Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-07

spot nearby where six OF tho Frcncb
oificer's comrades were in hiding.
With q word of explanation he loft thom
10 hold the oncoming BolsheviA while he
and the singer made their way down the
street and into roHboat which had been
hidden underneath wharf. Rowing ont
10 steamer which was Just getting under
way. Lieutenant Bodin hailed the captain
nnd put his charge on hoard. Not salts
ned with the conduct o! the captain of the
ship, Bodin decided that no would see
Nine. Lipkowska safely through TO Con.
stuntinople lest some unforeseen disaster
should overtsEe her in the strange, dis.
orderly. motley nssemblage which he
found swarming the ships decks
But tho end was not yet Poor little
Aldenna had boon OF necessity left be.
hind. The mother could not rest contented
In safety In Constantinople while the little
thirteen-year-old dear one remained ut the
mercy Of tho Bolsheviki.
Lieutenant Bodin paced the floor and
twiated his mustache with perplexity
Willingly he would go back and face tho
turmoil In Nicolaief but he did not know
iittlo Aldenna by sight and might not he
uole to trace her.
Nine. Lipkowska Insisted that she her.
self must return and search for the little
one. Lieutenant Bodin finally mn,ured
their plans. and enlisting the help OF half
a dozen other brother officers bought a
nshing boat In ConstantInople, and the
entire party disguised themselves as Black
Sea fishermen. They slipped out OF .hc
haroor. sailed along the Black Sea. and
arrived of tho port Of Nicolaief, but dare
not enter until nightfall. In the darkness.
they sailed the little craft in and anchored
II, and Bodin and Lipkowska, with tn;
guard OF chivalious French officers, went
swinging up the street, carrying fish bas.
kets and crying fish for sale.
The singers house was still deser,ed
and tho problem was to trace tho wherc.
abouts Of little Aldenna without risl,nr
either the child or the rescue party. For
more than week the distracted mother
and her protectors fished by day and
dressed their catch on the beach, and M
night Lipkowska and her protectors
their wares.
Where was the child9 How was the
mother to find her!
or all Nine. Lipkowska's many operate
roles the Bell Song from "Lakme," that
most difficult Of colorature parts, was the
iavorite hit OF music of little Aldenna
Again and again from earliest babyhnod
the child had loved to hear her mother
sing to her this bit of composition.
In the opera beautiful Lakme sings the
Bell Song In the narket-pla,ce to attract
the ear Of her lover and bring him to her
side. Gould the singer make use of the
saine song for the same purpose and bring
her little one to her?
II Aldenna could hear it now, with all
the FEELING and expression OF the mothers
distracted heart she knew the child womb
recognize it. And SO. from time to time
the prima donna would cease her cries TO
buy her fish and would glide into a biz
OF the Bell Song from "Laime."
At last Aldenna heard It. The old nurse
made her way out cautiously from n cot.
tnge gate and peered suspiciously into the
darkness Nine. Lipkowska Instantly rec
ognfzed the faithful old nurse, and in nm
other moment mother and child were IN
each others arms They crept down 10
the beach. found their way to the fishing
boat, and sailed away to Constantinople
before the sun rose on Nicolajef.
1t Is scarcely surprising that the pas
sengcr list Of an incoming ship, as i;
swung into Its dock in New York recently
bore the words Lieutenant and Mrs
Bodin." Nine. Lipkowska's first husband
she had divorced several years ago How
could ohio better repay her debt Of graft
tude to the chivalrous French officer than
TO accept his plea to become his wife?