Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1903 — A Villain Baffled. [ARTICLE]

A Villain Baffled.

“So!” hissed the villain. The heroine faced him grandly. The calcium light sputtered delightedly over the scene, causing her jewels to glitter like the eye of a press agent. "So!” growled the villain. Here the heroine kicked her train around in front of her, and the handpainted flowers on the back* breadth came inlo full view. Bravely she clutched the will in her lily-white fingers. "So!” hoarsely muttered the villain. With the air of a queen the heroine turned upon him. • ■* ..... “Why do you say *So’ so often?" she asked* "Do you thtnfcr you can eewe meTRealizing that he was baffled for the last time in that act, the villain rolled another cigarette and left the stage with a tragic stride. —Philadelphia Inquirer.