Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-12
STORY OF THE PLAY.
Brief Sketch of the Beautiful Drama
Coming Here Next Week
Tuesday.

To those who have never read the
novel, "The House of Thousand
Candles" which in dramatic form
will appear at the Grand on Tuesday,
January 18th, the following synopsis
will prove of especial interest.
The story is tale of love and
mystery enacted in the shadow of
great mansion of mystery on the
shores of an Indiana lake. From this
house old John Glenarm secretly de-
parts, leaving the impression that he
is dead that he may the better learn
what sort of mel are Pickering, the
executor of his estate, and John
Glenarm, his grandson and possible
heir, and if the thing be possible
to bring about marriage between
the young man and Marian Dew
ereux, the alternate heir.
He confides his plan to Bates, the
butler, the serving man, who is too
good a servant to be one" and pled-
ges Bates to secrecy. Things might
have gone smoothly enough had 1t
not been that old Glenarm left be-
hind him a strange and unusual will
with clauses and provisions therein
as whimsical as the old mans fancy,
and as executor of it, certain Flick
ering. Upon the testament turns the
story. Pickering and Glenarm both
conclude that hidden treasure lies
concealed in some mysterious pas
sage of the mysterious mansion, and
both institute search.
Glenarm, however, falls in love
with Marian and asks her to be his
wife. Though he has been led to be-
lieve that Marian is not Marian, but
Gladys Olivia Armstrong, he has
nevertheless, violated by his pro-
posal, an important provision of the
will, and the estate, according to its
terms, reverts to the girl. This in
itself would make small difference,
the fortune would be in the family
i'm any event as it were, but fortun-
ately, Pickering does not die so cas-
lily, He, with assistance of coinci-
dences. and circumstances. convinces
Glenarm that Marian has wilfully
deceived him that she might obtain
the hidden treasure and "The House
of Thousand Candles" and bestOw
them, with her hand, upon the viii
lain himself and upon the impetuous
and impulsive young man who has
dropped so suddenly into the Glen
arm preserve.
But young Glenarm refuses to va
cate the premises. He is convinced
that Pickering has some Interior
motive in desiring immediate pos
session of the estate-which he has
and he defies Pickering's hireling
sheriff and Pickering's hireling as
sassin, Morgan, and with his friends,
Donovan and the Rev. Mr.. Stoddard,
and Bates, the butler and man of
mystery, barricades the doors and
prepares for a siege. Into the midst
of these belligerent preparations
comes Marian, through secret cor
ridor, to warn Glenarm of his peril.
Pickering suspects her motive and
follows, and unluckily for him brings
up short in the enemys camp.
Morgan and the sheriff attack with
mob and a wild bullet thudding
against a panel, betrays by it's sound
the hiding place of old Glenarm's
| treasure. Glenarm and his friends
make a hasty examination and they
find t. at Pickering has borrowed
100000 from the senior Glenarm
and has given his notes therefor.
These are due and Pickering cannot
pay hence his desperate efforts to
gain possession of them.
While the battle is at its height,
old Glenarm himself appears as
from the grave, brought to the scene
by dispatch from Bates and guided
by Marian to the library, where the
conflict RACES, through a secret pas
sage. The surprise is complete and
the effect on besieged and besiegers
alike astounding. The attacks comes
to an end. Pickering and Morgan
are made prisoners, and, in the ex-
plantations that follow, it develops
that Bates is not Bates, but man
by the name of Creighton, who, to
shield the father o. Marian from the
penalty of forgery, assumed the
crime himself, fed to America and,
answering an advertisement, found
himself in the employ of the eccen-
trio architect of THE House of a
Thousand Candles" and within a
stone throw of the school where
Marian herself resides. Bates re-
mained, not only because he had
concealment as an object and motive
but because he also fell in love with
Marian. But to Glenarm who ''is a.
better man because she loves him."
he resigns her without hesitancy.