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JsSlffiRS£.4!!Kfi, t£H^l M ^ A?rS > riev *°- NEWARK,. NEW , WEDNESDAY; APRIL id, i* $i.coPer Yeaf. VOL (I'M E\* Nt'MBER. By MBS. gtrMPHEEt^WAED, iu:Tijpft 6P VBOCJER T ELS MERE,' plications, its climax. While it'had been^^S 111 '^ oi »>«ost human mid practical going on be had been only half conscious of' reality. Ho baw agreiit actress absorbed m:! ' • • ' • • -•- • -•- - - * - \ -'- • Q t .. than- herself it wiis but three weeks slues -hey had parted with Isabel Bretherton in ite bearings, hajf .cgasdauggfJuinaeif.. _Wal- the, excitement of tbeVinosi;. stimulating of-• Paris,-and-ifchey yrorei feeling on this first lace's Totter had made him sehsiblo-of' thesit-, 1 ll^es, her .power ripening, from year to year, [night-something of the anxiety and responsi- uation, as.it , concerned himself, with a deei- |.1ier fame growing and widening with t'inio; r h--hty which parents feel when they laonclia si ve sharpness and completeness. There yas' and'beside this brilliant-vision he saw him- child upon whom they-have expended' their no possibility of any further self delusion; -se.lf; the <u^iet iiian sllettEfs, with-the-eiithu-J best efforts into a critical world, the last defenses' were overcome,-the last veil. siasms of youth behind hiin f tho calm of mid. L 4s for Eustace, he : alsa had, but that afteiv between himself and' the pursuing force dloago- before -him. What possible link could [noon arrived in London. He-had been paying which had overtaken him had falfeh,. WidrtW^heietw^en thenir Kendal, with, a, shiver of Trin.^onnt^hhn-i- At.fast Wallace's'letter cleared still- furthejf.! tb -e north, and had so lengthened it out, in self looking straight into the wide, hungry too issues of the conflict, or rather it led to accordance with the whim wbich_Jiaii token *yes of JwOveL_Oh, was this' lave—soro de-\ Kendal's \making a fatalist compact with ' possession of him,in Surrey, that he had sire,. tliis,:(iunlb craving, this restlessness, of himself. Ee was weary-of the struggle, ^ind inissed allthe preparations for \Elvira' and the-wholo.-boin,;??' - \-- . '-. ifcseomed to him that he must somehow or {-bad arrived hpon-the- seeno-pnly at the The bees -hummed among the heather;,! otueF csoa P 8 £\ o m the - S''ip ill which his.hfe every now and f hen.a littlo 'In-own streaked ' w «s held. He must somehow deaden this lizard rustled faintly besido him, a pairiif 'sense, xWs«tW8r.-6ense--i.fIoss,.If it were only kingfishers flashed across the pond. But he b J' postponing the Inst renunciation. Ho saw-and heard nothing, l-esponsive.ns every would go badito his work and force, himself sense in him commonly was.to the details of. not to hate. it. It was.his only refuge, and [^tbe wild life about lilm. His own misesable benrast cling, to,it for. dearJifa^AmdJlfi. ,.,,*-•«•• -reverre'-aBsorbed-bnfi- What•• was\ it that\ iV¥l ? 1 *W\ Bot seedier again-till-the.--nighk of--the-' the-.GallioBp .onth.<>..mglit ofthQ2Qtlija£-Hd>v. hadmadeliliochVi«of .-t&osooai'lyweeks.iu,' 111- ^ performance^^-of''Elvira.