The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

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question once. Relaxing in an after
dinner conversation his manager, Hugo
GorlitZ, asked him. "Of what do you
think when you are playing-Or of
whom? Something brings a strange
look into your eye"
His manager supposed. as did many
others. that his mother, to whom he
is deeply devoted, was the chief in
SpiratlOn of his music and his tri-
umphs- But, closing his eyes, the vio-
linist SlwOly answered:
Il see a girl, tall and slender, just
budding into the curves of glorious
WomanhOOd. Beautiful of face, her
eyes show a mind that shudders when
ever it harbOrs an unkind thought
They are blue and in them shines
light that could draw a man-they
could draw the baSeSt and worst of
men to forget what he is and to con-
quer his nature" And here the i'm
petuOus young Bohemian sprang from
his chair and began to pace excitedIy
up and down his private car. Around
her head is a wealth of golden hair
that even the sun cannot make bright
CT when its beams touch her locks. A
man might give his life to stroke them
as they curl on her lovely white fore
head. In her veins flows the blood of
kings. In her thoughts are purity and
gCntleneSs. The man who wins her
All. my friend. he will not be a fiddler.
nor the son of a peasant" But the
manager smiled as he thought that the
fiddler and son of a peasant who could
iGealize a girl as did this one. and live
I'D TO his ideals with a clean life,
might be no poor match even for one
in whose veins flowed the blood of
kings"
In a low voice the young man con-
tinued: In my dreams can see her.
L can see her now when I shut my
eyes. And sometimes she smiles at me.
smiles as if her divinity could make
UP for my unwOrthinesS. Sometimes
her hand stretches forth and she drops
q rose. which I grasp as eagerly as
others grasp for money" His head
sank upon his chest as he finished
| speaking. For the rest Of the evening
/ Kubelik was silent, lost in the thoughts
/ of his dream-girl.
He continued as he had. begun his ca
/ reer, practicing on his violin for ten
/ hours a day, except on concert days,
/ when he played to thousands in every
/ town, but all the success that he made
/ all the money that poured into his cof-
/ feTs. never turned his head Flat
/ tered by the most beautiful women of
! two continents, he remained true to his
/ ideal.
The dollars that he took back to
/ Europe from his first American tour
were enough to make his independent
/ for life. Many thousands of double
/ eagles were represented in the check
which he deposited in the bank.
! Two years later he was touring Eu-
rope He came TO the town of DebreC-
Yin, in his native land. Bohemia And
when he went down to the theatre to
play he little thought what was in
store for him
! The moment he stepped on the plat
( form his eyes fell on the stage box
in Ia Of n
PARTY was & slender girl with golden
hair. In her blue eyes. in the lines of
her face and the curl of her lip, in
every feature the viOlinist saw the
ideal of his dreams. She was the girl
who had inspired his fingers and his
brain, the one whom he had been see
ing through half-clOsed eyes through
/ all the years that he had fddled his
way to fame and fortune And in a
/ haze, almost in a delirium. he tuned
up his violin and began to play.
How he did play that night, Never
| before were such tones brought forth
! from a violin, for never before had
| kubelik played as he did in that con-
cert. For the first time in his life he
actually looked at some one in the au-
dience- He kept his eyes fastened on
the girl in the stage box.
What he felt after he finished his
first number the viOlinist never told
to anybody except to her. Excitedly
lG sent OuL 10 lIAQ lire " no she was Re
learned that the party in the box con-
sisted of the friends and family of Graf
Sell of Debreczin, lord chief justice of
Bohemia. The girl was his only
daughter, the Countess Marianne
/ CZaxy-SzeH.
This news was a blow to the happi-
ness of the young genius. Already he
felt that without her his triumDhs and
his money would be empty joys. His
hopes of winning her, in view of her
rank an OPPOSITION, seemed to be more
| than slender.
But after the concert fortune favored
him unexpectedly. The whole party
came to the green room, seeking to
make the ACQUAINTANCE of their dis
! tnguiShed cOuutryman. SO Jan Ku-
belik, the son of a poor, obscure peas
ant, was presented to the Countess
Czaky-Szell the girl whose picture he
had carried in his mind for years
He was invited TO the counts house
to lunch the next day. Urged by his
pridet he refused the pleasure. He
] thought he was being asked as a curl