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i 8 it 6 | Liqu g Mineral o A 1601 & ft 99 | \ DARK I | I STREET; 1 4 Ij j! or, $ iTHE ACTOR S g| I DAUGHTERS. | i By F. W. R.obinson. 3 ? ii.oo c-ooc- 00.00 0000000.00000 c ov CII APT 11 11 T "Mil. NAHIt'S UENEFIT." I ARTHUR LISSAMKR, Fellow ol the Royal College of Surgeons, have been advised to write this story. It Is thought by one or two Htmgulm friends of mine that It may be worth the telling. 1 was not a fellow of the College of Surgeons when this story onens. I was n si nude M W O 1 man, living down an off street Newingt.on way, paying thirty-five pounds a .tear rent, and giving advice gratis between S? and 10 A. M., which wni' the* only time I could be considered busy. I was a single man, twenty-eight years of age, with a motherly old soil for housekeeper, and who had been my mother's housekeeper before I was born. My mother and father and brother and sister were all dead; we were a shortlived family. It had not entered into my hotel that I should he much of an excep tioa to the rule. I wan, In a way, prepared. I was not strong, or Londo.i air did not agree with me, or I stud led too hard; but, at all events, I came very nearly? to a full store I broke down. At nn awkward time, of course people always brca' ( down at the wrong moment whomv practice was looking tii>. I no only broke down, I went to piece* My old chum, Trncey a man much older than I, and far more clev r, i man who bad risen to the bead sin peonsblp of a county hospital took nte in band, and told me If 1 value 1 my life? I was not so sure that I did value It I must cense work at one I and go away. 1 was Inclined to resist, to argue out the matter, to defy the fates, to plead incompatibility of Income with the idea of nn outing anywhere; but I was forced from my groove, and driven seaward by a lH?st uf friends. One took my practice off my hands while I was away It was not a gl- , gantlc burden; another found n little place for me in Ilreyniouth, that was exactly suited to all my fequlre- . liu nts; a third actually became my | surety for the loan of fifty pounds to stave off expenses till the bills of my pi!l.nts were made out and paid. There n fined only one wish among theni ?to put "Old ldssamer" upon his legs again, to set him right at nnv cost or trouble. 1 did not recover my health rapidly r iir..? ill,, i* 11* li it I ifithniifflit ./ I et length to myself by slow dogroos. It was eight weeks or so aft or Christmas, when I had Improved s?o vastly in my health as to bo able to walk my four mllea a day over tho bro /> hills to the west of tho town, that this story began that my now life began with It. It was 1 1 in tho morning when my landlady brought mo In a card on which was engraved tho nnne of Mr Noah Nash. Tho nanio was unfamiliar to mo, and I oxpressod the fact to Mrs. Hlggtnson, and thought that there must bo a mistake. "I don't think so, sir," ws?3 my landlady's reply, "llo said as plain as ho could speak that he wished to See Mr. l.lssanier." Hho retired, and shortly afterward reappeared, ushering in the gentleman who had Inquired so anxio ir'y fo me downstairs. Ho entered the roe-n with a formal air of brisk tiers, 1 11! a man who wag doubtful of tho reception ho might moot with, h it .. ?<?.. i.., . t i ??m.j in ins d.';n annr was at his ens?\ If dtitrur tf.il. Co >1denco In hlmsilf w:,b ?: jaipal>l? us Ms want of coafidcr..*r in t\o. Il ors, F Waters, etc. 6m P ^V iv%?* In ouiwaru tnpearauee 'au was a aomowhat remarkable ..ii".::. A mnn Bllghtly below the middle height, and slightly In advance of middle age -?a thin, sharp-featured, sallow r.nd clean-shaven Individual, with Iwo of the most piercing little black eyes thnt I had ever encountered. He was eedy chough, poor fellow, but he was carefully brushed and buttoned op, and his boots, which bad already attracted Mrs. lligglnson's attention. T?