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Updated: July 20, 2025
He announces that "Nothing can shake him, now, from his pre-determined purpose," and that "the grave gapes for its coming victim." Enter MARIA, disguised in a brown bowler hat and a very tight suit of tweed "dittoes," in which she looks very like the "Male Impersonator" at a Music-hall. The Audience receive her with derision and the recommendation to go and get her hair cut. Maria.
Just before it was time for the rehearsal to begin George Watson went up to Mr. Treadwell. "If you please," said he, "couldn't Peter be in the play?" "Peter? Who is Peter?" asked the impersonator. "I'm afraid it's too late to put any one else in, George. They wouldn't have time to practice, and, besides, we really have all the actors we need." "Oh, Peter wouldn't need any practice," said George.
When the "Impersonator" came out on the stage he did not look like any one but himself. He made a few remarks, but Bunny and Sue did not pay much attention. They were more interested in what he was going to do. The man, who wore a black suit, "like the minister's," as Mary Watson whispered to Sue, suddenly stepped over to a little table, on which were two electric lights and a looking glass.
No orthodox lyceum course would tolerate him; he was neither an impersonator nor an entertainer; the stereopticon and the melodramatic were out of his line, and his passion for truth made him impossible to the many. He was treading the path of Bruno: the accusations, the taunts and jeers, the denials and denunciations, were urging him on to an unseemly earnestness.
Warble whispered to her neighbor, who chanced to be Avery Goodman, "an impersonator?" "Lord, no; it's Wunstone, the great scientist rants on Fourth Avenue dimensions, or something like that."
Even now she forgot her disasters in the memory of her success as an impersonator, and entertained the men with scenes from her masquerade as Edith, Claire, and the Brand. From such a creature, so illy balanced, one might expect anything.
"And now tell me all that happened, Mart and Lucile." Their story was soon told, just as I have written it here how they were "stranded" when the show broke up, and how Mr. Brown took care of them. The story of Mr. Treadwell was also told to Mart and Lucile's Uncle Bill, and how the impersonator had written the little play. "And once he lost his wig and Wango the monkey had it!" cried Sue.
"There are two uncles and one aunt, according to the story. William Clayton, who is a brother of Mart's father, is blind, and in some home or hospital I don't know where, and I guess the children don't either," he added. Lucile and Mart shook their heads. "Simon Weatherby and his wife, Sallie, are brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Clayton's," went on the impersonator.
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