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to
He plans to go directly Mexico where his first stop will be Durango, where he was born, There he will prepare vocal num- bers and orchestrations for his concerts. He then plans to do a concert in Mexico City, followed by visits to Guadalajara, and Veracruz.
Before sailing for Europe he is to pass a low wecks in New York preparing more songs and work- ing on his play IT'S ANOTHER STORY, which is to be presented in London during the autumn season with Navarro as author,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934.
QUEEN CHRISTINA
New Exclusive Serial
"LITTLE WOMEN"
CHAPTER E
The Queen and 'Aage, riding far out into the country, come upon a cavalcade in distress. The coach. of the Spanish nobleman-Don Antonio-is mired in a snow drift Christina directs the men as to the way to release it. Don Antonio, "mistaking her sex and rank, has his servant give her a tip. Aage knows no Spanish, but is horried at the whole proceeding. Chris- tina makes him promise not to let anyone at the inn, whither they are going to spend the night, know who she is
dis- Don Antonio covers she is not one of the peo-. ple, but still thinks nèr a young There man. They sup together. Is but one room in the inn which
·Christina has engaged. The land- lord suggests she share it with the
Spaniard.
"I am loathe to ask so great favour of a stranger-even one so gracious and companionable as you have, proved" he said. "But you are not. "In spirits, a stranger. You speak my tongue you tell me you are interested in my couh try-you seem to know more of our artists and writers than many of our noblemen da."
"
"You were asking me of Toledo and Cadiz" went on Don Antonio. "I will tell you of them. of the bullfights at Madrid and the dan- cing at Seville. I will quote you I will even sing from our poets.
serenades for you. Pedro shall bring his guitar. My voice, I am told, is not unpleasant.
I would like to hear what you have to tell me" said Christina.. "But can we not sit here? See, the other guests are leaving. It will be quiet. There was appeal in her voice..
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"Sit here the whole night? I fear you would be weary-even with me as an entertainer."
"will give you the room, gladly she answered. "I am accustomed to little sleep. It will not incom- mqde me, in the least."
"But Your Lordship, you can see I could no; allow such a sacri- fice."
He will go on his way and we will never see him again."
"I do not like business" said Aage. I wish we were safe pack at the palace."
They sat long at the table, be- fore the fire, talking. Christina was deeply interested in the con- versation for its self...but she also wished to put off a long 49 104-. sible the moment when they must retire. They were talking of love.
" is a question of climate" said Don. Antonio, that makes our approach to love differ from yours. You can't serenade a girl In a snowstorm."
"It does not show in Sweden every day" said Christina
Not all the "Of course not. graces and the arts of love, the elaborate approaches which make the game of love amusing, can be practiced only in those countries that quiver in the beat of the sun,
in
the still, langorous nights where every breeze caresses with
amour."'
"Love, in this country, must be like a meal gobbled in hunger. In the south, it is a prolonged ban- quet, stimulated by savories and "enjoyed by ritual.”
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"It sounds glamorous" she said, and yet "It seems to me rather mechanical proscribed by fashion. and hemmed in by rules”.
"I am, speaking of amour-bot of love."
"Evidently, you Spaniards make too much fuss about a simple, ele- mental thing like love. We Swedes are more direct."
}
*But that is. civilization-to disguise the elemental with the glamorous."
"I don't know,” Beth said mis- erably. "How does it start? With headaches, and sore thaat, and queer feelings all over?”
T don't remember," Jo sald bruskly, her own throat tighten- Ing. "Come on-we'll get you into bed!"
"For swiftly fixing moments all was nervous hustle and contu- slon Hammah was sent for the doctor. Laurle summoned to take Amy to stay with Aunt March. Amy rebelled, declaring she would rather have scarlet fe- ver and die before going to Aunt March's. Je understood her little sister's reluctance. She, herself, had been able to endure Aunt March's baletul diaposition only through the alluring dream of a promised European trip which should one day be hers.
But she pleaded with Amy, who yielded at fast, only on Laurie's assurance that he would come every day to take her for a drive. And then, at last, the doctor came. And when he had gone Meg and Jo faced each other. whitelipped.
"I naver forgive myself." Jo cried huskily. "I've let her go to the Hummel's every day. I'ought to have gone myself.".
"No," Meg protested... "It's my fault. I'm the oldest: I promised Marmee I'd look after you all—” She bit her lips painfully to keep them steady
They took counsel with Hannah Should they telegraph Marmee?
but she advised against it, -
"The poor lady can't leave your father, and it'll only make her more anxious." Hannah And sadly the girls yielded to her Insistence.
