| Show IIII 1111 Iff IfIll will GEORGE br T T O 11 DV A 4 LOVE LOTIE STORY OF PARIS lb Y DU MAURIER fl fl 1 h 11 HJ FAMOUS m K this famous novel is given in serial torm form to readers of this news H J paper through arrangement with richard walton tully pro ducer of the screen ver sit 00 and first national pictures inc STORY distributor of the motion picture copyright by harper bros copyright 1922 by gerald du maurier and may du maurier coles so little was seen for some time of little billee at the studio in the place st anatole des arts and little of 0 trilby a blanchisseuse de fin fill lias not many minutes to spare from her irons but they often met at dinner and on sunday mornings trilby came to repair the lairds linen ai and d darn his socks and look after his I 1 little atle comforts as usual and spend a happy day and on sunday afternoons the studio would be as lively as ever with the fencing and j boxing the piano playing and fidda 1 ing all as it used to be and week by week the friends noticed the gradual and subtle change in trilby she was no longer slangy in french unless it were now and then by a slip of the tongue no longer so facetious and droll and yet she seemed even happier than she had ever seemed before also she grew thinner especially in the face where the bones or of her cheeks and jaw began to show themselves and these bones were constructed ted on such right principles as were N ere those of her brow and chin and the bridge of 0 her nose that the improvement provement pro was astonishing almost Ines inexplicable also she lost her freckles as the summer waned and she herself went less into the open air and she let I 1 her hair grow and made of it a small i i knot at the back of her head and i showed her little flat ears ars which were charming and just at the right place very tar far back and rather high little dillee billee could not have placed them better himself also herl her mouth always too large took on a firmer and sweeter outline and her lierl big Brit Dritt tish ish teeth were so white and even that even frenchmen forgave them their british bigness and a new soft brightness came into her eyes that no one had ever sc saen n there before they were stars just twin gra gray stars or rather planets just thrown off by some new sun tor for the steady mellow light they gave out was not entirely their own thus pleasantly and smoothly smooth ly and i without much change or adventure I 1 things went on till christmas christinas time little dillee billee seldom spoke of arll by or trilby of him work vork went on every morning at the studio in ili the place st anatole des arts and pictures were begun and finished little pictures that tale take long to paint the lairds spanish bullfighting scenes in ili which the bull never appeared and which lie he sent to his native dundee and sold chete tragic little dramas of life in III the slums of paris starlings suicides by charcoal ai and I 1 d poison which lie he sent everywhere but did not sell little billao was painting all this time at it carrels studio ills his private va te one and seemed preoccupied led and happy when they all met at mealtime and less talkative even than usual he had always been tho the least talkative of the three more prone ti listen and no doubt to think the more in ili the afternoon people came and N went ent as usual and boxed and fenced and did gymnastic teats feats and felt sattys biceps chich by this time equaled mr bandows San dows some of these people were very pleasant and remarkable and have become famous since then in E england ng france america or have died or married and come to grief or glory in other ways it Is the ballad of the bouillabaisse all over again midday mid day had struck the expected hamper had not turned up lip in the place st anatole des arts all madame kinards Vin ards kitchen battery was ill ili readiness trilby and madame angele boisse were in ili the studio their sleeves turned up and ready to begin at twelve the trots Ang liches and the two fair sat down to lunch in a very anxious frame of mind and finished a pate do de foie foe gras and two bottles of burgundy between them such was their disquietude the guests had been invited tor for si ab most elaborately they laid the cloth on oil the table they had borrowed from the hotel de seine and settled who was to fo sit next to whom and then unsettled it and quarreled over it trilby as was her wont in such matters assuming an authority that did not rightly belong to her and of course getting her own way in the end and that as the laird remarked was her confounded Trilby ness liess two three four but no hamper dar darkness 1 ness had almost set in it was simply maddening they knelt on the divan with their elbows on the window sills and watched tile the street lamps popping into life along the quays and looked out through the gathering dusk for the van from the chemin de fer du nord and gloomily thou thought glit of the morgue which they could still make out across the river at length the laird and trilby went off in a cab to the station a long drive and lo 10 b before they came back the long expected hamper arrived at six anil and with it durien vincent antony t 0 ny lorrimer carnegie petro dodor and the last two in uniform as usual and suddenly the studio which had been so silent dark and dull with taffy and little billee sitting hopeless and despondent round the stove became a scene of the noisiest nois iest and busiest and cheerful est animation the three big lamps were lit a and nd ail 11 the chinese lanterns the pieces of resist resistance anve and the pudding were whisked oft off by trilby angelo angele and madame vinard to other regions the porters lodge and durdens Du Dur lens studio which had been lent for the purpose and every one was pressed into the preparations for the banquet there was plenty of idle hands to do sausages to bo be fried for tho the turkey stuffing made and sauces salads mixed and punch holly hung in festoons fes all round and about n a thousand things everybody was so clever and good humor ed that nobody got in way not even carnegie who was in evening dress to the lairds delight so they made him do the scullions scull ions work cleaning rinsing peeling etc the cooking