\ Sho would fTCmhor. . July imntttiiately after his parting with her,} 00 in 'London m « month's time, but ho Would i _And.nowncrojie vvns^ weanjng.Qut wardly WTiat was it 'which had added \zest to'bi* tnl?9 < i(iv ' 1 '1° ^ B ohfor rea'cuT 'lie •wot^no.fpreeiseTyTlo - saine ...aspect of, interested ex?. Lworki-nndenchai^mouttothesuminiirboaul'y meet those gii>rious eyes, or'jouch..tiia.yimn'iI J pectatioii as jiliqso around hiimand. all the \Presently she looked up, with, her great ,~ -eyes.swiiiimiug in tears, aiid tried to impress on, me thatl was speaking. hastilv; that I had ah-ideal for that play-sue cottM never propir ise to reach\? that it was my friendship lor ' her that made ma change iny -mind; -that there might be practical' difficulties now thai so many awangements: had. been aiiader'and so <3n. But I would not listen, to hor. I had it al> ready; I had an actor \to propose to her for Maclas, aud even the costumes iiniuyj.\ mind, ready to sketch'for \her if neetlwerfe _,F6rbes, 1 suggested,, might, uiid would Vlireci .. fhe setting of\ the pieqo; m> one -ootrld do it with moi'e perfect knowledge-or u. moi'oex- quisite tasto; and lor her, us .we both knew,. .hBAvoi(M turn Mvne jiatnter, if necessary,\ ^.nd so I ramblfrij- Cm, southing her s>lriii;; feelings and my o^tti unti guile, her put uf her att; and shrinking into one.at interl'hi. \l!ut by the time the ot had noi-ijui, a Uiii'i'L cons- all, thu vvaj aomo *he wi; eourso, got uux-i>ais, luid'i cgau to tniak l-hut lay blunder ii;d bu-i'ii iriviiurniili-,; but, utai.y .rate, I was determined not to l«t\ tuo thiuj; linger nil. .So .liiat h.lu'ii the tii.ueauvievix .asked.mj tu-stny-uul MI;! wu-ii ill-- iiu;i<i hi-r,' XsuppeJ, and alu-i vv.ii-.i.-. iii Uf .* i:.', a IMM.V JjtSiUght itont UelVre -tm-in a.-l• iiu.l uj.ij'cuj.'d to yniirVister I'm hilp.- 1 U-iieiv t-ua: I nlh she and her hinsluiul were ucquaiuU-u. «il.i «uiii had happened i,; (.ixfurd, «ind I-w;>; .-»-c-d rlmt _ Miss Dl'Ql.herti.iii would kno« thut tlw'*» re, so tliatji Mi u»~wuiu viii'ii^i ilniy 1'iiit women-, Hiii-ii the\ JI.L.UV, lir..\,' siuh Ui-.l, siich tin iti't'oi s:;iui'ithni^ uvei jaul i^awuy the rough jila^s. \I i.i •, \h:i: n:.e u-'i;:i,v..i.h tbO!'* ..••(--tlii'\\n 'i -s M'tll 'Ult Ah::ii• v.^lhult. r;:ali: in:j !.•.>».• ditii'.'uit it is. SI. do Cuateau- VillKC alnOned uI'lllgllUl B Jllld Mild IlOthlllJ, then he aski'it me a great mniiy ({.ucat-ioii!) about the jilay, and fimdly'taio no upiuiuii. (- it-xtrli whiehlu 1 1 wr.s i.lmust in dcspair^-sho t.iM t>)little^-- mitil, ja»t as I was-Kouig.away with \EiviraV fate iaiiil i|ii'.ie unsettled-, shu.&aia to, me Cviiu a smile i^iid a vvaiiii pru-V.uie L.I ihu ...uidi \ T-.uv.riu >. c.-iu • .v:.vl JA- I_.- „:.! : Waiter yotiyesor no!' \And today I.hav.e'been to sco. her, and the night has brought good luck: For 'Elvira,' my dear Kendal, will he jiroduced On or about the 'JOth 'uf -Xove:ii(.er, m this Sy vL Ei;*LSS 1 1?™ ™ \ : -\^ 1 - l \ St ^ \ f '^^ Pored -muluud.. oiU.de , they had to face the a long duty visit to some aged relatives in ment when the final coup was to be delivered; iliss Bretherton had herself seiithim_a wai^m note of invitation, containing an order for the first night and an appeal to him to coma and \judge .me as kindly aKtrUtU will let you.\ Anil be had answercd'her that, what-': ov^e^apJ^ejkJifl_uaiild. faa_in-his place ip vvuniug celebrity, a l-vii's.iUeu and discroiv-jied ' beauty! Ami from that abandonment and ; that, failure h\ i-n 1 c)!>:ily ii>r'.-Jee:i the •rise and up-pringiug of iievv and mdescrW *al>lo joy. lle-iitnl seen her, coliseious of de- ; fon t mid of <•>••» jpi>vi)rnlmv|imif.'n .jf lin r uiii| 1 persyniUity,' ,; turtrius to the' rain who had, . 