The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-31

anxious as the time went by and she did not come herself But she appeared just at the right moment. when the eTo=d was ,hickest, and the incense. scented air was full of low-toned laughter.
 She was followed by a gentleman
 whose figure presented the appearance
 of tub on two legs, and whose face was surprisingly red. He looked a little
 scared and uneasy as he entered among
 the throng of people, who seemed, to his eyes, so completely at home and on such
 very intimate terms with each other.
 Lady Rosina, however. kept him we'll in
 hand. She introduced him as Mir Jones.
 "Have you hidden my portrait away P
 she asked. No. How delightful
 Come, Mir. Jones. and just look at it.
 am so delighted with my good fortune
 1t is favor indeed when Mir Smart will
 consent to paint portrait. You know
 he has painted all the beauties and, of
 course, don't pie:end to be a beauty so
 am very proud and fl4ttered.'
 MT. Jones was an acquaintance of MT
 Smythe's Tn the city-an acquaintance Of whom Mir. Smythe thought great deal :: for Mir. Jones, by clever speculation. had, with great rapidity, amassed an enor- nous fortune. He was universally re- garded with respect and admiration among his city friends for this reassn. But he, in his turn, fell down and worship ped before Lady Rosina, because she had title, had blue blood in her veins, and was. in fact, one of the upper ten. She knew this perfectly. and used her power over him without meacy.
 She showed him the picture in which the various well-known beauties of the day were depicted in all so.ts oi char aciers. She introduced him to some of these ladies, who were present, drinking scented tea, and casting languishing glances on their admirers. She in- troduced him to two or three cheerful young lords, very old and crooked mar quis, and to duke, who amazed him by hls affability and his very abbreviated speech. A last Lady Rosina thought MT Jones was getting rather dizzy with all this strong meat so she took him away. Bu, before they left she kept him a moment before the big picture of " Maidens Bathing at Early Dawn"
 think that is to be bought now" she whispered in hs ear Il heard MT. Smart say his studio was getting too full.'
 Mir Jones looked at it, and then cast a covert glance al one or two of the models ladies whose names he had often read in the Morning Post The picture was very bad. though the likenesses were clever enough but then Mir. Jones knew nothing of art.
 Really .'he said. slowly. Do you know what he d take for 1t i''
 70. don't know anything about busi- aess," said Lady Rosina. You d better come and sec him some other tune, when he is alone.'
 The next day Mir. Jones ventured un- guided into the West End, and presented himself at MT. Smart's studio. He had 'ome prepared to give from five to seven hundred pounds fo- the picture of Maidens Bathing" But MT. Smart vas quite equal to the situation when ,e bowed his first buyer out, the picture lad changed hands, and so had a thou and pounds.
 A few days later this picture was hung !! ~ >AS o,S Nihihs -IOon or MT. jones DIE l rouse at Brixton. And from that time | dr. Jones became a most hospitable nan. It was his pride and delight to lsk half dozen city m.l of his own ort to dinner. and talk to them of his Vest End friends; of how he had bought his picture out of West Fad studio !: md, above all, of how, to his own know ! edge, the hkenesses were excellent. He vas proud man in the possession of a i york of art, and, considering all the glory | brought him. he thought it " dirt 1 heap at thousand pounds.
 Could he have guessed how much was i lone by that thousand pounds l, had 1 ! magnificent effect upon the dealers, 'uch as could have been produced by no neri, of genius. They came one after mother 10 Mir. Smart's studio door, and i ie knew that he was a made man, and i hat the only thing remaining for hlm to 10 was to ask enough for his pictures.
 The half-dozen portraits of Lady i 2osina have been p p,inted. She has igured in every exhibition for some time. md IS recognized as one Of the eminent HoyiI.