West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-06-14
I.-FOUND At LAST.
BY W. q. BALL0U. Illustrated by FER
NAND0 MIRANDA.
icOpyrlsht. Nv nights reserved. /

HAPPY may not call thee until learn
that thy life has been happily ended"
Thus soliloquzed young Mr. Henry
Henshall as he reclined, day dreaming,
against the cushions Of his scat in the for
ward section OF Wagner car.
The New York Central train was speed
ing him on and on, to which fact he was
utterly oblivious.
He had secured the forward section to
escape observation. lie sat with his back
TO the passengers. Himself was conpan-
ionship enough. lie desired only to think
and TO dream.
lie had but a few days since put Column.
bia college, so 20 speak, among his stock
of "reminiscences, with her highest honors
in his trunk.
He had mentally given over his fathers
great manufacturing interests, which in.
yited him To take immediate Possession
and give the aged sire his desired retire.
ment, to the devil aud the deep blue set
lie loved his ideal best. his art next, the
devil take what was hindmost The ideal
was now his quest; art he could achieve
between times. 1t was of her he dreamed
his ideal.
As he sat there gazing Mt the end Of the
car, deep in the contemplation of this vet
unseen but ever clearly outlined celestial
ideal girl, with all the glnmour of youth,
the words of the great Scion to envious
Croesus would thrust themselves between
his thoughts and seize him like some grim
specter. Happy may not call thee until
learn that thy life has been happily
ended"
why need what old Scion or any one
else ever said concern me." he unused
What difference does IL make what PEG.
pie say or who says it2 A fact is fact.
and n theory u theory. One mans theory
rs ~ good for his own purposes AS another's
theory. The fact in my case is that | am
satisfied to paint, Notwithstanding dads
wrath and the business he would thrust on
me. Let dad earn the money, or who will
Il desire only to spend il.
SO much for the fact. My theory IS
and prefer it TO Solon's, that TO marry my
ideal will be the acme OF happiness and
will insure happy ending TO my life II
j never find her more or less of my life will
be miserable and will end unhappily."
The young man failed to see that he had
exactly conformed his theory to Solon's,
that he had expressed the same theory pre-
cisely with variations IN form only. Youth
is deluded and ignores resemblancCs, those
trifies which made Darwin immortal He
continued to muse:
AS an artist my preferences run to
browns. They are my fayorite colors be
cause to me they are most beautiful, most
quiet, most sincere and the least suggestive
or either gaudiness or gloom. My ideal
unseen, unknown love il symphony in
browns-brown hair. brown eyes and n
complexion tinted brown rather than white
or red.
she is very small in stature, hence sure
TO be superbly perfect in form. Her little
head Is beautifully rounded and symmetri-
cal, likewise her dimpled arm and her
sweet little hands. Her little feet are in
cased in child's boots. not larger than n
! child's No. ~. She Isl
! He paused abruptly, startled for he saw
her. His eye had been wandering among
the gorgeous tapestries of the car, the
beautifully wrought woodwork, the superb
I French plate glass panes in the windows,
the oil painted ceilings and the blue and
/ gold woven velvets Of the cushions
/ At last Il rested on n mirror in front and
| above his head that slightly inclined from
/ the top toward him sufficiently 20 expose
the entire car and all its occupants in dim
image dim because his curtain WIS drawn.
darkeniug the light from the window at
his side.
He thought several times to change his
| position TO obviate the annoyance, but he
/ unconsciOusly seemed deferred from so do
ing lie was icing slowly fascinated by a
shadow as yet underlined, but momentarily
( growing more startling lie stared through
the dim light &C the mirror until his eyes
became accustomed TO the shadows above.
and the picture among the other images
gradually defined itself