The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-13
A.
TRANSITION
BY ARTHUR W. PATTERSON

MIR. Margrave. presume?"
Il am. How can / be of service To
your
An elderly man received much
younger one in his Office. Instead of
at once replying to the last question
the latter produced a card bearing the
name "Alonzo Ericsson" then. after
being offered chair. said:
My visit will doubtless seem strange
TO you at first. but trust that | shall
be able in time to secure your concur
renee with Its object. You have
daughter whose life has recently been
blighted by the loss of her fiance?"
Il have" replied Mr.. Margrave some
what coldly.
There are remedies for such blights.
and come to propose one for this
case
Mr.. Margrave looked at the stranger
wondering at his impudence.
Marriage is the remedy | refer to-
but Won are well aware that marriage
is simply the final act. it being neces
sary TO withdraw the concentration OF
the feelings from the one who is lost
and unite them on living object"
That In nv daughters case would
be impossible
But desirable?'
Certainly. do not wish her to pass
a lifetime in mourning"
Il gm an artist by profession. though.
being cursed with a fortune In my own
right of 100000. | do not expect to
make any great success
We'll. sir, will You kindly inform
me what your profession or your for
tune is to me?''
Il will as | proceed. One evening
several years ago | saw your daughter
at Il bail The moment looked at her
! knew that | saw the woman want
ed for a life partner. | made inquiries
about her and was told that she was
engaged to gentleman also present at
the bali. The troubles that invariably
accompany love were upon me. Ny
first act was to seek the man who had
been so fortunate. and was surprised
to see a slight resemblance to myself
You are something like him, now
you speak OF it"
lit is this slight resemblance which
is the key--provided / win your con-
currence-to the situation"
Mr.. Margrave had by this time be-
come interested.
social position and as a man among
men. As to my fortune. refer you to
my lawyers. Peters & Waters. LIZ aft
er examination you are satisfied TO
give me an opportunity to win your
daughter that is all ask"
by what process do you propose to
make the attack upon her hearth But.
no: will make the Inquiries. Then
it will be time to explain your plan.
or. rather. to crafty my curiosity.
which admit has been excited"
Mr.. Ericsson bowed himself out and
in fortnight received note from
Mr. Margrave stating that the reports
be had received had been eminently
satisfactory and if he could resurrect
a buried heart be was at liberty-in-
deed. welcome-to do so. In reply the
applicant merely asked for a photo
graph of the man whose place he
hoped to take.
One afternoon when Mr.. Margrave
went home from business he carried
with him present for his daughter.
1t was a portrait in oils of her lost
lover She was delighted with it and
pronounced it a speaking likeness. A
month from that day while looking al
it she discovered something about it
that was slightly unlike the original,
or, rather. ii was like another picture
of the original Another month went
by. and still another difference was
noticeable These changes kept oc
curing from time to time. She began
to wonder If her memory of her lover
+ was slipping away from her. if the
picture was really defective. though
she bad not at first recognized its de
fects She mentioned the matter t.
her father. who looked at her curious
". thouGhtfully. and suggested that il
the portrait was destroying her remem
brance of the dead and substituting q
painted image perhaps she would bet
ter Danish it. But to this she returned
a decided negative. declaring that she
was growing to love the portrait more
and more every day.
A year after young Ericsson had call
ed on Mr.. Margrave he dropped int
the latter's office one morning witt
an oil painting.
The successive portraits forming {
slow transition between another anC
myself is ended in this picture, which
| painted from my reflection in q mir
ror. You have been very fortunate il
removing the pictures and substituting
others without your daughters discov
ering what you have done. Hang thi.
portrait in the place of the last; theI
Introduce me-"
When one evening Mr. Margravt
brought home with him a friend to din
ner Ethel Margrave, on being intro
duced to him. caught at the back of Z
chair for support 1t seemed to bel
that her lover had arisen from the
dead and stood before her. Later