The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-05-31

knew frost when he saw it, even
in rehearsal. But he did not contradict
her when she ratified on about the Won
derful things she intended to do for
her half invalid mother on that So
, week, for THE Love Of a Princess"
was to have two matinees week.
The night of the dress rehearsal Al
len sat watching her with hungry eyes.
Almost he wished that he had tried for
the position of walking gentleman"
! just to promenade the stage with that
vision in soft old lavender brocade Oil
his arm. Then his eyes snapped, and
when Betty came off he whispered:
take off that lace thingumbob and
carry it home with YOU"
Betty looked surprised, but she had
learned to defer to his suggestions, and
so, when she came out in her long,
rough coat and fur touue she carried
the lace bertha under her arm
THAT is what makes the dress look
so pretty" she urged. Its real lace"
Eyes, saw that" answered Allen,
but some five cent a yard stuff will
do for stage wear, and if some of
them got wise to the fact you had real
lace they'd cop it and pawn it. Say,
you don't know anything yet about life
behind the scenes"
At first Betty had felt inclined to re-
| sent Aliens espionage, but he was
! good looking chap, and she soon found.
especially after the first night, when
chO fhn only oe
! dies 10 receive fiowers-violets that
must have cost several dollars-that his
regular attendance upon her made her
tic envy of many fellow players.
The papers gave the new production
bad notices, but the audiences contin-
ued large, especially III the orchestra,
! and Betty remained hopeful.
Paper" said Allen in disgust as he
watched the audience gather on Thurs
day night. And he was right. The
house was being filled on passes. "The
Love of a Princess was failure.
But Betty. watching the big audi
ences, could not be persuaded mot
until Saturday night came, when the
company was called together and dis
lulSSeu WITHOUT salaries.
Betty was very quiet and white
when she came out, her grandmother's
frOck under her arm.
ITS all over" she said sadly. "You
were right. And-and we didn't even
get one weeks salary. There's all my
car fare, and my new slippers, and a
bill at the druggists. Mothers cough
has been so much worse
Aliens firm clasp closed over her
trembling hand
There, there, don't you worry.
saw it coming before the first night
even, and my brother who's got a
good thing in the Daniels Realty COM
pany, is going to put you in there to
mind the switchboard Tomorrow's
Sunday, and he'll take time to show
you how to run it, so when you start
in Monday you won't seem green. It's
eight week to start and something
better ahead, cause you've got pull,
see?"
"Oh, you are SO kind to me. l don't
see Why
Betty was half sobbing.
Allen looked down upon her droop.
ing head III speeches. amazement.
Girls certainly were queer things, he
argued. Hadn't he shown her plainly
enough? He cleared his throat, but
his voice remained husky.
Don't you know-ain't you seen
that 1 loved you-loved you from the
first day you came into my car? But
l wasn't going to tell you just yet-not
until l got a better job. The first of
the year I'm going into the advertising
line with that firm on the tenth floor,
and then Say, have you seen those
model flats up on West Eighty-seventh
street? I think that sunlight from the
south court would be grand for your
mother, and if you get an advance
and the advertising business pans out
We might
Goodness, was she never going to
stop crying? Was this the way girls
always behaved when men proposed
to them?
Suddenly the brocaded dress fell at
his very feet, and before he could pick
it up Bettys two hands clasped on his
ARM ana her eyes, raised to his, shone
like two violetS bathed with dew.
"Oh, Allen, you are perfectly grandl
II the princess had had a love like
yours, the show never would have
closed
And then But never mind. Some
policemen are very tactful and the one
who was strolling their way turned
his back and picked up the brocade
dress that was rolling straight for the
gutter
"F-ox Hunting" In 1900.
Two or three hundred years ago any