Show f.- f. I cD F i iL f L t The Evening Telegrams Telegram's f Daily Short Story r THREE IN ONE J. J By DOROTHY DOEOTHY IX DOUGL DOUGLAS S. S ht 1914 br by the McClure Newspaper News News- paper piper Syndicate salon that Everly It was ut at a private J the tho picture to which be lo lost t his peart rt H Ho He had been drinking I a l cup of ot lea from m the on the teakwood able when his roving eye eyes lit upon tho iho iPa painting painting- In t OK The old samovar the table in fact tact all bits of at furnishing in the th tudo studio immediately lost lose interest for Ev Ev- erly y H ge ae cat hi cup of ot tea do down n and went wont ru nearer r. r to the tho big ble canvas he drew a Q long breath of ad nd- I 1 never foYer raw flaW so much beauty In all my life he ho commented inwardly 4 t Certainly the girl of ot the canvas deserved hl hi iIa most ardent regard Her Hor eyes ees looked down at him like those of a d ther eor wide and nd brown bron and luminous the oft soft mass masa massof of hal hair resembled ed nothing so much as asi i new mown hay on which the tho rays of oC a az z setting sun lingered lInc Everly caught hili bli breath as his eyes ees L Ii traveled down th the Ivor ivory neck and arms Surely p Surel there was no duplicate pair o of slim ellra warm Wann hands with their tapering Ups tips and pink nails naUs fc The canvas was waa called The Soul The Ther 7 impression convoyed wa was certainly 81 spirit spirit- r URI iRl but because Everly was not In any marked degree decree e a n. spiritual person pelSon he heI heI I f I longed with a ver very human longing to toI toJ f meet the Girl in the flesh J I Upon closer examination he lie learned tit the picture had won an academy prize and that Dean Rowland had painted paint paint- ed it i Had Everly been anything of a Boh Bohemian Bo Bo- flo- flo h he would have been aware that thet Dean Rowland Roland was even en th then n In the tho I studio studio-an an artist beloved of all Bohemia Bo Bo- Bo- Bo hemia hernia I He lie went with chara characteristic directness to o his hostess hostel I 11 1 want very much to kno know who posed for that picture he lie said laid indicating the I well hung canvas can His Ills hostess a little sculptor of ot no nolean nonean lean nean repute laughed I All AlI of my masculine visitors have the and I al always at- at fame me anie desire she told him ways pats pass them o over oer er to the artist Dean Rowland nowland Come she he said piloting him through the thron throng of tea drinkers drinker I I introduce you ou I Everly found oun himself shaking hands with a a- a dainty woman whose vicinity Sic Sie it harm charm radiated her entire teemed seemed seemed to be nil all drab colored at first glance I nce Later he ha discovered the fact that tha t her e eyes S were deep rich blue that her lips Bps were scarlet arlel and her hair had laad peculIa little brone bronc It All Mi of ot these colors appeared as If the they hadt had t been hiding I 1 know Just what you ou are arc to sk hc told E Everly with a rare smile You Yon want to meet m my model for The Soul Is 13 it not so fiO soT E Everly lau laughed hed with Hh wholesome candor I I 1 dt ha iii admitted De Dean Rowlands Rowland's 1 eyes hold a peculiar r- r smile There seemed l to be something f. f of mockery mocker In them yet et verl verly could not credit the tho famous artist with deliberate de deliberate de- de liberate Intent to ridicule r p If ft you ou are ale free rree one OM evening this week M 1 j-I j I think I can eRn arrange a n. meeting she told lold him But t. she le added quickly L I you OU are aio not Jot to be M disappointed Promise ft Line Erne me that you OU Will me meet neet t df disappointment P should ha should ti the occasion arise b p There Ther was waR lau laughter on her lips s and end I Everly er E spoke as lightly as 85 he could for forTi forI Ti I R a sudden udden sense of ot gra gravity had overtaken him himI I OIl will overlook overlook- all aJl fla flaws WE F. F he lie told herIt her It lt IH iii as much the tile girls girl's Irl's oui that has called me a a. a It Is her beauty he added bec because ue of or l. l in jn fl a manner halt half timorous the oddity of his itis A half sigh Ih c escaped Dean Rowlands I lIp lIl soulIn soul