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THE LAPSE . F
ENOCH WENTWORTH
By ISAS1L GORDON CURTIS,
Author of "The Woman from Wolvertons"
CHAPTER XXYIi -.- (Cent d) .
"Hutto," said the young editor
heartily. "I'm glad to see you back
and g'.ad you've come back to sorb a
house, Why. it's one of the biggest
I every saw in New York. Yeti fel
lows •must be raking in the shei:ele."
"It does look that way," Oswald
smiled. "I don't know how long it
will hold out. The play has already ,
gone far beyond my expectations."
"It ought to last through several
seasons.. Generally a drama that
pulls at the heart strings his a clutch'
on the purge strings of the public.
Besides, you've a great card in your
Wentworth, to say nothing of Merry.
She's out of sight. Why, I've run in,
heaven knows how often, for that
third. act. I can't think of any big
actress who could get as much out
of that situation, as Dorcas Went-
worth sloes. There are minutes when
it doesn't seem as if the girl were act-
ing—she lives the character from.
start to finish. She is not playing
'C'orde]ia.' she is 'Cordelia.' I told you
Oswald she is a wonder. I have
been following the drama as a critic
for years, and one gets to be hardened,
the emotions are not susceptible to
the appeals of the average player, but
in this scene particularly Miss
Wentworth grips me in a most won-
derful way. She is SO simple and
sincere in her rnetholls that one can-
not realize that she is acting a part.
She is great."
"I believe you are right," acknowl-
edged Oswald.
Before the third act began the house
settled down to that silence which
means intense anticipation. When
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the curtain fell, the applause rose to staggered in my life as the first night
a
deafening' clamor. One player when. I saw 'The House of Ester -
after another appeared to take an en- brook.' I went to the office after-
care. Last of all came Dorcas. She, wards to write my stuff and I sat for
stood on the stage alone, smiling and ten minutes—.dumb, stupid—trying to
bowing. Her face was radiantly hap-; figure out how Wentworth, the Enoch.
py. When the curtain dropped, the Wentworth I knew, could have writ -
applause began again. Wentworth' ten it. How long have you known
appeared, Ieading Merry by the hand. " this?"
The face of the older man looked pal- "I have known it," answered Oswald
lid and the red scar cut lividly across quietly, 'just as long as you have,"
his forehead. A stillness fell upon! "Then I'm right," cried Singleton.
the house. It seemed to Oswald as; "I knew Merry was lying when he
if the people waited intently for some' stood there on the stage giving us
unusual event: i that bluff about Wentworth carrying
There was a tenseness in the quiet the secret for him. Merry wrote it
Sat prevailed in the audience that all right. I might have guessed it
seemed to foreast something dramatic.; long ago. I saes do you know there's
It equaled in intensity the interest a devil of a big story back of all
with which the most telling climaxes that?" .
of the play had been received. The,. Oswald', face grew stern,
very air of the two men standing side; "You see I know both of the men so
by side in the center of the stage; well, went on Singleton eagerly.
seemed to promise a sensation. I "Why, they were a regular David and
Enoch Wentworth raised his hand' Jonathan pair ever since I met them
with a gesture which was strangely first. Enoch was forever setting Mer-
drarnatie for a man who was neither ry oa his pins. The actor would go
an actor nor an orator, Like a flash off, Heaven knows where, throw over a
Oswald remembered a day when he part, and drop off the edge of the
sat watching a prisoner at the bar. € world. I don't believe he dissipated'
The man had been condemned to' exactly, he simply tossed his money
death; a moment later, with a stifled away and went downhill. Wentworth
cry of terror, he stretched out his arm would hunt him up and drag hire back
for mercy and sympathy. 1 where he belonged. He straightened
"Ladies and gentlemen," Wentworth' up suddenly when he began to play
began, in a voice which was low, but 'John Esterbrook.' You can't even
so marvelously die;.inet that each syll- pull him into a poker ganie now,I
able carried to the farthest seat in the guess I took the winnings at the last,
house, "this is not a curtain speech game he stood in for. That night I'
you have not called me before the foot-`, had a great mind to hand the money
lights tonight; it is an explanation, i back to him. We said 'Good -by',
It is a ---confession." :about daylight. He looked pessimistic
Enoch paused as if mustering, and glum. No, he wasn't glum eith
strength to go through an ordeal. He er; Merry never gets glum. He had
felt the curious scrutiny of a thou-' a down-and-out, don't -give -a -damn ex-'
sand eyes. "It is a confession," he pression that morning. lean see him
repeated slowly, "a confession which yet. Suddenly he disappeared again
has been long delayed—" { When he came back Wentworth and
He never finished his sentence, be cut each other dead. That Paget
Merry stepped forward and laid his, woman affair began, then Wentworth
hand upon the man's arm with a cling saved Merry's life. Why, it's a tre-
ing grasp which was full of affection,' meudous story!"
even while it pushed Wentworth aside. Oswald turned abruptly, Something
"Allow me." Then he laughed. ; rn his quiet gaze made Singleton shift
"Good people, one and all, who have his eyes with a start of guilt. "I
so long been friends of mine, this is, want to say a word to you," the Eng-
my
ngmy confession, late in the day, as tine lishmas?s voice was stern, "and I want
friend Wentworth suggests, but it is, you to repeat what I say to every marl
mine, He was simply breaking thea in your fraternity. There may he a
I news to you that I wrote 'The House, big storysomewhere behind this --I
of Esterbrook.' " cannot tell. If there is, if an enmity
He hesitated for a moment, then, er a misunderstanding did exist, if
Enoch tauched bis arm as if in pro- there was a wrong done, or if any -
test. Merry smiled and gently put thing lies behind these two men which
hila aside. A whisper of startled we do not comprehend, leave it to
surprise ran through the house, fol -4, thein. They have buried it. Don't
lowed by a moment of hush, then ap- turn ghoul," he pleaded, "and dig it
plause. It subsided slowly. During up, simply to make a curious, heart -
the tumult ;nen and women who kept; less world buy your paper for a day
their eyes upon the stage saw Went- or two. I am told there is a bond
worth turn`as if pleading vehemently.! betwee.i newspaper men, like a warm -
Merry answered with a few decisive, hearted brotherhood. Wentworth
words, then he stepped down to the, belonged to that brotherhood;—he
foot lights. ' does yet—remember that."
