Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-07-31
A Sketch
By EffiAN ARBUClE
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

came by who surely did not appear
rural. Her dress was ragged. her hat
q straw, darkened by the weather and
having a tawdry ornament. while over
her shoulders she wore faded shawl.
Had I not. with the habit Of an
artist, kept an eye open for models I
might not have noticed a certain kind
of beauty under these frayed gar
;ments. The girl took or her hat and
displayed a wealth OF hair. with just
enough red in It to make It gold The
DAY was hot. and she threw back her
shawl. Then l noticed that her bodice
was cut low and revealed a superb
neck st on a pair Of well rounded
shoulders.
why do you wear that kind Of dress
at this time of dayY' asked.
because I haven't any other"
DO you live about hereT
mo. ] don't live anywhere I'm
tramping."
Then she cried.
Not a slip IN grammer. not an unre-
I6ned expression. escaped her. She had
evidently seen better days. Indeed. she
might have lived IN luxury.
IF you will let me make sketch OF
you" said. II will pay you well Tor
doing So"
what Will you do with the sketch7
Ewin everybody see It? wouldn't
wish them to see It at home"
! Il will put 1t In my portfolio. 1dou't
think any one who knows You viii
ever see It."
She consented. and ] made the
sketch. putting in the colors exactly as
they were. l gave her good price
for the pose. which she clutched eager
Nv. I believe she was hungry. While
Ii worked l was talking to her with
view 10 learning something about her.
but she would tell me nothing willing
Nv. and I was unable to induce her to
give me any Information by artifice.
AT last | was obliged to let her 90 her
way.
But her picture-it was fne repre-
seutstion of From Affiuence to Pow
.erfY"-remaiped with me. gazing out
at me from the sad eyes. and ! found
myself constantly taking IT out from
among my other sketches and looking
at II. Indeed. found myself unit for
work, so complete hold had 1t taken
upon me. ] slept that night at farm
house and woke IN the night depressed
iby a feeling that the girl was wander
ing about with no home. no money.
nothing TO eat and obliged TO wear
Anything she could get 20 cover her.
What a selfish world. Why bad ] NOT
taken her into my heart and provided
for her wants?
Then I remembered that there Is
barrier which prevents young men
nom assisting young women. As to
taking her into my henrt. that ] had
done. though did not realize what a
.foothold she had gained there
One thing about her was patent She
was pure. No srcb beauty as hers
need go in rags except through purity.
I1t was this doubtless that prevented
my banishing her from my mind and
drew me toward her.
have always bad q habit OF read
ing the personals in newspapers. ] do
started In weaving stories that the few
advertised words indicate. One Gay
\ read the following:
Information wanted of Gladys Seymour.
twenty years old When last seen she
wore a dark blue dress. cut low neck
eyes dark brown; hair the same. with
ttnge CT r0d In H.
l saw the subject Of my sketch de-
iscribed In this personal ] called I'm
mediately on the advertiser and found
ID lawyer. showed him my sketch.
and be showed me a photograph They
were identical save a. to dress That
OF the photograph was silk. that Of the
sketch rags. He told me that the girl
had been driven from home BY the
cruelty of . stepnother. She had gone
vowfng never to return. The step
mother had died. and the girls father.
who was alone. was anxious % md
his daughter. but had little hope Of
doing %.
determined 20 hunt FOR Gladys Sey-
mour myself. Taking my sketch with
me. I went to the place where ! had
made n. then started In the direction
she had gone when she seft me- j
spent a dag Ia discovering where ste
had slept that Eight A farmers wife
had taken her 10 and given her bed
and q supper. Having learned the d.
rectjoB she had taken the oexi morn
ing. went on and tracked her 10 q
direct line to a Httis town. where
lost her But. showing NY sketch and
making inpiries.' ] traced oer to q
store. where she bad been given work
behind the counter. There I found
her. though IN q better costume thar
that IN which bad met her
dor't know which was more az
fccted BY the news gave her. ] at
telling q o. she &C lcsrpinr u she