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CRAIG, \ nerai Passenger Agent, ' Wilmington, N. C. ? I vA Satisfaction n of our Lord iSMSJ2? id Coffees and i you usedjit? LtWW tings to Eat" * Retained In the Role A Part Good to Play In Real Life By CARL WILLIAMS Melroee was agog with excite, meat The local billpoeter was hanging the paper of the Den ham { Repertoire oompany for a three i night ran. Ana Maggie Denham hailed from Melroee. "Margaret ! Denham* she was billed, bat Melroee rooogniaed her. It was the first time that what Melroee called ua real theater troupe* had visited the little town. This in itself would have meant ; much, bat Maggie in addition creati ed an epoch in town history. Melroee oould not know that she was to be a 6tar only for this brief engagement in Melroee. Maggie had happened to mention that she ; had been born in jneiroee, ana ine ; astute manager had changed the name of the company from the Met1 ropolitan to Denham Repertoire ! company for the three nigbt stay. He "well knew the value of a local j name in a small town. Occasionally Maggie had let fall some scrap of information as to her departure ' from the town that told the rest of j the old story of the girl who had j run away from home to go upon the j stage. Maggie's story differed from mo6t,; j for she had succeeded in achieving j ' her ambition. She had become aj fairly useful player of parts in the j smaller companies. This was her second season with j the Metropolitan, and she smiled : confidently when Quinlin, the manager, asked her if she felt strong enough to play the star part for three days. It involved a little extra rehearsal, but Maggie was delighted. She would show Tom Chambers and the re6t of Melrose that she had : made a success s Tom came' ahead of the rest of Melrose, because there had been a ^,%V4/V ^TT?/N olvn/Nflf on. ' UJUC WilCli WICOC INU WC1C UUlUDb V**gaged, and she still thought tenderly of those courtship days. She looked about eagerly when the company arrived; but, though' every one else in town appeared to t have come to the train to stare,' curiously at Maggie Denham's | troupe, Tom was not there, j With a curious sense of blank-} oess Maggie climbed into the ram- j shackle bus that was to convey the company to the hotel. Her triumphal entrance into her home town had gone for naught just because one man was not there. She was angry and surprised to realise that she still cared more for Chambers than she had ever admitted when he had tried to win her. She had not long to wait, however, for information about the recreant one. Presently a strmg of callers came to the hotel, and all o 1 the friends of her 9chool days crowded the hotel parlor, all talking at once. From the babel of voices Maggie gathered that Tom had left town the day before with, the evident purpose of avoiding her. The blood throbbed in her temples. It was to give Tom a lesson that she wanted to show to Melrose how well she had succeeded. Now he would not witness her triumph, and she turned strangely depressed until the manager, versed in the handling of the erratic women of the stage, sensed the situation. "Anyhow, you can do your best," Quinlin reminded her, "and leave behind a record that he will be proud of." "And who may 'he' be?" demanded Maggie truculently. "I don't know," confessed Quinlin promptly, "but there is usually a 'he' somewhere, and since he does not seem to be around I thought you might like my suggestion." Maggie waved him oil with a jest- ' ing remark, but her heart was lighter. Here was something that she could do. So it happened that even her fellow players wondered that evening at the brilliancy with which she played her part. "You'll land on Broadway yet," they assured her, but even this promise of reaching the goal of all actors did not cheer the girl, and when the performance was over she hurried back to the hotel, only to creep into bed and cry herself to sleep. On the third and last day of the engagement Tom appeared suddenly in town, and, though she could not see him in the badly lighted auditorium that night, Maggie felt that he was there, and she acted with a touch of tenderness that lent new beauty to a naturallw sympathetic role. John Benjamin, one of the im portant eastern theatrical men, had j stopped over to wait for a train and had drifted into the opera house, where the manager overwhelmed him with attentions. As he watched the girl work he nodded his head. "I'd like to steal your leading woman," Benjamin said to Quinlin. "1 can place her in a road company for a year under one of my good stage directors and then bring her into New York." "Go ahead and steel," invited Quinlin. "She's a nice little woman, and if you oan place her the contract she made with me won't hold her back. Ill tell her to write to you." The big manager nodded his thanks, looked at his watch and harried off to make bis train. .Maggie only nodded carelessly, when Qninlin harried beck with word that the way to Broadway was open to her at last. She ooold not think of business when Tom was out there in the darkened auditorium watching her. She needed to give all of her attention to her performance, and she played the last act with a rich sincerity that won the audience completely. Not until the curtain had fallen and the other players crowded around to congratulate her upon the opportunity she had earned did she seem to realize what it all meant, and then she aocepted listlessly what the other women of her profession would have given years of their life to attain. She slipped from the 6tage door alone to go to the hotel, but as she emerged Tom stepped forward with outstretched hands. ^ 1 A ??!__ "1 naa to oorae to see you, ne said brokenly. "At first I vowed that I would stay out of town while you were here, but I had to come back, and I'm glad I did. "I thought that you would be tough and common, Maggie, like the Teat, but jou can't be that and play as you did tonight. That wasn't acting, and when I saw you as you really are, and not as I thought that you would be, I wanted to get up and about to you to come right to me and we'd get married, as we used to plan when we were children. Will vou come and marry me, Maggie? I've got a fine farm now, and you'll never regret it, dear." "I don't think I will regret it," agreed Maggie happily, "but I didn't think you'd want me, Tom.' "You know what they think about actresses here," he reminded her. "I guess I thought pretty much the same, but you?well, when I saw you come on the stage looking just as you used to do I knew you were my Maggie still!" He clasped her hands, unable to say more, but Maggie understood. To the Melrose minds all player folk were followers of the devil. Perhaps the ingenuous role she had played had won Tom. He wanted for his wife the woman she had played. And she knew it would be easy to continue in that role with Tom as opposite. She felt that she could continue her success in that part, and so she let him kiss her before she pushed him gently from her with a whispered oommand to come to the hotel in the morning. Together they 1 would see Quinlin and secure the release from her contract. As she entered the hotel the manager was waiting for her. He had taken from his trunk her contract for the season, and this he handed to her. "This sets you free, my girl. You can go to Benjamin and Broadway," he said smilingly. "I'm glad that at last the Metropolitans have contributed a real star to Broadway/' "I'm not going to Benjamin," replied Maggie. "I'll play the sdason out for you if you want me to, but I made a real human hit in the part tonight, and I'm going to keep on playing it for Tom here in Melrose." She Flared Up. During a performance at a Pa- ! risian theater a man and his wife J had to quarrel on the stage?the < woman in a fit of jealousy, the man j trying to persuade her that she was | too suspicious and too passionate. ' Both were acting with great spir- < it when the wife moved her arm too j near a candle, and her muslin dres9 j was instantly in flames. The performers kept their pres- ' ence of mind, however. The hus- ' band extinguished the fire and, pro- < ceeding with his part, interpolated: i! "You see, ray dear, I was right. J You are ever ready to flare up!" < Character. < Character gives weight to one'9 words and permanence to one's acts. 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