| Show I I i THE LIGHT THAT THA T FAILED Ily nt 1 Il JUILIo Author uthol of nf n Onn People The rb 1 be Plain Tal from frum the HUH Soldiers Three t you Oll heard Ho lie cast about for tor some moans means of conviction The They were wera not far Car from Crom tho Marble Are Come Como up Oxford street a and Ill I'll show you rou A small knot of or people stood round rounda ft tI shop print that Dick know well Somo n reproduction of m my work lu- lu side ho said suld with suppressed triumph Never Nover before had Imd success tasted so sosweet sweet upon tho the tongue You Vou see the sort ot or things I paint DoU like lIko It It Maialo Maisio looked at tho wild whirling tu rush h of ot a field battery going Into action under firo Two men artillery stood tood behind her hor In the crowd The Theo o chucked the off load one said ono one to the tho other othor Ks rs toro up awful but they're thoro makin good limo timo I with tho the others That lead driver drives bettor nor you ou Toni Tom See Seo ow v os Is oree orce Number bo ho off oft tho limber next Jolt was tho the answer No 1 e o wont won't Soc Soe ow JV is js foots foot's braced against nt tho Iron s 's all aU right t Diem Dick watched Malsia's face ans an and s swelled with Joy joy fine fine rank r vulgar triumph Sho Sue was WI moro more Interested In inthe tho the crowd than In tho the picture That was something that she sho could und ersta land nd And nd I wanted it ao so Oh I did W want It so she sho said at ut last under her broat breath Me all Me all mo me mai said Dick placidly I Look at lt their faces facos It hits cm em They dont don't know what makes their e eyes es and mouths open but bull I know And I know knour I my works work's right Yes I sec ace Oh what I a thing thinS to havo como to ono one Como Come to ono one Indeed I 1 had to go KO out and look for It What 1 do you think I r call can It success Toll ToU m me how bow you got it Thc They returned to the tho par park and Dick delivered er himself of or tho saga of his own doings with all the arrogance ora ot or a a. young younK man speaking to a a. woman I From the bc beginning ho he told tho the talc the tho I I ls I Hashing through the records roe rec ord as telegraph poles fly past pst tho the I traveler Malsia listened and nd nodded her hea head The fhe histories of or strife and privation did lid not move her a hairs hair s breath At tho the end of ot each canto he would conclude And that gave gave mo some notion of ot handling color or light or whatever It might bo be that ho had bad set out to pursue and understand He lie Heed led ed her breathless across half the world speaking as he had nev never r spoken In his life before And in lit tho the flood tide of or his thoro there came camo upon him a great groat desire desiro to sick pick up this maiden who nodded her head and anU said I understand Go on to on-to to pickup pick pickup up and to carr carry her away with him be because be- be cause causo she sho was and because sho she understood and because she was his rl right ht and a 0 woman to be desired above all women Then ho he checked himself abruptly And so I took all I 1 wanted lie he sal said and I 1 had to light for tor It Now ow you ou Itell i tell toll Maislo's tale tAlo was I almost as gra gray as asher ashor hor her dress dres It covered ye years ls l's of or patient that would toll toil backed backe by savage vago pride not aol be bo broken though dealers laughed laughed- and fogs delayed work and Kami was unkind and even ovon s sarcastic and girls In lit other studios wore painfully polite polito It had haa a few tew bright spots spot In l pictures accepted at nt provincial exhibitions but It would up with Ith tho the repeAted oft-repeAted wall walt And so you see sao Dick I 1 had no success success suc sue I cess though I worked so hard hald Then pit pity filled Dick Even thus had I spoken when hen sho could not hit I tho breakwater half hair an hour hout before s she he had kissed Issod him And that had ha happened hap hap- I yesterday I Never mind he be said Ill tell you I something if It you'll believe it Tho wards WP were vere shaping themselves or ot their own accord The Th whole tiling thing look leek stock and barrel Isn't worth ono one big yellow sea poppy below Fort Kool- Kool I Ing n g 1 o a a. little Its all very vory well for tor you OU to talk but youve you've had tho the success arid and I Lot Let me mo talk then thon I 1 know you'll understand Malsie dear It sounds rounds a 0 abit abit I bit absurd lb urd but those ten years year never existed and come back again It I really is Just tho same same- Cant Can't you Jou see I Youre You're