Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-05-04

TO the stage-have lived good lives and
become famous; but the ordinary run
why, it's such haphazard go-as-you.
please, impecunious kind of life
the last kind I'd want to see you tied
to-"
gut, daddy, they're not all 'haphaz-
ard or impecunious. Gerald isn't"
How do you know?"
''He said he had enough for us both
to live ON comfortably"
HUH shifted Dakin incredulously.
Where did you meet 'GeraldT"
"At Grace Welby's."
bohemian studio, cigarettes, beer"
NO" broke in Sue. AT her OWL
home, with her father and mother,
They entertain some of the best people
in Chicago Sunday evenings"
"How long ago."
Nearly three months ago. He was
playing there, and"
What theaterg
"In vaudeville. 1t was"
vaudeville y shouted Dakin, with
intense disgust. Il suppose he whacks
a fellow with a stuffed club and calls
it comedy"
Not at ALL" protested Sue. now al
most in tears. It's a beautiful little
sketch"
"WeIl, daughter" said Dakin, begin
won't take this matter too seriously till
till We know this young man little
better. Perhaps he doesn't mean"
''Oh, but he does! / saw him just
two days before 1 left Chicago-and-
we're engaged. He wanted to write
you at once; but l thought I would
rather talk to you first about it,"
You'd better ask him to write
With this, Dakin concluded the in
tervfew, leaving Sue with something
more than a suspicion that her father
was not going to give his consent. La
ter on he told Sue he had answered
Mr.. Fielding's letter and asked for "a
stay in proceedings till he could have
talk with him.
Sue went back in no happy frame of
and her father concluded to take
trip to New York, mainly to see Mr..
Jacob Higgins, whom he had found
would be there, and to take a look at
his peach orchard. Arriving late in
the afternoon in New York, he decided
to look up Mr.. Higgins at his hotel the
next day. That evening he strolled
into q theater. 1t was vaudeville.
After q time the curtain rose on the
setting for a play. 1t interested him.
Presently q man entered. Dakin eX-
perienced a shock. He rubbed his eyes,
then slipped a coin in the slot and ex-
tracted opera glasses, which he hastily
raised TO his eyes
Most extraordinary resemblance J"
he said to HIMSELF "Why, it's the i'm
age of Higgins ~
He had no program. He called an
usher and asked the name. 1t was Ger
aid Fielding. Mr.. Dakin gasped and
asked the usher to take around his
card. Yes, Mr.. Fielding would see him.
and he went TO the stage door. He was
kin's query as TO how he could be two
different men at the same time, he
said: You see, Jacob Higgins was
an impossible name for the stage, so
took another. | was trifie more ro-
mantle then" he smiled. Il am thirty
six now. l know / am considerably
older than-but perhaps you'd like to
see the peach orchard?"
Decidedly Dakin would like to see
the orchard, so they arranged to go out
Sunday morning. Fielding did not once
again refer TO Mr.. Dakin's daughter,
and the other as determinedly tabooed
the subject. The peach grower showed
his fine, extensive orchard with pride
and suppressed glee TO his host, whom
he could see was profoundly inn
pressed
You see," he said, II play only a
short season in the winter, and that
leaves me plenty of time to look after
the orchard"
The next day. RS the two men sat
talking in Dakin's room at the hotel,
the intense surprise of both, Sue en-
tered. She gave kind of start at see
ing the two men together.
"We're talking business" explained
Dakin. Were thinking of going into
partnership
She gave little ecstatic cry. Then
there was some more explaining.