The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 January 1897 — Page 2

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(Concluded From Lastt Week.) Before huik business lootea up, tamely enough, out sufficieutly to permit Mr. Li toy the luxury of getting rid of Mrs. Mason and Cassius. It was against hta principles to pay anybody anything, but now as a measure neocesttry to their dismissal and his own relief he turned his back on principle and gave then) some money. I discovered that this gave me a fine opportunity to strike for my salary and go borne too. If I did not get it now, 1 need never hope to, and I was ready to compromise for cash the possibilities of further experience. My efforts had a degree of success, and I triumphantly took my way back to New York with the dismissed pair. I congratulated them upon their situation. I thought them, in truth, very lucky. They accepted my view with alacrity and volubility and were full of ingenious explanations of the manager's self sacrifice—in dismissing, not in paying, tluiin, they meant. I now learned the exact details of their iinanrial situation. Tlvey were hardly reassuring to my skeptical mind, but the pair—I always thought of them as the pair—did not themselves take a dismal view of their case. A hundred dollars of the memorable |400 was still in bunk. This fact filled rue with admiring wonder, especially I when consider, si the purchase of that wine colored satin and the accompanying cartload of embroidery silks. But if they indulged in some remarkable extravagances it is plain, you see, that they were, in the main, most frugal, and they had had an energy and a lack in wresting money from managers at which I never warn'd to marvel. I speak of one financial revolution; .here was but ona They had a purse in ronmiou, us if they were living in an ancient romance. They were blind in the modem view that this is a greater strain than friendship can stand. Arrived in New York they took rooms in neighboring lodging houses on South Washington square—for it happened they could not find what they wanted in either one alone—and once having won the possibility of establishing themselves near something green it was highly characteristic of them, inborn cockneys though they were, that nothing else would da Then, with an oil stove, a coffeepot, a stewpan and eight disites, belongings that had seen service before and were taken out of storage, they set up what is known to the initiated as light housekeeping. Despite the woman’s failing health, her dragging step and her cough, they were still, as Mr. Leroy had so bitterly complained, giddy and happy. To have freedom, freedom to talk about the theater as much us they liked, with none to make them afraid, to be in 9 town full of billboards, seemed to fill their cup. Cassius, during our journey and in the burly burly of arrival, had proved himself possessed of great gifts as a courier, gifts that he exercised not only for Aunt Maggie and himself, but for me as well. I expected to stay in town all summer, and he hud given me invaluable aid in re-establishing myself. He had run errands and driven nails and hung pictures and hounded trades people — in short, he laid me under great obligations in taking much of the worst of life off my bands. It was all done out of simple goodness of heart and pleasure in exercising his powers, and of course my relations with himself and Mrs. Mason were now fixed. Soon they came to me for a grave consultation. They were thinking of eking out this income by seeking positions as stage supernumeraries—supcs was the word used in our conversation. The point was. Did I think this course, if most secretly managed, would hurt their professoual position and prospects? Their professional position and prospects I I dirtn’t think it would. Then it came out that the thing was already done—they were engaged for a new piece. It was to bo adorned with an exceptionally accomplished mob, and they were to be part of the mob. Now, at the last, their fears for the cherished professional position and prospects bad made them hesitate. I brought up my old argument and said I thought, the mob would add to their experience, and, as before, they rapturously argued that that was the view to take. ‘‘Daly puts his extra people on the list of his company,” Cassius informed me, with great satisfaction. “Thestuge manager is going to take just as much pains with the mob as with the—the other actors,” said Mrs. Mason, stumbling over the chance of denying themselves the beloved title. • I thought to myself that he would certainly have to take a great deal more. The public does not need tube informed that ‘‘supes” arc not usually brilliant, and I reflected, further, that if the zeal of my friends did not too tar conserve their discretion their superior qualities might possibly win them valuable good will. Their luck—that sovereign factor in all things theatrical—was still amazingly good. The demand for old women as “extra ladies” is commonly small, indeed, but in a mob, you see, all sorts are needed, and in such a very swell mob as this was to be talent must have some chance to shine, for here was a place where Cassius and Mrs. Mason must by comparison be called talented. My best hopes were more than met. An astute creature, half manager, half

