Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-02-11

and forty dollars year. Suppose we say two nun
drcd since am that even that amount viii ailo"
volt a generous margin VIII that satisfy YOU, if |
pay the frs. two hundred dollars to you in adyance
The light of cupidity eaped into Jim CLOVIS eyes.
"Cashi" he asked the question almost brcathlessly.
Cash." repeated the artist and lie then and thcrc
tool; from his pockctbool; four crisp hfydoar bills.
For the first time the boy breathcd deeply as jim
Glow silently took the money and passed it to his viii:
who stood in the doorway.
az reckon its for Henrys good" she hcsitatcd, but
she casped the money with much misery eagernest
Jim had done.
And why not, since all their hard lives had been
crampcd and circunssrbcd by the lack Of this yer,
boom since because OF that lack their brows
w7inked and careworn before their time and their
hearts were heavy and dull and cold?
For the first time the artist seemed 10 notice that
Che youth still cluched the hem of his K fear
inG to let him go
Get your clothes together, Henry" he directed
money to your SON, he added. turning to the father
as Henry stumbled into the house. blinded by thi,
wonderful good fortune and have no fear but that
he will be able to pay it back day Every ,hre.
months after this first year | shall send you hjty
dollars until he is able to send it to you himself"
After all the CLOVIS we're not whou. their parental
feeling. for twice before his boy left Jim had almost
taken back the bargain and the mother she packed
her sons. belongings in the battered little canvas
Telescope that mad done duty many years for tho
lew trips the family had made, cried over them, and
she wept and chung around his neck At the roadside
and mpored him TO take Of himself, rot to tor
yet them, and to write 70 them every way
Thus Henry Glow went out into the world TO make
&c; himself the place that he craved There is eed
70 tell of all his struggles from obscuTiy 70 fne, nor
hcw the rough places were sHoo;ied over BY the
friend who had absorbed trace Of the largeness of
God into MS own soul. It is enough to say that he
worked; that the lazihess with which he had been
charged existed no more; that he slayed night and
da2 that he bent to this heayen-sen TASK with al the
energy and yigor that had oecn born Of his Of
and that in f,,I
OF course, he came back TO the valley arm ate.
his long soourn abroad, and he year after
IT, had opened his studio IN the distant city. and
then began the curious development which makes dis
all the narrative OF Henry CLOVIS dreams and
struggles but OF Jim Glow and his wife.
The beginning was in that Summer when Henry
painted The Brook" During a preceding Winter
Of his pictures had taken prize and had been sold
for thousand dollars and the CLOVIS began ior the
first time to nave respect for Henri YORK Jim
hind his boy and watch with puzzled wonder the
incompehensibe masses Of color that appeared roughly
here and there. The rudely outlined course OF the
unframed able to carry field and rock and tree 2r4
hi to their relative places upon the picture lie noted
and gray OF the steep little tuubling shadows, there
was great oval section painted almost exactly like he
SKI above it-deep blue with spiOtc1es OF i,ndcd
white-and he could not understand il. It vas all a
iargon to him. but he came back TO th2 canvas again
and again, scratching his head When the picture was
the foreground, he hurried 10 the house and got his
vile At last he saw the pool Of clear, pclucid 'ater
rejecting the blue and white CT the SKY above it. and
skt must see it, too.
:: was fc.o sgmrne1s later that vhen Henry came
Just across on the other SIDE OF the creek into which
the brook emptied-the very acres for which jim had
apE an 9nisq i b6ad i e r appy' o5 t q,
great purchase had been literally wrestcd from field
and tree and hill and sky. Sometimes both the man
end the woman found themselves Paa;ing to look at
a Startl;NClV
lhcv growing cid now and this comfort and
plenty with which Henry LAD provided them, brought
= measure OF peace ard gcntleness well, just il
brought them altered perspective OF Henry himself.
why, when he lust little shaver" Jim would
mildly boast to the neghbors "he used TO set ~ tld
hour m look at the clouds m trees N things Course
lowed him ter hcv paints N brushes n time - prac'
tisc TIL he got TO he what he is now.
I'VE alus know'd there was suthin' in Henry" Mrs
Glow would pridefuy add, and they really believed it
As the fame Of the artist grew 50 grew their PROS
in him and in his work. They began 70 pay sona
pog d Se e cb ns n 1o the %en Tf
lust after the boy-ttcr boy-had gone back TO New
York. Jim was sitting on the kitchen steps, musne
out the valley but knowing 'hc trend o
his own thoughts when the miracle happened and tht
scales fell from that had been unsecrg Cor ife
maggie come ont here" he called softly, as on'
sneaks when thew fear t1at baby may change II
pose. or rare tird n'ay ~ away :,
pulled her gently down be lc Fin On tie steps ~
Look he hafwh.pcfc1I, directing hor G,,-e TO tn
horizon n, "Ei Henry cd onl see thS n G ,on s.,
Of umbcd and shredded dark gray clouds though JUS
4 great glowing crimson bail TIE sun dropped slow!
IS thew looked absorbed fascinated the scarlet slowt
blended in rnr,tion to ruddy gold ard II TIE decpe
reccsscs Of tie c'o'd' where hue-r-av had acted
fojl for the bright red, came exquisite violet tint,
Slowly the vast panorama Of color Went on then sud
6 ay e e4rc Nl Se S rTG,f d. the I o1 Gi'
ING them dull md dark; hrt in r., clear strip LEI