The daily sentinel., 1910-11-10

straight game" The woman he
loves has refused to marry him be-
cause of his profession" and on the
night that the play opens he asks her,
now widow with son of 20. 10 take
up the old romance and conclude the
story. They are interrupted by the
appearance of Judge Prentice, of the
supreme court, who comes to look at
Corot that is in the picture collec-
tion Of Brookfield. The judge ans
wers several questions that Brook
field is thinking of asking
DO you pick answers often like
that?" asks the gambler.
And then the Judge proceeds to
explain that telepathy is an accepted
scientific feat. all of which is news to
Brookfield, who now muses. on his
own ability to win at cards The act
concluded with the murder of a
drunken man by young Whipple, who
has an inherited aversion for a cats
eye pin, and is unable to restrain him
self when the drunken man pushes it
in front of his face.
In the second act the library of
Judge Prentice in Washington is
shown. Young Whipple has been
tried for murder and found guilty.
and the case is now before the su-
preme court on constitutional point.
Brookfield and his old sweetheart,
who is the mother of the guilty boy,
come to the judge to remind him that
years before he had fought a duel
with man over his very same cats
eye aversion, and the girl involved in
the duel was the grandmother of
young Whipple
The third act is back in Kentucky
and the second trial of the boy has
been completed. The Judge has given
his testimony and the jury is out. The
prosecuting attorney has been un-
usually bitter against the boy, for
they had both been suitors for the
hand of Brookfield's niece. The gam
bier is now thoroughly convinced of
the fact of telepathy and hypnotism.
and, realizing that with his ability
there is no such thing as Square
game" for him, has cloesd up his
business. He is sitting alone. trying
to influence by telepathy the mind of
one juror. who. he thinks is suscept-
ible to his thought. Under Judge
Prentice's direction he has had pub
lished In the newspapers the fact that
the prosecuting attorney was despon-
sible for the killing of Scovel (Goe-
bell. the governor-elect of Kentucky.
What is the game?" asks du-
bious fellow gambler. And Brook
field replies that if he can show the
people of Kentucky the despicable
character of the prosecuting attorney
his bitter prosecution of the boy will
have no effect on the Jury. And when
he is told that the jury is not allowed
to read the newspapers he replies that
1t is impossible for 100000 people
to think a thing and any twelve men
in that community not be influenced
by that thought.
The boy is acquitted. The prose-
cutting attorney is jeered out of court.
comes rushing In to Brookfield and
places a revolver against his breast.
You can't shoot that gun" says
Brookfield. calmly looking him in
the-Sye You can't pull the trigger.
4 by Ican't even hold that gun"
-unehe mans hand opens, the revolver
drops and the curtain comes down as
he gasps: 'Id like to know how in
hell you did that to me-
In the last act Hardmuth, the
murderer, is a refugee from justice.
Brookfield, instead of giving him up
when he finds-out where he is. helps
him to escape, as he believes that the
man, with all his moral weakness,
was not really the original criminal.
The woman that Brookfield has loved
for many years finally sees the real
beauty of his character and admits
that she was weak in letting her boy
grow up with a prejudice that had
caused so much suffering.
The play is full of epigrammatiC
sentences and sparkling lines some OF
which are given below:
my boyhoods horizon is very neal
to my old eyes now. The DINNER
they grow the nearer il comes, unit
| think sometimes that when VIC ar,
through with it all we go out almos
as We entered little children"
Domestic architecture is the mos
poetic work man can do outside o
downright poetry itself"
Every thought is active, that il
born of desire and travels from us
or it is born of desire of someon,
esle and comes to u.s.
II we are idle and empty-headed
our brains are the playrooms for tht
thoughts of Others"
Hatred is heavier freight for the
shipper than it is for the consignee.
1.-The way to forget wrong is moi
to guard it as sensitive spot in youl
! memory, but to grasp it as the wise
ones grasp nettle-crush all its
| power to harm you in one courageous
| contact"
I'VE think things are calamities
and trials and sorrows-only names.
They are spiritual gymnastics and
have an eternal value
| Don't look behind-your life's
ahead of you. Don't mount for the
race overweighted.
81 think bum game of billiards
is about as thin an entertainment for
the outsiders as Who's got the. but
ton?'"
THE testimony of every man is en-
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