Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-15

When that day comes, however, I will
write and tell you.
For two weeks Charleston wore
that letter next his undershirt and
faithfully read it each night before
going to bed.
1t was at this period he happened
to fall foul of a newspaper which
gave a glowing account of an abnor-
mally large Sunday gathering at
Coney Island notwithstanding to
the reporter-'pretty nearly every
body of note in the Show business
was, as usual, present" and this put
an idea into his head.
He dressed himself in his Bond
street best and few to Coney by spe-
cially-chartered trolley. If she was
there he caught no glimpse of her,
however; but that did not deter him
from going again the next day, and
the next, and the next after that, I'M
til another week had gone and Despair
sat once more upon the heartstone OF
his Hopes.
BY this time he mad become con-
vinced that search for her in this
particular section of the universe was
| as unlikely to produce the desired re-
suit as watching the stage door of
the Hippodrome had been, and he had
just made up his mind to abandon the
| field when something happened which
sent sort of electrical shock zig
| tagging up and down his spinal col
umn.
1t was merely the passing of
young woman-a very gaudily-dressed,
strident-voiced young woman who, in
endeavoring to get by him in the
crowd and join some other gaudily
dressed young women who had gone
on in advance, had managed to catch
the lace f1ounce of her parasol in the
prongs of his jeweled scarf pin.
And it was here that Charleston
received the shock. For, in the frac-
ton of time her hands had been busy
tugging at the lace. he had seen
| sparkling on her wrist the indentical
| ieweIed bracelet he had sent to La
Papillion in the early days of his in
! fatuatiOn.
Charleston waited until she was
near the door and then walked for
ward and met her
We'll, I've run you down you see,"
said Charleston, severely. Il hope
| you know, young woman, that it's
criminal offense to be found in pos
session of stolen property"
] ST didn't steal anything"
"I'll know more about that when /
have confronted you with the person
to whom I gave the bracelet you are
wearing and heard from her whether
she has lost it or not
"She hasn't lost it, I tell yer. She
| lent it to me-she always lends it to
me-"
I'll believe that when I hear her
say So"
II tell yer she won't see yer. Now
let it go at that.
Look here!" she said, laying a
shaking hand in Clarrickston's sleeve.
shes in there now a gettin ready for
her turn I know, for I'd ought to
been here half an hour ago to help
with her clothes. Now, if I go ag'in
orders and take you behind and let
you speak to her will you take your
solemn oath not to say I stole the
| things and not to prosecute nor moth
in? Will yer?"
Charleston thought of nothing,
cared for nothing, but the chance to
speak with Her-the one Her" in all
the world for him-and let his hand
slide from the woman's shoulder.
yes" he said, eagerly. yes, 1
will"
Her hand closed tighter on his
sleeve; she half led, half raced him
along the pavement and in through
| the stage entrance, and thence, by
dusty stairs and winding ways lit by
| dimIy-burning, wire-hooded gas jets
to a room beneath the stage. The
| door was closed. She pushed 1t open
and drew Charleston in.
The lights were burning brightly
enough here. All round the room hung
the costumes Charleston now knew
by heart and, at the far end, where
wig of long light hair hung on a peg,
| a Young fellow of two or three
and twenty was shaving himself be-
| fore a little mirror propped up on the
/ dressing-room shelf.
! The mirror reflected the face of the
woman as she entered, and the man,
catching a glimpse of it, drew the
razor along his jaw and sang out
cheerily, Hello, Mag! What the dick
ems kept yer?"
lag Charleston forward. He was
goin' to have me pinched for wearin'
that bracelet, Jimmy-as though
woman amt got right to wear what's
gave to her husband, if he lets her."
The shaver turned across the mar
row room.
'"This KEEP mel" said Mag" push
Gee! it's the English mug" he
said And we'd a been off to Cincin-
natl next week. Well, I guess you
know now, Petey, that your tempera-
ment and mine amt of the hitchin'
kind, but If ever you give this snap
away, I'll break your whole face-un'
| derstaEd?"
Charleston said nothing. He mere
" opened the door and went quietly
away.