'iviul-hor truly and j et had lov<>4 her, surely, '••from th\ very lietrimiing, and iimling in. his »lnwtj.-ui'-fresli^lory and mi a-li sulU»ient conso- lation. ^Tii.iliad been the inhv ,t trutli, the . center, the-l>rrm>} r>f^tr-htstbrrnghrrnral,l his • life. ' lie saw ii^n i.w ft':tii sharp distim'tliiss '—!:•>«• that every perii>;>ti<m was- iiitetlsinv-1 • by pm-a aij'1 luii-ji'iii;. i Tivcui, a«, f>« w^'iit-'i'Vi'? '-HUT ]un?t, be saw \-how .this .t'liiiKficmsneM* had been-gradually I invade.l .-11111 brolwti up by his t-is;er's .letters. ' He rcmi-mli.-ml tli\ iiier<.i!iil')iis nupatieuco' a>l ri'ul tlio ear.ier I.1U..S, fcjo 1 Marie ; iMij'.it bi;iiiiii^lakcii! \I.->abei Breth- e-f...»r u.iir.d !••• mr iieiivs-s yet\ \»he had grf|niii>.«ft.'i' ah\ \s-^e .w(fs learning, grow- I illg, '1 •'•'- J! I; '''-\ every day\ Absurd! lie ' should know it, but it. seemed tvThim impos CftAPTEIt VH. ^ Jsiijle to tellhcr.' ' It was a raiuv N.>vember-ii;ght. A soft,.! , \There are- Vhe;Stuairt-s,\ he -i,aid bending contimious-dmnpour i.av h ,.aliii' the, U>a<'. d ,°SV».to her, as tte orchestra struck up, \in don streets, without', 1..,-.w\.'cr nffectiu S tUeirK ho l \f*' to , ° lett ,' horbv ?> ^m>^e, will uinm:i:-i..u or'the i...:-tumi hri?\htii..vi.<.'f the' 3**' tl,cn ' 1 \'\-'\ it-begniS;. I am told, ho-has capital, f-f the hrjlhu-i.v of th» tins lamps. bael ! ^\'•kNiS.. lfRe a horse .lor this play.. nulla*! hack fr',*n mnunwral)!.' patches •', Evi ' r - V tlefatl. in it„ they say, is perfect, artis- of wau-r, an.levei'vr.-v,of, light seemed tohe, tiedlly and- .historically, and „tho time of broken l'.v the raiu\iii:-\i a hundred Miimmer- Preraranen has -been exeepti.nially short. i-M reiUefi.-ns. It Mai the h.-ur when all tho ^ h >\ ( \' 1 sL \. -rejiise,to begin againjivith the sortetv of which an luitiinitml London can '. \ w IllU ' 1 '' ld : r -' tl> . b' iy0 ui'^elf n : .-iv Urne!'] 'I cant ithe-uiiivcrsality^of the motives appealed to. Thedictioii if tbO'piece was the diction of Aif.red d-Vignyofof the Se'h.iolof Victor i.Hugo. It was, Indeed, rather a dramatic 'loTO-poem than a play in tliyjliodofn sense. - and it (lop?uded altogether for its success upon tho two characters of ilaejas aud El- -yira.. In devising the character of Macias fha Italian author had made use of a traditional Spanish type,, which has its historieulsourees,; -Bn.ihas itispii^ed many u-»£S]£tmsli poet from the Fifteenth ceutury downward. M.ac-ias. is knight, poet and lover, his hw-e ,is^a kind of Southern lninfiress^vhicji wTtliers'cvery other feeling in its neighborhood,, ami his tragic death'is tho only natural uudmg to a career -so^fierce and unqoutrolied. Elvira, with whom ilacias is in love,, the. daughter of • Kuno perna'ndez, is embodied gentleness aud, Virtue, until the-fierce progress of her fate has taught hor that.Juen are treacherous and .th&-w©F-ld*r-uelr- Foiilwivk+ye bud bega pros- perous and smooth until by a series of events- it had Ijceli -iiruught-ihtu • <iiitayiiiai.tt~WTtfa~ tgx> opposing 'LiiUatatsi-Hhgag -ui hui* father and of acenain Feruau- Per.