The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-08-05
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"Now don't tell me I'm crazy" he
commanded, land don't forget that
I'm old enough to know what I'm talk
ing about. You're going to get in
trouble, if you don't lay off Mandi-
nello. You're signing your stories,
and laying things on pretty thick.
Wharton says u circulation has
jumped $4,000. Maybe it has. What's
the blooming circulation worth, If it
costs you your neck?
Molly tried to laugh. "You don't
think they'd shoot me, SLIM"
"That's just what I think" he told
her shortly. "You notice I don't take
any chances? MOI on your life I don't.
I've toned down r,y stuff, since they
sent Tony Tommy from Chicago, to
give u news hounds the ones over"
"I'm not afraid" she boa5ted.
that's becarce you haven't sense
enough" he Informed her. "That's
what they'll say when they write
your obituary -. I'm not afrsM,' she
said. And they'll call you the Brave
Young Reporter, and the Beautiful
Little Martyr, ard csnd corae swell
floral pieces to tie funeral. And
what good will that do yor? Now
watch your step, nelly, and do as
tell you. Lay of before Some Of
these Chicago gunner take you for Z
nice little ride. It's been done to girls
before, You krow."
"Ycu're a cheerful FRIEND" she
chided.
"lt,o fer your own good" hs in
sisted.
"Weil, I'm going to New York for
the weekend" she told him. sand
I'll have to tear of Saturdays and
Sundays stories in q hurry. Suppose
I write the old cob stuff about the
poor little bride. and the love nest on
18th street,"
go ahead" he urged. Probably
Wharton won't use it, but it's better
to get in wrong with the office than
the racketeers."
Molly wired two discreet stories
that night, and telegrapked the Of
flee that she was going 70 New York
and would be back on the jo5 lion
day morning. Then SIZE telerhoned
Jack to meet her At ths Grand Gen.
trail.
During the journey she wrote sew.
cral pages Of dialogue intended fol
the play on which she end Red were to
collaborate. They had decided that q
good name would be "The Death Of
Delphine Darrows."
The curtain was to rice on Del.
phine's beribboned boudoir, with Del.
phine, white and beautiful, dead, be-
tween sheets Of orchid satin. A young
man, in conventional morning clothes,
with . sardenia in his buttonhole'
would rise from his knees by the
side Of the bed, and dash from the
room. Immediately the curtain would
b lowered.
The second act would be in . court
room. In the prisoners cage would
be another man-chAreed with the
murder Of Delphine Darrows. Near
him, with eyes fastened m~aliciously
upon the accused, would sit the youna
man who had rushed from the dead
womAn's bedroom.
Molly was working on the court.
room scene. Trying to inject humor,
to relieve tragedy. Fearful lest she
lose something Of the dramatic pos.
sibilities. The cut-and-dried court.
room technique was simple, but shl
must keep it keyed ct high tension,
The prosecuting attorneys charge
must be pregnant with thunder0ui
words and dreadful imprecations. Thu
dread shadow Of the electric chail
must hover 0ver the pale dark mar
in the prisoners cage. And the audi
ence must feel the ghost Of the deas
woman, AS the sinister prosecutor con
jured her presence.
Molly worked until the train pulles
into tbs station. Them she psHdoYe.
her shess, and rougs1 her lips unti