SRNR —— Someone whispered nervously to a neighbor, One or two men lifted thelr heads and drew quick breaths. People glanced from side to side, and a few feet shuffled uneasily. Then a tiny puff of smoke came from the left wing and travelled as far as the middle of the stage. It was followed by a larger, rolling cloud. The effect was in- stantaneous. “Fire!” shrieked a shrill voice, and | a woman started up frantically, “Fire! | Fire!” | In an instant the huge theatre was a seething, swaying mass; from all| sides burst screams, sobs, and oaths. For a few seconds people were pushed in purposeless groups hither and thith-| er. Then suddenly the crowd broke into rocking unwieldly sections, each pushing, fighting, tearing towards the) nearest exit, In the middle of the house, very still, sat a group of three. The Woman | was in the middle, the Husband on her | right, the Other Man on her left. For| he first few seconds It seemed as If] they must be swept off their seats, Then with a quick movement, the| Other Man wheeled half round on his chair, put one hand on the back of the Woman's seat and the other on the | seat before her. The Husband silent. | ly followed his example. They were both big. strong men. Their hands| met in a steady grip behind and in| front of her. Thug till the rush was| over they formed a human cage for| her protection, shunting off by thelr braced rigid frames, their crowding, frantic neighbors, “Thank you,” she said quitely, when the middle of the theatre was deserted. | “I couldn't have borne to be touched by such—animals.” She gave a hur-| ried glance at the nearest mass of hu manity and then fixed her eyes whim. pically on the smoke-clouded stage In front. “What do they remind one of?”| she asked as though thinking aloud. It was the Other Man who answered. “Pigs,” he said contemptuously; “pigs, | when the trough has just been filled, | ~-crowding toward it.” | She half turned her head towards “OHI” SHE CRIED, “YOU'VE HURT YOUR HAND; IT'S BLEEDING.” him. “Yes,” she sald gravely; “they do look like that” Suddenly the fireproof curtain be gan to move, “Oh, thank God!” shrieked a fashion: \bly dressed woman, her face made hideous by fear, A sea of other faces, stamped with every shade of terror and ferocity, turned towards the stage at the cry. For an instant the tumult sank to some thing like silence. Hope and thankful | ness arose in a thousand breasts. Then | the tumult began again, “It's stuck! Oh. it's stuck!” ~and the fight for life continued In all sickening cowardly savagery. “Have we any chance!” asked the Woman simply, For a moment neither | answered. Then again it was the Other Man who spoke “Unless they get the curtain down in time, none.” he answered. “There are no other exits: the place well It won't be probably, but the—emoke. In a minute or two we must move further back from it.” He spoke with admirable restraint, And then suddenly the Husband stood up. They both turned towards him. His face was gray, and his lips trembled. “Not this way,” he murmured in a shaking volce, “Ah, merciful heaven, not again this way!” The Woman quivered as beneath a lash, and her face became drawn. “John!” she sald sharply, “John!” He started slightly. “Yes?” Bhe would not let her eyes meet his “Please go away,” she sald In a low voice, He hesitated a moment, “What for? he asked, Bhe stirred impatiently “Oh, 1 don't care. Get a whisky and. Its I know the fire {on the floor; “Here, please. podu If you know where to find it. or or perhaps you'd better leave out the soda; I mean——" She paused, shud- dering , “Only go,” she added faintly. What did she mean? Did she know what she was saying. Probably not, he decided. What had he said himself a minute ago? He could not remember, What did anything matter now? He went without a word. The Other Man stared straight in front of him. Hig face was a mask. For a minute they sat very still. Then he turned round. “Come,” he sald in an ordinary voice, “it is time to move.” She gave him her hand, and he help- ed her over chairs and wooden forms till they were at the back of the build- ing. “Here?” she asked. “No,” he sald, and spread his coat The nearer the ground, the less smoke, you know.” She sat down silently, and motioned him to share the coat. Then suddenly ghe laughed “It's queer, we should thin clothes dusty He did not answer. He was tw a button on his overcoat round round; it came off in his hand denly he “You are very 1 “that our isn't it,” she said, k about getting now?" iting and Sud- poke rave.” he sald She drew a quivering breath trying to be brave enough for she said In a low voice He made no reply: he did to understand “I'm glad,” she added “that red. Perhaps—— not find us | . “Elizabeth!” he eried. ar ontent “I'm two,” not want hurriedly, he will th a rush of you here with | hand across her | lon now what I'm say- gry and distressed and don't want to die; but d rather be near som itke you he sald passionately oo if I've got to e ve 11k : | body bray (0 “Elizabeth,” “Don’t you know-——=1 She started “Oh, hush!" mured, “It i8 s0 near-—-t} “That is just why” wv] he sald, and laughed recklessly. “In a few minutes it must all be over. Haven't we a right to make the most of