The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-10-21

looks and your milliOnsi It's like
dreaming q grisly dream"
II never had any real talents, Eric.
Like my good looks, they're something
you've dreamed"
''Preposterousi You're slow, III adj
nit"
''sIow2 I'm the merest plodder."
but some day you might produce a
masterpiece. And some day believe
you viii. AS it was, all that wealth
stood in the way of 1t. Now your
luxury slips from you like a purple
robe, and below it Is the dress of plain
taffctas than an occasional paint stain
viii rather adorn than harm Besides,
you viii have another potent incentive"
you mean"
Leisure. Most men who lose their
money are in a, turmoil of distress about
their butchers bills. But, after all,
though the salary allowed you by the
king is not precisely enormous
He is exceedingly liberal, Eric"
''Still, for Saltrnvia, it can't be called
meager. And you VIII find, dear Lonz,
that it possesses one pungent charm
you can so often draw it with an entire
I ly guilty conscience"
Il see You mean that / shall not
have much to do"
you viii have a great deal to do in
[ one sense, little in another The king,
I you know, is enormously rich, and has
I Notwithstanding his many charities)
a passion Tor purchasing and possessing
/ what is beautiful in art. He viii re-
/ quire You at the end of every three
/ months or so to show him a certain
] proof OF faithful stewardship"
81 quite understand, Erie. must
/ account to him for the sums of money
/ that have expended"
1 Good heavensp' cried Eric, giving
one Of his laughs which smote the
/ bland evening air with an almost flute
/ like sweetness, you must do nothing
OF the sort. If you fail to convince
/ Clarinond that You have made your
! purchases with avoidance of all rash
and reckless economies-that you have,
in other words been Prudently and dis
creetly eZtravagan5-I am not ut all
sure what adverse views he may adopt
regarding your proper endOwments Tor
the position you have assumed. lie
/ would prefer to take for granted that
you have brought him treasures of art
] which have been rather chosen for their
excessive ideal value as bits Of true
beauty than because fashion or false
tradition had touched them with any
vulgar spell. But babble on. and you
are fatigued. You long for your bath
FOR q change of linen, and then for q
quiet little dinner, at which You may
wash down more OF my innuities with
some really choice wine, a gift from
the king himself"
They presently passed within doors
but before they did so A1onzo begged
to hnger q few moments On the terrace
which they had now assembled The
huge hills had despened from violet e
the E-lsllowest azure and the hart
white roads Elimmered below a HEAVIER
whose crystal was but newly invaded
by the silver sEyness of earlier stars
Lights had begun to shine in th,
palace easements and in those Of tn,
aytooming villas besides. From ia,
heart Of the dimmed sunset beaned &
/ pale pool Of sky that the two sa5l,
mountains dauIzed like coasts. and mid
/. way between either, like a water Iily
of throbbing FIRE. burned the evening
star Freshing each instant with TN.
advent OF darkness, a breeze played al
50 brisk a speed a1ong the valley tha
You might wonder how it could 1ea
such heavy odors Of pine. OF Earlan,
flowers and OF wild doFvezs as ven. d
its vieviesz bat dsyvy clasp
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