The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-06

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was broken to the right with
I black and rolling clouds. One
| aelt the very wind whistling
/ fmOng the pillar stones grewsomely. 1t
seemed to shake the moorland brambles
/ wildly II beat the stunted frs until
! they tossed along the northern horizon
| edge like the names of chargers spurred
to conflict or TO fight and over the latter,
| low, Jagged clouds swept on furiOusly, as
| if tremendous wraith-hosts of pagans old
] were re-entering their tenantless plains
/ to re-Occupy their drear and vOiceless
! land.
/ Mrs Manley and her daughter Harriet
| sat before this picture for hours. One day
| as the artist was touching up the ghostly
| pillar stones, Mrs. Manley gave a little
/ exclamation of protest and alarm. Har
! riet's hand almost as quickly touched her
/ arm but the artist, sensitive in his work,
/ iustinctiyely turned and confronted them
| with a look of anxiety and dismay.
Il beg your pardon" said the lady with
| a genuine tone of apology; but l am
/ deeply interested in your paintings. So
/ is Harriet. Some of your forest scenes are
/ veritable Troyons.'
Jack Nader flushed to the roots of his
! hair
so deeply interested indeed, that you
| must permit me to say you are giving
| your Carnac its one false note"
! Jack stepped back from his picture and
| examined it ruefully. He would have
| painted a bingham garden or Boston's
! old South church in the foreground, if it
would have pleased the two women be-
| hind him; for he had seen the look of
| anxious solicitude that had crept into the
! daughters face, as she touched her
| mothers arm.
/ Point it out, Mrs Manley. 1t shall
! certainly be corrected
1.-The light is too high on those Druidic
| stones in the foreground Why, Be
/ cause under your lowering, close sky,
| those pagan relics-Harriet and I have
| seen them, Mr.. Madder-shoutd be quite
! dark; the darkest gray you can put on
canvas. Your foreground should remain
| in almost a twilight. That would be true
| to the conditions you are endeavoring to
| depict. Besides, it gives intensity to the
| tremendous expression of elemental power
and feeling to be conveyed, while hight
ening the magnificent effect of your
! almost limitless perspective centering IN
/ the far thread of light upon the sea"
With few strokes of his brush the art
| ist had toned down the high lights into
subtitle shadowy grays.
"Grandly done!" cried Mrs. Manley.
'You will become a great artist, Mr..
| Nader"
The ladies left the studio Harriet smil-
| ing back a winsome look of approval al
! the painter among his grays He put aside
the brushes and came to where the portrait
! painter was working with the greatest
rapidity upon Miss Edith's face
Harry he said, "these ladies are
revelation in womankind to me. Do you
know that lady of fashion has just saved
my Carnac?'"
not a bit more remarkable than what
Miss Edith just accused me of!n
THAT you were in love with the origi-
nal of the portrait, Harry"
Worse than that" answered Cassel-
earth, with a groan. Il would have de-
| fed any Partisan painter TO discover that
! great little trick of mine of rubbing in
| my high lights with white, over a wet
! canvas, with my finger, for fine feature
molding; and yet Edith came up to this
| picture, with a Saucy, screwing motion of
her pretty finger at the dimple in the
! face on the canvas, remarking, Wonder
| fully fine porcelain effects, Mr.. Cassel-
! earth!' And then, with smeariug mo-
ton of her little hand in front of the face,
| Where do you use the brushp And
then, oh, oh, you artists are cunning =
! Jack, | thought for a moment I'd 20
/ through the floor!'
''Confound it Harry l believe any one
of those woven could come in here and
| outpaint US both!" With which Mr.
| Jack Nader returned gloomily to his
! pagan ruins of Carnac.
! longed under various pretexts as far as
! possible by the artists, had been given.
| The backgrounds, the finishing touches
! and the drying, were all that remained to
! be done. The ladies Ind called; pleasure
and qualification had been expressed over
| tho work; payment for the portraits had
| been made; and after direction had been
| given for their casing and storage, the
ladies, with the kindliest leavetakings,
! had departed.
The two artists were still standing
there together as if half determined to
follow their fair patrons, when they
heard the rapid pattering of feet along
the hallway. In a moment more, Emily
and Cecil Marley, the graceful hoydens
of the party, appeared almost breathless
at the doorway.
They were as a shining chain of light
| reaching from the two within the room to
the elder sisters and the truants were
| welcomed heartily.
Don't look pleased now, for we've
something very unpleasant to say; very y
ventured Cecil archly.
''And are going to say it, if the girls
and mamma are offended, aren't we
Cecil2" continued Emily.
"It's this rejoined Cecil with pretty
toss of her head We've found you out
You're just in love with our sisters"
Yes; and mother found you out Ions
dSO. mere lOW 1uSlSb6u f4WllN.
And she's been looking you up, BY
cable you, in Kentucky, where you be
long, Mr., Nader; and you, in Lanca
shire, where your house is, Mr. Cassel
earth;n blurted Cecil with ingenious
honesty.
The two artists two hands went VI
into the air and came together with re
sounding whacks, as though all were lost
OF course she found out you were very
nice and all that resumed Emily
but
Yes, but you see we Emily and ." in,
terrupted Cecil, are tired of art and art
lists; awfully tired We haven't heard
anything else in Boston, since we were So
high measuring the height of her knee
dainhly, land we really, really now
don't want our home turned into shop,
you knowu
"And we don't like the smell of paint
eitherl" added Emily earnestly. SO
we made it up between US to run back
and make you promise like dear good
men, now, to never, never, never follow
our sistersu'
For they'll forget you in little while
you see;' urged Cecil comfortingly.
And you'll forget them in just no time,
you know" insisted Emily There S
mother calling promise now, do"
Yes, do" pleaded Cecil energetically
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