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The Real Adventure

By Henry KitcheU Webster

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THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF “THE GIRL UPSTAIRS" IS GIVEN WITH HUGE SUCCESS FOR HOSE —JIMMY ' WALUCE, DRAMATIC CRITIC, MAKES A DISCOVERY

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Stanton, of moderate drennutancea. marries Aldr.ch. on abort acquaintance, and for more than a i and luxury In Chicago. The life pa 11a on her. aha long* to do aamathlng useful, but decides that motherhood will be a big enough Job. She has twins, however, and they are put In the care of a professional nurse. Hose again become* Intensely dissatisfied with Idleness, so over the prated of her doting husband she disappears into the business world to make good on her own Initiative, gets a Job In the chorus of a musical comedy In rehearsal and Uvea In a cheap rooming houae. Her taste an* Intelligence soon get her s place as assistant to the producer. Her fashionable friends rhinfc she has gone to California.

CHAPTER XIX.

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She wakened i past seven and half-past eight, i ping the work oi vealed the need At nlne-thlrt> lu the theater— 1 Clobe let her In ; Rose bad half ai rival of the \n her assistant f

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•■nlj index to the effect her labors ba d produced was the tone of OalI'tallhs voice. “All right.- he shouted. "'••• sod put on the others." ’■ here was another alienee after they had filed out on the stage again. r h*d this time In the evening gowns— i hollow, hecit-constricting silence. ' literally sickening. But tt last'd only a moment. Then "'VtU you come down here. Miss 1 'iiier called Galbraith. Toe**, was a slight momenury. but l*TTectly palpable shock accompanytheae words—a shock felt by everybody within the vouud of his voice. Ilvi,use the director had not ssld. ‘ r, Ai!r. come down here:" he had said: "Win you cutne down here. Miss I'l.i^r And the thing «mounted, so the eMquette of musical com-

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The rest of It didn't matter to Rose —the more guarded but nevertheless cordial approval of the two owners, who had yet to make sure on the figures; and the details of settlement which left her more than s hundred dollars' profit even after she had deducted the hundred she owed Rodney. The point—the point—settled by Galbraith's praise—was 1 had succeeded. It was, on the whole, a good bargain on both sides. Bnt Goldsmith and Block came back next day and drove another bargain, principally to their own advantage. "Ton's* certainty got a good eye for costumes. Miss Dane." Goldsmith said, "and hero's a proposition we'd like to make. A lot of these other things we've got for the regular chorus don't look as good as they might. Ton'll be able to see changes to make In them that'll Improve them maybe fifty per cent. Well, yon take It on, and well begin paylrg yon your regular salary now; yon understand, twenty-five dollars a week, beginning today" Bose accepted the proposition with a wsrr flesh of gratltuue. B the moment her little salary began, she fund herself retained, body and aoul. exactly as Galbraith himself was. They'd bought all her Ideas, all ter energy, all her time, except a few scant hours for sleep and a few snatched minutes for meals. 8be gave her employers, up to the time when tne piece opened at the Globe, st s conservative calculation, abou' five limes their money's worth. Evan U she hadn't been In the company. she'd have found something like two days' work In every twenty-four hours, Jurt In the wardrobe room. There wasn't s single costume outside Rose'* own twelve that didn't have to he remodeled more or less. On top of all that the really terrible grind of rehearsal* began: property rehtarsals. curiouaiy disconcert! ax at first: weoery rehearsal* that caused the stage to seem ■anall and cluttered up. and. last and xhnatHeat « dress rehearsal, which U-gan st seven o'clock one night and lasted till four the next u-orulng. If you bad seen them that morning, utterly fagged out. unsustsloed by a single gleam of hope, you'd bsve said It was Impossible that they should give any sort of performance thut night—let aloos a good one. But by eight o'clock, when the overture was islled. you wouldn't have known then for tne same people. There was the feeling, on the edge of thl* first performance, that they were now on their own. The appearance, back on the stage, of John Galbraith In evening dress, just as the call of the first act brought them trooping from their dressing rooms. Intensified this sensation. He was going to be. tonight, simply one of the audience. Rose herself was completely dominated by the new spirit. Her nerves —slack, frayed, numb so hour sgo— had sprung miraculously Into tune. She nol only didn't feel tired. It seemed she never could feel tired

again.

