Show DAWN by JACK LAWTON LAW TON copyright union jerome harris barris in the hour tour ot of ills his great gre it t success was nas but a disillusioned tit appointed roan mail still young and liming hating won the golden key to favor he drew back wearily before those doors it might open during his years of struggle anil and need none ot of these friends lenda fr who now so eagerly stroe to share his triumph imd ad made an effort to stretch forth a helping hand kven even the girl whom lie and ad so deeply loveil loald arid and who lind professed to return his love had grown groin weary waiting and ami had heartlessly jilted him for an acknowledged man of ct the business world now that tile lie dresia drenn of jerome barris barrig was realized lie smiled cynically fit at tills same Wor homans womans nans proffered notes of reconciliation illation iiii hi former love had become a widow I flow but her charm for him lind brid vanished before her ter Ininee insincerity rity and all tills fills superficial adulation now I 1 wearied him lie ile longed to get away from it to to get buck bacic to a certain spot which tell had often been ills his refuge to barris this small place with tile the sea stretching out beatte was home leonle hit his one sure hman haich it was here that ills great picture wits was born the picture Nili which fell had won tor for him fame and fortune years ago when ills his heart was sore with tit its dis is lie he had gone after reading the announcement of the hie anie girls marriage to the seclusion of this little house there to shut out front from curious eyes ills deep hurt and when ulten it at sundown lie sat upon the tiny porch a boat had come drifting don dov it a golden beani beam toward him arid and in tile the bolit boat sat a very ery young girl Un unbound hound her golden hair rippled over lier her shoulders and her upraised face was uns glorified in the light barris railed called his great picture maidenhood impulsively lie had called her as she drifted by and had run down doin to draw her boat in to the shore the girl who was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years of age acceded readily to ills his request that she pose thus again tor for a picture ill make the arrangement with nith your people barris suggested 1 I have no people the girl told him and as she went on with tile strange story of her own life he be knew aliat list had brought the shadow to lier ter young eyes she had been washed to tile the shore in a boat tossing upon a stormy sea before slie she was old enough to remember anything about it A man and woman found drowned later were viere thought to have been lier ter parents but she had biad never known A fisherman finding tile the child carried lier her to his wife who had befriended lier her until as the girl grew and the nife ite became an invalid tile charge was transferred they culled called lier her dawn the girl told him blushingly because it had been at dawn that the fisherman found her arid and as days pa passed ed arid and dawn came to pose pase tor for the he learned leu rued more a and nd more of the hard incongruity of a young mung life which longed for great things and must be satisfied common duties dawns heart was aas full of music and her mind yearned for knowledge when upon his return later inter from the city bit learned learned from his old housekeeper that dawns danns invalid charge had died lie he sent at once tor for the hie girl aind bade her make her home in ili ills his house on the shore arran arranging glug passage tor for her to and from a school lit in the adjoining village and finding tier her it a music teacher there then in the absorbing occupation cf his bis city studio the artist forgot about the little girl who never ceased ed to think of him with reerend re erent adoration barris loui loric absent from the house ly by tile the sea sought it ovit out again after one vf of llis las trips abroad and learned from the hie old house housekeeper that ills his had secured a position as teacher in a nearby near by village arid and left word that he ti hear from her later the artist smiled milled arid and frow frowned Ded she should have allowed me to complete her education ho he said then his pleased ees fell upon the inviting furnishing of ills beloved old room you keep the place up well he commended his housekeeper dawn the woman replied she le comes 01 out it here rind sees that things is all new an convenient we must keep it home for him she says after that come came to the arant repa rega I 1 barly small checks check in the name of the illdage age bank with notes notel in a girlish liand haud of course I 1 can never repay what you have done for me wrote dawn tah Is just to assure myself that I 1 would if I 1 could and at length wearied by labor and surfeited with flattering natt ering attentions attention come to barris al a longing wish for the restful house by the shore and when he reached it at sundown baill sailing ng again across the golden water to toward ard him came the girl who ibo biad lid made his great picture standing on t the e sands at her side lie told her so 1 you I ou speak of repaying your debt to me sold said barris sly my dear deal girl do you realize that it Is I 1 who am indebted to you yon for my success for the very comfort of home for a belief in truth ruth and goo goodness dAims s which had almost forsaken tile biet why you have given to me every good gift save happiness and I 1 wish I 1 might ghe gc you that sald said dawn j 1 11 I hope 1 I believe that you yon will I 1 barris answered softly and they I 1 looked into each others eyed I 1 |