Voul I i struggled d desperately tely with tile In In that picture I J am glad gad you feel tt Its c. c influence nce SIte he tu t d to greet a new new- 1 1 i lorner Before sh she went to 10 mingle again i with the artists and writers lingering c impatiently beside ut tier her ite made her engagement en- en n- n I with for or the tIle following C evening at nt her studio i Ii Jo lie He spent a wear weary da day waiting walling for or the i hour of C G lie He had bad been invited hutted for I i dinner that ho lie might have hs a long evenIng even even- lug Ing with the tile object of his thought thoughts I The Tho studio was ns lighted d softly B Beauty Rut i ir I r r. r and comfort lurked In e every I corner of or r the artl arums artists l' l home fell tell to wonA won won- I A 1 t d wh why Bohemians alone atone tc seemed md wi with th that tha t wonderful erful sense cn c of cino- cino j 1 lion thon Tho The emotions em c ever to rest ren f jn in n complete satisfaction f in the home of ot L L the atts aits r r He looked up to 10 grasp th warm Plen- Plen I n- n There was ae der uler fingers of his hogt hostess ss r nn Rn Illusive fragrance rance about her that took Everly erl into far off India He discovered later that the scent cent was jasmine He had scarcely i greeted her when hon three very ry charming women entered from Ironi the adjoining room I Everly was Introduced to each in turn And an Indefinable likeness to someone struck him In lit each one of them I Other pt r guests arrived and was wason wason as ason on th the alert for tho the app appearance of or the girl of he the portrait Unconsciously his tho head I e eyes eveS eS hart had focused ed themselves on of one of the handsome won cn whom he Siad iad met The hair was RR tawny like new mown hii hay erl E Everly's 8 pulse quickened neth Surety Surely Surel that was YI tIe the hair of oC the portrait He lie looked d Into her crl eyes cys They wore were small and void of or soul No she he was wan 8 not the girl Irl Ho lie glanced then at the tha other two w women I and a hint of the truth troth dawned noo on him One had eyes eOR like an ox wide and brown But there ther 1 IB III no soul roul In them muttered mut mut- tend terl Everly and cast hl his eyes over tho the neck and arms anns of tho the third wom worn an T Y s 8 there th re were those perfect hands with tho the pink nails But the they look Jook cold as ae I II Ithe the ho spirit had gone Jone on a n holiday was ras hl hla die comment Where then I is Ithe the the bout he queried His eyes sought his host hostess e. e She was gazing expectantly at him as 08 if she sho were ere aware of his having discovered tho the fact tact that three women Instead o of one had been her model Everly erlY tried to look accusingly back at ath ather ather h her r but the O oddity of ot hie his own discovery discovers changed his hit expression lon to one that brought a delicate flush into Dean Rowland's Rowlands Rowlands Rowland's Rowlands Rowland's Row Row- lands land's checks cheeks Her lashes lashe swept down like hike the wIdespread widespread wide wide- spread wings o of a mv raven n. n Ev felt his pulse quicken even evon as they thoy had on the day when he had first l beheld The Soul There It was was was-In In Dean Deal Rowlands Rowland's own face She had Ut used ed material models model for tor forlines forlines lines and colors but her own soul looked out from the canvas RS So great groat was Everly's discovery that tha t lie he went to the theartist's th artists artist's sidel side Ide I l II have met my disappointment bravely brave bra ly Iy 13 he wild said In a voice slightly tremulous 0 of a sudden the woman him had taken on eli all the color o of the tho universe You made me promise that My 1 picture Is three in one she he paid because e she wanted to say lay something The look Jook In Everly's eyes Ces was telling her what his lips would probably not tell her herfor herfor for lor another fortnight A thousand all Mi In one Everly laughed h d softly Come I Come I feel teel certain that dinner is lien served in iii that fascinating dining room I am an never going to ask you ou to move moc from this studio he added in no so 0 low Jow a R. tone that only onh an intuitive e companion would understand n |