Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume04 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 04
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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Mr. Heme as Joe Fletcher in »* Margaret Fleming.Act I. *• Cant I sell ye a bath sponge? See page 663. Digitized by VjOOQIC 556 THE ARENA. Mrs. B. Therwant no change tspeak f. About twohours ago, she et anice cup o grule, andasked roe to fix thepi Hers so8 her headM be higher. I doneit. Then she askedfra pensul n paper,an she writ fr quitesome time. Afterthat she shet her eyesan I thought she wasasleep. She nevermoved till the Doctorcome, then she openedher eyes n smiled athim. He asked howshe felt, an she gavea 1-o-n-g sigh — an*that was all there wasto it Margaret comesin and Dr. Larkin,horrified, tries invain to get her toreturn. Maria,the dead girlssister, comes outof the bedroom,with a letter inher hand, andwith barbaricferocity turnsupon Margaret.A scene of greatdramatic powerfollows, and under
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Mrs. Heme as Margaret Fleming. Aet II. See page 554. the stress of her suffering, Margaret goes blind. It allends in the flight of Fleming, and the destruction of theirhome. Several years later a chain of events brings wifeand husband together in the office of the Boston Inspectorof Police. Joe Fletcher, a street pedler, and husband ofMaria, the sister of Lena Schmidt, was the means of bring-ing them together again. Fleming runs across Joe on the Digitized by VjOOQIC MR. AND MRS. HEBNE. 557 Common, and Joe takes him to see Maria. Margaret hasfound Maria and her child, which Maria had taken.Philips altercation with Maria brings them into the policeoffice. After explanations, the inspector turns to the hus-band and wife, and voicing conventional morality, advisesthem to patch it up. When you want me, ring thatbell, he says, and leaves them alone. There is a hush ofsuspense, and then Fleming, seeing the work he hadwrought in the blind face before him, speaks. Philip. Margaret! Margaret W

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