“THE KENTUCKY DERBY.”

Shannon News, 14 August 1923, Page 2

“THE KENTUCKY DERBY.”

Colonel Gordon rose in the manner of a Kentucky gentlqman, lilted his win© glass on high and told the guests his son was engaged to Helen Gordon, a visitor in his house whose similarity of llama arid swqetness of maimer lias quitq established her. Donald Gordon got. up, quietly, his lace a puzzle. “My father has" made a grave mistake,” was all he said. The guests followed the father and son to the nqxt room. Donald heiu a girl in his arms who had run down the steps to him. She was a stablqman’s daughter, raised and educated by Colonel Gordon. Thq romance had been entirely a secret. 1 “Let me introduce by wifq,” said Donald with the air of a man throwing his lost card upon the table. Colonel Gordon stormed, and ended by ordering them out of the bouse. Hqlen Gordon was the object of many glances, but her bjrother Ralph tiook (charge of the Colonel and seqnied at once to take the place of Donald. When Donald returned that night for liis clothes, Ralph gave him a message, sqaled, to deliver to a Captain Wolff in New York. Donald and his bride soon esablished themselvqs in a small flat and he went to deliver the message. He found himself in a wharf den. A trap door opened under his feet, and when Ihq regained consciouness he was on the high seas—shanghaied. The coast certainly was “clear” for Ralph and Helen “Gordon.” No more dramatic situation, than this could he conceived. From this point on it develops rapidly in the: Universl-Jewcl spectacle. “The, Kentucky Derby,” which will be shown at the Maoriiand Theatre on Friday next.