^?o vDiuuui) uiswiiguisneu ny tin lr utter badness. But his bow and his mile were perfection?there was art In both. "It Is Mr. Llssainer, I believe, whom I have the honor of addressing," he said, by way of preliminary greotlng. "Yen," was my curt reply to his pollto remark. Instinctively I Indicated a vacant chair, and hat In hand he bowed again, and then rat down. "Mr. Ltssamer, of Thlstlewood troet, Nowlngton, I think I may venture to add." he said, deferentially. "You are quite right," I replied, , startled now; "but how did you obtain your Information?" "1 have lived In Thlstlewood street myself, Mr. l.lssainer; hence you arc familiar to me by sight. I was brought up as a doctor, a:ul gave up ineuiciiio ror me siago. i nave n!-1 ways followed tho details of my o.l'l profession with considerable lnt?-rest, and I rend the Lancet very regularly. Thus 1 have come across your letters In the November number or lie spoke very rapidly now, as If 1 In a hurry to sot himself right In my regard; and I must confess his knowledge of me and of the theory I had lately been ventilating In tho medical world sent him up a hundred per cent. In my estimation, lie was a clever man, after all, even if ho wanted money. "Is It concerning those letters?" I began, when he Interrupted me. "Not at all," he hastened to explain. "1 merely thought that the mention of them might stand as a kind of introduction between us. My ' object In waiting upon you Is of a to- | tally different character, und I trust you will generously excuse the liberty I have taken In coming hither. 1 am hero, Mr. Lissamer, to solicit the j honor of your natronnire and mn. port for ray forthcoming be tie fit at I the Prince's Theater, in this town, and any encouragement that you can | pfforrt nip lu my earnest endeavors j to raise the standard of dramatic 1 taste on that occasion, and"?he ! said, dryly and less oratorleally- -"to 1 put a few pounds In ray own pocket, 1 which will he esteemed a personal i fa\or which your humble servant 1 will not readily forget." "In plain w Is, you want to sell I so in<3 tickets for your benefit?" I ' said. "Precisely. 1 prefer plain words. I sir, tut I don't get pn t^o well with I them as 1 could winli He. # hull we Buy?" he Inquired, producing a packet of pink, blue ftnd white tickets, nently folded lu ft sheet of I * riling paper. "I r>in quite alone In the town? l~" "There Is Mrs. lligglnson, who might take It as a little return for past attention, If you presented hor with a couple of tickets for the up>>er boxes, or the pit?" he said, lnInuntlngly. "I never thought of that " "Mrs. Hlgglnson Is fond of tho heater when she gets an order," to added. "I have neon her and her utsbnnd several times in the pit durng tho Winter months. Shall wo say two upper boxes for this cotiplo, Mr. fdiisnmer?" "Very well." "And for yourself? A private boi, >r a dress circle seat ?wo have not ;ot to stalls at the Prince's yet?or i " 'T will take a seat for tho dross Ircle, Mr Nash." i Hiii luiinneiy indented to you,M ho vald. laving the three ticketa on th< table; "that will bo In all?let 1110 see seven shillings, If you please." "Your rates of admission aro low! at Tlroymouth." "It Is n low place," he said, qulok'* ly, and almost spitefully; "but wa must live or try to live. In a circular tour, ns 1 may put It, an actof alights on strange places, and thls,'^ be added, with a sudden ring of Radness in his voice that was a little startling, "Is one of the strangest In all the worlu to nie." "Indeed! Why?" "I was horn at flreymouth. an<f^ tied the place ns soon as I vis alj to. J to hntie a will ?? rnj cwrtk. % / ESI raeac? Y R. 1 n m^urtcr anu v "* 1L ^ *ine v Agent for Vei Anheuser-Bu (ROAD SC*CC'C*C*C<C*@C@C'C,I _ __ I hated it and the people In it. and the J dead, dull, uioney-graspiug Uvea they led. And yet here I am bark again, | starring It for four weeks?starring and starving together?you may possibly understand. Mr. Llssamer?" "Never inl??t the cbnnge, Mr. Nash." "I thank you. sir. very much," he