The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-20
"Then You'll
Remember Me"
BY Dorothy DouGlas


from her desk and took up a posi-.
ton by the window. She gazed with
unseeing eyes into the great court
at the rear of the apartment build
ing and nibbled the end of her pen
thoughtfully.
Il want to marry him and I don't
want to-" she told herself with un.
smiling eyes. IF only he could learn
10 love music | believe-no-I am
positive would marry him. Music
is the greater half of my life and
Jimmy is unutterably bored II any
one save Harry Lauder Is singing"
Alice heaved a sigh and turned
again toward her desk. A spotless
bit of monogram paper lay ready for
her answer TO Jimmy Blake. She
dipped her pen In the ink and again
nibbled the end Of 1t. Suddenly her
head turned and she listened.
A voice OF wonderful baritone
grandeur had burst into song.
The pen In Alice's hand dropped in
differently and she stole into her
room by the open court in desire
to draw near the mans voice.
Fortunately her window was
partly open and Alice sank down on
her couch In an abandonment Of ex.
Quisite enjoyment. In the recess OF
her mind was the thought that new
| tAnapf Ind pnovaJ into tho a ~ a ~ ~, A ., :
and that she would have the pleasure.
II stolen. of hearing him sing often.
! Her critical ear told her that the
voice. 2though Of warm. rich timbre.
was lacking In the minor technicali.
ties and finish that would have put
him on q level with the great Caruso.
He is, no doubt. studying night
and day." Alice decided. "and l will
hear him practicing."
Then over her enjoyment OF the
music came the certain knowledge
that windows were being opened In
many OF the apartments on the court.
Ii flashed upon her suddenly. The
man was a street singer and those
people were throwing him money.
Alice jumped up and thrust her
head out of the window.
Yes. There he is and | can sec
only the top of his head"
The man had been singing the more
popular arias from the operas and
when he had finished the Flower
Song from Faust Alice watched
him stoop to pick up the many little
white packages that had been thrown
to him.
In panic lest she be too late she
rushed to her desk and took the first
bit Of paper she found. Into the en-
yelOpe she thrust bill with a yellow
back and threw It hastily out OF the
window.
The man would have been gone q
second later, but he heard the grill
voice calling: "IIere!" He turned
back. picked up the envelope, and
when he saw the denomination he
looked quickly w at the window and
for a moment Alice Lange looked into
his sensitive, emotional face.
With his hat still In his hand Their
he sang the most beautiful OF the
bohemian Girl" arias, Then You'll
Remember Me-"
There were tears In the girls eyes
and an ache In her throat when hi.
voice so poignantly sweet sobbed It,
last appealing line, Then you'll re
member me"
After he had gone Alice did not re
turn to her desk Instead, she lay fol
a long time dreaming of the stree,
singers voice.
No. she decided finally, IL can
not marry Jimmy Blake. 81 want Il
roam tho Elyssian fields ind plucl
the flowers oil the greatest fragrance
and Jimmy" Alice smiled wist
fully. Jimmy would only tell me
am moonstruck and take mo to {
vaudeville performance"
And when Jimmy received tho note
thuI h'iNc bChI MN Hc WeHt out u
the race track and came back through
elysian fields that swayed fantastic
ally and had tendency to rise IN
and make his great gray racer turn
turtle as he careened madly over the
roads.
Two. three years slipped BY. Alice
1anges thoughts we're not untinged
with regret that she had dismissed
Jimmy Blake from her trail of fol
lowers. Perhaps. after all. Elysian
fields were only possible TO roam In
when there was one other to share
them.
She had spent many vain hours In
an effort TO locate the man whose
voice had seemed 10 change the en-
tire course Of her life, but he had dis.
appeared apparently and no search
could find him. Alice even went 40
far as to follow the example of a Lon.
don society, and had organized great
concert, at which all the street must.
clans had an opportunity TO perform
before a critical and philan,hropic
audience.
But she came homo from the ven.
ture tired and disheartened. There
had been no voice with even a tenth
portion Of the sweetness Of the one