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HE went swiftly to her and held her by her shoulders.

"I'm leaving the army. I've just told my father."

"Why?"

"Russian officers can't marry lovely girls like you. So I am resigning."

"Peter," she whispered. "Oh, Peter!" For a long moment she was in his arms and then suddenly she remembered. She could not any what she must say for a time; not until she could gain control of her voice.

"Peter, your father won't be at the Opern Tuesday night, will he?" she asked at last.

"Indeed he will; beside me in the proscenium box. He will understand then why I am giving up the army which I love. It will be the. proudest night of my life."

"Peler, I'm going to ask a favour of you. Will you

grant it, please?"

"Gladly, of course."

"Don't rome Tuesday night and don't let your father come, either,

"But that's ridiculous, dear. As for iny belog there you and I have lived for that night. I just told you it will be the proudest night of my life. Me not be there,

indeed! An for your father, he is eager to come and If he wasn't I'd bind him and gag him and drag him there."

"Don't take this lightly, Peter," said Lydin in n pleading tone. "Another night will be just as good. In fact it will be better for all of us much better."

and very real artist, I've heard, has stuge-fright now

then. You're evidently having a premature attack. You're scared now. Perhaps the thning is good. Tuesday night will be calm and collected,"

you

Lydia shuddered. If only she could tell Peter the truth! As she could not, she must wheedle, she must

coax, she must burst into tears, if necessary.

"Perhaps it is

stage-fright. But

I know myself, Peter. It will not

pass

by Tuesday night. It wil!

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"Perhaps, Peter, it is because you are of one class and I of an-, other. You are a nobleman, I am a commoner."

"But we did understand cach other. When you thought I was a poor student, como from the coun- try to take voleo lessons, we were just a man and a girl who loved each other. The difference in rank real difference. I knew was no want you were from the start. Did it matter to me? You know it didn't. And until you discovered I was a nobleman and a captain of the Cossacks, you were not con- sclous of any barrier between us."

"Must I repent to you, Peter, that I believe what my father and his group believe?"

"You do not, You can not. Just what they believe I do not know.

I can imagine some of it might appeal to you a better life for the peasants and the workers, more freedom for the ordinary citizen, less rigid lows. Yes I can be- lieve you could work and sacrifice for such things."

say.

"Peter, you must belleve what I You have known one side of There is another side which me. you have not known until to-night and now you will not let yourself know it."

"Yet you tried to keep my father and me from being here to-night

-now I under- stand why you made me pro-

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aight. Then it will be gone for- ever. There pro many other sights: you know I have a good schedule for the season. It is just because I want you to be proud of me, just because I want your father to know you are not ruining your life by linking it to mine, that I ask you not to come that night."

.

"All the world can be there to see my Lydin-and I am barred," he said plaintively.

""Not all the world. I don't" want father there, cliber. Before a huge audience of strangers 1 can sing. If the two love best in the world are there, I will not be able to go I know best, Peter. Won't you on. take my word for

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must fald Peter.

"But just try to keep me out any other night you sing and you'll have a fight on your hands.""

"And your father? He must not be there, either. You promise?"

"I promise. In fact, tyrant, I swear it."

Lydia felt she would faint from relief,

"I have eonfession to make, Peter," she said softly. "I never loved you as much as I do at this inoment. I never knew it was possible for a woman to love as I love you!"

WHEN Lydia arrived at her dressing-room on Tuesday night, it resembled the show- window of a florist's establish- ment.

"Looks ilke MA Tarando- inean His Highness--has cornered the flower market," sald Mashin as she opened another box.

"Are those from Peter too?" asked Lydin.

"Probably. Though some of the Blowers

came from old friends, most of 'en are from him. Hero's the eard."

It rend: "My son begged me not. to come to-night but my curiosity is insatiable. May the Empiress Scheherazade never revert to R rank so modest as Princess Kara- gin! I eagerly await your success." It was signed: "The Hard-Heart- ed Father."

There were lines of anxiety on Lydia's face as she obeyed the call-boy's order to take her place in the wings. Just what did that note: mean?

had

The prosenlum box was empty! So the cryptic note which Gen- eral Karagin had sent her did not mean what she had feared. Peter had kept his promise to her and his father had kept his promise to him. Now she could sing as she never sung before. There

Rever would be no off-stage tragedy this night to bear down

on her conscience for the rest of her ille

In the first row of the balcony she saw her father and Leo Pop- lilaky. If they stood, they would be at a slight angle just above the empty box. She could s00 her father, was gripping the arms of

hila scat. On Leo's face there was that wild look she had come to drad. But so long as the box was empty there was nothing to fear.

Lydin stood on the stage star- ing at the box untli the great cur- tain was lowered. Then she man- aged to stumble her way to the dressing-room.

