The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-06

Fame and her aunts and thitner stephen
Journeys, accompanied by Coop, on the
morning after tho stirring Incidents Just
related. They find only Moor's dead body.
He has taken his own life. In a note that
has been left for stephen, the suicide says
simply that he thinks the course he has
decided on Is the only one left him.
~
Back to England again. stephen reaches
his home utterly changed In every par
tlcular. He Is no longer supercIlious, no
longer egotistieal no longer too clever to
associate with ordinary people OF his own
class. He secs his cousin, the one with
whom he once Imagined himself so desper-
atcly In love. 20 20 the altar with his
erstwhlle rival without a single regret. He
goes in for study, Notwithstanding the fact
that only n few short months before he mas
held the opinion that all the learning OF
the world was his.
Daria Fame and her aunts arrive In Lon
don and one OF the operas written by the
brilliant young woman is accepted for pro
duction by great manager. Miss Fame
enters fully into the spirit OF the thing
and all goes smoothly until she learns, from
none other than stephen Calinari, that her
work has been given attention because her
rich relatives made II worth the while OF
the manager, aud not because OF It's Innate
worth. she Immediately rebels, withdraws
her opera and insists that the one which
was helug rchcarsed when she appeared on
the scene he ngain taken up, her Russian
aunt having expressed a Willingness 30 pack
the other venture because Its author is a
poor man and has a family dependent on
him. This Russian aunt and the elder Cal
iuari have been arranging a match for their
two young people, but the Interview In
which Daria learns OF the deception which
has been prnctlced on her puts an end TO
MI such thoughts. She dcyotes all hen
time to assisting deserving young women
who are striving TO obtain nusical educa-
tons, while stephen goes in for politics and
islands" for a parliamentary membership
which has been arranged for him as a re-
suit of his grandfathers money and IN.
nuence. Some OF the methods which he
finds necessary to employ are not In strict
accord with his new ideas and he gives up
the whole thing. resolving to resume hts
studies and continue them until ne Is bet
ter satisfied as to his ability 20 grapplc
with the problems OF life, He goes down
into the country, to tho home OF Chaloncr
Coop. to rest, as he has done on several
previous occasions After n few weeks
he Informs his mother that he Is TO marry
Betty Coop, his friends sister, who is de-
scribcd us young woman Of such good
sense. a fine character and wonderrus
sweetness Of feature and temperament.
Madame Callnarl. believing that such n
l ,,atn har q
In hot haste, accompanied by Lord Rams
/ ford. whom she has asked to help her she
| arrives at the Coop home and, before seen
| herself sees her son and Retty together.
/ The girls appearance brings about an i'm
/ mediate rryulslou OF feeling and the reader
{ is shown that tho mother heart is salts
/ fed. that the pence Of mind and the
( quictude that stephen Callnnrl has been
| seeking f. his and that there Is nothing but
/ happiness in the future for him and for
the girl who Is to be his wife. Thus the
story ends.
As has been stated before the study Of
young Stephens character Is most in
tcrcsting one and one which can not fall
to appeal to him who gives thought TO sucn
matters. The character Of Darla Fame Il
/ HuolN'I Whl'h II NhtI Hi"Nh ~" >" 49,
one can ind much TO Interest and instruct
Some phases Of the nature OF this younI
woman ns pictured by Mr. sturgis are posi-
lively fascinating. Chaloner coop's Is an
other attractive character although 1t
much simpler than either OF the other tw
mentioned
The lights and shadows Of the story arr
clearly defined, the struggle between th'
opposing forces in the hero's nature is ad
mrably depicted and, on the whole, th'
book is well worth while II is lmmeasure
ably above much of the fiction Of the pres
cnt day. c. A. w.