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Monday,
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PETER'S volce, cold with anger, broke into his sentence. He said only a few words and without giving Danchenoff a chance to answer broke the connection,
The director walked slowly back to the rehearsal. It was not to much now that he was angered. His curiosity was aroused. his im- agination intrigued.
"Mt. Tarandul" he said under his breath. "Since when has any girl preferred a commoner to a noble?
as he lost his mind? Or is she a lunatic? Or is she perhaps a Grand Duchess in disguise doing this for a lark?"
Lydin did not want to go with Peter the next day when he sug gested they go to Danchenoff for an audition. She was not as calve as she appeared to be. She knew it would be all but impossible for unknowns, socially as well as pro- fessionally, to be received by the Was arm great man. But Peter
and she was young and loved ad- venture. It would do no harm, cer- tainly, for them to ask. But she was horrified at Peter's conduct when they arrived in Danchenoll's reception room.
by
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The secretary refused to an- The im- nounce them, of course. presario saw applicants only written appointment. Peter tened gravely, then walked to the door leading into the private of flce. He began singing in a loud voice.
"Danchenoff! Dan-chen-off!" his wice rang out.
"What is this?"
roared
DAY SERIAL
"Only Lydia Marakova and Peter Taronda demand- ing on nudition."
"Let's go, Peter," sald Lydia in a wealt volee, a Danchenoff put on a threatening look and pointed to the outer door.
They did not go. For a few minutes Peter and Dancheлof went on acting: Peter as a young yokel, Danchenolf as an outraged director.
"Very
-well," sald Danthenor finally, "I do not want the scandal of culling the police to eject you. I will hear you sing. But when I pass judgment, it is the final word.
"That is all we ank," said Peter mildly. "We pro- mise to abide by your deefsion."
The orchestra was in the pit as the three of them entered the auditorium. "Carmen" was selected as the There was a change of ex- opera. Lydia sang first. pression on Dunchenoff's face as her voice rang out. Then Peter sang Escamillo's song and together they sang the love duet.
"Silence!" reared Danchenuff to the orchestra at the end. "I do not hire you to applaud but to be applaud- od." But he was anything but angry. "An answer to
a director's prayer," he said. to himself looking at Lydia. To her, he said; "You're engaged. Report, please, to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock for rehearsal."
"But-Me. Taranda?" she asked. "He can sing us well as I c."
Same day he too will be of opera calibre," Dain- chenoll said, "but his voice needs more training." He and Peter exchanged knowing smiles,
"You don't rehearse until to-morrow," said Peter as they came out on the street. "That gives us, twenty hours. Let's go for a drive."
"Drive for twenty hours?" she asked with a laugh. "Russia's big enough. We'll go out into the country, revel in the glorious sunshine, and you can make the birds envious by showing them what real singing is. I have some of the birthday money from my aunt left. Everything says we should spend this day celebrating. We'll go to the Trulka Inn for dinner. It's lovely there. Even the name is right for we are going to disposseIH that cabby on that trolka over there and drive out into the country and happiness."
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they through the city
Inst they
streets, but..ut
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left
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suburb and were
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"No," he said.
"But there must be something amiss," she said. "Have I offended.
you? Or are you bored?"
He tried to turn it off with a pretty compliment or a laughing Jest. He could not.
"Don't you sce-I'm in love with yout" he cried,
The long shadows thrown from the balcony on the grass showed a youth and mald in each other's
arms.
UNDER
**
the happiness which Professor Murakov felt because Lydia was to sing in the Imperial Opera ran little cables of worry which ticked worries and warnings to his mind.
He liked Peter. On the surface he seemed a suitable husband for his beloved daughter. But what loy behind the surface? He had never shared Dimitri's suspicion that he might be a spy. Yet what did he know of Peter except that
he had a beautiful voice and seemed to love Lydia as she loved him?
He had put off speaking to Lydia of his anxiety, bating to make even a tiny dent on the shining happiness she was feeling, but one came home and day when he found her arranging lilies-of-the- the he found valley in a vase, courage to talk to her.
sold using his he "Lydouska," pet name for her, have you told
Peter 01 our work
for the cause? Does he know
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"Sec, Lydia? We go to the left over the hill und there we are," said Peter.
"Will you do something for me, Peter?" asked Lydla, taking the rein. "Ileuse. Let me go to the right. It is very important to me," "I'm parched and I'm starved, he said in mock grumbling. "but what of that? Your lightest whimn is the strongest command."
"We'll be there where I want to go-in five minutes," said Lydia. She was silent then until they came lo a little gate. "Here we are, Peter. Please wait for me.
"Why," he said in surprise, "It is a. church."
churchyard," she 'an- "And a swered in a low tone, Please help me down, Peter. I'll be back in a minute,"
She smiled at him, passed through the gate and walked up the path. He saw her go to a grave and bend over it, Her lips were moving. Then, she brought her Itand together in gesture suggest- She walked ing a silent prayer. slowly back to the trolka but the smile on her face was radiant.
