The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-22
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ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

ALBERT PAYS0N TERHUNE
If, by the time you have reached and
passed the White House grounds you
can recall a fairer highway in all the
worlds cities, 1 should like TO know
its name.
Yet, as I made my way along that
too heavy, my head too perplexed, to
drink in the delight OF il all
It had seemed simple thing to
come TO Washington and trace
Brock. But. now that was there. I
had not the remoteSt knowledge Of
what my next step should be. / had
no talent nor experience as q detec-
VainIy I tried TO consider what
Sherlock Holmes OF De KOCk or some
other dctional hero would do In like
case.
Then came the simplest and most
obvious Of plans I would call a cal.
make the round Of the hotels and ex-
anime the registers, or, better still. 1
would go 10 the nearest telephone.
call up the hotels IN rotation and ask
II Brock were stopping at each
] had come 10 Fifteenth street Be
lore me loomed the massive New vii
lard But nearer, and with telephone
booths easier to ind. was a drug
store.
I entered the store, ensconced ny
self in booth, with open telephone
book, and began my series Of hotel
calls.
New wnlard-no person of that
name, etc.
ArllngIOn-Same reply
Ditto from the Raleigh
was receiving an answer from the
Ebbttt when the connection vas mo-
mentarily cut of
While waited Tor II TO be restored,
glanced out, thrc ugh the glass boO,h-
partition toward he bright street be
yond, where sEsTms Of people were
saunter1ug northWard from the EOrka-
day quarters to south and southeast
Fast my line of vision they moved
an endless, Kaleidoscope procession.
What chance OF seeking Brock or any
miles away in every direction stretched
the City OF Magnificent Distances" IN
any corner of whose vast area he
might or might not be
Ny eye. tired Of following the mass
OF home-Eoers. shifted to the two big
red and green booths in the window
then 70 a red and white paSteoOaTd pos
ter that swung between them It was
aware that I was reading its bold scar
let type until I came across one name.
The poster ran
''BeIasCO TheateT-W eek OF June Ist
FTancOnia Opera Company Tonight
Carmen, with Signorina Teresa Ferri
. IL the title role
Teresa. Ferri, J1ei then the connec-
ton was restored at central Office ana
the Ebbit replied in the negative to
my query
So. in more or less rapid succession,
did every other hotel in town
ChaSTined at this latest Of my set
backs, I paid my telephone bill and
wandered out into the street Brock
was at no hotel Then. perhaps, al
some boarding house OF at the home
OF q friend That made the task hope
less.
Wei. at least. it left me with pres
rur leisure 10 follow out nv fantastic
fr7aa If Ter NJ
haIr ashamed Of Ciu-ChIuE at 50 petty
clue. 7 turned my steps northwest
ward.
Past the theater whose p-aCards were
covered with notices Of the evening
performance 7 hurried Across the
greeu-shsded square 10 where the old
fashioned stateliness Of the bUoWnstOne
hulk Of the Arlington: awoEe within me
d score OF quaint memories
/ Yes. SIgnorina Fer: was IN Yes she
( u OUld see me. Would I be so good as
70 follow the hailbov 10 her private
reception room
A minute later I stood looking down
into a face ] had never before SEEN and
Vet which was perfectly familiar 20 me
SiCnorina was IounzinE in a big easy
chair She wore q white Siikeu tea gown
OF some sort and her masses Of blue
black hair were e"uEnt up In huge
. coil at The nape OF her neck
She did not rise a. I entered the
room. but glanced up at me in pleasant
imperS0nal inquiry
At once why her face had seemed ia
I'd liar 20 me II was the face whose
miniature likeness was in the lCcket on
EauEhn'S OdGly-reCOEsred watch chain
Wei. siEnoT-" spoke up Teresa. as ]
stood aWkwBTdly before her hat in
hand. at loss 20 know how to begin
! INV inGuiSiJiOB. What paper do you
represent
/ Her accent was prerrily foreign Her
E voice was deep, ard more than usually
sweet
{ Il am not a reporter 7 managed TO
say i am
NO." she qUiried. surprised
She glanced down again ar my ca nd
which she still held In her fingers
Nj Hugh Fairfax Lee. the Gladstone.
PHILADELPHIA she read half aloud. 81
thought YOU We're sent perhaps to in
ter-iew me for a Philadelphia news
paper 7 could not see why else. unless
YOU are perhaps an 1mpreSaTlO Of
Need ere have been in either pro
feSSiODai signOTina in order 10 come
from Philadelphia to see vou2 You
. have acquaintance in Philadelphia 90