Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-04

MOT answered the painter. quleliY'
a. .. Noi1 repeated tho other, in sur
|IfI5e. But, my dearfellow. you must
Ion | shall betray your secret, AMI you
tN1ll have swarm Of visitors. worse
! 1nh 4 plague in Egypt, let in upon
lNbu" o. - -
l1aCarradine hesitated. A chance word
I IN his friends speech had suggested =
| possibility that made his heart leap IN
spite If sober reason.
-, . You are right, he said. Il shall
send the picture for exhibition. Ii VIII
be better 80. ------ 80
After his visitor had left him alone
again. Clrradinc bent low over bis cas-
Ell. gazing into the lovely, uptnrned face,
until IL began 10 fade intothe gathering
/ twilight. --r--.
A "It-it.' he murmured 10 himself,
half unrOnSriOuSiy. ''But IL can not be.
\ Yet | will send il land perhaps
And 50 the picture was sent, in due
/ time; and IL seemed almost as II Cara
/ dimes soul bad gone with it-and drawn
/ him To- follow. Hour after hour, and
.-dry after day. he sat in the gallery
scrutinizing eagerly every face amid
/ the visitors whom taste or fashion hal
brought To look at the now celebrated
artist latest success. Every night h.
went away Dsatiztied and every morn
az he returned with hope springing
s1rcsh In his heart q. ---..---.--
IA Still. the object Of his search, what
eycrit may have been, does not appear;
aud one day, discouraged at last, he re-
solved to gtAn0 more ON sOfruitlcss an
erran'L shutting himself In his studio,
he hogan Co paint. bat. Strive as lac
would, he could command neither hand
lnur fancy. Finally, tired Of repeated
failure, he abandoned work, and yield-
eel To nm impulse which drew his steps
iip the customary direction. -
X When l,e entered the small side room
IN which his picture hung he found
but Two persons within. Young man
and girl. 49,
/ Carradinc could not sec the faces of
these two. hut. with an earncstness for
~ hich he was at n loss 10 account, nc
4 followed their rrtrcating figures as they
moved SLOWLY toward his picture. But
The next moment an exclamation of as
I ionishmcnt burst from the lips of the
4 Ioupg man .s,@
= WHY. here is your portrait, Leiliai
What does ], mean? Who can the
painter bcPr NJ
+ With that he hurried out 10 purchase
4 a'catalOgue. Carradinc advanced quick
. ly To- the girl --.-
" | am the painter, lac said.
She turned and looked at him with
one steady gaze from those glorious eyes
that had haunted his visions for so many
4 years. Thcu-she spoke:
n. You painted that picture? and
how ?' .t'..E
Prom remembrance" he answered.
- II wa, my only tribute to the little
unknown PRINCESS who crowned me
once with roses. Does she, too, rs
member it?''
For q moment doubt waE IN her face:
but as be- looked iixcdly at hers il
vanished i'm ceTtainty.A smile just
II, touched her bright lips
1t was You, then. ON whom forced
kmy roses? \ Princess who gave away
honorS unaSked. How often I have
wondered since
She stopped, turncdto the canvass:
and added abruptly: 81 But | was a
child then, and here
Here you are a woman said
fCarradinc. completing the unspoken
sentence. " i IL so hard To understand?
The same power that kept the child in
/. my heart showed me into what she
would ripcn.
She did not look at him now, but ut
the picture. - She asked him in a low
voice: And whom am I 90 thank for
such an honor?
= My name is Hubert Carradne.n he
answered, and saw ut once that il was
no unfamiliar word to her. And
kEours? Through all uIuse years your
7 lace has haunted me always. but volr
name | never knew" 4
She hesitatcd "A moruent. then turned
to him: -.t-. -. A.
You never knew my name? Thor
think of me still ~ YOU have thought OF
= me through all these years" she said.
q half smile lingering about her mouth,
hut never lighting the great dark that
was shaded 10y some subtle sadness.
The look. the tone. transported Cara
! dine beyond all rrmcmbrance Of place
or circumstance into the unreal realm
Of imagination in which his wish was
supreme ruler.
o. ~ have thought of YOU always Is my
4 life anil my love" he said. half con-
ifciouily. his dreamy. deep gray eve.
lElowing upon her face. She bluShed
I suddcnly, and then paled IN an instant.
just then her former companion entered
\ Ghe room.
! II am Leila Auvernay," she said,
hastily. land this Is Cecil Wyndham.
my my bctrothed husband y ssa'-f-l-l
A Not another woryI was said As In,
3oung man approached- CaTradino fell
Il back a step and lookcd'Ut the two. Iii,
Nas-a -fair-- handsome face, so little
marked rs yet by time that il would be
! hard lIap unbFacticed eve to eoniect.
IRE with what lines the shaping char.
acter would vet stamp n. Nevcrthc.
less. with one keen gaze Carradinc o,.
4 timatcd both present and future.
/ She said u few bows polsn wor,l, Il
thcr cumpaIuou. who presently moved
Howard Carradine, and addressed him
- Il have tho honor Of speaking to Mr.,
] carrudinc, the painter Of this picturc?'
~ Carradinc bowed without speaking. |.
n +Will Sou pardon me for asking Il 4
RS fancy sketchP' -eOatinucd Mr.
\. Partly 50. but suggested. by the fac,
of n little girl. answered -aEtist.r-
- "But the likcncss,.is 80 vcry sfrilx
ing. muttercd the Young gentleman
II ] must have il at any rate OF course
.ftou will part with tat your owl
price, - =
10 - The picture is not for sale. ".ssit
J Sarradine. quietly, still regarding III,
young man with that 0oel. steady Raz,
which had already caused him fobctra,
hesitation. almost confusion, very I'm
like his usual easy confidence. III,
seemed tn have an instructive knowl
edge that the artist was measuring
him. and to shrink fronEthst measure.
ment with unconscious dread. IT,
Carradine saw Leila Auvernay ono.
more before she returned % her homl
in distant town. Then no took Nj.
picture from the academy walls ans
hung it in his studio. where his eve
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