Show m R Short of rn D Y rn HOW FATE DECIDES I d V VI I 1 I particularly desire Kate that this may maYbe be the last experiment of the kind f that you jOU ou wi will 1 try I George eorge Germond spoke poke gravely a deep lines between his his brows and and his lips formed into a a. cold stern line Kate Kat Brewster tossed her pretty head head S i so about it George said a she Its Theres no occasion for your being so cross sa only a frolic I A pretty frolic to walk deliberately into a room fun full of men in the disguise of an orange girl selling oranges I Well what then Weren't my say oranges good I Kate do you want ant to drive me frantic expostulated the Ug luVelt Well Vell go on with your your lecture II t I I 1 wish it distinctly understood he went on that If our engagement Is to proceed proceed proceed-if if I say say you you are to to pledge me your solemn word of honor never again I to let yourself be dr drawn wn Into any ny o of ot this absurd masquerading No I will not promise If you cannot trust Exactly hotly interrupted Germond I cannot trust rust you You have spoken well Then we had better part J Now Kate dont don't be so unreasonable You know that I love you you you-you you know that I have only your best interests at heart eart This mania for acting will surely sooner or later bring you to grief Promise me darling that you will give it up Promise me not to take part in Mrs I 5 th theatricals next I m nth Never Sever was Kates Kate's spirited reply I IVery Iery Very ery well said Germond deeply offended Then you know the come conse I conse-I j iti i u i That Is just as you please i i And Arid she court sied him Imperially out of the room So let it be belshe she cried dashing the briny drops out of ot her eyes I I will not cramp the royal gifts God has given me to suit the narrow Ideas of any man an anI alive I I feel that I can merge myself entirely In the identities of the creatures of other ether geniuses geniuses and and I am determined sooner or later to go on the stage I fancied I loved him but I could never thoroughly respect a man whose soul ran in such despicably narrow narrow grooves grooves People shook their heads when Kate Brewster resigned her situation In a flourishing academy for young ladies ladles and accepted a rate fourth-rate opportunity to togo togo togo go on the stage during the engagement of a star actress I have only to walk on and off and off and s say y four or five words mamma pleaded Kate and an l I hav have such a good chance to study Mrs Legrange But my ny l love ve this can only en end in disappointment and ana distaste for tor ordinary occupations F I 01 i I see mamma said Kate brightly i d J 3 j j If you a It sensible girl girland and married young Germona Germond- J I I should h have ve felt like a caged bird all all' my days Only wait walt m mamma mma only wait walt and s see ee I Mrs Legrange the beautiful English actress had the rare perceptions belonging belonging belonging be be- longing to her sl sex x Among Amon all ll t the e subs she saw and noticed notIce a. a tEe Hie eyed dark-eyed girl with witt the square brow and nd the red mobile mouth That girl girt has the mak making ng of an an n artist In her said she bring her to me And the upshot of the the matter was that when Mrs range Legrange went back to London Kate Brewster and her mother went too Years afterward the denizens of her native town never knew that Katherine the brilli brilliant young tragedienne who was vaa nightly playing to such full houses hoUes was the l Kate Hate ate Brewster who had once been a schoolmistress In their midst I 5 55 5 5 5 I George Germond ill and nd In trouble I used to know a George Germond Hes managed his business affairs poorly Everything has gone wrong and 1 his wife a poor ittle i le helpless thing with no merit on earth but a pretty face has helped to drag him down They say he is nearly wild threatens to commit suicide and all that sort sor of thing n j jOh JOb Oh Ob he be mustn't do that said Kate Ill go to S S S S S v vA v- v I IA A lady to see me I dont don't want to see any anyone one Tell her so George Germond spoke hoarsely and in the same Instant he he pushed a loaded revolver under th the folds of the table-cover table but the visitor followed too closely on the footsteps of the scared little servant maid to admit of the message of a de do nial being delivered She was tall and and regal in her mien but a close bl black ek k veil concealed her face as she walked directly to the table and taking up the significantly hidden pistol flung It out of f the window into a cluster of leafless bushes In the garden It Is only a c coward ward George Germond said she who would run away from the troubles of this world rather than face and conqUer er them Kate Brewster he exclaim ci Yes she said laughing Kate Brewster or or rather Katherine Bruce ruce as they call me now IAre i 1 iAre Are you then Katherine Bruce the successful actress the actress the queen of t THe Th modern stage Oh Kate I never dreamed of this i But Rut I did not come here to talk about myself she said Independently It ItIs Itis Itis is you that I am interested in fn Are you really ruined I Yes ies tes lIe He set his teeth gloomily Past help past help past recall Will Vill the loan of a thousand pounds help you to regain yo your your lost position Where am I to get a thousand pounds I I will lend it to you I have it to spare I 1 was going to take my lawyers lawyer's iJ and Invest it in mines but I am not particular as to Its destination You Youcan Youcan Youcan can have it tomorrow Now lets let's see the wife and babies Pont thank me me- me thanks are a nuisance nl I I shall expect fair interest and good security Mrs Germond a little pallid haired fair creature in the last stages of consumption consumption consumption con con- lay on a sofa within She looked up anxiously as Kate swept in If you are another on one of my husbands husband's creditors creditors- she began in ma a trembling trembling trem trem- bling bUng voice I II I am not but Im I'm going to be said Kate May I kiss you my dear I 1 Iam Iam am a very old friend of your husbands I ISo ISo So the young actress brought comfort and ana Blessing t to rhe the home of poor poor poo George Cerge Germond She never told his wife wITe of the pistol nor dl did Germond lt ever ver afterward allude to it Commercial Tribune |