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SYNOPSIS.
Eleanora de Toscana was slnKlnj; In
Pari, which, perhaps, accounted for Ed
ward Courtlandt's appearance there. Mul
timillionaire, ho wandered about where
fancy dictated. lie mlcht be in Paris one
day and Kamchatka the next Following
the opera he rocs to a cafe and Is ac-
, CHAPTER II Continued.
Thoro -was a mlnuto wrinklo abovo
tho unknown's nose; the shadow of a
frown. "Sho is very beautiful."
"Briil Did 8ho send you after mo?
Give me her address. I have come all
tho way from Burma to seo Flora
,;Desimone."
" '"To seo her?" Sho unguardedly
clothed the question with contempt,
but sho instantly forced a smile to
neutralize the effect. Concerned with
her own defined conclusions, she lost
tho fine ironic bitterness that was in
the man's voice.
"Aye, indeed, to see her! Beautiful
as Venus, as alluring as Phryne, I
-want nothing so much as to see her.
to look into her eyes, to hear her
voice!"
"Is It Jealousy? I hear the tragic
note." The certainty of her ground
became as morass again. In his turn
he was puzzling her.
"Tragedy? I am an American. We
do not kill opera singers. Wo turn
them over to the critics. I wish to seo
the beautiful Flora, to ask her a tew
'questions. If she has sent you after
me, her address, my dear young lady,
her address." His eyes burned.
"I am afraid." And she was so.
This wasn't tho tone of a man madly
In love. It was wild anger.
"Afraid of what?"
"You."
"I will give you a hundred francs."
He produced a crisp note. "Do you
want it?"
She did not answer at once. Pres
ently she opened her purse, found a
stubby pencil and a 6lip of paper, and
wrote. "There it Is, monsieur." She
held out her hand for the banknote
. which, with a senso of bafflement, ho
gave her. She folded the note and
'stowed it away with the pencil.
"Thank you," said Courtlandt "Odd
paper, though." He turned it over.
v ,"'Ah,pi understand. You copy music"
:2jkX8' monsieur."
&'3jf$rKis time the nervous flicker of her
-eye's did not escape him. "You are
studying for the opera, perhaps?"
"Yee, that Is it"
' "Good night." He rose.
"Monsieur is not gallant"
COULDN'T MAKE THE TOUCH
Old Gentleman Would Put Up With
, One Disappointment, But He Was
Not Looking for Another.
Tho young man had borrowed five
dollars from the rich old man, prom
ising to bring it back ono week from
date. The millionaire let him have
It, and at tho promised tlmo the bor
rower brought it back.
."Now, Mr. Bullion," said the young
man, "I've been square -Uh you in
this matter, and I want Uuorrow ?50
for a fortnight."
Tho old man shook his bead.
"Sorry," ho said, "but I c&n'l let
you have it"
"Why not?" and tho young man was
greatly astonished.
''Because you have disappointed me,
and I don't want to be, disappointed
again."
The borrower was mqro surprised
ikan ever. ,
"What do you mean by being dlaop
pointed?" ho asked.
"TkK" oxDlnlned tho moneyed mas,
"I wns In my youth," ho replied, put
ting on his lint.
Tho bald rudeness of his departure
did not disturb her. Sho laughed soft
ly and rollovodly. Indeed, thoro wns
In tho laughter an essenco of mischief.
However, If ho cnrrlcd away a mys
tory, ho loft ono behind.
Tho young womnn waited live or ton
minutes, and, making suro that Court
Inndt had boon driven off, loft the
restaurant Round tho cornor sho on
gnged n cnrrlngo. So that was Ed
ward Courtlandt? Sho liked hia fnco;
thoro wns not a wenk lino in it, unless
stubbornness could bo called bucIi. Hut
to stny nwny for two years I To hldo
himself In Junglos, to bo heard of only
by his harebrained exploits! "Follow
him; see whoro ho goes," had been tho
command. For a moment ehe hnd re
belled, but hor curiosity wns not to
bo denied. Besides, of what uso was
friendship if not to bo tried? Sho
know nothing of tho rlddlo, sho hnd
never nsked n question openly. Sho
had accidentally seen a photograph
ono day, In a trunk tray, with this
man's nnmo scrawled across It, and
upon this flimsy base she had buildcd
n dozen romnnccs, ench of which Bho
had ruthlessly torn down to make
room for another; but still tho riddle
lay unsolved. Sho had thrown the
nnme into tho conversation many a
time, as ono might throw a bomb Into
a crowd which hnd no chnnco to es
cape. Fizzles! Tho man had been
calmly discussed and calmly dis
missed. At odd times an articlo in
the newspapers gavo her-"an oppor
tunity; still tho frank discussion, still
tho calm dismissal. Sho had learned
that tho man wns rich. Irresponsible,
vacillating, a plr.turesquo sort of fool.