of the dinner was almost better than the eating of it and though there were so many cooks not even the broth was spoiled cocka leekie from a receipt of the lairds laird it was ten before they sat down to that most memorable repast and dodor who had been the most useful and exegetic ene getic of all its cooks apparently quite forgot they were due at their respective barracks at that very moment they had only been able to obtain la permission ds do dix heeres 11 if they chev remembered it the certainty that next day would be reduced to tc the ras tho the fifth time and dodor cop cor ned led to his bai rack a tor for a month did not trouble them in the least the waiting was as good a as tho cooling cooking the handsome quick authoritative madame vinard was in a dozen places at once and openly prompted rebuked and bally ragged her husband into a proper smartness the pretty little madame angele moved about as deftly and as quietly is as a mouse which of course did not prevent them both from genially joining in ili the general conversation hz e ever ee e it wandered into french trilby lay tall graceful and stately an and also swift ot of action though more like juno june or diana than hebe devoted herself more especially to 10 her own particular favorites durien taffy tile the laird little billee and dodor and whom she loved and tu toyed en bonne ca marade as she served them with all there was wag of the hie choicest I 1 lien ngali gall and gecko came cam and the table had to be laid fald and decorated anew for it was suppertime supper time supper was inas even jollier than dinner which had taken oft off the keen edge of the appetites so that every one talked at once the true test teat of a successful supper except when antony told some of his experiences of Bohe bohemia niia for instance how after staying at home all day for a month to avoid his creditors he became reckless one sunday morning and went to the dains bains deligny Dell gny and jumped into a deep part by mistake nil stake and was saved from a watery grave yb vb a bold swimmer who turned out to be his bootman er satory to whom lie he owed ed sixty francs of 0 all his duns dulls w the one lie he dreaded the most and 1 i who let him go in a huny huri y whereupon Th reupen Sv ngali engall remarked that lie he also owed sixty francs to satory mals mais comme che ne me chalais cha mais che nal nai rien a craa indre 11 whereupon hereupon there was such a i laugh that Sv ngali engall felt he had I 1 scored off antony at las bat t and had a prettier wit he flattered himself that hed got the laugh of antony this time and after supper Sv ngali engall and gecko made such lovely music that everybody was sobered and athirst again and the punch bowl wreathed with holly and mistletoe was placed in the middle of the table and clean glasses set all around it then dodor and stood up to dance with trilby and madame angele and executed a series of cancan steps which though they were so inimitably droll that they had each and all to be encored were such that not one of them need have brought the blush of shame to 10 the cheek of 0 modesty then the laird danced a sword dance over two T squares and broke broke them both and taffy baring his mighty arms to the admiring gaze of all did dumbbell dumb bell exercises with little dillee billee tor a dumbbell dumb bell and all but dropped him into the punch bowl and tried to cut a pewter ladle in ili two with doders sabre and sent it through the window and this made him cross so that he abused french sabres fabres sa bres and said they were 1 lado nt worse orse pewter than even french ladle j h hd eind d the laird sententiously that me these things better in england ancl ana winked at little billee then M and mme ame vinard and trilby and angele bade the company goodnight good night trilby being the last of them to leave little billee took her to the top of the staircase and there he said to her trilby I 1 have asked you nineteen times and you have reZ reused used trilby once more on christmas night for the twentieth time will you marry me it if not I 1 leave paris tomorrow morning and never come back I 1 swear it on my word of honor trilby turned very pale and leaned her back against the wall and covered her face with her hands little billee pulled them away answer me trilby aby god forgive me yes said trilby and she ran downstairs down stairs weeping tn on new years day taffy and the laird were at their work in the studio when there was a knock at the door and INIons monsieur leur vinard cap in hand respectfully introduced a I 1 pair par of visitors an english lady and gentleman tile the gentleman was a clergyman small thin round shouldered with a long neck weak eyed and dryly polite polita the lady was middle aged though thourl still young looking very pre ltv with gray hair very well dressed dressea very small full of nervous energy with tin and feet it was little billes Bil leps mother arid ad the clergyman the rey rev thomas baat was her brother in law their faces were full of brou trou trouble ble so much so that the two painters did not even apologize for the carelessness of their attire or for tile the odor of tobacco that filled the room little billeen Bil lees mother recognized the two painters at a glance from the sketches and descriptions of which her sons letters were always full they all sat sai down after a moments embarrassed silence mrs bagot exclaimed addressing taffy mr wynne we are in terrible distress of mind I 1 dont know if my son has told you but on christmas day he engaged himself to be married to be married exclaimed taffy and the laird for whom this was news indeed yes to be b married to a miss trilby oferrall who from what he implies is in quite a different position in life ifa to himself do you know the lady mr wynne oh yes I 1 know her very well indeed we all know her Is she english ashes an english subject I 1 believe Is she a protestant or a roman catholic inquired the clergyman A a upon my word I 1 really dont know you know her very well indeed ind you dont know that mr wynne ox reclaimed claimed mr bagot Is she a laar laci ajr Wyn wynne tle asked mrs bagot somewhat impatiently as if that were a much more important matter to bo be continued |