said; "but if you would take another dress circle ticket It would look less like charity, and ?1 would Inflnitcly prefei It." "Very well." "Thank you a thousand times, Mr. Llssamer," he said, placing a second ill 11 Ir piipiI liv Mw. ol.t.. ~?i a ..... . .. m VIIV oiviv kji me utuursi i I "this Is quite a brisk demand for | Beats, you see." He gave a chirpy little laugh, tied up his purse deftly with the whip- ^ cord again, and put It In his breastpocket, refolded and stowed away his packet of benefit tickets, and then leaned back In his chair, a man In no great hurry to depart. Perhaps from my manner he saw that I was In no particular hurry to get rid of him, and took his cue accordingly. "What do you play on the fourth?" I Inquired. "Melodrama. The most bloodthirsty melodrama In my repertoire," | he said, shrugging his shoulders, "nroymouth will only tolerate strong situations, 1 am ashamed to confess." "Ik this your own speculation, may I ask?" "No. I am one of Kench's company, and Koneh does rot ?? casts himself for the best part?a natural weakness In a manuger." "And what Is your especial line, Mr. Nash?" "Comedy?pure comedy. I corno of an old acting family; my father and grandfather were actors before mo! my daughters are theatrical? they would take to the boards, despite niy efforts to change the sceno a bit." "Shall I have the pleasure of seeing your daughters act on the fourth "They are not with me. sir." he added, his mobile countenance rapIdly shadowing at this Inquiry. "I am quite alone here." "Oh, Indeed!" It whs on the tip of my tongue tq ask him where his daughters wore, but 1 refrained. Ho answered my thoughts, however. "My children are In London. I Bhall return to them In a week or so i when I get their new address." ! "Are they advancing In their profession?" "One Is an Invalid?Hyaclntha. I You have reason to remember Hyaclntha, Mr. Lissamer." I "I?" I "You were called In six years ago i when we were lodging In Thistle, wood street. Hyaclntha wqp nine, teen years of age then, and was injured at the old Vic In a trap accident. Christmas time?you may recollect." i run was your (laugnter, then?" j "Yes. You have not forgotten?" "No poor girl! I recommended | yo-.i to take her at once to St. Thom- ' ns's Hospital. Her case was beyond iny skill." "As It was beyond the skill of the hospital people, too. She only par tlally recovered the use of her llmba. She has been a helpless cripple ever since." "Poor girl!" I said again. "Fortunately, her sister is seldom out of an engagement. We call her playfully, the genius of the family, if she ever ge's West she will make her mark, I fancy. A clever girl Is Delia: and Ken. h thinks so. too. A fair Judge of noting, Kench, thong): ho can't? Hut I am repoatlng myself, and wasting your time, Mr. LlssamiT, and inj own. which Just now Is not up to much," ho said, slangth. us he sprang with alacilty to hifeet; "you will allow me to wit! draw, and to thank yon again \vl* all my heart for your kind patro: ago. flood-morning, sir. I shall hnv the pleasure of seeing yo.i on t' fourth, I hope?" "The pleasure of meeting will . mine," I said, politely a.ul c'.iis fully; "for I rely ujion yoi, and n Mr. Konch, for an evening's a' talnpienf." "Ha! ha!" he laughed, ontrlgl now; ,,no, we must not h ;1U1 up< Konch for anything la the v.ay i aimisciiMiit. "Good-morning, sir good morning." ' CH APT 15II II HHK.YMOCTH TI1KATF.R. | COULD not get Mr. Noah Nash 01 1 of my head all day. It waa quite a t rABLISHED U SCI Wholesale and Vines, iive-Clicquot I sch Brewing P stirring Incident in my life ut Brey- | mouth, which hud been very dull and monotonous till then. He was on my mind, and not to be shaken off. It i seemed so strange that he should remember me as the young surgeon of Thlstlewood street?stranger still that I should have been called. In a case of emergency. Into this man's ho^3e. Al 1 sat before the fire the whole I facts came back by degrees, though the sccno