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For. had you asked her. she would have said that It was all because of one Leon Bronoffsky. second violinist, who that night had led the orchestra. For Edith Denny that evening there came two surprises. One surprise w as when she found herself unacconntahly walking out of the concert hall with her mother, while ahead Kate and John Kennleon walked together. The second surprise cam« lafei when Kate, nearly ready far bed. ap­ peared at the connecting door between their rooma Jots a n d I ittles behind the McCully building summer. (Continued from page 1) this $50,000 of veterans' insurance ia Halsey this week. To get this re. insurance the veteran has to ba examined and prove physically sound and to pay two months’ premiums. Guy Bramwell and family were A. I. H ill, accompanied by over from Brownsville Friday. W. P. Wahl and wife, drove to Miss Lillian Barber catue borne Portland Friday and returned Thursday from a visit of two weeks Saturday. in Eugene. The United Stales veterans’ Milton L. Howe and Jessie, Powers of Brownsville were licensed « bureau is expecting to reinstate to wed Thursday. C. L. Depew of Lebanon has the contract to build a $5,000 SCtioolhouae at Sweet Home ami is st work on it. FISK Mrs. J. W Cook. Mrs McKinney And J. H. Rebhau, from Browns-| ville, were morning callers at the Wheeler home Friday. "Edith,” began Kata cheerfully, 'T r going to close this door tonight. 1 You have read of the Elamites. want my window open, and you don't, you know; so if I close the door we’ll H. 8. Wtnklemau apparently has both be satisfied. Goodnight" And become one. He orders the ad­ abe shut the door. dress of the Enterprise ebauged to For one amaied Instant Edith atood Elam, Oregon. and stared at the closed door- then The clerk of the weather frowned she darted forward, her hand reaching on the Metho, ist Sunday school for the knob. 'Why, Kate, what are you thinking picnic planned f o r th ' Brownsville of, when you know I never sleep with­ park Friday and it was postponed out that door open,” she cried. The for two weeks. next moment she fell back weakly— Miss Beatrice Walgamutb, a the door was locked. “Why, Kate 1” teacher in the south side school in There was no answer, but a moment later there came from Kate's room a Brownsville, took the train here little tremulous melody that sounded Friday for her home iu Portland for all the world like tha whlatle of a for the vacation. small boy who la trying to keep up Mrs Fred Taylor of Corvalliw his courage ln the dark. evening Long after Edith bad gone petu­ arrived last Thursday lantly to bed, the melody still haunted for a visit at the home of her her. but she could not place IL until father, J. C- Standish. She re­ suddenly she recollected It was the turned home Saturday. opening phrase of the overture that Brownsville does not get one of the orchestra bad played first that night under the new leader's directing W- P. Elmore’s lots for paviug ex- peuses, as reported. The court T a g E n d . when she declared to herself that It was not strange, or unwomanly, or Thin was her mood when a chance even selfish that ahe should not lthe conversation between two men In front always to be doing the drudgery, or her ar°use „ a K « e Kate a r _ * _ Denny r , ______ I thia Inward that "That? Oh, that’s Bronoffsky.” went once again with her family to a Cue-half mile weat ol Nixon station on took the train here Friday for “Queer-looking chap! Good player T' | the Oregon Electric. Roseburg to visit her mother. concert by the Philharmonic. There “Hm-m— well, yes, he Is. Still—he’s H. A. R kmx ’ hgkb was the same anticipatory hum and The Harrisburg Bulletin thinks only a second fiddle up there, you Route 1, Halaey. stir In the audience, but on the stage— Ellison-W hite Chautauqua com­ know. He plays second violin.” There on the stagey even Kate could see that bination is altogether too grasping was a moment’s pause, then, half mus­ something unusual had happened, or and that it will not be able to got ingly, the voice went on: "Do you was about to happen. One by one the know. It’s rather funny about that fel­ the guaranteed income it require musicians were taking their places, low, Bronoffsky. He Is possessed and to show at that city again. hut not In the quiet, orderly way