The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-03-29

Graves; the girl looked to him as 1:
she bad possibilities.
The girl began to sing; Graves grunt
ed and looked at Lee with wide grin
Her voice was thin, Lee admitted tt
himself, but something in it attracted
him.
When the song was finished Graves
asked her to dance a few steps. Sh.
danced few steps, lithely, gracefully
but-Graves grunted again.
While the girl was waiting for thei,
decision Graves leaned over. my boy
you're mighty good music singer
but you can't judge girls!"
He turned to her and waved hel
away. She seemed to sway and shiv
er a little, then started for the wings
her face white.
Lee said sharply: "Call her back
Graves, want to talk with her; an6
I'll bet you 500 that the next time
she comes to you you'll be anxious t.
take her!"
Graves stared at him. "Son, your.
crazy; could cheat you easy of tina,
hundred"
"But know you won't; so how i.
it,"
Graves face softened. "Bil-ly, it,
ago!"
Graves had halted her with q SHARP
call near the wings. and he now called
her back. Miss Reddon, this is Bill.
Lee, who wrote the shouting for thu
show. He wants to talk with you 6
moment"
Lee drew her a little aside. II have
a sort Of proposition" He looked
into her face, and what he saw there
made him jump-starving, she surely
looked-"perhaps, if you are willing
we'll 60 to the restaurant below. We
can talk better there, and I'm deuced
ly hungry"
She did not demur, and soon they
were hidden from eyes and out of the
reach Of tongues in one of the booths
Lee sent in an order that made the
waiter, who knew him. look startled
for q moment.
I'm somewhat of hearty eater
Miss Reddon," he said, smiling. "and
no one is friend of mine who doesn't
keep up with me-"
II think I can," she answered, smil'
ing for the first time.
When the food was spread before
them he began to talk and eat, and
she followed his example as far as the
eating was concerned.
"My proposition is this, Miss Red
don, and hope, too, you will favor it
I am interested in another musical
show in which there Is need of girl
like yOu-sOmebOdy with brown hair
brown eyes, and-well, you'll do, and
I can give you the position; the wages
will be the regular; you'll play once
in the evening only. How about it?"
She was listening as if her whole
heart and soul were in the words liz
was saying. "Will I accept ito Il
do do"
She stopped as If seeking to master
her feelings. Lee switched the con
versation onto other things; for he I'm
derstood. She had been near the Dor
derland, and was struggling to keep re
spectacle, yet starving in the attempt
So it came about that Billy Lee haG
a talk with the manager of the show
II want Eer to be put on anyway, see
paid right on the dot, and, Fred, sor
OF hint to her that she is a little I'm
der weight and that she better res
for week under full pay-I'll pay it
see? I've got bet on, and if I wiz
you're III fifty"
A week later q note came to hin
from Fred. "Come over, presto, change
-whoop!"
He waited for Fred's reasons, and h,
got them. There's a whacking bi,
change, Billy-you wouldn't know hcl
guess she must have been starving
But she's bucked up little. She wen
into the skirt chorus all right. but whe,
I wanted her to 60 into tights. nein
nein but she's made a hit right off tn,
reel"
Lee turned to see a girl in brow
coming up to him. His quick eye toll,
, him that he had guessed right. He
cheeks still had the girlish oval tina
belonged there; the lines Of her form
mad curved out-shc VAS not only nras