The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-01-25


en- rapport toward the left wing.
In the gloom of that left wing, taut
as a gladiator, Mr.. Al Delano, clad In
gold-coIored tights, with a zig-zag of
silver lightning down his front, bal
anced in waiting on the tip of the
titillating spring-board in readiness for
his flight across the stage.
His muscles sprang out and his b.
cops swelled to capacity, and beneath
the gold-colored tights his diaphragm
suddenly contracted, throwing his
great chest upward.
All Hail the Storm Kingm
Miss Laladay drew backward the
bar until ii lay across her little bosom
and, as the silver wire jerked her ever
so slightly higher, flung 1t from her
with one hand, and with her free arm
tossed her silver wreath downward to-
ward the figure beside the wind ma
chine, and little trill of laughter went
with it.
Both hands there-cut that-wait !
Al-wait--good God :"
On that outward swing of the ira
peze Mr.. Al Delano leaped from his
Spring-board with the grace Of q wild
thing. turned his double somersault
mid-stage, in mid-air, and reached out
FOR the fiOwer-twined horizontal bar.
Ii swung back. but too slowly to meet
his straining clutch. Too late to gather
his strength against a fall, he gyrated
for second in CHASTITY stimulation of
an acrobat, and then with the direct
ness of fowl shot on swift wing, hur-
tied downward, his legs doubled I'D
under him and his neck strained back
ward.
"Ugh-h-l -
A moment of indecision. A woman
in the balcony shrieked and hid her
face. Another. The West Wind faint
ed back against an iridescent pillar.
The directors baton fiuttered, then
waved onward, the music Gathering
manfully latter it. A gnome fell weak
kneed in her tracks. The curtain slith-
cred downward.
At three o'clock. with the immense
quiet of dead q night thick as a
shroud around them, the watchers be-
side property couch moved stimuli
taneously. A doctor rose from his stiff
knees. his lips pursed and perplexed
beneath his messy beard. Charley Lee
lifted basin and towel from the floor
and placed them noiselessly on the
gold property table. Miss Lolo Lala-
day, her silver skirts crushed to her
figure, rose from her crouching attitude
at the base of the couch, and beneath
the mask of rouge her little face
seemed suddenly as fieshless as the feet
of a bird and slashed with tears, as If
rain had beat against 1t.
DOC! My God, Doc, don't you
know yet? You want us to die wait
ing, do you? Don't you know nothing
yetT
I'VE gotta catch that fourteen train,
DOC, ana she feels IKE before we go
we oughta-"
Cant you tell girl, Doc? Amt he
ever coming to again7 Amt he, Doc?
Oh, my God, amt he2"
The doctor snapped his spectacles
into a case and regarded her above a
remaining pair that straddled his nose
halfway down. His voice was DELHI
crate and as slow as treacle In the
pouring.
1--WE are going to move him now,
young lady, just as soon as the hospital
wagon arrives. Then we can tell
more"
co.
mask.
81 have set three fractures, but I
can't look at that back until we get
him to the hospital, little lady"
"Oh, my God! His hack!"
Mr.. Charley Lee smoothed nervous
hand up and down the back Of his
CLOSED hair.
What she's trying to get at IS this.
Doc. We gotta get that fourteen train
out and"
Don't listen to him, Doc, we"
"We gotta get that train out and
If he amt done for she wants to know
Ii he'll come around all right. He will,
won't he. Door
He will, Doc, won't her He will,
Doc, for Gods sake tell me he surely
will"
81 won't know how much, little lady,
until we get him to the hospital, but II
looks to me like he will come around
all right"
'See. Lo; now GO get your duds."
"Oh, my God, Doc" She caught at
his hands in frenzy of suppliance and
fell on her knees a huddle at his feet.
Just pull him around, Doc. That's all
1 ask Pull him around, Doc, and I'll
make 1t up to you. I'll work my fingers
to the bone for you. I'll black your
shoes and walk on my knees for you.
Only don't let him die, Doc. For Gods
sake, don't let him die" The incoher-
ence Of frenzy muddled her tones.
SAW, cut IL, Lo. Don't you see that
Docs dsing all he can. Go get your
buds on, 10. You see, Doc, it's this