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PAGE SIX OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1922 ry -- ------ -- a JAC KIE® I By COUNTESS BARCYNSKA * "Author of "ROSE O' THE. SEA" \ OHAPTER XIX {Jackie and Benny had moved house, With mueh tact, aided and abetted by Irene, Carter had succeed: fi in installing them in a pretty, fur shed flat in Green Street, Mayfair kie, engaged by Calderon to play Mariette in his revue at a commenc ing salary which was munificence hh her eyes, firmly believed that she wai paying 'a rent of six guineas a week Carter did not disillusion her, © made her so happy to think that she self-supporting. 8he revelled ir r new home, in-all -the wonderfu things that seemed to have coms about in a single stroke of fortune': wand, . _ Here she was, just Jackie, in utiful apartment such as ric! ple inhabited; possessing frock: numerable; the little friend of the parest and most wonderful m'siew: in the world; pupil of the great' Au agna, who actually taught her fo: ve; engaged by the greatest im esario in Londen to play a consid able part in a West End produc n! It was incredible! It was won rful! Always she was realizing her fortune, and fegling -amazingh ankful for it. { Her whole world seemed full o @iends and beneficent forces. Ther: was Benny shortly to undergo treat ment that would likely cure him hat in itself was enough to mak ¥ heart sing. Her cup of joy wa: imming over. She felt in love witi the world. = She had just finished arranging the ble for tea with housewifely en- foyment; tor Carter and Irene were ming. Benny lay on a couch. He d been very quiet all day. On the krow he was going to Sir Purton ¥'s nursing home to undergo treat- ept prior to*the operation that ight cure him. The specialist -had anounced a distinct chance of' a pmplete cure, but his qualification: d been that there must be no de- By. Too much (ime had been lost already. =«Jackie touched Benny's cheek with light, caressing fingers. ". "But smile, cheri," she urged. = The effort that Benny made to obey her was a poor one. = "J know 1 oughti't to be such a dul dog." he said. "I've everything in the world to he thankful for, hut somehow since we've been here I've a feeling that it's all a dream. | ghall wake up presently and find I'm back with Bowman, and that you nev- er existed at all. Jackie, it can't last. It's all too good to be true!" * "It is your infirmity that make you think that," she rejoined tender- ly. "When you are returned from the home all that will be altered. You will then say that it is the baa things hat are too bad to be true. Is the back aching? Soon that will he of the past. Is it that you have te funk? But that is childish. | njight also have the funk that I shal! ke a failure of myself as Mariette. would not be good if he permit Shch a fiasco: and surely you wouid doubt the goodness cf God. Le RHEUMATISM | NEURITIS ve. T.RC's | BCIATICA : ve you given up? Have you e n Joutsels to that eld, sawing pain that nothing secms #0 relieve? Deo : ou think be- cause youcan': goto Hot Springs or tale some cxpensive treat- meat that Fe have no other alternative? We have maay d hopeless, tried everything, baths, serums, elecs tricity, who found reccvery in using T.R.C.'s. (Templeton's Rheumatic Ca s). We have thousands of ers that prove doubt T.R.C.'s to be the remedy sold. At drug- 1.00 per box. For Free empleton, T, write Ti | us make a total of all the benefices we have already received." She raised spread fingers and pulled one down. "Un -- we have escape from the bad Bowman; deux -- we inhabit Belgravia -- no, Mayfair -- with window-boxes of flowers and a brass knocker like a face even as I predict, anly much sooner has it arrive; trois --you will have a cure of your back; gnatre -- if I am a success my name will be in electric light outside the theatre like stars shining. Monsieur Calderon have promise so. Oh, but, [ cannot count all the blessings. So make a cheer-up, cheri, and. pull at yourself," But she could not banish his de-| jection. Usually Benny kept his'dark moods to himself. He knew it was aot fair to cloud Jackie's happiness, | especially at a time like this when she was rehearsing and practising al) | day at the theatre and also at Au-| dagna's, She had only had a fort-| night's rehearsals. To-morrow night! she was to make her first appearancs | 'n public. 