San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-19

served indeed to keep the subject upper
most in her thoughts.
Among the guests was Frenchman
who was noted amateur violinist, and
Beryl. finding him one evening next to
her at dinner, asked him whether he
knew the name of Turrian as n violin
player.
''Turrian, Turrian?' he repeated.
"Where is he known"
81 believe in Paris" answered Beryl.
MA fol, there is no such player in
Paris" was the decided reply. Il may
say l know every player of any conse-
quence in the whole of Paris, but there
is none of that name, am sure. I"
do yon know Montreux?" she asked.
You mean the little Swiss place. /
have been there twice, I think, in my
rambles. Do you know tia curious.
dull, pretty place-the sort of little
town you can look over from north to
south and west to east in an hour or
two and carry away as memory photo
graph"
"You never heard the name Turrian
there as that of violin player9" ask
ed Beryl
SIN Montreux?" And the Frenchman
laughed "Not at all Poor little Mon
treux has never distinguished itself yet
in producing anything so important as
a musician. Wait, wait What am l
saying?" And he laughed heartily. II
have forgotten the mad able You know
Montreuxi No? Then you will not
know of the good Able d'Eventin?'
''No, have never heard of him."
MAY ! tell your The good priest
had been no one knows what before he
entered the holy church. But, whatever
it was, it was something bad, we may
be sure. Well, he had picked up a smat-
tering of music, and he could play the
violin, and he played it in such way
as to drive himself out of his wits Then
it was that he conceived great inspira-
tion-he was to revolutionize the world.
And how do you think he was to do it?
By adding fifth string to the violin.
Ism that droll? A fifth string, my faithi
Poor fellowp
lis the tale well known at Mon
treux?" asked Beryl after joining in
her companions expression of amuse-
ment.
why, of course. What would You
have? Could it be otherwise? Every ur-
chin in the gutter has the story off by
heart /"
What most interesting storyp
said Beryl, who found much more in
taraSt in IL than cha cboxuod
1t emphasized two points in the tale
which the man Turrian had told her.
1t showed whence he had stolen the
idea for his story about the fifth string,
and it suggested that his connection
with Montreux was at least as close as
Beryl had at first concluded.
But it did not help her to any solu-
ton of the chief question as to what
was the reason why the man was seek
ing Lola. 1t proved that the reason was
not what he had said, and that did not
carry her far.
1t had another effect Her cempan-
ions word had started thought which
afterward developed considerably. AS
the Frenchman had been speaking Of
Montreux, Beryl had been struck by the
idea that in so small place it must be
exceedingly easy to find out anything
about anybody, and from this it was an
easy though gradual development that
in such place she herself could readily
make any necessary inquiries.
That idea did not come for some time,
however, and in the meantime BeryI
was troubled to know whether she ought
to speak to Sir Jaffray's mother and
tell her what had passed in the inter
view with Pierre Turrian.
There was also the further question
as to Lola herself. Ought she to be told?-
This was a problem over which Beryl
spent many hours of thought
If there was any evil in the matter,
anything which threatened Lola, not
for all the world would Beryl have the
news of it come through her. 1t would
look all too much like the result of
some vindictive feeling ON her part
But, ON the other hand, If Beryl said
nothing and it transpired afterward
that the man had been to her, her silence
would be open to misconception.
She resolved in the end, therefore, to
go to Walcote manor and in the course
Of conversation tell Lady Walcote, as it
were casually, of the mans visit, Civ
ing his object as described by himself.
On her return home she did this and
suggested further that it might be well
to write and tell Lola of the fact.
She described the incident in a way
which excited no feeling ON Lady Wal
cote's part except laughter, and it was
in this vein that the latter spoke of il
in postscript to letter to Sir Jaffray-
The letter was dispatched to await the
baronet and his wife at New York, as
the time was drawing near for their re-
turn TO England.
1t was in this way that the warming
was sent TO Lola that fer first husband
was alive and had already hunted her
down.
CHAPTER VII.
HOW LOLA HEARD THE NEWS