"Whenever anything good hap pens to me, Peter, I want to tell my mother about it. Coming here doesn't make me unhappy. It isn't feel she is morbid. It makes me still close to me. It makes me feel I have shared my happiness with Thank you for letting me come and now let's go to the
her.
trolka."
IT was
Peter who was strangely quiet as they drove
Over 100,000 people lined the route on to the inn.
to pay their last respects to their
When he had gone for the troika,
dead leader as the most impressive he had phoned the proprietor to funeral procession in New Zealand's have his most beautiful room-the one with the balcony looking down history passed through the main streets of Wellington.
on the garden-ready for them. The Governor-General, Viscount He had warned him that ho was Galway, headed the procession which not to be addressed by his title. included the High Commissioners of Now he wished they were driving the United Kingdom and Canada, the back to the city. He suggested to Governor of Fijl, Consular represen- |latives, Maoris and Samoana.
Lydia it might be better to return and dine later, but she reminded him that he was hungry and sald she had always wanted to go to the Trolica Inn. There was nothing Miss E. Kelly, of 25, Shouson Hill'
to do but to go on. Road, Aberdeen, han reported to the She had noticed the change in Police that between 3 p.m. and 0.30 Vila mood. But she did not men- pn. yesterday someone gained ad-, tion it until they were alone in the mlitance to the ground floor of her room looking down on the garden. kouse and stole a clock and ornaments
anything wrong, Peter!" to the total value of $120,
she asked.
of our
our pain-
lets?
t yel.
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Fatlier. But
will tell him of
course I am not worried."
"But I s. You will say your So they are beliefs are your own. and so they should be. But they came through my teaching.. I have believed so in my duty to help from its oppressors free Russia that perhaps I have not thought enough of you and Dimitri. About him especially 1 worry. I don't like Leo's talluence on him
hin. Their talk is too wild. They will not only get us into danger, 1 fear, but they may wreck all the work, of the group. I wish
thing-he must Javo Dimitri.
was O Suddenly there
scream which cut through Dimiter's speech and the cheers from the crowd.
"The Cossacks The Cossacks!"! The
wheeled around. ne crowd
There were screams of horror and horrible still was the sound more not
of horses as they charged down. upon the market-place.
Dimitri had jumped
to the
ground and Was trying to fight his way through the milling crowd, His father saw him and tried to reach him. But the crowd run- ning in any and in all directions pushed him back.
Then the Cossticks tore through the crowd Lydia standing as stil s If she were made of stone say them bearing down on the work- ers. Leading them was Peter. He saw her and wheeled his horse. frantically to go to her. Other plunging horses galloped between them. Te suw Lydila turn and run away.
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At Arst the horsemen used only their whips to disperse the crowd. But just as Marakov was about to reach Dinitri he saw his stoop, pick up a huge stone and throw it at one of the Cossack Sergeants. The man was almost unseated and blood was streaming down his face, but his training stood him in good stead. He drew his sword, langed at Dimitri and sent him reeling to the ground.
the It was only when tramping horses and cluttered across his body, that Marakov reached his
son.
When the Cossacks had finish- ed their work, Peter went directly to his father,
"Captain Karogin reporting, Sir," he said as he saluted.
ease, Proceed." "As ordered, a squad of Cos- sacks dispersed an Illegal meeting
Square and at Biruki Sou
returned to used. barracks.. No ammunition No casualties among the troops."
"Excellent." He looked at Peter
for a long second before he said: "You look-shall I say preoc- cupied? May I ask what it is?" "I want to resign my commis- sion
"Here,"
taking up a decanter, "have a drink instead. You won't?
Very well. What's on your mind?" "I'm not a policeman. I enlisted to fight the Czar's enemies, not his subjects."
"At times they are the same. Let that pass for the moment.
she?"
He stopped us Masha, the maid,What I want to know_in_who_is
entered
"Leo Poplitsky is outside," she said. "lie's been at the vodka agalo."
Poor Leo! Bring him in," said Marakov,
am in!" erled Leo from the door. "Ban right over to tell you Dimitri will be the greatest mat in 11 Russia-no, in all the world."
"Dimitri
Where is be? What has he done?" asked the older man in a voice made dead by fear.
"What hasn't be done? He was workers' pinying the piano in the eafe at the Biruki faclory when I ran in with the paper. Did you see it? About Arch-Duke Ferdin and of Austria being shot dead by an anarchist in Sarajevo
Here
it is in big type."
Dimitri done? "But what has Tell
I must know."' L.CO. "Somebody asked if it meant wor and I said no one would start o for that. I said it meant war there are men in the world whe aren't, milk-and-water like men who aren't afraid to strike for freedom and i
"And Dimitri?"
us
"He cald I was dead-right and then he began to talk and how he can talk especially when he has had enough vodical He's out in the market-place now, standing on a big barrel talking to a big crowd overy and, it's getting bigger minute."
