The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-19
4 MODERN THETIs
BY IzOLA FORESTER.


Judy was nineteen, Judy Of Rest
Awhile farm, brown haired, brown
eyed, freckled, slender ana graceful as
a silver birch, with all the obstinacy
and pertinacity of the Gregorys con
centrated in her general makeup.
judy ran up the worn COW path to
the fringe of brentwood and slipped
INTO It, bound for the sculptors house
Ever since early summer it had been
the mouse of wonder to her, the place
where beauty was a real tangible
thing, not vague idea. First she had
been sent with eggs and butter and
fresh milk to him. His mother had
led judy down the lane to the studio
he had made Of an old woodshed. Here
she had seen him first, working among
his beautiful silent figures and after
the first few visits he had asked her
to let him use her hands for his
statue OF Diana Holding a Young
Fawn"
You have perfect hands, Judith,
he told her in his absent-minded i'm
personal way. You must let me make
casts of them"
Judy nodded Understandings She
had always admired her hands
Il like Them" she said to him Il
don't think it's wrong to like them my
self, do you? The rest of me doesn't
match them, you see
Then Whitney had looked at her for
the first time, really looked at her
slowly, deliberately, with artistic APP
prevail
L think you're all right he had
said. I'd like to use your head for
my Thetis. 1t has all of her elusive
| challenge"
Judy had never heard Of Thetis, but
III among the old high school books
was an old work on mythology, and
here Judy read OF the elusive lady and
/ her pursuing, changeable wooer, and
1t delighted her heart. Wooers should
pursue, she believed, and should be
+ given hard chase, not just come along
/ some day when they felt like it and
tell ones mother they were willing TO
! marry you the way Hale futile was
doing that very afternoon 1t had been
+ such a wonderful summer and autumn
/ posing Tor Thetis' head and Diana
/ hands and some Egyptian girl who
I stood among lotus leaves and fed the
4 sacred crocodiles from her perfect
hands. She had forgotten all about
Hale and his general intentions which
had been made manifest toward her
/ for years. Hale just seemed sort of
+ comical when you measured Linn up
beside the Greek gods and Whitney
Dewing.
Judy turned breathlessly into the
j lane to the little house among the
I naples and hesitated just for a sec
/ ond. A black roadster stood under
the trees, and Mrs. Dewing had the
tea table out on the veranda. Judy's
quick eye saw Whitney strolling back
through the lane from the studio with
tall girl in long gray cloak.
Come here, Judy, won't you, and
1 join u.s." called Mrs. Dewing. You
have Just seen the statues. Alice. but
here is the real. live little Thetis. ]
don't know what Whitney would have
done without her"
Judy smiled, with the Gregory pluck
even in defeat. And all at once, as
she sat there drinking tea with them
all, hearing them make plans for the
wedding before Christmas-aI at once
Judy opened her brown eyes wider
than usual and announced:
I'm going to be married, too. oh
I've been engaged for years, off anC
on. No, indeed, the same one" blush
ing at Whitney's rallying teasing
He's Judge Tuttle's only son, and
and-bravely-''Tve always liked hin
best Of anybody
Hale Tuttle?" queried whitney
Really, Judith? That big, fine-lookin
chap with the curly hair who super
intended the work on the state roa
/ over here?'
Judy nodded proudly.
And just then it occurred to her al
at once that she had not told Hal
yet, that Hale was lingering on bac
home, waiting for an answer, Will
she had run away to find the trail O
romance, and 10, it only circle
around and led back over the co,
path through the silver, birch wood {
Rest Awhile farm, and Hale waitin
for her
Did you enjoy posing?" Alic
asked.
i did for Thetis," Judy answere
happily. L liked her changing int
SO many different forms, but she ha
to be herself at last. l guess we a
do. / must hurry back Hale's wal