-/, t« • tool and favorite of the powerful Ditku uX-i.'rllona. The ambition, and selfish passion of these two- men are enlisted against hei? Perez is. do- termiued to marry lief; her fatfieris detorV mined to sweep IVIacias out of the path of his own' political advancement. Tlie intrigue devised biiUveqn tlw .two is perfectly success- |ul. .Macias is. enticed away; Elvira, forced to believo that she is destirtcd and betrayed, is half driven, half entrapped into a marriage with- iPoryz, and Slacias, returning to claim her agai.nst a hundred obstacles, -meets the weddiiig party on their way back- to j,he piilare of thadukc. , .. \•> The rest, of the play represented, of course, thestruggle between the contending forces •' t thus developed. In- plan and mechanism tho story was-ono of a i^immou romantic typo, neither better nor. woi'so than, hmidreils o£ otbers of which the literary aehives of the' JTJ -boast is iti. the street,-,, hurrying to its dinner 1 \ r \ante! tell .v,,u,_exceL)f tli.at i,he had a ! first half of tho present century are full. It its aimv-enients, mid when the str •.-im »f iv>.i:«---.-:ee t>>it ^Iia-h-cimlil not be got over.'I reijuired all tho aid that fine'literary treat- out,, 'flow-in:; throu;h .the d!(T>:rent' I lT -' !i ' v ' < t ''' 1 ' '\ • - - i .-•*.-. -tu'l-: met ill all the ^i-eat re^m i>f .theatre ^oer.s dr.jers eliannef-' >>f the west 111 -•i-nu-li'V.res by th- 'srrttiu^i.^i'.ivard. The Hi-trrn end of '>-^—-street : was espe- cialiy cri.«;j!..'d,,and to was thvi'euiruiicii tua cert.i.u uai;r>iV street UvKlin^ nurthtuurd fr.-m 'plunged- in biisiuei>s,:aud itgi.jw vitt.ii- hope ^nd, cxiie-jtatiop,\ Ilow I' w.&U— how woall Wisji that you were hero: I feel more aud (Mrep^ir»Far&^ gave the. impulse of which the results; are - it, in win.-h .stoo.l tin- new bare !nt.'hiui7> of the Calliope. Outside the theatre i..«li. there, too > 1 •'•'\ : lK '> ha ' 1 \\ tU ' u «\'i»ii.;u.. Somouf wasa dense imr:-..f rtrtinj;. and lmmaii th\-.i....':er;;arts may g...t-.i-,: S ;!tty frtusht, -'had bc-.i able to kt-ep nisentiea) estimate of.. beings, only kept in order by the active vigi- tatt _f lv*y will soon fall into *iiupe.'* I the aetivss ami his personal admiratifin of lauec of the police, aiul w«\v.e.-ing to and fro -'* ul \' \-.aljftiv. said l^uidal, \he must be . the woman separate from one another. But'' «'.th kaleido.scopio rapidity. The IHIO of wisimtg.it w^ll over. I never .saw a house levideiitli Marie s s head' hair been confused,, corrtages seemed intermniatrle, aniL after better s>K-key_witli iritics.- W-1...1 by her heart. And then littlo by'lit- those who emerged from them LmdrmVthB 'uero he is cried Mine, do Chateau vieux, • betrajiiug her supyi^ss.ed cxeiteiaienT. in her 1 nervous little start. \Oh Air., Wallace, how loiv. are things guiug:\ crowd within, suiting up^ht-ihrnble stair' T'oor-WaUnce threw hun-.lt' into his seat, easo of the newlv decorated-tlreat-ru. The air ' looking the Tricrure of misirysof.ir as h,» insid 3 was- full of the hum of talk, and the - fa '\'\- whl< ' 1 1 ->-'\ture had molued in one of whole' crowd had a homogeneous,'almost a her cheerfu!e=t moods, was capableof it. fanfflv .air i .'as thou-h tho contents of one ! ,\ lr J'' \ ,r ' ue - d \ Chqteauvieiix, I have great -London s-ilon had been poured into tho no m \.