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“WHEAPPY DAYS et
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“fhe boy was frightened.
74 oles sped back to the ' wings at the side of
+ Age.
“there stood. Mr,” Rachback, Bronson
Lewis and the stage manager,
““Where's Horace?” demanded Mn
Lewis nervously, and just then Tony Trip-
ton came off th Ze,
Liorace’s actor friend and tutor was just
: in time to hear the dramatist inquire for
£
‘ -. ., (“Good Heavens!’ exclaimed Tony, in
Foy excited and alarmed tones, ‘ Horace
><. should be at door center now, His cue
$ will be given in a momen’
y ». * Horace Brandon {s not in his dressing:
aos room and I fans find him anywhere |"
_ Stig the e call boy i + foul play!
e ay suspect foul play!” ex-
* asitged a eink
e Ja a must be found or the act will
fail: > me a Bronson Lewis, dashing madly
*- dowa the stairs that led to the dressing-
ooms,
renin, Rachback grasped Tony Tripton’s
. arm as he started to follow the distracted
Playw right.
“Stop, Tony!” safd the manager. “If
Horace does not appear something dread-
‘Rs “ful must have happened to him, though I
B
*. cannot imagine what! But we must do a
“we can to save the Rlece. Ha! There's
Hiorace’s cue! See! The fire scene i3 on,
‘ the company is working it up great. Oh,
this,is too bad! Come, Tony, do you go
a ahd rescue the girl, When the curtain
s I go before it and make an explana:
tow tothe audience, By Heavens, this ts
Yony Tripton took a
stage. There had already occurred a that
waitsthat caused the Botors to know t
, Something was w: ~
vs The audience dia: mot seem to notice this,
* and indeed among all the people in front,
Horace’s mother and Ethel alone suspected
. that’ Horace had failed to make his ap-
Pea arence on the scene promp tly. :*
Ethel grasped Mrs. Brandon’s arm con-
vulsively and whispered :
“Oh, what can it mean? Horace should
‘ bave rushed on the stage just now when
the tall actress screamed, ‘Oh, who will
save'my child?’ Can anything have hap-
Pened to Horace?”
wey CHAPTER - XVIII.
JUST IN TIME—HORACE'S FIRST TRIUMPH.
Arter Horace sank down beside the
‘door that barred his escape from the dark
: btorage room in the basement of the thea-
ter, ces air made him feel hopeles:
he experienced a sick, fain’. feeling
for a few mom
. Buthe possoseed a determined character,
and he could not giv.
¢So, much depended ‘pon his success in
fretting out of the basement room in time
> to aj-pear on the stage in act second that
. be soon felt the inspiration of desperate
iresolutior
‘~ He staggered to his fee
An @ did so his Shand came in con-
+ # tact with an Y object against the wall.
«\n, instant, and he knew that he had
“chanted to lay hold upon an ax,
n hope sprang up in his heart once
A biome ashe swung the ax above his head
aod vushed at the fastened door,
> S02 batter the door down! I ent my
wey through it! My enemy shall not tri-
papa !” exclaimed the intensely excited
+
“Crash! crash! crash!” sounded the
heavy blows, which he rained upon the
segured portal with the a.
& began to yield, Horace increased the
fury of his assault, The lock broke witha
crash, and the door flew open at last, al-
uiost riven from its hin,
‘the boy rushed out, aad at the end of a
ee 6 passage hesprang up a flight of stairs,
a door, at the head of tho stairs,
. an a gee another passage he went, then
i he Jnirst into the green-room.
jgt_the instant when Tony Tripton, in
suhidience to the direction of the manager,
pwns about to rush on the stage and rescue
‘the. girl from the burning house, Ilorace
bounded b by him,
‘The succeeding moment he was on the
‘sta 29, and the thrilling scene of the drama
went on just as it should go.
lorace had his chance to play his great
“part in the scene, and well he did it
Jn fact, the lad scored one of the Eeatest
<hils ever made by a novice. The clim:
of the act set the audience wild with ox
vitement and approval, and -Horace and
his fellow artists were called before the
curtain a,
Meantime, Ralph Carton was off the
Stage when Horace made his entrance in
the tire scene,
. But the lad’s vindictive enemy saw the
“Youth as he rushed up the stairs leading
- from the green-room,
Carton’s face paled. He looked com-
{ mastery in his evil face, judging
from the reflection of strange motions
Which were shown t
mip
step toward the
lad could escape. He had already counted
upon it as acertain thing that the youth-
ul actor’s fate was in his hands, and so
his anger and i disappointment were great,
Carton kn now undoubtedly
Horace would accuse him, and no doubs
cause his arres
The Tnglish actor was really an arrant
coward, and despite the fact that he had
assured his confederate that together they
would bear witness against Horace if, by
any chance, the lad should yet testify
against them for the cowardly assault
which they had made upon him, now that
it seemed the lad was likely to try to bring
them to punishment, Carton’s courage a
oozed a
Anyhow, he'll do nothing until after
the performance, for he won’t spoil the
production by having me arrested before
the curtain falls on the last act. Afterall,
think I'll not risk getting behind the
pars for this night’s job,” muttered Car-
votrhen Horace had responded to the cur-
tain call at the close of Bot second and
ger, the
gathered about
er members of
the company, including Sallie Sailor and
the actress who played the part of Mother
Beeryone talked at once,
speaker sought to find out
wing had Tota ined tho ok actor—why he
had caused a stage ©
Mr, Lewis and the tbanager were angry.
be stage-manager was ina like state of
But Tony Tripton and Sallie Sailor were
confident that
As soon as the lad could make his words
heard among the babel of excited voices,
he explained in a few words something | g
about why he was late in making his
final ay appearance in ‘the act that had just
clo:
Tle was about to tell the whole truth
about the matter, and expose and aocuse
Ralph Carton and Dan Kellard, when th
actress who played the part ‘of Mother
Mandra caught his eye.
