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booutifnI rival" She clasped ner
hands with the manner of a queen.
"Mv whole soul rises to that, she con-
ffnued: I understand 1.-THE passion
the anguish, the despair
His dark eyes, full of admiration
we're riveted on her.
seWho would have thought" he SAID,
gravely, that you had such marVel
of genius in your
"You are very good to call it genius
she said. 'I always knew had some
thing in me that was not to be de-
ecribnd or erstood-sOmething that
made me different from other people;
but I never knew what it was. DO you
know those two lines:
&C THE poets learn in suffering
What they tell in song,
T think the passion Of anguish ana pain
tauqht me to interpret the pains and
lows of others. There is another opera
7 1ove-II EtoiIe du Nord. The grave,
tender, grand character OF Catherine
with her passionate love, her despair,
and her madness, holds me in thrall
There is no love without madness
A deep sigh from her companion
aroused her, and she remembered that
she was on dangerous ground; still the
subject had a great charm for her
eff I ever wrote an opera, she sald'
''I should have jealousy for my ground
work"
'"Why?" he asked, briefly.
Because" she replied, sit is the
strongest of all passions"
stronger than lover" he asked.
"T shall always think they go to-
gether," said Leone. ct know that
philosophers call jealousy the passion
of ignoble minds; I am not so sure OF
it. 1t goes, think, with all great love,
hut not with calm, well-controlled al
lection. | should make it the subject
of nv opera, because it is so strong, so
deem. SO bitter; it transforms one, 1t
changes angels into demons. We Will
not talk about it," She drew a little
ieweled watch from her pocket. Lord
Chandos." she said, eve have been
talking two hours, and you must not
stay any longer"
When he was gone she said to herself
that she would not ask him any more
questions about Lady Marion.
CHAPTER Xiv.
The Rivals Face to Face.
Madame de Chandalle gave a grand
soiree. and she said to herself that II
should be one of the greatest successes
of the season. Three women were
especially popular and sought after:
Madame Vanira, whose beauty and
genius made her queen OF society;
lady Chandos, whose fair, tranquil
loneliness was to men like the light OF
the fair moon, and Miss Bygrave, the
most brilliant of brunettes- most
nroud and exclusive of ladies'
Madame de Chandalle thought if she
could but insure the presence OF all
three at once, her soiree would De the
success of the season. She went in
person to invite the great singer her-
self. a compliment she seldom paid 10
any one, and Leone at first refused
y Madame de Chandalle looked 1mplor-
ingly at her.
"What can I offer as an inducement?
The loveliest woman in London, Lady
Chandos, will be there. That will not
tempt you, am afraid"
She little knew how much.
AS Leone heard the words, her heart
beat wildly. Lady Chandos, the fair
woman who was her rival. She had
Ionged to see her, and there was a
chance. She dreaded, yet desired to
look at her, to see what the woman was
like whom Lance had forsaken her for.
The longing tempted her.
'You desire to welcome me-" she
said, gracefully, sis the greatest in
ducement you can offer me-
And Madame de Chapdalle smiled at
her victory.
Madame de Chandalle was the widow
of an eminent French general. She
preferred London to Paris. She was
mistress Of a large fortune, and gave
the best entertainments of the season.
She knew that the beautiful singer
accepted but few of the many invita-
lions sent to her. Last week she had
declined the invitations of a duchess
and the wife OF an American million
aire. She was doubly delighted that
her own was accepted. The same was
for Tuesday evening. On that evening
Leone was free, and she had some idea
that madame had chosen it purposely.
At last she was to see Lance's wife,
the woman whom the laws OF man, Of
society, and the world had placed in
her place, given her position, her name,
her love-the woman whom a mere
legal bubble had put in her place.
The hours seemed long until Tuesday
evening came. It struck her that If
Lady Chandos were there Lord Chan
dos would be there too; he would see
her at last in the regal position her
own genius had won for herself; a pos
ition that seemed to her a thousand
times -grander than the one derived
from the mere accident of birth. He
would see then the worlds estimation