The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-07-14

"Their-their freshness
beside him. He ripped out good round
oath or two; then he said, Say, look
here, from what you told me, that Mary
Page is no better than she should be,
but crtcSey, she swung right onto my
jaw that Jared my brains in there,
just because 1 tried to give her little
kiss-and offered to take her to the
movies"
did Mr.. Pollock reply?'
'No. First he looked as if he was
going to hand the chump one himself,
then he laughed as if he was satisfied
with something, and ran up stairs to
Mary. She was crying, and packing
her grip. She said that for the last two
or three days she had noticed decided
difference in the attitude Of the men
towards her, and that at noon one Of
them had insulted hef and she had
slapped his face. The worst of it was,
she said, the man said that he had been
told that she wasn't so particular with
others, and was notorious where she
came from. When we went downstairs
with our suit-cases in our hands the
proprietor's wife was giving him an
earful of what she had heard about us,
of how bad we were and all the rest,
and Mr.. Pollock was sitting there TAX
ing it all in, but pretending to read.
He jumped up when we came in sight.
however, and started to speak, but we
pushed by him and l walked right up
to the proprietor and said. Look here
you've been pretty white to US. but
somebody is spreading lot of lies
around here, and we're going to quit
P. D. O., and we'd like whatever Of the
long green is coming to US after our
rooA rent is paid The old guy. seeing
Mr.. Pollock was listening. said we'd
better all go into the dining-room to
settle it; but Mr.. Pollock followed us
in, and said that as he was a friend
Of ours, that he had heard that there
were a good many rumors about
Mary's past, and that of course no
actress could expect to have any repu-
tation. as everybody knew what road
companies were. Then he grabbed
Mary's hands. saying. I at least care
nothing about gossip. Knowing Miss
Page, have repeatedly offered to mar
ry her and now-now l ask again.
Mary, you can kill this SANDER in a
minute by marrying met That wised
me to his game all right, but before
could tell her, she had dragged her
hands away from him with a scream
and backed against the wall. staring at
us as if-as if-she was-crazy. call
ed out Mary! Maryr but she didn't
seem to hear me. She just kept star
ing at Mr.. Pollock"
"Was he much excited?' snapped
Langdon.
Eyes. but he was half drunk, too.
He'd been drinking lot all day, and it
showed plainly on him. 1t was that,
guess. that made him act like a fool
and try to catch her in his arms, cry
ing that there was nothing ahead of
her but disgrace and disaster unless
she married him.
did she reply?"
"No-she didn't answer. She struck
at him-twice-then she screamed and
ran out-and across the street to the
railroad We've followed as quickly
as we could, and then" she choked,
and her hand went waveringly to her
throat, as if the words would not come
-"and then-we saw the man waving
his flag and knew the-the train from
New York was coming in. think l
went crazy myself for minute. l
screamed and screamed and I heard
Pollock screaming too, and we ran like
mad-but we couldn't catch her-only
thank God-the man with the danger
flag saw her and stopped her just in
timew
did she fight against capture?"
mo. She just tainted dead off in his
arms, and when we got to her, he had
carried her over and laid her on the
platform. 1t was then that l saw Mr..
Langdon. He had just gotten off the
train. and when he saw the crowd and
Mary lying there, he turned white as a
sheet and came running over. But l
told him that she had only tainted and
he'd better carry her over to the hotel"
"Was Miss Page conscious when you
reached the hotel?"
"No. But after she had been laid on
the sofa in the parlor and the land
lady had bathed her forehead while |
she opened her eyes and smiled at US,
and the old woman, who was good