alone now now and Im I'm alone What's what athe s a the use of ot worrying Como Come to me in- in I stead darling 8 Maislo Maisto poked the gravel with her I parasol They were wera sitting on a bench I understand she sho said slowly But Bu t tIve I It Ive I've got my 10 work to do and ond I must do doDo doi doit i It Do it with me ino then thou dear ear I 1 I wont won't Interrupt No 0 I 1 Its It's my work work mine alone alono all aU m my mine mino Ive I've been life lito In m myself self and arid Im I'm Im I'm not riot going to belong belong bolong be- be I 1 re remember remember remember re- re long to anybody except myself member timings things as well as you do but bul that doesn't count AVo Yo wore babies then thon and we didn't know what was be before foro fore us us Dick dont don't bo be selfish I think little success next I 1 see soe my any way to a I. I from moI mo me It Dont Don't take away year ear Its Us I beg your pardon darling darling- m my fault for Cor speaking stupidly I cant can't expect you OU to throw up all nU your our Ufo life j just st because Im I'm back Ill I'll so go to my myown myown myown own place and wait a a. little But Dut Dick want you OU to to-go- to go out of ot-m ot my life now youve you've Just come como back lInck Im at nt your orders forgive me Dick devoured the troubled little face faco with ith his eyes There was triumph in them thorn be because puse ho he could not conceive that daisie should refuse sooner or Inter later lator lat Int- lat lat- er or to love him since ho loved 10 her Its wrong to me said paid Maislo moro more slowly than before its wrong and selfish but oh Ive I've boon been so lonel lonely Now I Ive I've vo seen 1 No o you ou misunderstand you ou again its again I. I ll's Its It's absurd but I want ant to keep you in my life Uto I I Naturally Wo We belong belonS' I I Wo We Yo dont don't but you ou always understood under under- I stood mo me and there is DO so much In m my work worl that you could help me In You know things and tho the ways was of ot doing things You must I do I 1 fancy or elso I dont don't know myself rhen Then I 1 suppose you ou wont won't caro care caroto caroto to loso lose sight of mo ma altogether and you want me to help you ou In your our work worl Yes but remember Dick nothing will win over como come of ii 11 That's why I 1 feel so wolfish selfish Let things s stay ns as they are arc I do want your our help You shall shaH have havo it But nut lots lets consid consid- er era I 1 must see your pica first and anil overhaul overhaul over over- haul your sketches kotches and find out about I your our tendencies You should BOO what I the papers cay sa about my tendencies i iThen I IThon Then Thon Ill I'll give you OU hoo good 1 advice and you ou shall shaH paint according Isn't that it Malsie I Again thoro thom wa was unholy triumph In InDick's InDicks InDicks InDick's inDicks inDick's Dicks Dick's eye Its too good of you you much much too goc Because you OU are consoling yourself I with what hat will IU never no happen and I know that and yet ot I wish to tv keep you ou Dont Don't blame mo later please Im going into tho to m matter with my eyes open Moreover oreo et the queen can ron cando cando rondo do no wrong It Isn't your our that impresses me Its It's your audacity In proposing to IU make mako ko use of ot me looh Youre You're only Dick Dick and and a print shop I OlVer Very good that's all I am But nut you ou bell believe belle e dont don't you OU that thal I Ilove love Co you I dont don't want you to have havo army any false notions about broth brothers ere all and I sisters 1 looked d up for a I. I moment and I dropped her eyes epe I Its ab absurd urd bu but but I t-I t I believe I t wish I could send you ou away before you ou got get et I angry with me But but Dul-but but the tho girl girt t that nt lives wit with me IN It red-haired red nn and an sr Impressionist and all our notions i iSo cIa clash l sa 1 So do ours our I think Never mind I Three months month from today wo o shall bo be Inu laughing at this thi together Maisio shook her head I knew kne you wouldn't understand aai J JIt It will only hurt hurl you OU moro mono when you yon find t out Look at nt m my face faco Dick and I toll me mo what whal you coe see I IThe The They stood tood up an arid and faced each o other o-hor hor for tor a n moment moment- rio Tho fog tOg was wall gathering s and it stifled the ro roar r of or the of London beyond the tho railing Dick brought all aU his painfully acquired knowledge of faces to bear on the yes eyes mouth and chin underneath the tha I black velvet toque Continued Continue Tom Tomorrow Morning |
