Show IN THE CAVE Shevi she was ass a quiet little woman vroman with a very pale face her serge gown was wora and shabby the blue bad faded to a sort of heliotrope she wore a pink alink shirt wald which had bad also faded and was streaked but bat was scrupulously clean the shabby hoes and the frayed gloves carried out cut the th general impression of poverty she walked to a small table in the corner and sat down with a certain grim determination in her manner the very way waw in which she pulled her chair up to the th table was s full of decision slon the way fajr she dragged off her shabby gloves and laid them to one tilde side suggested desperation she read the menu card over and guve gave her ba I 1 0 order rd er to pierre quite distinctly though la alow low tone then she leaned back bes he 11 lips which lacked the ruddiness of health drawn closely together queer that remarked the th artist to his wife as he be tossed up a salad yes she remarked the theartis arts tf wife nibbling an olive A she look like the bohemian bohemia a sort ort pursued ho he she looks like a well a teacher at ad fez far as her face goes goe and a starving MU mil liners assistant as a regards clothes and air commenced mrs artist critically she does seem hard up a fact meantime pierre placed the tureen ue iw fore the hungry looking girl the aroma ot of soup floated on the air the garlt transparently white face was suffused with color for an instant as she carried the ladle toward her soup plate then there then was a little crash a little cry and soup was trickling down the shabby gown the palo pale faced girl bad fainted they bore her to the little parlor and mrs artist who was a recognized au an thorit yat the mazarin because she always dined there them unfastened the frayed starched shirt collar and ordered some som sherry the white faced girl revived be b neath the stimulant and drew a long dr wn and shuddering sigh then she unresistingly took more man ol of the wine the golden haired woman forcing upon her when she had bad reo recovered overa somewhat hat the wise visa little wife of the es arv forbade her to speak when you have drunk this broth she said aid in the voice of a commander in chia you may mayell awl me all about it the girl drank the broth obediently now how said raid the artists wife whal does it all mean the pink flush suffused the white tun tao gain again fi fx 1 had anything to eat cat forgo tor long that I 1 was taint I 1 whispered the g giri and I 1 have money to pay tor for my mf dinner and hunger and fear made me yek yes I 1 see nodded mrs artist ad though to be starving and a swindler were wen naia natural al occurrences 1 I see EGO butr but how did it happen tell me in just a few faw words 1 im a music teacher faltered the girl giri and music student alone in new york home in ohio boarded on tenth street streel lost my pupils lost my money write writa home bome poor stopped taking my meals in the house did bid chamber work to pay for my room finally di have a cent I 1 borrow or beg bof money and I 1 earn any it it I 1 anything to eat for three days day and amid I 1 made up my mind to have one me dint ding ner mar it if I 1 was put in jail tor for it 1 I understand perfectly said the artists wife in the tone of one who had hadar hw experienced starvation now NOT come out anti and dino dine with us miss miss wylie said the gk girl blushing my dear said eald the artists wife tho that night you are am going to paint a picture ol of a thin pale faced woman teaching a round rosy little cherub the violin you are am joing going to call it the busio teacher and to old mr van who likes you for or so am and jou yon are going to give miss W ylie a hundred of those dollars dollan tor for being such a perfect model for the subject then shet bes going to the summer ohan oh onan an ohio farm do you understand 4 perfectly my lore replied the docile doaa husband new york world |