The Washington times., 1919-02-02

Suddenly it dawned upon her that per
haps she knew!
That night the show went to Philadel
phia. Detectives Brown and Meyer were
there almost as soon. They waited foI
Miss Chamberlain at the stage door just
as any Manhattan .stage-door Johnnies
might have done. AS the girls passed out
the Johnny imitators raised their shoul,
ders, expanded their chests to fill their
weIl-ftting coats and tipped their hats
rakishly upon the sides Of their heads and
smiled
The other fair ones Of the chorus showed
a 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. / suppose
you're friends of that little bounder that
sent me the decayed cigar ends" she said
Mr.. Meyer walked jauntily up on one
side, Detective Brown on the other.
You'll have to forgive the kid. What
he did was in the interests of justice.
Just as yci 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 baited his trap with what
had properly belonged there instead Of the
offending nicotine medley. Miss Cham
berlain didn't mind the ruse so much
that had been clever But to find what she
did and before the eyes Of her sister
Queens! I0w was something awful! She
was bitter about it. It was coarse work!
Mr. Carlfeish, under the complaints of
his elder confreres became repentant. He
grew to recognize thai he had not pre-
served the artistic unities. Had, in fact,
committed the literary sin Of finishing up
a rapier duel with a shovel. Never again
would he so fall short of his heroes, he
vowed
But as a philosopher has observed that
constant dropping wears away the stone,
so imperturable ability, bulwarked by per-
severance, gains its end. II required seven
Juncheons, five dinner and six suppers 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 at all events, it would be en-
barrassing to the company to travel across
continent with two detectives, however
well dressed and amiabIe, in it's immediate
wake, Miss Chamberlain talked"
81 suppose, since the kids only eighteen,
it's my duty to check him in his headlong
career. Well, yes he did give me some
bonds. Eleven of them.
Here they are. l don't want them. l
saw him first about two weeks ago. We
were playing in New York. He and an
other boy sat in a box and firted with my
friend and me. When we came out they
were waiting for us at the stage door.
Let me tell you right now that when
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 if 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.
"He thought a lot 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