The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-06-27

them's Sunday
The girl put out her hand and they
shook frankly.
Say, Lizzie" said Dan, adopting
the old phraseology, you know l love
you just as much. Can't we-?
She shook her head. mot till I've
made good, Dan," she answered.
And them"
Perhaps" she answered enigmatic-
ally.
She left him at the station, and re-
fused to tell him where she lived.
Thereafter he studied the casts of the
companies diligently, but he never saw
Lizzie Broughton's name. And the
next year when he went home she had
not been there.
Two years passed. Dan had been
raised to thirty dollars. He still loved I
Lizzie, and life without her had be-
gun to seem more impossible than
ever. And then one day he saw her
name in flaming letters outside the
alter. Miss Broughton was the new
star. She had arrived.
He saw this In the lunch hour, and
after his return the manager sent for
him.
"Dickson's leaving" he said. "Hel
got an appointment out West. Mr.
Lewis, I'm going to try you in his
place-at the same salary. Three thou
sand. You're young man for thel
post, but it's our policy to EMPLOY
young men, and believe you have
the power to make good"
Dan left him, suddenly overwhelmed.
His one impulse was to run and tell
Lizzie
But it is not the easiest thing in the
world to find a theater star, and it was
four days before he gained admissionI
to her presence. And then he began
to stammer out his story.
You said that when you'd made
good, DEAR" he suggested. why not %,
Why, Dan, you are ridiculous" she
answered coolly. After all these years!
] have just achieved the object of my
efforts, and now you want to marry
me and take me away!"
But when. thenT' faltered Dan.
There isn't anybody else, is there?" |
mo, Dan.' she admitted. But
well, If ever marry, somehow can't
see anybody but you, and the old farm
once more. But not now, Dan" /
'When?"
When I'm tired of success" she
answered.
Dan went away, and the company
went on tour. He lost Lizzie. Some
times he saw her reported as playing
in the West, sometimes In the South,
but he never saw her in Broadway
again.
If he had gone home he might have
met tired, disillusioned woman
whose meteoric career had ended as
swiftly as it had begun, when the NOV
ing pictures knocked the bottom out
OF the theater business. Lizzie Brough-
ton had retired with few thousand
dollars and was waiting hopelessly for
the man whom she had three times
spurned.
Then came the day when the Phoenix
company went to pieces, after the
great fire which devastated an entire
city. And Dan, with seven thousand
in the bank, resolved to seek his early
home and forget all the ambitions that
he had ever possessed. And there he
met Lizzie Broughton again.
His fourth proposal was when they
were walking along the country lane
together, pair of lovers no longer
young. The worth and beauty of life
had been extinguished for them, and
only the pale ashes of forgotten fires
cleaned as they kindled their hearts
at the scant flame.
I'll tell you what the trouble was
with US, Lizzie" said Dan. 1--WE want
ed what isn't attainable We weren't
happy when we were poor and we
weren't when we were rich. And now
we've had our lesson. VIII you help
me try to forget all that has passed
since the first timer"
Lizzie looked at him with her old
frankness. Yes, Dan. and Pm-sorry,"
she murmured.