Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-29

maid was brushing out her soft brown hair she was
not at all drowsy, and though her eyes looked stead
lily their reflection in the mirror, she not
aware that she anything.
Potts. she said suddenly, and stopped.
Yes, ma ann answered the maid with meek
interrogation
But Margaret said for several moments.
She enjoyed the sensation of having her hair brushed
it made her understand exactly how cat feels
when some one strokes its back steadily, and she
could almost have purred with pleasure as she held
her handsome head back and moved it little under
each soft stroke in real enjoyment.
Potts. she began again at last, you are not
very imaginative are you!'
No, ma am the maid answered, because it
seemed to be expected of her. though she had never
thought of the matter.
Do you think you could possibly be mistaken
about voice, you didn't see the person who was
speakng?
- In what way, ma ann
Il mean. do you think you could take mans
voice for womans at distance!'
'Oh, | see!'' Potts exclaimed. las it might be,
at the telephone!'
"Well-at the telephone, if you like, or anywhere
else Do you think you might"
:" 1t would depend on the voice, ma am" observed
Potts with caution.
of course it would" assented Margaret rather
impatiently.
WELL ma am, I'll say this, since you ask me.
When | was last at home | mistaken in that
way about my brother. for l heard him calling
Milly. 0' va 0'''''~' anu ~ ~ 80 ~ ~
..Oh! That's interesting Margaret smiled.
What sort of voice has your brother! How old IS
He's eight and-twenty, ma am; and as for his
voice. he has sweet counter tenor and sings nicely.
He's song man at the cathedral, ma am
Really? How nice! Have you voice too? Do
YOU sing at all:
oh no, ma ami" answered Potts in a deprecating
tone "One in the family is quite enough
Margaret vaguely wondered why, but did not in
Guire You quite sure that it was your
brother who speaking, SUPPOSE she said.
oh yes ma am! looked down over the balus
ters and there he was!"
MARGARET had the solid health of great singer
A'A and it would have been serious trouble indeed
that could have interfered with her unbroken and
dreamless sleep during least eight hours but when
she closed her eyes that night she was quite sure
that sh, could not have slept at all but for Pottss
comforting little story about the brother with the
counter tenor voice. Yet even SO, at the moment
before waking in the morning, she dreamed that she
was at the telephone again, and that words IN
strange language to her along the wire in
soft and caresslng tone that could be only womans,
and that for the first time all her lite she knew
what it to be jealous. The sensation was not
agreeable
The dream voice was silent as she opened
her eyes but she had not been awake long without
gothet at once, and profoundly thankful that
she had torn up her letter to Lady Maud. She
not prepared to admit, even now, that konstantin
the ideal she should have chosen for husband,
and whom she had been describing from magma
ton when she had suddenly stopped writing; but.
the other hand, the mere thought that he had
perhaps been amusing himself in the society of
other woman all yesterday afternoon made her
angry that she took refuge in trying to believe that
he had spoken the truth and that she had really
been mistaken about the voice
1t all very well to talk about learning Tartar!
How could she be that it not modern
Greek, or Turkish? She could not have known the
charming compatriot of his should have come from
Constantlnople to spend few weeks in Paris! She