Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-05-28
THE LIGHT OF HIS EYES.

iitu the b'tltt Oh the N'aiuc iNepuptIVsttAc
had Just finished playing one Of the pop
ular marches. which set the toes of all
the little models sitting under the trees
in the Luxembourg Gardens. tapping
sympathetically upon the gravel.
Out ON the broad walk near the pond
passed to and fro the eeaseless stream
of TYPES" which one meets with only in
the Quarter. and very frequently even
there only on Friday afternoons. Above
the palace tiuttered tloclls of pigeons
which have made the gables and finals
/ their home for wears.
Truly the palace would not be the
same without pigeons" remarked Il little
model to her ami as She trippcd gayly
down the steps and passed across the
>un-bathed path on their way to a shady
corner ON the farther side of the garden.
But neither BONES. with tluttclin9 rib
! honS and immense white aprons nor
ovcrdrcSScd nor mdcrdresSed children
boWiin" hoops and growing, nor iuttcr.
/ ing balloons on the end of the strings
nor artists. nor students. nor even the
cid soldiers with grizZlcd mustaches and
shutting footsteps. attracted half 30
much attention as the blind young man
sitting beneath the shade of one of the
chestnuts with the lovely, quietly
dressed girl at his side,
"Ah!' said Duta!el. As he saw ON
chances rest questionably ON these twr.
there is Il sad history attached to him
and To her. aud yet why should | call it
sad. for they love each others
And Dufayel shrugged his shoulders
and smiled in the cynical way with
which. good-hcatcd chap that he was. he
tried to deceive his best friends into
thinking him Il misogynist.
That be continued. is Andre De
. iorme. and shc-oncc Suzanne. the pretty
model ut CoIoTossi's-is his wife Yes.
he i blind, and that is the sadness of
their history Three years ago Andre
was one of the most promising of the
younger painters: every one thought that
he was sure OF Il Bronze. He worked
hard and studied hard. and except that
he admired Suzanne no one could accuse
him at having amy interests outside the
picture lac was painting.
"Onc daN-you will remember reading
about it-a great fire broke out at the
back OF one of the studios not far from
the Care du Mont ParBasse We heard
nothing OF it at the studio until the noise
II tie engines laundering by at the bot
tom Of the street and the shouting and
The blowing of horns told US that fire
was in progress.
Andre aad half a dozen others hastily
throw down their pallets, put ON their
coats. dashed down the steep stairca, sc
out into the street and then rushed away
along the boulevard to The place where
the fire was. Before they could make
their way through the crowd which
tWonged the erd of the street, like a
lash it came to several of us at once
that Suzanne on Tucsdays-it was a
Tuesday always sat 10 Jules Bonnard.
NO one likei jules somehow We
could not trust iim-and therefore we
were not much surprised to gather from
one OF the crowd that Jules had made
his escape from the studio at the first
alarm of fire without giving niue
Thought to Suzanne.
Soon there was great outcry as lie
loot OF one Of the studios fell in with
a crash, and plumes of sparks and smoke
Ihd Hamca darted skyWard. Not long.
ana another shout, for Bonnard had sur
iciehtlN recovered hIs nerve TO say that
there was glrl IN hls studio, the end
OF which was already on fire. Andre
dashed at HIM and shouted close to .ns
lace;
Is lt NuHahhe~ls 1T Suzanne? JcIl
me OF ! II XIII You!'
And Then Just as he was about to
Selzc nm by The throat, Bonnard @asPcd
out;
e. 1t Is suzanne.
andre turned without n word, aud
pushing through the p"mpiers. who tried
III N'ih To stop nm. nc dashed down the
narrow passage which led to the court
OF the studios IRON which people were
throwing FURNITURE pen nell, as though
'le names were already at their heels
ana disappeared
W nat happened to him when lee van
i~hed IRON our sight We learned from
""e 81 tne p"ihpiefS. 1t appears that
ne d"Hhr0 INTO the studio above WhIcG
b"hhafq now burning one was. ami
i'f'eo ms way up the narrow staircase
Ill 9Wte OF the volumes Of smoke which
poured down 1t. Into the studio he man
aged to crawl, although no sooner was