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PAGE SIX OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928 ee ------------ Eo IAC By COUNTESS Author of "ROSE O' THE SEA" A ------------ a ig KIE " BARCYNSRA TT CHAPTER XXVi--Continued 'Before long a small but curious crowd gathered around the board. Jacqueline, the new and famous dancer of London, to appear in a booth on the sands! This was sure- ly a hoax. Hut the small erowa swelled into a large one. The news spread. Soon every atom of space on the roped-in plank benches was packed to suffocation. People stood in serried ranks behind them even the esplanade ahove was lined with spectators, While Jackie dressed she ana Chester through the canvas wall ar- rangad their programme. By taeit consent the morris-dances were cut. They might have been a varlant of the can-can for ll Jackie knew, Chester proposed to confine himself to a pianoforte entertainment: songs and patter after the customary mod- el, and not spoil Jackie's dancing by sharing it with her, He was profie- ient at the piano and he knew the tempo of most of the "Spatch-Cock"" music. Certain numbers of which he was not quite sure Jackie hummed io him. It was probably the highest: speed rehearsal on record. Yet when the curtain was hauled up hy a local stage-striick boy, who for sixpence a day was glad to as- sociate himself however remotely with the drama, everything went with smeothness, Chester, stimun- tated by excitement, was in a happy vein. His audience were in the best of humour when he struck up the number chosen for dJackie"s entrance. They, applauded her frantically. That she was no pretender was man- | ifest to many among them who had seen "Spateh-Cock" in London. They had no time to consider the why | and wherefore of her appearance in| these modest surroundings; they were wrapped up in her performance. And on that tiny stage Jackie, ad- apting her movements to its limita- End" Road were in generous mood, The plate soon brimmed over. There wre notes as well as silver In it, to which, unohserved, Jackie after- wards added a lavish contribution of her own. On the station platform, where pefied, went to see her off, she would listen to no thanks, "Ne vous genez pas, mon ami,' she said. 'It is nothing. Not so long ago 1 was dancing to a pianos organ in the street for pennies. To- my love to the little madame and my hest wishes for her quick recovery,' Chester stood hat in hand, his heart in his eyes, till the train pas- ged out of sight. That night between thé acts the Diplomats' (Calderon came Jackie's dressing-room with a as black as thunder. "What's this I hear?' he demand- ed. 'It's going the rounds that you've heen seen husking on Lhe sands at Southend- Dancing to a penny crowd and taking round the hat! Is it true?" "Quite true," she replied, regard- ing the effect of a pencilled eychrow in the glass. "But what for? * Why?" "Why not?" "Good God! Do youn think I pay you a hundred a week to make an exhibition of yourself in a hole like Southend? You're engaged excing- ively to me. At this theatre. You can't appear anywhere else without my permission, And you go and make yourself cheap on the beach at Southend of all places! It's en- ough to spoil your reputation and damage mine. You must be mad!" "Calm yourself, Tt ness, It tie diversion. The artist 1 wished to assist had a sick wife and .no et into lace tions, danced their hearts away. She improvised, she invented; she gave | a fascinating display of her art in| miniature. For an hour at frequent | intervals she cane and went: und | then - heedless oi Chester's expostu- | lations went amongst the delighted | audience with a soup plate and col-| lected largesse. Money flowed. The | plutocracy of Hackney and the Mile | substitute, So I tgok her place for an afternoon, that is all. It was a total success." "That's no excuse." mity of her offence made him lose his temper "1 won't have it! It mustn't occur againf! You can't give freak performances just where yom like. It's a breach of contract. Yow'- ve made yourself legally liable to dismissal." Jackie bounced out of her chair. "You would dictate in an The cnors Chester, overjoyed and almost atu-| day it was pleasure, not work, Give was not mad-, was for charity and a lit-! affair where my heart take me?" she fired! Re ---- ABB A Sai i sss will say good-night to you, Mr. Cal- deron, Awd if you anger mo [ will not dance for you any more at all!" She flouncad to the door, palpita- ting with passion. . Calderon, who full of righteous wrath had come expecting penitence, stopd wgape hefore this counter-at- tack, The outrageousness of Jack- ie's tu quoque confounded him, It was like an unexpeoted right hook that puts the 'receiver 'to sleep." His managerial authority petered ont, What was he to do with a flery little devil who for a whim would tear up contracts and forfeit her future? Appalling® thought! His Ire cooled on the spot. This ex- plosion would he a lesson for him, Me would be careful not to exeite another like it. Jackie wasn't a normal gis. He had been an incarn- adined fool to think he could treat her like Claudia Day, a creature without a temperament. Better lat Jackie go her own gait so long as she only followed her heart. He wasn't going to risk losing her for an amiable indiscretion, Hang it all, he'd rather eat humble pie, He cecaved in unconditionally, "Oh, bless that heart Jackie!" he cried. | make it np. of yours, "Come back and Forget what 1 said, | apologize. Dance wherever you like, {In the moon or Mars or across the | Milky Way, Bot ¥'m going to man- fge your star, whatever it is!" Jackie smiled, forgave ---and came back. With fairy-footed lightness she sprang on to a chair and dropped {a butterfly kiss on the bald spot on { Calderon's head, Her sovereignty was complete, CHAPTER XXXVI There was an atmosphere of ripe {dignity and subdued splendour about '8ir John Grandison's studio. [is | spaciousness was not impaired by the mueum-like radundance of oh. jects of art usually affected hy fash- fonable artists. A few fine speci- mens of French furniture, Bayeux | tapestries, and silken prayer-rugs on the parquet floor did not overcrowd it. A large model throne, a paint- cabinet in Chinese lacquer, and one tall easel were its only professional (udjuncts, No litter of stacked can- | vases, sticky hottles of medium, dir- [tv palettes, and discoloured hrushes | drew attention to the owner's oe- | cupation,. The only picture to he seen was one on the easel, a narrow, full-length portrait of Jackie in dane- ing costume. Irene Grandison stood hefore with her hands clasped behind it her back giving if a long, contemplative! scrutiny, She had seen it irom its early roughed-in stage, ing the long period of its develop. , until now, when ft was all but Erow I i dur-| papa --_-- ] . the stage. Success had not spoilt her. . 