Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-01

my No, he was not there. but tbs
Chain was. The girl clinched her teeth
anSrlIy. Some one had unfasteued him
she ran down again and STONED M
/ her entrance door, and while she fis
/ tened to see how far off her cue was
she looked for the basket which she
was 10 carry on. Yes, there was the
basket ana her cue was easily three
minutes away. The leading man had
not yet begun his famous business Of
walking up the stage in silence fling.
ing open the center doors and holdino
that position for the applause which
always followed his picturesque calls
thenlc effort. After this he would de-
liver sentimental speech preparatory
to the girls entrance.
She ran across behind the stage
again. Jimmy might have wandered
INTO the property room, Props being a
particular friend of his. The property
ROOM however, held nothing more in.
teresting than Props himself. who was
smoking peaceful pipe, with his fant
elevated against the sign, mo Smok-
ing Here. Props had a sardonic sense
of humor and no RESPECT for the man.
ager of the house, who had had the sign
placed there.
On her way back the girl stopped for
last despairlng little whistle at the
leading mans door and as she did so
noticed that all was still on the stage.
The leading man must be-yes, lust nj
that moment the doors were flung open,
and she could see him standing before
the opening, his shoulders heayinr
with the agitation of high class melo- I
dramatic emotion. The girl caught her |
breath in alarm. AS the applause
came she started to cross behind the |
road drop" which backed the open |
doors. She would just have time to
reach her entrance, but as she turned |
she saw that another admirer of the |
leading man had seen him and that
the grand catastrophe was at hand, for J
Jimmy was trotting from the other di- |
rection straight toward the actor and
the sentimental speech was lust begin
ming!
The girl was back across the stage
behind the road drop" in a flash. The
leading man was pathetically declaim-
ing that life was not worth living and
that he would seek death In a foreign
cline by the very next steamer Jimmy
was already coming down the little
passage formed by the drop and the
back of the set before the big doors
were reached. She knew she could not
call. for 70 do so effectively she would
be obliged to pitch her voice above the
actors.
There was but one way, and if she
missed the dog!
She made step into the passage and
setting down the basket threw herself
as quietly rs possible at full length on /
the ground. She had not missed. She
clutched Jimmy as his nose was with
in four inches of the door
And the next moment she realized
what she had entirely forgotten-that
the speech was the last before her en-
trance and that her cue was near.
With Jimmy locked in tightest am
orOus embrace she picked herself I'D
and got round to her entrance Al.
though she did not express her hopes in
language she had Il conviction that
Providence had selected some one to
drop from the clouds and take Jimmy.
now that she had so gloriously captured
him. She slipped her basket on her I
arm and looked round wildly and as
she did so observed that every one was
on the stage but herself Surely, sure I
~ some stray scene Shifter would ,
And then she heard her cue being Civ 6
Ell. The girl who was going to be an ,
actress lifted the lid of her basket. 9
thrust Jimmy in and walked on. !
The leading man saw her liberate
Jimmy after the act and so she had to
tell him the story. He was furious 9
with wrath of elaborate eloquence. I
Next night he came TO her again when $
She was sitting on her stool before the
electric light fire and made the solemn 7
a
I've given Jimmy away"
The girl had loved Jimmy, but per
laps it was for the best. Poor little
Jimmy" she said softly. I'm afraid '
dog is out of place in the profession"
Perhaps because there are so many
# them there already" said the lead
ng man, his eyes shooting lightning in
he direction of the villain. And the
.irl nodded.
The curtain raiser was beginning. s
he leading man slipped into the wings, O
nd the girl who was going to be an ac- T
mes. n
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