San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-19
The Sunday Light.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1897.

doubt, Miss LEICESTER, he said at
length, smile of courtesy parting bis
lips and showing his white, long teeth.
Necessarily, replied Beryl.
"You don't know my name-Turrian!
You are sure you never heard il as that
of man or woman-Turrian-of Mon
treux?" And he pronounced it with de-
liberate emphasis and looked hard into
Beryl's face.
mot to my knowledge, she replied.
mo, no, probably not, probably not.
Ma fol, how should you? 1t is name
common enough, and any one could
easily hear it and then forget it again.
Is it not SOP
81 have never heard it,, repeated
Beryl, irritated because he dwelt ON the
point "But what is the business you
have come on?"
Precisely. That is the point. Just
So What 4 the business? Well, have
Lot come L. talk about myself or about
my name That has nothing whatever
10 do with it, nothing whatever. Then
he added, with another of the smiles
which the girl found so unpleasant
"That / mentioned it so pointedly al
all is only my vanity. 1t would have
been with deep, deep pleasure if ] had
found that the reputation not of myself,
but of my violin-I am a musician
had reached TO LEICESTER Court, but j
could not expect it, and l am rightly
served. To be frank, it is question ]
put everywhere, everywhere l go. be
cause my fame is my life.
Beryl saw that for some reason he
was misleading her and doing it clum
silly ard laboriously.
xviii you tell me, please, what it is
you want?" she said sharply.
"You English are so practical, so
pointed, so blunt Yes, l will tell you.
am meditating work that believe
will have prodigious effect on the
musical world. 1t is a treatise on my
instrument, the violin. am advocating
nothing less than the addition of a fifth
string to my beloved instrument. That
is daring thing to do, Miss LEICESTER.
is il not?'
what do you want with me?" she
asked impatiently.
81 am troubling you, see. l am
sorry" he said, lifting his white, thin
hands and struggling his shoulders,
while out of his blue eyes she caught
sharp, swift glance that almost startled
her with its keenness and told her he
was acting and wanted to read the eff
feet upon her. She tried to look as stu
pid and impassive as possible.
81 really don't care whether the vio-
lin has or or 90 strings" she an
swered as if Grossly, but really inter
ested now.
THAT seems to me inconceivable, alb
solutely impossible. If / had fifth
string"-he began to speak with rapid
energy, as though the subject carried
him away-"I could produce effects by
the side of which the mightiest effort of
the grandest master would be but as
the scraping of learner. could-but
what am / doing? ] am an enthusiast;
you are uninterested. apologize. Pray
forgive me-"
Beryl bowed very slightly and looked
wearled ana impatient
81 did not want to talk of my work
or my project either" he said, resum-
ing. sit is only incidental, though
am so full of it that, like a hen that
would lay an egg, must cackle of it.
But, alas, right in the middle of path
stands difficulty. am rich in my art,
wealthy i'll my love of my instrument,
but poor in my pocket. To storm the
world with a musical treatise for
weapon is impossible to the man with
out means | am seeking the means"
"Yes. What is the cost of adding a
fifth string to fiddler" asked Beryl stu.
pidly. II thought they were cheap"
He glanced sharply at her to see if
she were laughing at him, but the cold,
impassiye, uninterested expression of
her face treasured him.
ut is not the cost of the string am
seeking" he said, but the agents who
will take from me the inspiration and
help me to proclaim my idea to the
world
81 am afraid began Beryl, but he
stopped her with wave of the hand.
"You cannot help me, you would say,
but you can, l think and hope-not
yourself, not yourself. Please listen. i
have in many parts Of the world pupils
who have studied under me. 1t is them
/ am seeking, to gather them into
company, to touch them with the fire
that burns in me and bind them into a
band who shall proclaim everywhere
what ! wish. Among them had once