them? Deo you love me, Elizabeth?” He drew her towards him, and she did not resist She was thinking shamefacedly of the grayness of her husband's face as she had last seen it generations of pioneers and warriors The blood of a dozen | ing gave way taking them both with it, and leaving him on the broken edge, safe.” She covered her face with her hands. “Oh!” ghe murmured. I didn't know. What have | done?” “He told me once,” he went on, “that | it had left him with the feeling that | fire would never touch him, but that | to think of anyone he eared for being | in a fire made him--well, what you | saw.” | They were silent for an instant | “Hullo!” he eaid suddenly, “they've | got the curtain down.” The two stood up. Firemen and po licemen were everywhere, “No danger! No danger!” The words passed from mouth to mouth, and though they were not strict. ly true, the effect of the lowered cur tain was magical. The crowd was pre ceptibly thinner, noticeably calmer, but round each exit were gruesome proofs of the violence of the panie. “Elizabeth!” They looked at each other. John,” she sald faintly. “Yes,” he sald, and his smile was bitter, “It's John. Good-bye. Forget it all, Elizabeth, Do you know" he looked at his watch——"it's all hap pened in less than ten minutes?” “Really?” she gaid. “It can’t be pos sible.” But her eyes were searching for her husband. The Other Man noticed it. “Eliza beth!” he sald, half shamefacedly. “Yea,” ghe answered, her eyes search ing the crowd. “You are going to make up to him somehow for-———for saying that to him? Her eyes softened and she held out her hand, “That was nice of youn," ghe said gently, “Yes, I am going to make up to him. I pray God, he will never know what I thought.” “Elizabeth!” He had found her at “It's —————————— | wealthy last. The Other Man slipped away. “I've found a way,” he exclaimed breathlessly. “Come along.” “Oh,” she eried, “you've hurt your { with | pout was surging through her own veins and she scorned impending fate. I do.” { hand; it's bleeding.” He held out the other to her. “No, | no; it's nothing. I had rather a bother the doors and windows. That's why I've been po long.” Bhe followed him silently, When they were in their carriage and on their way home there was an awk- ward silence, Elizabeth had Just finished bandaging his hand with the aid of both their handkerchiefs “Dear,” he said at last, “would you | , | mind telling me why you ‘Ime to go away?” you asked looked at him a reproachful “Must you inquire into all your wife's weaknesses?” she asked “I only wondered" “Of course,” she Interrupted, “I knew you would, and I meant to tell you. | Put you'll despise me, You've got a very unherole wife, John, When I] asked you to go 1 was——sghe went on steadily—"1 was nearly dead with fright, and I couldn't bear to have you to see it: so I eald the first thing I thought of to get rid of you while I got ove What did1 say? I 1idn’t k what 1 was saying, John Bute] did got over It.” H 1 and wo was very tend Elizabeth, my wife * he said. “Do vou know"——he laughed light-heart edly—"I"ve been worrying like every- thing about it. I fancied you thought I was In a funk abont myself. Il thought you meant that” stared at him, then burst out hing hysterically and threw her me round his neck “Oh. you dear, 11" she cried She bbs now he bent fare clear ed her, His vol She | missioned St { make | carved larling old stupid “Don't you know yet that women never mean what they seem to mean?” He made a mock gesture of despair “So now that you geem to mean you are well, rather fond of me, Eliza beth, what do you really mean?” | She smiled up at him swiftly. “That I consider you just perfect,” she whis pered. Upstairs in their own room, when he had gone down to give some orders to the servants, Elizabeth to the window. Her eyes + Suddenly she knelt down and her face In her hands. “God ; she supplicated, “that he will never know——I do love him. 1 have al ways loved him but that 1 should have thought him afraid!” Sketch. | a FEAT OF AMATEUR ROBBER. Met With Entire Success in Separa- ting Man From His Watch. If a man who was robbed of a gold watch in Chicago, under peculiar con- ditions which he will recognize from | the recital of the adventure by the rob ber, will communicate with Hobart J. Allen, of Irving Park, Chicago, he can have back his timeplece, along with a profuse apology Mr. Allen recently bought a revolver to protect himself from hold-up men | who have fleeced several victims in al long subway under the Northwestern Railway tracks, He was kept at his business until quite late one night re cently, and starting home he put his wander troubled buried ant.” | | ’ { pistol in his pocket with a feeling of | “Yes,” she sald absently, “I believe | ‘ , gp | “Ah, say It again,” he urged, “with. | rn out the ‘believe. The smoke was rapidly thickening. She tried not to think of it. “I love my love with a B,” she sald flippantly, “be | passing trains startled them, and they cause he is brave, and 1 hate my | him with a C, because he is a Coward a Coward!" His arms relaxed suddenly “Ah, dear don't!” he cried. “Is that all? Is that the reason? “All? ghe echoed. “Isn't it enough? “No,” he sald bitterly: “I'm a cad but not as bad as all that. Are you blind? Don't you know what was the matter with him?” “He wag afraid.” she whispered. “My husband, afraid!” Neither of them noticed that In front of the blazing stage the fireproof cur tain had suddenly finished its arrested descent, and that a semi-lull ensued, “Yeu'" he eried’ with a revulsion of loyalty to his friend, “afraid of losing yon, Surely you know what happened to his father and mother? Didn't you even wonder what he meant by “Not again this way?” fhe shook her head. “Wives know so little of thelr husband's bachelor ex. perience.” she reminded him with a wan smile, “They were burnt to death, when he was a boy” he sald, “like this, In a theatre. He was with them, the floor | plunged | through : | | : satisfaction, approach to the subway was | lighted by a single lamp. He into the cavern and walked A figure dimmed the exit, and as the two men met, the roar of much The dimly brushed each other in passing. A mo | ment later Allen felt for his watch, | It was not in his pocket. ia ran back through the subway and overtook the other man just as he was emerging “Hand over that watch or I'll blow | your head off!” he shouted. The man leaped over a stone abutment and ran. Allen followed and cornered him a painst a wall “I'l give you another chance,” he sald, leveling his revolver. The man, apparently too frightened to speak, gave him the wateh Allen went home and told hig wife of his adventure, “Why, your watch is In there on the dresser; you didn't take it with you” she exclaimed, Now Allen is looking for the man he held up. —— Twenty Years an Bigot. Bacon—That man is always on the wrong side of a question. Bgbert—How do you know? Bacon—Why, I've known him for twenty yoars, and in all that time I never knew him to think the same way as | have. . | simply served to bring out In greater AA THE WOMAN IN BRONZE. Striking Figure of a Woman Who Died of a Broken Heart. A story of unrequited love is mutely told in cold bronze and marble in one of the cemeteries in the city of Wash. ington, D, C, The story runs that a beautiful young woman, daughter of rich par- ents, fell in love with a poor and struggling artist, The attraction was mutual, but her family aspired t0 a alliance. Finally, filial duty won the day and the girl was led to the altar by a rich suitor. They lived together for some time, and the bril- llancy of the match was the talk of Ak se aa ST. GAUDENS' REALIZATION ington soclety, The woman's however, still went out to the poor artist and her husband, who had been informed of the peculiar state of affairs, do hing wife's affection. All the money could buy were showered her, but 0 no purpose To } nonth 8 wife could nothing to w his that upon gifts is horror one arr 1 & room In day goeveral found ] th after the vine : 1 1 Iying den t! he poor r age Ne house, broken hear 1 to his iH on Dy and when she was lot In Rock Cr Gauder a bronze statue of heroic depicting her as she was found, dead and covered with her bathrobe The figure of the woman is seated with the bathrobe drawn about her, and the work is one of great strength The bronze is surrounded by 1 beautifully carved In front long marble seat, where one n mire the work of art. No name 1 the spot, but at each corner of the is a small marble block, about inches square, with the letter in tog T The lot surrounded by the entire a growth of pine trees. so that one not familiar with the gpot looks in vain for the figure. a Character of Engiand’s King. The character of King Plward, while Prince of Wales, appears bave been greatly misunderstood Many scandals were laid at his door many journalists and prominent writ ers found th dense } } N msl ves f makis . r Iu ir worse tl countrymen it fact that er great | rinee I asod by ve ry tact i : anks A hard drinking. « profane langu went out of He would tolerate in the es of respectable people no men women who had forfeit'd their right to remain within their pale, and no woman of questionable ante. oedents could with his sanction con- | sort with ladies or with innocent girls, Few people had any idea how well read he was It was generally reported that his reading was very limited, and yet the reverse was true, No new book of importance, whether in German, English or French, appear. ed that failed to receive his attention, and many such were read and dis- cussed at Marlborough House before their review appeared in print. Not a few of the French authors were ac customed to send him their first COpieR, His faults, never grave or serious, more 1 pn ti mn ain, to any "i Coarse Le wn prominence the many attractive points of his character, and since his accession to the throne even those faults have grown less and his vir tues and ability become brighter and greater, From a Diplomat's Diary. i m—————-— Home from the Philipines. been thinking, to us one And In spite of all our doubts and fears . he stood before our view, Wint was written by a friend of his, 0 cheerily and brightly, “Not 8 ever trouble trouble til roubles you," The iad returned In safety, spite of chills and mpite of fever, Spite of all the many dangers of the land and of the sea. 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