But two years? What hnd kept him
away that long? A weak man, In love,
would not havo made so tamo a sur
render. Perhaps ho had not sur
rendered; perhaps neither of them
had.
And yet, he Bought tho Calabrlan.
Hero was another blind alley out of
which she had to rotrace her steps.
Bother! That Puck of Shakespearo
was right: What fools theso mortals
bo! Sho was very glad that sho pos
sessed a true senso of humor, spiced
with harmless audacity. What n dreary
world it must be to thoso who did not
know how and when to laugh! They
talked of tho daring of the American
woman; who but a Frenchwoman
would have dared what she, had this
night? The taxicab! Sho laughed.
And this man was wax In tho hands of
Jinv nrfittv woman who rnrrtn nlnntr!
So rumor had it. But sho knew that
rumor was only tho attenuated ghost
of Ananias, 'doomed forever to remain
on earth for the propagation of Inac
curate whispers. Wax! Why, sho
would have trusted herself in any sit
uation with a man with those eyes and
that angle of Jaw. It was all very
mystifying. "Follow him; -seo where
he goes." The frank-discussion, then,
and the calm dismissal were but a
woman's dissimulation. And ho bad
gone to Flora Deslraone's.
The carriage stopped before a hand
some apartment house in the Avenuo
do Wagram. The unknown got out,
gave the driver his fare, and rang the
concierge's bell. The sleepy guardian
opened tho door, touched bis gold
braided cap in recognition, and led the
way to the small electric lift- The
young woman entered and familiarly
pushed the button. The apartment in
which sho lived wan on the second
floor; and there was luxury every
where, but luxury subdued and
charmed by taste.
She threw aside her hat and wraps
with that manner of Inconsequence
which distinguishes the artistic tem
perament from th thrifty one, and
"I let you havo that flvo dollars, not
expecting ever to get it again, and I
did. Now, if I let you havo $50 I
should expect to get it again, and I
never would. No, sir," he added, con
clusively, "ono disappointment '.s
enough. Good day!" And that ended
it.
Failure of Artificial Focd.
That it is possible to llvo on arti
ficial food, or at least on the concen
trated extracts of certain staples, is
a common belief, and it has even
been predicted that somo day our
diet will consist of tabloid food. One
might live for a short tlmo In that
unsociable way, but recent Investiga
tion of diseases llko berl-beri, scurvy
and pellagra, which are almost cer
tainly caused by a deficiency In tho
diet, prove that such a llfo would bo
one of dlseaao and could not last
long.
Contrary,
Knlck "Does tho dentist drill your
tooth?" Knack "Yea; but ho can't
nuke them act right." -Judge.
pfveRotl on Into tho cozy dining room
Tho maid had arranged soma snud
wlchcs and n bottlo of light wine. She
ato and drank, whllo Intermittent
smiles played across hor merry fnco,
Having satisfied hor hunger, she
opened hor purso nnd oxtrnctod tho
banknote. Sho stuoothod It out and
Inughod nloud,
"Oh, If only ho had taken mo for a
rldo in tho tnxlcab!" Sho bubbled
again with merriment.
Suddenly sho snranK up. as If In
spired, nnd dashed Into nnothor room
n. study. Sho enmo back with pen and
Ink, and with a colorlty that camo of
long practice, drew llvo straight linos
across tho faint violet faco of tho bank
note. Within theso Hues sho mado HI
tlo dots at tho ton and bottom of
stubby perpendicular strokos. nnd
strango intorllnenl hieroglyphics, nnd
sweeping curves, all of which would
havo nuzzled an EuyntoloKlat If ho
were unused to tho ways of musicians
Carefully sho dried tho composition
nnd then put tho noto nwny. Some
dnv sho would confound him by re
turning It.