ה
clung to each other, trembling. Then slowly they went down- stairs to let the doctor out. Back in the living-room winch once had rung with hap py laughter and now seemed strange and unfriendly, abandoned .by contentment
and peace, they papsed for 2, moment, staring unseeingty pé- fore them listening to the raid beating dully against the win- dow-pares
I'll get Laurle to send a tele- gram" Jo managed pressently.
Meg nodded. unable to speak. Heavily she climbed the stairs again to Beth's room.
Laurie, hastening over after observing the doctor's departure. to inquire for Beth, was shocked at Jos white face in the gather- ing gloom of the rainy afternoon.
On. Jo is it that bad?" he whispered tearfully.
She nodded wordlessly. "You must send for Mother,” she said with an effort, after a moment. "On" burst from her poignant- ly. "If only she were here!"
"She will be." Laurie's volde was surprisingly sure and con-.. soling. His arm steadied her comfortingly. "Grandfather and I got fidgety," ht explained. "You know, Grandfather promied your mother he'd let her know how thing were. She'd never forgive him --so we yesterday," he ended hastily. "She'll be here this afternoon on the two-fifteen train-and I'm going to "meet her."
telegraphed
"Oh, Laurie Laurie!" Laughing and crying hysterically, Jo flung her arms urged.
about his neck and
Grimly, relentlessly the days went by. And the doublé burden of fear for their father and fear for their adored sister was light- "We are more simple. We are
ed by reassuring news from Wash- healthy. We don't need such dis-ington, and made heavier again by guises.
"But how can you nourish a pure love a great love with a point of view like this?"
"Great Love! Pure love!" she retorted;
"Don't you believe in their
pos sibility?"
"In their possibility-yes. But not in their existence. A great love-a perfect love is illusory. It is in the omagination. It is the golden fable of which we all dream-but in the work-a-day world, it just dosen't happen. One must be dontent with less."
"You are cynical" said Don An- tonio...
"Not at all. I am only dealistic. And now, let us talk of other than love. That is a matter of which a man and a woman can talk to each other endlessly....but we men have other concerns."-I would hear of your art galleries, of your festivals, I would know how your peasants live. In fact, I would like to know all about Spain."
She laughed and he smiled,
"It is a bog order you give me.
devoted child of Spain that I am
I know my country", but if you
will allow me to say so, your cur-
Iosity is insatiable. Why, may I ask,
are you so interested in Spain?"
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"I love what I have read and heard of Spain-there are country- men of yours at our court, you know. But it is, not Spain only in which I have a deep interest. I. would like to know about all the countries of the world"
"You are. Indeed, insatiable” he said. "You will pardon me when I say belleve me, I mean no of- fense--I had not expected' to meet on this journey of mine through your country, a young man so well versed. In our history, our litera- ture, our art as you have proved to be.".
We are not all barbarians" ahe
will think me inhospitable and unkind, but the truth 19– please forgive me-but since I was little-since I was a child, I have always disliked sharing aroom with anyone. So, please, you take the rbom and I will go elsewhere. I.. "Ah, I hve offended you". Don #Antonio apologized. "It is doubly stupid of me, because we have
do not mind riding at night.”
"Am I so unpresentable de
said.
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manners disgust you? Does my speech bore you? Of course, if you and me unbrearable, I crave your forgiveness for having imposed myself on you for so long. I bid you goodnight, sir."
He had risen from the table and now he bowed low and made as if to depart.
..
"Please" called Chistine. "Say no more, most gracious sir sald Don Antonio. “I ahali sit" before this are all night."-
"No, no" said Christina. "I can not have that. You shall share the room with me.
thank you from the bottom of my heart, sir. I'll do my best to entertain you, so you will never febret this great kindness to a stranger."
"Landlord" sald, Christina "an- other bowl of pinch feel that I need it And be so 'good as to summon my servant I win to give him instruction
When Aage apeared, she drew him aside hud spoke in tones so low no one could hear her. "She knew she must tell him of the ar- rangement into which she had been forced. The inn was small He was sure to hear of it,
Tell
Queen is a blue-stocking. me, have you heard that our King is a sulter for her hand,”
"I believe I heard something to "But that effect" she answered.
I am not deeply interested in all the rumors about Queen Christ- pa.".
what the soldiers, said and what "From "what, I heard fonight you said, it would seem the Cheer knew the meaing of amour, if not of love."
"Oh, surely, you would not 'take seriously what drunken louts and s'. fun-loving youth said."
“I stand corrected. To return to Spain, as it were. Tell me how is it that you have nveer been there?"
the increasing fraility of the suf- fering child. Meg and Jo avoid- ed each other's eyes, unable to endure the mirroring of their de- sperately hidden féar. Dally, the doctor's face grew sterner as he made his fiequent visits.
"If Mr. March can leave her. husband, we'd better send for her," he said at last, as Meg and Jo and Hannsh followed him from the sick-room with ques- tioning, fearful eyes.
