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THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, SECTION 23 sort for me. Besides, I ain't a marrying man by all 'All sus Til do the best 1 can in the "So 1 bought a new outfit of clothes and a book on etiquette and made a dead set lor De Clinton. She was a line-looking cheerful and gax. I was easier than I had any idea At first, i almost had to hobble her to keep her from loping around at deorge's heels but finally 1 got her so she glad to go riding i me, and sailing on the lake: and she seemed leal hurt on the mornings when 1 forgot to send her a bunch of (lowers. Still, I didn't like the way she looked at (ieorge, sometimes, out of the corner of her eye.

(ieorge was having a fine time now. going with the whole bunch just as he pleased. Yes," continued Bell, "She certainly was a fine looking woman at that time. She's changed some since, as xon might have noticed at the supper table "What I exclaimed. ''I married Mrs De Clinton," went on Hell "One i we up at the a i I told (ieorge about U.

he opened his mouth and 1 thought he a "(lino to break our tradition-, and i a but he i i a i i "In- dug. I "hope ou a too much trouble i I not to m.irrx a veai's ago." --aid I 1 1 came to i For a a xt got along i line And i changed a hem a i a i class i nix name. on heard the roxx. upstairs i i That welcome compared to the a a a She'-- tired of me and of i i town i and she rage- all a like a panther in a cage I stood it i two weeks ago and then 1 had to send out The Call I located (ieorge in Sacramento i started the dax he got my wire." Mrs. Hell came out of the house i a us.

Some strong excitement or anxiety seemed to possess her. but she smiled a a i hostess smile, and tried to keep her xoice calm. "The dexv is falling," she said, "and its growing rather late. Wouldn't you gentlemen rather come into the house Hell took some cigars from his pocket and answered: "It's most too fine a night to turn in yet. 1 think Mr.

Ames and 1 will walk out along the road a mile or so and have another smoke. I want to talk with him about some goods that 1 want to buy." "Up the road or down the road?" asked Mrs. Rell "Down," said Hell. I thought she breathed a sigh of relief. When we had gone a hundred yards and the house became concealed trees.

guided me into thick grove a lined the road and back through them a the house again We stopped i i yards the house, concealed bv the dark shadows 1 wondered at this mameuver. And then 1 heard in the distance co'ning dowm the road bexond the house, the regular hootbcats of a team ot horses. Bell held his a in a rax of moonlight. "On time, i i a minute." he said. "That's (ieorge'-.

a The team slowed up as it drexv near the house and stopped in a patch of black sbadoxxs -axv the figure of a a a i a a a i i from the other side of the house, and hurry to the a i i ve- I hide Then it rolled a a briskly in the direction from which it had come. I looked at P.ell inquiringly. I sup- pose. I certainly asked him no question. "She's i a a i deoige." said Hell, simph.

i kept me posted about the progress of the scheme all along. She'll yet a divorce in six months and then (ieorge inarrx her. lie never helps anvhody a a It's all arranged between them." 1 began to wonder what friendship was, after a When we went into the house Hell began to talk easily on other subjects; and I look his cue. P.y and the big chance he had to buy out the business in Mountain City came back to my mind and I began to urge it upon him. Now that he xvas free, it would be easier for him to make the move; and he was sure of a splendid bargain.

Hell was silent for some minutes, but I looked at him I fancied that he thinking of something else--that he was not considering the project. "Why, 110, Mr. Ames," lie said, after a while'. "I can't make that deal. I'm aw ful a to you.

though, for telling me about it. Hut I got to stay lure. can't go to a i i "Why?" I asked. "Missis Hell." lie replied ''won't i in a i i She a the place and go (here I've got to keep right on in a i "Mrs. I exclaimed, too to coniecUirc a he meant "1 ought to a i said Hell "I know leovge and I know Mrs Hell lie's impatient i i a i can't stand i that fret him.

lonsj. like I can Six I i them--six- of married i and there'll be another i i Mrs Hell i co'iie back to me There's no other place for her to sjo. 1 ijot to stay here and a i At the end of I a to grab a satchel and catch the first a i For (ieorge will be sending out The Call." Opera and the American Singer (Continued from Page II) theatre in Mayence; Clarence Whitc- ln.ll. who made a great hit in ll'otan at Cologne: Robert Kent Parker, basso, of 1'ittsburg. who has sung at Cologne, Dresden and Antwerp; Marion Weed, 'who sang all the leading roles at the Stadt theater at Hamburg before she returned to this country; Florence Wickham.

daughter of a Judge of the Circuit Court of Pennsylvania, who was the leading dramatic soprano at Stettin in 10,08 before she was called to the Metropolitan Opera House last season; Alfred Picaver, an Albany boy, who has been for three years tenor at the Deutches Landes Theatre at Prague; and I lenrv Weldon. the basso in the Theatre de la Monnaie, in These comprise a random selection from a long list of i ained artists who a succeeded in opera here and abroad. I a not mentioned such i cases as (hose of i Frenistad. F.d\th Walker. Bessie and i a i Farrar.

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