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Updated: May 21, 2025
Doctor Morton read the above while on his way to visit his two patients in Hughes street, and instantly his mind reverted to the initials engraved upon the unknown girl's music-roll. "V. D. H.," he said, musingly, as his eyes rested upon the name Violet Draper Huntington in the advertisement.
And, shaking her curls, she unrolled her music-roll and took from it the poor, dear fellow's letters, which she had carefully hidden between the leaves of her songs, delighted to be involved in this love-story, to give vent to her emotion in an atmosphere of intrigue and mystery which melted her cold eyes and suffused her dry, pale complexion.
A grand piano by a famous maker made its appearance in the salon in place of the old one, and Madame Dobson, the singing-teacher, came no longer twice a week, but every day, music-roll in hand. Of a curious type was that young woman of American extraction, with hair of an acid blond, like lemon-pulp, over a bold forehead and metallic blue eyes.
She is a public-school teacher, belonging to a section and grade where they work their teachers fourteen hours of the twenty-four. Alice is a music-teacher, and goes all day from house to house in town, and from school to school, with her music-roll in hand.
Now to make my peace with Pickering." She turned down the avenue running out from the street that had the honor to contain "Miss Salisbury's Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies," and met face to face, suddenly, a young man, about whose joy at meeting her, there could be no doubt. "Oh, Polly!" he cried, "here, let me take that detestable thing!" trying to get the music-roll out of her hand.
"Where are you going, Polly?" called Alexia at last, when it was all over, and the janitor was closing the big outer door, as Polly ran ahead of the girls and down the long steps of The Exeter. Polly turned and waved her music-roll at them for a reply. "Now somebody is going to carry her off," grumbled Alexia; "hurry up, girls, let's see who it is."
He met one young girl carrying a music-roll, who wore on her face an expression of joy so extreme that it gave the effect of a light. Carroll noticed it absently, this alien joy with which he had no concern.
Polly always knew when these were donned that something unusual was to be expected from the daily routine of the household. "Are you really and truly home, Polly?" asked Phronsie, taking the music-roll to tuck it under her own arm. "Yes, Pet;" Polly set a kiss on the red lips. "And I am as hungry as a beaver, Phronsie."
At their frequent encounters, when she, tripping along the rue de Seine, with music-roll and big straw hat would pass Clifford and his familiars steering an easterly course to the Cafe Vachette, and at the respectful uncovering of the band would colour and smile at Clifford, Elliott's slumbering suspicions awoke.
"Her name," said Clifford solemnly, "is unknown to any one, at least," he added with much conscientiousness, "as far as I can learn. Every fellow in the Quarter bows to her and she returns the salute gravely, but no man has ever been known to obtain more than that. Her profession, judging from her music-roll, is that of a pianist.
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