The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24

1 to take advantage of this opening to play further upon the heart which had once been all his.
 The family received him well, treating
 him in all respects as the brother of the woman who might soon become the wife ot the heir of the ancient house. Only Albert regarded him with gloomy and
 threatening looks. Some of the young
 counts madness seemed to be returning
 Consuelo warned her former lover that
 his very life would be in danger if Al
 bert suspected the truth, and though An
 zoleto affected to laugh at her warning he was secretly troubled .
 Consuelo now knew Anzoleto for what he was. Questioning herself with sheer
 ity at the end of a couple of days, she knew that she was not deceived and that she loved him no longer in the pres ent she almost hated and feared him in regard to the future; but she cher ished him in the past. He was hence forth to be to her as a picture which
 recalled the adored object of past hapi- ness.
 [ Anzoleto, realizing that he was fail ing of effect upon her. determined to leave the castle for a while to give Consuelo a chance to miss him. Then, when she thought of him with regret. he would return and surprise her heart. In hls confidence he betrayed himself and his plan to the girl and she formed for her self another plan. As yet she was not sure that she loved Albert, and until she
 was sure she would not marry him. An
 zoleto made arrangements to set out on
 his journey at daybreak one day and before dawn Consuelo herself had fled. She took what little money she had and leaving letter for Count Albert which he would receive when she and Anzoleto were both gone. fled out into the world again alone. While Anzoleto went one way she took another. Her scanty stock of money soon gave out
 but was she not the daughter of q wandering singer? The Zingara, her mother had been called, though hay ing nothing of gypsy blood-could she not undergo the same prfvations now as
 in the days when she wandered over the land led by her mothers hand? |?
 She made her way toward Vienna; for Borpora she had learned was now in
 that city and Porpora was now her only friend and hope in this world One day.
 pausing to rest by a fountain, she en- countered a boy, a traveller like herself. who looked so gentle and approached her with such courtesy that she accepted ac- ouaintance at once. And what is your name?" asked she
 Joseph Haydn" replied the boy. 1T am going to Vienna, but first I must seek the Castle of the Giants, where they tell me now lives a wonderful singer, the Porpina. She will. perhaps, give me a letter to her old master, Porpora, and he will teach me"
 My child" said Consuelo, "the Porpo- rina is no longer at the Castle of the Giants Come with me to Vienna. As l know Porpora, perhaps I may aid you" You know Porpora!' exclaimed the boy-that boy who was afterward to make immortal music for the world 1; "then, come, let us hasten. But you cannot journey on in that guise. I have in my bag here peasant suit-a boys suit. Retire now into the woods and put it on As two boys we may get along all right. You would make a pretty
 boy. But young lady travelling as you are would not travel in safety
 So as a peasant boy Consuelo travelled with Haydn to the Austrian capital where the austere Queen Maria Therese-
 the King"-then held her sway. Haydn took his companion to the house of q hairdresser where he had once boarded when he sang in the choir of the cathe- dral and the hairdresser's daughter fur nished Consuelo with proper clothes. Then she revealed to Haydn who she was and told him part of her story. Y Together they sought Porpora. The old
 man received his adopted daughter with