San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02

I drew all eyes upon him. Yet at sight,
instinctively, Miss Farquharson dis
liked him. Reason and ambition
argued her out of that instructive
shrinking. Here was one whose APP
prevail carried weight and would set
the seal upon her fame, one whose
good graces could maintain her firmly
on the eminence to which she had so
laboriously climbed.
His grace bowed, low, the curls of
his wig swinging forward like the ears
of water-spaniel.
MADAM" he said, II would con-
graduate you were / not more con-
cerned to congratulate myself for hav-
ing witnessed your performance, end
still more Lord Orrery, your preSe.t
author. Him l not only congratulate
but envy--a hideOus, cankering emo
ton, which 1 shall not conquer until
l have written you part at least as
great as his Katherine. You smile?p
ut is for qualification at your
grace's promise"
81 wonder now," said he, his eyes
narrowing, his lips smiling a little.
. wonder is that the truth, or is it
that you think l boosted? that such
an achievement is not within my COM
pass? I'll confess frankly that until
| saw you it was not. But you have
made it so, my dear"
"If 1 have done that, I shall in
deed, have deserved well of my audi.
ence." she answered, but lightly,
laughing little, as if to discount the
high-flown compliment.
"As well, trust, as I shall have
deserved of you," said he.
"The author must always deserve
the best of his puppets"
observe, ave. But how rarely
does he get his deserts!"
"Surely you, Bucks, have little
reason to complain" gibed Ether
edge: ain my case, now, it is entire
ly different" A..
at is, George-entirely,, his grace
agreed, resenting the interruption.
"You are the rarity. You have al
ways found better than you deserved.
have never found it until this mo-
ment." And his eyes upon Miss Far
quharson gave point to his meaning.
When at length they left her, her
sense of exaltation' was all gone. She
could not have told you why, but the
Duke of Buckinghanf's approval up
lifted no longer. Almost did she
wish that she might have gone with
out it. And when Betterton came
smiling good-naturedly, to offer mis-
congratulations upon this conquest, he
found her bemused and troubled.
Bemused, too, did Etheredge find
the Duke as they drove back to-
gether to Wallingford House.
almost, / think" said he, smil-
ing, "that already you Sind my de-
spised prescription to your taste. Per-
severed with it may even restore you
your lost youth"
"What / ask myself" said Buck
ingham. ais why you should have
prescribed her for me instead of for
yourself"
81 am like that" said Etheredge-
"the embodiment of self-sacrifice.
Besides, she will have none of me.
though / am ten years younger than
you ere, fully as handsome and al
most as INSCRIPTIONS. The girls a
prude, and / never learnt the way TO
handle prudes; Faith, it's an educa- :,
ton in itself. y
ais it," said Buckingham. IL must
undertake it, then" .
And undertake it he did with all
the zest of one who loved learning
and the study of unusual subjects.
Daily now he was to be seen in a
box at the theater in Lincoln's Inn
Fields. and daily he sent her, in token
of his respectful homage, gifts of
flowers and comfits. He would have
added jewels, but that wiser Ether
edge restrained him.
"Ne brusquez pas Faffaire," was
the younger mans advice. "IOull
scare her by precipitancy, and so
spoil all. Such a conquest as this
requires infinite patience"
His grace suffered himself to be
advised, and set restraint upon his
adcur, using the greatest circum.-
spection in the visits which he paid
her almost daily after the perform
ance. He confined the expressions
of admiration to her histrionic art.
and, il he touched upon her personal
beauty and grace, it was ever In as
ISOLATION with her playing, so that
its consideration seemed justified by
the part that he told her he was con-
ceiving for her.
Thus subtly did he seek to lull her