The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-16
DICkY FURLONG'S STORY
is BROUGHT TO AN END

f.. Temple Thurston's story OF
Achievement Cd. Appleton and Com
pany) continues and concludes the history
of Dicky Furlong, the young artist who
painted meanings. 1t describes his grief
for the death or his wife. Constance.
Dicky's grief did not express itself in
conventional ways. 1t was frankly
truthful, like his pictures. He came
upon the undertaker's men as they
were enjoying with suppressed merr-
ment a story that one of them was
telling. He stopped before them in the
narrow hallway. gazed at them with
fierce contempt, addressed to them the
first words he had uttered in three
days. You bloody FOOLS" he said as
they stood serious. wrapped again in
their professional manner, why don't
you go on with your laughing? DO
you think 1t does any good TO us to see
you with your faces pulled out long?
What's your joke" He insisted on
hearing the story, and when il was
told rather haltingly, OF course, for
stories cannot be told well under such
circumstances) he said Yes, damned
funny" and STROBE on upstairs.
ut PlbNtHSlOH W NtIlShl
Green is described. Mrs. Baldwin, Con-
stances mother. noticed that one OF
the horses attached to the chief
mourner's carriage was not pure black
It appears that the undertaken had
made some concessions in the particular
OF this horse, but that he had not been
entirely ingenious. He had admitted
that the horse would not have a long
t,a al -
this deficiency had taken nve shillings
of the bill but certainly the under
standing had been that It should be a
black horse. and now Mrs. Baldwin felt
strongly that the bill should have been
reduced by ten shillings. since the
animal plainly was no more than brown
"'Tain't a proper funeral 'orse at all"
said Mrs. Nibbs. the print sellers wife;
she was the warm hearted lady who
was puzzled to know what might have
been the subject OF Diclcy's picture Of
Westminster Bridge picture that
conveyed the meaning Of the bridge,
not It's mere obvious aspect.
Dicky went home to his fathers
mill and there net Mrs. Flint who had
been taken in as housekeeper to his
father. The age OF Mrs. Flint was 2s;
she was good looking. conscientious at
once affectionate and strong in char
acter. She brought up Dicky's tea
before he y as out Of he'd in the morning
She understood his pictures; was re-
sponsive To his artistic temperament
She bought n little lead tube Of lip
s1lve at the druggists. This salve
had red colorng. II gave glow to
the lips; made them allurlng. Should
she use this salve; put on this warm
provocation? Mrs Flint battled with
the feminine instinct to be provocative
She confessed her love to Dclty, but
they were both well controlled. Dioky's
father was rendered only slightly
Jealous. and Dicky went back to Lon
don.
Dickys expla nations 10 Mrs. Flint re-
garding his habits In art will be noticed.
He told her Of his perceptions. Trees to
him were not merely trees. In the oak
tree he saw n giant, in the elm tree a
ploughman, in the poplar tree a prin-
cess. What he saw he painted, There
in his painted trees was the meaning
always for those who had eyes, on n
sunny day in summer the poplar tree
princess put on all her Jewels; Incl
dentally the backs Of the leaves glittered
in the breeze, In a storm, beaten by
wind and rain, this princess was stll
lovely; her hair blew loose. her skirts
blew in around her. The old ploughman
of the elm stood watching her-and no
wonder In all Dckys pictures his
popars we're Processes with gossamer
gowns; his Gins were ploughmen nohly
bent and harmonized with their essential