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Title: The Music Master
Novelized from the Play

Author: Charles Klein

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THE MUSIC MASTER

by

CHARLES KLEIN

Novelized from the
Play as Produced by
David Belasco

Illustrated with Scenes
from the Photoplay
A William Fox Production

[Frontispiece: "MY LITTLE GIRL HAD JUST SUCH A DOLL--IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT YOU--?"]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1909
By Dodd, Mead & Company
All rights reserved

Published, March, 1909

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

TO

David Warfield, Artist

BY THE AUTHOR

List of Illustrations

"My little girl had just such a doll--is it possible
that you--?" . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The "music master" can no longer pay rent for the piano.

Anton Von Barwig is compelled to pawn his favourite violin.

Beverly brings Helene a wedding gift.

Anton learns that his newly found daughter is to be married.

Helene prepares her trousseau.

"I want you to come with us?"

Helene and Beverly find love's haven.

Chapter One

Anton Von Barwig rapped on the conductor's desk for silence and laid
down his baton. The hundred men constituting the Leipsic Philharmonic
Orchestra stopped playing as if by magic, and those who looked up from
their music saw in their leader's face, for the first time in their
three years' experience under his direction, a pained expression of
helplessness.

"Either I can't hear you this morning, or the first violins are late in
attacking and the wood wind drags--drags--drags."

"What's the matter? We've played this a hundred times," growled