The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-08-06


pei her TO keep her promise?
After the second act. the baby was
carried through the hall. up the stage
steps and behind the curtain
Does an infant appear in the next
scene?" asked the stranger OF the
man who sat behind him.
mo. That's the managers kid-he
that takes the part of Monte Cristo.
It's here every night that the mother
plays. Has TO have its pap between
the acts"
The tall gaunt man with the SCARED |
weather-beaten face studied hard the |
stage curtain.
Yes" went on his seat compan.
ion, they say the Garths are crazy
over that kid"
"H.m," renectively. Pretty tough
for the child II something should hap
pen to the mother"
wal, guess SO. Stranger in these
parts?"
Not 'xactly. Been mushing 1t in
Alaska for some years"
Brought out any Dough-
enough for what bread I'll need"
Good. Partner?
"The mameluke dogs got hold Of him
when we crossed over to Siberia. They
were hungry"
"Gee!"
The sailor and his lass are mu,h
in evidence" remarked the stranger,
looking around.
They'd about fill the hall IL It
warnt for the fellows from the lumber
camps. I'm a logger myself"
How are things doing across the
sound?"
"Hustling for all they're worth.
More timber than we can handle. Two
shingle mills up within the last three
, months. There's that kid again"
Seven months old Essie Garth WAS
, truly a child of the theater, and the
many eyes which followed her as her
nurse threaded her way through the
audience to selected seat did not
at all embarrass or disconcert the lit
tie thing. neither did the fact Il at
the seat chosen was right in front oil q
. gaunt gray man who leaned forward
: to peer into her tiny face and re-
marked as he drew back in tones
, which only she could hear: shes not
: like her mother-must take after
him"
. "Da, da!" responded the child.
The curtain lifted on Charles Garth
as the Able. The baby's attention
was riveted at once. and when he
= spoke, she gurgled softly, motioning
u towards him with her little hands and
: giving vent to what seemed like lo;
ecstatic murmurs of appreciation.
In the scene when he appeared az
n the count in gaudy fiowered coat, She
II became more demonstrative, bobbinr
IS her little head up and down on hei
n nurses shoulder, and when the due!
81 with De Villeforte took place, he
father. az Edmond Dantes, laying 10,
his antagonist, the infant Grove
N aloud in veritable triumph. At leas
II SO 1t seemed to one who was watchil.
her.
o. Notice that kid?" asked the log
ger of the stranger.
- Notice her! He had eyes for rothini
= else. Even his old love, in the rol,
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-, tention from her daughter.
IT'S queer how she knows he
~ father" went on his companion. "Sh
,a catches on to her mother, too, some
10 times; but her dad, she sees throug'
,s everything"
n The nurse turned around to tn
N. whispering men. and with a prou
II. glance at her charge, observed:
c, That's always the way with
q young one whose mother thinks
er sight of its father"
o. When the curtain fell for the las
IS, time the stranger stood up.
u.s. "If you amt any place pertickler,
he said the logger, land feel bit dr.!
come over to Bekins and get acquain
ed ed"
10 "All right" responded the man frol
~ the north. But before following hi
u'u new friend, he lifted the tiny finger
~. that were clutching the back of tn
~. nurses chair, and. bending his hea,
NJ teuderly kissed them