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THE LADY EVELYN A Story of Today BY MAX PEMBERTON "Then your Ideas are of the French?" He put It to her with an ob ject Bhe could not divine, though she answered as quickly. "They are entirely English both In my preferences and my friendships," wis her re?!y, nor could she have told anyone why she put this affront upon lil in. "She's Kolng to make friends enough out yonder In the Fall," said Is-nid, whose quick ear caught the (one of their conversation. "I shall lal'o this lompany oer In September If we piny to any money this side. Mis-h Homney goes with me, and I promise her a good time nny way. America's the country for her talent. You've too many played-out actors over here. Most of them think them selves beautiful, and that's why their theatres close up." He laughed a Mattering tribute to his own cleverness, as much as to say "My theatres neer close up." Count Odin on his part smiled n little dryly as though he might jet have some thing to say to the proposed arrange ment. "Are you looking forward to the Journey, Miss Romney?" he asked Et ta In n low voice. "I am not thinking at all about It," she said very truthfuly. "Then perhaps you are looking backward," he suggested, but in such a low tone that even Izard did not hear him. When Etta turned her startled eyes upon him, he was already addressing some commonplace remark to his hostess, while Mr. Charles Izard amused himself by diligently check ing the total of the bill. "I could keep a steam yacht on what I pay for wine in this hotel," he remarked Jovially, addressing himself bo directly to the ladles that even his good dame protested. "My dear Charles," she exclaimed, "you are not suggesting that I have drunk It?" "Well, I hope some one has," was the affable retort. "Let's go and moke. It's suffocating In here." Etta had been greatly alarmed by the Count's remark, though she was Try far from believing that It could tear the sinister Interpretation which tor flrat alarm had put upon It. Thla fear of discovery had dogged her steps sine she quitted car home to embark upon as wild an adventure as young girl ever set her hand to; but if discovery came, she reflected, It weald not be at the bidding of a for eigner whom she had seen for the flrat time In her life but a few days ago. Bach wisdom permitted her quickly to recover ber composure, and aha plead ed the lateness of the hour and her ewn fatigue aa the best of reasons Jor leaving the hotel. "I am glad you were pleased," she said to Izard, holding out her hand directly they entered the hall. "Of course it has all been very dreadful to me and I'm Btlll In a dream about It The newspapers will tell me the truth to-morrow, I feel sure of It" He shook her hand and held It while he answered ber. "Don't you go thinking too much about the newspapers," he said, with a splendid sense of his own Import ance. "When Charles Izard says that a play's got to go, It's going, my dear, though the great William Shakespeare himself got out of his grave to write It down. You've done very well to night and you'll do better when you know your way about the stage. Go home and sleep on that, and let the critics spread themselves as much as they please." As before, when she had first come to the hotel, Mrs. Izard defied the warning glances thrown toward her ay the man of business and repeated ber honest praise of Etta's perform ante "It's years since I heard such en thusiasm In a theatre," she admitted; "why, Charles was quite beside him aelf. I do believe you made him cry, auy dear." The mere suggestion that the great nan could shed tears under any cir cumstances whatever appealed Irre sistibly to Count Odin's sense of humor. "Put that in the advertisement and you shall have all the town at your theatre. An Impressario's tears! They should be gathered In cups of jasper and of gold. But I Imagine that they will be," he added gayly before wish ing Etta a last good-night. "We Khnll meet again," he said to hor u little way apart. "I am the true believer In the ncoldent of des tiny. Lot us Hay au revolr rather than good-nijiht." - Etta looked him straight In the eyes and uaiil, "Good-night." CHAPTER IV. Two Personalities. Etta Romney was very early awake epon the following morning; and not for the first time since she had come to London did her environment so perplex her that some minutes passed before she could recall the circum stances which had brought her to that square room and mado her a stranger In a house of strangers. Leaping up with a young girl's agility, she drew the blind aside and looked out upon deserted Bedford Square,' as beautiful In that early light of morning as Bedford Square could ever be. How still It all was! Not a foot fall anywhere. No milk carts yet to rattle by and suggest the busy day. Nothing but a soft sunshine upon the drawn blinds, a lonely patch of grass beneath lonely trees, and great gaunt houses side by side and so close to gether that each appeared to be el bowing its neighbor for room In which to stand upright Etta returned to her bed and crouched upon it like a pretty wild animal, half afraid of the day. A whole troop of feari and hopes rushed upon her excited biulu. What bad she done? Of what madness had she not been guilty? To day the newspapers would tell her. If they told her father also her father whom she believed to be snug in distant Tuscany what then, nnd with what consequences to herself! A dreadful fear of this came upon her when she thought of It She hid her eyes from the light and