The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

knew, and had helped her to such sue
cess as she had achieved. In their COM
munion she was happy, for she was
whole souIed in her devotion to her
work. Happy, too, was Mareze, yet his
emotion was entirely different, for, look
ing into the artists eyes, he saw the
woman beneath them, though he hardly
acknowledged it to himself. Scarcely
SO happy was his wife, who, with the
exquisite sensibilitieS Of WOmanhoods
appreciated, felt nay, knew his waver-
ing allegiance, of which the man was
little more than dimly conscious.
When woman is jealous she is not
slow to act.
The next time Juliette entered
Mareze's studio Nine. Mareze ordered
her to leave. At the moment, how
ever, young Jacques happened to be in
the studio. Juliette's enthusiasms
were like his own, and, with that fell
low feeling which makes US WondrOuS
kind, he stood up for the girl against
his mothers anger. Though Juliette
might go out of his fathers studio, he
would not allow her to go out of his
life, and in the great galleries of the
each other across the masterpieces of
art to the evolving of that supremest
masterpiece of LIES art Of which the
human soul has any knowledge.
Unacquainted with his wife's action,
Mareze not unnaturally wondered
what had become of his favOrite pupil
when the days heightened into weeks
and she failed to put in an appearance
at his studio. Unacquainted, too, with
the meetings at the Louvre, he stood
amazed when one morning he sur
prised his son confessing to his moth
er his love for Juliette. Nine. Ma
reZe, forgetting for the moment that
she was a pennilesS girl and her hus-
band rich only in enthusiasm when
they neutrality-suspicious. remembering
these facts, and only anxious that her
son should go to his new life IN
hampered by poverty refused to hear
Of such madness as marriage. Natur
ally the boy turned to his father. It
was not argument or advice against
the imprudence of such a step with
which he was met, but blind fury, the
wild reproaches of a man shaken by
passion. You talk as if I were taking
her from you" cried the son.
THAT is just what you are doing.
You are taking her from me- cried
the father.
Nine. ATareze looked from the father
to the son; from the son to the father.
And what of the girl? Had the beau
tiful Juliette really been playing false
to both father and son? That was the
question which the jealous wife, the
devoted mother asked herself That
was the question which she set herself
to answer. She sent for Juliette. She
charged her with duplicity. The girl
was amazed, Mortified, outraged at the
suggestion. In her indignation the
truth Of her soul spoke from her
mouth. and convinced the elder wo-
man that such a thought could never
have sullied the purity of the young
life. Nine. Mareze's mother heart
Welled up within her In the girl she
saw herself grown young again. In
her son she saw his father at his age.
''They were made for one another,
father" and she took her new found
daughter to her heart
$50 they were, mother" and Ma
reze, realizing that you cannot mate
December's SHOWS with the heat of
summer" joined their hands togeth-
er. And as he turned to his wife he
saw the old Iovelight in her eyes and
knew that once again, after the storm,
he had found the haven of happiness.