Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-05-12

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h ella Ion 1911
The agedlan was IN his dressing
I room making Sup. M 5A number of prop
Serty articles were; scattered about
cosmetics, wigs, daggers. indeed every
variety Of material for sham purposes.
He had been PLAY wing ii a drama of
the French revolution and attracting
great attention For a hundred nights
he had held audiences spell Inbound In
the I, character Of Danton, while a
young actress was setting the public
wild by the imperso Ion Of Char
lotte Corday. Two men met on the
street, and eacharemarked to the Sotth
&er, .sHave you seen Edward Orme Dbl
Danton and Edith Kent as Charlotte y
Two ladies drinking tea fell to talk
Ing about the wonderful impersona-
hon, the one In admiral don or the
actor. the other OF the actress. and
quarreled. Nothing was discussed ex-
cept the great play, the great actor
and the great actress. sJi@S !: >;
By far the larger number consid ered
Miss Kent the greater genius Of the
2 two. y To those the advocates OF Orme
declared that she had q far better OPP
portunity than he for q display Of
genius; that Danton. like other revo-
lutionary leaders. was simply yielding
to the cry OF the people for: blood.
while Charlotte Corday was an%se
thusiast who offered herself as a
martyr. Some even maintained that
the real Charlotte Of ~ history had
been maddened BY the events of
the revolution. These averred that
the genius Of Miss Kent's imper.
sonation consisted In throwing into
her acting feigned suspicion 4of In
sanity. It was noticed that night after
night she dwelt more on this feature,
thereby working to a greater degree
upon the feelings of the audience. In
deed, 80 intense her emotions had be-
come, 50 deeply did she feel herself to
be the real Charlotte, that Orme3 at
times began to fear that she would
stab him instead Of pretending to do
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One night before performance the
tragedian was sitting before mirror
making up when he heard the door
open. Turning. he was surprised to-
see Miss Kent. .:}:5S 34$5.'
.'Why. Miss Kentr' he exclaimed In
establishment that she should come to
his room. But one glance at her eye
told him that what he had been fear.
ing, what the public had called genius,
had come to pass. Miss Kent displa yed
unmistakable signs of insanity. In
stead of showing any shame at visiting
a man in his room, she turned the key
In the door and flung the key behind a.
lot Of property articles. II 5ss$St;
prepare for death!" # e {: I. rs - ttsS
+, The, words sounded Ikea knell to
the actor Shut up in a room with a
mad woman, who had killed him on
the lyric stage for a hundred nights
In succession and who now conceived
herself to be the real Charlotte. he saw
no way OF escape His only hope was
that he could see no weapon in her
/ possession. Looking her full in the
eye. he made an effort to stay her by
talking with her. $;}5 Z: =, t@.- y
"What means this visit7'' he asked: 4
81 have come to sacrifice tyrant.
He has long been drinking the peoples
blood. 1t is time that the people drank
his blood" IS. q .%ssssIs: ~ H.: /
".W hom do you take me TO bef'', h
"Citizen Danton. whose right hand
is the guillot1ne." ne =: ..s,>
"You are mistaken. am the Marquis
de Lafayette. $sl hare just returned
from America, where i have helped to
make q people free ;sz z: ~
you are not the Marquis. de Lafa
|yette. You are Danton. drunken with
the blood of the French people, an
Charlotte Corday.'''s 3.r IA
I Orme listened for sound without
hoping that some one might call fol
him or that the actress might be
missed and would be hunted for
though no one would think Of look ,ta
FLOR her In his dressing room. \ rl,n:t
licked on the wall before him HI
glanced at 1t and saw that IT wis hul
a few minutes before he would hi
called; to go on the stage. But that few
minutes might be enough to end his
Iearthly career. : +. i, IA Z Z #
4 / A dagger was lying onsa cabine
J among other property articles Til.
girl seized It and advanced toward thu
tragedian He was watching her eager
~ AS soon as be saw her take up TIKI
weapon a crafty look came into hi
own eyes. Without looking away. from
4 her he reached. back and placed bis
hand over a small bowl, # S&.. MI. Y
\ In another moment Miss Kent spranl
at him and brought the knife down OF
his breast Orme grasped the dagger
Il ana red blood spurted on his slayer,
4 clothes. He fell on his face and la,
still. 81 ". S5ss 3 u
There was a hurried footstep and !,
/ knock on the door. No answer. Their
b & came another. say wing. 'Orme. YOUR
called: times up. Z Still no answer