Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-11
rHE MODEL

.,od into Danvers' studio one
s;ns-I suppose it must have been
.osrs aro-and found him painting
classical study. He was doing
and shoulder work at the time,
10 model was a stranger to me. |
.mokjug and watching him, or to
candid. her, for half an hour Then
= time was up, and she left for dln,
pr or something. >,
R.,ybo is she. Danvers =
~ believe she is engaged 10 an artis'
mowhere this side of the Pyrcnees
=, o1so relation,ess. He went blind
~. months back. Her whole sou!
wrapped ", up in him. She could think
No other means of making money, so
o,,ne owe: here. where she knows
one and determined to be modcii
E.s,a for certain work, you understand
1 HIGH class model. She has f"uhd
- or two men like ne to whom her
.ri.os are valuable, and now she's
haopy as Il sandboy, with the
boueht of bringing her blind painter
"a over some time aeNt month as iler
ush.nd Hell be the advising part.
Or suppose, and she'll earn the
oney.'
"ob well, she certainly is the
eHush. Here she comes.
\ 60 left thrn and started oil my an
,rol trD to the south next day.
EThrep leontas afteffsafd walked in
paayer> studio asain aai fAjr!.
osped via. locked al is .aad"!. Il
Eas the saiue gir1 and panYcl's was at
Ne sane kind Of work. bat vol. $le
if lie room Tor something after bit,
Ind looked 1t panveGs.
SIS size in training for pose as IL.
20 ascetic: What in the Wori,. Lave
ou been doing with her, banNcrSf
What the deuce coed can sue lie n
our work now: Cad, maH, the girl :
wing
yes ] know" said Danvers. scrap
be- his palette savagely. "Heastly
Nuisance, isn't it? l don't klf0w what
be devil to make of it
well, but what's the-1 mean.
ow'-
"You remember the blind painter god
hapY
"Yes."
"Well, he fell into some beastly lake
10 the day before they We're to have
een married and was drowned She 8
een getting little bit more like-that,
VERY day since. She doesn't sleep and
DE doesn't eat. She just does exactly
hat she's told. She's a lay figure, and
a skeleton at that. Best model
yer had too. Isn't it sickening?'
HIN! And l don't suppose it's ex
|dly cheerful for her.
well, Of course. As matter Of
pct, Pm beastly sorry for her rather
Ike the girl, she's so pathetic. But
That can man dO?"
What sbe wants, old man, is simply
new interest OF some kind. She's
imply dying for want of some interest
living. That blind chap represented
the beauty in her life. He's gone.
he must be made to see some othey
(lnd Of beauty"
HIN! And you think that would
ure her?'
Certai1.'
"Ah, veil. I lnust get to work, ole
hap"
YES. Gcodby"
Now, for good time dropped into
'anvers' studio pretty nearly every
ay, and Pm not joking when say l
atched the reincarnation of that girl
physically. anyhow. Then, just as
Us getting interested. and-well, II
as Weirdly beautiful process-I had
start on that wretched South Amer.
Fan expedition.
mat occupied almost year. When
eturned, went out to st. Johns
Goa to look up Danvers.
MISS Retours- was her name
as still there, and found she never
eht into any other studio. She grave
excused herself from sitting for me,
ad as she did so she looked across at
pauVers-great Scot! and he was whis-
Jug vile thing from pantomime.
~ size was in perfect health and q
0em OF southern European beauty.
n'y when she looked at me she didn',
= me- only through me dreamily ia
anvers. When she looked at him, he.
eeat big, fine, forest eyes shone and
.'s'eaed-a mixture of Madonna and
acchante.
now Gid you do it. Danvers?' l ask.
"aen she went out. "How did YOU
we W.. ner the new interest"
VINO! AGils? Oh, bless you. she's
su aappy as possible for ever so long
v'sotten all about the blind chap. ]
ucy. In fact. I sometimes think she
.us. oe bit sentimentally inclined
.ut some other fellow"
0'lne other fellow. Yes. How did