelings
from everybody, and her brother Bill
and her fathers hired man never look
ed so common to her before. The idea
Of one OF them pulling out q revolver
and crying "Zoundsr' seemed like the
| rankest bu -lesque to her.
Providence brought things around in
q queer way two months later-that II,
1t brought Colonel Bings. a. he had
been named on the programme. to the
farm Of Abel Saunders as q boarder.
Farmer Saunders didn't banker for
boarders, and his wife agreed that II
| wouldn't be worth the bother, but Hat
| tie settled II as soon as she set eyes on
| the stranger. Here was the hero Of
the play standing before her, hat In
hand, and she would have given nve
years of her life rather than that he
| should go elsewhere. He was out for
a fortnight's vacation and was willing
to sleep ON a straw bed and eat pota-
toes with the jackets on, and after q
bit he was taken In. Hattie was lit
tie disappointed that he didn't throw
her father over the well curb and her
brother Bill over the fence In the flrst
/ fifteen minutes. but she was q girl of
patience, and she gave him time. She
also realized that 1t must be hard work
on the voice and muscles for a man
to be a hero all the time. He must
have a day or now and then to re-
cuperate.
Supper was the first meal Colonel
Bings sat down to. He didn't have
any eagle feathers in his hair or buck
skin fringe on his jacket or trousers.
and he didn't mince his food like q
hero. On the contrary, as brother Bill
took occasion to remark, he ..just SHOW
eled it in and put the hired man to
the blush. 1t was a disappointment.
but Hattie was not discouraged. She
sat down with her hero that evening to
draw him out. He was ready to be
drawn. He said he got a salary OF $50
per week for playing the part Of Colo
mel Bings. or would have had II the
manager hadn't cut sticks and left him
in the lurch. The girl had made UP. hel
mind that nothing less than 81, 900 pei
week could command such talent a
that and that hundred dollar bills werS
as common as. matches to him. and hs
took something of drop In her estima
| ton.
In the play he had saved a swee'
faced heroine whose tears had cap
tured Miss Hattie's sympathies at al
early stage, although at the same tint
she had been made little jealous By
!. her being carried around In the hero'i
arms when she could just as well hAvs
walked. She WAS now to learn tha'
the heroine was woman OF fortJ
who had been married and divorced
three or four times and whose swee
{ face was made so by grease and paint
, The hero also further mentioned tina
: the heroine's trunk was being held b!
, her landlady for six weeks board.
. There was no posing on his part q
he walked about under the apple trees
. When he was bitten bya mosquito
Hattie expected to hear him call on
"Zoundsr or ''S'deathv' but he didn't
, He called out Thunder instead
; When the hour grew late and bedttm
came he didn't bend ovse her uski