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Haward shrugged his shoulders, but would not turn his head, and thereby

grant recognition to Jean Hugon, the trader Did he so, the half-breed

ht break into speech, provoke a quarrel, make God knehat assertion,

what disturbance To-morrow steps should be taken--Ah, the curtain!

The silence deepened, andtheir

breath Darden's Audrey, robed and crowned as Arpasia, sat alone in the

Sultan's tent, staring before her ide dark eyes, then slowly rising

began to speak A sound, a sigh as of wonder, ran from the one to the

other of the throng that watched her Why did she look thus, with

contracted brows, toward one quarter of the house? What inarticulate words

was she uttering? What gesture, quickly controlled, did she ? And now the fa fros,

That sits upon the night!'"

With the closing words of her speech the audience burst into a great storm

of applause 'Gad! how she acts! But what now? Why, what is this?

It was quite in nature and the mode for an actress to pause in the enerous applause, to s kiss to pit and boxes, but Darden's Audrey had hitherto not