The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-15
SHE LOVED AN ARTIST.
And Married Him Despite Her
Mothers Plans.

Mrs. Carnegie's last words had been
! ''For Heavens sake, Letitia, don't lei
it be late again to-day!
| It was luncheon, and luncheon tc
| men who have spent the morning or
the moors is important At 12:15
therefore, just fifteen minutes before il
| was necessary to start, the wagonette
was, by Mrs. Carnegie's orders, at the
door. the baskets put in. and Mrs. Car
negie in the breakfast room, worrying
her sister, Mrs Mainwaring, by assur'
ances that the girls would make them
late, as usual
'Dollie was ready half an hour ago,
said Mrs. Mainwaring. II saw her in
| the hall"
'Dollie is not going with us Don't
distress yourself about Dollie; she is
quite happy"
''How does she make herself SOP
''Oh, don't know. We are going to
be SO late! She sketches, she does all
kinds of things. / don't think she
milks the cows, but she certainly feeds
the chickens"
"You ought to know a great deal
more about her than you do. There
is such thing as getting tired of gar
dening and feeding the chickens.
"Yes, know, but that hasn't hap
pened to Dollie yet, and you see going
out is SO much more important to the
other giIls Just think. EVE is twenty.
six and Agnes only year younger"
"But Dollie is twenty-one."
"My dear, you worry me. must dc
my duty to the two eldest-but I wish
they would come"
And while you are marrying them
Dollie will marry herself, and proba-
bly, not to your liking In fairy tale
she would fall in love with the gar.
dener, who would, Of course, be the
kings son in the ample and effectual
disguise of a shabby coat and cap"
"Oh, Cecilia! Dollie is not girl of
that kind. She is as good as gold, and
perfectly bidable, and she shall go
everywhere when EVE gets engaged.
Has it struck you that Sir Philip is in
love with Evie? 1 am almost certain
that he is. and l am delighted. Oh,
here the girls come. Eow charming
they both look!"
''And what have you been doing this
afternoon, Dollie?' asked Mrs. Main
waring at tea time.
Dollie blushed cher aunt thought
because it was so unusual for anyone
20 take any interest in her employ
ments), and said: ''Sketching il the
glen, aunt
1o1 1,,11
all alone by yourself in that great din
ing-room?"
mo, 1 was working so hard that I
could not spare time to come in. ate
all the bread had taken with me to
rub out with. wish you would come to
the glen, aunt; it is SO pretty"
''Dear child, I am much too old to
scramble. May Isee your sketch?"
Dollie brought it. Her mother
looked at it, too, and was startled at it's
merit.
'Why, Dollie!'' she exclaimed. "you
have improved wonderfully! That bit
in the left-hand corner is excellent"
Again Dollie colored. 81 had some
help there, mother she said, ''an art
list who comes to the glen sometimes"
''An artist, Dollie! What do you
mean?"
Il mean a gentleman, mother. He
strayed in by accident three weeks ago,
when I was there painting. He has
often been to work there since, and
whenever he comes he gives me really
beautiful hints. He has taught me-"
Here her mothers attention was dis
tracted by a servant with a message.
and Mrs. Mainwaring finished Dollie's
sentence for her. ITO color, my dear.
Yes, see that he has taught you to do
thatr' She was not, however, looking
at the sketch, but at her nieces rosy
cheeks.
''Take Care that he is not teaching
her how to fall in love-" said Mrs. Main
waring.
Il will really will. Just now it is
hard to attend to anything but EVE
and Sir Philip, but when the business
is settled Dollie shall always be with
me. Did you see how he watched EVE
at luncheon?"
mo, thought he was rather vexed
or disappointed about something"
Il hope not EVE may perhaps have
been making some of her stupid
speeches. But he loves her, am sure.
1 am SO happy about it that am not
able to think of anything else"
From Dollie she learned that the
landscape painters name was Fleming,
that he was young, good-looking and
clever, lived in Edinburgh. was quite
gentleman and not at all the kind of
man that Aunt Cecilia seemed to
imagine.
Being informed that Dollie bad been
forbidden to go there, Mrs. Mainwaring
advised her sister to assure herself that
Dollie had understood and was obeying
this order: This Mrs. Carnegie did,
and then once more gave her whole
mind to Sir Philip and EVE. Why did
he not propose? The day of his do
parture was drawing very near.
1t came two days earlier than had
been anticipated. A rich old bachelor,
uncle of Sir Philip, who was then in
Sunderlandshire, dispatched this tel
egram to him:
''Am i'll and must have rest. Come
at once and help me or / shall die out
right Why are you SO long in ar
riving?"
Ten minutes after the telegr came
Sir Philip followed Mr.. Carnegie to the
study-a study in which no book was
ever opened but that which he had
gone to fetch-Bradshaw Mrs. Car
negie thought she knew what Sir Philip
had gone to do and tried to be patient
while she awaited the result
In quarter of an hour her husband