Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-24
BETTY'S CAREER.


ripen and fall. For almost as many years
she had felt the ivory keys of the piano her
especial friends, and they had assured her
that when she was old enough they would
tell her the vast secrets of the old pianos
soul.
Betty's mother also dreamed Of that
bright time when Betty should awake the
world; when Betty should come forth a
radiant, smiling, gracious VISION bowling
kindly to the throng who focked to hear
her.
Captain Trevelyan was tremendous
fanatic on many subjects He had wild
passion for music, though he did not play
a note himself.
He CHANGED to meet Betty and Betty's
mother, Mrs. Delanater, at musicale,
and having heard Sweet Seventeen play
and beheld Sweet Seventeen s rich promise
Of beauty he inquired into her prospects
fora course at Leipsic, and could she go,
as she ought.
Mrs. Delamater sighed and shook her
head.
"She ought to go. She must go!' ex-
claimed the enthusiastic captain. MAD
am, / shall consider it the greatest posi-
BILE honor If you will permit me to send
your daughter to Germany and give her
the opportunity such talent deserves and
TO send you, madam, to look after her and
care for her. l don't mind telling you
that when she Is creating furore and has
reached that point In lifo called success,
then you may repay mo every cent"
Then followed three charmed years in
Leipsic--three years with smiling eyes and
golden crowns-and Betty studied care
fully and happily, experiencing only the
present and thinking nothing Of the fu-
ture.
They went twice each week to the opera
then there We're the carnivals on tho Ice,
and just as Mrs. Delamater began to
dream Of Betty q professional debut on her
return to the States Betty did the unex
pectad and inconvenient--she fell in love.
1t was horrid in her, and yet Betty was
happier than she had ever been In her life
and could not bring herself to despise the
young flaxen haired German, who had un
blushingly done all in his power to lead
her into adoring him, while he helped her
to master German verbs and idioms,
taught her to skate and sung tender Ger
man ballads to her accompaniment.
Fritz Leiber was at Leipsic taking vocal
instructions and enjoying himself. No
one knew who he was, and he never told.
When Betty, with dramatic fervor, told
him he must give her up and she must
give him up, and they must part and meet
no more, he would throw back his hand
some head and cry, "Ach, meln liebehen,
NIGHT wahr, NIGHT wahr" 9s.
To his confidential friend and fellow
student he confded the plan Of action
mapped out in his mind.
He intended to wait till "die mutter"
was more inclined to be friendly and then
explain who he was and ask for Betty
hand. The friend agreed that was a good
idea.
Meantime Mrs. Delamater had little
plan Of her own The three years were
now Como, and she would steal away to
tho States with the rebellious Betty, and
that long dreamed of furore should be Gre
atod. A
BY an almost superhuman effort she got
Betty out of Germany without her seeing
or being able to communicate with Fritz,
and, with ewes red with weeping for him
and after difficulties galore, she was finally
on the ship sailing for New York.
Betty, who ordinarily was never seasick,
took to her bed and refused to get up.
Fritz was In Germany.
Captain Treyelyan would be looking for
an enthusiastic young lady, brilnming
over with plans and inwrapped IN her art,
like the Chinese woman in her kimona.
What had she to show him. A limp
young thing wailing for person named
Fritz.
Happily Captain Trevelyan did not
meet them In New York, and Mrs. Della
mater felt thankful for the time thus
given her. She went to Washington with
her daughter and took as nice house a.
she could afford. Betty began by taking
pupils in music and nude an excellent
teacher.
Captain Trevelyan was duly astonished
at the change In his once ardent young
protegee. He was blunt and old fashioned
In his expressions Hemer .ly said, .Well,
she seems to have petered right out"
This was the last straw, and Mrs. Della.
mater broke down. but not to the extent
Of explaining about Fritz.
Meantime Frit5 was wondering what
could have made him so stupid as to have
deferred his explanations SO long.
The terrible change from their COMPARE
tive af11uencc In Germany and their add.
tional wants since travelling and seeing
and having go much made their present
mode Of living doubly unbearable, while
her daughters career and the other In los
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