Hannah wrung her hands. "They'd have sent word days o sheafessed miserably.
For a moment vo and Meg
kissed him.
at
He held her comfortingly, his heart beating quickly with a new and deeper tenderness for this boyish companion of so many happy hours. "Well," he said at last, with an effort casualness "if you aren't going to kiss me again, I can't waste any more time! I've got to meet that train." "Bless you!" Jo smiled through her tears.' "Bless rou, Teddy!" Then, with eager feet, she has tened to whisper to Meg the thrill- ling news. Somehow, now, she felt that Beth would get well!
The doctor came back, Mr. Laurence came over, to sit, grave- faced, outside the door of the sick-room.
Within the room Hannah stood, numb with wear- iness and pain, at the foot of the small bed. Beside it. Jo and Meg clutched at each other for sup port, staring fearfully at the pale beloved face, Would those closed
scene from "Little Women" featuring Katherine Hepburn.
15 was a pleasant room, as the landlord had promised, and a roar- ing are made it warm and eneery. Don Antonio started to undress, then laughed and said:
"Don't you think since we are going to sleep together, that we should be introduced? I am Don Antonio Jose Miquel de is Prado, Count Pimenteill, Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Special Am- bassador from His Majesty, Philip. King of Spain, Aragon and Cas- tille."
"I have not been able to travel” the answered. "My studies have kept me busy and my people have not given their consent, yet, to my "And I am Count. Dohne? sald leaving Sweden. But some day, 1 Christina hope to go!!
Turning, he saw she was sitting "I hope it, with you. And when by the Ire.. you come to my country, you must "You must be tired," he said. stay with me. There is so muca 1, “Why don't you, ttọc, make ready would like to show you,
"You are most kind, sir. It would give the great pleasure, if I could to accept your kind offer
sleep?
eyelids never lift again? Present- ly the doctor stirred. laying the frall hand whose pulse he had been counting, gently down on 'the bed. A sudden hofror of fear paralyzed the waiting girls. Was he going to tell them that their Beth was gone?
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into the roin, she knelt with Meg - and Jo at the beside of their dar ling one, in a tear-wet silence of: thankfulness too deep for words.
But into their joy crept, pre- sently the shadow of a deeper plazm. Beth's convalescence was slow. It began to look as Ĺ Fate only momentarily had relented. Would she ever he really well and strong again, they wondered un- happy...
The rich lush splender of" sum- mer was burning bright when Beth first came downstairs, a de- licate small burden in Jo's strong BITS. As they settled her com- fortably in a pest of cusions, Lau- rie popped in, his eyes shining.
"Wait till she sees what I've brought for her!" he exclaimed "excitedly. Then stood proudly aside as John Brooke" opened the door, and ushered in-Father!
"After a stunned moment of unbelieving joy there stampede toward him, a veritable whirlwind of embracing arms. Even Beth struggled to unsteady And feet, lent strength by joy. as Mr, March" lifted the frail child to his heart and bent to plice her again on the sofa, the other's gazed silently at the em- brace of the two they had so nearly lost. Unnoticed, feeling that this moment was too sacred for even loving intrusion, John
was
Brooke and Laurle tiptoed out and away
ã
Then, clustering happily about Father, who sat on the sofa be- side Beth, the others broke into excitéd question
"How did you get here?...Why didn't you telegraph?...Are you all well?......You won't have to go back?......Tell us all about it!......"
And them the deep, loved voice of Father:
The doctor said I might come home-but I never could have-
hadn't managed if it
been for that splendid chap, John Brooke
where is he?"
For the first time they realized. that the others tactfully had left them together.
"He must have gone home," Meg side, her face blushing rosily
as her father continued;
"A son couldn't have been' more devoted......But I don't want to talk! I just want to look and look at these dear faces I've carried in my heart all these lonely difficult days and nights..."
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But no his voice trembled, 1.30 pm, Rugby Press News. with the emotion of relles as he 2.15 p.m., Close Down said gently:
"The fever's
turned. She's... sleeping naturally now."
The Lord be praised!" Han. nah breathed, mopping her. sufeaming eyes, with her apron.
The sound of carriage wheels in the driveway brought the girls softly from the room, swift-foot med down the stairs. Grandfather Laurence was before them. His eyes questioned them as his hand went toword the door, and bright- ened visibly as they nodded their relief. Then Laurie was usher- ing Marmee into the room. Fau sing only to lay her hand for an instant on the arm of her old friend in wordless gratitude, Mar mee hastened, up the staira,” At the door of Beth's room the doc- for whispered his encouraging. news. Then, slipping past him
There was no answer, He stood for a moment, as he could not mave, as speechless as he had been The landlord was dozing in the when the landlord, suggested their corner: the pinch wa song anée" sharing this roon. Then he stone
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