great sacrifice you made i said gently but doubtless it had its reward did she give you her hand in exchange for the no he answered we were not married until a year after that she was grateful to me but soon we quarrelled again the fact is that i took a call which she insisted was meant for her she felt that disappointment terribly indeed she has not got over it yet she cannot speak about it without crying you mean i said that you years ago deprived her of the privilege of to is it a an audience surely she would not let that prey on her mind you don t understand he replied that fame is food and drink to an artist it was months she forgave me that though she is naturally the most tender hearted creature our man stole fifty pounds from her and she would not him because she knew his sister but you see it was not money that i deprived her of � it was fame and did you win your way back into her favour i asked by letting her take a call that was meant for you no he said several times i determined to do so but when the moment came i could not make the sacrifice i spent about half my salary in presents to her but although she took them she refused to listen to any proposal of marriage by this time i had confessed my love for her well we parted and soon afterwards i got an engagement as chief o is it a in the powder monkey company which was then on tour she was playing in it fancy that woman flinging herself away on i made a big hit in my part the observer said mr james the celebrated jolly little jim created a but about miss o i asked we got on at first he said she had decided to forgive you no she was the first day but i put her up to a bit of business that used to be nightly and then she accepted my of marriage but a week after i had given her the engagement ring she returned it to me i don t blame her you admit that she had just cause of complaint against you yes no woman who was an artist could have stood it the fact is that one night i took the up side of her in our comic love is it a scene that is to say i had my face to the audience and so she was forced to turn her back to them i had no right to do it but a sort of madness came over me and i yielded to the impulse as soon as we had made our she flung the ring in my � ah she gave me back the ring and for the remainder of the tour she was not civil to me the tour ended abruptly indeed the manager owing us all a fortnight s salary and we were in without money to pay for our lodgings not to speak of our tickets back to london i my watch and sold my fur coat and shared what i got for them with her and so the engagement was resumed no no that was merely a friendly act and it was accepted as such the engagement was not resumed until i got a par about her into a sunday paper but that is the bell i ll tell you the rest after her death scene is it a iii miss o died as slowly as the management would allow her and when she had gasped her last gasp with her hair down jolly little jim that was led the tears and the cheers cried out superb by jove that woman has all the talents in a nut shell and from the in a manner that invited the rest of the audience to follow but everybody save mr and myself remained to see the comic man produce the missing will and so my little friend and i got the smoking room to ourselves the next time we were on tour together he continued after i had given the death scene a was in letters of fire with a real steam engine i was bill the returned and the age said mr who as jolly little jim made such a is it a the engagement was resumed by this time i asked i told you the par had done that however we had another during because i got the to speak i dare say that would have led to a had not had not she loved you so deeply i suggested she loved me fondly he replied but she loved fame more every true genius does no the reason she did not break with me then was that i was on in her great scene in the fourth act you see as chief i had a right to a little comic by play in that scene and if i had exercised that right i should have drawn away attention from herself thus i had the whip hand of her i am inclined to think that had i pressed the point i could have married her during the run of that piece by threatening if she delayed the wedding � to introduce comic business into her great yes but i did not and you are no doubt wondering why the fact is i thought my self denial would soften her heart and so bring about the results i was for perhaps it would have done so but unfortunately letters of fire did not draw though a great success and we had to put london on in its place in that piece the leading played up to her so well that she began to neglect me i was in despair and so not quite for my actions nevertheless you 