The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-07-23
A. Sketch
- ETHAN ARBUCkI-E
Copyright. l9i9 by American Press
Association


rural. Her dress was ragged, her hat
straw darkcnod hy The weather and
having Il iaWdry ornament. ~ lilp over
her shoulders She wore il faded shawl
iiad | mot. with the habit Ut III
artist. kept an eye open for models
might not have noticed a certain Kind
OF beauty under these frased air
melts. The girl took on her hut and
displayed wealth Of hair. with just
enough red In 1t to make II gold. The
day was hot. and she threw back her
shawl, Then noticed that her bodice
was cut low aud revealed Il superb
neck set gu Il pair of well rounded
shoulders
"Why do YOU wear that kind Of dress
at this lime Of day" asked.
Because | haven't any other"
"Do you live about here
NO. don't live anywhere. I'm
tramping."
Then she cried.
Not slip IN grammer. not an nnre-
fined expression. escaped her She had
evidently seen better days. Indeed, she
might have lived In luxury.
If you will lei me make a sketch Of
yon." | said, Il viii pay you well for
doing So"
What Will you do with the sketch?
Will everybody see It.? wouldn't
wish them to see Ii at home"
Il will put 1t in my portfolio. don't
think any one who knows you will
ever see It,"
She consented. and | made the
sketch. putting In the coiors exactly nv
they were. | gave her II good price
for the pose which she clutched eager
~. believe she was hungry. While
| worked WAS taking 10 her with u
view TO learning something about hsr.
But she would tell me nothing willing
ly. and | was unable to induce her TO
give me any information by article.
At last | was obliged to let her 90 her
way.
But her pictureit was fine repre-
sentation OF From Attiuence to Pow
erty"-remained with me- gazing ont
ut me from the sad eyes. and found
myself constantly taking 1t out from
among my other sketches and looking
at 1t. Indeed. found myself unfit for
work. 50 complete hold had II taken
upon me. slept that night at a farm
house and woke in the night depressed
by feeling that The girl was wander.
ing about with no home, no money
nothing 10 eat and obliged TO wear
anything she could get to cover her
What selfish world Why had | not
taken her into my heart and provided
for her wants? , fE
Then ! remembered that there In a
barrier WHICH prevents young men
from assisting young women. As to
taking her into my heart, that | had
done, though did not realize what a
foothold she had gained there.
One thing about her was patent She
was pure, No such beauty as hers
need go In rags except through purity.
1t was this doubtless that prevented
my banishing her from my mind and
drew me toward her
have always had habit OF read
ing the personals In newspapers. do
80 because like to have my fancy
started In weaving stories that the few
advertised words indicate. One day
I rend 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 a
tinge of red IN It
saw the subject Of my sketch de
scrbed In this personal called i'm
mediatcly on the advertiser and found
lawyer | 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 TINT the girl
had been driven from home by the
cruelty of a stepmcther, She had gone
vowing never to return The step,
mother had died aud 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. | Went to the place where Ind
made 1t. then started In the direction
she had gone when she left me
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 bad taken the next morn.
| ing. went on and tracked her LII a
direct line to a little town. where
lost her, But. showing my sketch and
| making inquiries. traced her to a
store, where she had been given work
| behind the counter. There ! found
| her. though In Il better costume than
| that In which had met her.
don't know which was more af-
| fected by the news | gave her. | al
| telling II or she at learning 1t. She
went at once to her employer 10 say
| that she would ike TO 20 to her home,
| aud he excused her from remaining. !
| furnished her with the means to get
| there--not as charity. but as loan.
Gladys Seymour did not renain at
home long with her father for step
ped In and took her away from hun.
| There was bone of contention be-
tween me and my wife for long
| while. She wished the sketch | had