"We have saved this confession.[ Singleton stretched out his hand
ladies and gentlemen," he began` with an impulsive gesture. 'Thank
bravely, "not to create a sensation or' you, Mr.'Oswald. You're a good deal
to further advertise the play but each: of a man. I never knew you before.
one of you must realize haw the pub-; W e all need a jog on the elbow once
Iie d'strusts a jack-of-all-trades, ' in a while. A newspaper roan grows
Ninny of you doubted the ability of a buzzard when a story is in the air.'
Merry Andrew to touch human emo- He forgets how the other fellow feels.
tion ever so lightly, and came that I'll pass the word around. I can,
first nig`•t with eager curiosity to! promise you that not a man among,
see him in the character of 'Sohn: us will do anything but take Merry's
Esterbrook.' How much more would word for it. His confession is a big'
you have hesitated if you had known' story in itself."
that this same Merry Andrew was the] "Thank you," said Oswald with a
author of the piay? Hence the secret,! cordiality which few men had seen in
to deceive you until an honest verdict the dignified Englishman.
had been rendered. To -night I re -1, He stood talking with a group who
lease my friend Enoch Wentworth' gathered about him at the close of
-Prom the role he has carried for ten the play, eager as Singleton had been
months. I also wish, before you, to to discuss Merry's dramatic confession,
acknowledge a large indebtedness to. when an usher interrupted them.
him. For years he has been the' "Mr. Oswald, you're wanted back of
truest friend a man ever had. He has the scenes," said the boy.
believed in me, encouraged me, and to' Under the white glare of electricity
his untiring labor you are indebted for a little group stood on the half-dis
much of the perfect detail which car- mantled stage. The people in the
ried 'The House of Easterbrook' to' cast were there—property men, the
. success. He has helped me in the' call boy, electricians, ushers, and the
• dark hours when success in my profes- humblest employe of the house. The
sion seemed to be something I could actors still wore their stage garb and
never achieve. When I have been' make-up. Dorcas' hand was linked
dragged down by the devils of despair in her brother's arm. For a moment
his was the hand that lifted me up and Oswald stood watching her. Her face
with kindly deeds and encouraging was flushed, her eyes shone, she
I words has kept me striving for the ''seemed transfigured by happiness.
place which at last seems to be not' Merry stretched out a welcoming
entirely out of reach. I need not hand to Oswald.' "We've been wait -
speak of his last great proof of his ing for you, Oswald, to round out our
friendship for me, you all know how he, circle," he cried gaily. "I had a Scotch
almost loft his life in saving me from' grandmother. When she reached the
almost certain death. Good people, el she madeher husbandcarveestern wilderness and built
a home,
r owe much to Andrew Merry, and it is
a great pleasure to acknowledge it in chimney-pieee: 'Were a' Bibb tae ane
this public manner." a.niether here.; Once, when I was a
The audience saw Wentworth stare little boy, she explained it to me. I
as if in utter amazement when Merry understood. The English language
began his confession. Then his eyes won't translate these words, but they
grew misty, and when the young actor mean that there's nobody here but the
turned to him with an affectionate best of friends. Because we are a'
smile, he gripped' the hand held out sibb tae ane onither here to -night I
to him as a man does when he can- want to break a secret to you. • It is
not,put love or gratitude into wards, a more wonderful secret than the news
Across the footlights men and women I gave to the audience."
realized vaguely, through the strange Merry looked about him with a
quick, boyish. smile. "I used to say I
could not make a curtain speech to
save my life. To -night I feel as if
I were blossoming out. I seem cap-
able of speeches behind the curtain as
well as in front. I suppose happiness
makes• an orator of a man." He
laughed joyously. "But—to my
secret. This dear lady, whom you all
love and honor, has promised to be my
wife."
He held out his hands to Dorcas and
caught hers,. then • he .drew' her into
his arms. as if they stood alone in
some empty corner of the world. '
(The End).
Turning Away Wrath.
A gentleman who discovered that,
he was standing on a lady's train had,
the presence of mind` to remark:
"Though I may not have the power
to draw an angel from the skies, i.
have pinned one to the earth."
The lady excused him,
human insight we call intuition, 'that
another drama was being playedbe-
fore their eyes; a life -and -blood drama,
where the feelings of strong men were
deeply stirred
"Good Lord!" said Singleton.
Oswald turned with a start as if he
had been aroused; froen sleep. ' The
newspaper man stood at his elbow
with a look of plank astonishmentin
his eyes. It passed quickly, however;
he was a trained newspaper man, all
his news instincts were aroused, he
was on the track of a story. Here was
something he must get to thebottom
of . He scented a mystery and was
immediately on the alert for anything
that might give hint & clew to start on.
His paper must have this big story,
it was big, he was sure of that. He
turned suddenly to the inan at his side.
"What's back of all that?" he asked.
"I can understand that Merry wrote
the play. I've known Enoch Went-
worth for years, arid I was never so
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