Show HERO HER OWN WAY WAY WAYt t cA GIRL of PREVIOUS CHAPTERS CIL Julia Dean spurned Charles Becker and with Ith given her herby herby heby by her dad Juan Jason Dean went to Chicago under the name of Julie Kelln Kean to make her own way She lost her 1250 In a cafe cate But Clement Clem- Clem Clement Clement ent Sterns gave ave her a Job as h hat checker and nd she found a friend In Mamie Riley with whom she worked An old acquaintance Jimmy Costello showed up He punched the nose noso o ot oc a lObby lizard who woo Insulted Julio Julic then took her out cut to dinner and ana Introduced Intro intro- introduced Jerry Hathaway who prom prom- promised to recover the Going home found Mamie Riley crying Mamie began telling Julie of her 1 and her ambition to tobo i I Ibe bo be an opera op ra singer I THE InE ECSTACY OF INSPIRATION Through some provision ol of chance I became an errand girl In Inca ina ca a hat shop and you can Imagine my Joy when I 1 was II told to 10 deliver II a hat to Mme firne of me Rosario Rosarlo the tho opera al singer ngor I went to her house without the slightest idea that hat I 1 could sher ace her but Just j to walk the the steps her Iter feet had hod trod rod and when I 1 was told to take the hat up to Madams Madam's room roon I was vas so ao excited I 1 could hardly walk There Thero I found Rosario surrounded sur- sur surrounded rounded with the tle greatest luxury tIer Her room was waa like lIko something I 1 could never imagine but that had haino no temptation for tor or the little tittle girl standing there awestruck because she he was In the pre presence nce ot of a IL real j opera singer I 1 held out the boito box to the meld maid I 1 could not have spoken had bad I 1 died for or It Afterwards I still stood b by the thedoor thedoor th door forgotten by the diva aswelt as a welt well as os her lIer maid Presently she began to ta sin sing First almost t to herself but finally her hel glorious voice filled tilled m my heart henrt with ecstacy I crept nearer and nearer until I wes kneeling at her feet fee She must hava havo hav felt me there kl kissing kIlling the too loo of her little satin slipper Cor br she said It Why do What ees you kees keca my slipper er I 1 dont don't know I stammered s It Is that I have heard you ou You have heard me sing In opera pera my Thy child No No but I 1 have Just juat heard you sing Ing here I suspect Madame had never neer had bad such luch sincere tribute paid 1 01 1 to her voice for tor she said sold I 1 will ell sing for lor you my child Immediately the whole hole room ivas 88 filled tilled with that glorious arts aria Irom Thai Of Or court course at the time I didn't know what it was WIlS but I X learned It a later For a ft moment I r stood tood spellbound spell spell- spellbound bound and anil then thon strange as it m may eom for lor I was wa utterly unconscious clou cious tous or it until Madame Madama adame stopped I was trying to follow tollow her te r Child child ees en you that hat haf a vol voice e she said lAId Oh I did not mean to For For- Forgive give e me m I 1 did not know what I 1 Ivas was vas doing Tm Im glad you did It for tor you must learn to sing You must let my child stand tand tn ft the way of ot making makl It po possible tor you to give that voice to the world Madame Ho arlo did not now know what she he was doing to the child 1 I took her worda ord literally end and hat why Im I'm rn trying crying tonIght Copyright 1936 NEA Service Inc |