Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-03-08

SA You ought to be a manager
A61 by this time-a square fellow
IN like you an hustler too"
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MN. growled Martin.
M C&x@1I Il handled many an attraction
NNAE M#NI in that capacity before fate gum
SM med the cards." says Bert COM
HM lKB& Ing back at him a-smiling
g&ZN Humph!" says old man Har.
~S16&>/ ris and he turned awav
+barn IL ! dropped In after supper that night
tn was cab at the door and somebody was In
m e oiu man Office buzzing away in earnest tones
Inc ola man came out after while 1po11oa ~
~ nis saIe, pulled out the cash drawer and want
pack Into his Office. When he came ont Rert vast
ing to the old man. '"' Ai''en
Don't touch a drink" says he, mot s,no,o
one And as long you're out don't Mace bat
Vi turn card. And let me hear from vou-+ho
pal, ~ ruin you know-and treat the little ladv
DIS though she was your mother" '
With that he had Bert landed in +ho 49,.
slammed the door, whispered to tba drive ~o .
away went the outfit while he mooched back aIone
10 tear Off big drink at the end of the bar -o
we, we: why nearly fell dead with surprise at
MARTIN harris sudden attack of philanthropy. 7
LOOK three drinks one straight after tba Other
before could realize was awake and 7 bo6 A.
certainty knocked out of me then by the whisneraS
remark OF the head bartender that the old man
nau SKINNED an even thou. off the bank roll and
slipped it to Bert West
1t was a long time after that oo+ oil a. sd.
seems as though The Corsair was in hard
straits way up in Oregon somewhere-Baker civ
guess 1t was. Business was bad money WAC
SNORT and mysterious sort of panic had faIIan
on the leading actors and they were lighting ont
VI course there was nothing for the mutts ana
chorus girls and things to do but stick When
tnlngs looked worst Madam Favette had wired her
oiu ITlend Harris for help 1t came in the person
OF West and the thousand dollar bag of velloyv
boys. First thing Bert did to yank that outfit
out OF Baker City, stamp out the mutiny bv work
ing every one to death rehearsing and tn oman for
business, heading east.
Then he got his first jolt Seems as though
only about half the company would appear for
renearsal and Bert started handing out few fines
Beg pardon, I don't want to appear to inter-
fere with your business, but really wouldn't do
that" says the Madam
"Why?" says Bert West
They are SICK" says she And then after
swearing Bert to secrecy she tells him the real
cause OF the panic; how smallpox in a mild form
was among them with third of the Organization
down with it.
HE'LL" says Bert, sort of choking up He didn't
say anything more, but he thinking fast-of
his own half starved wife and baby back east
OF Martin Harris and his trust of his pledge to
treat the little discouraged lady like his own
mother, of the scourge in both mild and severe
form The Corsair was leaving in its wake like a.
pest ship; and of the crash and hunger and want
that would follow If the secret of The Corsair
should leak out Quarantine and then the public
would shun it, thing to be feared.
The skipper had read the first of his sealed
orders. Pity and sense of duty urged him to
stick and ne did. Day in and out the Madam
whispered him encouragement urged him to