Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-09-12

foolish lncn make love to you in ball
room. and you marry aud die like other
women What for career is that for
voH. ! love you. ltel you SO, butyou
ma.t no love me. | give von to art.
Ion fnus' io"e sone day, otherwise your
playing will Away lack; then YOU will
.Knoa what ] lave done in leaving YOU
free from my aoyc, for I ask nothing
buck All hat can d. to help YOU will
I do. Iop mast cali OF me when yol
need me, AMI when yoa have the world
at yoUr feet after Your triumph. think
once 1T home Of the man who first set free
the tlutteriug wings Of your genius. Re
member. what tell You"
Clara bcwildercd 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
memory Of her first love affair. She
vent home with her brother and his
wife, was called upon, went to balls, en-
tered upon round OF gaycties appropri
ate to a girl upon her first season, under
the chapcronage of a sister-in-law whose
prestige of wealth cast glamour over
her But she was not altogether a sue
cess. Men thought her quiet and trans
cendental; women, shy and uninterest
ing, She practiced incessantly, much to
the disgust Of Lizzie. who declared to
her husband that lhe scraping Of Clara's
fiddle drove her craZy. Every day only
proved more concIusivcly that she and
her sister III lav were made Of different
clay.
That conversation with IIeldmann in
the music.room REQUIRED to Clara again
and again.
Another thing troubled her, and that
was the very evident desire Of Frank and
Lizzie TO see her married. She had been
ut home year now. She had noticed
that Harry bennett, friend of her
brother, was beginning to act toward her
very much as poor Professor Max had
hchayed before his explanation in the
music room. She liked Harry, but what
lie saw IN her to care for in that. way
puzzled her greatly.
He called one afternoon and found
Clara practicing. "Coniess that you
don't really like that stuff" he said as
she laid aside the violin. You only
play it because You think you ought to-. y
ut is the best part of my life, - she
answered gravely; ''the only part that l
feel is worth living"
Il know said Harry. "All young
girls think they ought to live for some
thing. That's part of their boarding
school training; bnt have been hoping
for months that we might try life to-
gethcr. You shall do just as you like
practice all day long if You want to.
Don't think that am ungrateful '
said Clara, in low voice; "but can't,
indeed can't Musicians tell me that
| can, if | will, become a great violinlst.
| shall open the subject to my brother
this very cveping.'
Clara, don't do that, implore YOU.
You don't know anything of that kind
Of life; you don't know what terrible
influences will be brought to bear on
You. Give up the fancy; | wish could
move You by saying, for my sake. Give
it up"
But Clara thought of Professor Max S
view with her brother 1t was more
stormy than she had auticipatcd From
his standpoint she was absolutely mex
cu>abIc and equally incomprehensibe
But they were Obliged to give way before
her determination. The world discoy-
cred that the Curtiscs had Quarreed with
lara and sent her to Europe, and her
name WAS dropped from Its visiting
books and after while from its mind
She zen: one letter o her relatives, but
Lizzie returned it unopened, without con
sultng Frank, and they received no more
communications They learned through
an ever -virilant press that Miss Curtis, a
young American girl had as Clara An
>clmo, made brilliant debut abroad,
and after that they lost sight Of her
for several years. On taking up his
paper ole morning Frank discovered that