The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-02
CHAPTER Xxx.
There Is No News Of Gavin Ord.

London, which loves duchess or
even personages of slightly less degree,
when it discovers them in the arena,
where all the world may stretch out a
finger to touch the noble pedestals, this
London liked the story of the Lady
Evelyn and f1ocked to the Carlton the
alter to see her and to criticise. The
great Charles lizard, who measured all
not hesitate to declare that business to
the extent of 900 week spoke more
eloquently than any critic
and he would add triumphantly, "Why
discovered her, and she makes the
rest of them look like thirty cents.''
By this time he implied general in
feriority of other actresses who were
not filing their theaters to the extent
the plain fact that mere curiosity had
become his best friend, he continued to
declare that he was the greatest and
the Wisest Of men and that Eta Rom
ney would have been a dismal failure
under other management.
Evelyn certainly was a great success:
charm or to admit it. You heard Of
her every day in theatrical clubs;
common question when people met was,
HHave you seen Eta ROmneys' Re-
turning to their first judgments, the
critics recanted nothing, tho more than
one really discerning writer perceived
a change in her. The splendid Watley,
with some nice asides upon Sophocles,
Plautus, Judic and Voltaire, admitted
difference: e H. ...,s. ~. n.
.'This Is not the Di Vernon of the spring."
he wrote; ''here is newer conception some
thing Of Rejane voice of sincerity matured;
retrospective comedy and the drama of pa
The t'Daily Shufler,' in palmer
terms, said:
''Miss Romney does not let herself go-she
appears to take poor DIS troubles too greatly
to her touching earnestness scintiilating upon
our manly cornea, but we would re-
mind this charming young actress that We 60
to the theater to laugh as we'll as to cry,
the November fogs have something to do
with It. She came to as In the spring, and
with the spring her lghtness Of heart may be
given back to her. One Of her audience, at
least, hopes that it will be So" ..'>
No one was more conscious Of this
change than Evelyn herself. That wild
almost uncomfortable passion of art
had left her. She liked to think that
she had conquered it, and became new
Eta, for the sake Of a man who loved
her and had saved her from herself
Here she was, lauded to the skies by
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fawned upon, coveted, proclaimed g
success beyond knowledge; and yet as
far from knowing the secrets of sucf
success as ever she had been in all he1
| life. Anxiety for Gavin s safety attend
ed every hour of her busy day. Confident
at first that his logged perseverance
his stubborn resolution, and hismanifes
| prudence would be weapons enough fol
The work he had to do in Rumania, shl
! had paid but little heed to his silence
| for that she understood to be vile
country and one which would not expe
dite his letters. When he ceased t,
write, she said that he would have gon,
to the mountains. A longer spell O
silence and the first whisper of he
alarms began to make itself heard
| How if he could not write to her be
cause of accident or illness or even con
spiracyf Terrified by the phantoms o
imagination which now crowded upol
her, she compelled her father ~ war
the ministry at Bucharest, the foreig1
office, the consulate. The letters wer
answered by promises as meaningless a
Trey were futile. Gavin IS few relative
in England bestirred themselves wit
little result-while Bucharest answeYe
L that the Esnp}iahuan had cyfaafad IN