New-York tribune., 1909-01-03

because SO far there had been nothing but smoke,
aut We couldn't see, and Ico. .r began cro".in% IN
Whcrc.s DR. Coglios-ro and Mss Trclawncy."
yelled when | saw they were not among the ones
W+Ia,., paving any attention to me the landlord
ordered everybody To- hurry from the building. and
,r.., If them Went: hur middle aged woman who
had ON "a pair of trousers several sizes t"o tlg t'f
hc- flung her arms around my neck and almost
For heavens sake. save. my parrot
.tprfouni YOUR parrot SAID /. giving her a
tu-. that I'm ashamed ot now. You can get
another
Then l grabbed the lamp and was going back TO
rescue CIvtc;une-crl: but there shout from
outside. and | heard he doctors Voice Every
ti..rg -ccrucI 70 be suddenly LIT up and / rushed
ont Standing a little balcony above the front
door was DE- toglIostro. holding Cly,ie in his arms
Her eyes were shut and her dark halr Was hanging
loose and long and Eavv | never SAW anything so
beautiful as She was. all in white. and everything
bright around them as If somebody hal turned
The crowd chccrcd. and the doctor holding
Clytcmncstra with hand, passed the other before
her face two three times. and said, All rl1ht' All
She opened her eyes and stood up and looked
around sort Of bewildcred, and the light began To-
Disappear In half minute It was dead dark again,
hu' before anyone had time to get ladder the
doctor came down stairs. leading Clyte by tine hand
Nearly everybody in town had got there 10y that
time and the landlord and the town marshal had
begun hunting for the fire They coudn find any,
and the smoke soon cleared away. 1t was the great
c-t mystery Plumvlc ever had. Not thing was
scor,hed anywhere, and nobody could think where
the smoke had come from or what had made the
bright light when the doctor and Cytc were ON the
balcony
some of tn, boarder5 were afraid to 90 back to
bed: but most of Us turned in again along toward
morning. ard | was tired that it nearly noon
before / woke up
WHEN got down starr the Doc vas waiting for
w me o. think /achlrlah. wei have a good
house tonight" lc said The people here seem to
bc taking interest IN US. You might 20 ont and
Sc, whether the bows are scattering the bills pretty
freely. Cytc is still in bed Poor child. the shock
OF last night WAS rather hard on her tender young
nerves
took d looI, around the town and got back To- the
hotel Just as Clytemncstra was coming down from
her r.,oll.
I'm SO clad. she, sad taking me I,v both hands
and milling at me III a way that made me hope the
Doc would never want anybody but me for manager.
thar you ddnt get hurt last night, How foolish
WAS q FAINT
told her about my having intended to 90 back
and llsk my life to save her, and She looked at
with a sad little smile saying:
j. was noble OF YOU to think OF me | shall al
WAYS remember it
The Doc Just then and tool, Clytie in his
pressing her face against his and running his
fingers along her temples. He had stand ON hIS
tlptocs do It, because he rather short; but She
closed her eyes and seemed to bc happy. As | stood
there watching them creepy feeling came over me.
They didn't look any more alike than a hlv and a
potato and | wondered If he had told me the truth
about his beng her father
T HAD no chance talk TO her any that after
noon, because the Doc took me up to his TOO to
tell me about my Job The first thing he did was to
get out some wigs and false WhSkers that he trc on
me In about two minutes he disguised me SO |
wouldn't have known who 1t II d met myself
IN bank, and then he told me of my duties
manager would be to take a seat in the hall when
the show started and 90 up on the stage to help
keep things interesting it happened that he had
trouble III getting SUBJECTS.