that consumed by one mad ambition; he was customary. They were plainly John Carmichael and wife of wants to lead, direct—be a conductor hurried, nervous, excited. One stum Junction City were in Halsey Fri­ you know." bled against a music-rack, and another day visiting former friends. J. E “Well, why doesn't he?" dropped his how to the floor. Some W hitlatch, a son-in-law, brought "Bronoffsky lead! Jove, man, he talked earnestly together; others sat couldn't 1 Bronoffsky's a dreamer, not them over in big car. Mr. W hit silently apart, an odd look almost like L ? ° 8r’ He can p,ay> sur®—second latch has traded off his place al disdain on their faces. Bronoffsky, fiddle. But he hasn't the audience Coburg and his fam ily will reside for whom Kate looked at once, was no­ aenae; he doesn't know how to handle at Weiser, Idaho where to be seen. She was wondering men. He doesn’t know how to hold at this, when unexpectedly John Ken Boys playing around the steam thirty, forty, fifty Instruments at the nlson appeared In the aisle by her why you should have ns examine roller on the paving on teecond tip of a little black stick. All his life s e at your eyes: First, we give a scientific i t '. CODtroll*<1. not In control. Second, we never ad street turned water into the boiler " I came down a minute to tell you,1 examination. All hlg life he's done another's will be began excitedly ln a low voice. vise glasses unless they are really and when the tire was started Fri not his own. Great Scotti man, Bron- ' Last night Rosel—the leader, you needed, and Third, il you need glasses day morning the high pressure offsk.v Is Is Just what you aee, a first- we will have them made under our per blew out the safety plug. know was thrown out of his auto and sonal supervision. rate aecond fiddle I" A mechanic from Shedd came down hurt rather badly. Kepple, the concert There wag a burst of applause— the master, was with him, and he was and repaired the boiler. Halsey leader of the Philharmonic had ap­ knocked ouL too, for tonight And boys will get as bad a reputation peared on the platform. A moment what do you think— ? Rosal sent word as those of Brownsville if they do later came the electric hush that fol­ that Bronoffsky — Bronoffsky should much more such mischief. lows the tap of the conductor’s baton; ■conduct tonight I” N. E. Cummings and wife were then sounded a long, quivering note "W ho's Bron — Bron — what's hit from the first violins. name?" demanded Bdlth, pettishly. a l » a m t oAea. at the county seat Friday. But all thia Kate Danny neither saw And Kate, to whom John Kennlson's Mrs Stewart spent the week Harold Albro. words had been addressed, for once nor heard. Behind the two men who end in Lebanon visiting ber had talked of Brqnoffaky she sat tense rejoiced ln her slater’s Interposition, so Manufacturing optician mother and friends. She returned and motionless, her eyes staring ^oddly stirred was she herself at John Sunday evening by auto. straight ahead, her ears hearing only jKennlson’» word». the words that had Just been spoken: Why, he’» one of the second violin»» Mrs. W . W. Poland of Shedd is pond vlollna," repeated Kennlson, “All his life he's been controlled, not tl^yon in an Albany hospital. In control. All hl« life he's done an­ long haired chap with big black other's will, not his own. Bronoffsky oyeA You'll remember when you see Halsey yonngstere are lucky. la—Is Just what you see. a firrf< a te him, I must go, but I wanted to tell During the winter rains they had aecond fiddle 1” you,” hurried the man, turning again free use of Frum ’s warehouse for So that was all abe was. or could to Kate, "something's going to happen, a skating rink and now they ban but Jus. what, I don't know. He's been aver hope te he— a second flddlte. the pavement on Second street. Suddenly, now, Kate Denny became putting ns through our paces all the And they use it, too. conscious of the music from tb e plat­ morning, and— wall, you'll see," flung Harvey Pemland and family of form. It had dropped to pianissimo, bark Kenrflson as he hurried away. Five minutes later tha orchestra Los Angeles arrived Friday for a yet clearly, sweetly, the melody still ran through It like a silver thread. were all In their places; then from tha visit with Mr. Pentland’s grand Fainter and yet more faint It