was misty and the charac- i ters, all but one, mere shadows, thi shadow of Mr. Noah Nash a pale, nervous, confused man, whom 1 should never have Identified with the leading comedian of tin? Prince Theater, Breymouth?the most Indistinct.. There was a second shadow, r gawky, Ill-clad girl with large bine' eyes, standing In the background biting nervously at the corner of a? apron?a girl who never spoke; that must have been Delia. And the pa tlent?Bhe who had been brought home?a young woman, v r\ dark very handsome, very wild and hvs. terical, prone to delirium in her pan sionate outbursts at her own 111-for tune, not to be pacified or controlled | In her grief and despair and passion while I was with her?she was nc shadow now. I could see her Just a: vividly as on that cold, cheerless January night -again 1 saw the blood leave the face and the lips grow gray, and the eyes look ut me as at the judge who had condemned her. when I nreerl ttw?m t.11 to take I 1 must have dropped off to sleep thinking of these Nashes, and become the victim of a disturbed dream In consequence, in which the ridiculous became mixed up wtlh the sensutional, and my little house In Thistlewood strett, my dead mother, and | my live housekeeper?-dear old Nennv, who thought so much of me to tho end of her life?became more real thun the Breymouth life about me, and yet were mixed with it in a strange. Incongruous fashion, patent i to the lirminn of folk iutm ?? ? ' I In easy chairs with their heads hangi ing upside down over the arms. If I attempted to account for what followed my waking?with a Juinp and a groan and a sensation of having been stabbed with a sharp knife at the back of my neck?only u crick that, I dure say?a few sceptical fr'.onds would laugh at me. I could only account for it by one of my odd theories to which 1 have faintly alluded In an earlier page?and this is not the time and place to ventilate them. I woke up that afternoon with no more out-of-the-way Intention than that of going to the Prince's Theater at Ureymouth that evening?a fixed intention, which counted to my foggj i mind approximate to an invisible command. My landlady tried to dissuade me as the weather was disagreeable and 1 could not get a hack, but 1 was obstinate and persisted In my Intention. 1 went out In the wind and rain to 1 - It was possibly the smallest thea tor in England, although quite l.tiRf enough for ordinary occasions to accommodato the whole play-going j public to bo discovered at this unapprec^oilve wutevlng place. There were half a dozen boys loit erlng outside the doors, whiting | away their time by frlemllj shoving, or pitching each other's caps into th> pit, box, and gallery entrance?It was all one ?and my appearance beside them was the signal for minutc attention. ' ' Here's another cove!" was t>i ^ first exclamation of surprise, nn-i MQlve us your pass, sir, when jo.i comes out again?" was the tniid request, extremely significant in tl.oir belief of my ability to endure th performance for any length of time i A frowsy femnlo, pinched with coV and smelling of gin, took my mom . volunteered to mind my utnlm 1! i and ulster till I came out, and theu, opening a door at the side, I to in 1 inysel/ at once In the theater, without any superfluous passages and bov. | lobbies to confuse the mind of th? stranger as to the right way to go. The entertainment had commenced ? 4ho. preHutlanvy stage-worn ghc.stiy farce of "The Specter IIri lowas being performed as I, startled by my sudden advent Into the theater, subsided Into one of the empty seats which constituted the back row, and which I ascertained later on formed the "tipper boxes, ' the dress circle being the row 1mm dtately In front of them As the. were only four per!..as I- both the: ; aristocratic. Tortious of .he house and ttw.y aU turu?4 5?uud to inspect *46. INEI Retail Dealer i H^rot i: ia y ai 3onsardin, Url association. AU( ? CCOCC : C- i -C-C< JENKINS 4c STEWART Tin DAnf !?