<- lum tuai1 tu ^ »»n-»« th» moon, theatre. E-vervbodv seemed to know every-. ^'^ r!iv:: ' ' ;t \'> : V m mi K d - and^vith ut body else.; there wiv >.httcians and artists, ; Fo1 '* s '\\ ,- : \- i! '* H V p <-'\lhipml- a hunxl,red and wrrteisi of booksfknown and unknown;, times oh'eady. and thafi.about ail I know. is peiations vvith t-hejjbj^vu^iljl^ t it 'would/have :. -eaied mi! evil, of vulgar in;.lodr.una .and turn it into trag- u,:: i : il'..T to begin ain- >v season with.it .\ j edy. But fortune Tiu.il been kind to it; the. i:W^>.i -<he_wi.se , I woudeH' 1 „ ---- '-^^ g -j subject haJ^eetrtA-tfitdy lialiiUi'd'ui tho ftajg \I .ivi'ti!: site did weil.io follow ha' fancy in I ian sketch with delicacy and true 'tragic m- tho i:i£.tt.r, and s-hv.. beraelf has had-plenty of | sight, aiul Edward Wallace had .brought all IniK-. S-io v,.u 'working at it .-all the f-'tho. resources of a very evenly trained aud wcs'k.s !-': -»«-. vnth-us, and j.ojui^ Hartiiig, j-cnticalMaiud w bear upon liis task. It could II'H-I'.IA. l:avu been-feivseen that, lie would be u'-ufacteil bv the silbj '-'-.rti ,..,,, , .,, • tlo hi.- incredulity had yield, d and his pohlt' gauntlet f.rthe dri.iping, curious, good teih of .grace, and- I.aU-1 l,r. .herton «ill of v ,,.. v hn( , ,.;,„„,,„, i nstt > a a „f imnatience rered inul;.tu.l-. outside, they had to face thi . j \\\ th.- sti-uggiing well dressed do you <!•>.' aluili cging up the ihmble stair Poor-\Va!lace t h»eii fiercely conscious of f<Vr days was jeal- ousy of Paul do' rhuteauvieux J jealousy .of his opportunities,-hit: influence, Ins relation swe\et nature. That, too,\ , ^^ . , . ^, , ... -.,, i BiSfl hcen one of his- dreams of thefnture-^ . ripenmg, and «s»u ottght to be herejuth us Wij,-..,]..;-^ tutoring'^a«dtraining her young, ^^playjpg in the body that, friend^g^ intelligence. He had done som\ -Wheu^eall,y«M s you SD read, y m splht. | til .;4 tow;m]s It ? h ,.,„„, as it WtireyU>wAtai ^^%?^^ , fWW} a *?^\fl&£faiiB which hadset free all this new and to me, thaH I caunois&y W^ma<;h ,iowe to.) mw j| 1ec . t<3(1 „ wre of poW( , 1% But] i f hb had 'there were fur wo,„e:, u „d wise women and ! Aa for the otiu-r actors, I suppose they will his juflu nee .mid*, msi friendship. .li<^ HS^fefiriaBd others ii-d watered and-others irould ' great ladies; and there was t,hat large sub- . get through their partssomehow, but at pi-es- - opened njS^eyes to so manx thins* .He was | g-^-S* f,, this rreat'eri is of her fortunes be ' stratum of faithful., but comi'.irative)/ iiiiihe- ent I feel like a man at the foot gf the gallows. •sokiBii to mo_even 'Wljexiiio thought leaXf-of | ha( | ^ uol ' hi b ug - to - llPr - 0th6r vofp<; s and , I less, pei-sn, :s „,, wlmni a, successful manager -There goes the bell; now for it.\ other hands had guided and directed her. : learns to depend With some confidence bii<any The sketch for the play of \Elvira.\ had Her kindly, grateful messages only sEuug and-' fir.-t night-of imporfiiice. '\' \ % been found among th«i papers of* a young tortured him. They seemed to him the mer-' And this was a flr\t night of exc-pt'ou- ] penniless ltaliai? wnr>. had died, almost^of est .friendly commonplace. In reality her '.able interest. Ho keen, jndeeil.rriavl been tho \ starvation, in his Roman garret during life had passed out of his ken; her iiature competition for tickets, that niuny of those had flowered into a now perfection, and he j present had as vague andeonfusud.au idea of had not been there to see or to help. She i l lo w they.camo to be among tho favored mul- woulfl never connect him with tho incidents