Show MM 4 X the wall was wags I 1 covered with his pictures X by bj HAROLD CARTER M K fr I 1 ir I 1 western paver union 1 OHN MARSDEN was ivas at thirty a J kelf not in the ordinary sense of of we word though he had made himself as an artist atter after his cathor hu imd d oust cost him out of his hie house bouse for refusing to enter lila bis bank anti ami now six months after his bis mar ariage to 0 o pretty molly lamont lament word bad come eliut old hoary henry marsden mariden was incurably curably ln ill 1 you will go to t him alu deary pleaded molly putting tier her arms round her husbands neck you know lie h lives all nione alone molly dear how can 1711 I 1 tic he asked lie he sneered at my ability to make a name for myself and I 1 succeeded frow the first rawlins began to buy my pictures pictured right away recognizing their woith vo rth I 1 john ald imald molly 1 I want ernnt you yoa to go because it 11 is 1 right Pro nilse met me I 1 andio and ato jolin john promised in fruth ruth he h was proud of his pretty youny young bride tind for tits father to atelier e her they nent unannounced the old mun man lay in his bedroom la in the lonely house uptown ile he had bad only enly two passions in his heart the th ite of power and the love for john but jolin john it if lie suspected the latter parti part had never admitted it to hIrA self they saw maw the physician in tho the Y reception room A slight blight stroke he sald bald noting the me espre expression sion of anxiety upon the young muns mans face he ought to live jive iut but fie pati paused sed he fie wa banwell yan well with the old mans in his son HOD und lie he know knew that there was more than a n physical malady the mat ter with him it to la his bl mind 11 ho he went vent on ile he lives a lonely life if I 1 he could acquire mothr ho he would get well ell if not ile he shrugged his shoulders he Is asleep headd ed it woold he better not to dl tu rb him film tie lie tool took lila libi departure leaving them alone molly slipped clipped her arm through lier her husha husbands ant anil they went through the me coonis together john said molly very quietly allow me the boors to in which you played when you were a little boy ile he led her up tho the thick carpeted stairs and at abry entry stop remembrances rushed back to him thy they passed the bedroom in which hit his father lay sleeping john saw it a white capped nurse auroa beside the th bed through the open door ile he wanted to run niu in as he would haye have done years yeara before at last they reached the nursery nunery once inside john gave a start and gulped down tha lump rising riling in hie hid throat all the old toys toy had bm been carefully set outi out the rockina horse on which he b and briddon through the rn lands of f childhood the bricks that had teen built inti anti castles the toy railroad on which the thi train of cars still stood ready upon the winding of tile the mechanism to fulfill its if circular journey over aad over rr again john looked at t molly dumbly ile U saw w the tears team la in her br eyes poor johnl she whispered and the poor old man I 1 they passed into ra aa adjacent room once devoted deold aft old lumber and trunks john switched on the lights he did not know why he had entered but now he started back this uia time la in stupefaction the wall was covered with pictures hla pictured there Ther ewas WM hl bia first capo apollo llo at the well darieng the whole width of the tha room there was wai hla his latest the good god samaritan there were half ft a hundred that he had bad sold old to rawlins for such auch an unheard of price fyr for a beginner john looked at molly and ke be knew that she recognized them and understood and shame overcame him lie ho sank down and could no 09 longer re atkaln t his hl tears teara he felt Af ollys hand upon his hi shoulder jolin john dear she ahe whisp whispered erad it was he I 1 yes res john aw answered ered but though he gave gar you yb your start you have done well dear you tou must not take it too much to heart you know you are making a good lacome novi now apart from rawlins ns 1 I know know molly he mi answered but it was he his loving care that watched over me and I 1 thought lital utterly heartless heart lew and unloving they went down the stairs by side they paused at tho the bedroom door the white cappad narse niu M saw aw them and carne came out he has bits jut just awakened awak ned the whispered he Is better so se much bottor tits HI sleep edmed to bo be the crisis lie H will got fit yell ell it to Is wonderful the th change that hum hoa come orr ayer him during hla him sleep t did the sick raab man understand la in ur the land of dreams that we his dearest deabre had edme to pau pass it alet seemed so B fr for when wha john and molly entered he looked fit at them without surprise and feebly stretched out hla his shrunk shrunken arm toward them J john ohn my boyl boy I 1 he murmured john vita kneeling bt at his hie fathers fathera bedside abbe a he had done whytt he be was wa a child the old mana hand tested rested upon his head and johns face was in his hands bands father this ahls Is my wife I 1 he be said 1 I answered his bis tather father you are it lucky man john and I 1 am an old fool but you have hae coffi back costay to stay both of yon but there wao vaa no need tor for john to answer 1 WW tc tf |