Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-09-25
Copyright by The Bobbs- Merrill Company

"HTU -HeeulesS OF Sloppy pave
N~@ ments; the gray day had
suddenly turned gold. He
could not realize it all at once; ten
thousand year-for him and Edith!
his heart s~Felle1~With loveAof Edith;
sac had sacrificed so much to become
tne wife 81 man who had tried to
make an artist of himself, and of
TRSm fate, or economic determinism,
or something, had made o cartoonist.
What surprise for her! He must
hurry home.
In the swelling Of his heart he felt
Q love not only of Edith. but of the
whole world. The people he met
seemed dear. to him; he felt friendly
with every one, and beamed on perfect
strangers with broad, cheerful smiles.
He stopped to buy some flowers for
Edith --daffodils, or tulips, which
promised spring, and he took the daffo-
dils, because the girl said:
II think yellow is such a spirituelle
color, don't you2" and inclined, her
head In most artistic manner.
Butfdaffodils, after all, which would
have be6n. much the day before, SEEM
81 insufhcient in the.lfght Of new pros
Derity, and Kittrell bought large
,Asalea, beautiful In its graceful spread
OF pink blooms.
Kittrell and'the azalea bowled along
nIAJhcnroo avapua. ha lannad ho or nm
the cushions, and adopted the express
don OF ennur appropriate to that thor
cughfare. Would Edith now prefer
Claybourne Avenue? With ten thou
sand q year they could, perhaps-and
yet, at first 1t would be best not to
put on airs, but to go right on as they
were, In the fat. Then the thought
came to him that now, as the cartoon
Int on the Telegraph, his name would
become as well known in Claybourne
Avenue as 1t had been in the homes
OF the poor and humble during his
years-on the Post. Could he make new
friends here, where the cartoons he
drew and the Post that printed them
had been condemned, If not despised?
His mind few back TO the dingy Of
hce Of the Post, to the boys there, the
whole good-natured, happy-go-lucky
gang; and to Hardy-ah, Hardy
who had been SO good to him, and civ.
en- him his big chance, had taken such
pains and interest, helping him with
ideas and suggestions, criticism and
sympathy. To tell Hardy that he was
d going to leave him, here on the eve
! Of the campaign-and Clayton, the
mayor, he would have to tell him, toe
-oh. the devil! Why must he think
OF these things now?
After all, when he had reached
home, and had run upstairs with the
news and the azalea, Edith did not
seem delighted.
But, dearie, business is business
be argued, "and we need the money!!
Eyes, know; doubtless you're right
J Only please don't say business is bust
ness It isn't like you, and"
"But think what It will mean-ter
thousand year!"
"oh, Nell, I've lived on ten thousand
ayear before, and never had half the
fun that | had when We we're getting
along on twelve hundred"
Eyes, but then we were always
dreaming Of the day when I'd make g
lot; We lived on that hope, didn't we?'
Edith laughed. you used to say
We lived on love-"
You're not. serious" He turned L
gaze moodily out OF the window. Ant
then she left the azalea, and perchet
On the fat arm of his chair.
Dearest" she said, II am serious
I know all this means to you. Wer,
human. and we don't like to chip a
srutts like Hindus, even for the SAX,
ef youth and art. ! never had illu
sions about love In cottage and al
Aat Only, dear, have been happy
% very happy, with you, because
veil, because was living in an atmo
ADhere Of honest purpose, honest ambl
ton, and honest desire to do SOM
good thing In the world. had neve
known such an atmosphere before. A
home. you know, father and incl
James and the boys-well, It was al
money, money, money with them, an
they couldn't understand why -
"Could marry a poor newspaper al
tistl That's Just the point"
she put her hand to his lips.
Now dear! II they couldn't under
stepd, 90 much the worse for then
II they thought II meant sacrifice I
NE. they we're mistaken. have bee
happy in this fiat; only" she leane
back and inclined her head with he
sgss asquint-"only the paper in thi
Tpom Is atrocious; it's a typical lane
brd's selection-McGraw picked II GU
ysu see what II means TO be merel
rieA."
=. She was so pretty thus that he klsl
- her. and then she went on:
\ ~And 80. dear, II didn't seem TO b
- impressed and delighted as 20
hoped TO find me. II is because wa
thinking OF Mr. Hardy and the poo
lser, common little Post, and them
Mr. Clayton. Did you think of him 4
yes"
You'll have TOTO cartoon him"
Il suppose So"
The fact he had not allowed himse
70 face was close to both of them. an
the subject was dropped until, Just Q
~ was going downtown-this time
break the news to Hardy-he went II
% the room he sarcastlcally said b
might begin TO call his studio. now tn;
he was getting ten thousand year.
look for sketch he had promised N
Ian for the sporting page. And thel
on his drawing board was an unlll
ished cartoon. He had begun 1t a fe
days before TO use on the occasion I
claytons denomination. II had bee
: labor OF love. and Kittrell suddenl
realized how gold II was. He ha
put into II all Of his belief in Clayto