Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-26


plea of Carlena's little sister.
After the signing of the bill Gray
son and Carlena become Comrades
for life" as a fitting conclus on.
THE SACRIFICE OF KATHLEEN"
-Nitagrapb.
When Richard Powers came 10 New
York he had $50 and a play which, he
was convinced contained a great idea.
a month later he still had the play.
but $50 of the $50 had vanished. AS
the play-no matter what else might
be said about it-could not under any
circumstances be regarded as an inn
mediately negotiable asset Powers
was compelled to hunt a cheaper
boarding house.
That was how the young playwright
came to meet Kathleen. Kathleen
was the slavey in the boarding
house which he found to be adapted
to his means. He noticed the girl
first because, despite her shabbiness
and her general appearance of hAv-
ing been worked to death, she still
was pretty. Then he began TO pity
her because of the boarding house,
keepers cruelty toward her. Finally
he began to like her because she took
an interest IN him and his work.
His sympathy was often absent
minded because his mind was greatly
occupied with his own plans and
troubles, but the girl took it more
earnestly. When he loaned her a book
TO read she thought he was the finest
man she had ever known. Uncon-
sciously she fell in love with him.
Meanwhile, Powers's money was
running desperately low and still his
play remained unsold. AS last re-
sort he took 1t to a producer he had
never before had the courage to face
"a man accounted the greatest pro-
Queer in New York. He met with the
usual answer
1.-THE play is good, said the pro-
Queer, "but the sort of thing you
have done is a drug on the market
just now. We are tied up for months
ahead with productions. You had bet
ter try to sell it somewhere else"
While Powers was receiving this
dismal news a lawyer was knocking
at the door of his boarding house and
asking for Kathleen. The slavey, he
informed the landlady, had fallen heir
to an estate of $4,000. Having as
sured himself of the identity of the
girl, he left q check for that sum and
took his departure.
When Powers returned to his rooms
he was in the deepest depths OF
dependency. This last refusal, he
realized blighted his hopes of ever
having the play produced. His money
was gone. All his dreams had faded
and before him remained only the
stern likelihood of starvation.
Kathleen found him in this mood.
Pity overwhelmed her. When he went
out for a walk. in an effort to shake
off his depression, she took his play
and went to the manager who had
last refused it. On the way she
cashed her check She laid the $1,000
and the play on the desk before the
theatrical man.
81 will give you this money" she
said, '1f you will give this play an
adequate production"
The producer accepted this offer.
1.-THE Toilers' proved terrific hit.
The result of this development was
not what Kathleen had expected. She
had thought only of the joy which
the acceptance of his play would give
Powers. When the producers letter
came asking him to submit THE
T'oilers' the playwright had been
transferred from the pit of melan-
choly to the seventh heaven of de-
light, and this had been equally de-
light for Kathleen. because she had
taken pains to keep from Powers the
fact that it was she-the little slavey
who was his benefactor.
But when Powers, the next day
after the acceptance of his play, an
nounced that he intended to move
Kathleen had reason to regret her
impetuous generosity. However, she
accepted her misery dumbly Powers
noted her grief and was touched by
1t, but left without the slightest sus-
picion of the sacrifice behind It.
THE Toilers" made Powers rich. 4
year after he had left Kathleen. while
running through some letters he
found her photograph. lie remem-
bered her with tenderness and Won
dered what had become Of her.
That evening he went to dinner at
the club. The man who had produced
THE Toilers' had preceded him there
Without speaking to him be sat down
in chair near by. There he heard
the producer tell companion just
how he had been persuaded to pro-
duce Powere's first play.
Powers listened to the producers
story like man in a dream. Then
he got up very quietly and walked out
Of the club. A half hour later he was
back at the boarding house, with
Kathleen, whom he found Ill from
erief and loneliness in his arms