The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-02-21

we pay for steakH The cash diSun-
pears at the same time. Jack Valen-
tine was the only person with the
ranchman when he made his talleged)
croak.
y "Gdwd knows love him, bur if he
has done this deed You sabe. don't
you? And then there are some mean
things said about the Fifth avenue
girl, who doesn't come on the stage.
But wait Here's the climax. Helen
Grimes. chaparralish as she can be-
Is goaded beyond imprudence. Shs
convinces herself that Jack Valentine
Is not only falsetto, but a tinancier.
| To lose at one fell swoop SCAT 900 and
| lover in riding trousers with angles
| In the sides like the variations on the
! chart Of a typhoid fever nRtient Is
enough to make any perfect lady mad.
SO, then!
They stand in the ranch) library,
which is furnished with mounted elk
heads, Didn't the Elks have a fish
| fry il Amagansett OnceO The d.
n0ucC-ent then begins.
Helen thinks Jack has taken the
money.
Goaded beyond imprudence (as be-
fore said, Helen says to Jack Valen-
tine, "RObber and thief and worse
yet. stealer of trusting hearts, this
should be your fater'
With that nnt she whips. of course,
the trusty 20 caliber.
I mill In ii N
Helen. You shall live. That will he
your punishment. [. will show yOII
how easily l could have sent you to
the death that you deserve. There is
her picture on the mantel. / will
send through her more beautiful face
the bullet that should have pierced
your craven heart
And she does 1t. And there's no
fake blank cartridges or assistants:
pulling strings. Helen fires. The bul
| let--the actual bullet--goes through
the face of the photograph and then
strikes the hidden spring of the slid
ing PANEL in the wall, and, 10, the panel
slides. and there Is the missing $647,.
900 in convincing stacks Of currency
and bags of gold. It's great You
know how It Is. Cherry practiced for
two months at target on the roof OF
her boarding house 1t took good
| shooting. In the sketch she had to bit
brass disk only three inches in diam
eter, covered by wall paper in the
panel, and she had to stand in exactly
the same spot every night, and the
photo had to be in exactly the same
SPOT, aud she had to shoot steady and
true every time.
or course old Arapahoe had tucked
the funds away there in the secret
place. and of course Jack hadn't TAX.
en- anything except his salary (which
really might have come under the
head Of containing money under" bn'
that is neither here nor therel. and
of course the New York girl was
really engaged to q concrete house
contractor in the Bronx, and neces
sarlly Jack and Helen ended in hall
nelson. and there you are.
/ After Hart and Cherry had got
"Mice VIII Play 2awless they had a
tryout at vaudeville house that ac-
commodities. The sketch was house
wrecker 1t was one of those rare
strokes Of talent that mandates the
alter from the roof down. The gallery
wept, and the orchestra seats, being
dressed for it, swan in tears.
After the show the booking agents
signed blank checks and pressed foun-
tain pens upon Hart I'D Cherry Five
hundred dollars week was what it
panned out.
That night at 1870 Bob Hart took
of his hat and babe Cherry good night
at her boarding house door.
ssMr. Hart" said she thoughtfully,
"come inside just few minutes
We've got our chance now to make
good and to make money. What we
want to do is to cut expenses ever
cent we can and save all we cam
Fright" said Bob. ''It's business
with me. You've got your scheme for
banking yours, and / dream every
night of that bungalow with the JAP
cook and nobody around to raise trou-
BILE Anything to enlarge the net re
ceipts will engage my attention
Come inside just few minutes, y
repeated Cherry, deeply thoughtful.
eve got a proposition to make to You
that will reduce our expenses lot
and help you work out your own flu
| ture and help me work out mine, and
all on business principles"
mice Will Play" had a tremendous
" successful run in New York for ten
weeks-rather neat for a vaudeville
sketch-and then it started on the cir
cults. without following it, it may
be said that it was solid drawing
card for two years without sign OF
abated popularity
Sam Packard, manager of one OF
Keetor's New York houses, said OF
Hart and Cherry:
GAS square and high toned little
team as ever came over the circuit
It's a pleasure to read their names OF
the booking list. Quiet, hard workers
no Johnny and Mabel nonsense, on the
Job to the minute, straight home after
their act, and each of 'em as gentle