The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-06

to Ludlow, he said:
 eff you can't play this part the way I fehearsed it I don't want you to play it at all. This man whom you are playing is a gentlemen, and he acts like gentleman"
 Are you quite sure," said Ludlow, with sheer, that you are able to recognize gentleman"
 But. enraged as he was, Holcomb was hardly prepared for Dora's re- mark.
 "Do you think, Mir. Holcomb," she said, apparently as uncontrolled as he was, that you could rehearse one in the manners of gentleman? And without another word she walked off the stage.
 Holcomb rushed through the stage box and tried to pacify her.
 Don't talk to me-" she said. "In way I am glad that this has happened. It has shown me what I am to ex- pect."
 ''But, Dora, dear. you don't under stand what you were doing. You don't appreciate how 1t looked from the front. This man Ludlow was pitching things in a key that was absolutely repulsive and vulgar"
 "And you expect me-" exclaimed the girl, ''to allow you to call me vulgar in publicr'
 My dear girl" began Holcomb, but at this moment Mrs. Winthrop, ]uAge Elliott and Graham made their way back on the stage, and, turning away from the unfortunate young author, she made for her dressing room and closed the door on him with a bang.
 "I think you made lot of fuss over nothing" said the two managers, who had also come through the stage box.
 "But that isn't what I wanted, and it's my play.
 "Yes," said the senior partner, 'but you don't want to forget that it's our money, and Ludlow is the best man in his line in America, and, while you may be able to write play, you can hardly teach him how to act.''
 There were more words of the same nature. Ludlow standing by indiffer- ently, and the act was concluded, the stage manager reading Dora's part.
 As for Holcomb, he had quarreled with Dora. He could hardly under stand how he had allowed such a dis heartening circumstance. to occur, and her defiant attitude toward him seem ed to sound warning note to him as of impending disaster.
 It cannot be said that the Winthrops and Judge Elliott viewed this scene with any great sorrow. To them it simply seemed that Holcomb had play ed into their hands and that the ex- plosion would result in Dora's giving up her idea of going on the stage and surely that of marrying the dramatist. As they drove home little was said except what was soothing to the girls feelings. though they were hardly pre- pared for her parting statement that, provided an apology was forthcoming from Holcomb, she would appear the next night and would continue in the part until the management had had an opportunity of obtaining and rehears- ing some one else. But, even in the face of this, Mrs. winthrop, whose love for her son was an abiding and dominant part of her life, had hopes that it would once more reinstate him in Dora's affections and bring about a match which she had long planned and eagerly desired.
 Holcomb had left several cards and made many telephone calls at the apartment of Mrs. Winthrop before he was able to see Dora the next day. He had no sleep, for after the rehears- al he had long argument with the manager and an even sharper wrangle with Ludlow and had then set to work making some changes that the Of1cious consulting playwright had in- sisted upon.
 When Dora did see him near noon time it was against the advice of her friend and her fathers attorney, who, with tact that is sometimes purely legal, had sent a telegram to Professor Fullerton, suggesting that his presence on the ground might bring about the desired result of having Dora go back home, telegram that drew-not Full. 1erton, but Aunt Cornelia.
 "Dora," pleaded the young man the moment he entered the room, "you cannot mean what you say in this let ter'-one that she had written and sent by messenger before she had gone to bed that morning.
 "I do mean ft,' she replied. "A man cannot say that he loves a woman when he treats her in public in the way you treated me last night"
 "I apologize for my tone. I am sor- ry that lost my head, but I simply couldn't let the thing go on. You don't understand Ludlow. You don't understand the reputation he has Come to the theater tonight, and when 1t is all over and we are both calmer I will talk this matter over with you more fully and explain to you what ] mean"
 'T have decided" said the girl sud denly, "that I don't want to appear in the play.''
 Holcomb dropped into a seat and watched her steadily. "Is it, he said fnally-'+is 1t this man again, Graham Winthrop?"
 "I have nothing more to say" re. Olied tho oir1