The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-09-23

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ried out and they were alone. you are
here for two purposes: First, to study
painting; second, to educate and equip
yourself for coming conditions. It's
going to take work. more Work, and
then some more work
81 hain't skeered of work.
Il believe that Also. you must
keep out OF trouble. You've got to ride
your fighting instinct with strong
curb"
81 don't low to let nobody run over
me-" The statement was not argu-
mentative; only an announcement of
a principle which was not subject to
modification.
"All right, but until you learn the
ropes let me advise YOU"
The boy gazed into the fire for few
moments OF silence.
Il gives ye my hand on thet," he
promised.
At eleven o'clock the painter, having
shown his guest over the premises,
said goodnight and went uptown to
his own house. Samson lay a long
while awake, with many disquieting
reflections.
Meanwhile Lescott, letting himself
into a house overlooking the park,
was hailed by chorus of voices from
the dining room He turned and went
In to join gay group Just back from
the opera. AS he thoughtfully mixed
himself highball, they bombarded
him with questions.
"Why didn't you bring your bar
barian with your" demanded dark
eyed girl, who looked very much as
Lescott himself might have looked had
he been a girl-and very young and
lovely. Now she flashed on him an af-
fectionate smile, and added: I'VE
have been waiting to see him. Must
we go to bed disappointed"
George stood looking down on them,
and tinkled the ice in his glass.
HE wasn't brought on for purposes
Of exhibition, Drennie, he smiled Il
! was afraid If he came in here in the
fashion of his notwithstanding his
saddlebags-you ultracivilized folk
might have laughed"
A roar of laughter at the picture
, vindicated Lescott's assumption.
. mol Now, actually with saddle
t bags?" echoed young fellow with a
? likable face which was for the mo
= ment incredulously amused. That
/. goes Dick Wilmington one better
! You do make some rare discoveries
George We celebrate you"
I Thanks, Horton" commented the
r painter, dryly. when you New York
ers have learned what these barbara
/ ans already know, the control of your
q oversensitized risibles and a courtesy
I deeper than your shirt-fronts-mayb
I III let you have a look. Meantime I'm
: much too fond of all of you to risk
1 letting you laugh at my barbarian"
D Several months were spent laboring
! with charcoal and paper over plaster
+ casts In Lescotts studio, and Lescott
; himself played instructor. When the
9 skylight darRened with the coming OF
evening, the boy whose mountain ma.
ture cried out for exercise went for
! long tramps that carried him over
many miles of city pavements, and
after that, when the gas was lit, he
turned, still insatiably hungry, to
volumes of history, and algebra, and
facts.
A sloop-rigged boat with a crew OF
two was dancing before brisk breeze
through blue Bermuda water OFF to
the right Hamilton rose sheer and
colorful from the bay. At the tiller
sat the Whitehead figure of Adrienne
Lescott Puffs of wind that whipped
the faulty bellying sheets dashed her
dark hair about her face. Her lips,
wildly red like poppy petals, were
just now curved into an amused smile,
which made them even more than or
, dinarily kissable and tantalizing. Her
companion was neglecting his nominal
duty of tending the sheet to watch
} her.
"Wilfred," she teased, "your con.
trast is quite startling-and, in a way,
effective. From head to foot you are
spNuess white-but your scowl is alb.
soiutely the blacklist black that our
; ayes endure And" she added, in an
Injured voice, I'm sure I've been very
nice to you"
i have not yet begun to scowl," he
assured her, and proceeded to show
what superlatives of saturnine express
sion he held in reserve, See here
Drennie, know perfectly we'll that
I'm sheer imbecile to reveal the fact
that you've made me mad. 1t pleases
you too perfectly. 1t makes you hap
pier than is good for you, but"
It's terrible thing to make me
happy, isn't it?" she inquired, sweetly
'Drennie, you have held me off since
we were children. believe first an.
nounced my intention of marrying you
when you were twelve. That intention
remains unaltered. More: 1t is unal.
terable and inevitable. My reasons
TOT wanting to needn't be rehearsed.
Ii would take too long. l regard you
as possessed of an alert and remark.
able mind-one worthy of companion
ship with my own" Despite the friv.
olous badinage of his words and the
humorous smile of his lips, his eyes
limited at an underlying intensity.
With no desire to flatter or spoil you,
l find your. personal aspect pleasing
enough to satisfy me. And then, while