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SINCLAIR
Copyright. 1916. by LMtte, lim
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'I wonder If I could?" Stella mur
mured. "I'm almost afraid to try."
She hurried away to some outly
ing part of the house, reappearing
in a few minutes with a dog eared
bundle of sheets in her hand. From
among these she selected three and
set them on the rack.
Benton whlstld when he glanced
over the music.
''J he Siren Sonar'," he grunted, i
What is it—something new? Lord,
look at the scale! Looks like one
of those screaming arias from the
"Flying Dutchman.' Some stunt!"
"Marchand composed it for the ex
press purpose of trying out voices,"
Stella said. "It is a stunt."
"You'll have to play your own
accompaniment," Charlie grinned
"That's too much for me.'
"Oh, just so you give me a little
support here and there," Stella told
him. "X can't sing sitting on a
piano stool."
Benton made a face at the music
and struck the keys.
It seemed to Stella nothing short
of a miracle. She had been mute i
so long. She had almost forgotten
what a tragedy losing her voice had i
been. And to find it again, to hear' i
it ring like a trumpet—it did! It i
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Bringing Up Father " # *™ Copyright, 1917, International News Service By
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v, as too bis for the room. She felt
hi't nlf caught np t ln a triumphant
t isy as .she sang. She found her
self blinking as the last note died
;iua ■. Her brother twisted about on
I the piano stool, fumbling for a
cigarette.
"And still they say they can't
come back," he remarked at last,
"Why, you're better than you ever
v re Stella. You've got the old
s\ i-tnoss and flexibility that dad
Used to rave about, but {Bur voice
Is bigger, somehow difr rent. It
gets under a man's skin."
She picked up the baby from the
floor, began to play with him. She
didn't want to talk. She wanted to
think, to gloat over and hug to her
self this miracle of her restored
voice. She was very quiet, very
much absorbed in her own reflec
tions until it was time, very shortly,
to put Jack Junior in his bed. That
was a function she made wholly her
own. The nurse might greet his
waking whimper in the morning and
minister to his wants throughout the
day, but Stella "tucked him in" his
crib every night. And after the
blue eyes were closed she sat there
very still, thinking. In a detached
way she was conscious of hearing
Charlie leave.
Later, when she was sitting be
side her dressing table brushing her
hair, Fyfe came in. He perched
himself on the foot rail of the bed
looking silently at her. She had
long grown used to that. It was a
familiar trick of his.
"How did it happen that you've
never tried your voice lately?" he
asked after a time.
"I gave It up long ago," she said.
"Didn't I ever tell you that I used
to sing and lost my voice?"
"No," he answered. "Charlie did
just now. You rather took my
breath away. It's wonderful. You'd
be a sensation in opera."
I might have been," she cor
rected. "That was one of my little
dreams. You don't know what a
grief It was to me when I got over
that throat trouble and found I
couldnY sing. I used to try and
try, end my voice would break every
timo. I lost all heart to try after
awhile. That was when I wanted
to take up nursing, and. they
wouldn't let me. I haven't thought
about singing for an age. I've
crooned lullabies to Jacky without
remembering that I once had vol
ume enough to drown out an accom
panist. Dad was awfully proud of
my voice."
"You've reason to be proud of it
now." Fyfe said slowly. "It's a voice
In ten thousand. What are you
going to do with It?"
"Nothing." she said, a trifle
tartly. "How can I? Granting that
my voice is worth the trouble would
you like me to go and stndv in the
east or abroad? Would you be will
ing to bear the expense of such an
undertaking? To have me lave Jack
to nursemaids and you to your
logs?"
"So that in the fullness of time
I might secure a little reflected glory
us the husband of Mme. Fyfe. the
famous soprano," he replied slowly.
\V ell, I can't say that's a particu
larly pleasing- prospect."
"Then why ask me what I'm go
ing to do with it?" she flung bade
impatiently. "It'll be an asset
like my looks—and—and"—
She dropped her face in her hands,
choking back an involuntary sob.
f yfe crossed the room at a bound
and put his aims around her.
Stella, Stella!" he cried sharply.
"Don't be a fool."
"D~don't be cross, Jack," she
whispered. "Please. I'm sorry I
simply can't help it. You don't un
derstand."
"Oh, don't I?" he said savagely.
"I understand too well; that's "a
woman's way—to feed her soul with
i'lusions and let the realities go
hang. Look here."
He caught her by the shoulders
and pulled her to her feet, facing
him. There was a tire in his eye, a
hard shutting together of his lips
that frightened her a little.
(To be continued.)
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"Isn't It Just great to get back to
the theater?" said Helen expectantly
from her chair. "It seems ages since
I've seen a good play."
"This ought to be good, too," War
ren said good-naturedly.
"Warren, you were a darling to
come," Helen exclaimed, impulsively.
"Well, I occasionally do things to
please you, don't I?"
"Not so spontaneously as you did
this, though. I was never so sur
prised in all my life as I was when
you actually offered to take me. You
know I've never been to a real first
night."
Warren grinned good-naturedly.
"I hope the play is as good as you
expect It to be,' he remarked. "Have
you seen the program? Here's
yours."
Helen took the programme and
ran her eyes quickly down the page,
niuimuring, "1 wonder who is In the
play besides the star?" Then lier
eyes became fixed on one name and
she almost gasped in her* astonish
ment.
"Why, Warren," she said sudden
ly, "Lola Wilcox is In this play. Did
you know It? I never even know she
had gone on the stage."
"I knew that," Warren returned
quickly, evading the first Question.
"Why didn't you even mention it
to me?"
"I know you didn't approve of her.
