The daily Alaskan., 1914-04-07

help her in this respect. but there Is an unwritten law that a man cannot give to a woman except under certain eT- ceptional circumstances.
 n will make another suggestion to you,E I said. supplementary to my first. Suppose you pose for artists. and if you make more than you require for your,lIving you may give the sur plus in exchange for instruction"
 Her face lit up with hope. "Ach, herr, you have given me valuable plan! And if 1t is successful l shall owe everything to you. You have told me that there is a value to artists in my head and neck, and you have told me that ! have voice. Neither of these things l knew before today. Goodby, and God bless youw
 "One moment" I said, before we part should like you to carry back this basket affair in which carried my luncheon to the landlady of the inn from which I came. She furnishes these FeceptaCles to travellers as an advertisement to Der hostelry."
 l showed the girl the pane of the inn sewed in wOrsted letters on the bag, While she was not looking at me l slipped a piece Of gold into 1t, then handed 1t 10 her. knew my landlady we'll and was sure that If she found the money inside she would compel the bearer to take it, having no right to 1t herself, It could not very we'll be re- turned to me. RegrettIng that dared not do more for the poor girl, l bade her goOdby. she appearing grateful for my sympathy.
 Five years had passed. had settled down q married man and had given up travelling abroad oH foot. But l had not given up a taste for the lHe arts to which ] was born. One after another prima donnas were visiting New York. l went one night to the opera In New York when the Academy of Music was still the only opera house in that city. When the prima donna came upon the stage her face seemed familiar to me. and when she sang l recognized in her voice certnin qualities that had heard in that of the girl had met between Leipzig and Dresden five years before. Perhaps l might not have recognized the face alone or the voice alone, but tue two together convinced me that the lady on the stage was the girl l had met abroad.
 kept my seat till the end of the last act, when. taking out my card, scrib- bled beneath my name in pencil, "On the road to Dresden; luncheon. with a pint of German wine," and sent 1t to the prima donna behind the scenes. It was not long before 1 received an inyi- tatiOn to meet the lady, whom l found waiting for me before driving to her hotel. The pressure of the hand with which she greeted me told me how well she remembered and how appre- ciative she was of the trihing favor l had done her
 This is no place to talk,' she said. We people of the stage always sup after our work, and you must come with me for a return of the luncheon you gave me when l was famished."
 entered the carriage with her and on arriving at her hotel found set out in her private parlOr an elaborate sup per We sat down to table together, and asked her to tell me what had happened to her since we parted on the road five years before.
 "I will begin back of that" she said. 'I will tell you how l came into the condition you found me. But l tell it to you only because 1 consider that my being in my present position is due to your friendly advice"
 Before proceeding further she show ed me on a chain about her neck the gold coin l had slipped Into the lunch basket which had sent to my land lady.
 "I am the daughter of a German baron. l was brought up, as most Eu- ropean girls are. to understand that my parents would choose the man l should marry. My father chose for me a man about his own age who was very wealthy and as disagreeable as he was wealthy. was not in love with any one else, but 1 Tebelled against marrying man l loathed. My father told me to submit or leave the home in which 1 had been carefully brought up, not thinking that would do the latter. That same night when all were In bed l left in the clothes in which you met me and with what money I could scrape together.
 "Whether my father tried to find me or not I do not know. I think he has considered me dead to him. At any rate. have never heard from him since l left home. AS for my mother, though she might yearn for me, she would be too submissive to my father ,o oppose his will in anything.
 After leaving you I went to Ores den, where l posed for artists, as you suggested, and, getting a little money together, began the study of music. l did not need to make a living that way long. for my voice proved sOpromising that was taken up by one who was glad to pay for the finishing of my ed ucation. making a contract to sing under his management as soon as l had completed my studies" .