It wasn't until along In the third act that the audience became, for her. Anything hut a colloid mass—something that you squeered and thumped and worked as you did day. to get It inf* s properly plastic condition of receptivity, so that the joke* the ; songs, the dances, even the spindling 1 little shaft* of romance that you shot out Into It. could be felt to dig lu snd take hold. But along lu the third set at she came down to the footlights with the rest of the sextette In their “All Alone" number, one face uelsched Itself suddenly fro’*' the pasty gray surface of those that spread over the ! auditorium: became human—IndlriduI aland Intensely familiar : become ! the face, unmistakably, of Jimmy

well enough what had happened. But as all right. Soe was going on as if nothing had happened. The other man was Jimmy Wallace himself. Be released, too, a little sigh of relief when he saw her off In her stride again after that momentary falter. But he hardly looked at the stage after that; stared absently at his program Instead, and presently availed himself of the dramatic critic's license and left the theater. As for Bose herself. In her conscious thoughts she didn't recognise the hope already beefing tumultuously In her veins, that he would tell Rodney—that perhaps even beforv she got back to her dismal little room. Rodney, pacing

It was so Irrational a hope—so unexpected and so well disguised—that she mistook It for fear. But fear never made mm’s heart giow like that. That's where all her thoughts wars when John Galbraith halted her on the way from the dressing room after the performance was over. T know you're tired." be said brusquely. “But I fancied you'd he tlreder In the morning, and I have to leave for New York on the fast train. Bo, you sea. It was now or never." ougb. that got

stared at him almost In consternation. “Do you moan you are going awayT"

“Of courvi." he said, rather sharply. Tve nothing more to stay around here for." He added, as she still seemc< not to have got It through her heed "My contract with Goldsmith and Block ended tonight, with the opening

“Of coorse," she said In deprecation of her stupidity. “And yet Ifs always seemed that the show was yon; Just something that you made go. doesn’t seem possible that It could keep on going with yon not there." The sincerity of that made It •. really fine compliment—Just the sort of compliment he’d appreciate. But—the old perversity again—the very freedom with which she ssld It spoiled U for

“I may be missed." he said—It more of e growl, really—“bnt I aha'nt he regretted. There’s always a sort of Hallelujah chorus' set up by tb company when they realise Ten gme.* T shall regret It very mnet.” said Rose. The words would have set hit blood on fire If she'd Just faltered over them. But she didn't. She was hope-

all along. I suppose it's the reason 1 felt you never could be an actress. Toe the thing the way I do—the whole fun of the game Is getting the thing. Once It's got . . .“ He snapped his fingers, and with an eager nod she agreed. Well then, look here," he add. Tve idea that I could use you to good sdiantage ms a sort of personal asslstant There'll be a good deal of work Just of the sort you did with the sextette, teaching people to talk sod ! about Uke the sort of folk they're supposed to represent It wonld be done more If we could teach chorus people to art human. Well, you can do that better than I. that's the plain truth. Under this new contract of mine that 1 expect to sign In a day or two, m simply have to have soroeh And then, of course, there's the costuming. That's a greet game, and I think yon*ve a talent for 1L 'There you are! The Job will be paid from the first a greet deal better than what you've got here. And the costuming end of It. If yon succeed, would run to real money. Well, bow about itr lot" said Bose a little breathlessly—"but dost 1 have to stay hare with The Girt Upstairs'? I couldn’t Just leave, could ir “Oh. I aha'nt be ready toe yon Just yet anyway." be said. “I'll write when I am. and by that time youTl be perfectly free to give them your two «Beks’ notice. They'll be annoyed, of coarse; bnt after all, you've given them more than their money's worth already. Well—will yon come If I writer “It teems too wonderful to be true.’ she said. “Tee. TO come, of course.' He gaxed at her In a sort of fascination. Her eyes were starry, her lips a little parted, and she was so still she seemed not even to be breathing. But the eyes weren't looking at him. Another vision filled them. The vision—oh, he was sure of It now I - -of that “only one," whoever he was. “that mattered." T won't keep you any longer," be said. TU have them get a taxi and