Women like you never do."
"Just what do you mean by that?"
"That women who are married,
living easy lives with plenty to eat
arid wear, can't understand the lives
of women who have to make a living
for themselves. You couldn't under
stand Lola Wilcox and her methods
of life probably any better than she
could understand yours."
"Do you understand her so well?"
"X understand her better than yon
do. X always admired her for her
fttltnde and the fact that she was
independent."
"Ves and the fact she showed so
plainly that she liked admiration,"
Helen could not help retorting. Well,
I hope she comes up to your expec
tations In this play."
She waited for lilm to say some
thing, to deny that he had known
that she was to be in the play, but
Warren made no effort to do this,
lie s'ropiy went on sti'dying his pro
gram and Helen felt battled. For
a moment she had a wild idea of
leaving. This was Just at first, how
ever, for she got control of herself
almost immediately and wondered
du'ly just how it was that she could
sit there so calmly.
So Warren had known that Lola
Wilcox hud become un actress, that
she was to appear in his play. How
like Fate 1o play a trlcit of this kind.
Out of all tfte plays in New York she,
Helen, had picked out the one play
that she wouldn't have seen for any
thing. Fhe tried to be calm and to
think logitfilly, she even tried to con
vince herself that Warren's knowing
all this did not necessarily mean tbu
he had rnything to do with I-iola Wil
cox. But she found this beyond her
power to believe.
All that she could do was to s't
sti 11. with a wooden feeling about
her heart and a stiffness that was al
ir.Otft Jike physical pain. Before any
lucre conversation could -be had on
the subject th's lights went down and
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but when one has reached the
maturity of four years, she may
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blue and buff with perfect pro
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the lawns and batistes and fab
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ones, but for later use this frock
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as perfectly as linen it is a prac
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receipt of ten cents.
the curtain up and Helen found lior
sclt looking eagerly for the appear
ance of this woman who had flashed
for the ffccond time into her life.
The plot was interesting, it claimed
the attention. In spite of herself
Helen tcund that she was absorbed
in the action. Then Lola Wilcox
came on l:i a cloth of gold gown and
a big black fa; ,
Cn the stagb as in life, she was to
typi'y that kind of woman that Hel
en feared and hated most. It is :\i&
Kind of woman tlyt most women
fear because of her mystery. It is
the kind of a woman known in the
movies as the vampire, but known
in more polite society as the woman
who does not show all her card's at
once, fuid keeps herself veiled !n a
svbtle mystery always calculated to
te;ir the heart of man right ou' of
his breast.
I Lola's speaking voice was clear,
and as she began to act Helen could
see that she had some talent. Given
a small part, she was making the
most of it, and the audience was
plainly with her. Her exit from the
stage evi:ed a ripple of applause,
and Helen glanced sidewise at War
ren to find a look of keen interest on
his face.
Helen was not sure how to pro
ceed, Her thoughts were In a tur
moil. She wondered if she hp.d done
wrong to show so plainly the fact
that she did not approve of Lola
Wilcox. Perhaps the other woman's
very subtleness, matched with Hel
en's transparent attitude, had kept
Warren's interest alive,
i Helen knew quite well that, if she
allowed herself to think, she could
Imagine anything. As it was the
strain on her wai quite evident. She
1 wished wildly that she had met Lola
Wilcox with more indifference than
| disapproval. In dealing with a wom
an of her typa it is necessary to light
| the woman herself, not the man who
is interested.
(WaUMi for tlie next installment of
tills absorbing .series.)
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A SOLDIER'S WIFE
Dear Miss Fairfax: —I am twenty
two and have been going with a
young man qne year my senior for
two years. One year and a half ago
lie joined a regiment, much against
my will, and ever since then we have
had little quarrels. His regiment has
been away since April, which caused
me nervousness, during- which time 1
wrote him a mean letter and he an
swered me. telling me that he would
only consider me as a friend, where
he has before offered to marry me. 1
have abrogated. As I love him. do
you think I can again regain his love?
—A. Z.
A soldier's wife has to be made oi
braver stuff than you show. I can
realize that you might not have want
ed your husband to join a regiment,
but none of us has the right to inter
fere with the individuality of the per
son we love. After all he could hardly
insist that his regiment come back
because a certain young woman was
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ter natured about the whole thing.
The only way to regain his love is to
prove that you aren't going to i>o a
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'fled. Good nature, sweetness, patience
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thrown In, are what you need.
WHAT IS HIS SIDE?
Dear Mlsa Fairfax:—l have been
married three years and my husband
positively refuses to allow me to visit
my mother. Rather than have words
over this I obey, although it breaks
my heart and I know my mother must
also suffer. She likes my husband,
but he will not be sociable. I went to
business the first two years of our
married life to help us along, but It
was not appreciated. There was a
baby, but It died. Please advise me.
1 am very lonely.
WORRIED.
What Is your husband's side of the
story? lie must have one, or else
he is such a brutal person that you
probably would have left him long
ago. I think that no daughter ought
to stay away from her mother, even
to be at peace with her husband, and
if you are weak enough to do this
and to know of no other way of keep
ing him satisfied, you really must be
a bit of a failure as a wife. I do
not mean to be hard, but 1 want to
make you think. I.ook ovtr the situ
ation carefully. Don't feel like a
martyr or an unappreciated wife, but
try to figure out how you can make
yourself respected. It is absolutely
your right to be friendly with your
mother, unless she has gravely offend
ed your husband or interfered in your
married life. If you will give yourself
over to working out your seemingly
tragic situation I think you will find
yourself too thoroughly occupied
with your puzzle to be lonely.
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