The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-07-21

AeAiiJ AZ hoEbco Lon you uTAW any
thing else?"
Horses are my best subject" said
Maud, glancing up from a bundle OF hiz
manuscript. do you only do this sort
OF dialogue thing? It's good. but"
Il don't wish 10 be rude. said Cecil.
but 1t seems to me that true artist
should be able 10 draw anything"
Pardon my plain spokenness said
Maud, but IL man who calls himself
al author can't write a horse story"
Never yet" said Cecil firmly. has
a story Of mine SO far demeaned itself
a. 10 let horse wander into IT,"
Can't you write an adventure tale?
| can 90 a ripping charging rhinoceros.
Dol"
Il will not drag charging rhlnoceros
into my stories"
Cecil, dear!"
Il don't know anything about rhinoc-
crosses"
mo. but do"
Look here. Maud. surely you can
draw man IN frock coat and a girl
In Paris gown. That's all the illus
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the public seems TO want"
20, can. OF course Only lot OF
other people could do II much better
Whereas"
Cecil suddenly stopped at one of the
drawings.
by Jove." he said. Il should think
so. This is charging rhinoceros, il
you like
There you arel" said Maud.
Yes" said Cecil. thoughtfully; a"
wish | could write that sort Of stories"
Miss Arthur sat down on the floor
and arranged her drawings and Cecils
stories at her feet
Now she began. lets see what
can be done by contrivance. II a girl
who dresses entirely on the SUMNER
sales can't Ok this up, then"
There was dialogue Of Cecils in
which Ronald. contrary To tie usual
custom Of Ethels young men, let the
public into the secret Of his intended
proposal. Half way through the story
IL was made clear that the hero was try
ing TO summon up his courage for the
plunge. Maud pounced upon this.
This will do she said
How ever"
why, yes Ronald is palpably nerv-
Gus about this proposal, ism he?"
"Wen?"
why. then. you've just got to put In
two extra lines and the thing is done.
Ronald, who, when hunting N East
Africa, had faced charging rhinoceros
without the slightest qualm. now trem-
bled uneasily at the thought Of And
so on Picture OF Ronald absolutely
qualmless facing charging rhinoceros.
Underneath the words Hunting
in East Africa, he had faced charging
rhinoceros' "
There could be only one end to this:
and the constant reader OF Cecil's sto-
ries viii have no difficulty in guessing
what the end was. When you live in
the same house with person; when you
see her every day. have a fresh oppor-
tunity for admiring her cleverness and
beauty; when you-but enough. After
a dozen stories of his had been gladly
accepted Cecil began 10 see that Ethel
was thing much OF the past
'Therel" said Maud one day, as she
waved a check in the air. what do you
think Of our partnership"
ITS been ripping" said Cecil: Tets
renew it for a fresh term"
Right o, Six mon ;hs and a weeks
notice on either slider"
lie took her hand
No" he said. Forever. my dear"
She raised her eyes 10 his.
| don't know what the illustration
could have been. Rather happily. an
uncle OF Cecips died about that time
and left him $1,000. They honeymooned
around the world
And now Cecil writes most Desperate
stories of adventure in the Rockies.
Maud's illustrations are much admired.
| m inclined 10 think she is really best
at grizzlies; in spite of that charging