* ★ ☆

As the act went on Lydia had the most wonderful feeling an actress can have. She knew she hnd "the audience with ber." There was absolute quiet in the huge house except for the music of the orchestra and the singers.

Then as the set was almost over there caine B

change. She was con- selbus of a a slight ripple of ex-to-Lydia's dressing-room. citement, of snatches of words, of eyes turned from the stage.

General Karagin was being ush- ered into the proscenium box.

WHEN the doctors said his father had been wounded only in one arm and had placed him on a stretcher to be taken to hospital, Peter rushed back

* *

SHE knew the moment of danger would not be reached while the act was going on.

It might not come until the end of the opera. When the audience was rising to leave-then, in the con- fusion which always conies, would be the time. Before that moment came she must in some way, in apy way she could contrive, manage to send a warning to

General

* a soldier entered the

box and landed a message to the General. Just behind him, almost running, was Peter. The orchestra atopped playing. The singers, at a command from the director, stood silent.

General Karagin, the message in hand, rose and stepped forward to the ralling of the box.

"Fellow Russions!" he said. "A message of the deepest significance Has just reached me. Germany has declared war on Holy Russia)"

For a moment there was a stun- ned Ellence. The conductor lifted his baton and the orchestra began playing the national anthem. The audience rising. faced the pros- centum box and their voices joined with the singers on the stage.

Professor Marakova held some thing in his lowered hand,

"What are you wailing for?” asked Leo in a tense whisper.

"I can't," sald Marakov. "Rus- sla's going to need him and men Jike him now. This changes every-

thing."

"You're stork mad," sold Leo. Professor Marakoy was just about to slip the pistol in his pocket, when Leo with n sharp movement tore it from lilm.

The next moment brought the shot.

General Karagin who had been alanding at attention slumped to the floor. Teter knelt and bent over him just as another shot was fired.

There was panic in the nudience. Wild screams were heard as men and

women trying to rush to the street were knocked down, and trampled upon.

Others were running Into

the nialca

soldiers, polico and doc- lors and nurses who had been cummoned to caro for General, Karagin.

"Peter! Thank God, you're all right," she cried, running into his outstretched arms. "And your father?"

"Ho'll be all right. Whoever fired that shot wasn't a good alm." "Have they did they have they caught the man?"

"Not yet."

"Oh Peter, let's get away from here. Far, far away where we can be alone together, safe and happy.”

"But I'm a soldier, you know." "You said you were reslining." "That was before to-night and to-night's announcement.

We are

at war. Holy Russia will need all her soldiers now. It won't last long, DI

of course, this war. And when I come back, I'll leave the army --

There was a sharp knock on the

Hoar.

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"Who's there?" called Peter. The door was thrown open and two pollee officers stood on the. threshold. They saluted Peter.

"Your Highness" one of them said, "we have orders for you * from General Koragin. The assos- sins have been apprehended. One of them is the father of Lydia Marakova."

"What are you saying?" cried Peter.

There is no mistake, Your

Highness. He took a step for- ward and handed a paper to Peter. "Your orders are to arrest Miss Marakova at once."

"Just one moment," said Peter, pointing to the door.

and left

The officers saluted Peter and Lydia alone.

"Now there are no może lles be tween us," said Lydia.

"But you're not — you can't be one of these people."

"I am, Peter. I have been all my life,"

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"You were forced to join them -they made you they threat- ened -

She shook her head. "No. Peter.

I believe in their bellets,"

are not one of them.

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you would come,"

"It was a mo- ment of weak- ness, Peterthe weakness of a woman in love."

"I will never believe you justify murder," he said.

Lydia walked awiftly to the door and opened it,

"Come in, please," she said to the officers. "Prince Karagin has

made the arrest."

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IT was the third Christmas in the trenches.

enme the sound of volces singing "Silent Night."

"But their Christmas was two weeks ago," one of them said.

"They're singing for us," said Peter, nu they all went to the door and looked out.

THERE was a small lighted Christmas tree raised to the top of the Austrian trench.

Others followed. In the falling now with the Verrey lights filcker- Ing over the shelltorn earth, it was a scene of uncanny beauty.

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old song, Suddenly the noise of an up- proaching plane was heard. It was bomber with Austrian insignia. It dropped no bomba. Instead, thousands of pieces of white paper fluttered down on the Russian lines. On them was printed: "Riots are sweeping Petrograd, Moscow, Kronstadt! Stop fighting your Aus- trion

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For Lydia the long years, of war were harder, perhaps, than they were for Peter, As Masha had written, she went from one dreary cafe to another, singing for enough food to keep from starving. Her father in Siberia--Peter lost to her

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0.45 Cossacks are marching back with- Peter walking toward_the_dugout their offeers! There are no out called out a sharp command to a soldier who was leaning on his rifle, his head bowed.

