The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-04-21
eRhNDMA'SPARR0T
II Could Repeat the Lords Pray
e. From Beginning to End,
and Then Some.
BY BRYANT G. ROGERS.

anu Inen some.
BY BRYANT G. ROGERS.
Mr.. Fred Derwent was twenty.Sour
years old. He was referred to q
young Derwent. In order not to mix
hin up with any old Derwent who
might have reached the age OF . hun.
cred.
Young DerWent was called IN artist
TAis was 70 distinguish him from the
many ho0se painters one saw It work
every me day.
as was IN orphan. adopted and
oeared By his grandmother in Connee
ocat. She had much to answer for.
Young Derwent developed . talent
ose sketching with charcoal and chalk.
AZ nine years old he could sketch .
rooster % naturally that hens would
GAtAer around the picture and eluck
4 year later be drew such . natural
~ Of Elder Comstock on . barn
door that bis proud grandma had T.
Nv . hae Of SO 10 keep him out ee
hil.
Yosas sDsrvsat managed somehow
y pull through until b Wa q age.
Then. 40 Il was apparent 70 III but
eeoef ARTISTS and . few seeae painters
that he he was Z gsnius with tAs
Ssush. - was cent b The city 70 ~
- . Oeallo nd blossom out II ~
lDace q tour years. Ae painted three
portraits. One was. that Of IN alder.
"a, Who weat b tie state prison foe
graft within . week after his pletuyo
vos flashed: the second was that q
. saloon keeper. whose wife eloped
and took the picture with her. and
~ third ~ that Of . bulldog, who
straight: way went mad and BIT kis
master and do one blamed him for Il.
When young Derwent was not busy
With bic brush he played poker, COLI,
mo and attended ball games. He
wasn't 4 alt bad. He did not care
s.sdsslasiy about going to heaven
when he died. but It b simply impos-
sible for one reared under the laws
e Connecticut to be bad, even with
Z small b."
Most artists fall In love 1t tender
ese and keep It up till they strike
%. Young Derwent had never loved.
he might sometime, but he wasn't
setting On Il He was sociable. but
did not seek to make himself popular.
1e was satisfied to go right along be.
Nc Mr.. Derwent and having his grand.
mother foot the bills.
In the next apartment to Mr.. Der.
vents studio dwelt Miss Honore Has
we'll. She didn't call her place an
sfalier or Z studio. but her office. Her
nne was not mercantile or law, but
literary. She wrote stories for the
uAgazines. She read some Of them to
Asr intimate friends, but no one ever
ssad one OF them In cold type. It q. /
ways happened that the magazines |
were overlooked with stories In her |
llne whenever she sent one In. Il
NY rsjectsd . sporty story and she
az down and Invented and sent In Q
Feligious ono. it was the same excuse
-overstocked.
Mss 4AsMell may hsvs been a Or
phan or she mag not she may have |
Aad plenty Of money. or she may have |
had to pinch, Be that - It may. sAe
rs no kicker. She piled her rajsct-
ID manuscripts In q corner OF ~ q.
loe - thay came back.
Mr. Derwent and Miss Haswell we're
lot acquainted. They used the same
stairway. and often bumped against
Zach other In the semi.darkness, but
The had never simled at him, and he
Aad never winked at her. They may
lave wondered about each other
but It stopped right there.
Perhaps this was . wise thing on the
part Of both. but 1t Is also to be 10
nembeted that there is such q thing
y carrying wisdom too far.
One morning young Derwent awoks
nth q troubled conscience. A stu
mail voice charged him with neglect,
ng his grandmC Their. He hadn't beea
y TO Connecticut to see her for three
months. and It had been several weeks
|iaoe b had written her that che
night send an extra check. Il wasn't
ring u dear old girl acordlng .
boyle. She was drying apples and
lhkiag soft soap. and he was loaang
round. She was putting . second
lertSaSe on her stony old farm and
eratiHg the bottom Of the -four bar.
" and he was betting on the ponies
10 ordering fried eggs at the restau.
mt He would take . run up among
b wooden nutmegs and see her and
Isure her Of his undying love and
ratitude. ~, that he expected .
b paint . famous por-
ait.
The grateful adopted went furthoe.
b would take up some little present
, prove bic thoushtfulness and con.
deration-not IN expensive present. .
It . mouento 70 b laid away In the !.
rcAives after being rolled In camphor.
ftee eating his breakfast he went !.
rolling to zee what he could And. :
b had almost decided on . celluloid | |.
lck-comb. price twenty cents. when /.
} met . sailor carrying . parrot o.
, arm.