Show 11 1 1 11 4 I 1 i j t m s 11 1 I 1 I 1 tl I 1 1 4 V i I 1 0 o qa ai 3 V f i ar h 1 11 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 iia 1 1 q I 1 IL I 1 1 5 I 1 1 1 I 1 f 11 0 41 o S r 11 13 i r I 1 I 1 it 4 t k 41 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 IA 4 1 1 q I 11 1 I 1 1 1 A w 7 f iro I 1 A t 1 I 1 0 O il i I 1 r i 1 11 1 I 1 4 f I 1 rj A r I 1 I 1 1 J I 1 11 1 i 11 lz I 1 11 I 1 I w I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 i A 1 I 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 7 A I 1 I 1 I 1 if I 1 I 1 1 K ae t 11 F I 1 x f iv 1 g I I 1 7 I 1 A k I 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 I 1 i I 1 4 I 1 i 90 I 1 MAR M A N 4 I 1 lo 10 I 1 I 1 ta t I 1 I 1 II 11 I 1 I 1 x I 1 I 1 I 1 the nai cg I 1 I 1 STORY FROM THE TE START I 1 I 1 I 1 k 1 I va iii pro from m the to anane al Itu atlon on to which he be bad been born peter alti ullman I 1 american gentleman Kent leman of 0 theold the old school chool and lat last of his hid tam Is practically ir to penury through the misfortune of a friend hax haxen fal 1 brower brewer whom he had unwisely trusted tru steil learning of Brow brewere Bre irle loul u a ida clde wh which I 1 ch means mean the he destruction of his last hops atlman engages ft a french butler achilla achill lutry w who ho peaks no 0 english and is to r replace sneed of long ions anding t by lutry ullman sands and lettera letters to prof fleming flaming braan bradney a y floyd aalst and no nee land barnes Bar nta men man whom the world has ha olal fied as ai failures failure onto once of high position 1 in I response the t three call on him at hta his home after dinner each relates relate the so that wrecked their ca roars I 1 CHAPTER ill continued 5 I 1 it to la all so 0 o confused and hard to understand bradney bald slowly 1 I m not a business man la in any sense I 1 was convicted by the unive ity aft authorities of stealing the money entrusted to me to build it a laboratory which cost coat a quarter million dollars not mot all of lt it naturally I 1 think I 1 was supposed to have hare made away with something like seventy evenly thousand lol collars lo llora lars the anonymous donor of it a hundred thousand dolla dollars ra whose gift had started the thing had expressed a wish that I 1 should hould have absolute control it was wag oven given me A contractor showed me how by using inferior materials I 1 could make a commission his him term for robbery not mine of twel awen ty anve thousand 1 should have exposed him then and there them to the president but he bogged begged for a chance and an ni it was at a period of my life when I 1 was drunk with theroy of my opportunities tuni ties ilia his offer was wad soon forgotten i fleming flemin gM bradney radney made a gesture almost of desparr des de patr somebody som go got at my papers and altered figures and estima estimates if vaal until even the 06 faculty 1 which wanted ranted to believe in me kj believed lieveld me guilty t would not explain I 1 hadtke hot anger that in feels when it Is accused of treachery to its ideals it was kept out cut of the papers tor for the sake of the university but I 1 was done with naturally I 1 fought enlisted friends and even lawyers but I 1 had bad no money saved aved and it was useless what did mr ullman mean by saying the story had bad never been told in its ffloyd malet demanded he ha turned host arts i there anything else A great del wore more isaid bald milman recent exposes of condi conditions tlona in th the a building trades make it easier toun to understand der stand the min man who offered mr bradney a bribe to pass poor construction st was not acting for himself tie ile was a subcontractor who would tiare made possibly a few hundreds out of it ile he was acting for the inevitable man higher up who in this case was paul baxon perhaps you have heard beard of him blat not the man who downed antema international motored Motor Mo orl neeland barnes cried I 1 yes I 1 know a great deal about paul claxon I 1 have followed his career with deep interest it was paul baxon who degreed professor brad ceya fall i aiwas he was used to breaking men who of course we shall ceyer et cylde nee of this the BUb contractor haime whose living depended upon Rax radons ll axons ons favor would never tell there was one man who believed in professor Prof eMor Br bradney idney when the inquiry vua va started this was the anonymous donor dodor of the hundred thousand I 1 cullim dul lare 1 I heard of that bradney said band and I 1 begged them to give life ills name iq eo giai that I 1 could thank