HARTLEY'S CALLER. J» By COLIN S. COLLINS. J» Copyrighted, 199, by Associated Literary Press. “Lady to see you,” announced Jim- mie, one of the office boys. with a def- erence that he showed only to Hartley, the dramatic critic, and Murphy, the sporting editor. The sporting editor could call all the baseball players by their first names, but Hartley had only to write ou a slip of paper and it would take Jimmie into the much de- sired “show.” Such small fry as ed- iftors and star reporters were not at all in the same class with a man who carried passes in his pocket every day. “I've told you a hundred times to get the name, Jimmie,” was the testy respouse. Hartley was ill at ease with the whole world that morning. “lI kpow,” admitted Jimmie, with unembarrassed truthfulness, “but, say. Mr. Hartley, she’s a peacherino for fair!” “I'm pot interested in fruit,” was the cold response as Hartley turned to his desk. He hated all women at the mo- ment, for he had had to do a thing which would probably cost him the love of the one woman he really did care for. i He had had to tell the cruel truth | about Norma Keating as an actress, | and he felt that the high spirited girl | never would forgive him. Jimmie, the persistent, hung over the desk, i “She don't look like an actress,” he | declared, using the argument he knew to be most potent. *“An’ she's a pippin | for fair!" “I can’t see any one who does not send in a card,” declared Hartley as | he turned to his work again, and Jim- | mie dashed out presently to return with a bit of pasteboard. With a start Hartley read Norma's | name and gave orders that she be! ushered in. It was better perhaps! that since there was to be a quarrel | they should meet on his own ground. | Somehow, with the familiar sur! roundings, he felt more safe than he | ever could in the parior of the little actress’ suit at the hotel. With o sternness that indifferently masked the | misery that he felt he prepared to re ceive his caller, He had expected that she wonld come storming in to denounce him for his ertiicism and to declare him bingod and unfair. He was braced for the shock and flly prepared for the sight of the do | jected little woman who eame timidly into his dingy office, her rich fur: forming a strange contrast to the bare walls and cheap furniture, Jimmie slipped away after onc last ! admirint glance, and then the girl | raised Ler eves to Hartley's and met the pity in his bravely. “1 did not come te reproach you for | your notice.” she said, with a quick | appreciation of his attitude. “It was | your right to say what you pleased. ! paid a big price for the special per formance in order to get the metro. | politan notices, and In doing so I ex- posed myself to every form of critica! attack. “1 suppose that you are expected to be severe on beginners, to ridicule them and beat them down and force | them into their proper places. “Tou demand that we start at the bottom. 1 can see now that it was ab- | surd to think that I could win favor | able comment from the great men who | have made their reputation more | through the savageness of their at- | tacks than through their ability as critics.” | “And yet you said you had not come to reproach?’ he asked gently. Even in her bitterness he noticed a new aote in the rich voice. It hurt him to think that he was in part responsible for that little catch of pain which would sound, try as she would to be hard and cynical. It was as if her whole quivering soul was laid bare In spite of the dress of words with which she sought to clothe it. “1 did not mean to say that she cried. “I only meant to come and ash you if you would let me have my pho- tographs back. You and the rest of your confreres have beaten me. I am fn retreat. [I am going as far frem New York as I can. I want to take with me everything that is mine.” “You should have sent your agent and spared yourself’ he reminded her gently. “TI will see that the pictures are found for you. Will you sit down?" He indicated a chair as he rang for away with Instructions that Miss Keating's photographs were to be re- turned by the art department at once. Neither spoke until the boy had laid down and had departed unwilling to leave me even this souvenir of a friendship that I shall ‘glways treasure in my memory?’ he | as bad as all that?” | prosence,” he sald slowly. | were smiling, though her lips still | Frank, I think I'd rather have your love than to be a great actress, and | 1 don’t mind the notice—now.” | most detrimental thing to fox hunting gk “May I not keep it?” “To add to your sacrificial heap,” she rn tin SS —— Sr retorted bitterly. “1 suppose you must have a goodly collection of those yon have flayed.’ “I have few photographs—and few friends among the women of the pro- fession,” he sald simply as he opened & drawer for an envelope. “I had He held the envelope toward her, and for a moment she hesitated. She seemed about to leave the room, but she turned and faced him again. “You told me once that you never would marry an actress,” she said tensely. “Was it because—because you did not want me on the stage that you —that you wrote as you did?” “I have made no secret of my ad- miration for you,” said Hartley sim- ply. “and 1 may have made the re- mark you attribute to me, but it was with no desire to drive you from the stage that I framed my criticism as I did.” “Can't you see,” he continued pas- sionately, “the awful position in which I was placed. If I praised your acting, I should have made my paper the laughingstock of the town. If I spoke the truth I knew that I should lose you. Every line of the story in this morning's paper was studied that I might speak as warmly as I dared without stultifying the paper.” “It was a little better than the rest,” admitted Ni , “but I thought you had been a little kind so that I would not suspect how you had induced the other critics to be so merciless.” “On the contrary, I saw none of the boys,” he declared. “I was far too sick at heart to mix with them and hear their ugly comments.” “Was I really as bad as that?” asked the girl wonderingly. “I thought it was because I was an amateur and had the money to hire the theater and the company. They always jump upon the rich amateurs, I had heard. I thought that was it. Was I really “Don't ask me,” pleaded Hartley but the pir] persisted. “You have a goed voice and a goo “You have seme crude ability, but that is all You Iack the spark of genius. Even money cannot buy that.” “Then you think I will never be an actress?’ she asked with quivering lip. Hartley shock his head, and she turned away to the window, pressing her brow to the cool pane, against which the sleet rattled angrily. For several minutes she stood thus looking out into the whirling snow and hail with unseeing eyes, while Hartley silently watched her. He would have given the world to take her in his arms and comfort her, but instinctively he realized that she must fight her battle alone. She was the one woman in all the world to him, and yet he dared not speak. At last she turned, and now her eyes were drawn and white. “Why struggle against unanimous | condemnation? would marry an actress.” “I'd marry you if you were Bern- hardt and Duse in one,” he cried, “but I rather would marry just you, dear. Will you have me? In spite of the blow that I have struck your pride can you love me?" “1 hate to marry a wife beater,” she sald. with a wan little smile, “but, Jimmie, comipg in with a card, turned and fled precipitately. “1 used to think that Mr. Murphy had the best of it, goin’ to prize fights an’ ball games,” he said reflectively, “put 1 guess it's Mr. Hartley that has the cinch. I'd rather kiss that pippin than know the hull ball team.” English Hunting Dress. When out hupting everybody should be dressed as a gentleman, and the is the modern innovation (really gross laziness apd ape insult to the hunt and the master; of young gentlemen coin- ing out dressed in rat catching clothes, shooting caps and fancy costumes of their own, and much harm is done. There is nothing the farmers dislike so much as this habit, for they never know whether such persons are rough riders or gentlemen or people from the towns or who they are galloping over their land and over their fences. There is but one proper and legiti- mate fox hunting dress for gentlemen, and that is red and black coat, white breeches, top boots and a high hat, and certainly thirty years ago nobody would have dared to come out dressed otherwise. Where the hounds belong landowners are en- committee, as the case may be.—"The Highest Authority” in Bally's Maga- zine. Wild Animals Asleep. within a few yards of each other. You must be right.” bp | she conceded. “I never shall make an | | actress, and you said that you never | They may conclude hares swarm In Castoria. (ASTORIA. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and whic has beer in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER you in this. All Counterfeits, and has been made noder his personal supervision since its infancy. 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