The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-08-15

"AnG he could not now if he would she
| added, signing, "for M. Begun is away at
present." -. z-.-
and is that why you loko SO sad, pretty
maid?" returned their new friend. There
were tears your lashes when came up"
| A seconds hesitation, and the unhappy love
tale came out
And Is that why you look SO sad, pretty
| "he would regain good humor to Thomas
1 And do you think nothing but that would
| move him." inquired the stranger.
! "Alas, no! But oh. if could only move
| M. Begun to do it.. do you know what he
| should paint on our cottage? He should paint
JEAN" said fvette breathlessly, my dead
1 brother Jean, and he should paint Thomas
standing beside him. and they would be hand
4 in hand, and then father would be obliged,
yes, Obliged, to see it was like command
for our marriage.
mo such luck" observed Thomas sourly,
adding like a Greek chorus OF woe, II shall
enlist" -
Don't say that again. implored Yvetts.
'Ah, me, if monsieur could but paint-mon-
sieur, who has been SO sympathetic"
An odd smile crossed the strangers lips.
81 have been told he said kindly. that !
know something of painting. Give me leave
and I will do my best"
Tomorrow, tomorrow cried Yvetts
joyfully. Father goes away for two days
tomorrow, and then you can do it. Oh,
monsieur, the Virgin herself sent you!"
! But the devil may have sent his paint
ing" muttered the doubling Thomas when
he hath messed thy fathers house and thou
canst not tell his picture Of Jean from =
COW, then what?" .-.
| But faith carried the day, and no sooner
was old Matthew safely gone than the tour
list was standing on scaffolding beside the
cottage. He wore blouse belonging to
Thomas The whole village turned out to
| int ha
audacity Of one who dared work in OPPOSE
ton to M. Begun would meet merited fall
ure.
The stranger painted rapidly. Sometimes
he gazed in comica1 dismay at the increasing
crowd; sometimes he looked at quaint lit
tie tintype in his left hand which bore the
features of one Jean, son Of Matthew, long
drowned at sea. =
Suddenly a man in the crowd shouted:
"But sect is too strange! It is Jean-the
dead Jean whom he makes there!"
Next day the whole village turned out to
see what the second figure would be, and,
TO-, it was Thomas-Thomas, whose rejection
by Matthew was too we'll known already.
The villagers gazed open-mouthed. But the
surprise was completed when Yvette herself
appeared on the wall also, and the tableau
showed the lovers hands being placed IN each
other by the benign Jean, who wore smile
beautiful to see.
| The artist SHOOK Q1mSelI anu ueSCenuouD
and his descent had barely been made be-
fore old Matthew was upon them.
"Out OF my way there!' he shouted. why
do you congregate around an honest mans
house?'
He made a plunge toward the crowd They
surged back willingly, and, 10, he was face
to face with his cottage wall, and there-had
s the sea given up her dead?-there smiled the
=! bold young sailor, his cap atilt, his frank
eyes shining down on old Matthew just al
S they used to shine when they came home to-
j gether. -.
A sob of mingled pain and rapture leaped
e to the old mans throat. Then as he discov-
e cred the other figures Yvette, leading
i Thomas, crept timidly to his side.
" who hath done this?" demanded the old
e peasant so sternly that Yvettes heart sank
fearfully. The tourist stepped forward as
y though to shield her, saying:
r at was my work."
:, .Thine-a strangers? And who art thou? 2
g Eat home,, said the other simply, ''mer
r call me Millais.' 49,. .s-,~z.,- VS., -.
>; 81 know not, of thee" answered ,Matthf Gu
: "but a greater than thou hath WORKED
s through thee" Then, turning to Yvette, HI
= placed her hand within Thomas, saying sol
: emily:
d WED when thou wilt, and whom the deaf
hath joined may man put asunder!"