The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-30

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VI M tor man WINGED and
returned to the lower
floor in hurt silence
Something twisted with Big Bail
ey.r he told the important small man
who directs the passengers TO the
cars In the great lobby of the Inter
national Trust Building.
Big Bailey had sauntered in one
day. seven years before. and said he
guessed the studio would do" 1t
lad habit of being vacant. being
numbered 1913. ami the artist folk
didn't like to rent It.
TO those few who had braved the
superstition a disquieting succession
OF misfortunes had come, and so it
happened that frequently the ianitor
lung this sign in his little Office In
the lobby: Studio to rent. top floor. "
The agent of the building, who
could remember his New England
training. refused to change the num-
her OF the room. But he did change
the sign. adding the word cheap. "
And Big Bailey knowing something
about studio rents down town,
promptly took a years lease to begin
with. aud moved his belongings right
I'm before the agent had a chance to
wonder about II.
Big Bailey hadn't any pull"
When he decided that the only thing
that ever would make him happy
was TO study art i'm Paris he didn't
try to get anybody In his native VIII
lagc sufficiently interested 10 supply
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sort of thing and. besides he didn {
have any native village that he want
cd TO remember
When his best friends of the
Quarter asked him about his begiun-
ings. he always told them to tend TO
their own affairs. and such querry
was enough to start him on wild
night among the cafes
He had painted steadily and hard
and even the great GerCme admitted
growlingly that "Beeg Bailiee' had
+. talent. Big Bailey knew that him
self. and that was why he calmly
, packed up when he thought he had
gotten all the good he could. and sail
ed back to America.
hrH And the day after he landed, he
had hired the studio which was still
numbered 1913.
In about as hours he knew every
4attache of the big building and they
knew him. And they liked him be-
cause he had such "hearty way with
him" as the scrub woman said.
Secretly they laughed at the paint
ing blouse OF blue, and n few other
,eormarks OF the Quarter, but they
liked him all the same.
He prospered I'm queer sort of way
A. ns.sa Il lfU... NsN Il los
( lhluudered into his studio one dreary
November day mistaking it I'm the
semi darkness OF the further hall for
his lawyers office.
And Big Bailey won him, as he
did everyone else Showed him his
sketches and his canvasses and wound
up by insisting that he accompany
him down the coast TO point where
vessel had Just gone ashore in the
storm.
Been waiting for Just this for a
month" said Big Bailey. Saunders,
OF the Journal, promised he'd tele-
phone me when n new wreck went
ashore down there. just 'phoned be-
fore YOU came in and says that is
just what | want"
And the fat art dealer had gone
along. compelled by the sheer mag
I netism OF the big man. "He had a
good time, too" he told his wife
that night. He interests me. that
chap. He's big and real breezy and
different. His pictures are, too. III
have to make an exhibit out OF them
He was as good as his word, and
that FIRST exhibition brought Big
Bailey enough money to pay his rent
for year (Which he did. to the
lasting bewilderment OF the New
England agent) and insure his living