him blin chave beien vowed it ever it were possible to do so for him I 1 would but 1 unlikely what could I 1 do r v who h 0 madi made a bare livelihood brad lo 10 boy 1 surveyed his garb with scorn no I 1 arlint would admit mil me 4 I 1 f I 1 toa hh ro asters house I 1 look what I 1 tl ina fall allure tire and yet yak god knows 1 wt M inot A cent of that money stuck to my 11 eri whit what 0 on i n as earth rth should I 1 want 1 s I td I 1 V to except tor fm my I 1 I 1 athla T 1 I 1 th la a paul baxon milman to t con O n rv V r aim la oneff one of the ablest men in i OU deiv new I 1 byork ailt J no N 0 d decent man inan has a vego T f 1 4 A a pitted ag against alnet him and belil fe r I 1 lil 01 accomplices hi H Is s not of the c U B hii Tint co contractor n tra actor class 11 he began life ta yau Z i architect but always desired peov bic p d found hla P profession too W an V an 4 Bini amith ethod wa gain JIL yes mil 1 40 nan laid balda liti vii way 10 p na I 1 aj I 1 ea him I 1 ita 4 even 1 Al liping bureau m v m 4 i F I 1 TO 1 that at i il 4 aai nothing you will I 1 I I 1 ai cw jw I 1 ta eli cihat that I 1 had find him 10 ai VV 1 1 k 11 if ed boea 1 long ong time by a 0 private privat IN leacu lep 1 cU I 1 i 7 4 1 4 w 1 ww 5 q in vitt rima tu turn raea I 1 itjin I 1 71 lv I 1 ii ti ti i I 1 I 1 1 i M sn I L vl t g I 1 1 4 ft t f 1 I 1 t 1 94 4 0 I 1 1 4 o k I 1 1 zil 41 q I 1 I 1 em if ae if I 1 1 I snail shall tell you pre 5 n i tr N me 11 speak flygt of f taft 1 I 3 equally undeserved which befell mr floyd malet v 0 the sculptor flushed idon I dont 3 think anyone but myself knows chat what they were 1 there you are wro wrong ng Ml linan cor reeled gently A dozen years ago america discovered that mr malet was a genius some of I 1 you 70 may trave seen the heroic figure Stonewall ol aa jackson ekson at raleigh that made him 1 I remember now now heeland Net linO darnes bames exclaimed there sort of wild studio party where a woman was killed I 1 dont see bee ho how W that chilt could burtan hurt an artist Neela neeland iud darjea had formed his opinion ot 0 th ohp OivO mortals rAls of artists from too the fiction writing of sen men ti cimental mental women surely that f put him down and outi I 1 4 it did malet answered bitterly A sculptor for depends I 1 la a t this III country I 1 at all eventa event on commissions from public bodies many of whom have women among them when my name was besmirched it was deemed unwise qua to employ mo me to decorate build ings consecrated to drama literature or the arts even politics had bad to he be protected from my ful impure Pir touch I 1 lost the award I 1 had been definitely promised prom lied for a axe because my murals moral were so the th report ran loose my failure was just is as complete as that of professor bradney I 1 had a little money and that went to in IRWY lawyers A fees my friends were few and not dot influential like alfred gilbert I 1 destroyed what I 1 thought was poor and thatis that Is why there are not three of my works I 1 I 1 ka A 1 I 1 I 1 j 4 4 r 1 i 1 0 1 A 1 V Z I 1 J I 1 t I 1 I 1 1 4 77 7 1 1 I 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 it 4 1 N I 1 I 1 41 al I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 ii 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 remember it was late lat at night I 1 i left in the world today I 1 have failed but I 1 could have done good work if ii the incredible hadnot happened As I 1 rem remember embe the thing was rat rather her er delicate darnes barnes said you shall judgie judge A poor girl accosted me on the street end and paid ild she was starving to ono one who had lived so long in paris it was nothing out of the way to take a hungry gamine camine to my studio and give her a meal and a little money I 1 remember it was late at night and I 1 first saw her on a bench in bryant park just as the first snow enow of the year began I 1 was selfish enough to think her thin draped figure would do for one of the models of a group I 1 had in mind which was to be called winter she told me something of her history it was I 1 had heard it before I 1 do not mean it was cot true I 1 mean rather boint it was the usual story of the ambitious girl trusting I 1 too wen irell ii the banho man 1 who defer ais re to pam marry her aw I 1 I 1 I 1 jn J 1 L n I mow know 51 od aid neeland barbei MCI alss alx lx 0 O L know waiting for foi the ovice divorce i all SheT hrank from going uan up in the th eliv elevator alij he wis wan too 0 o shabby pa I 1 helped her u up the long flights to my toy studio 9 she saluted when abo pt got there and amid