Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-17

just how I'd take off every member of the company to amuse him. I had memorized every joke I'd heard since I'd got behind the curtain-not very hard for me; things always had way of sticking in my mind. I knew the newest songs in town, and the choruses of all the old ones. I could show him the latest tricks with cards I'd got those at first hand from Prof. Haughwout. You know how great Tom is on tricks. l could explain the disappearing woman mystery, and the mirror cabinet. I knew the clog dance that Dewitt and Daniels do. I had pie lures of the trained seals, the great elephant act, Mile. Picotte doing her great tight-rope dance, and the Broth CTS Borodini in their pyramid tum- Bling.
 Yes, it was a whole vaudeville show, with refreshments between the acts, that was taking up to Tom Dorgan. l don't care much for lot of that truck-funny, isn't it, how you get to turn up your nose at the things you'd have given a finger for once upon a time? But Tom-oh, I'd got. every thing pat for him-my big, handsome Tom Dorgan in stripes-with his curls ell shaved off-ugh!
 I'd got just so far in my thoughts, sitting there in the train, when gave Q shiver. l thought for minute it was at the idea of my Tom with one of those bare, round conyict-heads on him, that look like fat skeleton faces. But it wasn't. It Was
 Guess, Mag.
 Norway. +
 Both of us thought the same thing of each other for the first second that our eyes met. could see tbat. He thought I was caught at last. And thought he'd been sharp once too often. .,.. -....,-.. a..
 And, Mag, it would be hard to, say which of us would have been happier if it had been the truth. Oh, to meet Norway, bound sure enough for Sing Sing!
 He got up and came over to me, smiling wickedly. He took the seat behind me, and leaning forward, said softly:
 "Is Miss Omar engaged to read to some invalid up at Sing Sing? And for how long term-I should say, en- gagement?"
 I'd got through shivering by.then. l was ready for him. I turned and looked at him in that very polite, dis tant sort O way Gray uses in her act when the Charity superintendent speaks to her. It's the only decent thing she does; chances are that that 5 how Lord Gray's mother looks at her. You know my sister, Mr.-Mr.-" l asked humbly.
 He looked at me, perplexed for just . second. ..-.
 Sister be hanged" he said at last. "I know you, Nat. and I'm glad to my finger-tlps that you've got it in the neck, in spite of all your smartness
 You're altogether wrong, sir" I said, very stately, but hurt bit, you know. I've often been taken for my sister, but gentlemen usually apologize when 1 explain to them. It's hard enough to have a sister who" I looked up at him tearfully, with my chin a-wabble with sorrow.
 He grinned.
 Liars should have good memories. '' he sneered. Miss Omar said she was eE orphan. you remember, and had not a relative n the world"
 Did she say that? Did Nora say that?" I exclaimed, piteously. "Oh, what a little liar she is, suppose she thought it made her more interesting to be so alone, more appealing to kind hearted gentlemen like yourself. hope she wasn't ungrateful to you, too, as she was to that kind Mir. Latimer, before he found her out. And she had such good position there, tool wanted to look at him, oh. want ed to. But il was my role to sit there with downcast eyes. just the pie ture of holy grief. I was the good one -tne good, shocked sister. and though wasn't a bit afraid of anything he could do to me. or any game he could put up. 1 yearned 70 make him believe me-just because he vas SD suspicious, So wickedly smart. so sure he was on.
 But his very silence sort of told me t- almost believed. or that he was lay .ng trap.
 will you tell me" he said, now you-your sister got Latimer to lie for herr
 MT. Latimsr-lIs, Oh. you don't Snow him. lie expected a lady 10 read 0 hin that very evening. He had nsver seen her. and when Nora walked sto the garden"
 After getting a skirt somewhere"
 Ts-the h0usekeeper's. it hap pened to be her evening Out-why. he just naturally supposed Nora was Miss Omar
 -Ah. then her name isn't Omar. What miEht # be5~
 @rd rather n1t tsil-if ycu don't rinE-
 Brt when Latfner f0urt ont she lS5 the fis--7 uls-Ee did find 0Et3
 ~She confessed to him Nora's not really s1 bad a siri as
 ~Verv interesting. But it dOes1 ! kaupza to be Lzsinsr-s version Azd yol ssy LssineT z8uiIa't Ee-
 I E1t pale-bzr the Paleness vas On sss fuziSe of ne ThlLk vas sOirE s5-ra tzs1-e q efszszp Tss Norway