New-York tribune., 1908-03-29

maid was brushing her >oft brown halr she Was
not at all drowsv and though her eyes looked stead
ly their reflection IN the mirror she was not
aware that She anything
Potts. She said suddenly. and stopped
Yes ma am: answered The maid with meek
Bur Marqaret said no more for several moments.
She enioved the OF having her hair brushed
i. made her understand exactly how cat fees
when some one strokes its back steadily ana 91g
could almost have purred ":th pleasure as she held
her handsome head back and moved 4 q 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 t
seemed be expected Of her, though she mad never
thought ot the matter.
DO YOU think YOU could possibly be mistaken
about a voice, YOU didn't see The person who was
speaking:
In What way, ma am :"
Il mean do YOU think YOU could take a man
voice for ii woman a. a distance:
on, 1 see" Potts exclaimed. As It might be,
at the telephone:
Well-at the telephone i YOU like, anywhere
else Do YOU think you might:
1t would depend on he voice, ma am. Observed
OF course ], would a-sented Margaret rather
Wen, ma am. III sav .h.s. since YOU ask Me.
When | was last a. home | was mistaken IN that
way about my brother. for | heard hlrn calling
from down stairs and took HIM FOR my sister
Miv
oh, That's interesting Margaret smiled
What sort of voice has your brother: How old :
he
He's eight-and-rwenty. ma am. and for Ms
voice he has sweet counter tenor. dnd sings nlceIN
He's a song man az the cathedral. am.
Really: How nice. Have You a Voice TOO; Do
YOU sing at all
oh no ma am, answered Potts d deprecatils
tone. One in the family quite enough,
Margaret vaguely wondered why. but did not m
qure You were quite that II was Your
brother who speaking. suppose: she SAID
Oh am looked down over the hdIuS-
tiers. and there he was
MARGARET had the solid health of a great singer,
A~A and it would have been serious trouble indeed
that could have Inttrfered with her unhroken and
dreamless sleep during least eight hours but when
she closed her that night She quite sure
that she could have slept AZ all but Tor Potts
comforting little story about the brother with the
counter tenor Voice Vet even So AZ the moment
before waking IN the morning She dreamed that She
at the telephone again. and that words III a
strange language to her along the wire IN 4
soft and caressins that could be only woman :
and that for the first IN all her life she knew
what IL to be Jealous The sensation was not
an agreeable
The dream voice was silent she opened
her eyes but she had not been awake long without
realizing that She wished much 10 see Lo-
gothet once, and profoundly thankful that
She had torn up her letter 70 Lady Maud She
not prepared admit. even now that korst ant IN
the ideal she should have chosen for a 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 an
angry that she took refuge irving believe that
he had spoken the truth and that she had really
been mistaken about the voice
II all we'll To talk about learning Tartar
How could she be that il was not modern
Greek, Turkish: She could not have known the
difference. Was Il very unlikely that some
charming compatriot OF his should have from
Constantinope to spend few weeks in Paris: She