Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-09-10
CHAPTER x

that
1T takes enthusiasm to transfer d
living personality to the canvas" he
said, evasiyely "You can paint
clothes and features by mere skill;
but it's only sympathy with your sub
ject that will put the whole character
into single look"
And you find that she inspires it?
the sympathy You speak OFF,"
If she didn't her situation would
You mean"
mean that for me she belongs to
the group of women overwhelmed by
the fatality of circumstances. the re-
preventative circumstances Of their
time. Each age has its own types,
which often become its own victims.
In one age it may be an Iphigenia, in
another a Lady Jane Grey, and in
another a Madame Royale. They are
simple women-simple girls without
Unborn greatness on any kind-but
the cyclone of forces concentrates
and bursts above them"
My good man, do you mean to say
that Paula Trafford is threatened by
some overhanging doom ?"
No. | do not. l say only that she
is one of the few who focus into
themselves the results Of a great in
dustrial country and of a great indus
trial era. There she sits as see her,
he went on, pointing over Lady
Alice's shoulder, the type and the
victim of commercial age and a
COMMERCIAL people. All the rights
and wrongs of industry and finance
are forced into her hands-their hon
est gains, their pitiless competitions.
their brutal robberies, their sordid
trjckeries and their moral assassina-
tons. She sums them up and repre-
sents them"
Yes" Lady Alice assented, with
her grim smile, "just about to the
same extent as sum up the history
and privileges of the House OF
Lords"
oh, more than that. You're one Of
your class; she stands alone in hers
tive. Destiny has singled her out for
the task
And she's, such sweet, gentle
soul"
That's where the curious irony Of
1t comics in. Do you remember in the
cathedral at Client the tomb of Mary
looking at the next time you're there.
She lies crowned and gorgeously robed
, on sepulcheree covered with the
shields Of the duchies, counties and
baronies she, inherited from Charles
the Bold. She herself is frail. pinch
ed little body, who died at twenty.
four. She lived Just long enough to
marry Macmillan, to have q son, to
transfer the Low Counties to Spain
and Austria and so to begin the cen.
turtles of war and misery that never
really ended till the revolt of Belgium
from Holland, in 1890 She was moth.
Ing but a girl-little older than Miss
Trafford there-but the storm-forces
OF her time centered around her. tos.
sing her into place in history utter
~ out of keeping with her personal
Importance. In the United States
today, women don't inherit duchies.
Ike Mary of Burgundy, they inherit
money
SO much the better for the men
who marry them" Lady Alice broke
in bluntly. Some one has to marry
them. Some one will have to marry
Paula Trafford.
4 Winship picked up a brush and be-
gan to fleck touches on the soft
black draperies.
well, won't they?" Lady Alice per-
sisted.
II suppose so,' he agreed, without
turning round.
Then why shouldn't it be you?"
1--WE SO few ambitions Of that
kind.
So few fiddlesticks"
And, besides. when marry I
hope 1t will not be for money, but for
love-
Love-" Lady Alice shifted as
love SO out of the question? Yo,,
couldn't have painted her as you've
4 done If
"Shall ] have to fall in love with
all the beautiful women l hope to
4 paint in order to do them justice?'
Not now, because she will have
II taught you the secret once for ALL"
Winship was spared the necessity
1 of answering this retort by the open
II ing of door near by, while his
y mother aided by Marah, CROPPED her
n way In
" Lady Alice sprang up and took the
Il bliuds woman into her strong arms
II When the first embraces had been ex
n changed she aided Marah to leading
81 her to seat While Marah busted
hherself in preparing tea, Lady Alice
M$entertained Mrs. Winship with the &C
%dsount of her doings through the win
2&ter. 1t was inevitable that the talk
Il should drift to Rogers work and Pau
81 Ia Trafford.
"she's a sweet girl" Mrs. WinshiI
Msaid, TREMENDOUSLY. 1--WE come to love
Sssher very dearly. So has my son
shayen't you. koger?"
81 I can quite understand that" Lady
5SAlice observed dryly.
ooh yes he laughed Its quite
2 Ineligible. But all terms are rela
SSssStive. and mothers don't bear being
torn away from the context.
E She's been a great comofrt to me-
Mrs Winship pursued gently. g
haven't been SO well during the latter
a,art of the winter, and her kindness
has been very sweet to me- She
Zones and reads to me, when Marat
IND Roger are away just as you usef
No do. dear. She took me to drive ons
slay, but I'm afraid that was too mucl