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spellbound 1t not the actor whom they saw, but
the cavalry Sergeant of flesh and blood,
baked in the dearest wish of his heart swayed by
overmastering passion daring reseurceful,
patient, who, when his hopes collapse and ruin
whelms him, is led out to meet the firing squad,
with no fear in his face, nothing but desperate,
yearning, eternal love. 1t was mastery; and when
the shots rang out that meant his death, great
shudder went through the house, and women
turned pale and wept.
1t not possible that my untutored heart should
forever hold its secret. It's song grew loud and
then my tongue spoke also
We sitting night Mr.. Crompton and I,
far to side of the stage passageway leading
to some dressing rooms | in street dress, for
l did not appear in the last act. The stage was set
for the deck of the troop-ship the deck itself being
a platform raised few feet above the level of
the stage proper. 1t night, and moon shone
upon the ship and the gently heaving But
the ship itself there were no lights the red
and green near the bows and faint glow about the
door of companionway The deck was deserted
except for sailor watch, and sentry, far for
ward leaning his musket and looking over the side
1t is in this scene that the two meet, not as
soldiers, commissioned and non commissioned
officers but men, and fierce but brief scuffe
ensues that ceases upon the approach of the
sentry.
1t quite dark where we were sitting; and
somehow-somehow, without word from him |
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came to tell him everything. That sweet old song
which has welled up from many hearts to
my lips. Its spell upon me, and low in his
ear whispered the secret that had so long guarded
poured out my whole soul to him, hiding nothing,
caring nothing, swept away tide that could no
longer be controlled. Finally, told him about
Mr. Travs's jealousy.
At that moment the call was made and the
curtain up. He laid his hand on nine then
and stood looking down at For long time he
said nothing but l could feel that his eyes were
searching through and through Then he opened
his lips and murmured AT last, you beauty"
and catching UP in his arms, almost crushed me
in his embrace and kissed fercely three times
the lips.
| tore myself away from him and covered my
burning face. l snatched my handkerchief and
franticaly rubbed my lips, that l might wipe away
that had in it not of love- but everything
in the world that horrible and defiling and
degrading l can feel it now scorchng me: l have
since felt clean My confession was made,
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you, love you'll my heart sang from morning
until night; and if l woke in the darkness, there
my heart still singing: 81 love you, love you'll
One day my heart sang too happily, and some
one heard In the first of the second act the
regiment embarks a troop-ship for foreign service
The troopers, dismounted and carrying their kits
come swinging along to the pier-head, the band
in front playing The Girl | Left Behind Me, and
nearly every person in the play crowding the stage
to see them off. You remember the scene, of
course? 1t wonderfully effective and full of noise
and bustle and while the soldiers pass, l stand
in the porch of the inn and wave my handkerchief
and pretend to weep.
One night as l was doing this, and Mr.. Travis
the Sergeant strding by with the marching
troops, he stopped short looked back at me, and
then went on. That all. But in that instant of
time in the midst of that confusion and hubbub
and in some way that puzzles me to this moment
he had heard the singing of my heart. | blushed
crimson and covered my face with my handkerchief
1t was too late he had seen. | knew 1t, and my
secret was out To think that the man whom
loved with a poor little tremuous love should not
guess, while the one whom l almost loathed
should read me like Z book!
But the song that my heart sang would not be
stied. Every night, when the troops marched
past l waved my handkerchief was Tor him,
though l looked another way. Every night, when
in the great third act he staggered into camp bear
ing the wounded Sergeant his back-the man
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and this was my absolution. was girl no longer,
but woman.
Before could recover myself heard near me a
quiet voice in the darkness 1t the Sergeant's
Il say, Cromptonl Drop that, will you'll"
What blanked business" began Mr. Crompton
violently.
But Mr., Travis interrupted him: Come on
Crompton We are late.
They turned and ran up the companion and ap-
peared together the silent moonlit deck l stood
transfxed, watching them. They were talking to
each other in the words of the play following their
lines exactly; but every word they said had hid
den meaning that only could read, and their voices
were tense and hard Presently, at the proper cue
the first blow was struck. Almost instantly there
were two more, quick and sharp The stage-nan-
ager there something wrong and ran up
calling to them but they paid no heed. In a mo-
ment more they clinched, broke away, clinched
again, and swayed back and FORTH back and FORTH
struggling desperately.
