Connecticut western news., 1910-09-08
A Sketch By ETHAN ARBUCkLE Copyright, 1910, by American Press
 Association.

came by who surely did not appear rural. Her dress was ragged, her hat, straw, darkened by the weather and having tawdry ornament. while over her shoulders she wore a faded shawl.
 Had l not, with the habit of an artist, kept an eye open for models might not have noticed certain kind of beauty under these frayed. gar ments. The girl took off her hat and displayed 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 set on a pair of well rounded shoulders e#-
 -'Why do you wear that kind of dress at this tir1e of day?' I asked.
 Because l haven't any other"
 Do you live about here?"
 No. I don't live anywhere: Pm tramping." s
 Then she cried. E.Hl.
 Not slip in grammer, not an unre- fined expression, escaped her. She had evidently seen better days. Indeed, she might have lived in luxury.
 -1f you will let me make sketch of you" l said. T will pay you well for doing so."
 What will you do with the sketch? WiIl everybody see it? I wouldn't wish them to see 1t at home"
 T will put it in my portfolio. Idon't think any one who knows you will ever see it."
 She consented. and l made the sketch, putting in the colors exactly as they were. I gave her good price for the pose, which she clutched eager ly. believe she was hungry While | worked I was talking to her with view to learning something about her. But she would tell me nothing willing 1y. and l was unable to induce her to give me any information by artiice. At last was obliged to let her go her way.
 But her picture-it was a fine repre- sentation of Prom Affluence to Pow erty"-remained 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 it. Indeed. found myself unfit for work. so complete hold had it taken upon me. slept that night at farm house and woke in the night depressed by a feeling that the girl was wander Eng about with no home, no money, nothing to eat and obliged to wear anything she could get to cover her Aeh hod taken her into my heart and provided for her wants?
 Then I remembered that there is. barrier which prevents young men from assisting young women. AS to taking her into my heart, that l had done. though I did not realize what foothold she had gained there.
 One thing about her was patent. She was pure. No such beauty as hers 1t was this doubtless that prevented my banishing her from my mind and drew me toward her.
 l have always had habit of read ing the personals in newspapers. l do so because I like to have my fancy started in weaving stories that the few advertised words indicate. One day ! 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 tinge of red in it.
 I saw the subject of my sketch de- scribed in this personal. I called i'm mediately on the advertiser and found a lawyer. l showed him my sketch, and he showed me photograph. They were identical save as 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 stepmother. She had gone Towing never to return. The step- mother had died. apd the girls father. who was alone, was anxious to find his daughter. but had little hope of doing so.
 determined to hunt for Gladys Sey- mour myself. Taking my sketch with me. l went to the place where had made it, then started in the direction she had gone when she left me. l spent day in discovering where she had slept that night. A farmers wife had taken her in and given her bed and supper. Having learned the di- rection she had taken the next morn ing, went on and tracked her in direct line to little town. where lost her. But, showing my sketch and making inquiries, I traced her to a store, where she had been given work behind the counter. There l found her, though in better costume than that in which had met her.
 { I don't know which was more af- fected by the news I gave her, I at telling it or she at learning it. She went at once to her employer to say that she would like to go to her home, and he excused her from remaining. 1 furnished her with the means to get there-not as charity, but as a loan.
 Gladys Seymour did not remain at home long with her father, for step ped in and took her away from him. There was a bone of contention be- tween me and my wife for long ~~xA3go Cbo ruicbnd fhn sketch I had