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"We've got to try," declared Cole. "Of course," answered Bert, as if any one doubted it. "Come on!" They increased their pace, and as they neared the end of the long street, they were joined by several of their comrades, who had rushed from their houses half-dressed. "Where's the fire?" called Bob Fenton, who was hardly awake yet. "Bergman's lumber yard, I heard some one yell," answered Bert.
Only once had he given free rein to his inclinations and written with a poisoned pen. To-night, however, as he entered the stage door of Bergman's Circuit Theater, it was with a different intent. Regan, the stage-door tender, better known since his vaudeville days as "The Judge," answered his greeting with a lugubrious shake of a bald head. "I'm a sick man, Mr. Pope. Same old trouble." "M-m-m.
But they were not creatures upon whom any woman might rely. Nor could she avail herself of Mrs. Thompson-Bellaire's assistance, for the widow's reputation was little better than Bergman's, and from her attitude it was plain that she had lent herself to his designs. He was murmuring slyly: "You're a sensible girl; you want to get ahead. Well, I can put you at the top, or " "Or what?"
Bergman's advances had been only another disquieting symptom of what she had to expect an indication of the new color her reputation had assumed. Nobel Bergman's success in the show business had long been a mystery among those who knew him; for, to offset an undeniable theatrical talent, he possessed all the appetites, the frailties, and the passions of a rake.
It happened to be a large, unhandsome, and fleshy member, and, securely grasping it, Bergman's conqueror held him at a painful and humiliating disadvantage. Bob was panting, but he managed to say, "Come! We will run for the lady once around the block." A muffled shriek of pain was the answer, but the street was empty save for some grinning chauffeurs, who offered no assistance. "Be a good fellow.
Before combustion can take place, it is necessary that the base of oxygen gas should have greater affinity to the combustible body than it has to caloric; and this elective attraction, to use Bergman's expression, can only take place at a certain degree of temperature which is different for each combustible substance; hence the necessity of giving the first motion or beginning to every combustion by the approach of a heated body.
He was so angry, not merely because he had been deceived, but because he could not get rid of the ugly wretch that was now tied to him for life. Now we shall hear a little about Maiden Bright-eye When she fell into the water she was fortunate enough to get the bergman's cap put on her head, for now she was in danger of her life, and she was at once transformed into a duck.
"From the time I left Bergman's till I stopped is a blank. I remember nothing. I turned and looked, and may my eyes never rest on another such sight. The water was above the houses from the direction of the railroad bridge. There came a wave that appeared to be about twelve feet high. It was perpendicular in its face and moved in a mist.
"I'd like to say a few words," spoke up Herbert, rising in his seat. "Go on!" invited Mr. Appelby encouragingly. "This offer of Mr. Bergman's is a complete surprise to me," said the boy. "I never sought the position of head of the new department." "We know that," spoke a friendly voice.
Her inexperience had been the strongest argument in her favor, since Bergman's shows were famous for their new faces. The result was that he signed her promptly, and mother and daughter had walked out of his office quite unconscious of having accomplished the unusual.
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