Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-04-01

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"Violet Dewing was her stage name
and the only name the managers knew
her by. I assumed that, Of course,
all had to do was to finish my play
and then have Dalton, who represents
me over there, make an appointment
to read it to her; but Dalton worked
for three months trying to find her,
without success: I wasn't the only
person who was interested in her.
Dalton said that half a dozen mana
gers had their eye on her, but after
Honorable Women closed she stepped
into the void. I knew what you're
thfnking-that the other members of
the two companies she appeared
with must have had some inkling of
her Identity, but tell you Dalton and
I exhausted the possibilities. It. was
by accident that she got her chance in
the pantomine- one wouldn't do
at the last minute, and they gave Miss
Dewing trial. She was we'll liked
by her associates in spite Of the fact
that she was bit offish and vanished
from their world the minute the cur
tain fell"
"a clever governess out of job,
satisfying a craving for excitement
and playing the mysterious role as q
part Of the adventure. Am to as
sumo that you've burned your play
and that the incident is closed?"
"Oh, I didn't burn it; have copy
locked in a safety vault, and Dalton
left one heavily sealed at small ex-
elusive London hotel where, he found
after much difficulty, the girl had
lodged during her two engagements"
"You're morbid" said. "Show me
her photograph"
He laughed ironically. "Never a
chance, Singleton! You haven't yet
got the idea that this young
woman is out of the ordinary.
She refused to be photographed
wrote it into her two contracts that
this was not to be asked. I never
saw her off the stage, and can't give
you description of her that would
be of the slightest assistance to the
keenest detective alive. In that panto.
mime she was a frolic, the clowns
daughter, and, although nobody saw it,
she was the whole piece, the elusive
sprite that could evoke laughter and
tears by a gesture, a lifting of the
hrows, a grimace. By utterly differ
ent methods in Honorable Women
she proved her wide range Of appeal.
Hers was the one true characteriza-
tion in the piece. When Terry was in
her prime you remember how we used
to say that only one bird sang like
that, and from paradise it flew? Well,
this bird sings on the same branch!
Her voice was her charm made audi
ble!"
"Rave some more!" pleaded.
'You never talked better in your life"
"Don't be an ass" he said sourly.
"Let's forget her and take a squirt
Mt your affairs. Just what do you
mean to do with yourself?"
"My shoulder still creaks a little, and
the doctors advise me to sit around
for a while. They offered me some
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and inspection duty are too tame after
a couple Of years spent in star climb
ing. I'm going up to Barton-on-the-
Sound and I'll. camp in the garage on
my uncle's place."
"Your uncle played you a nasty
trick" interrupted Searles; "getting
married and then adding to the crime
by dying. You couldn't beat that for
general spitefulness."
do you remember the immortal
lines:
"'Oh. skip your dear uncle!
The Bellman exclaimed
Az he angrily tinkled his bell'?
ooh, I'm not knocking the dead !" he