Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-03-16
The DESTROYING ANGEL


IT'S simplicity itself: I'm going TO buy
him.
BUY Maxi"
"Body-artistic soul-and breeches.A
Whitaker affirmed confidently.
"Impossible!'
"You forget how well fixed | am
What's the use of my owning half the
gold in New Guinea if 1t won't buy
me what already own by every mora
and legal right?"
HE won't listen to you; you don't
know Max"
I'm willing to lay you small BET
that there viii be no first performance
at the Theater Max tomorrow night"
your never persuade him"
III buy the show OuGI. ght and my
wife's freedom to boot-=-Or else Max
will begin to accumulate the local
color of hospital ward
Ember smiled grinly. you're be-
ginning to convince even me. When,
may 1 ask, do you propose to pull of
this sporting proposition"
DO you know where Max can be
found tonight?"
AT the theater-"
''Then the matter win be arranged
at the theater between this hour and
midnight"
II doubt If you succeed in getting
the ear of the great man before mid
night; however, I'm not disposed to
bubble about a few hours"
But why shouldn't IL"
Because Max is going to be the
busiest young person in town tonight.
And that is why I've been looking for
you. Conforming to his GUS
tom. he's been giving an advances
glimpse of the production to the crit
les and few friends in the form OF
a final grand dress rehearsal tonight.
Again, in eonformsnce with his Gus
tom, he has honored me with bid,
I've been chasing you all day to lind
out if you cared to 60"
Eight o'clock and bit after,
Whitaker interrupted briskly, consul.
ting his watch. Here, boy" he hailed
passage page; "call taxicab for
me-" And then, rising alertly: 'Cone
along; I've got to hustle home; and
make myself look respectable enough
for the occasion; but at that, with
luck, fancy Wen be there before the
first curtain"
This mood of fCith, of self-reliance
and assured optimism held unruffied
| throughout the dash hOmeward. his
hurried change of clothing and the
ride to the theater. Nothing that En-
Der, purposely pessi.1istic, could say
or do awaited to diminish the high
buoyancy of his humor. He main.
tanned serene faith in his star, a
| spirited temper that refused to recog-
nize obstacles in the way of his de-
| sire.
In the taxicab, en- route to the Thea.
ter Max, he cOntrived even to distil o
good omen from the driving autumnal
| downpour itself.
ION such a day as this" he told his
| doubling friend, 81 won her first; on
such a day l shall win her anew, final
ly and for all time!"
From Broadway to Sixth avenue
Forty-sixth street was bright with thu
yellow glare of the huge sign in from
of the Theater Max. But this night
unlike that other night when he ha(
approached the stage of his wife's tri
Hmphs, there was no crawling rank OF
cabs, no eager and curious press OF
people in the street; but few vehicle'
disputed their way: otherwise the rail-
AMI the hurryints rain-coated wayfar
ers had the thGroughfare to them
themselves. And even this he
chose to consider a favorable omen
there was not now a puSlic - com,
between him and his love-only MAJ
and her frightened fancies.
The man at the door recognized EN-
Der with a cheerful nod: Whitaker ht
did not know.
"Just in time. Mr.. Ember; curtains
been up about ten minutes"