PROFESSOR Marakov was running toward the door. with you," going
sald
"I'm Lydia.
Before they turned Into the square, before they could see Dimi- tr, they could hear him,
A man dled at Sarajevol Coll him an Arch-Duke-call him any- thing you like what does it mat- ter? But the shot that killed him
It will resound around the world, will shake up out of our servility."
There were shouts of approve! from the crowd.
"That shot's the first. It won't be the last. It is a signal for us to put our house in order to put our country
antry in order. I tell you Russia belongs to the people and the people can be trusted to take what belongs to them."
Marakoy was trying to push his way through the crowd to Dimitel Ho forgot that Lydia was 'with him. He remembered only one
"You must not jest about this, Father," said Peter seriously. This I am isn't just a passing affair.
in love, deeply in love. She's a commoner.
"Amazing
"You evidently do not under- stand me. I repeat I am in love, deeply in love with a commoner, su deeply-I am leaving the army." "I do understand, my son. Many things I understand. One is that it's bud for Russian officers to play around too long with lovely com- moners. They may get hurt-and that's bad."
"I won't hurt her any more," said Peler grimly,
a
"I don't mean her. I mean the Russian officer. When I was lieutenant, there was a student in Moscow and I was resigning. But I made this grave discovery-no Karngin possesses anything of his the Ils name belongs to past, his life to his Czar and his honour to the anny. Now let us have a drink-together."
own.
"I wish to resign my commis- sion," sald Peter in an even tone. "And I wish I had never met that girl," said Prince Karagin. "But that does not keep me from being interested in your little story. I am an old man now but I have not lost my interest in romance, in young love, in a passion that would throw away everything in world for the beloved. It is a part of youth. But youth does not last forever. Nor does love. You should be enough the man of the world by now to know that"
the
"I wish to resign my commis- sion," repeated Peter.
Prines Karogin rose from his chair. He had been bantering, he had been patient, for one moment he had been tender. Now he was
angry.
are
You
11
"That's enough for to-day.
dismissed. Go and have drink or two with your girl and kiss her goodbye. That's an of der,"
As Pater went through the door,, he called after him.
"And Peter-I still wish I had
never met her."
* * *
LYDIA and her father were alone in their home at last.
Each yearned to comfort the other and neither of them could speak. She was thinking that sho
was all her father had now, that. Dimitri was dead. He was think Ing in her anguish was greater even thon his. For her there had been the extra turn of the screw. Their silence, ringed 'round as by steel because of their overwhelm- ing emotion, was broken when Igur Ramensky came in.
"And Prince. Karagin? Have you seen him?" he naked Lydia after
he had expressed his sympathy.
"I have not. And I shall not see him again—ever.".
"We have other plans," he said,
we understand you are to make
"I
never
your debut at the Opera Tuesday night."
Shuli
the sing at Opera.'
"We have other plans, Lydia. For years we have suffered under the elder Prince Karagin. So--on Tuesday night we intend that two persons shall be in the proscenium box-Karagin the father and Karn- gin the son."
Marakov leaped to his feet. Now he could speak. Now he must speak.
"I will not have my daughter in this! A young girl mixed up in such a conspiracy! It is unthinis- able! The whole idea la mad?”
Lydia, too, could speak now, She went to her father and laid her hand softly on his arm.
"Please, Father!" Her voice was very gentle but when she turned and spoke to the other man, it was that of one confirming a business-
Mr. agreement.
Ramensky,
will sing on Tuesday night at the Imperial Opera and I will see to it that General Karagin and his son are in the designated place,"
The bell rang. When Masha on- swered it, they heard Peter's vole asking for Lydia. The two mon had hurried from the room before Peter, in full uniform, entered.
"Your Highness." Lydia bowed ceremonially.
Peter only looked at her. Ilo did not speak.
"Pray be seated, your Highness" "Do you know why I am here?" he naked.
"I can not Imagine why Your Highness has honoured me by this unexpected call,"
"Mny we speak the truth to cach other?"
We have no more secrets, Your Highness."
know you wouldn't talk to
me if you knew who I was. Batoff had told me about you. That and that only was why I deceived you.
me?
"May I ask if it is customary for one of your rank to seem te opolo- to a lowly commoner like gise
Why, anyway, should you apologise to me? What is a little deception weighed against all you have done for me? Am 1-not, through your influence, to be a star at the Imperial Opera? Fer- haps you think I will make the noble gesture of refusing the posi- tion because now I know I got it as most of the women do-as the moment's favourite of a great no- ble. You are wrong. I shall mako my debut Tuesday night. That shall not be taken from me."
"And that's all that matters?" usked Peter bitterly. "You, too, You were a part? were playing
when you suld you
only acting
loved me?".
"I meant every word of love I
sald
to Peter Taranda, Your High- riegs."
"And now? It may not malier to you but I must tell you that
than I ever told love you more you. Never have I loved you so much as I do this moment. There's
clac I must tell you. something Your debut will be the last time that Captain Karogin will over hear you sing."
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