Show K i it ty ONO al j ri r i 41 by fl paul cresnick copyright ty by joi D ato 4 at last murr murmured aured my little host ess CBS breathing a sigh of relief what a time people do stay sta I 1 I 1 roses rooe promptly 4 sit down anil and don t ildi culous bho youre you re not people hae some more to eat cat and hand me a piece of calce cake I 1 am in starving I 1 brought her ladyship the cake tand help yourself it all appears very good koure corking tag ragged ed lvery everything thing all right As AB well I 1 suppose as tan bo be ct 01 lecter sitting all diy ay long in the of ace ice doing nothing beyond eating pway your own heart heartis is not exellar ablog even if cannibalistic dut but don dont t talk about roe me 1 I hate bate the subject talking about nothing remarked kitty placidly I 1 always make inake me hun gry do try ahls cake I 1 made it my pelf 1 I think aj y ve been most moat wonder ful today to day I 1 t id her you remarks concerning ning were illuming acting atting in the hughert degree 1 I had bad been reading about it in a magazine she confessed contee aed personal ly I 1 dont doat belleba a word of it A third elrd eye indeed I 1 find two quite enough especially when ben ones e ea e lashes gashea are always coming out let wie me look no you re not uncle toby ei ean en it iam am a aldow adow im got roii i it to ring for some borne fresh tea so please behave I 1 wouldn t havo my loftus shocked chocked for u oi ids aes ues a very proper profir oung person persona 1 I 1 accepted the Jnita inflation tion to be best beat man I 1 announced a little later the tea question having been disposed of are you ou going to be or anything 7 I 1 don t be too absurd I 1 shall bo be there of course and reggie please recollect that addines Ad dings aio affairs kitty sighed ag agian ila and abruptly veried to another topic you mm A failure what he thought himself asked mo how hon I 1 got on at the jacksons at mine home I 1 as horribly bertous when I 1 wont went in rhe had bad the studio crammed full of Nond wonderful erful people celebrities and artists and authors doesn doean t the first kind cover the thai two ot others hors I 1 questioned not scarily celebrities meins folk who have arrived artists and authors dont don t dream of ait iving un til they re either old or dead at t least not the best sort 1 so aou ou talk to the celebrin ties I 1 why always alays lierd herd with mill ones own she ehe smiled aelick icily ly mean alean ing of course that I 1 in old and that you ou really must leave orr off ez ing my hand do you 5 on know that I 1 shall bo be eight and twenty next I 1 that sub BUD eject Is taboo tor for tho I 1 m saving up roy my pennies and mean to do my best tell me about the artists and authors chete was nas one an ail editor said IOU who really was mathei nice lie ho become quite conti conn after ft a little while said that I 1 understood him or 1 I oung oune quite I 1 v as so ed dut ho told me all wen nom boing now they had to be else the circulation went ent down I 1 said eald es 06 alti although 10 ugh I 1 dian didn t understand still lie he was nas very nice and rather good looting told you his life s stor and all thata kitty shook her head something about sla an editor she informed me will an ani pecuniary adan advantage tage ac crue to me it I 1 remain to listen to lt possibly what a commercial ind you ou have its it s a story with nith a moral no market for it ohl stories without morals sell no now idaa kitty I 1 ignored noted this statement in III her usual wnm sho it was N as on oil a ee man inan denra cars ago uhf whan n a biting wind wa ti the dark london alleys about the neighborhood of st giles run R un and sleet had been desponding descend lne through lit lit in livelong lay day and now night lind had onia wibb ith bitter em euphala phala bronit ang loiso misfortunes than th se A aleli lia bal I 1 aliade befallen be tallen our hoin a paly pale tar 1 st L faced poor poorly clad 3 south auth of 0 tn two 0 and twenty hear hear ancora LILLY accepted ray my axeman 1 and proc 6 choosing boosin his away cArp fally in nt and ii 11 1 u rt 41 vitro tiro discovered at lp leiha el ihA the h blaed hod abode in v which I 1 jot to reside eho con maciei occa herself at I 1 it nit it it xv w n nt t really wretched 1011 ou lit in vi bin bill auly rather wretched on alis particular cular night rhe fhe people vo silo kept tho h b 1130 wr quite respectable nice people as boull aiu 11 guest later on our hero ascended tho the erp aking stairs which led up several nights flights to MO bla loom and entered it gloomily it was pitchy dark pave bero abere a faint ray fro i too the larup lamp la the tha court belom belo struggled through tho the grimy window panes why tho the quite citco respect table people have em cm cleaned de quiet our ahra noted even bv tho the rays fitful gilam the dingy poverty of the small