The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-05
body gave way, and the girl wept like a
little child and began TO scream. Dick
threw open the window, and Torpen.

Il
"Nothing In the world 10 hurt yol
Now listen to mic for a minute. II
what they call m artist by profession
Yod know what artists do :"
"They draw tho things IN red an
black Ink on the pop.shop labels.'
" dare say. | haven't risen 10 poE
shop labels yet. Those are done by til
Academicians. ] want to draw you
head" g0.#
"What for?" & #l
"Because It's pretty. That is why yo
will come to the room across the landin
three times week at eleven in tn
morning, and III give you three Quld
week just for sitting still and Dein
drawn. And there's quid on account.
"For nothingY Oh, my!" The gir
Turned the sovereign in her hand, an,
with more foolish tears: "Ain't neilhe
o you two gentlemen afraid OF my blk
ing your" g E &
mo, Only ugly girls do that. II,
and remember this place, And, by tn
way. what's your name?"
"1m Bessie, -Bessie--. It's no US
giving tho rest. Bessie Broke,-Stouc
broke, Il you like. What's your names
But there,-no one over gives tue rea
ones"
Dick consulted Torpenhow with hi
eyes: NJ tassg
"My names Hetdar, and my friends
called Torpenhow; and you must b,
sure to come here. Where do you live p
"Sonth-tlie-wnter-one room-Gvt
and sixpence week. Aren't YOU max
ing fun of mo about that three ouid %
You'll see later on. And, Bessie
next time you come, remember, you
needn't wear that paint. It's bad iol
| the skin. have ali the cotors you'll be
likely to need"
Bessie withdrew, scrubbing her cheek
with q ragged pocket handkerchief
The two men looked at each other.
"You're man" said Torpenhow.
Elm afraid I've been a fool. It isn'i
our business to run about the earth re.
forming Bessie Btokcs. And q woman
OF any kind has no right on this land.
ing"
Perhaps she won't come back"
"She will il ehe thinks she can got
food aud warmth here. know she
will, worse luck. But remember, old
man, she isn't woman; she's nv
model; and be careful"
THE idea! She's dissolute little
scarecrow, a gutter-anippet and nothing
more" ~. 0,0a.
$50 yon think. Wait till she has been
fed little and freed from fear That
type RECEIVERS itself very quickly. You
won't know her in week or two, when
that abject fear has died out of her eyes.
She'll be too happy and smiling for my
purposes."
"But surely you're taking her out Of
charlty?-to please me?"
II am not in the habit OF playing with
hot Goals to please anybody. She has
been sent from heaven, as | may have re.
marked before, to help with my Melan.
COLA"
before" -, :
whats tho use Of having friend, il
you must sling your notions at him in
words? You ought to know what I'm
thinking about. You've heard me grunt
lately 2"
"Even 30; but grunts mean anything
in your language, from bad 'baccy to
wicked dealers. And l don't think I've
been much IN your confidence ior come
time" H
SIT was high and soulful grunt. You
ought to have understood that It meant
the Melaucolia." Dick walked Torpen.
how up and down the room, keeping
silence. Then be smote him in the ribs.
Nov don't YOU see it? Bessie's sbjec.
futility, and the terror in. her eyes,
welded on to one or two details in the
way OF sorrow that have come under my
experience lately. Likewise some or
apge and black-two keys OF each. But
| can't explain on an empty stomach"
ut sounds mad enough. You'd bet.
ter stick 10 your soldiers, Dick, instead
OF maunderingabout headsa and eyes and
experienced"
"Think so?' Dick began 10 dance on
his heels, singing:
They're as proud asa turkey when they hold
You ought to ear the way they laugh an
joke; - 5g'"'0 -
They arc tricky an they're funny when they've
got the ready money
broke.' =
Then he sat down to pour out his
heart to Maisie in four-sheet letter OF
counsel and encouragement, and regis.
tered an oath that he would get to work
with an undivided heart as soon as Bes.
sin should reappear.
The girl kept her appointment IN,
painted and unadorned, afraid and over.
bold by turns. When she found tina,
she was merely expected to sit still, she
grew calmer, and criticized the appoint.
ments Of the studio with freedom and
some point. She liked the warmth and
the comfort and the release from fear Of
phyeical pain. Dick made two or three
studies of her head in Monochrome, bu,
the actual notion OF the Melancolia
would not arrive.
what mess you keep your things
in !" said Bessie, some days later, when
she felt herself thoroughly at home. 81
s''pose your clothes are just as bad. Gen
tlemen never think what buttons and
tape are made for"
II buy things to wear, and wear ZEN
till they 80 to pieces. I don't know
what Torpenhow does"
| Bessie made diligent inquiry in the
latter's room, and unenrthed bale Of
diRreputable socks. Some OF these II
mendnow," she ssid, ".and some III take
home. D'you know, ! sit all day long
at home doing nothing, just like lady
and no more noticing them othes girlt
in the house than ii they were SO man,
flies? l don't have any unnecessary
words, but | put Fem down quick, I cal
tell you, when they talk to me. No
it's quite nice these days. Ilock my
door, and they can only call me nameI
through the keyhole, and I sit inside
! Just like lady, mending socks. Mr.
Torpenhow wears his socks out boil
ends ut once.o
Three guild a week from me, and th,
delights OF my society," No socks mend
ed. Nothing from Torp except q nod OF
the landing now and again, and all hi
socks mended. Bessie is very much
woman" thought Dick; and he locke,
at her. between hnlf.shut eyes. Foo
and rest had transformed the girl, a
| Dick knew they would. ,sl%5
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