Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-01


my thoughts, whatever may be the
distance between us. In short, YOU
must turn author as we'll as artist and
Conceive the same situations that /
do. The only difference will be in the
execution, | expressing them IN words,
you II pictures.
Clarence groaned helplessly.
Great heavens, Miss Pearson ~ he
exclaimed. "What do YOU take me
Tor. anyway? am no mind reader
| didn't know you believed IN such
stuff I"
"Of course you didn't know. That
was what meant when said you didn't
understand me as you should. / have
dabbled III all the occult sciences. /
firmly believe in spiritualism, hypno-
tlsm and theosophy-"
Socialism, syntax and prosody," he
| 'nterposed vicIously.
Don't interrupt me, please" she
returned, with an air of severity. 81
know that it is possible to read the fu-
ture in cards and in the stars, and I
| also know that mind reading will in
time become as commonplace as con-
verslng by means Of spoken and written
words Is now. To be sure, | an not
| such O staunch advocate OF i9cliism
as to assert that car bottles e..st in
lmag nation lony, but | do believe
that mind IS far more powerful than
matter. 1t has always seemed very
strange to me, Mr.. Hay" she added,
tentatively, That you should be go
! practical. ! have always supposed
that on artist should have an exceed.
ingly vivid imagination.
81 am not entirely devoid Of it, he
! retorted, bitterly; "but l exercise
common sense more than anything
else. Besides, | am not Raphael nor
O Murillo. Perhaps if | were should
be something of an anomaly with
their power OF vision seeing allied to
my decided practicality, capable Of
earning a good salary, and | never ex
pect to be anything else, because it
isn't in me. I'm too practical. But
am pretty true to nature, and L
think, Miss Pearson, that if You will
give fellow fair show | could illus
trate your story as we'll as anyone.
But she was obdurate to all his APP
peals.
"Don't argue with me or try to
change my views" she said. "This is
no mere whim. On the contrary it is
serious matter. decided upon these
conditions years ago. If you cannot
do as | have suggested we are not
fitted for each other.
It was the most difficult problem
which Clarence Hays practical mind
had ever been called upon to solve.
There were times when he had serious
doubts of Miss PeGrson's $ sanity, and
had she been less attractive woman
he would have abandoned all hope OF
winning her and left her to find some
body else to DO her illustrating. But
whenever he began to consider that
course Of action the valves Of his heart
contracted with a sudden spasm OF
desolatlon, and he would once moro
begin cudcelllng his brain for posi-
bic clew to the theme Of her story. He
hunted up every old magazine and
newspaper in which she had ever had
anything published and read her
, work carefully, IN the hope Of thereby
, galning some idea Of what might net
uraliy be expected Of her. But she
had written IN mahv veins, and be
might as Well have tried to read Il so.
lutlon IN the stars as IN the prlntt
pages wherein WAS mirrored the state
Of her mind IN the days gone by. Be
, sides, in none OF them was there vlsl-
, bic trace OF the belief IN the super
natural that hal characterized their
last conversation, and the theories
, then expressed lett him more mystiiieC
rs TO tho probable subject than any
, thing else could nave done.
She hal stipulated that at the en-
, Of Il month he should come to he,
with his drawings. Then they were
to read her story and examine Ia,
pictures together; ii each was the
complement Of the other. she woult
marry him as soon as lie wished
Three weeks of the allotted time ha,
, passed away and Clarence Hay hae
frctted and fumed himself into n neri
shadow o. his former robust self, bu
with all his worrying and speculatinG
= 10 wandering slaft from her hlgl
train Of thought had pierced his 90
! tuse brain. He studied out plo
: every night in his dreams, but the.
were all different, and when it came I
se.ectin, one from such hetero-ene
Gus mass o. iaac.os, his predicamel
vas as voful a. though his slum Be
had been vIsion.ess. He was about !.
:, 20 to her ana explain that as min
!. reading was no; his forte his was
/ hopeless case, All that N the name c
!, ,u>tice she ought 10 be leaicnt an
re<cind her unreasonable decree.
J Bat Just st that time be received c
INSPIRATION.
: On the last dav 0: the month
I presented himself before Miss Pee,
1 ION with five drawings which were. Il
Y battered himself. the bcs: be had eve
il made during Ms career as an artis'
:. She read the story. It was graph.
' description OF Syr4an life lathe stun.
o of large city, AMI was unique 81
Z strong II conception and execution
|; Then he showed his pictures The
o also illustrated Syrian life u the slUu
1r O.: large city.