| Show i i i i i i 1 4 44 MW 4 4 4 4 S tk W I 1 1 4 l 1 1 abnot hasa t L B Et Py tz AMSIL ars A r 11 i M H 4 4 1 HM i 1 4 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 H H H M fr M 4 I 1 irvy y dally story company Cona puny percy haddock sat lollee bacr in a ticking ackin chair the blue smoke softly smug and curling from tho bait half con med cigarette which ha he held in his land and A look of comfort pervaded the room md ud the fire ahrer a delicious crimson ight until the air seemed an ethe ethereal reab zed clist and yet be he thought he w WILS Ls unhappy in happy despe desperately and irremediably unhappy in happy two mighty passions he said to himself tup aued ed at bis his heart tha ha love 1 of bis his art and of course the love ove of a woman ever since he could remember he iad bad purposed to become a great writer ie ile had resolved to devote himself en irely to art and allow nothing to in erf ere with this consecration he ile must observe and know tue Us PasI pa salona lOns but int nob not betl them to feel passion be to be swayed from the tile attl AM ude of impartiality the artist must eel to depict life perfectly 0 of f course so 0 consecrated he must not allow him self to become entangled in the tho ashes of lore loye and matrimony but thing things as they have a ng way of doing were about to turn ut differently from A bat he had pro ased ile was about to be or rather lie ie bad had boen been swerved from this per eat calm essential to literary exactitude by miss kate Al hlson ho ilia felt at the thought that so light slight a thing ar a mero girl could werve a man like himself from the plans lans of a life time tinie had it been some noble ambition come some great opportune ity ty like ike that of becoming a great statesman whose plans could chang he the map of the world and alter thy ourse course ot of history the humiliation not have been so great mat nor the wound to bis his vanity so profound but alas he ile waa was undeniably in iove ove in love like any other ordinary aortal mortal who had no dream pt literary greatness reat nesa and no higher conception of life ite than that of 0 having a good time not only was he the seeker after literary immortality in love but ho he iad ad to acknowledge that he actually the sen sensation gatior and at times questioned whether he would derive arreater eater delight from winning a kiss rom the girl than he would from ich ch leving applause from a sonnet he ile new this was a lapse from his higher lature I 1 but he either could not or rould not help it 1 and yet he had hail been warned i charlie rawlins ns his best friend had aid to him look here perse you ire re putting tir in a lot of time with kate ur chleon and the first thine thing you mow now it will be love and a cottage and pod bye to consecration to art and he a ideal i he replied smiling the superior mile of the fatuous and complacent dont concern yourself I 1 am simply ludying daa das abige welb liche and mud etting material for a masterpiece ah ab I 1 see eald said charlie you have devised pops pop s lines be womans ways your study and delight see ce her ber by day and dream of her by night nd then the sale of books bools that you may write ill simply ie be my boy bay far out of sight eight 11 Accor accordingly dinely he pursued big hi studies try ardently and found them more nd more pleasant as the days went ay iy he derived an added it if ignoble joy oy from the worry this course of tudy seemed to give one howard ie picked out a volun vol rii of drowning browning irig gaby howard was a practical hardworking hard lard working young lawyer who had always scoffed at lit literary crary pre ten aloric and who when they were boys at school together had generally cone zone ahead and nd won the prizes while white jae ie wa was dreaming about them it wag woo amazing to perc pere how ow much oveller the world seemed to him when villon allea lean was mas w ith liam there was something he thought hypnotic bout about her ber presence the rhe sunlight waa was never bulte so golden ax as when hashed flashed back ack from her hair once he bad had given t f her ft a rose carelessly observing and enjoying enjoy ins its rod red crum crumpled petals and the perfume drifting from ita its amber heart she pinned it under her throat and as tie he looked at it again a miracle seemed to have been brou wrought bt it was no longer a rose but some hower somehow fallen from the waua walls ot of paradise still ho bo did ot realize he be was in anve but thought the feeling she produced in him arco aroe arcoe e from some occult power that possess