Your Highness," said the "Sorry,

was not asleep. I was just thinking about what my wife wrote me. She waited all night in a breadline to get something, any-

for the kids and then got thing nothing."

nan.

"What do you expect? This is war," said Peter in a weary volen, When he entered the dugout he saw that the men had made pathetic efforts to celebrate. There was a

small tree. Its decorations were pleces of tin cans, military bultons, bright strings and dingy paper rosettes.

There were cries of "Merry Christenas" und one of the men an old folk song was strumming

on a balalalien.

"See what we've been saving for you," cried one of the men hold- ing up a boille of vodka. "It's

real.

Peter took the bottle from him and rushed out of the dugout. He went to the soldier he had re- primanded. "Merry

Christmas," he sold thrusting the bottle into his hand. There was a worried look on the face of the men in the dugout as Peter went out and it was not be- cause they were to be denied the cherished vodka.

"Nickl," said one of the oMeers, "you were his orderly before the war made you a sergeant. Do you think, perhaps, is Highness is breaking?"

"He won't do that, ever, Sir, but I think he grieves too much about Lydin Marakova. He managed to have her released from prison but probably she is worse off. Masha, my wife who was Miss Marakova's maid, tells me she is wretched- Just wander around singing at one dreary

in.

He stopped short as Peter came "Merry Christmas," Peter cried. "And may we spend the next one In Petrograd!"

There was cheap *red wine-for their toasts to the Czar, to Holy Russia, to the victory of the Alles. Then one of the men began ring-

can not believe it. My gentle, lov Ing Lydia how can you expecting the old Russian Christmas carol

me to believe that you have asso- ciated voluntarily with traitors?"

“I do not think that men, and women who live and work and sacrifice themselves for the good of the Russian people are traitors. To me, they are the rent patriots." I can not understand you, Lydia."

more officers! Sing Sing the In- ternationale!".

Lydia who from childhood had looked forward to this day, open- ed her mouth to lead the singing. Her Ups could not form the words. She buried her face in her hands.

*

THE Balalaika was on the "must" list of tourists because it was known as the favourite rendezvous of the exiled Rus- sians in Paris,

Nicki and Masha owned it. Their chief pride. came from the fact that they could help so many of their old friends. General Karagin was the wine stewart, Peter was a singing waller und Danchenoff

door-man. the

Was

"Time to tell the paying guests to clear out," said Nick to his wife

one night. There's barely time

to have everything in readi- ness for

celebration. In one hour it will be 1023 and this night is for Russians only.”

The

General Karagin was standing Hittle room off the kitchen when he heard a tapping on the door. He opened it and a young woman came in from the rain.

"May I see Masha Popoff the asked. "I'm a Russian just arrived in Paris. My name is Marnkova." "I knew a man named Marakova in the old days. I hear ho is an man in the new Rus- important

sin."

am a

"Hic was." she said sadly. Her eyes narrowed for a momont and then widened. "Pardon me, but aren't you General Karagin?"

"I wae," he said. "Now wine stewart. And you-you must be Lydia Marakova whom I saw but once. You were very beauti- ful and your singing that night, so cruelly Interrupted, I have never forgotten."

"How you must hale us," she zaid

"No, my chilld. It was all so long ago in a different world. And wo old

did make a unes

mess of things."

"We young ones have falled too,"

"But you, who are young, have another chance. And now let me Masha. She must find you somo dry clothes at once or you will be ill."

"Come This Holy Night." They all Joined in.

And When it was finished there was a silence. Their emo- tions were too deep at that moment for them to speak."

"What's that?" naked one of them tensely,

They all rose looking toward the door. From the Austrian trenches

Manha was laughing and crying with joy as she ran in to welcome Lydin. She led her up a service stairway, found clothes for her and, as in the old days, helped

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ing again. We have work to do and we do it, We've had the past. Now let us live in the present and look forward toward the future."

Masha ran in from the service pantry, carrying a tray of candles, "It's almost midnight," she cried. "Take your candles, go to the mir. ror and make your wishes. You'll sce in it your own true loves. I guarantee it."

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ONLY Peter stood apart, far from the mirror and with- out a candle.

"Quick, Your Highness" soli Masha. "Before the twelfth stroke, you must make your wish,"

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only movement he made was to shake his head. She took was hlm by the arm and literally drag- ged him to the mirror. Into his hand she thrust a lighted candle. He stood before the mirror but he did not look in it. Hla head was lowered. Then he heard some one singing the Volga Dont Song and he raised his hand. In the mirror he saw Lydia coming down the long fight of stairs. To turn- meet her. For ed and went to

was as if it had them the past nover been. It was the New Year and in the new life they knew they would be together forever,

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