A llttlo later her fingers wore mov
Ing softly o'vor tho piano koys; molo
dies In minor, snd and haunting nnd
olustvo, melodies that hnd novor been
put on paper nnd would always bo her
own; In them she might lenp from
comedy to tragedy, from lnughtcr to
tears, nnd only sho would know. Tho
midnight adventuro was forgotten, nnd
tho horo of it, too. With her eyes
closed and hor lltho body swaying
gently, sho let tho old weary pain In
hor heart tako hold again.
CHAPTER III.
The Beautiful Tigress.
Flora Dcsimono had been born in a
Calabrlan peasant's hut, and sho hnd
rolled in tho dust outsldo, yelling vlg
orously at all times. Specialists de
clare that tho reason for all great
singers coming from lowly origin Is
found in this early davelopmcnt of tho
throat Parents of means employ
nurses or sedatives to suppress or at
least to smother theso -infantile pro
tests against being thrust lnconsldor
atcly into tho turmoil of human be
ings. Flora yelled or slept, as tho
case might bo; hor parents woro
equally indifferent. They woro too
busily concerned with tho getting of
bread and wlno. Moreover, Flora was
one among many. Tho gods aro al
ways playing with tho Calabrlan pen
insula, heaving It up hero or throwing
it down thoro; 11 tcrremoto, tho earth
quake, tho terror. Here naturo tink
ere vicariously with souls; and sho sol
dom has time to complete her work.
Constant communion with death
makes for callosity of feeling; nnd tho
Calabrlans and tho Sicilians aro tho
crudest among tho civilized peoples.
Flora was ruthless.
Sho lived amazingly well In tho pre
mier of an apartment-hotel in the
Champs-Elysecs. In England and
America she had amassed a fortuno.
Given tho warm beauty of tho south
ern Italian, tho passion, tho tempera
ment, tho love of mischief, tho natural
cruelty, tho inordinato craving for at
tention and flattery, sho enlivened tho
nations with her affairs. And sho nov
or put a single beat of her heart Into
any of them. That Is why her volco ls
still splendid and hor beauty unchang
ing. Sho did not disslpato; calcula
tion 'always barred her inclination;
rather, she loitered about tho Forbid
den Tree and played that she bad
plucked the Apple. Sho had an ex
ample) to follow; Evo had nono.
Men scattered fortunes at her feet
as foolish Greeks scattered floral of
ferings at tho feet of their marblo
gods without provoking tho nonso of
reciprocity or generosity or mercy.
Sho had worked; ah, no ono would
ever know how hard. Sho had been
crushed, beaten, cursed, starved. That
sho had risen to tho heights in spito of
theso bruising verbs in no manner en
larged her pity, but dulled and vitiated
the little thero was of it Her mental
attitude toward humanity was child
ish; as, when the parent strikes, tho
child blindly striken back. Sho was
determined to play, to enjoy llfo, to
give back blow for blow, nor caring
where sho struck. Sho was going to
press the Julco from every grape. A
thousand odd years gone, sho would
havo led tho cry in Rome "Bread and
tho circus!" or "To tho Hons!" Sho
would have disturbed Nero's compla
cency, and bo would havo played an
obbllgato Instead of a solo at tho burn
ing. And sho was malico Incarnate.
They camo from all climes her lov
ers with roubles and lire and francs
and shillings and dollars; and thoso
who finally escaped her enchantment
did so Involuntarily, for lack of further
funds. They called her villas Clrco's
Isles. She hated but two things In tho
world; tho man sho could havo loved
and tho woman sho could not surpuss.
Somo ono was at tho speaklng-tubo.
Tho singer crossed tho room Impa
tiently. "What is it?" sho asked in
French.
Tho volco below answered with a
query In English. "Ia this tho Blgno
rlna Dealmono?"
"You. And now that my Identity la
established, who aro you and what do
you want at thin tlmo of night?"
"I am Edward Courtlandt."
"Well, what la It you vlHh?"nmlnby,
"You ouco did mo un 111 turn," camo
t.
up tho tubo. "I doolro that you make
somo reparation."
"Sntntod Mother! But It has taken
you n long tlmo to find out that I have
Injured you," alio mocked,
"Will you glvo mo hor nddreaa,
plonso? Your inoBuongor gavo mo
your nddrcsB, Inferring that you
wished to uuo mo."
