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and Porpora was now her only friend and hope in this world. One day pausing to rest by a fountain, she encountered boy, 8 traveller like herself. who looked so gentle and ap- preached her with such courtesy that she accepted acquaintance at once. And what is your nameT" asked she. Joseph Haydn," replied the boy. T am going to Vienna. but first I must seek the Castle of the Giants, whero they tell me now lives a wonderful singer. the Porporina. She will per- haps. give me a letter to her old mas ter, Porpora, and he will teach me-"
 My child" said Consuelo. the Por- porino is no longer at the Castle of the Giants. Come with me to vien-
 no. As I know Porpora, perhaps may aid you"
 "You know Porpora!" exclaimed the boy--the boy who was afterwards to make immortal music for the world; | then come, let us hasten. But you can not journey on in that guise. I have l here in my bag peasant suit--a boys | suit. Retire no winto the woods and | put it on. As two boys we may get along all right. You would make a pretty boy. But young lady travel i ing as you are would not travel in safety"
 So as a peasant boy ConsueIo trav-
  | ital. where the austere Queen Maria Therese-"the King"--then held her sway. Haydn took his companion to | the house of a hairdresser where he had once boarded when he sang in the choir of the cathedral, and the hS irdresser's daughtee furnished Con- suelo with proper clothes. Then she revealed to Haydn who she was and told him part of her story.
 | Together they sought Porpora. The | old man received his adopted daughter | with raptures and heard all she had to | tell him with deep interest.
 | And so you said in the letter which | you left for Count Albert that if you | found, after all, that you did love him l you would go back and marry him, | did you? Foolish girl! No. no. You | must not marry into the nobility. Your | mission is the stage. You must sing. J You are The Porporina. And, If for | no other reason, then for the sake of | your old master. you must seek the
 boards again. With you as prima donna I shall make success here in | Vienna. Without you I doubt" So behold Consuelo once more. deck
 ed in gorgeous robes received by the | best society in Vienna, again great | singer and in the Imperial Opera
 House As for Joseph Haydn. Porpora | took him on as pupil and set his feet
 in those paths which led to his after l greatness.
 | Anzoleto she heard of or saw no
 more. He had dropped out of her life forever. He was only memory | of the swinging tides of Venice. the
 still lagoons and the spires and clock towers of the sea-born city. So great | became the success of Porpora and
 his pupil that there came to Vienna
 an offer of an engagement at Berlin
 where the great Frederick was then.
 in a pause between his wars, collect
 ing famous artists. literary men and
 singers.
 | 1t was a vast honor to bessought af- | ter by the great Frederick and gold | was a further reward. The wars had
 impoverished the Austrian court. but
 At Berlin wealth was plentiful. With
 her heart half back there in the Cas-
 tie of the Giants and half pledging
 her to accompany her master to Ber-
 lin, Consuelo hesitated. But finally
 she cast the die in favor of her duty
 to the maestro and set out with Por-
 pora for Prussia.
 On the way before they came to the l Prussian frontier. they stopped at tn Q
 castle of the Count Hoditz, patron of
 art whom they had known well In
 Vienna, and whose chief claim to dis
 tinction was that he had recently mar 1 rIsA the DowaEar MaPEravtne Of Ba-