grew, wings stepped a tall, dark-haired roan, mother, Mrs. W. J. Ribelin. They until only an airy, swaying es.bweb of and Kate Denny's heart gave a heavy, have been in Seattle and are on Bound floated from the leaders baton. aufBocutlng throb. A pattar of hand their way home clapping greeted the man’s appearance, There n a i a morneut'a breathless Mrs. C. B Tvcer was over from hush, then deafening applause. In her hut aknnst Instantly died Inte silence— Brownsville Friday delivering seat Kate Denny relaxed suddenly. the claps had been Intended for Rneal Everything at bargain pneaa. —and thia man waa not Rosal. Kate 422 West First at., Albany, Oregon. With the strains of that perfect music millinery. still in her ears, she declared to her­ Denny, watching him with suspended The McKinney and Mayberry self that only selfishness, purs selflsh- breath, wondered If he cared. families spent Sunday in Eugene. The man himself did not look as If nesa, had raada her rebel at getting Edith's breakfast, wasting Edith's ha cared, or as If he even heard. With Before you breed your mares see Phillip Merriam returned to bead and shoulders erect he was mak­ dishes, and eating K/gtlr« biscuit Albany Friday to resume his work ing for tha stand. His face waa whlto centers: and only selflehtvess agatD on the railroad. He was injured and hiss Jaw firm-aet; but there waa had grudged Edith the Sleigh ride with in a motor car accident and came that In hit ayes that caused the girl to John Kennleon that afteiiboon. This home to recuperate. Two other glow suddenly aa with hidden fire. A t Halsey Fridays was not, Indeed, Exactly a new course men were seriously injured and For a tense Instant Bronoffsky, mo­ • f reasoning for K ite Denny to pursue were taken to the hospital, hut She had argued along the same Unas tion leas upon his stand, faced his orchestra; than slowly ba raised his Phillip was one of the lucky ones before. But tonight, especially, still ihaton. to eecape with minor injuries. nnder the sway of those marveloaslg True to John Kennlson'a prophecy, blended harmonies, the could aee noth­ H . B Sudtell and wife of Ban­ ing hut well deserved failure for any something did happen that evening. ning, Cel., were in Halsey Friday The orchestra knew that never before aecond fiddle who attempted to aaeerf work dona promptly and visiting friends. They stayed with had they played as they ware playing AH his own Individuality. now—with such passion, such power, their son. Col Ben T. Pudtell of Pbona No, 26U.9 One by one the daya came and want. such a oneness of purpose. Albaoy, until Tueodiy. The (wo Te Edith and her mother they seemed The audience knew only that never men were looking over their farm, not unlike many other daya long before had they heard forty Instru­ oear Halsey, Monday. passed To Kate Denny they were ments sound so exactly as one. LIC R N SED F U N E R A L DIRECTO RS hardly dlaalmllar. except, perhaps for Mrs. Amanda Anderson of Se­ The critics—between the number« H A RRISBU RG LEBANON the growing frequency of John Kennl- | the critics talked enthusiastically of ism is visiting Mrs. J. C- Bramwell. Phone 33 Phone 15 son's visits. Not that she heroelf saw the new leader who bad that night Branches at The steam roller that was un­ so much of him, but that gbg knew ho been born. From their lipa dropped Brownsville, Phone 17C15. loaded at the depot Saturday ia not was there, and that his yreseneo hogan learned phrase«: Ha did not over­ Io mean so much to her that she was drive his orchestra; be «ought no in ­ Halsey Phone 1S6, Frank Kirk Mgv for use in the coming election. frtghtaned. The Scandia Shipbuilding company due din of b ran and drum ; he was Very rr.nsdentionaly these days Kate nsually hare an will use it on ita contract on the careful of the quality aa well a.« the Denny was leaving to Edith the crisp I quantity of tone; ha had balance, -----accumulation of Halsey-Harrisburg road brown of the biscuits, and the exrlw poise, power: he ordered the pace of article« no longerlneeded, or «ncceeded J; attentions of John Kennlaoo— i his mush- Judiciously, and be moulded by better one« which somebody would George Causal is moving to Hal both of which Edith claimed as her ( Its phrases with a masterly hand like to obtain. 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