The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-20
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their programs and stumbled over the
phrases which announced Senior AYar-
lilo and Dainty Marguerite in the
thrilling death-defying knife-throwing
act
Il wish they wouldn't have such
things, said the woman with the firm
chin in the first box 1T is so nerve
raCHing' What if knife should
Slip
The audience held its breath with
the same mental question as the cur
tain went up and disclosed the large
upright board against which Dainty
Marguerite twice a day was outlined
ny the deadly hatchets and knives Of
the Spanish gentleman attired in Grim
son and yellow and with the sweeping
mustache. Always when he first came
on and bowed 10 the plaud.ts Senior
AMARILLO was wont to wave "A hand up
ward and through enc side Of the MUS
tache before he gracefully whirled
about toward the board. Marguerite,
un6milingly bowling. wondered with a
dull woariness how many hundred
times she had seen him make that
identical gesture.
There even had been a time when
she, too admired il, but that had
heen three years ago, when she had
Just married him and he had cares
about her. 1t had been some time
low since she had come to realize
thgt evNr1-thi,,tr zE-a, arl.l fgr b,,
When AMARILLO grew tired he also
erew brutal. Net that he struck her
His cruelty was as graceful aud subtle
Els his stage gestures. When she had
E9proachsd him with the patent fact
has he cared for her no more H.
Tad merely mWmured endearioa
phrases I'm his own tongue and smiled
and that smile had piled the last stone
On The tomb Of her hopes.
Il was not love for him. As she
watched him sorting his deadly weal-
}ns and noted His gIatiGrG vanity
The interest Of the spectators She won
dered If She did not hate him des
pefately She had reached sach
negative state Of mind that she we
not certain even about shat Sh
rus only deadiy tired; tired Of m
ioo'lieht5 glazing in hlr face Of ths |
sust'iug OF the hafsen people II |
The body OF the thcater. Of the Crches |
ara music, and, most of all, of standin |
7 lastercd against the board
Once he glanced at Der seciagls
and his eyes were malignant The. |
changed as they swept to the WINS |
where stood The sonSand-dance WON |
a. who came neNt-a'l pink satin apl |
rouge, with her laaSntI eyes ben
'nrA nm. Mars'erita understood, bu
aiorsy dld not torment her for ou'
",a o,yonn that after a time. ShO |
ia not care.
4. came 70 her mat II only she
Qua care ABOUT something - could |
De happy or ehfased-ilte would loot
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