Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

land you cannot hear them, which is also
fortunate. Music is either div1ne-or 1ntol
erable; what they are doing is not divine;
L have been listening. But good music-ah,
we'll, it is not to be spoken OF. Only this:
isn't it strange that the two things that can
preserve longest for you associations with
some one you have been fond of are m sic
and scent? Not painting-not any portrait,
not poetry-not anything you have read or
may read; but music and scent. You will
discover that some day."
He laughed.
"How curiously you talk dare say am
older than you-though that is not saying
much"
but have seen the world" said she,
with smile, almost of sadness.
"Not half of what have seen of il, I'll
answer for that"
"Oh, but you," she continued, regarding
him with much favor and kindness, you
are an ingenu-you have the frank English
character-you would believe good deal
in anyone you cared for, 1 mean"
"I suppose 1 should" he said, simply
enough. II hope so. That isn't much of
crime, is it? 1 should want to believe all
that was possible-andto keep on believing,
too"
But, as say," she resumed, "the two
and are apt to spring on you suddenly
are music and scent. You may have for
gotten in every other direction; oh. yes, for
| getting is very easy, as you will find out,
for 'constancy lives in realms above and
not here upon earth at all; well, when you
have forgotten the one you were fond of, and
cannot remember, and perhaps do not care
to remember, all that happened at that too
blissful period of life-then, on some occa-
sion or another, there chances to come a
fragment of song, or a Whit of scent, and
behold all that bygone time is before you
| again, and you tremble, you are
bewildered. Oh, 1 assure you," she went
on, with a very charming SMILE sit is not at
| all a pleasant experience. You think you
| had buried all that past time, and hidden
away the ghosts; you are beginning to feel
pretty comfortable and content with all ex-
listing circumstances; and then-a Jew notes
OF violin-a passing touch of perfume
and your heart jumps up as if it had been
shot through with a rife ball. What is
your favorite scent?" she asked, somewhat
| abruptly.
"Sandal-wood, said he (for surely that
was revealing no secret).
"Then she wore a string of saudal-wood
beads?" said Mrs. de Lara, with q quick
look.
He was silent.
And perhaps she gave them to you a. q
keepsake?" was the next question.
Here, indeed, he was startled; and she no.
ticed it and laughed little.
mo, l am not a WITCH" she said. CAL
that has happened before now; do you think
you are the first? Why, I'm sure, now,
you've worn those beads next your heart, in
the daytime, and made yourself very un.
comfortable; yes, and you've tried wearing
them at night, and couldn't sleep because
they hurt you. Never mind, will tell you
what to do: get them made into a watch
chain, with small gold links connecting the
beads; and when you wear it with evening
dress every woman will recognize 1t, as &
love gift-every one of themwill say "A CIR
gave him that"
perhaps 1 might not wish t. make dis
play of it" said Vincent
"Then you're in the first stage of incon
stancy, said she, promptly. IF you'r'
not madly anxious that the whole worlC
should know that you have won her favor
then you've taken the first step on tn,
downward road to indifference; you hav,
become little bit conscious and secretive
you are regarding certain things as bygone
and your eyes are beginning to rove else
where. Well, why not? It's the way o
the world. It's human nature. You hes
talk of loving one and one only, once ant
forever; that is all very well for people wh'
have never been in love at all; who have nj
, Imagination, no passion, no wild desire Il
escape for time from the commonplacenes
of j e; who are quite content with tn
stolid satisfaction and home comfort, tn
experience in the constant society of a par
: ticular person-which may very well las
for lifetime, no doubt. oh, don't mistak
] me; the sentiment of John Anderson, m,
10, Is admlrable-when you've reached 60
then you can 90 hand.in-hand down the hill
together; and the more money you've goi
! you'll find it all the easier"
? Really" said he, "I did not expect Il
t learn SO much worldly wisdom from-bu
. no, mustn't be rude. For it Is very kim
! Of You to teach me. You don't appear t