'By the merest hazard, her chance had come at the very outset | of her career -- one of those lucky chances which occasionally happen! in stageland. It was far too good a, me to take lightly. Carter had said | s0 when she triumphantly waved her | ymazing contract hefore his surprised | wyes. Audagna had strongly advised | "ler to accept Calderon's offer and | erms. Calderon was about the only nanager in London who would have! 1ad the courage to put on a young! wd untried girl in a first-class pro- | duction. It was his beast that he had | never yet backed a loser; and he would have put his last shirt on Jack- | je. She was divinely fresh. She | hadn't a single trick of ithe (trade. She wonld he like a breatlr of ozcae | to a jaded public if she didn't get stage fright. Nor did he believe she would be spoilt by success, or her pro- | gress impeded by undue conceit of! herself. He had never come across any one guite so refreshingly anxious to learn, so extremely receptive. She | appreciated with the utmost humility | the great gulf that divided her art from the art of Caliowska, for instan- ce. The ballet shoe which she tre2s- | ured as a priceless souvenir was suaf- | ficient reminder of heights to which | she could never attain. In a sense, although she believed in her star | with- superstiticus tenacity, she was extraordinarily humble concerning her talents. Above all, she was quite unaware of the magnetic quality of her beauty. Carter and Benny knew ! its potency, but they kept the knowl- edge locked im their hearts. Calder- cn hugged it as a sort of trade secret that would be put to the test when | "Spatch-Cock™ was presented to a revae-crazy world. The only cloud in Jackie's sky was when, as now, her Benny, her brok-| en doll. looked depressed. She w ; | most desperately anxious for all the world to be happy, especially all; those of her nearer world. Happin- ess with her was a creed. Joy was the raison d'etre of her life. A little shamefacedly Benny turn- >d his head away so that she should wt see the tears in his eyes. "Is it the funk that is troubling vou?" she persisted sympathetically. "1750 Litczether. All day I've fel: ike two cents. For two nights [I've dreamt of Bowman. I dreamt he'd tracked us here and was smashing wweryihing in the place. I've always ze: a ieeling ati the back of my mind that one day he'll turn up and raise Cain. DD you think if he knew vour good luck and my chance of get- ting well that he woaldn't take a dev- i's own joy in spoiling our pros- pects? He'd accuse me of murder and you of being my accomplice. I don't say he'd make it a police mat- ter, but he'd put the screw on as. Trust him for that! And in another dream I had he was burning my back with a red-hot poker and then laugh- ing at the sport. I can't shake off the | feeling that something bad's zoing| to h Vi app Good luck only runs in streaks. It's too much to expect it to last all he time. Sometimes when you've beémn at the theatre and ['we nothing else to do but lie and think, I've seen him coming in at that door | almost as plain as life, and carting] me off then and there... Aad I've | | imagined you coming back to find me. f he cheri.," she soothed, "think of the weeks that have gone by! He has forgotten us." ! "Not he. If he hasn't turned up it's mot for want of looking. I kaow | the brute all through! He'll never forget or forgive; he'll wait years to pay back a gradge. Did I ever tell | you about the kitten that scratched | him in play? Such a pretty litsle] thing it was. belonged to a kiddie in | one of our diggings. Well, one day it scratched him accidentally, and he Zot into one of his mad rages. No, he didn't kill it right off. That was too merciful for him. It just disap- peared, and the kiddie cried her eyes! out. But just before we left, it tum- | od up. The fiend had tortured it so that it lived on in agony for days. He pretended he didu't know anything about it. But I zuessed. ...I could tell by the way he looked. and the sympathy he pretended to feel__ he who hadn't a grain of mercy in him?!" He clasped Jackie's hand tightly. "Jackie! I'm an awful coward when- ever I think of him? If he got me -- if he took me I'd far | effect, Calgary Wi nter Carnival At Calgary Carnival last winter. Iirst picture shows the Toboggan Slide, nd skiing, hock The Handsome (rophies will. be