The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-01

pointedY How could she break prom
Is to one who had no authority to COM
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
No. 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"
Him" rehectively. Pretty tough
for the child if something should hap
pen to the mother"
wal, ! guess SO. Stranger in these
parts?"
mot 'xactly Been mushing It in
Alaska for some years"
Brought out any dough?"
"Nough for what bread I'll need"
Good. Partner"
"The mameluke dogs got hold of him
when we crossed over to Siberia. They
were hungry"
"Geel"
"The sailor and his lass are much
in evidence" remarked the stranger,
looking around.
They'd about fill the hall II 1t
warn't 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 a selected seat did not
at all embarrass or disconcert the lit
tie thing, neither did the fact that
the seat chosen was right in front Of a
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: She's not
like her mother-must take after
him"
"Da, da!" responded the child.
The curtain lifted on Charles Garth
as the Able The babys attention
was riveted at once, and when he
spoke, she gurgled softly, motioning
towards him with her little hands and
giving vent to what seemed like low
eestatic murmurs Of appreciation
In the scene when he appeared as
the count in gaudy flowered coat. she
became more demonstrative, bobbing
her little head up and down en- her
nurses shoulder, and when the duel
with De Villeforte took place, her
father, as Edmond Dantes laying low
his antagonist, the infant crowed
aloud In veritable triumph. At least
SO it seemed to one who was watching
her.
Notice that kid?" asked the log
ger Of the stranger.
Notice herl He had eyes for nothing
/, else. Even his old love. in the role
/ OF Mercedes. failed to draw his at
! tention from her daughter
IT'S queer how she knows heI
: father" went on his companion. "Sht
/ catches on to her mother, too, some
, times; but her dad, she sees through
I everything"
a The nurse turned around to tht
/. whispering men. and with a prouG
/ glance at her charge, observed:
}, That's always the way with F;
a young one whose mother thinks
r sight Of its father"
When the curtain fell for the las
J, time the stranger stood up.
; 'If you amt any place pertickler,
9 said the logger, "and feel a bit dry
come over to Bekins and get acquaint
d ed"
= "All right responded the man iron
: the north. But before following hi
!, new friend, he lifted the tiny finger
= that were elutching the back Of tn
= nurses chair. and, bending his head
" tenderly kissed them.