Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-09

l n0n-pTDteSSlODai people, ne Saiur anu JUICE
Rawdon was of his opinion.
His voice will haunt me for many days,
he said Those two lines, for instance
It's the home of childhood. that beautiful
/ Which memory retains when ali else Is forgot.
| The melody was wonderful / wish we
could find out where he is singing. His
| voice, as said, haunts my ear.
| Ethel might have made the same remark.
! but she was silent She had noticed the mu-
| stefan more closely than her father or
| Fred Mostyn, and when Ruth Bayard asked
| her IL his personality was interesting, she
| was able to give a very clear description OF
| the man.
Il do not believe he is a professional
| singer; he is too young, she answered. i
| should think he was about twenty-five
/ years old. tall slender and alert. He was
| fashionably dressed, as If he had been, or
was going, to an afternoon reception.
Above all things, should say he was a
| Oh why are our hearts so accessible to
our eyes? Only smiling glance had passed
| between Ethel and the Unknown, yet his
image was prisoned behind the bars of her
| eyelids
On this day of days she had met Love on
| the crowded street, and he had
But touched his lutte wherein audible
The certain secret thing he had TO tell
| Only their mirrored eyes met silently;
! and a sweet trouble, a restless, pleasing
| curiosity, had filled her consciousness. Who
| was he? Where had he gone to? When
should they meet again? All, she under
| stood now how Emme1ine Labiche had felt
| constrained to seek her lover from the
| SHOWS of Canada to the moss-veiled oaks Of
| louisiana.
| think of love and disappointment at the
| same moment. II have seen him, and l
! shall see him again. We met by appoint
| ment Destiny introduced us. Neither of
| US Will forget, and some where. some day,
1 shall be waiting. and he will come
| Thus this daughter of sunshine and hope
answered herself; and why not? All good
things come to those who can wait in sweet
tranquility for them, and seldom does for
tune 1all to bring love and heart s-ease upon
| the changeful stream of changeful days to
| those who trust her for them
On the following morning, when the two
| girls entered the parlor- they found the
| judge smoking there. He had already
breakfasted, and looked over the three or
-FOUR newspapers whose opinions he thought
worthy OF his consideration. They were
| ying IN a state of confusion at his side
| ana Ethel glanced at them curiously
| Dld any OF the papers speak of the sing
| ms before the Holland House?' she asked
Yes think reporters must be ubiqui-
luus. All my papers had some sort OF a
| notice of the affair"
What do they say?"
one gave the bare circumstances of the
Ease Dase; another INDUCED in what was sup
ptseu 10 be humorous description. a third
| ihouSht II might have been the result of a
! 2et or dare; a fourth was of the opinion
INA. .hdt conspiracy between the old beggar and
! the young man was not unlikely ana cred
ated the exhibition as a cIever1,, or;a;r,a1
| way OF obtaining money. But an a~raad
! a. pelleVlhg the singer to be a member of
| SUM I opera company now in the city.''
Ethei was indignant 1T p,ae ra;4bo-
! pet nor dare nor 'corsr,irac,,, sbr ii,
| saw the singer as he came waIl.irey
| 1919 hay aoWn the avenue, and he looked
| as naPPy ana careless as a boy whistIjne
| On country lane. When his evee foil IS IS
| the o!d man he hesitated inst q yooIno,ot
| ana then spoke to him. I am sura tba1,
| Were ere. absolute strangers to each other
| like that, Ethel?" " 'i'-1is
I don't know how Ruth, but ALL the
| same, l am sure. And as for il heinz a
new new way of begging, that is not correct.
| prothers led a crippled soldier into a paris
| cafe, and sang the starving man into com
| fort in twenty minutes"
AND the angelic Parepa Rosa did as
| Hluch ior Mexican woman, whom she
| found in the depths of sorrow and nov
! erty-brought her lifelong comfort with
a couple of her songs. Is 1t not likely,
| then, that the gallant knight of the Hoi'
| land House is really member of Some
| opera company, that he knew of tbeee
examples and followed them ?"
1T is not unlikely, Ruth, vet I do not he
lieVe that Is the explanation"
Well said the Judge, throwing his
cigarette into the fire, IF the singer had
never heard Of De Reszke and Parena
Rosa, we may suppose him a gentleman
of such culture as to be familiar with the
exquisite Greek legend Of Phoebus Apollo
that story would be sufficient to inspire
any man with his voice. Do you know
1t
Both girls answered with an enthusiast
tic entreaty for Its recital, and the Judge
went to the library and returned with a
| queer-looking little book, bound in mar
bled paper.
TT was my fathers copy he said IAN
oxford edition" And he turned the leaves
! with loving carefulness until he came to
| the incident. Then being a fine reader, the
| words fell from his lips in a stately meas
ure better than music:
After Troy fell there came to Argos a
| SCARED soldier seeking aims. Not deign-