Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-24
COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH.
By w. II. LACKEY.

"H1LLBouHN PLACE. Fob Z.
DEAR JAcK.-The furcoat is pronounced
success. / saw you to-day when / was driv-
ing, and was forcibly reminded of Solomon
in all his glory, Have you forgotten your
friends of old in their clothes also of old?
One would think so. as it's been ten days
since you We're here.
"1'he rest of the family are going to the
Portcrs o-night but shall stay at home
and console myself with Beethoven, Sidney
Lanier and you, if you'll come, for 1 have
something TO show you. A woman's head,
painted from photograph. which finished
only yesterday. 1t isn't bad.
"Affcctionately
CARA"
THE CLUB. Feb Z. So
DEAR CAEA-Yours just received. 1t
seems almost unnecessary TO tell you how
glad shall be to como, "Devotedly,
JACK"
cit isn't" says Cara few hours later,
as she pushed the ottoman to an easier
distance, and turns a beautiful, fire
flushed face toward Jack, cit isn't that
this winter has been much worse than
the other two, but I've been thinking,
and as it's luxury don't often allow
myself, have mental dyspepsia as a
result"
Mental dyspepsia" says Jack, scorn-
fully; at is the result of sitting out all
the square dances with 'Willoughby in
that aughty conservatory Of the Mars
TONS"
Il refuse to understand" says Cara,
smiling.
"You can't! Your intellect won't al
low you"
Speaking Of intellect" viciously,
somehow makes me think of youl
friend, Miss Marston. How is she?"
II don't know why it should. She's
yell"
do you intend to please your father
and marry her?"
Il don't know, Cara. If the worst
comes to the worst, suppose I shall
have to-"
81 should think that would be an
exact statement Of the case-the worst
coming to the worst"
Don't be any more severe than you
can help" says Jack. laughing. "You
don't know what it is to be poor"
Il almost wish I did," Cara answers
81 might then have amounted to some
thing as an artist"
"You need hardly wish that, for, as il
is, you are the best amateur"
AThat's it," Cara breaks in i'm.
patiently. Amateur, amateur, always
amateur! want to be an artist. OF
late I have had thoughts of giving my
money to found home for other weak.
minded women, and living in Paris on
ten sous a day and the divine aff1atus
only, as Hawthorne says: 'The great
obstacle to being heroic is the doubt
whether one may not be going to prove
ones self FOOL"
Zone doesn't like to be too precipi.
tate after remark Of that kind" says
Jack, meditatively, after little pause,
during which Cara has risen and seated
herself at the piano, where she is lazily
striking minor chords.
Is that what has kept you from be.
ing too precipitate? Jack, what makes
you so lazy?"
"Lack of incentive. Don't scorn."
II wish could make you feel your
possibilities for yourself as I feel them
for YOU
Il asked you to try once, and you re-
fused" Jack laughs when he says it,
but try as he will his voice falters as he
speaks.
Cara bushes, and then says: eff we
hadn't outlived great deal of the non
sense OF our lives, We could not be the
thoroughly good friends we are now.
Come and let me introduce you to wo-
man who, think, is worth mans love.
She's over in the library [ remember
your dislike to climbing, and had her
brought down"
Jack offers her his arm, and together
they walk the whole length of the draw
.ing-room, across the hall to the library.
the greater part of which is in shadow,
the one bright light being directly over
the picture.
Only picture of woman's head and
Che curve to the shoulders; ruddy chest
nut hair that curls mistily around face
in which sweetness and frmness are
strangely intermingled, great irised
gray eyes, eyes with all the poetry and