L/ouud. and marched back Into his an cubbyhole. "Too needn't telephone. Miss Beach." said Rodney curtly. And. without another word, he put on his hat and . vercoat. walked straight over to the dob and told the man at the cigar counter to get him a ticket for tonight's performance of “The Girt Up-Stalra." i.-aa after fire, and he decided be might aa well dine here. So be went up to the lounge, armed himself with an evening paper, and dropped Into a big leather chair. But all his carefully contrived environment hadn't theiwwer.it seemed, shift the current of bis thonghta ey went on dwelling on the behavior of Miss Beach and young Craig, which really got queerer the t one thought about It . . . He flung down hi* paper and went Into the adjoining room. The large

She said ahe-dldn t want a taxi. He didn't demur to her wish to be put on a car, and at the crossing where they waited tor It after an almost sUent walk, he did manage to shake hoods and tell her she'd hear from him i But he kicked his way to the curb after the car had carried her off. and marched to his hotel In a sort of baffled fury. He didn't know exactly Just what It was he'd wanted. But he did know, with a perfectly abysmal conviction, that be was a fool I

CHAPTER XX.

Anticlimax. It was out of the Umbo of toe unforeseeable that the bUnd Instrument of Fate appeared to tell Rodney about Rose. He was a country lawyer from down-state, who hid been In Chicago three or four days, spending an hour or two of every day In Rodney's office la consultation with him, and. tor the rest of the time, dangling about, more or less at a loose end. A belated sense of this struck Rodney at the end of their lost consultation. “I'm sorry I haven't Jeen able to do more." Rodney said—“do anything, really. In the way of showing you a good time. As a matter of fact Tve spent every evening this week here the office." “Oh. I haven’t lacked for entertainment” the men “Id- "We hayseeds find the city a pretty lively place. I went to see a show Just last night called The Girl Up-Stairs.’ I suppose you’ve seen It" “No." said Rodney, “i haven't" "Well. It waa downright funny. 1 haven't laughed so hard lu a year. If you want a real good time, you go to

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i coaly serene about lu “Tou re the person who's tvde the six weeks bearable. and. In a way. wonderful. I nev er could thauk you enough for the thing- you've done for me, ‘hough 1 hope I may try to. some Uae." “i don't want any tbanka" he said And this was completely true. It wa» j something verj different from grot tude that he wanted. But he realU.-l bow abominably ungracious hi>. word.' souuded. mid hastened to amend them “What I mean 1* that you don't ow. use any. You've done a lot to make this show go as well as It did. In— more ways than you know about it wasn't for me. personally, that you did tt. But all the same. I'm grateful You’ll stay with this piece. I sui*po.*I aa lung so the run lasts. But In th- ! end. what's the Idea? Do you wan'

• be an actress?"

•The notion of Just going on—n > - u using anything or Improving any I thing. doing the same thing over and over again for fort} week*, or even : four, seems perfectly ghastly—Ju«t • keep going round and round like - 1 horse at the end of a pole. What I d

To.- last part of this conversation took place In the outer office. Rodney saw the man off with a final handshake. closed the door after him. and strolled Irresolutely back toward Miss Beach's desk. It was true, he'd been taking It on rather recklessly during the post two months. But they'd been pretty sterile, those long, solitary evening hour*. He'd worked fitfully, grinding away by brute strength for a while, nod then. In a frenzy of Impatience, thrusting the Ipgal rubbish out of the way and letting the enigma of his gnwt failure usurp his mind and his

memories.

