The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-01-19
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MADEMOISELLE CARTIER

bered he would not be able 20 Sfiord
tickets to anything.
Hartley wrot, an eNplSBatrr! note
TO Mile. Cartier and, receiving one so
kind and altogether satisfactory tn I'M
mediate reply. he started liEhtheart-
eddy 10 work that very night
The Same night Marie Cartivr had
returned as usual 10 her room in the
inexpensive hotel where SHE lived, II
was the room they generally let her
have on account at al little balcony
she had fancied Just outside of one
of the windows. A iimid person might
have been afraid of that little bal
ceny because nj the inducement Of
fered To burglars. But Marie never
thought about dissgreeabie possihtli-
ties Her mind was fun Of happy
thoughts involving "A certain younS
man and all that ne had come TO
mean la her. She sent her maid to
the next room and stepped out on
the balcony to be alone with the
stars.
When Marie entered the room again
loose screw holding the window bolt
slipped out and fell to the floor. She
could not see IL anywhere around,
Perhaps il had rolled under the bed,
which was In dark embrasure of the
room. Lighting candle. she went
the flame with the casual air of one
who had suddenly changed her mind.
she had seen, distinctly. something
that booked very Ike the part Of Il
mans foot under the bed,
Because she was woman. her i'm
pulse was TO scream. but, also he
cause she was a woman and gragped
Immediately the whole situation. she
did nothing of the kind. Instead she
called quickly tn her maid.
susanna. please unfasten this pin
teF Hfe. mean the one at the back. "
Marie Cartier had inherited from her
mother some very handsome jewels
which, through years OF poverty. she
had cherished.
'Susanne. I'm going To take this
pin early Tomorrow morning 10 the
jewelers. TO have the clasp fixed and
want my pearl necklace examined
at the game time / wish you'd go
downstairs and get the clerk TO give
il to you from the SAFE SO ] can pat
( II with the pin tonight and run no
risk of forgetting to take them both.
But stop minute'--as Susanna went
/ to the donr~-''fH have to write you
| an order"
Mademoiselle Cartier deliberately
! opened her desk. and to the order for
| tho necklace added;
There Is q burglar hiding In my
room. DO not frlEhten my maid, bu,
| send two men up Immediately to ar
rest him
/ Then. for now that she was alone
Marie was growing frightened. she
tried to distract her own attention ia
every possible way. She slipped the
ornaments and pins from her hair
and, that She might not appear to b,
trembling. she took some steps of til,
| little dance which night after nigh
won ouch applause, humming rs ac.
! cnmpanying waltz tune Would bell
never come She fapcied she heart
the man under the bed stir. Their,
was every possibility that he Nigh
| suspect things and at any momen
rush out, Seize her dear mothers mos
cherish ed pin. and make his escap'
! by the balcony. To keep up he
spirits. she began tn sing more boldly
Soon she heard footsteps: the
were not passing her door; they wer
coming in. And again Marie Car
tier walked out TO the balcony to.iool
up to the stars.
7 'Distinguished for her pluck an,
GOODNESS. Brave little actress In out
whiting a burglar. aids I'm the captur
debtor"
So ran the headlines, carefuil'
nnderseored, In journal. left n
Uncle Johns hotel. addressed In
we'll known hand.
Uncle John read through the line
and the article twice. Then he ail
down the paper. Distinguished 10
pluck and eoolness: yes. he had un
doubleday once--was IL only yester
day said he would have no objee
ton to Mile Cartier had she becl
noted In any way hut as an actress
1t was clearly his duty as a man o
his ~ora to live up to ttut assertion
Besides. he had missed his nephew
lint that. ~ courses. had nothing to IL
with it, Simply there was no way q
getting out OF what he had said
Uncle Joha rang for hrs man
barton. call Mr.. Hartley up on tn
phone for me, please, and say
would Xix" to see him at once"