The Red Cloud chief., 1911-11-09

nings admitted that she was notion
al" The term signined that she took
rather strange ideas into her head.
and was rather obstinate In having
her way about them.
Miss Lea took notion to learn por-
trait painting. and made failure OF
1t. She turned to ceramics and did
not secure any praise. She pottered
with stained glass, but It was only
pottering. She wrote poetry. but she
alone shed tears over It. She turned
to story-writing. but the magazine
people returned her efforts with the
usual printed regrets. Was there any
thing that Miss Lea Jennings could
do but wait for a marriage proposal
from some eligible partyf
There was. and the great wonder
was that she hadn't thought OF II soon.
er. She could become an actress or
write a play for some one already In
the profession. II was touch and 60
for some time as to which she should
do. but q theatrical manager finally
induced her to decide on the play.
She wouldn't have to rehearse. sit up
nights. eat late suppers nor travel
about. and the fame would be just as
great.
When Miss Lea announced her
scheme to her parents they made no
opposition. n they had she would
have decided Immediately to write
two plays instead Of one. She was
Just three days getting title for her
play. The manager had suggested q
play laid in the woods-something
primitive--something with wolves and
bears. and the nights 80 dark that a
fox couldn't see big Shanghai roost-
er two inches from his nose. Society
plays, the manager said. where hus-
bands simply fell in love with chorus
girls. and wives eloped with any old
thing. were played out What was
wanted were thrills-action-howling
winds and moaning birches, with
plenty Of dramatic situation to keep
the audience entertained.
Miss Lea announced that she was
going to the woods to get the local
surroundings. Uncle Joe lived up in
the Adirondacks somewhere, and he
had q shooting camp somewhere, and
she would take her maid and become
denizen OF the wild for q month OF
six weeks.
It was summer, but she could i'm
agine the snow and gales. and thu
wolves and bears could be brought II
II they did not appear with thei1
growls and howls. Uncle Joe wal
therefore uncovered and busted on
and In due time he located that shoot
ing camp in the midst Of mountain an,
forest and welcomed the playwright
to the scenes of her labors. WheI
she had been supplied with enough
flour. bacon. potatoes and coffee 4
> last her q month he vanished and tn,
play was begun.
The plot Of the play was to have ,
, city maiden fall in love with the fam
lily chauffeur, and her father lock he
up in the cellar to let her forget tn
man she loved. The girl would max
her escape from durance vile and wall
and walk and walk until the city an,
its table d'hote dinners were left b
hind and the mountains and lo
. house reached. There she woul
write . postal card to her lover an
send It down q mountain stream on
raft, where It would fall into tn
hands Of her father. He would star
. at once to bring her back. but tn
chauffeur was to be reckoned with.
some way not yet figured out he wa
y able to learn Of the hut In the fores
. and then It would be a race betwee
/ him and the parent. each in a sixt.
morse auto. as to who should reach he
Y first.
Mountains ravines streams :
dense forests-precipices- beas,
sudden Jars and jolts. and the chau
feur arrives just ten seconds ahead ,
the old man and starts q iandsliC
1 which carries the other almost to b
q own doorstep and leaves him with
= lame back.
For the first week of her residens
in the woods Miss Lea was so bui
= ! with her plot that she scarcely wa
. dered ten feet from the door. At Il
! beginning of the second week 81
J. went looking for a precipice. She fe
; that one ought to be worked into Il
, play somewhere and somehow. tt
: head salesman in a gents furnishir
D store at S1S per week might have ke
n his bump of location In that tanglt
:. district, but Miss Lea hadn't traveit
si q hundred rods before she was .
= turned around. When she reaiiz,
!. this she was frightened and thoug
q only of pushing on In some directio
Is That day. from club house thr,
\ or four miles distant. Hall Ridgwa
:, the sculptor. had set out with rod al
line to fish mountain brook. He hi
been at 1t for two hours. casting
line here and there. when the soul
Of q woman's voice calling for ne
caught his ear. 1t was from the hi
side behind him. and after makil
sure that he was not deceived he
II piled to the calls and began scra
n BILE that ended only when the crest
4 the wooded and Jagged hill "
II reached. Every minute or two he b
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