Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-02

Suddenly it dawncd upon her tina, per.
haaS she knew!
That night the show wen, 10 phiI.d.l
phia. Detectives Brown and Meyer We're
there almost as soon. They waited for
Miss Chamberlain at the stage door ms,
as any Manhattan stagc-door Johnnies
might have done. As the girls uassed out
IN" Johnny imitators raised their shoul.
dor7. expanded their chests 10 fiji their
well-fitinS coats and tipped their hats
raNishiy upon the sides OF their heads and
smiled!
the other fair ones of the chorus showed
definite interest But when Miss Madge
Chamberlain passed the dingy door she
cast them one contemptuous glance She
wasn't to be deceived again.
81 have been expecting YOU 7 suppose
you're friends OF that little bounder tina:
sent me the decavcd cigar ends" she said
Nj. Meyer walked iauntilv mp on one
SIDE. Detective Brown on the other
You'll! have 20 forgive the Kid What
he did was in The interests OF Justice
Just as ,c are going TO uphold the law
he upheld it,"
But in the days that followed. often did
Messrs. Brown and Meyer wish that Mr..
Carlflish had baitcd his trap with what
had proneriy belonged there instead nf the
offending nicotine medley. Miss Cham
bcrlain didn't mind the ruse so much
that had been clever. But 10 find what she
did and before the eyes OF her sister
Queens! IL was something awful. She
was bitter about il. II was coarse work,
Mr. Carlfleish. under the complaints If
his elder cOnfreres, became repeutant He
grew tc recognize that he had not pre-.
served the artistic unities Had In fact
committed the literary sin OF finishing M
a rapier due! With n shovel Never again
would he 50 fall short of his heroes he
vowed.
but as philosopher has observed tina,
constant dropping wears away the stone.
so imperturable ability. bulwarked by per.
severance. gains its end. |, required seven
'uncheOns. five dinner and six auppers to
make her see reason" But when it was
evident that the Headquarters men had no
hOught OF returning TO Manhattan until
her tale had been told that, indeed, the
House OF Detention yawns for unwilling
witnesses who obstruct the action OF the
law: that al all events, it would be EN-.
barrassng TO the company 10 travel across
continent with two detectives. however
we'll dressed and amable In its immediate
wake. Miss Chamberlain talked"
II suppose, since the kids only eighteen
It's my duty to check him in his headlong
career We'll, yes. he did give me some
bonds Eleven OF them
Here they are. don't want them.
him first about two weeks ago We
were playing in New York. TIe and an.
other boy sat in a box and firted with my
friend and me. When we came out they
were waiting for at the stage door
Let ME tell you right now that when q
girl works for twenty dollars week she's
not choosy about what stranger takes her
out TO supper. She saves the price of the
meal. And IL a Johnny's very attentive
and generous she may save nearly "A
weeks board while she's in his town
THAT'S the reason why ] went to sup
per with him, and why | let him follow
me TO the New Jersey tanks.
ale thought 10, OF me- He gave
me the eleven bonds and was going to give
me forty-siX more when he joined the
show on the road, he said
when he introduced himself to me he
called himself Joseph London. But after
ward he used the name Fred Dwyer. After