The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-01-18
An Incorrigible
-=- Angel $500

BY y. X. LANCASTER

HEN. the artist. dropped his book
and strobe 70 the window, there to
stand and stare out upon the green
slope that slipped shimmering apd ST.
lent TO the valley below. Green,gold
where the sun shot down to It; GREEN
black where the pine shadows fell
upon II; but always green. glad and
beautiful. A thing to hold any ards
tic eye. All, but this artist was blind
to It. That unlucky line OF Ruskit's.
II had walked afresh all the heart-hiin-
ger he had hoped TO soothe into eyer
lasting rest with the lullaby of labor.
AN incorrigible ANGEL" What mat
tered II that Ruskin was writing Of
had sprung before the artists mental
vision that tantalizing embodiment Of
beauty and mischief. II the great critic
had coined the phrase for the express
benefit of monsieur's. mis- hosts. clip
Of a daughter. II could not have come
more pat to the purpose. So while he
stared &C the slope and its wonderful
play Of high light and shadow the
artist saw only dark eyes beneath
thick. curling lashes. dimples dancing
In roseleaf cheeks and tempting lips
parting over pearly teeth.
How wonderfully lovely the child
IL" he unused. while a smile lifted the
tips OF his mustache. Little tease In
corrigible angel suits her 10 a dot"
And he smiled again. finding these for
hidden fruits very sweet indeed.
For all thought OF the lovely child
was forbidden fruit to the artist. Being
Ing frankly that matrimony was too
heavy handicap for his career. he had
planned to eschew woman and the
thought of her.
"Iri never many for anything but
love Ergo. n ! don't fall In love 7
won't marry" he explained TO his pipe
and pleased with his philosophy and
its penetration he had pursued his APP
pointed path disconnected and happy
or contented and unhappy. as is the
way with artists. be the A big or little
Now. VOLTA. That path had brought
him abruptly vis-a-vis with an incor-
rigibIe angel Comment done? II was
time for his resolution TO assert itself
or to turn tail and run. As for the
artist. he wished the resolution to
stand pat On general principles men
like TO believe that they are made of
sterner stun than rope Of sand. Ger
tainmeni! A week ago nc had burned
his sketches OF rounded cheek and
beauteous brow and said to his heart:
Enough. enough" Said II sternly all
in the dead vast and middle Of the
night" Eh.oein, but he kept on star
ing down the slope until he spied q
white speck at the bottom Of II.
"Aspasis befrilled sun-bonnet"
He seized his hat and slammed his
door Resolution had turned tail Qael
esclandre. quel esclandre!
oui vraiment II Is so out there on
those green hills under the pleasant
sunshlne-among the simple lives OF
| peaceful 'Cajan land The heart of am
bition grows ashamed of Its clamor-
Of its everlasting "Give. give" There
is bigger thing than either money or
success. and that is the serenity Of soul
that sets aside money and success as
little tin toys that eternity may easily
dispense with" The artist breathed in
such thoughts with the air-after reso-
luton ran away. He fanoied that IL
was because of the profound peace ana
silence that he felt nearer 10 Heaven
out here upon these green-wrapt hills;
that It was the tail pines and the stars
STOPPING over them that awoke those
mystic warnings; that II was the
moonlight and the quiet that sent him
OF into those long, long reveries
wherein the big things dwindled and
shrank and It seemed good just to live
on in silence at peace with all human
kind Yea. truly. he thought II was all
a case OF atmosphere. the poor artist
Little dreaming that Il would have
been the same In Broadway or Boston
had the incorrigible angel been there
Like most men he shrank from anaiyz-
ing his emotions. But. Aspasi. the in
corrigible angel, analysed them for
him. All. mails Out Her eyes danced
when she beheld NJ. lie artistic smoking
with his eyes on vacancy, and her lips
quivered with suppressed smiles when
he stammered over the request TO b.
allowed TO chop her kindling. "a, =.