1t impossible, from where / stood, to tell
them apart in the pale moonlight which filtered
downward from the flies. They made only one
huge blot of shadow that quivered and swayed and
danced grotesquey, and out of which, loud against
the death-like stiffness of the house, issued the
sounds of labored breathing and grunts and curses
and the scraping of feet as they fought furiously
together. Then something happened-I don't
know what; there OATH vicious blow, and
of them hurled headlong over the canvas
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ing that the Sergeant was near and Observing
This angered me. Then it dawned upon me that
he jealous. l was only foolish, hght-headed
drop to my cup of happiness. In my widest dreams
l had never imagined anything SO delightfully."-
romantic, so tremendously dramatic. Indeed
thing we were playing every night: the young
Lieutenant, at first unconscious that he is loved
the heroine loving him in secret the Sergeant loving
her. jealous of him and trying by. every crafty
that ends the play with his undoing and the
Lieutenant's happiness. almost laughed aloud
when l thought of it. Here, surely, drama
within drama, with Rosa Leigh as the heroine
of one, and | as the heroine of the other.
For week in and week out we played our several
parts IN each drama, the false and real; and time
went on could observe marvellous change in Mr..
Travis's acting Now he must have felt in certain
measure what before he had only pretended to feel
There more misses from the galleries. no more
catcals, stamping. The house sat silent,
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which stood the Sergeant clad in ragged dressing
gown that reached his heels and with his left arm
in a sling. On his head he a moth eaten
grenaders bear-skin, and about his waist was
knotted old red table-cloth with ends hanging
like sash, while in his right hand he brandished
a poker in lieu of a sword.
In front of him. almost lost in big armchair sat
a little girl with great blue eyes and long golden
curls She prinked out children love to
dress in all of fnery and strange garments,
the tail of her long gown, suspicousy ike another
table-cloth spread out with much elegance upon
the floor In her lap she held bit of newspaper
and dapidated pair of opera glasses. Here then,
the actor and his audience: the in costume
the other gowned for the play My heart melted;
and when l that propped against the chair
which held the audience little crutch, tears
came to my eyes, and drew back and let the cur
tain fall.
Presently the Sergeant began again. but such
mounting, such ranting, such sbilant SIS, such
grating RS, such gutteral G's, such big round Os,
such gloomy frowns, such fendish laughs l am
sure audience ever or heard before or since.
No wonder the little girl clapped her small hands
wildly, and cried: Pitch into him, buddyi Give
it to hinl!
Il loved the beautiful lady with my whole heart
and SOUL" continued the Sergeant and YOU
what did you do? Answer mel Ha, ha! You
canti | know well enough that you come of great
and ancient family; that you real lords son
and heir; that you Lieutenant and my superior
officer. | know it well as / know that | a
nobody, Sergeant man in the ranks. But if
you have spark of manhood in you, strip off that
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DuIWaTkS and Tell with an awful
crash on the stage. Which one?
dared not look. l hid my eyes;
my heart stopped beating l heard
the curtain come down with run,
and muff1ed roar from the unsus-
pecting audience, and much hurry
ing about, and hushed, anxious
voices Finally some one asked:
"Crompton, are you hurt?" And
with that my heart leaped in my
breast, beating, beating, SO loud, so
riotously, that it almost stifed me,
and | turned and ran as if for life.
l entered the room through the
opened door, and stopped short,
my finger at my lips Mrs Gilpin
was following me-that sweet old
woman who played the 1andlady of
the Pump and Dipper Inn-and she
stopped short also, and put her
finger to her lips We both stood
on tiptoe, motionless, so like con-
spirators about to commit some
dark deed that we could scarcely
keep from laughing.
The room was empty; but from
behind curtain at the opposite end
issued a voice, shouting:
You hound " SO spake the voice;
you hound You saw that | loved
the acknowledgement must have
seen it-and you came between us!
BASTARD Do you hear me?"
Pitch into him, buddy! Give it
to him, give it to him!" came now
in shrill, excited tones from the
same direction
| pushed the curtain aside a
little mite, and peeped into a bare,
shabby room, in the center of
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who had been to him a cruel and
persistent enemy-and sank to the
ground spent with WEAKNESS, every
night when he stood modest but
brave before a court-martlal OF his
brother officers and made the great
sacrifice, telling a lie, dragging his
own honor in the dust that the
honor of the regiment might be
unstained, | watched him and loved
him dearly.
To be near him, to look upon
him, young and glorious in his
brilliant Lieutenant uniform, to
listen to his voice, set my heart to
singing joyously, He was SO gra-
cious, so manly, his expression and
manner were so natural and full of
charm, that the heroic words he
uttered, his deeds of daring and
self-sacrifice, were just what might
have been expected of him-part
and parcel of the man himself.
As we came to know each other
better, it made me proud it gave
me the greatest happiness, to feel
that he was doing nightly on the
stage precisely what he would have
done under similar conditions in
the actual living world outside
the theater His whole treatment
of me confirmed me in this opinion.
