Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31

there that when they return we wish-We
almost are forced to wish. both on their
account well as on ours-that they never
had come back at all
But I've changed. too" laughed the
girl: changed utterly and completely
Haven't you observed that?'
mo" said the man: honestly L can't
say that 1 have. You appear to me just
as frankly delightful as the day that you
set sail over there in hoboken.'
She beckoned to him to lean a little for
ward and leaned little forward herself.
II learned to love over there" she told
him then.
! Bessie he exclaimed
She nodded
"Who?''
I'll tell you some day But I'm so happy
so ideally happy All you can't think at
allr
She looked at him. her sweet eyes wet
and shining.
Il hope to God he's worthy of you her
companion cried impulsively.
She started to answer, but at that minute
the quartet of musicians just behind her
began to play. and at the first note the
blueness and sunbeams Of distant land
came sweeping up before her and choked
her utterance.
THAT is one of the city songs of Naples"
she said. when the moroccan was finished.
DO you know that they have annual
competition there which all the Italian mu-
steal students may enter. and he who wins
is given a certain higher instruction free.
and what he has written Is presented to
the city and is the city's song for that
year" She paused and smiled. 'One
year she said after a minutes silence,
'one year that was the song, and the
young man who wrote it was studying
music. He has ceased to study now. Can
you guess" she asked her lips curving,
what he Is now?
Yes said the man. Il can guess
Then the CLAIMS We're served and they ate
them and ate what followed with intervals
of talk and of music scattered along
through the dinner.
ooh. l can't look forward to being mar
ried for years. she was saying, when the
dessert was being set before her; you see
everything is involved in that great law
suit and even if there is a final triumph 1t
will impoverish them all horribly. And
Emile can't go away and begin for himself
because, although he's not old, he's the
| head of the whole family"
But is there no possibility of a speedy
ending?'
government should interfere, and then 1t
would be just as likely to judge them
all to poverty as to do anything else. But
we don't write of that Or"
She started violently and let her spoon
fall with a silvery clatter upon the floor.
And then she rose up in her seat. whirled
so quickly that the skirt of her dress over
turned her chair, and looked straight to
that one of the uniformed quartet who had
his collar embroidered with two names
"Scibellis' on ne right side. "Ciaretti' on
the left-the names of the two leaders i'll
the little band.
And this apparently because the man in
question had just begun "Addio, mia bella
Napoli. in the notes of which his voice
sounded most liquid and beautiful.
She stood quite still by her overturned
chair. the center of the attention of every
one in the room. until the singer had fin
ished and then she went straight to him.
"EmleI' she said. eathessly, and then
was silent. The musician put his guitar
down. bent above her hand and kissed it
as nobility salute queen. Her escort had
come beside her to shield her somewhat
from curious glances.
1T is the gentleman were speaking
of. is il not?" he asked and he was him