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PETER'S voice, 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 It was not so to the rehearsal. much now that he was angered," His curiosity was aroused. his im- agination intrigued,

"Mr. Tarandal" he sald under his brenth. "Since when has any girl, preferred a commoner to a noble? Has he lost his mind? Or is she a lunatic? Or is ne perhaps a Grand Duchess in disguise doing this for lark?"

Lydia did not want to go with Peter the next day when he sug gested they go to Danchenoff for un audition. She was not as naive 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

But Peter great man. and she was young and loved ad- venture. It would do no harm, cer- tainly, for them to ask. But she eonduet. was horrided at Peter's when they arrived in Danelienuff's reception ruom.

was

The secretary refused to un- nounce them, of course. The im- by presario saw applicants only written appointment. Peter 195- tened gravely, then walked to the door leading Into the private of Ace. He began singing in a loud volec.

"Danchenoff Dan-chen-of!!" his voice rang out.

"What is this?" roured Dan- chenoff flinging the door open.

Scavengers Strike

Serious Situation In

Calcutta

DAY SERIAL

"Only Lydia Marakova and Peter Teranda denund- ing on midlifon."

"Let's go, Peter," sald Lydia In a weak voice, us Danchenoff put on a threatening look and pointed to the outer door.

They did not go. For a few minutes Peter and Dunchenolf went on acting; Peter as a young yokel, Danchenuff as an outraged director.

""Very well," said Dunchenoff finally, "I do not want the scandal of calling the police to eject you. I will hear you sing. But when I pass Judgment, it is the final word."

"That is all we ask," said Peter mildly. "We pro- mize to abide by your decision."

The orchestra was in the pit as the three of them entered the nuditoriuin. "Carmen" was selected as the operu. Lydia sang first. There was a change of ex- pression on Danchenoff's face ns her voice rang out. Then Peter sang Escamillo's song and together they

the love duct.

S

"Silence!" roured Danchenoff to the orchestra at the end. "I do not hire you to applaud but to be applaud- ed." 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."

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"Bid-Mr. Taranda?" she asked. "He can sing as well as I can."

"Some day he too will be of opera calibre," Dan- chenoff said, “but his voice needs more training." He and Peter exchanged knowing smiles.

"You don't relicarse until to-morrow," said Peter as they came out on the street. "That gives us twenty, hours. Let's go for a.drive.“

Inugh.

"Drive for twenty hours?" she asked with a laug "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 Troika inn for dinner. It's lovely there. Even the name is right for we are going to dispossess that enbby on that trolka over there and drive out into the country-and happiness."

They were

properly

us they

sedate

drove

through the elly streets,

but At

had

last

Just they

Joft

the

suburb and were

out on the coun-

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"No," he said.

"But there must be comething 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 see I'm in love with you!" he cried.

The long shadows thrown from the balcony on the grass showed a youth and mald in each other's

tim3,

UNDER which Professor Marakov felt because Lydia was to sing in the Imperial Opera ran little cables of worry which ticked worries and warnings to his mind.

thu happiness

He liked Peter. On the surface he seemed a suitable husband for Itis beloved daughter. But what lay behind the surface? He had never shared Dimitrl's suspleton 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, hating to make even a tiny dent on the shining happiness she was feeling, but one day when he came home and found her arranging lilles-of-the- the valley in a vase, he found courage to talk to her,

"Lycouska," he said using his pet nume for her, 'have you told Peter of out

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strangers on the roars in the

their hands to

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They song gay songs. Now and then, the afternoon wore away, they met young lovers re- turning from work, walking hand in hand or silting in carts with their arms around each other. At them they smiled and shouted greetings.

At last they came-to-a-forking

of the road.

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"I'm parched and I'm starved," manding higher wages.

fying have been under preparation intropopause."

he said in mock grumbling, "but what of that? Your lightest wilm is the strongest command."

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100,000 Line Route To Pay Last Respects AUCKLAND, Mar. 31. (Reu- ter). The funeral of the late Mr. M. J. Savage, the Prime Minister, took place to-day at the old Fort Bastion overlooking Auckland Harbour in the pre- sence of 200,000 people.

Maori and Roman Catholic rites were observed at the ceremony.

The body of Mr. Savage was brought here yesterday from Welling- lon where it had lain in state in Parliament House for four days.

Impressive Spectaclo

"See, Lydin? We go to the left -over the hill and there wo are," said Peter.

"Will you do something for me, Peter?" asked Lydia, taking the rein. "Please. Let me go to the

to

"We'll be there-where I want go-in five minutes," said Lydia, She was slient then until they came to a little gate. "Here we are, Peter. Please wait for me."

he said in surprise, it is

"And a churchyard," she on- swered in a low tone, "Please help me down, Peter. I'll be back in a minute."

