Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-26

50. Was it the divine music or
Spinelli himself that you wished for?"
without answering this impertinent
thrust, but without apparently resent,
ing II, Miss Jacques presented the
musician to the young American, and
Spinelli again leered and bowed with
the ease and grace of an automaton
You, too, have come" he said, Ito
hear the God like sounds from my
four leetle strings"
Yes, Ia like to hear you tear OF
lew bars of hot harmony" replied
DICK in his calm, matter of fact way
and in his peculiarly New York
fashion of expression.
Hot harmony! BAH" cried the
ltalisn, falling into passion of rage
and grimacing horribly. You Ameri-
cans are so impolite! I do not tear
on music. l play; make men and
women weep; make sounds that peo-
pie hear in heaven and women die
for love of hearing me-"
He flung off into the crowd lin a
White heat of wrath, leaving Dick
greatly relieved at his departure ana
mildly surprised at his emotion. But
Miss Jacques gave his 1hoaauts an
fother turn. Indeed. she gave him the
( greatest surprise of his liSe Jbylremars,
/ ing in dull, level, conversational
! tones:
I've promised to merry .taIataawful
creature"
Dick almost disgracea hss life; train.
ing by shouting aloEId
Yes" she continued. Fathers
gone to the Philippines. and you're the
only man l know here You may be
able TO help me, and Il might 2as well
tell you all about it, if you don't
mind"
Dick wzs inau'6itailate fn:assuring
the girl that he did not mind, and she
went on with htr STORY in IAN ex.
pressionless voice rs If relating events
totally uRoUnnected with herself.
Il met SpiDelh six mneHths ago,
after his first New York concert.
From the first he vs4ercised an almoss
hypnotic Influence over me. knew
from the Paris papers that he was
nameless ssUttersnipe pickedcup in the
slums OF Rome by an Italian maestro
and trained till his genius made him
the woIldS greatest 'violinst / also
knew of sdhe dreadful excess of his
private lie. He deserted his wife
years aga they say SShe was an
American and her son changed his
1 No h
country. Spinelli is As years old, with
a heart lii2e granite land with no re,
stTainiTg impulse in his pitiless dis
position. AT the IDfeGrich's musicale
he Fixed with those awful, leering eyes
of IA and told me shat l must marry
him promised 1 would, and unless
some one steps IN and prevents I'm
gHing TO do iitr"
wailing chord fnsma avvioiin made
Dick Jump and prevented reply to
this astounding revelation. The great
SP.ne5hi had commenced to play, and
everything else must cease for those
Within earslhGf pf This bow. No sooner
had t1he first notes reverberated
through the room that Dick felt a
strange and unwelcome; sense of being
IN sympathy with the performer 1t
was then that Ihe discovered his sense
of musical second sight; the gift of
seeing at each successive sound
figures, scenes, 'or faces eeqnivalent to
the notes AT each stroke of,Spinelli's
bow vfsibte fonnzs and situations pre-
scented Themselves to his imagination,
following one another with wonderful
raPidity, aeoortfsng to the lightning
flashes of the masters elbow In the
daze that followed the stoppage of the
playing Miss Lita .Iacques aanese, muir
INJURED command to Wenisall TO come
a7d see her that evening, land, made
her way TO alhe door.
Dick went 30 see Miss Iasfg1es that
evening and many subsequent eeven
ings. SpineFh met him oncs3 on the
street and warmed him to keep saway
By way of reply WeDttall sscit}y told
the Italian that he was SILLY ass
and calmly continued his visits. !The
calm was disturbed when "a stiletto
was slipped into his shoulder one
evening Oh lower Broadway, ami he
recognized the escaping form OF
Spinelli as the person who put lit
there After that he armed himself
with revolver and large stock of
blank cartridges He didn't want 10
kill anybody, because that would be
inconvenient, but he had healthy de-
sire to protect himself and 10 give at
assailant deserved scare.
1t took about one month for Dick
Wendall to persuade Mile. Lita that
the only way in which he eould
D, 0pe. ~ prevent her from fallinis
under the hypnotic influence of the
italian violinist was by becoming her
aHanced husband. Then he set his
foot down in true American fashion.
instructions were issued that Spinelli
hould never again be admitted TO
Miss Jacques door. Her father was
on The Pacific ocean bound east from
Honolulu, and until his return or the