The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-19
CHAPTER XVII.
The I1npresario S Prayer,

So the Lady Evelyn had become Eta
Romney once more, the child Of the
theater, the daughter of a mystery
which London was upon the eve Of
solving The events which brought her,
to this resolution are briefly outlined in
upon the morning, after her interview
with the great Charles lizard at the
Carlton theater. No longer ashamed Of
her resolution, she took up her resi-
dence boldly at the Savoy hotel and en-
tered her own name in the visitors
book, afraid of none.
Savoy Hotel, Thursday.
My Dear Father: here in London
coriing to my determination already announced
to you. shall 1--we little while at this hotel,
and afterwards where my profession may make
it necessary. Believe me, my dear father. that
this life alone Is best for me, and best for you
at this moment. could live no longer in a
house where, rightly wrongly, have al
ways felt stranger-and my love for Gavin
forbids me to hear those things which must
hear every day in my old home. Now that I
am mistress of my own actions, You will be
able to find an answer in my Independence to
those who are not to be answered in any other
way. Should Count Odin follow 10 London
he will learn that neither without friends
resources; and / shall not hesitate to call
upon both for my protection. 1t is my inten-
ton to establish myself here until such time
as news OF Gavins welfare may come to me
or that may, myself go to seek It. That he
has been the victim OF foul play I am sure;
and I viii not rest until the truth is known.
Dear father, If you must suffer because of me,
forgive and forget, and be sure always Of my
love for you and my desire for yonr happiness.
We are outcasts of fortune both, and while
the world is enjoying position, we know that
It is false that we are but intruders by acct
dent, and that our past is rising up every day
to laugh our ambitions to seorn. Happier far
when we were wanderers and poor, with days
of love and hope to live and debt to pay to
great and insupportable heritage. Dear fa-
ther, you will next hear of me as Eta Romney.
the actress-but never forget that Evelyn will
return to you II you have need Of her; and
that, her love for you Is imperishab1e Will
ingly would she take your burdens upon her own
shoulders. and give you those years Of rest and
peace which are your hearts desire. But, for
the time being, she must live alone for the
sake; of the man who has befriended her and
to whom she has given her love. Dearest
father, Your loving Evelyn always
From which it is clear that the month
of November found Gavin Ord still in
Rumania and Count Odin again in Der
byshire. The latter had returned from
Bucharest early in the month Of Sep
TENDER, and, Diminishing his friends, the
gypsies, had settled down at Melbourne
Hall as one who, at no distant date:
would be its master. That the earl
acquiesced in this assurance convinced
Evelyn finally that she did not possess
the whole of her father 5 story Either
he was coward {and this she would
never believel, or some mystery of hex
own past or his abetted the count IS pre-
tensions. No other explanation Of the
matter was possible; nor could she fore
see day which would rid her of the
presence of a man who ever spoke to
her of the heritage her mother Is coun-
try had bequeathed to her and It's pen.
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She had always feared Count Odin,