He was kindness itself, helped me
with my part, sent me flowers,
gave me little suppers-did every
thing to please me; and sometimes,
it seemed to me, he must hear my
timid little heart singing those
wonderful, wonderful words: 4
love you, l love you'll Oh, how
anxiously, how timorous1y, | waited
for him to hear, and for his own
dear heart to sing in its turni For
| knew knew SO well that |
should follow wherever that song
led me, and that l should be
blissfully, unutterably happy!
After that one backward glance
that had surprised my secret, the
Sergeant never looked me in the
eve; but | was always conscious
that he watched me covert1y. He
seemed to dog my steps. | was
never alone with Mr.. Crompton for
a moment; | could not even speak
to him or look at him without feel
ing that the Sergeant was near ant
me. This angered me- Then it dawn
he was jealous. | was only a fool
girl, remember, and that thought
drop to my cup of happiness. In ny
| had never imagined anything
romantic, SO tremendously dram
the whole situation was ridict11o,5c1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
RACING FOR WHISKY.
Mad Exodus From Glasgow to Obtain
 Drinks.

From the London Express Glasgow was afflicted with an Easter thirst yesterday, and it had to go out of town to quench it, for the city magis- trates had decreed that all public houses must remain closed from 9 o'clock on Saturday night until Monday morning.
 The chief objective of the exodus of drought was Paisley which is linked to Glasgow by corporation cars.
 A special two-minute service began in the morning. but before noon it was pow erless to carry half the bona fde trav- elers.
 So one-mnute service was arranged. and every car pulled up at Paisley Cross crowded with dry-mouthed men and wom- en, who hurried down the stairs and made straight for the nearest public house.
 As the afternoon wore on the public houses wore out, in spite of unusually large supplies, and one after another had to give up promscuous serving and ad- init only certain number at time. Men and women stood in long queues im- patiently awaiting their turn. The sale of bottles of whisky for Carrying out was phenomcnal-and so was their effect on their carriers.
 A special staff of policemen regulated
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Try the Gawk for haIf-tone and line husfra4Inns. Aoe-ieraid 1ulldlno.
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Staff Correspondence of the New York
 Evening Mail.
 EXTINCTION, Ky.-Southern audiences
 like to hear stories, southern speak 1 CTS know how to tell them, and the southern atmosphere seems to produce them and spur northern men on to tell ing them on their own account. few of the stories told at the Conference for Education, either from the platform or in conversation, are recorded here.
 In rendering Hartford's invitation to the conference to come there next year, Rev. Dr. Twitchell told of northerner who was, introduced to a Kentucky colonel, and with questionable taste" referred at once to Kentucky as "a bibulous state"
 Yes, sir,' promptly responded the col onel, i've deserve the reputation. There
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Bret Harte's Unconscious Prophecy

K N. J. in New York Sun.
 Nearly forty years ago Brete Harte, in one of his contributions to the Overland Monthly. entitled The Ruins of San Francisco" commenced in this wise:
 Toward the close of the nineteenth century the city of San Francisco was totally destroyed by an earthquake. Although the whole coast line must have been much shaken, the accident seems to have been purely local and even the city of Oakland escaped
 He builded better than he knew when he composed the clever article. and If he had fixed the date of tho catastrophe few years later his state ment would have been fulfilled liter ally.
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made the girl and the woman sit in the field. There they sat and. wonder of wonders, the clods around them began. as it were. to dance. Thus clod would
 rise, say, four or five feet from the earth
 and fall down. At times more than one clod would thus rise up and fall down.
 Here, then, We had the scene of clods of earth in the midst of the field dancing as If they were imbued with life. and this at about II in the day and In the presence of hundreds. It semed to me that in the field the ghost had not power enough to be able to throw the elods to any distance.
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the crowds outside the shops, and took possession of the "overcomes" The lock ing-np process began early in the after noon, and continued until late al night, the cell accommodation being taxed be- yond its legitimate capacity.
 In other suburban boroughs similar dis graceful scenes were witnessed
 Curlousy enough the magistrate did not interfere with the theatres and music halls. and in the evening all the places of amusement did a roaring business in the sale of drink.
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New Version of "Twenty-Three. :"
,tor Smith in New York Press. .

Victor Smith in New York Pfess
 A veteran fan stopped me in Broad- way the other day and shouted. "Twen- ty-threer' The town had gone '23' mad. Why don't you tell us what 1t means he continued "Everybody wants to know. You don't know? Well. l can put vou wise. Rule 23 in the baseball regula- tions gives the umpire the privilege Of clearing the grounds. When he enforces if everybody must skiddoo.'
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In 1920.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 As q man approached the great colleg eleven pale and slender young men dress ed In evening clothes and white glov trlpped across the field and slapped on another on the wrist
 strange" he unused. What Is this outdoor theatricals?'
 "No," replied the dean with muc' pride in his tones. this is d game of m, ilfied football"
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