Suddenly she raised her han d, and Hor-
ace gave a great start of astonishmeut as
he beheld upon_her finger the crescent-
shaped diamond ring, which the veiled
Jady—otherwise Nell Penton—had shown
him whenshe told him that ring might
serve to inform him of her identity should
she meet htm in disguise under circum-
stances which made her wish not to re-
veal herself to other:
tr “OL She is the ‘veiled lady !" thought
orat
‘amazement held him speechless until he
read in the eyes of the lady, as she nodded
negatively, t) she did net wish him to
tell the whole truth about Carton and
Kellard’s part in causing him to almost
fail to make his appearance on the stage
at the close of the act whose stirring cli-
max demanded his presence.
Accordingly Horace merely declared that
he had fallen through a trap door to
basement, and found himself ina roorn
there from which he experienced some de-
lay in making his escape, because the door
was secure
The e manager, and perhaps all but Tony
Tripton accepted the story without ques-
tion, And the lad was permitted to retire
with the veteran actor, after he had been
slightly reprimanded for carelessness by
e stage mana;
orate ed the way fois dressing-room,
Horace would spoken with the
actress, whom he now knew was really
Nell Penton, but she made him a signa
not to
Ass soon as the dressing-room door closed
behind them, Tony exclaimed:
u cannot deceive me, my lad, you
aia n ot tell the whole truth--you kept
back ¢ something important about your re-
cent mishap, and I'm sure that Ra}ph Car-
ton had something to do with the attain.”
eri,
So assented ilorace, and teny replied :
**Tell me the whole tru
“That's just what I rea to do,”
“Good, d.”
Just then there came a tap at the door.
ey hes, 's there #” demanded Ilorace,
“sg
“Oh, come in !” cried the lad, as he
x | opened the por
vivacious ‘soubrette bounced into
the room at once, and then Tony again
closed the door,
“T know you've got secrets between you.
I suspect that the villain Ralph Carton
has been up to something. Let me hear
the truth from you, Ilorace,” said Sallie.
**Yes, so you shall, I was about to tel
Tony the rath about the cause of the
stage wait my delay occasioned,” replied
th
Then he proceeded and made known the
part which Carton and Kellard had taken
against him,
ut, as he believed that she wished ta
keep her identity a secret he did not reveal
that the actress, who was supposed to be
t
So the! ad followed the veteran of the|d
Mrs, Dudley, and who played the part of
Mother Mandra so finely, was rea‘ ly the
veiled lady—Nell Penton,
‘What do you mean to do?” asked Sal-
lie, when the lad had concluded.
mean to have Carton and Kellard ar-
rested by the theater police officer, as soon
as the last act is over,” the lad promptly
responded,
“Good! Good!” cried Sallie, clapping |}
her hands,
ou must have the villains ar-
fone Your safety depends upon it,
ope you may succeed iu having the E
glish actor and his confederate punished
according to law,” said T
‘The succeeding amen tie call boy ap-
peared at the door, sayin,
“A note for Horace Bra ndon.”
“ My" mother’ 's handw riting? What can
this mean?” exclaimed the lad, Weeki
perplexed and somewhat frightened,
(ro BE CONTINUED, }
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> the oor give you ashort
chronological history of rincipal events of
the war with Spain: The
the tock ade oat Nashville ‘April
2. First prize on ured April 22, The presi-
gent ealied 5,000 volunteers April 23,
For! t Matanzas shelled April 27, Spanish
Li
eank ‘he collier Merrimac ‘ine entrant
ago harbor Friday morning,
tnents of forts and batteries at Santiago une
6, vasion of Cuba by the landing of on
rines sat Guantanamo June 10. Firat expec
to Cuba, embracing 15,300 troops, under com
Major-G chore Shafter, sailed: from
Key West June 13 and landed at Bat niri June
22. Fighting began June 24. Admiral Cervera,
in attempting toescape from pantiago harbor
on Ju , had his whole fleet des
was compeiled to surrender, Lacutongut [Hobs
son and seven seamen were exchanged for Lieu-
tenant Arics and twelve men Santiago
bombarded July 10, General oral furrendered
Santiago and t he castern halt of the ro vin) nee,
the United States to return the Spanish soldiers
to Spain, July 24. Genoral Miles faeparted with
oF tray ling and board, ‘and ev ery.
NCCE ATL We
wi
club anal the
their siicce
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A wECeRR MICADS . ave sor dive |
shold ¢: V6
dend for the s
troops from Guantanamo on July 2iet for the
janx SeNlOn es Porto ico one Janded wwe h $,000 ac
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