Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16

people, and it's the only real chance I've heard of.
you've been on before, then?' says l.
"Onlv in stock" SAYS she; zone in Denver,
two in Omaha. But that don't get you anywhere.
know Dad hated to East; but you've got to start
from Broadway, you know:
"Been East long,! says l.
"Nearlv three months, says she, "and you guess
from that how near hardpan | am
But suppose you shouldn't connect says l. ~,
"You can't starve Maggie Stidders says She Il
can do stenography, after fashion, or could get a
Job as waitress. I've ugged tray before now
wouldn't even shy at doing the parlor maid act IN
pinch. But for week so guess can still hunt tor
a speaking part and Oh here's Dad. Thanks aw-
fully, for keeping him. Maybe you'll see us again.
TT was true forecast They were there the day after,
and the next and the next. And somehow got
quite lot int rested in this pair Course Hen Stidders
was windy old pirate who might have tted ao IN at
of place Broadway as a horse doctor IN garage.
1t kind of enterainin though, strlngln him along
about his heroic Sheriff stunts and when he got on the
more or less touchin. That his whole form chart,
What would Maggie think? For nearly twenty years,
ever since the late Mrs Stidders had passed on and
left him with little wo-year-old girl baby to take
care of he'd lived just for Maggie
As near as could discover them four terms when he
was Sheriff of Cavse had been the penuche of his
Since then hed tended bar dealt faro capped for poker
games and INDUCED in other gentee work-dodg1n rec
reations. And as soon as Maggie got big enough TO
rustic for herself he just naturally retired and let her 90
the supportn Another fact that comes out was about
Mrs Stidders She'd been dance hall artist that had
drifted into the mines from Frisco. So there couldn
be much pride of ancestry about Maggie
But for all that, she the level and IN dead
earnest about brean into the reg lar theatrical game
Looked like helpless case, though for you know how
MANY experienced people walk1n the R1ato at TINS
time of the year. Then there was her looks. So I'm
olted when she announces that she been taken
on by Seiger & Bloom.
dts only sort of second old lady part, says she,
"and know they're planning on giving me the chuck
about the second rehearsal But they have another
guess coming. I'm going to make good
"That's the talk says |.
"The worst of it is, though" says she "there are
three weeks of rehearsals without pay | can scrub
along myself; but don't know what to do about
Dad
Excuse me for mentionn it." says |, "but has he
ever thought of gettin' job?
"That wouldn't to Dad says she. I've
thought of it, though. But what could he do here!"
WAS still chewin that proposition, goin out on
the train to Rockhurst that night, when Major
Henry Clay Upham, chesty neighbor of mine that |
guess I've told you about before, plants himself along
side me in the smokin and begins passin out long
wheeze about this epidemic of sneak hevery and sec
ond story work that's been gon on in our ne1ghbor-
hood. He he's blamed good mind to hire watch
man to guard his house nights.
"Well why not? says l.
"The difficulty is to find the right kind, says he.
"If | could run a real brave now, who
wouldn't hesitate to shoot sight, and who could
point to record record ior ,aou +.o ,r+v, Ever
hear of Hen Stidders. the Fightn Sheriff of Cayuse
Citv?"
The Major hadn't but he was nt'rested
well goes on, "Ex-Sherf Stidders is in town, and
he amt dom thing just now He's got rep as gun
fighter What do you say?"
| couldn't have hit the Major in weaker spot. By
eleven o'clock monn the deal is closed and that
night Hen Stdders bundled up old coonskln over
coat of the chauffeur's, and armed with two husky
guns, goes on duty.
Remember" says l the side to Stidders, I've
given the Major to understand that you amt afraid of
anything that walks.
That's me-" says he. "As the boys used to say out
in Cayuse City
"Yes | know" says l; "but this is the suburbs of