Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06
CLARK, ALIAS CLARK
right. 1911. by the Mcclure Newspa
per Synaicate.l
BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS.


she warted to see.
"Not seat In the house." the box
Office man informed her.
Nina was disappointed. She glanced
through the casts of characters of sew
eral theaters as she passed them to
see If she could find out whether there
was anything else worth spending
dollar on.
"ohl" she calculated softly, 81 won
der If this Is the Mr.. Clark crossed
on the Lymric within" She was
glancing through the cast of characters
for "a Night and Day" pasted In
front of the Triangle theater and no.
ticed the name A. G. Clark. 'T'm sure
he must be Calvin Clark. Isn't that
lucky? / shall write and ask him to
tea in the studio"
Meanwhile Nina purchased a seat for
the Saturday matinee and felt slightly
less discouraged.
When she returned to her studio
Nina wrote a short note to Mr.. Clark
asking him to tea for the following
Sunday.
She waited impatiently for matinee
time on Saturday.
When A. G. Clark made his appear
ance Nina gasped. 1t was not the
Calvin Clark whom she knew, but one
compellingly different.
oh And I've invited him to tea.
Isn't that perfectly awfulY"
Now while Nina realized that she
had plenty Of time to send a message
to this Mr.. Clark before Sunday morn
Ing, she recognized no terrible sin in
not doing so.
On Sunday afternoon Nina dressed
a trifle more becomingly than she
knew she would have to for Calvin
/ Clark.
/ Her heart fluttered trlfie desper-
ately when she knew A. G. Clark had
dropped the copper knocker on her
door. If Nina was embarrassed with
her guilty conscience, she did not
show it.
The good-looking young actor did,
however. glance a bit nervously into
Nlna's brown eyes when she opened
the door.
Her start of surprise was well as
sumed.
"oh-hi" she bluffed naturally, 'you
are not MY Mr.. Clark. I am SO
sorry" she said, and cast wonderful
glance into the actors eyes.
I'm sorry, too-very sorry" laughed
A. G. Clark. IL just came up to
tell you that I'm not YOUR Mr.. Clark"
he added, by way of prolonging the
Interview. He remained standing near
the door, hoping, however, that he
would not have to go right away.
81 have the kettle boiling and Eng
fish crumpets-all ready for tea" Nina
said boldly while inwardly she quaked
at her own temerity, "and no one to
! eat them" With that she sent an
I other glance into Mr.. Clark's eyes.
IF that's an invitation laughed
/ Clark, 81 accept happily. l have been
desperately lonesome for someone just
like you" He colored as he realized
how flatterlng his speech seemed. Il
mean" he added quickly, that we ac-
tors don't often meet honey girls.
He had put down his hat and walking
stick and Nina motioned him to coy
seat beside her little tea wagon.
"You know" she said with brilliant
color flaming into her cheeks, that
found out In plenty of time to nave
let you know that you were not MI
Mr.. Clark. II saw the farce yester-
day and could have sent message.
az say" he laughed, you're little
+ bit of 'all right as the Britons say
Most girls would have bluffed this
thing OUT He held out friendly
hand. and Nina put her own in 1t.
"And most men would have blurred
II out, too. You could so easily nave
Thought you had met me- and all that
old game" she told him.
! While consuming tea and toasted
/ crumpets, the young actor and Nina
found much in common to interest
them. She even told him of her dis
couragement regarding some OF ner
stories.
Later they seemed to lack pep" she
said and worried little line sianted
between the brown eyes.
.'If you let me look them over ne
suggested, perhaps / can dust the
pepper pot over them. Many times
two minds work better than one on
certain types of stories"
/ When finally the moment of parting
came and Clark had Nina's promise
to Join him Wednesday for lunch Nina
said laughingly but with a tremor IN
her voice. Though you are not MI
Mr.. Clark am very glad you came ,
And while he still held her hand ana
would have liked to make the re-
tort that his heart suggested ne re-
Trained and said instead
you couldn't be as glad as am n
you tried. And we're going to work
up those stories and get checks from
all the editors and after that Wen
write sketches-I have heaps of ideas
and need inst YOU to help me-"