I 1 gave hir her brandy she was BO that aw I 1 waned to send lend i for or doctor instead sheaird be used thi the telephone t did not liar hear the nuin number ber beitl but I 1 know knew jt lt tausta li 4 to the man I 1 he poke very reluctantly he agreed to io come an and d see b her et I 1 think the fact that I 1 i insisted on OB api aking I 1 was the aae cause perhaps ps he imagined anew bie bl name and more about him 11 ua then you know who hs war air 4 I 1 floyd malet shook his head nor do I 1 now but I 1 remember him distinctly ly he wall waa a thin man with a black mustache and brown rn eydi eyes with i red I 1 decks to th them eni I 1 know knew he was A man who had been successful with 1 th women ti lf l f pet him at the en entrance I 1 ke wore a fur run coat whose collar con I 1 coaled his 1 face outside it was vas sw still snowing tug 7 h bard ill fa I 1 judged jid ge d him to be one used to getting his own way bald I 1 did not like his manner there was a snarl la 10 it perhaps my studio you aw know ahat i a dirty anlu curious place a workshop lm dadid ild not impress beas him bim the tha girl giri had died while 1 I was waitt waiting fig for fet him bilm he cried crie dout out that ajit it was atrick I 1 had bad played him then ahe ran out for a doctor and the police malet shrugged his about shoulders 1 anever I never saw him again sometimes Iud I 1 bouder Vr it havjar be was run over and killed or alf when he found I 1 did not know ida his aj name in a mild and did not find and any letters in the girls pocket he left we me iberi to bear the blame I 1 1 ji I tent sent tor for it a doctor loc tor who in turn sent for the pollen Vollee when I 1 told them the story of the flie man mad with the fur coat whose face ifould I 1 could not see distinctly whose hose eime name I 1 did not know and of whose add address I 1 was unaware I 1 could see nee they thought me lying and when I 1 told them the girl had not taken the ol elevator evator I 1 could see nee they thought it was a vulgar ii Iu intrigue ant the Z man with the fur coat walk up neeland barnes reminded him But buthe tho elevator boy denied having seen him Malet explained it was my word against him bis the record of tho the telephone call could not be tra traced cedi t made a bad witness nobody identified tho the girl and as aa I 1 admitted giving herbrandt her brandy the thing was treated to in the papers its aa a drunken debauch and I 1 was marked as am a parisian decadent it aias wax mi my finish 1 I malet sink sank down in his bis chair the marked by suffering ing the stamp of realized failure seemed upon him bradney leaned tor for ward and put an arm about the bowed shoulder of the smaller man htwa a a prot protective d I 1 brotherly action born of au adde ri thy aal understanding MAR ha ire aa bothin td say talt ah malet shivered vered A little litti l as a light wind swept aang the little 1 garden he rose from mil chair and held beld out his hand to his bis host you have made me forget and you have made me remember he said dald 1 I t am grateful mr allman but I 1 cannot let you go yeve yet said aid the other there should be some cedar logs already blazing in the drawing room ile he turned to the others we shall find and it mow more agreeable in the house he put pui his arm in that of the sculptor never think you are am a failure he said earnestly your tour stonewall lekson jackson la Is one of 0 the fair tuf great amai things we hire have you are that thai to bear hearten teh me malet answered 6 am ir II peter milman laughed isyou you shall judge for yourself self although the drawing room room was a finely proportioned apartment and contained many beautiful things malet had eyes only for his marble group which stood near the oe window he had never learned where wlee it jt was but it was this work he had believed to be his best beat he approached it almost nervously was he to find after all that hi he was only one of the second raters the group had bad been exhibited under the name of the settlers Sett lera and represented one of those heroic Amii american lt families of colonial days standing at bay facing death in the form of king philips indian warriors none spoke as he gazed at lt it even barnes felt that the emotion which he could not fathom had to it simeun some unusual quality there wiio were tears in floyd maleas ll aleta eyes no as he turned tumid to fd peter ullman and hla his voices was wall husky yes be said in a low voica voice it Is good I 1 should shoula have peen been among I 1 the great ones you are among them milman assured him TO BE BB CONTINUED v A |