The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-07
Where do you exhibit. Dick?"
Il don't exhibit. I SELL"

Il don't exhibit. SELL"
''What is your line, then?"
t'Havent you heard?" Dicks eyes opened.
Was this thing possible! He cast about for
some means of conviction. They were not
far from the Marble Arch. ''Come up
Oxford street a little and I'll show.you"
A small knot of people stood round print
shop that Dick knew well. "Some repro
duction of my work inside" he said, with
suppressed triumph. Never had success
tasted so sweet upon the tongue. You
see the sort of things paint. D'you Like it!"
Maisie looked at the wild whirling rush
of field battery going into action under
fire. Two artilleryman stood behind her in
! the crowd.
They've chucked off lead 'orse, said one
to the other. '"E's tore up awful, but
they're making good time with others. That
lead driver drives better nor you, Tom
See 'ow, cunning 'e's nursin' lis orse."
Number Three'l be off the timber, next
Jolt" was the answer.
mo, e won't. See 'ow is foot's braced
against the iron. Els all right"
Dick watched Maisie's face and swelled
with joy-fne, rank, vulgar triumph. She
was more interested in the little crowd than
Ill Iu6 pICUuE0 IudO was oOA4CCh4hS ohc'o
she could understand.
'tAnd l wanted it so! Oh, I did want it
sol" she said at last under her breath
s'Me-all me i" said Dick, placidly. ''Look
at their faces. 1t hits 'em. They don't
know what makes their eyes and mouths
open; but I know. And I know my works
right"
Eyes. see Oh, what thing to have
come to one!"
Come to one, indeed L had to go out
and look for it. What do you think!"
''I call it success. Tell me how you got it. ="
They returned to the Park, and Dick de-
livered himself Of the Saga of his own do
ings, with all the arrogance of a young man
speaking to woman. From the beginning
he told the tale, the lips flashing
through the records IS talegrn:e!c ra!nn fly
past the traveller. Maisie listened and
nodded her head. The histories Of strife
and privation did not move her a hairs
breadth. At the end of each canto he would
conclude. And that gave me some notion
of handling color" or light or whatever it
might be that he had set out to pursue and
understand. He led her breathless across
half the world, speaking as he had never
spoken in his life before. And in the food
tide of his exaltation there came upon him
a great desire to pick up this maiden who
nodded her head and said, II understand.
| Go on, ITO pick her up and carry her away
with him. because she was Maisie, and be-
cause she understood and because she was
his right, and woman to be desired above
all women.
Then he checked himself abruptly. ''And
so took all [ wanted" he said, ''and had
to fight for it. Now you TEL"
! 1~1aIp4~, ual0 y, EIpy I:CF
dress. It covered years of patient toll
backed by savage pride that would not be
broken though dealers laughed and fogs
| DELAYED work and Kami was unkind and
even sarcastic, and girls in other studios
were painfully polite It had few bright
spots-pictures accepted at provincial ex-
hibitions-but it wound up with oft-repeat-
! ed wall. "And SO you see, Dick, I had no
success, though I worked so hard"
| Then pity filled Dick Even thus had
Maisie spoken when she could not hit the
breakwater, half an hour before she had
| kissed him. And that had happened yester-
day.
s'Never mind" said he. 'Tn tell you
something if you'll believe it," The words
were shaping themselves of their own ac-
cord. THE whole thing, lock, Stock and
barrel, isn't worth one big yellow sea poppy
! below Fort Keeling"
Maisie flushed little cts all very well
for you to talk, but you've had the success
and I haven't"
Let me talk, then. know you'll under
stand. Maisie, dear, it sounds bit absurd,
but those ten years never existed, and I've
come back again. 1t really is just the same