The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-11-19

Ing luT u uL1e hey leU neT TO q well
She descended it and found q secre
passage. This she traversed and be
yOnd it found her lover deranged ant
Ill, in the care of an imbecile servant
She nursed him back to health.
Consuelo's exposure and excitemep
in this midnight expedition produced
violent fever and Albert's love and car,
deepened. For a time it seemed a,
though he might win her hand, but be
tween these devoted young people the
dissolute Anzoleto thrust himself.
Although at first she gave way be
fore him, Consuelo regained her self
control and put him aside. The good
Count Christian, finding her nObly
frank about her early life, not only ex.
pressed his admiration. but requested
her to marry his son, whose reason she
had restored.
To this she answered, "The honor is
very great, but / am a singer. / must
return to my art"
To avoid AnZOletO she fed by night
toward Vienna in order to rejoin POr-
pora, her teacher. ConsuelO reached
there only to find old Porpora a master
without a school or a pupil.
In her attempts to secure a position
at the Court theater she failed by rea-
son of the opposition Of the Empress
Maria and the enmity of Gorilla, her
bitter rival. The corruption, the saw
age hatreds which marked the atmos-
phere of the court and the theater, led
her to dream of Albert and. the mar
riage he had offered.
At last she wrote to Albert, express
ing her love for him.
POrpora, to whom she gave her let
ter to post, burned it and wrote one of
his own to Count Christian. He was
jealous of her art and desired to profit
by it.
Six weeks passed. Consuelo heard
nothing from Albert. and as a sudden
chance to sing in opera came to her,
she accepted ii. Her goodness and gen.
crosby had won even Gorilla, who
yielded her part to her.
One day, while %rehearsing for Zeno-
bia. her first great part, COnsuelO
thought she saw Count Albert in the
dark spaces of the theater, a silent,
fitting, mysterious figure.
At about this time, Baron Trenck,
the notorious pandour and freebooter,
coming to the city CHANGED to see Con-
suelo, and instantly fell in love with
her. as did all men. She was terrified
by his fierce manner and his disfgured
countenance.
One night he forced his way into her
dressing room. and pleaded for her
love. He cast magnificent jewels at
fury, seized her in his arms as If to
carry her away
A disguised. powerful man darted
the door. seized the bandit and
threw him down the iron stairway.
Although her reScuer's face was COW
cred. Consue,o believed him to be
Count Albert. She called. she ran to-
ward him. but he was gone. AS she
stood looking down the dark stairway
the prompter announced the second act
of the play and h went on the stage
Zenobia, adding to her triumphs.
She sang now for Albert. believing that
he was somewhere in the audience.
Her conviction was confirmed when
amid the flowers which fell around her.
flung by the empress and the people of
the court, she picked up a small sprig
IF cypress, which was to her a sign
Of grief and despair. 1t was like a
of death.
In the midst of her uncertainty a
etter came from the director of the
Royal theater in Leipsic, offering her a
inc engagement. An agent brought the
with him. COnsuelO desired to
cave Vienna. for the empress was de-
ermined that she should marry n of
Ter favOritea
As Porpora had destroyed her letter
Count Albert, so nov he pretended
o have had a reply in which Count AL
'ert renowned all claim upon her..
With mistaken faith in her old
Consuelo sorrOwfully accepted
he new engagement, signed the con-
ract and started for Germania.
It happened that the king of Prus-
ia. Frederick the Great, travelling in
met her and was so pleased
nth her that he gave orders for her
Entertainment in his capital, but CON
that Porpora should be sent
ack to Vienna.
All these plans, however, failed, for
RudOlStadt, uncle of Count Al
ert, brought word that the young man
as dying and greatly longed to see
onsuelo before he passed away. With
ut a moments hesitation she fastened
, the castle.
Filled with exalted love and pity,
onsuelo kissed the dying man. ~realiz-
e that he was v then hardly more
ian a spirit. He desired her to mar
him, in order that his fortune and
title might pass to her, and so firm
I'd insistent was his demand that
1~DSuplo consented