San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-20
to the one over his head.

into the one over his head.
Hungry and dissatisfied he seated
himself again to contemplate the picture
and scheme to get acquainted.
Now he recognized other people in the
drawing room also reflected in the mir
ror.
There was an old man with sober,
! dissatisfied face who looked as if he
might be disciple of Henry George
| deep in contemplation of land theories;
woman with a just then unreliable
countenance, who might be the ideals
| lnstructress in music or other studies,
Or her governess, perhaps; lastly, the
face of younger man, say of 80 years,
| that bore in it cunning, malice, suavity
and other characteristics which denoted
shrewd schemer and perhaps villain
Gus nature.
Was she travelling in security with an
| aged, absorbed parent ana trusted
| friends, or was her father, if such he be,
oblivious to the Vaccinations of vii
lain, who had an accomplice in the sup
posed governess?
| He resolved to probe this mystery to
the bottom, if he had to travel around
the earth to do tiff be had to employ
detectives, had to squander his whole
| fortune.
Poor man! He little knew how much
If his contemplation was to be realized
N his future existence.
Alarmed by the workings of his brain
ne suddenly resolved to paint the group
| Is they appeared in the mirror.
He raised the curtain near him to in
crease the effect of the scene in the mir
:or, but it only dulled out the picture
and he drew it down.
From his valise he took a palette, his
paints and brushes and small square of
canvas with heavy pastboard back de-
| signed for use in the absence of an easel.
He began sketching on his ideal 1t
was joyous task, so much so that his
whole soul became concentrated in the
work, and the lines in which he drew
;he lovely face rapidly grew into fac
,imile of life.
| Of course the best he could do during
;he remainder of the day was to prepare
studies for more finished paintings later.
/ : -
Still he fingered long and lovingly on
the face of his ideal until the study, I'M
der the intensity of his love and long
ing, became not bad picture.
The day gradually heightened until he
recognized that he must turn his atten-
ton to the others of the group or miss
them by nightfall.
They might get off at some destina-
ton north of New York. He must hasten.
With feverish anxiety, intensified by
the thought of her possible escape from
him, he put away the paints and took to
his pencil.
By nightfall he had sketched the group,
so that all its characters might be recog-
nized by the detectives whom he already
purposed putting on the case if he should
miss them.
Mr.. Henshall concluded that in the
dining car at dinner he should have the
pleasure of sitting at the table next to
the group. To his utter disappointment
dinner was served to the party in the
seclusion of the drawing room.
| He entered the dining car on the last
| call and resorted to stimulants to urge
his brain into some suggestion for his
relief. He returned to his section and
called the conductor, having evolved no
other scheme.
"Can you tell me the names of the
party in the drawing room and their des-
tination?" he queried anxiously.
81 do not know their Names" replied
the official, "as the room was merely
marked off to party of four. How
ever, know that their destination is
New York, and that they have transfer
| tickets either for some steamer or rail-
road. In case of the latter they should
be bound southwark; if abroad, their
course is but wild conjecture"
"Find out for me where they are going
and will pay you So"
Every well, SIR" But that was the last
he saw of the conductor.
When darkness set in the brilliant
electric lights of the Wagner palace in
creased the intensity of the picture in
the mirror.
At last Henshall observed some move
ment in the drawing room.
The girl took a violin, and tuned it to
suit her practised little ear. Soon there
began to float through the car theravish-
ing arias of Chopin, Schumann and other
masters.
If she was exquisitely beautiful to him
before, what could describe her when
pouring her very soul into music? 1t
was then that the beautiful brown eyes
indicated his sense of the artistic and
| his love of their color.