The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-05


critics talking. They called you i'm
mense,' dear, That means bad luck
for the play, but everything for you.
You Just wait until the morning
comes. -
then there came a tap on the door
and who should it be but a messenger
with the intimation that Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles lizard expected Miss Eta
Romney to supper at the Carlton hotel
as soon as she could convenient
tyems join as seef pe1ty bo To Of efe Dn
Gle Holmes and Lucy Grey, Eta ap-
peared, to be distressed beyond words
by this customary invitation. .2
whatever shall 1 do9'' she asked, ....
"Not co., cried Dulcies almost too
amazed to sfsak; "why, of course you
to fetch you if you refused. The star
always sups with him on the first night.
/ never heard of such a thing. She
talks of not going, Lucy!'
"That g the excitement, - said
Lucy wisely. II should be just the
same in her Place. She wants a glass glass
now if she doesn It get one.' :,
Their solicitude FOR Eta was very
pretty and really honest. They were
too fona: of her to be jealous. Women
who love, loyalty welcome their friends
successes; men rarely do. -.Dulcie and
Lucy might say t'what lucky girl she
isl; but they would not have wished
her to be less so. i, 81 -
AS for Eta herself, the invitation
perplexed her to distraction. How if
she met some one who knew her at
Carlton 1t was very unlikely, she
thought. Fifteen years passed in
French convent with few English pu-
pills do not admit of many man eMbarrass
years, lived chiefly in the park of II
medieval country house rarely open to
strangers, were not likely to be more
dangerous Eta knew that discovery
might be disastrous to her beyond the
r. ordinary meaning of the term; but her
cleverness told her that the risk of it
was very small It was then after IL
'clock. She remembered that they
turned people out Of the Carlton hotel
at h"lf-nast twelve.
:. "Tell Mr.. lizard that I will come"
she said to the messenger, and then to
the girls, "You won't forget tomor-
row. Run round early and well read
the newspapers together. And, dear
girls, we IL spend pen j, Sunday at Henley as
They kissed her affectionately, prom
Using not to forget There was not so
much pleasure in their lives that they
should pass it by when a good fairy
approached them. Sharing rooms to-
gether: they had as yet discovered upon
some ffty-odd shillings a week little of
the glamor and none Of the rewards
ter was the house of darkening hope,
wherein success passed by them every
hour crying, "Look at mellow beauti-
full I am; but not for YOU They had
believed that the Pilgrims way would
be strewn with gold---they discovered
it to be paved with promises.
of course, we shall GOMEZ said
Lucy in her matter-of fact SWAY:
"whateve1 should we be thinking of if
we didn't?''
But Dulcie said:
~ IN going to wear my pink blouse
on Sunday and the hat you gave me
didn't tell you that Harry Lauder
would ,, be at Henleye Well, then, he
would you, mind if -
Eta laughingly told her that she
could not, would not positively mind at
all; and then remembering how late it
was, she hurried from the theater and
found herself, just as the clocks were
striking the quarter past IL. in the hall
Of the Carlton, standing before Charles
lizard and listening but scarcely hear
ing the shrewd compliments which that
astute gentleman deigned to shower
| upon them " s.& -
You we struck it thick. my DEAR
he was saying. "Get twelve months
experience in my company and you II
make a great actress. I say what I
mean. All you want is just what my
theater will teach you-the little tricks
of our trade which go right there, tho
the public doesn It know much of them.
Come and have supper now, and we II
talk business in the morning. I
shouldn't wonder if the critics spread
| themselves over this. Don't pay too
much attention to them-they dare not
| quarrel with me-
| Mrs. Charles lizard, a frank, forid
woman, was much less discreet and
much more honest.
| Perfectly adorable, my child,'' sht
said; cit was joy all the time to me
| You couldn' It have played it better il
you'd have been born in duke ,,
II h<NYpn hna