Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-28
.r49s44 as.A4 80.

over two hundred pounds, healthy, Wig
orous, and at least FIVE years younger
in appearance. She was very mucn
touched. So was her sister. There was
a family consultation, and despite the
surly opposition of the dancer Hugh
Krayne was welcomed as a member of
the Prayer Bavarian sextet COM
pany Forgetting the future he had ar
ranged for Rosie he began his vocal
lessons Immediately.
! In July he sang for the first time in
public at Eyer. He was extremely
| frightened but as it was only a duo he
managed fairly we'll. Then he sang
at Tepi, this time alone. His voice
] broke badly in the yodel and he was
jeered by the rude audience. He had
grown very much thinner His doctor
had warned him against continuing
the waters, and advised rice and pota-
toes and ale, but he did not listen to
him. He now paid the bills of the
company while travelling. Rosie had
confessed with tears that they were
fearfully poor. From that time he
handed her his purse. He even pla-
Gated the jealous dancer with a gold
watch and box of hair pomade. Ahi
how he loathed the fellows curly locks,
his grease and familiarites Rosie
told him this actor was necessary
in the company until he could be re-
placed. Already Hugh-she called him
| "U''-could yodel better. Some day he
might, when thinner, dance better.
Perhaps-again that appealing glance.
the corner of her lips family touched
by the mysterious smile of Norma
Lisa Krayne redoubled his arduous
training, practiced yodeling in the for
ests, danced jigs on the pine needles
and doubled his allowance of the
| waters.
They went to Carlsbad. He yodeled.
He was applauded. The dancer was in
fine rage. Although Krayne had
asked Rosie to buy a first-class COM
partment on the railroad trip over and
back, they went in a third-class car.
The brother-in-law, Prayer. declared
that it was good enough for him, and
he didn't wish to spoil his troupe! His
wife now held the purse strings, as
! Rosie was too busy with her art and
Hugh too busy with his love to notice
such mere sublunary matters. The girl
had promised nothing positive for the
future. She kept him on the brittle
edges of nervous prostration. The OPP
position of the dancer had been sue
cessfully met by threats of dismissal.
Hugh continued to lose flesh and gain
in vocal and pedal agility.
He danced for the first time at Ko-
nigswart, not far from the chateau of
the Metternichs. 1t was August. So
great was the applause that the young
est dancer was discharged He left
with muttered threats of vengeance.
The next day Krayne turned over all
his business affairs to the capable hand
of Frau Prayer; he lived only for Rosie
and his art.
| September was at hand. The weather
was warm and clear, so the King of
England deferred his departure for 4
| few days. One afternoon, just before
the leaves began to brown on the hills.
there was a concert at the garden of
the Hotel Bellevue The royal party
attended. The yodeling was much
praised, especially that of good look
ing young woman and her escort, a
very tall man of cadaverous aspect,
his shanks like the wooden stills of
the shepherds on the Bordeaux Landes.
| His face, preternaturally emaciated and
| fatigued, opened to emit an amazing
yodel. When the Schuhplattltanz was
reached he surprised the audience with
his extraordinary exhibition. He threw
his long legs about like billiard cues,
while his arms tapped as do windmilla
in hard gale. He was pointed out
as a celebrty-once a monster Eng
lishman, who had taken the kur; who
was in love, but who was so poor that
he could not marry. The girl with him
was certain to make a success in grand
opera some day. Yes, Marienbad was
proud of Krayne. He was one of her
show sons a witness of the curative
powers, Proud also of the Bavarian
Prayer sextet. Herr Prayer was re-
puted an exceedingly rich man.
The night of that concert Marienbad
saw the last of the Bavarian sextet.
which at midnight, Joined by its old
dancer with the tenor voice. left in n
third class carriage for Vienna Hugh
Krayne, not possessing enough to pay
his passage, had not been invited; nor
was he informed of the sudden depar-
ture until a day later.
On the road TO the Aim of moon
light nights toihng visitors catch
| glimpses of a human almost a skeleton,
dressed in rags, his head bare as his
feet, about his neck flaming crimson
handkerchief He is known to Marien-
baders as The Man Who Stayed Too
Long" He never addresses passersby,
but as they lose sight of him they hear
the woods resound with an elegiac
howl:
La la larti! La la larita! Hallal Ii!''
"1-knew-Him-When Club"