Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-03-14

require much watchfulness ant
more economy to save me from
serious loss"
A moment afterwards he wa.
again lost in those mysterious pa
pers, forgetting that his little
daughter Madaline was in the
room.
Did she pout, and storm, and
insist upon being humored? No,
she did not; she was too good for
that. She felt and knew that her
fathers reason for not obliging her
was sufficient to himself, and she
felt it her duty to believe that it
should be sufficient to herself also.
She stole quietly out of the room,
though slightly disappointed.
How was she to aid Lionel now?
She thought of the proposition
made to her in the garden. She
looked on the card and saw on it,
"PROF. VERNET CRUVELLI,
No49 Rue de Rivoli."
ri will 60 and see him this af-
ternoon," she said to herself; and
then she sang a verse of the lit
tie song that had attracted the
attention of the composer.
She went to the house in the
afternoon, and met Lionel at the
garden gate next morning, as she
had promised she would. And
every day thereafter for week
she went to the professors to prac-
tice.
7 In a little while on flaming pla-
cards was read a notice of a new
musical prodigy-"Le Petite Ga
brielle, the wonderful" "The Lit
tie Queen of Songs" etc. The
theatre in which she sang drew
great crowds.
81 believe will go and hear the
little singer who is creating such
an excitement" said Madaline's
father, pushing his chair from the
supper table "This is announ-
ced as the third and the last night.
Would you like to go, Madaline.2"
excuse me, pa" she said. He
was not lookingsat her just then,
or he would have wondered why
her face grew so red.
On the evening of Madaline's
engagement at the theatre a car
riage called for her at the house
of the professor, and left her there
again. 1t did not take her long
to perform her part, and it came
early on the programme Hence,
she had not been from home long
enough to have made her absence
a subject of remark.
Madaline's father went to the
theatre. At the appointed time
a beautiful, fair-haired girl plain
ly and chastely attired, came on
the stage and sang.
Oh, such singing! 1t was grand,
exquisite! Demonstrations of ap-
plause rent the building. The
father slapped his hands with de-
light, and cried "encore" with the
rest. He knew his little girl
He made his way to the green
room. He got into the carriage
with her.
"Madaline, what does this
he asked.
"Forgive me, pa! / shall sing
no more in public. They paid me
five hundred francs a night"
Give hundred francs !"
eyes. Three nights-ffteen
hundred francs. Tomorrow
shall give them to Lionel, the
cripple. He wants to go to the
Academy L'Ecole de Droit!'
"You dear little angel!' cried
her father, embracing and kissing
her.
"And was it for that you want
ed me to give you that money!
You say you will not sing any
more" ,..
elf you do not wish me to"
"Yes, but you shall. | do wish
you to. Tie hand of Providence !,
is in this. That my child should
have such a gift! See here NADIA
line, through the treachery of
friend / have become fearfully
embarrassed"
''Is that why you put me off I
when / asked you for money! {
And / shall sing for you how I
many nights?"