Telephone over to the University rtub." he said suddenly to Miss Beach, “end see If you can get me a seat tor The Girt Up-Stair*.’" The office boy was out on sn errand snd In his absence the switchboard was In Mira Beach's care. Sh* arose obediently and moved over to the switchboard, then began fumbling with the directory--Why, Miss Beach!" said Rodney. “You know the number of tne Univer-

sity club!"

He was looking st her now with uodisgulM'd curiosity. She wa* acting, for a |>ertrctly Infallible machine like Mis* Bench, almost queer. Without looking around IT. him. sue said: "Mr. Aldrich, you won't like that show. If— you go. yocH be sorry.'' While he was still scaring at her. young Craig came bnrstinc blithely out of his office. -Oh. Miss Reach!" he said, and then stopped short, seeing that something had happened. Rodney tried sn experiment. '•Or Ig " he said. "Mis* Beach doesn't want ;n«- to see The Girl Up-Btslra' She says I won't like 1L IV> you agree

erupted by s group of min he knew, and be came up with the Intention of dropping Into the one vacant chair. But Just before the first of them caught a glimpse of him his ear picked up the phrase Tb* Girl Upstairs.' And then s lawyer In the group looked up recognised him. "Hello. Aidrich." be said, and the flash of silence that followed had a galvanic quality. The others began urging him to sit down, but he ssld he was looking for somebody, and walked away down the room and out the farther door. He knew now that he was afraid. Yet the thing be was afraid of refused to come out Into the open where he could see It and know what It was. He still believed that he didn't know what It wss when he walked past the framed photographs in the lobby cf the theater without looking at them and stopped at the box office to exchange his seat, well down In front, for one near the back of the theater. But when the sextette made their first entrance upon the stage, be knew that he had known for s good many

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He never stirred from his sett during either of the lutermlaslou*. Bat along In the third act he got up and

The knout that flogged his soul had a score of lashes, each with the sting of Its own peculiar veoom. Everybody who knew him, hi* closer friends and his casual acquaintances as well, must have known, for weeks of this disgrace. His mends had been sorry for him. with Just * grain of contempt; his acquaintances had rrlnned over It with Just s pleasurable salt of pity. "Do you know Aldrich? Well, his wife's In the chorus at the Globe theater. And he doesn't know It poor devil." The northwest wind wutch had been blowing Idly store sundown, had Increased In violence to a gale. But he strode out of the lobby and Into the street unaware of It He found the stage door and pulled It open. An Intermittent roar of handdapping. Increasing and diminishing with the rapid rise and fall of the curtain, told him that the performance was jnst over. A doorman stopped him and asked him what he wanted. T want to see Mrs. Aldrich." he said. “Mrs. Rodney Aldrich.” “No such person here." said the man. and Rodney, tn his rage, simply assumed that he was lying. It didn't jeeur to him that Rose would have taken another name. He stood there a mom rot. debating whether to attempt to force an entrance against the doorman's unmistakable Intention to stop him. and decided to wait Instead. The decision wasn’t due to common sense, hut to a wish not to dissipate his rage on people that didn’t matter. H« wanted It Intact for Rose. He went hack to the alley, braced himself In the angle of a brick pier, and waited. Hi neither stamped his feet nor flailed hi* arms about to drive off the cold. He Just stoo' still with the patience of his Immemorial ancestor. waiting, unconscious of the Upse of time, un eon scion' «f the figures that presently began straggling oat of the narrow door that were not she.

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What do you suppose happens when Rodney meet* Rose at the stage door? It Is a thrilling meeting they have—and the emotional etreee take* them almost to the breaking point. The newt Installment tell* you all about what happened.

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(TO UK CONTINUED.)

Why He Came Home. Koecoe Boone, a M uncle electrical contractor, wvtu borne late the other afternoon ta find Mrs. Boone entertaining a company of women at caitl*. He had forgotten about the party and besidea It waa the nsu/I period of vbe day for him to remember about the

evening meal.

"Oh. Mr. Boone," ntd one of the guest* n» he stumbled cjn-u the room | filled with women, '’did you coo*

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