apartment no need to light the cheap lamp to show tho the sordid squalor of the loon loom its every insignificant fo atilio was too deeply impressed upon the artist abrain a brain you said editor I 1 reminded her did I 1 well well let it stand as artist said bald kitty cheerfully cheerfull just stir the fire will aou ou my story I 1 Is making mo me feel positively chilly lvery avery ftp of that mean apartment was stamped you youve ve said that already oh well this la Is tho the rest about the dull walls walla nailed the artists artist 9 many sketches bright patches of col or which on happier occasion had glen given him aldays renewed confidence surely they erfet all bad surely at last some ono one with seeing eyes would perceive that they bad merit but this waiting for recognition was weary work and now that he had come to tho the end of hla his slender re Bou sou ices the stern qu question had to bo be fad fa d our heio lit in his terrible des dea pon dency decided that he was a fall ure lire that he must go back to the hated task which his parents and in ili I 1 deed all hla his i relatives datives da iela tives had chosen for hini him that a so BO like relatives I 1 ob served sticking their noses in whenever neier they can I 1 ot tather lather wore more than a beir he had hid his own way continued kit ty he had tiled to show the world that lie he was an artist not a clerk lie he had in all sold three pictures and this with nith th small moneys that had been his on attaining his majority had kept him alive in london many days ho he had lived on bread and but ter and all that sort ot of thing 11 nothing to drink I 1 I forgot dread bread and water ater I 1 meant dut but reggie I 1 want you to understand that the poor boy had had a terrible struggle and that just now he was right down faint hungry ottok IY alone sitting miserably by the window 0 of hla his little room in the cold darkness A failure what ho he thought A failure a thing men elahi liegh at or else despise I 1 cincy f incy I 1 can dundei stand a little how he felt there were tits hla pictures about the walls thou thom that ho he liked best beat others that he had fancied were more marketable in the worn portfolio which he had put down upon the table on entering the house was empty he knew that the people had gone out to in dr their small christmas ile he im imagined ened himself alone at the far end of his one chance a fallai e despair camo came upon him ile he rose up and crossed to that part of the room whereon the lamp gli grama arlis baia ed his sketches lie he tore dou down n i rat one ard then an othir r and crushed them in his shak ing hands and trampled them under too foot t M my ideals deals lie ho muttered nit kit ty was inas looting into the fire steadfast 1 M my ideals ideala she repeated I 1 moved restlessly just then just us na he was as completing this des sounded A little noise went on kitty kitt liti A queer ari frightened little noise at once ho he jumped back towards the window struck a match there on his bed sitting bolt ii upright was a child the child of the house she had evident 11 1 been thero a long tinie time sleeping in the dark I 1 artist steadied himself to light the lamp then one could red see the shipped walls even the small dignity of chiq hi yas was to be ta ken front from him ito he made a movement of weak meak aggei against the child whose keen precocious glance had taken it all in she suddenly leared leaped off the bed and caf gaird v d the door thou then na as his hand to tear an other fiam the wall aall she came back into the room to me silo she cried lou ou don dont t want mant it give clio em cm all to me I 1 love them I 1 love them they re all I 1 got her words va ended jn in a sob and tho the artist stood aud and I 1 ned t to 0 her co cring ing and he was ashamed harned ns tho the dear raconteur paused and the trembled over her pretty face ella ell I 1 ased softly so of cout couise se ie I 1 e tried again and fought down don de despault des pali spalt and won on through concluded I kitty aha hi do iou tell we me this story ator kit she iose and came over to in chair and put her hand upon me in a moth erly N wa a because after all I 1 have bae that thaid eve eie reggie I 1 know ait it ma ro dear until just to bodai day sometimes tim es it ma may be only TO ma fancy reg glo gle I 1 seem to see on oa looking look ing a lit t tired of it as though ou were mere in 1 I 1 rud to klc over the traces cynic n 1 a bit disappointed lenow J ki ko one ona diesu t become kings counsel coull sel in five minutes reggie and I 1 larean ij rea hoida a a lot of patient ant and endless waiting malting to be done hut it a only tbt hing wo A 0 bas bae e earned that is worth while forgive me wont IOU I 1 pitted li ittel thin back of thit little hand which staged it A moment longer on ru ni 3 shoulder ilia quo ou ati ll 11 I 1 acid |