*? i\vu iii^ anu Guttering:. All kinds of Sheet Metal Work, Roof Repaired and Painted. Estimates given on all Kinds of Rooff-g. (50 Broad St. Phone 2438 AUGUSTA QA. Kr>f adVloe, Low to obtain patent*, trade mama, | Copyright*. etc.. | N AI.L. COUNTRIES. Unsiness direct with Washing l . > saves iime,U I money and often the patent. D I Patent and Infringement Practice Exclusively, n gj Writ* or eorae to u? *t t ! SSS Ittnth ItTMt. opp Unite* lutn Patent Office, P B WA8HIWQTON, O. C. B inu as 1 en tor*. ; I felt that I was taking a prominent part In the evening's proceedings; and I hui much mistaken if the actors on the stage i!on under the best or circumstances; under these it was hlood-curdling. The acting of ono man was so forced and unnatural and Inane that I turned to the play-bill pasted on the back of the boxes?the management had not ventured on programmes for this ' Occasion with an Instinctive Irnnwl. I | edge of the actor. Yes, it whs Kench i I ?John Kench (by particular desire.) Mr. Noah Nash was not libelous or Jealous when he hud asserted that very morning that his manager could not act, When the piece was at an end there were a few more persons in the house, and they and I were left to stare at the drop-curtain?the newest hit of canvas on the prenilses| representing a view of Breymouth Town Hall, and the opening thereof by his royal highness, the Prince of Wales. The coloring reeined to ralsi? the spirits of the audience, a few of whom sang while the orchestra indulged In popular airs. Still, we got tired of surveying the curtain, and when I had fallen into a reverie, and. had forgotten where 1 was, I was aroused from meditation by several anrn oaths from the gallery at the dilatoriness of proceedings behind the foot-lights. I looked at my watch. ; Ye. They were not very rapid irt th.dr movements, the members of this company; they took their time; they had been a clear half hour and five minutes fiddling away below there. On the stage I could hear morn than one voice murmuring, as though a strike were impending, or an accident hud happened. Al\ uoeldent! Yes; that was it. I Hnmethlng had occurred on the | stage, very much out of the common way, for here wan Mr. Kench, !n his costume for the next piece, suddenly darting before the curtain with n red, excited face, and holding up his hnnds to allay the small tumult Which had arisen In our midst. "Ladles nnd gentlemen -ladtes and gentlemen, 1 beg your polite attention for one minute only. For one minute, please; If you have a sparl; of consideration for me you will surely listen. Won't you, you brutes?" he added, In n burst of passion that was very natural, and which silenced the auditorium at last. "I am sorry to say?I deeply regret to ?av," he stammered forth, "that Mr. Nash, your favorite comedian, has been taken suddenly ill ? an* that ? I" -? >- * - auu uiu< 11 in 1III|IU9MIM' U) ll() {i \ with the performance this evening. We have sent for a surgeon- but? but If there 1b one in the house"? and here looked at me very ap1 pealinKly. to my astonishment "1 should take it as a groat favor If h? will step round to us at one*." "I will come," I cried out, r.s though 1 had been in a room; and the manager said aeroea the. footlights to me, and to *r\y surprise again; "Thank you Mr. Llssamer; if yon will, I should be so much obliged. Passes will be given for another evening, ladies and gentlemen." 1 said, addressing his audience agal* ; "L_-night we know not whet to dc.'' to looked as if he did r ' 1 To be on 1 mod 'Uliifl'JWWPwWwwWi DER n na Ci? bana Wine Co 3USTA CCCCCCCCCCCCCI ;b Just What y v/ KS Now that coal i< v y wood we have 1 I vt> assortment of gi % J I tKUsed for either c | VL> OUR ORATES DECORATE YOUI I V y ^ WITHIN THE RE AC Hi ~ ? i v > J>0. INO. f>3. Lv. Laurens 1.10a 2 02p j Lv. Clinton ...7.15a 2.22p Lv. Newberry 8.41a 2.10 Lv Prosperity .0.07a 3.24p Lv. Chapin ..9.45a 3.1jlr Ar. 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