titude pouring - into the Culliopo-as a man in or tho influences which had transformed fix- ' a street panic has of the devices by which, he istence to heiYand wouW probably irrevp'ca-' ,las struggled past the barrier which has, bly change the whole outline of her future, overthrown his neighbor. Miss Bretherton'•> Office be had' wdunded ann starred' her \and ' &* 1 appearmifu in me. I hope I shall*to£|aV>^jMrpraise.fi^m • him yet!' There! £%rust thaiPiviU rouse a little pleasant conceit in you. . She meant it, and it is true. I must go off and work at many things; Tomorrow or next day, after _some further talk, with her, I shall jet_o£t Lomewai-d, look up Forbes and begin opera- tions. She will be in town about three weeks fi'oui now—as you know she is going to stay first with your sister in .Paris—aud then wo shall havo hard woi'k till about the middle^ of-Koveniber, wben^-i-^uppwse-.tho play-«4U- be produced. T,his will bo more than a fort- Bight later than she .intended to-'open, and Mr. Worrallvpill probably be furious over the delay, but she has developed a will of her own lately, \* . » . \A.U revoir, then. You must have had a peaceful summer with your book and your heather. I wish I had anything like the same, digestion for work that yoil have; I iierer saw a man get as much pleasure out of his books as you do. To me, I eotifess, that, work is always work, and idleness a joy 1 \Bpwever no;, more idleness for me for a gpod while to come. How grand she will be in that last act! Where uere my eyes sprin{ *••••• seeing much had\ beeis the had despaired for awhile of undoing the im- \. subject of conversation for weeks past among precision made upon hoi-. But now he felt no tt faI \ larger nun ber of'London circles than quick anxiety, no fear how things might generally coneem themselves with theatrical. turn, tnlyassttied flatftoiiWiousness of di- I affairs. . Among those *lnch might be .said vision, of a life that had once beennear to his j t0 ho-.within, a certain literary and artistic swept away from him forever, of diverging circumference, people-were able to gilre defi- roads which no kindly fate would ever join I hite grounds for the public interest. The again. - - ' P lav - & w . a s sam > was'an'uuusually good one, For, by tho end of this time of solitary • mnl the-'prosress of the rehearsals had let waiting, his change of attitude was complete! ,, tooso a flood of rumors to the effect tua'. Miss It was-evident to him that his anticipation ' Bn therUbn's aeiing in it would bo a great of her fa.lure, polentas it had beeii over his surpriso to the public. 'Fui'therj from-the in- life, had never b>?en half so real, half so ' fellectu'arceiiter of thilig-. it w<i's-.oiily kuo«u B i U I vivid, a,- this new and strange fbrebodin^of ' that the fatuous b.-aut v nad returned to the 1 , as 'i her true success. Mario must be right. Ho ' scene of her triumphs- and tha' now, ns.in had oeen a mere blind, hair splitting pedant, the.seu-oi'i', on» of th.' first art iije-i uf the •-•\\\f^* •! judging' Isabel Brpthertoii by ptiii-ipics and social deiTi.-gnp ; laid i' d-ivtii. .>s iieces-ary .