newspSpt r man, : :.w my pair uim! discovered that he had a use for t'assist as. He was about to seek public favor for a show of his own (he afterward advertised it on the billboards, by the way, us having no plot and no literary merit). This show was a ’mrcful compound of burlesque, home play and variety business, and Cassius’ antics in tlie mob disclosed just the qualities of movement wanted for a “part” in “The Kicking Kitten.” The part was that of a make beliovu toy manikin, a toy that should display t* activities to the audiences of the future only when properly wound up. The proprietor of “The Kicking Kitten ’ was a perceiving person. This feat of going when wound up and stopping when run down was exactly ike kind of being Cassius could shine in. nad, proud as if he were to star in Hamlet, Cassius soon announced his engagement and devoted his leisure to studying and imitating the movements of the mechanical toys exhibited on Fourteenth street pavements. The new play (God save the mark) was to be tried on a dog—the phrase is technical —in a summer tour. Two days before his departure as one of its attractions Cassius came to see mo. He wore a curiously familiar uir of combined fear and friendliness, and, snro enough, he presently asked me to lend him $10. He said he had a chance to get, if be got it that night, a $20 trunk for $10. He was to leave Monday morning. He must pack his things on Sunday. He could not get the trunk without the money. He needed it greatly. He and Aunt Maggie had not so much in the house, and he was afraid to go away and leave her with any less than she hud anyway. He had jnst heard of and seen the trunk within the last hour. It was unnecessary to say so much. I had received too many small kindnesses from him to refuse him his money if I had it. But I had it not. All my money was in bank, and until Monday morning I was practically penniless. A very little reflection, however, showed me a way to the desired end. I had the resources of experience. I had been both practically and positively penniless before. Pawnshops are not closed at R o’clock on a Saturday night, though banks arc. I gave him my watch and told him to get his $10. It was on the Monday of Cassius' departure that Mrs. Mason came to see me about this same business. “I just wanted to speak to you a minute,” she said, with embarrassed hesitancy, sitting down before me. The act had an expression of half business. The red and white paint was heightened in effect by a coquettish white veil, and her speech was more broken by coughing than usual “It’s about Cassius,” she continued after some encouragement—‘‘about— you let him have your watch. Oh, it seems dreadful, but ho did need the money! Only, Miss Addington, I must tell you I’m afraid Cassius did not tell you quite the truth about that money. I know he’ll pay it back, but I wish he’d said what was just so about what he wanted with it. Cassius is good; he has no bad habits, hut he doesn't always think it’s wrong to tell things that are not exactly so, and I do. I can’t stand it. Ho didn’t want it for a trunk. He wouldn’t take any we had. Ho said there was too little for me to be left with, and ho might die, or something. He needed a lot of little things dread-

I gave him my watch. fully, but I wish he’d told you all about it. And now, Miss Addington, I can pay you that money, and we can get your watch rigid off. Yes, I can, and I feci as if I’d rather. It isn’t as if you’d known just what you were doing when you gave it to him. ” With all her fondness for Cassius it was useless to try to make Mrs. Mason share my surprised admiration of his shrewdness, his knowledge of human nature in asking me to help him to a bargain, and getting all my feminine prejudices on his side, instead of simply appealing to my reasonable gratitude and benevolence with the less dramatic facts of the case, but I was successful in persuading her to leave me Cassius’ creditor. It was soon clear that Mrs. Mason’s share of tho luck so often referred to had deserted her. t Tho play constructed around the mob was withdrawn, and, as I feared, she found no further demand for “extra” ladies of her age. She said to mo that if only tho satin gown were finished she thought site might get a place on its merits. As Cassius had taken various small parts of tho beloved garment to embroider during his wanderings, like a modern Ulysses and Penelope rolled into one, this hallucination was safe from rude destruction, and I had small conscience about encouraging it, I saw it was comforting. But lack of employment was not Mrs. Mason’s worst trouble now. She was becoming all tho time weaker and sicker. Yet she seemed happy, and when occasionally I managed to take her to tho theater, no matter what tho play or whom tho players, her poor wrinkled, plastered old face beamed with unclouded joy. She would smother her cough in

