Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 108: what you’re looking at

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BONNY JEAN. 101 It was decided that she should appear before the public for her debut as the heroine in the modern drama of the ‘‘ Hidden Hand,” quite a difficult character for a debu/ante to essay, but Lady was quite up to the mark. She insisted upon being billed as ‘‘ Lady Lee,” and her friends submitted to her wishes. And so, the night of her first ap- pearance on the boards arrived, and flaming posters all over the city announced in flaring characters the first appearance of the sprightly young comedienne, Lady Lee, and behind the curtain Lady herself, in a fever of excitement, awaited her call. It came at last, and the first act passed off very creditably, Lady ‘‘ bringing the house down” more than once. The play progressed, and the audience seemed spell-bound. It was the scene with the outlaw, where the heroine of the drama is about to propel the robber chief through a trap in the floor to regions below, when suddenly Lady happened to raise her eyes, and they fell upon a face in a stage-box near her. Trembling like an aspen, she tottered and fell upon the-stage like one bereft of life. CHAPTER XXII. FOUND ! Philip Randall crept softly on toward the spot where Gabriel Black had begun diligently to excavate. Then a sudden thought struck him, and he paused in the shelter of a pine thicket, leaning on the rifle, his eyes meantime watching the movements of the villain. Spadeful after spadeful of earth was dug up and tossed aside. Black worked faithfully ; the perspiration streamed down his pallid face; with hands trembling from the unusual exertion, he paused to mop the perspiration from his brow, and then stooped over the hole in the ground, and resumed his work with feverish excitement, his whole soul absorbed in the task before him. .As yet, he had not been interrupted, as on Eomichooks (e(o) =)