The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-30
ART AND LOVE.

veniently swallowed her up for the last
eight years what is he TO do with her?
This was the question that puzzled Frank
Curtis He remembered his sister as
very pretty little girl, though he had not
seen her for three years. There was no
help for it. Frank saw that nnatrimony
for him was imminent.
About this time he made trip with the
Cutler family; they were rich and self
made, wOrshipping their maker, and the
household consisted of father, mother,
and daughter, still under %. Joseph
Cutler, of Cutler, Sheffield & Co, was re-
puted worth So, 900, 600, Of which one at
least the golden youth hoped would be
settled on his daughter as bride. Not
very clever not very pretty, she at least
knew that her money could buy her what
ever she wanted in the way of a husband,
and she was content to wait until chance
should bring her the man who most nearly
resembled her ideal.
Frank Curtis wOoing was brief after he
had once decided that Lizzie Cutters
money would provide a luxurious home
for himself and his sister. He had a
small income of his own and was con
sidered clever in his profession. Con
CALCULATIONS began to pour in thick and
fast on the pair when a 800, 900 house
began to rise at Mr.. Cutters expense, to
be ready for the young couple on their re-
turn from their bridal trip. They were
, to take in Clara Curtis commencement
as they travelled, and bring her home with
them.
Frank was agreeably surprised at his
sisters appearance when he and his
bride arrived at her school In a vague,
masculine way he felt that she and Lizzie
did not seem very coDgenial, but he sup
posed that would wear off after little.
"Of course you are coming tonight,
said Clara. It's our concert play,
she confined, dimpling and blushing, "a
duetfor violin and piano with Mr.. Held
mann.
Frank nodded He was fond of music.
and, to sit through a whole evening Of
school girl playing and singing was q
sacrifice on the altar of fraternal affection
and the proprieties AS for Lizzie, she
always frankly avowed that good music
sent her to sleep But she became sud-
denly attentive and so did Frank, when
Clara appeared with the violin and the
professor took the piano Frank heard
genius in the moaning and wailing under
her hands of that most perfect in
strument If she had been pretty
before, she became TRANSPORTED now
He wondered how she felt, standing be
fore all those people of whom, perhaps,
not one in ten understood what she was
playing but the novelty of the thing.
the sweet fGce lovingly pressed against the
violin, the delicate fingers dashing over
the strings. brought down the house. She
was the success of the evening, and had
her first taste of that intoxicating drink
the applause of the multitude
q congratulate you. said her brother
y was proud of you to-nig bit.
"Clara, Professor Max wants US all in
the mushroom, said one of her COM
panions, and Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis were
left alone, while Clara and her fellow
E., f1nnfr RI
the presence of the professor of music
and German, a fair haired. powerfully
built man of 81 or 80 years, known among
his fluttering pupils as Professor Max,
and addressed by them as Mr.. Heldmann
He congratulated them on their success,
and then dismissed all but Clara
Il have told you many times now al
ready, Miss Curtis, he said. You have
genius that you should cultivate. I ad
wise you that you go TO Europe and
study.
@Be professional players" said Clara.
with wide eyes. What would my
brother say?"
"Talk to him about it. He win yield
Break from your friends, love; you
smother such talent? And for
what? That foolish men make love
to you in a ball room, and you marry and
die like other women. What Tor career
is that for your / love you l tell you
so, but you must not love me. l give you
to art You must love some day, -Other-
wise your playing will always lack; then
you will know what l have done in i9SR.
Ing you free from my love. for gSl1 moth
ing back. All that l seezdo to hcfp you
will do YcEm4st call on me when
Won need me, and when you have the
world at ycSsF feet after your triumph.
think once at home of the man who first
set free the tiuttering wings of your
genius Remember what | tell you.
Clara. bewildered and frightened only
saw the tears dim his bright blue eyes,
only felt two bearded lips on her cold
hands, and she was alone with the men,
DRY of her first love affair. She went
home with her brother and his wife. was
called upon, went TO balls, entered upon a
round of gayeties appropriate to girl
upon her first season, under tire caperon-
age of a sister-in-law, whose prestige OF
wealth cast a glamour over her. Men
thought her quiet and transcendentaI;
women, shy and uninteresting. She prac-
ticed incessantly, much to the disgust OF
Lizzie, who declared to her husband that
the scraping of Clara's fiddle drove her
crazy. Every day only proved more con-
clusively that she and her sister-in law
were made of different clay
That conversation with Heldmann IN
the MUSHROOM required to Clara again
and again.
Another thug troubled her, and that
was the very evident desire of Frank and
Lizzie to see her married. She had noticed
that Harry Bennett, a friend of her
brother, was beginning to act toward her
very much as poor Professor Max had be-
haved before his explanation in the music
room She liked Harry, but what he saw
in her to care for in that way puzzled
her greatly.
He called one afternoon and found
Clara practicing Confess that you
don't really like that stuff. he said, as
she laid aside the violin. q" You only play
it because you think you ought to.
at is the best part of my life, she an
swered gravely; the only part that feel
is worth living
81 know, said Harry. "All young
girls think they ought to live for some
thing. That's part of their boarding
school training; but l have been hoping
for months that we might try life to-
gether. You shall do just as you like -
practice all day long if you want to. "
Don't think that l am ungrateful, y
said Clara, in a low voice; but l can't,
indeed can't. Musicians tell me that
can, if l will, become great violinist.
shall open the subject to my brother this