The Detroit times., 1909-01-22
Matrimony Beginning With Brigand-
age Is Bound To Make Trouble.
See Proof at Detroit Opera House.

There is "A Great Divide" visible at
the Detroit this expiring portion Of
the week. You know-the Cordilleras
Kidnapping case in which Henry Miller
disguised as Stephen Client carries
away the grill and the emotions OF
the audience at the same time.
No man on the stage at the present
time surpasses Mr.. Miller In making
you feel that the tender sadness is in
your own immediate circlS. He pre-
sents the plain. honest, unvarnished
distress and you furnish the ache in
the heart. the gulp in the throat, the
heave of the bosom, and all that.
We repeat that Mr.. Miller is mas
terful in making you sink your per-
sonal troubles in his engulfng anguish.
There lis no great divide between the
robust naturalness Of this actors art
and his great circle OF admirers.
(There were not as many present as
usual Thursday night.) They are al
ways with him on the same tear-swept
range Of human emotions, where the
light OF truth finally breaks through
and sweeps all the mists away.
Like it did last night. Only they
were not out on the Cordilleras when
the self-revealment occurred. They
were back in the Bay state homestead.
where Mrs. Client discovers that she
has done as much to mar Mr.. Clients
life by permitting herself to be &C
CURED by compact as he has done TO
despoil her Of her happiness by sitting
the unholy competition for her hand in
defenceless hour-buying off the In
dian with a chain OF nuggets and lay
ing the Mexican low with a bullet in
a duel. The unlovely trinity having
broken into her lonely desert habita
ton as the elimination OF a frontier
debauch, while her brother had gone
to the distant station with a depart
ing guest.
So the mortgage having gone from
the old home (Stephen paid 1t from
his Cordilleras strike) and the baby
having come. they decide TO start
afresh, TO be born again." forgetting
the things that were behind and find
ing JOY in the conviction that there IL
er ough good In both TO make life worth
while despite the bad start.
II is at this juncture that Stephen
in his rude western speech. opines
that the captive bride of the Cordil-
lcras Is not the first one that has been
carried off In one sense or another
or bought with price. Sly dig this
at the automobiles, private ears aud
steam yachts OF eastern corporationists
turned kidnapers.
Still this hardly suffices to clear
stephen Client Of having perpetrated a
very diabolical abduction. for he was
sober and in his right mind when he
insisted that the girl.l-l should go away
with him to the San Jacinto matri-
monial bureau. conducted by Justice
OF the peace. with the welcome" door
mat cut all night.
This didn't comport with the innate
chiyalry generally attributed % rough
frontiersmen. There was in il none
of that true gallantry that has been
historically located beneath buckskin
blouses. II didn't chime In with the
flashes of deCency that stephen eT-
hibited when having saved the GRILL
flor HIMSELF nc let the red liquor
run out OF his flask and placed his
revolver where she could shoot him In
the-b Xii SO disposed.
Little wonder. with this unadulterat-
ed brigandage for q be ginning. they
didn't get along we'll I'm Arizona and
the scene was In constant danger Of
shifting TO South Dakota u took the
return 10 the old homestead and the
baby 10 reorganize the sadlyinaugurst.