Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-06-11

- N'' l|D' 1890 SAS
said Sweeney. Got to TAKE her along
somehow
He picked the child up in his arms.
and she chung to him, still screaming
with fright,
Its all right now" said Sweeney.
It's all right. Cheese Oh the noise,
little one. We'll get YOU t your mann
ma IrrulHn!.'
We. isS:" demanded the big Ger
M4,tll,
'il"rman, you junIl, down on. the
stA:r. >angl'jnetti. yon drop into the
Ia'N below here Iii pass the kid along
/, .y0u and You toss her To Schultz!
III follow Quick. now"
1t MAS the romlnlnIin- n.!irtr speak
in@. aud. like trained Suldirr>. Schultz
and ~SaMguinetti oheyral. BY this time
THE 'pruar in the back of the house
had hrwtin to StiI,>ide. hut the sight of
two men leapilg from an upper stage
box did not tend to restore public con-
hdenre.
one of the men had JUMPED on the
stage. 4 third man appeared in an
upper box with Il child c~lnSpc,l in his
arms.
Now then" be yelled Sweeney
to San@llinetti to Schultz. All set :"
SangIinetti braced himself against
the rail below.
Shoot her along he cried.
Sweeney leaned far out over the roar
ing abyss. with the sqlirlning. scream
inc child balanced in his muscular
hands,
y lou shout OF protest went up
from the mass of humanity iammed
into the aisles. Sweeney gagged dis
lance and drop with a practiced eye,
and the yell of warning changed to a
gasp rs the little white bundle flashed
downward. Sanguinetti caught the
child deity about the tiny waist and,
with n swing Of his powerful shout
ders, sent her flying over the footlights
to Schultz.
And that put the finishing touch to
the panic. for it showed the crowd a
way out Of the place.
In less than ten seconds the stage
was black with scurrying people. and
when the curtain came down hundreds
tried to fight their way through it.
Sweeney, S%anguinetti and Schultz
trotted down an alley. chuckling to
themselves.
"And nobody but us could lave done
it so slick" said Sweeney. 81 wonder
how you'd score that play?"
They found out in the morning.
You might think that an affair OF
pause, so to speak.
Nothing Of the kind.
Harley Q. Walker needed an alibi
badly, also a scapegoat, and fate sent
him three Of the best little scapegoats
that ever went bleating into the wilder
ness.
In some subtle way, known only to
press agents and diplomats. Walker
contrived to cast most of the blame for
the entire affair upon the battle scared
shoulders of Sweeney, %Sanguinetti and
Schultz.
Y-e-e-S; he admitted that there had
been a trifing disturbance in the back
Of the house, but that was nothing. 1t
would have blown over in a minute
and the people would have gone back
to their seats but for the melodramatic
horseplay introduced by three rowdy
ball players who belonged to a visit
ing team.
They're bad fellows" explained
Walker to the newspaper men.
They're always getting soused and
creating a row. Look up their records
if you don't believe me. Why, they
might have killed that poor little kid,
throwing her around like that. Her
mother is going to sue for heavy dam
ages-shOck to the kids nervous sys-
tenn and all that sort of thing. And
there wasn't any excuse. Hand it ii
'em good and plenty"
Johnny Moore read all the papers
every morning in bed.
This was one of the front page head
lines which greeted him:
ROWDY BALL PLAYERS CREATE
PANIC IN THEATER!
This was another:
SWEENEY. SANGUINETTI AND
SCHULTZ AGAIN GO ON A
tANL.
And this was the way one of the ar
ticles began:
Not content with their rowdy conduct
on the diamond, three ball players named
Sanguinetti. Schultz and Sweeney last
night broke up a performance of "The
Gilded Lily and endangered hundreds OF
precious lives, AS a result several suits
for heavy damages may be filed.
ReDutatiOn can he a faa rSOme thing
at times.
Before Sweeney, ~Sanguinetti and
Schultz rolled out of their beds in the
morning the fate of the international
alliance was sealed. They rolled out
when Johnny Moore sent for them.
and they went VI on the managerial
carpet with clear c~onsciences. They
had not seen the morning papers, but
Johnny shook them ut the culprits as
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