offered. ski jum vers will attend the Carnival. Calgary winter carnival promises to be as interesting an evént as the Calgary Stampede in. the autumn. doli of her childhood, had ever giimp sed it. In the end her sweet cajoleries and after a Mectuul tempt to explain away his black he cheered up. It is not always 3 to account for the overwhelming sen se of approaching evil which a high- ly strung nature can experience. Jackie. whose tears were only for the moment, whose optimism would 1 likely have survived the shipw: of hfe and hope itself, was never tuitive of evil, because sh ver ticipated anything else but "Vian?" she cried as burst music suddenly filled the street be-- low. "I will dance to cheer you like I dance to Sassoni's organ she was at the window soni himself with his monkey ered, and his wife? And thes a baby, so small, in a basket tied oz at ihe side Dame! I must hold it my arms. immediately." "Oh, Jackie, don't gan. Bat Jackie tore downstairs. A few minutes later she returned with the entire family Sassomi with his ear-rings and untrustworthy smi his -wife, and the baby, whom Jack- ie had taken proud possession of. She lost her head completely over the baby. She had never before held ong so young and so small in her arms. Like most Italian babies this one was really pretty, and so helpless and brown. She regaled her gusts with cake and wine. She explained to Sassomi the circumstances thai had camsed her to play trmamt. Then she went into fresh raptures over the baby. She would have given aif the dresses in the wardrobe to possess one like it. "Oh, le petit poupon!" she cried. "Will you not make me a borrow of it to keep for a little while? See, the little hands, Benny! Is it not di- vine? Shall I ever have ome -- un tel mignon? If I ask Merveen would he purchase me one, perhaps?" Sasseni spat. Had she mo eyes in od up his ears at the word "purch- ase," and his eyes gleamed. jd Jackie wish 10 purchase a chila? They might perhaps spare this one. Tt could doubtless be arranged. There were four at home already and of a had good recov ' Benny be- | surety more to come. But Sassoni's wife quashed any hargaininz. "The good God send them?!" ghe 2 dead Tham live to be tortured like that | You don't know what I've | I've Jackie put her arms{ vomnd his | for the meeting. Jackie bestowed a | shrinking form. She could not com- prehend his sudden fear that Bow- man might find them. It seemed the remotest of all possibilities. But her | to.adorn the ample shoulders of Sas- | i t out to Benny in love and | thy mevertheless. She ctf] comforted him. The intensely side of her nature was only! m to Benny. No one else, ex-| lj cept perhaps the inanimate broken Jas d plousiy. "Pietro, thon wonldst sell thy grandmother for twa soldi!" Which was not far from the truth. The party left comsiderably richer silk skirt upon the baby to make it a robe, and produced a Liberty shaw! she filled a basket with all the good soni's wife; for the family in general things she could spare from her tea- table; last of all she gave Sassoni a pound note for himself. Them she stood at the window leaning out and blowing kissos to the baby, | half have 1 in | I will go eo briug them up | | rel-organs and bear children, second picture Ski Jumping. Speed skaters will turm up from wy Is s he a princess, the org ngisa, : asked knew litile then ad ur and e i conversai little of the Sasoni hes who lad taken t key when it fell serted shim without nc was doing in palazz heyond him. spat Had her 2 Come si voglia,™ 'she is good a princess. nu bam silk shawl cost and this skirt for our trimmed with real Gratefully the donor's money bino is maray oked lioso!™ she he { saints on © Sassomi broughi his mn standstill before a post-office "Where goest thou she aske Sassoni did not deig Wives were meant to help drag ask questions. He swung into tae p with mach licking of the stump of a pencil, laboriously wrote out a tele-| gram. It was addressed to Bowman Actors' Touring Club, Strand. CHAPTER XX Virginia was looking through the] morning papers. Her name figured | in several. She did nat court public-y ity, but the great and the unduly rich! -office sometimes find it difficult to escape! its fierce light. One of the para- graphs described the opening of a new wing of a hospital at wheih she had presided; another referred to her | presence at the opera