Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-09-25
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Neil! What is the matter?" Edith
fiuttered toward him in alarm.
He sank into chair, and for mo-
ment he looked as II he would faint,
but he looked wanly up at her and
said:
Nothing; I'm all right; Just little
weak. I've gone through q sickening,
horrible scene"
Dearest"
"And I'm off the Telegraph-and q
man once more!"
He bent over, with his elbows on his
knees, his head in his hands, and when
Edith put her calm, caressing hand
on his brow, she found that 1t was
moist from nervousness. Presently he
was able to tell her the whole story.
1T was after all, Edith, fitting
conclusion to my experience on the
Telegraph. l suppose, though, that
! to people who are used to ten thou
sand year such scenes are nothing
at ALL" She saw in this trace OF his
old humor that he was himself again.
and she Rugged his head to her
bosom.
"0h, dearest" she said, I'm proud
of you-and happy again."
They were, indeed, both happy, hap
pier than they had been for weeks.
The next morning after breakfast,
she saw by his manner, by the humor-
Gus, almost comical expression about
his eyes, that he had an idea. In this
mood OF atisfaction-this mood that
comes too seldom in the artists life
she knew 1t was wise to let him alone.
And he lighted his pipe and went to
work. She heard him now and then.
singing or whistling or humming; she
scented his pipe, then cigarettes;
then, at last, after two hours, he called
in loud, triumphant tone:
ooh, Edith"
She was at the door in an instant
and, waving his hand grandly at the
drawing board, he turned to her with
that expression which connotes the
greatest Joy gods or mortals can
know-the Joy OF beholding ones OWE
work and finding 1t good. He had, a
she saw, returned to the cartoon Of
Clayton he had laid aside when the
tempter came; and now II was lin
ished. Its simple lines revealed Clay
tons character, as the sufficient an
swer to all the charges the Telegraph
might make against him. Edit
leaned against the door and looked
long and critically.
1T was fine BEFORE" she said pres
emily; ITS better now Before II wal
a portrait OF the man; this shows hi
soul"
well, it's how he looks to me,
said Neil, after q month In which I,
appreciate him"
When Kittrell entered the ONCE o
. the Post the boys greeted him will
} delight, for there had been rumors o
the break which the absence OF
Kit" cartoon in the Telegraph tina
= morning had confirmed. But, II Hard
was surprised, his surprise was swaI
) lowed up in his Joy, and Kttrell wa
grateful to him for the delicacy wit
which he touched the subject that cor
1 sumed the newspaper and politics
world with curiosity.
Q Pm glad, Kit" was all that b
r said. you know that"
Then he forgot everything IN tn
5 cartoon, and he showed his instan
recognition Of It's significance b
d snatching out his watch, pushing
y button, and saying to Garland, VIII
came to the door in his shirtsleeves:
u Tell Mic TO hold the first edition 10
t a five-column frst.page cartoon. An
d send this up right away"
/, They had last look at II before
Q went, and after gazing moment
silence Hardy said:
s TITS the greatest thing you ever diS
Kit, and II comes at the psychological
+ moment. It'll elect him"
Q "oh, he was elected, anyhow"