Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-07-05

so; 1 didn't send her to anybody
paticularly.' G3'E
Then she may have gone to some
othr fellow" wGrirfsE n zero
ph, hope she did! I'm sure. if she
toql my advice at all, it must be be-
calse she was dreadfully put to it for
a living. I'm afraid she does have
had time. what with sick mother
ant an irresponsible father
But how came you to know 80 much
ABOUT her?" @''F -
know very little. about her. We
livs in the same house; that's ALL 1e
'Dh, you dor" Isi2Ea-tA i,h
Tien there We're other guests to be
seq to, and the great Dabney's rooms
Wee soon so full that Miss Idly felt
quite overshadowed and got away as
promptly and quietly as possible. She
haf forgotten her picture..l it+f!1 t!5i.
T1at night. after the latest slayer
| ampng his guests had taken himself
| off Dabney flung himself into a chair
an6 opened a drawer into which he
hae surreptitiously conveyed Miss
Lid's picture. He never meant that
she should carry it away with her. y.
He sat long time studying the crude
little sketch. Then he laid it away
| again with almost caressing care. The
! beatty of the face was no revelation to
him He had grasped it, in even great
er beauty as she had stood. under the
light of his hall lamp. white palpitat-
ing, her lovely eyes wide with terror.
Then he had had no time to study
the moral attributes of the face whose
physical allurements stamped them
| selves so indelibly. upon his memory.
But now, even in Miss Lidy's poor pic
turf, he could trace the lines that made
for refinement. sensitiveness. endur-
amer. 81 hf.s aQofl ss III 81
"foor child. poor child! How I
I frightened herr" go t5i4a ~ .s-
Before he retired that night he wrote
Miss Lidy a note:
Dear Miss Martineau-Please find
out for me il your friend still desires
| to become an artists model or If she
has at any time in the past acted in
that capacity " g
Nearly a week elapsed before Miss
Lidy's answer came:
Dear Mr.. Dabney-I have had some
trouble in performing your commission
! delicately. OF course l mentioned no
names, but the poor child grew posi-
| lively violent when l asked her about
the model business; said she knew /
meant to be kind. but must let her
starye in her own way. And really
believe it will not take her long to do
it, for the packages that go up on the
dumb waiter grow fewer and simmer
all the time. One gets to be dreadfully
prying in these flats.
/ Il am afraid the father is just dread
full and the mother very expensive in
valid. My beauty is working in a
patent medicine shop for almost moth
ing Her eyes look larger and her
sweet mouth more sensitive by far
than when I first tried to paint her.
And Dabney's heartless comment
upon this pathetic state Of affairs was:
Thank God" -
/ Then he went to see Miss Lidy,
The little artist was in perfect fever
Of excitement over this act of conde.
scension on the part Of the big artist
He checked her ELUSIVE acknowledg.
ments almost abruptly sos l7E =
I II don't like to sail under false
colors must see her, I must meet
her. must know her" .I,+
| You mean--Miss Gerault p f4
Yes; l suppose you will set me down
as an idiot. but if can only see her
once dressed in ordinary parlor rig,
IS G. Min ST. s. .I,, n *