Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-05-21

81 know" interrupted Manchester.
Once more his nstonishingly flexible
voice changed It's tone TO one OF un-
feigned calm. II can understand. OF
course" he remarked CONGREGATIONAL
ly, "you dislike the idea OF carrion IN
conjunction with the virgin polish Of
a mahogany box. Well. let's have a
look at the thing"
II don't remember having seen you
no sober before" said Trevor. In tho
same ensy tone, and from It's sound
she knew he had turned toward his
room.
Enforced. l can assure ynu," 70
piled Manchester. "Been strapped On
the wagon by lack Of the neces-"
The sound OF his voice ~ cut
short by. the closing OF Trevor's door.
Andrea opened her own, just n
crnck. and looked out. In the very
center Of the circular court %squatted In
a ring n dozen hnlf-naked boat-boys.
Their torsos were still %glistcning In
the moonlight from the sweat OF their
labor. They all seemed dull OF face
but mighty OF muscle. None, not one,
OF Trevor's people wns I'm slght-a
very surprising fact, for the African
loves n gossip with the stranger with
In his walls.
Th9re was quite n long silence; then
came the mufled tones OF the phono-
graph, rising bell-llke through the
night In n climbing aria from Faust"
Suddenly tho sound wavered. swerved
and fell to n wrangllng OF frightened
notes MS though some n had swept
the instrument from its balance. A
second later there was the thp'i Of n
henvy boot on wood. Treyor's door
Jew open and the still Willing phono-
graph was hurled rs from u cntnpult
fifteen feet through the air. II fell to
the %hnrd-beaten ground OF the patio
with a terrific splintering crush. rolled
over on one side and wal still. An
drea's eyes had been watching II, fns-
cinnted; now they swerved and stop
ped almost with n click OF the sudden
ly arrested muscles.
Between her and the door OF IRE
vor's hut stood the towering figure OF
a mnn In quarter profile. She could
see his great shock OF bushy red hair,
a bit Of his shaggy beard, his enormous
ly broad shoulders and the white CLEAN
Of his two hands hanging almost at his
knees. He was hatless and dressed
in faded blue ~dungnrees many sizes
too small for his bulk.
As she watched him he raised his
arms In a wide still gesture and began
to sing. At the first note, quite UNI
conscious OF action. she let the door
swing open and stepped out on the
veranda. It was the aria from Faust"
: the snme aria, but oh low different.
/, The voice OF this man was like n huge
and glitterlng serpent Of sound that
: writhed smoothly into the air. chal-
longing the dome OF heaven itself.
II there was one thing that Andrea
knew better than another, II was the
: accurate valuation Of every operntlc
voice that had sung In Europe during
the last decade. She had been taken
to Covent Garden regularly before she
was out, as a matter OF education, and
: no less regularly after her eighteenth
" birthday, as n matter OF matrimonial
business.
= She knew instantly that this extra
ordinary apparitlon In the wilderness
was nothing less than the solution of
: n world mystery. He could be but one
= man and that n person whose tremen'
y dous triumph had been 80 short as to
leave him with fame but without O
= name. She was hearing the Great
volce-the voice OF the star that had
: shone for a single night resounded
but once through the Scala. set al
swiftly MS II had risen and disappeared
! forever, leaving behind M trace be
yond a memory so short that II hat
become n recollection almost unbellev
= able to the few that had henrd It
~ Now her ears were Allied with III
" music 81 the exclusion Of thought Of
renson or consciousness OF self. She
T. became nothing more than a sentien'
~ channel. The easy power 81 the Voice
lifted II beyond the common Standard
) OF vocal classification and gave II thu
allure and the terror OF the superhu
y man. It's tenuity seemed a thing In
corporated apart, an actual substance
70 with beckonlng arms and hands. !
r. drew her slowly. steadily out into tn
10 qulvering moonlight. held her, lifte'
,e her face with II toward the sky.
n (TO BE CONTINUEDD