„ , ,.. ,. --,--*-, • ^' i > standards wiiich left out of couiit the inborn•* that yofi'sli-iTiIl, \flf»t M jail, s v her in.'the will get ™ aioliere at the Fjaneais, and | euel . gV) the natural power of growlh, of such theatre, and secondly, ftiiow fier-by fair ,a personality as hers. And tho more he had means,, if possible-, if n >t, by crooked oues^. once doubted, tho ffloro he_ now believed. ; in sooioty. Yes° she would bo great—she would make ^ It was nearly a .quarter taH. The orches- yonr sister will' take care that she sees the . right pe'ople. Porrault, I,bear, is to give her lessons—under the roso. Happy masr!'' Kendal reatl this letter on a glowing Au 4 gust morning as he walked homeward along th* sido of ihe.pond, where th\ shadcof th>; fir trees was a welcome protection against the rising heat and the air w:as fragrant with the scent of the ling, which wasjast out in all its first faint flush of beauty. U>-> threw himself down among it after ho had finished thp-sheets and scared tor long at the sunlit, motionless water, his hat drawn forward \OVeTtrts browsi So this was the' outcomoof i't all. Isabel Bretherton was about to be- come a great actress— tlndine had found her soiill Itseenipd to him, as he lay there buried in \the ling, that during the past three weeics he uad livebT'through a whole drania of feeljng —a drama which had its beeinnintr. its eom- ii. r. »life •mdHaV?*z-$ti •- upon- i.tjio had wor..ed with eiiUui.-msUi.' -^ TbvJ Ciirtoiii drew up un tho-great hall of the Villona palace,. E.voi'ythiiig that antiquarian' knowledge could dp had been brouuht.to bear upon the surroundings of 4hi?sCrtivi; the-deli--— cate tile nork of-tha walls and Hour, tho leather haugiugs, tho tapestries, tho carved wood and brass work, of a iSpamsh. pataco of the FiftccmU cuatm-y, had been tinned 'with lavish luaguificeuco; and the eiu«ded ex- pectant house divided its attention and ap- plause during .the first scene between , tho .. beauty and elaboration of its settni^-mjil the play of tha,two loiefable actoi-s- who repre- sented Elvira's fathei'aud therivalof Macias, » -Fernan i'erez; , •• ' , .* Fpriian Perez, having set the intrigue oji foot which \is to w-reck tho lovg ol Macias and p vira, KStt j.iist ri->en trom his seat when, Wallace, who Was v-iukhitig 'the stage in a torment of' mingled sati.sfa.'tiou and despair, touched Mnie. do Chat.iaiivifui's arm. . —\Xpw!\ ho said. '•That'door to tho left.\ Kendal, catching the sigimi, roso from his seat behind Mrne. do Chateauvieux and bent . foiiward. \The great door at the end of the palace bad slowly opened, and gliding through it with drooping hea'd and'-bands claspetLbefore hor came- Elvira,.followed hy. her little maid Beatnz. The storm which. gfeeted her ap'pearance was such as thrilled , ! tho pulses of thouldest.habituii i,n-t!ie theatre. t Tears, cai.no -to- -Maw^-Clutl and she looked up at her brotker. \Whatati^enc! It is overpowering—it is too much for iier! I wish they would let her go on!\ *. Kendal made her_ tio -austVer, his soul was in his eyes.; ho had, no senses fur any but oun' • person. She was there within a few yards ofliim, in all the sovereignty of-her -beauty, and her fame, invested with tho utmost ro- mance that circumstances could bpstow, and about, if half ho heard were true, to- reap a - great ar: .stic no less than a gn at personal tEiii.ai.pli . Had he felt toward lier only as tho public felt, it would havo been an experience bi'yotid tlie common run, aiid as it was—oh, tbisuchuigj iatulci'able sense otftli-sire,, of sep- i araliuu, i f irremediable neid! VV'as