"I?" Thoro wns no Impuachlng hor
astonishment.
"Yea, mndnmo."
"My dear Mr. Courtlnndt you aro
the last man In nil tho wide world I
wish to seo. And I do not quite llko
tho way you aro making your request"
"Do you not think, madnmo, that
you owo mo something?"
"No. Whnt I owo 1 pay. Think, Mr.
Courtlandt; think well."
"I do not understand," Impntlontly.
"Ebbono, I owo you nothing. Onco
I hoard you say 'I do not llko to aoo
you with tho Calabrlan; sho la woll,
you know.' I stood bohlnd you nt nn
othor tlmo when you said that I was a
fool."
"Madamo, I do not forgot that, thnt
Is pure Invention. You nro mlatakon."
"No. You woro. I nm no fool," A
light lnugh drifted down tho tubo.
"Madamo, I beglu to seo."
"Ah!"
"You bollovo what you wish to be
lieve." "I think not."
"I novor oven noticed you," care
losRly. "It la cany to forgot," cried tho diva,
furiously. "It Is easy for you to for
got, but not for me."
"Madamo, I do not forgot that you
entered my room that night . . ."
"I shall glvo you hor nddrctia," in
terrupted tho diva, hastily. Tho play
hnd gono far enough, much as sho
would havo liked to contlnuo It This
The Beautiful Tigress.
was going deeper thnn sho cored to
go. Sho gnvo tho address and added:
"Tonight sho Blngs nt tho Austrian nm
baBsador's. I glvo you this Information
gladly becauso I know that It will be
of no uso to you."
"Then I shall dlsponso with tho for
mality of thanking you. I add that I
wish you two-fold the misery you havo
carelessly and gratuitously coat mo
Good night!" Click! went tho llttlo
covering of tho tubo.
With tho aamo inward bitterness
that attends tho mental processes of a
performing tiger on bolng sent back to
Its cago, Courtlandt returned to his
taxicab. Ho wanted to roar and lash
and devour something. Instead, bo
could only twist tho ends of his mus
tache savagely. It did not acem pos
slblo that any woman could bo so full
of malice, Ho simply could not under
stand. It was essentially tho Italian
spirit; doubtless, till sho heard his
volco, she had forgotten all about tho
eplsodo that had foundored his ship
of happiness.
Her statement as to tho primal causo
was purely inventive. Thero was not
a grain of truth in It. He could not
possibly havo been so rudo. Ho had
been too lndlfferont Too indifferent!
Tho repetition of tho phraso mado him
sit straighten Pshaw ! It could not
bo that. Ho possessed a llttlo vanity;
If ho had not, hia history would not
havo been worth a Bcrawl. But ho do
nled tho possession vehemently, aa
men aro wont to do.
Too Indifferent! Was It possible
that ho had rousod hor enmity simply
becauso ho had mado it evident that
her charms did not Interest hlm? Bo
yond lifting his hat to hor, perhaps ex.
changing u comment on tho weathor,
hia courtesies had not bocm extended.
Courtlandt was pocullur In aomo re
wpocta. A woman attracted hlm. or
slut did not. In tho ono cano lie was
affablo, winning, plonaant, full of those
agroeablo llttlo aurprlaoa that In turn
attract n womnn, In tho other caao,
he paaaod on, for hia ImproHHlona were
Instant and did not require the usual
okirinlahlriK.
t'XO HIS CQNTJNUlfDJ
FAMOUS DOLL'S HOUSE.
UTRECHT HAS ABODE THAT IS
IN A MEASURE UNIQUE.
In the Queen Anne Stylo, It la Do
dared to Da a Complete Model of
Ita Time, to tho Smallest
Detail.
Of nil tho tronauroa Utrecht poa
H0B808 first nnd foromoat la Un world
famous dull'ii hoiiBU. It la tho puroat
Queen Anno nhodo, complete down to
tho tlnloat detail. Ordinary houses,
enn novor glvo tho ontlro Itlea of hor
period mi thin llttlo ono can. For,
naturally, In tho process of time tho
arrangement of everything altera; tho
Btructuro la rebuilt, furnlturo nnd
hanglnga wear out and nro discarded
and later ntylos are Introduced.