in the company | of certain foreign Royal Bighuesses. | In this her dress and the lustre of | the Marlbury pearls were described | at greater length than the jewels and | the apparel of the Princess The | comparisen was not disagreeable to | Virginia. In the "Daily Mail" she) read -of the dress mreaearsal of "Spateh-Cock™. It heralded the ap- pearance of a new theatrical star, an exceptional dancer with a spoatan- eons style of her own who also show- od dramatic abilities of a high order. The writer dubbed her "The Soul of Dance." She was French: her namc was Jacqueline de Brie; she was dmgpvery of that most acute of man- agers, Mr. A. B. Calderon; it was ru-} moured that her engagement to a! certain young American aillinzire] resident in London would shortly be | announced. | The latier statement incensed \iz- ginia. She had never heard "the creature's surname before, but she was sure it was Jackie's. the gav- roche who polluted Persian carpets with cabbages and who had insulic her so outrageously in Mervyn's flat. | She also took it for granted that Mervyn was to blame for the sudder and unexpected publicity given to the French girl. Money, of course, could pitchfork a person of no merit into notoriety, especially on the stage She fervently hoped that the mnotor- That this "Jackie" | not believe | would to and see "Spatch-Cock™ for Calgary Winter Carnivg) wik be held early in Japuary, and the programme will include curling y, skating «nd all other events usual in winter sports. ? people of the city are giving enthusiastic support to the organizers of the Carnival Jose on forty rinks will be provided for the bonspiel. Da~ing all parts of the West. vulgar name could possess any real talent she did Still, she decided she _.You can use sweet milk, sour milk, SE buttermilk or water with v herself in spite of her diglike of Ahe frivolities of revue, She threw the paper petulantly from her and picked up another. A name in the first column of the page at which she had opened it caught her eye. Bhe seemed fated to-day to come across antipathetic names: On the 30th ult. at a nursing home, Olive, wife of John Grandison, R.A. R.LP. 'Betore Virginia's mind could qu grasp the significance of this i, nouncement, she descried the same name in another column headed "Honours List": My. Jobn Grandison, R.A., the eminent portrait painter, heads the list of the new Baronetcies. A paragraph followed, extolling the recipient's services to Art, It was not quite as long as the pne alotted to her opera dress and the Marlbury pearls, so she almost forgave it. But the concatepartion of circumstances greatly exercised her mind. Grandi- son unexpectedly a widower and a baronet! It meant that if Irene stili insisted on marrying him she would not be contracting af absolute mis- aliance. The prefix "Honourable" to her married title would at least distinguish it from these' lavished so prodigally on the New Rich. Merci- fully, too, Irene had not of late been the subject of undue gossip. Her constant appearance in the company of Mervyn had rehabilated her repu- tation in public esteem. If, after a decent interval, her wedding with Grandison were celebrated in a quiet way at a fashionable church, Virginia { thought she might reconcile herself | to it. After all, Grandison through his late wife was connected with sey- eral noble families and his profie- | iency as an artist must not be Jost | sight of. Virginia was not exactly a -- -- --_-- snob; she only imposed on herself the defects of qualities derived from an' axaltéd aljaned," Relatively, therefore, she was in a tractable frame of mind when Marl- bury came into the room. B8he knew what had brought him. Early that morning she had felt it incumbent on her to sepd him a note of complaint, He held it in his hand. He ignored her cold invitation to sit down, He stood looking rather helplessly at the graceful, cold-hearted woman to whom he had given his name. Hang it all, why couldn't she be human and conform to the rules of the married game as played by people in their peculiar position? If she re- fused to he a wife she might at least try to he a pal, a companion! As it was, they hadn't an interest in com- mon, As fur as he could tell she was ingensible to human emotions, had no likes or dislikes, no enthusiasms or hobbies. 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