that her vbico? IIo had lieard that tone oi -despair ' >'--;i -A4 full. In her w:ay into.t-hat city of tho mind iu which -traliad taken their places and almost evi-ry ho himself hfid made his dwelling ijlace; she, seat .was \ too, svuuld ei.tej' upon the wnrlrr's.Tast inheri- tance of knowledge. Kli» woiili]- become, if only her,phytjical frame w-uved equal to the demands upon it, ens of that little band of interpreters, of milliste-l's of the idea,, by whom the intellectual fife of a su'eiety^is fed and „quickened. Was ho so lost in hjs own selfish, covetous heed as not to rejoice? •Oh, but sho was a woman^-sho was beauti Looking (he picture nf miser)/. 'those teeming years after 1HS0; wtiert poets gi-pw oi) 'every hedge and the romantic uas- s'inn was alu-oad. Tbo-skctch -bad appeared in ti little privately printed volume which. j itJieiorc-rUinier over areh.ng i the Juno Waraiih »a< in She white, outstretched hand hul om clasped in his own; thn-..> eyes looked with a passionate tro-ib! ,„,,„, s „ r , , °' K ' \[ - U J\ 'l r£)SS c '\\ cl \ *E-1 ward W-allafe had pickp.l up by chance on a ui h-fd f rTnfnV \ :ml T**?*!\ ?iea r' y ' '* h0 ' Paris ^\^ Ho llad \«d\tt in an idle h . m-J-in\ *\' ,e 1 t ' i, ' , \ , ;| u P lo J-«- ,!l themselye,, hour m a railway, liad ; seei, its capabilities, . i making a study ot the, menung stream and had forthwith set to work to develop the through then- cvpefa glares, 'ihey w^ere .sketch iutea'play. . But in .levijoprng it ho C bateau- haibcurefully jiceserved the ch-iraeter of the Dustaco Kendal, liis sister. Mine, d vie;!X,and bet! husband. - The Chateauvieux had tfaw'ed over Paris expremiy for the •occasion, and Mrne. de Cbaf.eauv.ifux, hor gray biue eyes/sparkling with expectation fufand he loved her-'! Dowhat he would, all • and all her small, delicate features aiive -with ideal and impersonal, considerations fell ut- | interest and animation, was'watching for! breathless story of love,, jealousy*, despair and terly away from him. Day by day he knew | the rising;.i^...tlip -heavy-velvet curtain with'jjdeath,, jnd told it_,direj>tly_ aji'l[.jmLgtog: nioro of bis own himBtl-day^y day-the^phi-.j-aB eagerBgss whigh brought down upon lier' .ruppedfy, without, \any^-lignter interludes. loBOpher grew weakerln. him and the man's I the-oecasibuSIniockery of herAusband, who i Author and adapter alike had trusted en- ^ ^^ claiiu fiercev. Before him perpetually were ' w as in reality, hoWsver, little less excited timlv to thfltrasrif-force ot^besitnaEioiraift '' 2ti\ original conception. .It was a cftni'eption Strictly of the Romantic time; and the exe- cution of it presented very little of that variety of tone which modern aiidi-'Jices-have learned to expect. Tile play tolJ one rapid. in oi.ijs, whoi. itirl That elain clo-o bad, onco > into his. AUy it, wa< gone, foi-evei-;' iMithin^ iv.-u!i ever recall it—that one qu-K'irTnriii.eut of liv- ing contact! In a deeper sense uuifniet tl)e • ear, sho Vas on Mie stage and he anto'ng tho audience. To the end,his,-gray life would play the part of spectator to hers, or else sue would i-tur have passed beyond his grasp and toui.-li, just, as Elv ira would have van- ished in a littlo while from the sight of-tap grpat audience which now hiing upon her everv movemoniy Contimiod+>n-|iaf;i-> .'fc Ladies' Spring Jackets at v . '- E, B. : EiJ.iot:t'a.