VhcroiH our doll'a house, mado not
Inter than tho end of tho 17th can
tury, hiiH remained bohlnd cloned glaan
doom, lovingly chorlahod by Dutch
IiouhowIvob, tho moat carwful and con
servative of their kind, anil It nhowa
un Just how tho Dutchman of those
dayn lived, and very much how tho
Englishman of a rathor lato iluto ar
ranged hia homo.
And now to como to tho doll'a houao
mid Ita hlatory.
It hiitt evidently nlwnya boon consid
ered a masterpiece, for ho long ngo na
17.18 wo And literature on tho subject.
Tho chronicler Bays that It owea Ita
oxlatcnco to n noblo lady of Amster
dam, but dooa not glvo hor name. Not
only did alio lavish yeara and tho ut
most loving cnr upon hor hobby, but
It coat hor a amnll fortuno boaldea, cer
tainly over Jfi.OOO. It was probably
bogun toward 1C7R and finished about
1C90.
Wo know that In tho early days or
tho 18th century It belonged to a rich
Amatordnm tobacco merchant, from
whom It pasHod to hia daughter, who
married a man with tho romnntlo
nnmo of Slob. Mm. Slob boquoathod
It to hor daughter, who aluo loft It to
a daughter. Thl lady died at a very
groat ago In Utrecht, loavlng tho doll's
houao aa a logncy to tho city.
Not only thin, but It had oleo gone
through a crisis that fow doll hounon
can bonut of. It had actually been '
burgled. Ono dnrk night In 1831, when
It waB temporarily located In a coun
try village, thieves broko through nnd
etolo not only tho gilt chnndollar, tho
pride of tho drawing-room, but also
tho slivered flrolrona, n tortolno nholl
Inlaid cabinet, a chest of nmbor, Inlaid
with gold nnd Ivory, nnd tho pinto
chest full of baby apoonn and forks.
Luckily tho houao wna no amply pro
vided that tho furnlturo wan not
mlBBod, but tho owner, dlatrosnod thnt
tho dolla should bo driven to cat with
tholr fingers, at onco ordered a simi
lar set to bo mado na quickly na possi
ble Labeled the Children.
Tho crowded water front of tho old
Canton of a century ago, with Its
thronging onmpanB alive from ntom
to Htorn with nwnrmlng children, is
vividly pictured In tho "Memoirs of
William Hlckoy." In hia account of
tho Innumornblo boats that covered
tho river for mllo after mile, Mr.
Hlckoy describes n novel mothod of
protecting tho children of tho floating
city from tho dangers of tho water.
Each child woro a largo vogcUtblo
tomothlng llko a gourd or vumpkln
fnstcndd to Its bnck. Tho vogotablo
Was buoyant, of coumo, and, If tho
Infant fell overboard, floated it until
:ho child was picked up by Its par
ents or tho occupants of any othor
lampan thnt happonod to bo nonr. Thin
rcgotnblo life-preserver hnd tho nnmo
ind station of tho anmpan to which It
bolonged cut In Chlncso characters
ipon It, and by thnt means tho rescu
ers could nt onco Identify tho child:
Uherwlso, In such n multitude of boats
treat confusion would have nrlaon. It
lenrcely over happonod that nnyono
rns drowned.
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London's Newest Museum.
Tho Hlntoricnl Medical musoum la
London's newest musoum. Tho col
lections, which occupy a spneo of 40,
000 foot, nro extraordinarily compro
bonslvo In character. Tlioro aro relics
f famous mon in medlclno and aclonco
goncrnlly, a reconstruction of early
laboratories and old chemists' shops,
models of hospitals of tho nlxtoonth
eontury, and alclc rooms of tho porlod,
built after nuthentle plana and nlc.
ures. Another section will bo devoted
o primitive medlclno and to churms
snd amulets.
Puts Airships In Prayers.
Undor tho ordora of Emperor Will-
am, as tno nonu of tho Lutheran
hurch, and with tho consent of the
Lutheran synod, tho general prnyor,
which la Bald weekly In all I jUthnrnn
churches, now nslcu the protection of
God for the aerial sorvlco iih well an
for tho army and navy, TJio aoutence,
na amended, reada;
"Protect tho king's army and thn
ontlro Gorman war forcea on I nnd nnd
hor, and particularly th ahlpa and air.
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