The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-04

south.
Yes" said the woman who was
taking the things: '.somc ladies said
the other day that they were real south.
crn cakes
II will take them" said Mrs. Llovd.
and She paid for them, and had them
put in box.
AS they stood there lady came in
and said: Can you tell me whom
can see here about some old lace wan,
10 sclla'
Upstairs" said the clerk: and The
lady went out.
why. do they buy lace too" said
the child. 1--WE got some I'd like 10
sell IL; it's my grandma's wedding veil,
mother says
"Ah." thought Mrs. Lloyd. ''here is
another leading. want some lace :"
But two minutes before she had
wanted nothing SO little.
They walked about two blocks, and
then the child stopped in from, OF a
window. and said: That is my
fathers picture, isn't it pretty?'
Mrs Lloyd looked at it first Curl
ously. and then eagerly. and then bent
forward to see the painters name
"Ehett," she said lis that the nance"
philip Rhett." the child said; ''and
my name is Sylvia-for my grandma.v
How very, very strange" said Mrs
Lloyd. half TO herself Il wonder how
he happened to paint that house," but
she thought again: 1T is such pie
turcsque old place that don't wonder
that he wanted u paint it; and it's
well painted too. wouldn't have him
sell IL to anybody else for anything"
do you think it's pretty" said
Sylvia.
Il think that it's beautiful" said the
lady beautiful; and | used TO live
there once--long ago." she said, with a
little sigh.
why. my mother did too" said Syl-
via; land she loved that picture. and
she didn't want father to put il in the
window; but he said that perhaps the
roses in it would make somebody
buy it,"
1t was the picture Of a long. low. and
evidently old house. an inn. for there
front grew roses that hung every
where. and SO cxquisitely painted that
one seemed almost to smell the per-
fume and TO feel the soft summer
breeze. that seemed To move them. now
and then. Mrs. Lloyd stood fascina-
ted and the longer She looked the
more beautiful ii looked to her
How long has it been here?' She
said To Sylvia
"Onlv two days" she answered.
II will 90 in. moment" She said
81 want TO speak To the proprietor"
She went in. and told the child To wait
outside for her. and after few mo-
ments came out again. The man
gave me your fathers address," she
said; land II you are going home ! will
go with you"
III you will go 10 market with me
first" said Sylvia, II always have to go
To market before go home and we
are going to have stew to-day
Mother said we could if got any
money. cause we couldn't have one
yesterday"
why not?" said Mrs Lloyd.
why said the child, II didn't have
any money: and mother says she wont
ask the man to trust us, cause he don't
know us don't suppose he would
anyway she added. with = groxn-up
air that showed how much care the lit
tie thing had carried. II do the mar
keting over on Third avenue when |
have time" she said. Its cheaper
there but mother told me TO do it on
Sixth avenue to-day. and then it isn't
very far to the house. We live in ia
theirs studio, cause he had to have a
studio, and we couldn't afford house,
too; but the studios here aren't as nice
as his was in Florence. Did yor ever
go there?"
II have lived in Rome for several
years." said Mrs. Floyd, land have
often been to Florence. know that
YOU were sorry TO leave it. for every
body is
"Oh yes, we were sorry; but we had
TO when grandma was sick. cause she
wanted mother so much"
BY that time they were at the
butchers. and Mrs. Lloyd watched the
little woman make her purchases with
some amusement. and great deal Of
sadness as we'll; for it was such very
little bit Of meat that she bought after
she had carefully explained what she
wanted il for. and such very small
bundle Of vegetables whit Presently
she said:
Now I'm all ready. Are you going
to buy my fathers picture
perhaps so, if he will sell it." said
Mrs Lloyd.
"Oh. he'll be glad to sell it," Sylvia
said. ale says that II he sold one per-
haps he could sell more after he sold
one"
Very likely" said Mrs. Lloyd; and
they walked on up the avenue to .
large building, where Sylvia stopped
and said: I'VE live way up tiptop; but
1 won't run to-day"
SO they went slowly up the five long
fights. At the door Mrs Lloyd stopped
sylvia and said: You 60 In first and
tell your father and mother that lady
is here who came about the picture"
"Oh, come right in" said the child,
and opened the door; but Mrs Lloyd
stood on the threshold until a gentle
man who was painting at an easel got
up and went toward her.
Mrs Lloyd said: ~ saw your picture
in the window at Blanks. and think
n II n house | once lived in, an inn