her fiandxrcrhlef and fargotilng her j habitual economy rechleasly squander ; her gloves in indiarrimluate applause. ! 1 mast add that she took an apologetic tone ulxtut this habit, but appealed to me to say if it was not very pleasant to applaud when one was pleased. “Y'ou se*',” she s.ud, “out in Illinois the ladies hardly enr do applaud. At h ast they didn't use to. They didn’t seem to think It was ladylike, and I always wanted to so!” Her emancipation from sewing and from such uncongenial conventionalitios us forbade expression of her love foi things theatrical seemed enough to make her lust steps to the grave bright »r than all her life before. For, ns you have fotaseen, to the grave she was soon to come. It is curious, by tii* war, considering that there all life's stories must finally md, Low conventional a goal it seems in story telling. But, t*s it happens, the small events I have start<sl out to relate oulmiuatod only as my friends texik their jiarts in the universal tragedy and as always that tragedy brings out ns no other setting could all the touching helplessness and sweetness of their diugy, stumbling, little lives. Cassius did well on tho road. The entertainment, with no literary merit and no plot, fnlfllleil its purpose and pleased a number of people, Cassius' share in its success, as we learned from his letters, covered him with glory. He soon was looking for a backer, that theatrical good fairy so inexplicably subject to entreaty, preparatory to starting as the toy man upon a starring tour, of course with “a play” properly built around him. This ambition sounds wild enough, hut what is wilder than history, especially — let us take a comprehensive phrase—history in the show business? Cassius might have made a fortune. Needless to say he was sure he would, and win immortal fame as well. But it was not to be. Aunt Maggie became too ill to be left alone. Her money was almost gone, and before the summer was past Cassius gave up his engagement and practically his search for a backer and returned to take care of her. Through all this I heard nothing of Mrs. Mason’s daughter. After Cassius' return he told mo that while he was away she had sent her mother “She hasn’t any appreciation of Aunt Maggie, ” was his only oommeut. But if her daughter cared little about her and was oppressed by little sense of duty, Mrs. Mason had consolations such us wiser people often lack. Friendship, like all matters of feeling, is a mystery. Evidently to enjoy it it is not necessary to be able to read what Emerson says about it. Here were these two, with nothing of intellect or deep spiritual experience to found congeniality upon, still building out of their crazy little tastes and loyal little affections the great blessing for themselvoa Cassius made up his mind to take Mrs. Mason out of the city. It seemed the right tiring to do, but I was troubled as to how he was to take care of her anywhere. However, he had brought a little money home with him and was quite unburdened with fears for thf future. “Oh, we’ll get on somehow. I can do lots of things, ” ho declared. I took it as evidence that he could when in three days he found just the place he wanted and moved to it. It was on Long Island and was half farmhouse, half old fashioned roadside tavern. It was within two miles of an •-indent village, now brought low and become a summer watering place. Yes, be was right, that young man, when he said he could do a lot of things. Ho did them. The one he had made of his diplomacy in getting my watch did not exhaust it. He entered his new boarding place on the regular footing, and that footing he made firm by paying his and Aunt Maggie’s board in advance for two successive weeks. Then he successfully rearranged matters un<l defrayed his own expenses with his own labor. He was incredibly industrious, and before tho late lingering colony of visitors left the village he gave an entertainment for their benefit and his own. “A tutti frntti entertainment,” he called it on bills he painted with a brush. Something of his situation, his care af the dying woman, hud gotten noised about (I don’t think he aimed to conceal the facts), and the entertainment was, I was told, in every sense a success. I knew of its attractions only by hearsay, for, though I was taking a lute vacation from city streets and dramatic agents and had established myself in the old tavern with my pair of players, I staid with Mrs. Mason while Cassius ministered to the public's amusement, Mrs. Mason had now become so weak that she needed more care than Cassius could give her. “Cassius has finished the dress. It didn’t show for half when you saw it,” she told me on the instant of our meeting. She made him bring it for me to see and had it hung over a chair where she could caress it with her thin hand. As soon as I was alone with him Cassius said, tears filling his eyes us he spoke: “She knows she is going to die, and she says she wants to be buried in that dress. I can’t stand to hear her talk about it, but she told me that she's been so much company for mo ever since I've known her, and she’s given me so much good advice. ” Aud with this singnlar peroration of gratitude the boy broke down and sobbed. But ho soon checked himself to toll me that he had sent for some more yellow embroidery silk and was going to embroider all the seams of the gown. ‘‘She thinks it’s us handsome as it can be, but it ain’t. I always keep having ideas come to me when I’m at work on anything like that. ” With this ineoming wave of artistic complacency he dried his eyes and quite cheerfully departed to split kindling wixkL The next day Mrs. Mason had herself dressed in the robe of her heart. um>

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