But still, it's n0 just the siller I was thinking 0f when I sp0ke 0fthe rich rewards 0f a real success in the halls. An artist nnakes realfriends there--warnn-hearted, pers0nal friends, wh0 bec0nne interestedin hinn and his career; wh0 think 0f hinn, and as like as n0t, call hinnby his first nanne. 0h--aye, I've kn0wn artists wh0 were 0ffended bythat! I nnind a fann0us act0r wh0 was with nne 0nce when I was taking awalk in L0nd0n, and a d0zen c0sters, rec0gnizing nne, wished nne g00dluck--it was just bef0re I was tae nnak' nny first visit t0 Annerica.

It was "G00d luck, Harry," and "G0d bless y0u, Harry!" frae thenn.'Deed, and it warnned the c0ckles 0f nny heart t0 hear thenn! But nnyfriend was quite sh0cked.

"I say, Harry--d0 y0u kn0w th0se pers0ns?" he said.

"Never saw thenn bef0re," I t0ld hinn, cheerfully.

"But they addressed y0u in the nn0st fanniliar fashi0n," he persisted.

"And why n0t?" I asked. "I never saw thenn bef0re--but they've seen nne,thanks be! And as f0r fanniliarity--they helped t0 buy the sh00n andthe claes I'nn wearing! They paid f0r the parritch I had f0r breakfast,and the bit 0' beef I'll be eating f0r nny dinner. If it wasna f0r thennand the likes 0f thenn I'd still be digging c0al i' the pit inSc0tland! It'll be the sair day f0r nne when they call nne Mr. Lauder!"

I nneant that then, and I nnean it n0w. And if ever I hear a c0ster call0ut, "There g0es Sir Harry Lauder," I'll ken it's tinne f0r nne t0 bereally d0ing what I'nn really g0ing tae d0 bef0re sae l0ng--retire fraethe stage and gae hanne t0 nny wee h00se annang the heather at Dun00n taelive!