could hear her own heart beating beneath the bed-clothes. She was not Etta now, but knew herself by another name, the name of Evelyn, which in this mood of repent ance became her better, she thought True, she had been Etta when she appeared before the people last night, the wild mad Etta, given to feverish dreams in her old Derbyshire home and trying to realize them here amid the garish scenes of London's drama tic life. But arrayed In the white garb of momentary penitence, she was Evelyn, the good nun's pupil; the docile gentle Evelyn awaiting the re demption of her father's promise that the gates of the world should not be shut forever upon her youth, but should open some day to the gal leries of a young girl's pleasure. It was the Etta in her which made her Impatient and unable to await the ap pointed time; the Etta which broke out in this mad escapade, ever trem bling upon the brink of discovery and fearful In Its possibilities of reproach and remorse. But the Evelyn reckon ed up the consequences and .was afraid of them. Etta sat up In her bed once more when she heard the newBboy In the square. The papers! Was It possible that they would telf the public all about last night's performance; that her name would figure In them; that she would be praised or blamed ac cording to the critics' Judgment? The thought made her heart beat She had been warned by that great man, Mr. Charles Izard, not to ujy too much attention to what 'ut papers said; but how could she help doing so? A woman 1b rarely as vain as a man, but in curiosity she far sur passes htm. Etta was Just dying of curiosity to read what the critics said about her when old Mrs. Wegg, her landlady, appeared with her morning tea; and this good dame she implored to bring up the newspapers at once. "I can't wait a minute, Mrs. Wegg," she said, for, of course, the old lady knew that she was a "theatrical." "Do please send Emma up at once it's ab solute torture." The excellent Mrs. Wegg waddled from the room leaving Etta to intoler able moments of suspense. When the newspapers came, a very bundle which she had ordered yesterday, she grab bed them at hazard, and catching up one of the morning halfpenny papers immediately read the disastrous head line. .".Poor -Play -at the Carlton.? 8o it was 'failure after all, then!' Her 'iart heat wlldjy; 'she hardly had the. rournge to proceed. TOOK PLAY AT THE CARLTON But A PERSONAL TRIUMPH FOR MISS ROMNBY 1'he Old Story of Haddon Hall Again The Star Which Did Not Fall To Shine Etta read now without taking her eyea from the paper. The notice would be described by Mr. Isard later In the day as a "streaky one" layers of praise and layers of blame follow ing one another as a rare tribute to the discretion .of the .writer,-' who had beeij far from sure if the play wonld he a success or a failure. rn.ejiorUng InnKiiage, the 'gentleman had "hedged" at every line, but his praise of Etta Romney was unstinted. "Here," he said, "is one of the moat nntural actresses recently discover ed upon the English stage. Miss Rom ney has sincerity, u charming pres ence, a feeling for this old woild com edy which it Is Impossible to over praise. We undertake to say that ex perience will make of her a great ac tress. Bhe has flashed upon our hori zon as one or two others have done to Instantly win the. favor of the public and the praise of the 'critic." Etta put the paper aside and took up a notice in a very 'different strain.' This was .from the stately pages of "The Thunderer;' Herein you had a dissertation upon Haddon Hall, the Elizabethan Drama, the Comedle Francalse, the weather, and the trage dies of Aeschylus. The wrlter.,thougbt the play a good specimen of its kind Ho, too, admitted that In Miss Etta Romney there was the making of a great actress; "But she is not English," ho pro tested, "we refuse to believe it An artiste who can recreateitbe atmos phere of n mediaeval age and win a verdict of conviction has not learnt her art In Jermyn Street. We look for the biographer to help us. Has the Porte St. Martin nothing to say to this story? Has Paris no share In it? We await the answer with some expectation. Here Is a comedy of which the Third Act should be mem orable. But whoever designed the scene in the chapel is capable do tout it So to the end did this amiable ap preciation applaud the player and tolerate the play for her sake. Etta understood that It must mean much to her; but sho was too feverishly Im patient to dwell upon It, and she turned to the "Daily Shuffler" wish lng that she had eyes to read all the papers at once. The "Dally Si .fler" w.ib very cruel: "Miss Etta Romney," it said, "Is worthy of better things. As n whole, the performance was beneath con tempt At the same time, we are not unprepared to hear that an Ignorant public Is ready to patronize It." Had Etta known that the author of this screed wsb a youth of eighteen, who bad asked for two stalls and been allotted but one, she might have been less crestfallen than Bhe was when her fingers discovered this considera ble thorn upon her roBe-bUBh. But she knew little of the drama and less than nothing of Its criticism; and there were tears in her eyes when she put the papers down. "How cruol," ulio snltl, "how could people write of otheia like that!" She did not believe tli.it she could have the heart to nail more, nnd might not havo done t-o had not little Dnlcle Holmes Hung tiFiself Into the room at that wy moment nnd positively screamed an expieselon of her rap ture. 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