Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-07-18

| II. In0 great objection was mat b
must begin at once with night work
which would make It necessary To-
MIN to miss the evening Performance,
at the theater. But there would b,
afternoon calls to console him, ans
matinees. until he suddenly remem
bered he would not be able to AFFORD
tickets to anything.
Hartley wrote an explanatory note
to Mile. Cartier. and, receiving one sc
kind and altogether satisfactory In
Immediate reply, he started light
heartedly to work that very night
The same night Marie Cartier hat
returned as usual to her room in the
inexpensive hotel where she lived.
1t was the room they generally lei
her have on account of the little bal
cony she had fancied just outside OF
one of the windows. A timid person
might have been afraid of that little
balcony because of the induceMe nt
offered to burglars. But M rie never
thought about disagreeable possibil.
tiles. Her mind was full of happy
thoughts involving a certain young
man and all that he had come to
mean to her. She sent her maid tc
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 1t anywhere around
Perhaps 1t had rolled under the bed,
which was in dark embrasure OF the
room. Lighting a candle she went
toward the bed, and then blew out
the flame with the casual air of one
who has suddenly changed her mind.
She had seen. distinctly. something
that looked very like the part of q
mans foot under the bed!
Because she was woman, her i'm
pulse was to scream; but, also be-
cause she was woman and grasped
Immediately the whole situation, she
did nothing Of the kind. Instead,
she called quickly to her maid.
"Susanne, please unfasten this pin
for me. l 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 to the
jeseeler to have the clasp fixed and
want my pearl necklace examined at
the same time. wish you'd 90
downstairs and get the clerk to give
1t to you from the safe SO can put
1t with the pin tonight and run no
risk OF forgetting to take them both.
But stop minute"-as Susanna went
to the door, have to write you an
order"
Mile. Cartier deliberately opened
her desk and to the order for the
necklace added:
There is burglar hiding in my
room. Do not brighten my maid, but
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 in
every possible way. She slipped the
ornaments and pins from her hair,
and. that she might not appear to be
trembling. she took some steps of the
little dance which night after night
won such applause, humming its &C.
companying waltz tune. Would help
never come? She fancied she heard
the man under the bed stir. There
was every possibility that he might
suspect things at any moment rush
out. seize her dear mothers most
cherished pin. and make his escape
by the balcony, To keep up her spir-
its. she began to sing more boldly.
Soon she heard footsteps: they
were not passing her door; they were
In. And again Marie Car
tier walked out to the balcony to look
up at the stars.
Distinguished for her pluck ana
GOODNESS. Brave little actress, in out
burglar. aids In the capture
Of notorious thief. Paris her
debtor!"
~ iaA Inc HSaullucS, carefully
in Journal. left at
Uncle Johns hotel, addressed in a
hand.
Uncle John read through the lines
md the article twice Then he laid
Town the paper Distinguished for
oluck and GOODNESS: yes, he had un-
once-was it only yester.
1ay?-said he would have no objec.
ion to Mile. Cartier had she been
noted in any way but as an actress.
I was clearly his duty as a man Of
lis word to live up to that assertion
Besides, he had missed his nephew.
But that, of course, had nothing to do
With 1t. Simply there was no way Of |
getting out of what he had said.
Uncle John rang for his man. |
Barton. call Mr. Hartley up on the
,hone for me, please, and say III
would like to see him once more"
Cabby's Badinaee.