Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-10
go Dark Street;
OR
L Ole Actors Daughters
By F. w. ROBINSON
CHAPTER vi
HYACINTHA.

HYACINTHA.
TTv o the best of my ability, then, 1
! saw the little tragedy out, and
took no advice from Fairfax. I wrote
the next day to tell him of my fixed
Intentions, and he was charitable
enough to spare me any protests on
the subject He did not even write
ne a second fiippant epistle of enor-
nous length, but begged me earnest
ly to take it coolly, and wish me very
heartily through "the whole bust
ness" He promised, at my special
request, to continue his inquiries for
the sisters Nash, and communicate
with me should any news turn up;
and then, like a man who under
stood me well, he left me completely
to myself.
was grateful. He had limited
that should not worry" but I felt
that it was in the power of friends
by well-meant advice, but injudi-
cious interference-to worry me
most of all. He knew had made up
my mind. He was q wise friend to
say no more.
Well, suppose I did worry. | was
not strong enough yet to take even
the death of a strolling player with
Composure-I who had walked the
hospital and seen so much of death.
l was somewhat irritable under my
new responsibilities; l was conscious
that l was not acting coolly and SEN
sibly; that | was giving my feelings
too much play; that / was puzZling
over problems which / had no right
to attempt to solve; that, failing in
the solution of them, | was at times
angry and confused. The pitiable
condition of Mr., Kench's company
distressed me; as I knew more of
them all, so their hard, brave fight to
hold together under the adverse cir
cumstances of want of patronage
and want of money, and the cheer
full way in which they encountered
and surmounted those difficulties, in
terested me unduly, absorbed my at
tention more than my friends would
have imagined. There was trouble,
too, over the inquest of Noah Nash;
a fussy coroner, a still more fussy To-
cal doctor, both of whom took me to
task for interfering, and told me
that I had no right to order the re-
moval of the body of Mr.. Nash to his
lodgings before the proper authori-
ties had taken the matter in hand
and decided what was to be done. I
was reminded that I had been defy
ing the law, and that there was such
q thing as mortuary in Breymouth;
that I had been xtra-off1cious-a
stranger in the town-in taking the
matter up, and that 1 might consider
myself fortunate If I escaped a pros
ecution. | found myself involved in
a small paper war with the authori-
ties, until the inquest was over, and
a gracious permission given to bury
Noah Nash in any way that best
pleased me and Mr.. Nash's friends,
and till the funeral was over-at my
own expense pro. tenn, as it was
delicately put by Mr.. Kench-" mere
ly pro tenn, sir''-I knew very little
of thp+ 10000 and rest whi"'
come all this long way from London
to seek.
And during all that time no sight
or sound of Noah Nash's daughters
the phantoms of Dark street; no
knowledge on their part of the
fathers decease, or a studied silence
which-if they were that SHADY
lot'' indicated in recent telegram
1T was not considered polite to
break till the remains of Mr. Nash
had been decently inferred
''It's odd, sir; it's more than odd"
said Mr.. Kench, the day of the fun
eral. 81 could understand better any
thing or those girls, save their hiding
away where nobody can find them
It isn't like them Bit
seno znu think they are in. difHcuf-