Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-04-20
THE RECEPTION AT THE VAN TUYLs.

that she had come to understand That
i!cr lovers name was Thomas. His
curiosity as to her interest in the Ital-
i'm and the monkey is so great that he
asks her after awhile why she took
so much interest in them.
Because" La Cavallini says, I'VE
are both musicians
After awhile the clergyman who has
made her realize hat he desires her
for his wife recalls his mother at the
piano playing annie Laurie" which
wcs her tavorite song. and when the
lights are llt-tkey are candles in
branches resting on the corners OF the
square piano OF that p~erlod-she plays
the old melody. Out of a box of SOU
ven!rs he takes a string Of pearls.
They are for the woman who is to be
his wife. They were his mothers, and
they should be hers. and he tells her
that were his mother there to see her
she would find nc one worthier Of the
present possession Of her old treasures
than the beautiful singer who is to be-
come her sons wife.
Then the note of tragedy enters the
play. Try as he may, Armstrong a n
not suppress the doubts awakened by
the conversation at Van Tuyl's party.
Can it be that there is something be-
tween these two? .
Was that positive talk about the
villa on the shores of the Mediterran-
can merely i'll natlItntl finnuendo. In
other words, had InoiGavallini ever
been the mistress off, Cornelius Van
Tuyl, the man with whomJle must be
thrown in daily contact? These doubts
were overwhelmingly disturbing to the
lover. san ad. VI b9,9
The woman met his half questioning
observations with frankness. There
seemed to be the light Of truth in her
eyes when she denied that the breath
of scandal could now. justly name her
and Van Tuyl together. but the re-
lcntless question kept at the lovers
consciousness" He could not without
the fullest knowledge Of the facts from
both of them make this woman his
wife. It IA the return of Van Tuyl
which made possible the settlement Of
their relations.
BY degrees the truth comes out. The
woman in her desire to hold the love
of Armstrong has lied about her pres
ent life She has confessed to him
frankly the episodes of her earlier and
more or less reckless career, but she
has denied that there is at present
anything between her and Van Tuyl.
When the latter is compelled TO con-
fess that their relations are still what
society has called them La Cavallini
crosses the study, looks in the glass
on the mantel and takes off the pearls
which her, lover has given her. Then
he declares hat marriage between
them can never be. He Is left Weep
ing while she and Van Tuyl leave the
house.
The last act passes in the apart
ments Of La Cavallini at the Brevoort
House. She has made her last APP
pearance at the opera and is to leave
for Europe the next day. Her lover
has wandered about ever since their
parting in the afternoon. He is in
famed with the desire to reform the
woman whom he loves. and he deter
mines to go to her hotel and have a
final meeting with her.
In a characteristic scene in her
apartments her old duenna, a prima
donna Of an earlier period, prepares
supper for her. There is a polyglot as
sernblage in this act speaking French,
German and Italian and deepening the
cosmopolitan note which Is so strong
In h drama. When La Cavallini re-
turns from the opera she Is accom-
lpanied by Vaa 'Tuyl but she II finish
t!Adswtth him. n one OF the best scenes