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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, AS'IOKIA. OKKGON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 10U7. 9 Won by a Violin. By EFES W. SARGENT. CopjrrUM by P. C, E-Utnnt. Avard clambered up through the trap leading from the music room with the same Intolerable feeling of disgust thnt always tilled his soul when It came time to take his place beside the leader of the Odeon orchestra. He hated It all, the endless proces sion of sidewalk comedians, serlo com-, lea, sketch artists, trained dogs and all the other component parts of the vaudeville 'show. He bad come to America fresh from the conservatory, with visions of a concert tournee that should make blm famous. They told h!ni that America was a land of money; that there peo ple aat up nights for an opportunity to bear some gieat artist. Instead, he bad discovered that only those heralded by a skillful promoter stood any chance. lie was glad to get an occasional engagement for some small coucerts, and even these grew less and less frequent as the season waned. Then had come that awful time when, penniless and hungry, be faced, the realizatloa that he could never bopei for success. Ho was too proud to back home a failure, and he thankfully accepted an opening la a concert hail where he, a pianist and a cornet player comprised the orchestra. Benson had found him there ova night when he dropped in to see the proprietor. Benson had played violin there himself before he had become a bandmaster, with a blue and gold band at a sumncer resort, and he dropped in at Interval for old times" sake. He called Avard over to his table and offered him a place in bis ordieftra in the fall, when the sensou opened, so ever since September Avard had sat beside Benson playing first violin. He loathed It all, but it was better than the concert hall, anu he was grateful. But this afternoon he was gloomy. A great artist, one with whom he had studied, was giving a matinee, and some one had told him how the people were thronging to the hall. Their master had declared Avard to be the better, yet Herman drew the crowds. Monday was always a bad day. The music sheets, some of them yellow with age and filthy with dirt, were hard to read. Rehearsal had been more or lew of a farce, and he scarcely noticed the performance. Then sud denly a voice broke on his ears, and he looked up in wouder. A mere girl stood in the gleam of the spot light She could not be more tV.a sisteeu or seventeen, but fr-:n h;: throat tlieie poured tones cf rry.;'i..l purity. The voice was t:n;i!a;el n;,J unschooled, but she had a natural ??t for singing, and her tones had not jei become hardened through overwork. The music thrilled him through .uJ through, at-d once or twice he broke- iti his aocomfnnInient Long after s'.io left the slajre she still occupied his thoughts, and as he started to leave the theater after the matinee, she con WOMEN WHO CHARM Health Is the First Essential Toward Mahing a Woman Attractive. 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He could forgive the uncouth speech for the sake of the voice, and Gertie Clayton, "pueuoni Uial" (she Invariably misspelled the word) soprano, had become a goddess to blm. All that week he drank hi the flute like tones, as a drunkard Imbibes bis tipple. Saturday night, when the en gagement closed, he left a single rose, perfect In Its loveliness, with the door keeper, to be given her as she left. She was gone when the show was over, and he hurried to the doorkeeper for his report "What did mademrfselle say?" he de manded eagerly. " 'Stingy. " grinned the unsympathet ic soul, and Avard slowlv passed out But the slight was forgotten the next day, and only the memory of that per fect voice remained. From the press agent he begged one of her photo graphs, and when be came home at night, tired aud disheartened, he looked upon her youthful face and seemed to hear again the liquid sweetnesa of her singing. ; It was several mouths before she came again. Avard feared that per haps the hard work, the singing In smoke tilled music balls, had spoiled her tones, but she did not strain for high notes, and her voice retained Its clarity and freshness. It seemed an Interminable time after he took his place before she came ou, and again after her appearance the moments dragged woefully, but they were to be endured for the sake of those momentary uplifts to paradise, and he was content. Several times, when the sketches were on, be left his place and prowled about the stage in the hope of gaining speech with her. but she always was dressed and out before the sketch brought him an Intermission from bis 'abors. As the week progressed these repeal ed disappointments preyed upon him, and he grew more aud more gloomy. Saturday night came all too soon, and It was with an aching heart that he opened her music to play her accom paniment for the last time. 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Now the chorus was ended, and the singer I ked up expeetautly. For a moment the audience sat silent as If In the presence of death. Then a great outburst of applause swept down from the nailery, to bo met with a demonstration from the lower floor. Three times Benson played over the "vamp" the short symphony between the verses---before the house became quiet again. . Then Oertte began, and the house was hushed. At the chorus the other players settled back, and once more the duet between violin and i T0,0 thrilled the heorers. Again the applause thundered out The singer bowed repeatedly, but still the hand clapping continued, and she leaned over the footlights. "Oct up and take a bow," she shouted. "Push blm up, Benson." The leader guided Avard to his feet, and he stood there, abashed by the seusattou he had created. Three times they repeated the double chorus, and even then the stage manager had to ring up In the next act and hold the curtain up before the house would quiet down. Tresently the call boy poked his head through the trap aud handed a note to Benson. He turned to Avard. "Miss Clayton wants to see you In her dress- lng room, he said. "Never mind this act. I can get along." Weak and trembling from the reac tion, Avard slipped out of the orches tra pit and preseutly presented himself before the singer. "What's your name?" she demanded curiously. "Pierre Avard," he said hesitatingly "Sounds good for the bills," she said critically. "Say, we'd make a great team, something like the three Pit monds' stunt street singers, you know rii nx Benson an right will you come? "Mademoiselle wishes my services?" he asked haltingly, unwilling to believe that such good fortuno could be tme. "Sure thing'" she confirmed. "We stopped the show. We'll be headline. Want to double up?" "Double up?" he repeated wonder lngly. "Mademoiselle does me the hon or of proposing a matrimonial all! ance?" Gertie eyed him curiously. To dou ble up meant to form a team. 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