Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-13

seen nobler specimen than this young per-
son of whom, for some three minutes, had
been suffered to gaze my fill, tonight in
Maraschini's.
"If ever am to fall in love-" 1 said to
myself, sit will be with a woman of that
sort. This is the sort of woman I have
always longed to paint; a figure tall and
strong, yet rich and supple and womanly;
| skin like the flesh of camellia, yet deli
cately touched with color of rose; hair like
mesh OF flames, and eyes that can light up
with laughter, melt With tenderness or burn
with passion according to her mood. have
always longed to paint woman of that sort,
but models are so hard to find, so rare. A
perfect model have never seen until to-
night. wonder who she is.
And wondering who she was, I began to
perceive the suggestiveness of the episode.
1t seemed to me to sugg est that my fair un-
known must have an invalid relative at
| home a father, mother, brother, husband,
unable to leave the house-to whom she was
| bringing the contents of her basket And
then all at once it flashed across my mind,
what if she should be Miss Eczardyl
Miss Eczardy come to her fathers dinnerP'
! grant you that was an entirely unwar-
ranted and far-fetched conjecture; more es-
| pecially so because this girls style was
essentially southern and italian, and Miss
Eczardy was Russian, but it took posses
sion OF my fancy with the tenacity of a
proved fact.
"Yes. I'll lay a wager, that was Miss
! Eczardy come ior her fathers dinner. By
Jove, ii that magnificent creature lives un.
der the same roof with me -" Upon that
hypothesis as corner stone, my imagina.
tiOn proceeded to rear fair and radiant
castle in the air.
did not see the exterminator again until
the next afternoon. Meanwhile the musical
entertainment above-stairs had been re.
peated, leaving me to infer that Dr. Ecz
ardy's health was still on the mend. When
next afternoon, MUSCLE dropped in to SEE
me, and after we had exchanged the or.
dinary salutations, "And our invalid up
stairs" I began; 81 hope he continues e
feel better"
"0h, yes, e feel pretty good e ave hi.
hups and his downs, you know; and ius
now e ave hup. By and by e ave !
down again; then mebbe another hup. But
he never get well. e die before 12 mawns
1 bet you feefty dollars"
"Do they keep house upstairs there? Ol
| do they go out to their meals, as I do?''
'sYes, she go hout. Not him. e can't
e too sick. E stay at 'ome, vile she 9,
hout and get his dinner in basket. Ther
she come back, and they heat it together il
their ROOM"
"What sort of looking person is she ?'
"Oh, she pretty good-looking sort. Sh
aw right about her looks"
Eyes, but her style? Is she dark or fair
large or small? Can't you describe her t.
me?"
"Well, she pretty beeg. Tall woman, yol
understand, and fine figure. Then for colo
well, | suppose you call her fair; bot sh
got red hair. She look like Meridionale
ii you know Fat that mean."
GA Meridionale That's odd, consider
ing she's Russian"
Yes, you right; it's hodd. Bot he
mother she came from the south of France
She was a French woman. Miss Eczard
spik French as good as me-"
From which conversation it appeared tina
my far-fetched conjecture had not been alto
gether mistaken, after all.