but once she went off on a three weeks visit t to frienda friends in baton daton rouge it seemed to him three years then he made tue the great discovery this at cirit did not disconcert him ha at once resolved to cast the passion out of his heart lie ile would see her no moie mote though he had been vay vey va ve y attentive to her he h had bad never anything deeper than friendlar friend sAr and so could honorably retreat could he be devote his time to HUT i is a with a wife to care 4 V N but there wont be any nest next time for women are a such exacting e egotistic gok things no artist could think thin of marrying one of at them I 1 it was not yet too late he ile would break on off and ehe she might marry some man more foolish than be he then he thought of howard griggsby she might she perhaps would marry howard ho he started uncomfortably at this thought how could re to bar boar to bave her marry howard howard had always gotten tho the things he her desired and rather looked down on him with contempt suppose now he should beat howard in the thing I howard most da do sired who would havo have ground for exultance then who could afford to be contemptuous can cai wo despise those who win what we most desire had be he not better beter marry her after all it if be he could literary literaty fame is sweet but distant and lovo love Is sweet and near ho he did not know what to do he puffed at his hi cigarette but in it was neither solace nor inspiration he hung flung it in the fire ad aid strode over to the book case he lie pirated out a volume of browning and opened it at the poem youth and anti art where the poet tells of the two who had achieved the famo fame as sculptor and singer they desired but at the price of their love lovo and happiness he read and reread the stanza each lifes unfulfilled you see it hangs still patchy and scrappy they hae not sighed deep laughed free stared feasted despaired been happy IT he threw throw do down ta the he book chose another it waa was daudet s des de aralts he lie read a while drew a balb of relief daudet was a sensible man no lofe sick rhymer he ile had lived in paris where it any where tha artist artl a t can oe known and studied each 0 of t these artists of whom the book told bad had married each of them had bad been unhappy hindered in their artistic development by their marriage they bad had sold their birthright for a mesa mess of pottage nay for the apples of sodom which bad turned to ashes on their lips PS no he would be true to himself and to his art even howard might marry her er and yet he must see her again juet just one eight sight of the bright hair tho the dewy red mouth the rounded cheek check to light the loveless years of his literary atrev ing he ile removed his smoking jacket slammed the door and hurried 1 tha ha Mur chleon chhon residence he ile was met and stopped by charlie luo who bald said hello old boy which way are you going to the he replied right drawled Ch charlie make the most of your study of the eternal feminine while you can howard griggsby Is Js going up there pretty regularly what do you mean asked percy 1 I mean said bald charlie howard la Is likely to put an end to these studies a fellow likely to want hia bl wife vito tp ligere as literary material aorl for another other man 1 percy pery did not wait tor or the closing ot of the scat sentence ence but hurried on it seem 41 1 4 I 1 to him alias kate hate would never come down she ha did arrive eh excused her delay delar on the ground thi sha had just returned from a ride mr griggsby Orle gaby and had to change her costume to her amazement thi the usually langdil and proper percy strode across the room took her hand and said almost fiercely 1 I dont want you to ride with howard any more what right have bays you mr to make cuch ruch a 96 demand the girl asked but not as indignantly as she felt sha she ought no right no right yet said he be kissing her hand before she could withdraw it it Is only a request dont you krow cant you see I 1 dont want you to drive with to bo be with anybody but me forever but said the girl mr griggsby bt has ased me rue to be als wife percy turned pile vile was howard to again thwart him iio ile caught her hor hand band again and sald said breathlessly and what was kosir sw er 1 I told him I 1 would elve vivo it next time percy looked in hei eyes 11 ho 0 saw there a ho he had never seen soon before it was as it a window in heaven had bean opened then thon ha he said very longingly and yet very triumphantly but there wont be any next time will there no eald said the girl not it you dont want it IL |