She emlied at him, possed through the gate and walked up the path. He saw her go to a grave and bend over it. 1ler lips were moving. Then she brought her hand together in gesture suggest- ing a silent prayer, She walked slowly back to the trojka 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 her. Thank you for letting me come and now let's go to the troika."

IT was Peter who was strangely quiet as they drove on to the inn.

Over 100,000 people lined the route: 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 he 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. Ho suggested to Governor of Fijl, Consular represen-

Lydia it might be better to return tatives, Maoris and Samoans.

and dine later, but she reminded him that he was hungry and sald she had always wanted to go to the Trollca Inn. There was nothing to do but to go on.

Miss E. Kelly, of 25, Shouson H111| Road, Aberdeen, has reported to the Police that between 3 p.m. and 0.30 pin, yesterday someone gained ad- mittance to the ground floor of her house and stole a clock and ornaments | to the total value of $120.

She had noticed the change in his mood. But aho did not men- tion it until they were alone in the room looking down on the garden. "Is anything wrong, Peter?” she asked.

work for the 'cause? Does he our

press, our pain-

know, of

phlets?"

0 1 yet,

אייי

Father. But will tell him of

I

course I am not worried"

"But I am. You will say your beliefs are your own. So they are and so they should be. But they came through my teaching. I have believed so in my duty to help free Russi from its oppressors that perhaps I have not thought enough of you and Dimitri. About hit especially worry. I don't like Leo's influence on him. Their talk is too wild. They will not only get us into danger, I fear, but they muy wreck all the work of the group. I wish

He stopped us Masha, the raaid,

Poplitsky is outsile," she said. "He's been at the vodka again."

Poor Leo! Bring him in," said Morakov,

"I un in" cried Leo from the door. "Ran right over to tell you Dimitri will be the greatest man in all Russin-no, in all the world.

"Dimitri Where is he? What lus he done?" asked the older man in a

a volee made dead by fear,

"What hasn't he done? He was playing the plane in the workers' cafe at the Birukt factory when I ran in with the paper. Did you see it? About Arch-Duke Ferdin- and of Austria being shot dead by Here an anarchist in Sarajevo? It is in big type."

"But what has Dimitri done? Tell me, Leo. I must know."

"Somebody asked if it nennt war and I said no one would start a war

for that.. I Hold It meant there are men in the world who aren't milk-and-water like us men who aren't afraid to striice for freedom and

"And Dimitri?"

"He said I was dead-right and then he began to talk and how he can talk especially when he has hind enough vodka! He's out in the market-place now, standing on a hig barrel talking to a big crowd and it's getting bigger every minute."

PROFESSOR Marakov was running toward the door.

"I'm going with you," naid Lydia.

Before they turned into the square, before they could see Dimi- tri, they could hear him.

"A man died at Sarajevo! Call him an Arch-Duke-cail kim any- thing you like-what does it mat- ter? But the shot that killed him will resound around the world. It wil shake us out of our servility,

There were shouts of approval from the crowd.

That shot's the first. It won't bo the last. It is a signal for us to put our house in order, to put our country in order. I tell you Rusala belongs to the people and the people can be trusted to fako what belongs to them."

Marakov was trying to push his way through the crowd to Dimitri with Ho forgot that Lydin was him. He remembered only one

thing-he must SAVE Dimitri. Suddenly there was 11 scream which cut through Dimitri's speechi and the cheers from the crowd,

"The Cossacks! The Cossacks!" The crowd wheeled around. There were screams of horror und more horrible still was the sound as they charged down of horses as

Dinitri had

to the ground and was trying to fight his way through the milling crowd,

father saw him and teled to reach him. But the crowd run- ning in ony and in all directions. pushed hini back.

upon the market-edt

His

Then the Cossacks tore through the crowd Lydia standing as still ልዩ

she were made of stone saw them bearing down on the work- ers. Lending them was Peter,

wheeled his horse saw her and frantically to go to her. Other

away.

He

g horses galloped between

He saw Lydia turn and run

Al first the horsemen used only their whip to disperse the crowd. But just as Marakoy was about to reach Dimitri he saw

hla son stoop, plek up a huge stone and throw it at one of the Cossack Sergeants. The man was almost unseated and blood was strearning down his face, but his training stood him in good stend. He drew his sword, lunged at Dimitri and sent him reeling to the ground. It was only when the trumping horses had clattered across his body, that Marokov reached his.

.on.

When the Cossacks had finish- ed their work, Peter went directly to his father.

"Captain Karagin reporting, Sir," he said as he saluted.

"At case.

Proceed."