8h played with fame as a des lighted child plays with a to) she went everywhere, She was almost as much paragraphed as Royalty and a great deal more photographed. She was becoming an arbiter of fashion, especially the fashion in hats. The "Jacqueline" hat of tenuous struc ture and overwhelming brim topped by a riot of brilliant plumage was all the rage. There wag also the 'Jae- queline' shoe, a high-heeled, halts slipper-like thing énerusted with im- ftation gems, Calderon, expert in the selence of advertisement, had, of course, engineered most of this pub. licity. Jackie took it all as to the manner born, but without preten- sion. To outward seeming she trod a path of roses. She seldom spoke of Benny, never of Mervyn. Both had epitaphs engraved on her heart under white orosses, After a general talk Irene said: "Jackie, hefore you came in John and 1 were discussing your portrait. I told him I had never seen the sor- rowful look he'd put into your eves, Is it really there? Let me look, No, J can't see it. If your eyes tell any- thing it's that you're just glad to be alive, and that's all." Juckie pursed her lips in playful | protest. | "Oh, but no, Irene! T am not sa | gorfisn, My heart full of consider jation for others as well. It has | grown =o big. I love all the world." TBut not anyhody in particular? | How about Mervyn? You did love {him once, I know. Don't you care whether he's safe and well, alive or ldead?" ! The question brought «a gpasm of pain into Jackie's Irene saw it come and go, and knew now that trandison's twas deeper than her own M1 have tried to make him {10 my heart," Jackie answered | erly. "Why shonid 1 speak VIP 1 emt my finger deeply | hleed, do 1 go to every one and show my woupd and say, 'See how fast the I hlood flows'? I do not like the sight of the blood myself Bo 1 bind up and say nothing fleeting eyes, she | dead 50h it? nr and | "Then you do eave and you're tending all the time Oh, Jackie, why? Did you quarrel? Was there a misunderstanding" You and Mervyn were simple made for one another! Pm sure of it! Won't you tell me what the trouble my dear?" "I will tell you, but it 18 no use," I Jackie replied, with a heavy sigh And tor nearly half an hour she topened the mausoleum that was her heart, lifted the little white ero and showed Irene the grievous relics that luy beneath, It was au long To extenuate herfell eo RF OK, story iL pre-| that yon don't!) wis, | Vision | 'A Chocolate. in appetizing qualities, for FRY'S is very rich in food properties, NY kind of cake, from a simple sponge to an elaborate marble cake, can be made irresist- ibly delicious with an icing of FRY'S Baking It will gain in nourishment as well as Baking Chocolate FRY'S comes in powder form, ground very fine, so thai it is most convenient, yuickly prepared, and easily digested, Get a tin of FRY'S Baking Chocolate and let your family enjoy an exquisite "chocolate cake" tonight, "OF course, remember, nothing will do but FRY'S" and to} shed, and she bad never tired of | ice her attitude towards Meryyn | studying it in all these phases, convineing, she had to go hack to her Throughout the sittings Jackie first meeting with him tn Soho, and hud presented Grandison with a pro- | <0 through all the tribulations that blem that would have been the des- | Bowman had brought down upon | pair of an artist of less ability thar She flayed her loyal little himself. Her sense of the dramatic | heart in insisting that her pledge to| way he {and ber artistic perceptions had sug- Benny hod imposed on her the gesl| | gested. a pose which she had held' of secrecy, so that even when all the! . to perfection. Rather was it a poise, | evidence of Mervyn's senses was ar- | adored him! Thar iz] W i The yacht he | {such was its suggestion of impon- raigned against her =he had not dar-| l rds go to| went a to a friend of | derability and resilience. Graadison ' { hi sud Kneel 1 forgivenrss. Helmy father's He's in Paris." She i had reproduced this to the life. It When everything was told au ob-| wt have belie | | jumped up, seized note-paper and a | { was all movement and it. had gll vious question jumped Irene's! it in his 1 day iso [pen "1 1im who his friend's Jackie's physical grace. Bui until lip { was not fres my to | bankers are They'll where a little while ago her face had baf- "But," exelaimed, "when Bens! Bens and Lthe vaeht | where going! fled him. Its play of feature was ny was dead why didn't mmad- | Mervyn | People on long cruis tus changeable as the skies. His dif- fatelp-#0 10 Mervyn ana make a clean | as though I| range wiht their fienity had been to seize on any one | breast of everything? ) free to speak if J I would | them money of its fleeting aspects. In the end Foi thing, becans I an tongue instead." Her voice | toch at. Cir he had caught what seemed to him! proud!" A little fla indigna- He not trust me!" | tn y're called. 1've done 'to be its fundamental expression, an | tion. the first she had shown. came | would now knew | vachting to know that!" enduring wistfulness of the cyes. !inio Jackie's face. "When that day Irene "try 1p was now | "Your contract! to me? | make it! I will my=elf{ break it if I choose! If I can bene-| fit an unfortunate I will do so any time I desire. I am Jackie! I wil) do what 1 like! 1 do not care! 1! | A " _-- y 1 To-Day's Beauty Talk|... t | back. 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