"As ordered, a squad of Cos sacks dispersed an Illegal meeting at Biruki Square and returned to barracks. No minunition UsKI. No casualiles among the troops."

"Excellent." He looked at Peter for a long second before he said: "You look-shull I say preoc cupled? May I ask what it la?" want to resign my commis-

slon!

"Here," taking up a deconter, "have a drink instead, You won't? Very well. What's on your mind?'

"I'm not a policeman. I enllated to fight the Czar's enemies, not his subjects."

"At times they are the same. Let that pass for the moment.

was all her father had now that Dimitri was dend, He was think- ing that her anguish was greater even than his. For her there had been tie extra turn of the screw. Their silence, ringed round as by steel because of their overwhelm- ing emotion, was broken when Igor Ramensky came in.

"And Prince Kurugin? Have you seen him?" he asked Lydin after' he had expressed his sympathy.

"I have nol. And I shall not see him again-ever."

"We have other plans," he said. "We understand you are to make your debut at the Opera Tuesday ndidat."

shall

never sing at the

Opera."

"We have other plans, Lydta. For years we have suffered under the elder Prince Karogin. So on Tuesday night we intend that two persons shall be in the proscenium Box-Karagin the father and Kara- gin the son."

Marakov leaped to his feet. Now he could speak. Now he must spenk.

"I will not have my daughter in this! A young girl mixed up in such a conspiracy! It is unthink- able! The whole Iden is mad!”

Lydin, too, could speak now, She went to her father and laid her hand saltly on his' arm,

"Please, Father!" Her voice, was

very gentle but when she turned and spoke to the other mant, it was that of one confirming business- agreement.

Ramensky,

will sing on Tuesday night at the Imperial Opera and I will see to it that General Karagin and his con are in the designated place."

The bell rang. When Masha on- swered it, they heard Peter's volca usking for

Lydin. The two men

had hurried from the room before Peter, in full uniform, entered.

"Your Highness." Lydia bowed ceremonially.

Peter only looked at her. He did not speak.

"Pray bo seated, your Highness" "Do you know why I am here?” he asked.

"I can not imaging why Your Highness has honoured me by this unexpected call."

on. May we speak the truth to each

"We have no more secrets, Your Highness."

"I knew you wouldn't talk to me if you knew who I was. Batoff had told me about you. That and only_was_why I deceived.

-What-I-want-to-know-is-who is I ask if it is customary for

she?"

"You must not jest about this, Father," said Peter seriously. This I am Isn't just a passing offair.

in love, deeply in love. She's commoner.

"Amazing."

one of your rank to seem to apolo- to a lowly commoner like you

Bise

me?

Why, anyway, should apologise to me? What is a little deception weighed against all you have done for me? Am I not, through your influence, to be a

"You evidently do not under- stand me. I repeat I am in love, deeply in love with a commonerhaps you think I will make the

so deeply--I am leaving the army."

"I do understand, my son. Many things

I understand, One Is that

It's bad for Rússian officers to play around too long with lovely com- They may get hurt-and

moners. thut's bad."

"I won't hurt her any more," said Peter grimly.

the

"I don't mean her. I mean the Russian officer. When I was 1 lieutenant, there was a student in Moscow and I was resigning. But. I made this grave discovery-no Karagin possesses anything of his Own, Ills name belongs to past, his life to his Czar and his honour to the army. Now let us have a drink-together."

"I wish to resign my commis- sion," said Peter in an even tone.

"And

wish I had I

star at the Imperial Opera? Per-

noble gesture of refusing the post- tion because now I know I got it as most of the women do-as the moment's favourite of n great no- ble. You are wrong. I shall make

my

debut Tuesday night. That shall not be taken from me."

"And that's all that matters?" naked Peter bitterly. "You, too, were playing a part? You were only acting when you said you loved ma?"

"I meant every word of love I sald to Peter Taranda, Your High- ness

"And now? It may not matter to you but I must tell you that I

than love you more

aver told you. Never have I loved you so much as I do this moment. There's something never met

elso I must tell you. Unt girl said Prince Karagin. Your debut will be the last time "But that does not keep me from that Captain Karagin will ever being interested in your little story. hear you sing." I am an

an old man now but I have not lost my interest in romance, in

young love, in a passion that would throw away

the everyuting 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"

"I wish to resign my commis. slon," repeated Peter.

Princo Karagin rose from his

chair. Ho had been bantering, he had been patient, for one moment he had been tender. Now he was angry.

"That's enough for to-day. You are dismissed, Go and havo a drink or two will your girl and kiss her goodbye. That's an or der."

As Peter went through the door, he called after him.

"And Poter--I still wish I had never met her."

LYDIA and her father were alone in their home at last.

Each earned to comfort, the other and neither of them could speak. She was thinking that sho

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