Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-15
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FRIENDS OF Alexander MacAuister. q
n nii1a' in ha 8 mfa.w maagfae :e'tv, %. ct s m4.
prtsed when an unknown girl arrives
at his house. MacAIlisters butler,
TTno. is apparently engaged in a pro-
plant fears the girl is a Belgian refu-
gee. n may recognize him.
MacAllister makes arrangements for
H. Ms,dEst9 rl to i've with an artist. Carl
that the girl is q Belgian refugee. and
a relative of his. She is in q state ap-
preaching collapse, but interests Mem
e ea,,i wso and is Of VIZ so s ssr.t afrs ar5,st lee. temp,
subject Of much gossip strangely. This
feeling. increases when he finds her ~
ms asleep on the hillafde, exhausted
While driving to the city With Town.
ley: MacAlltsteTs butler, Mrs. Mendall
Marie meet a mysterious cyclist
Mrs: Aendall, and Marie 90 on a
shopping expedition. and the girl pro-
eesds to put q Mrs. BaEsby. who has
beer having rather a violent filtration
plosion at MacAllister's munition plant.
A large part Of the plant is complete
Suspects y peesse Tow na.ie his hiss ch mai1:'eF sac
Mendall begins Marie's painting les
sons, q finds that the girl has coneid-
cradle talent.
CHAPTER xxn-(cnnttnued)
She considered his speech intently
for a moment, then dismissed it.
Very clever theortes!" she said
ironically. Then she pointed to her
sketches: "Senor. will / make a great
p4inter?'
mo. You've gone as far as you
ever will. I can teach you very ltts.
tle.ss His answer was. incistve: Caxi
Mendall was always honest where art
was concerned. =
Il know quite well I will not-I am
glad you tell the truth"
Marie rose. and going from one to
another Of Mendall's paintings. studied
them thoughtfully. Before MacAllis-
ter had taken away the paintings in
the living room she had often. when
not observed, looked at them. The
paintings MacAlister had bought
were most of them Mendall's earlier
work. Mendall had progressed; even
r rea msset That th1oagh various erts,a phases Maats
Carl Mendall had been cropping his
way to truest self-expresston-a really
compelling delineatiou Of the nude.
Marie realized it.
She stood some time before the
Tehuana- She made no comment,
however: she passed on to the naked
Indian boy Guiding the snake on his
warm knee, one Of the best things
Mendall had done-and on to Mrs.
only glance; she spent a longer time
before Glare Bagsby's plain-featured
Likeness. Then to MepdalIs con-
%sterpation she came upon the last
thing he had done. He was aEhast at
the carelessness that had not locked
It UP. It was still on the easel, but
back-turued to the room. s
With a quick movement Marie turn
ed it about, and his theft vas discov-
cred; It was a ~jungle-pool, stranslsd
by the giant vegetable growth Of the
tropics, a sink-hole 50 festoonsd and
~overhung by creepers and greeped by
water-moss that in the perpetual twi,
light its black water cleaned appar-
emily a mere threadltke stream in an
innocent glade. In reality tho soft
carpet OF moss was a death-net set for
the feet of breathing things. q grip
that fastened upon apd sucked to un-
E 1Snn pSea, depths e Of slime and ooss:
rne e Gody it nad srippea was Only
crept over it. but the face still gleam-
ed duskily yellow: the light ripple Of
water over it gave q faint sernblance
OF life. as it the wide eyelids occa-
stoHally twitcbed, and the lips part
ed; as if In her vet grave Marie
stirred. For the face was hers. hpl-
lowed and Trimmed by starvation, an
escaped enganchada, the slave Of the
lsthmus. lost in the Jungle. A bit OF
tattered garment, badge Of servility,
clunE to her shoulders.
Marie looked long and steadfastly at
he thing he had dared 10 do; the In
suit che must feel he had offered hAs
white blood. Mendaa turned hot then
cold a. he watched her: she had
paled until she looked curioutIy
a31hen, oven her full lips losing their
color. Would she strike him
before she walked out of Hts studio
;neYer TO enter Il again? aOY would.
shse go cowsd? Mendail thought he
knew her. kind; III waited
She did neither. She began to
speak deliberately, md IN English
You have come through strlv1ng,
step bysstep. tits In YOU TO .progrsss.
Ana y following out your purpose.
you hays no fart Is 90 With . tre-
mendous ambition. a great ambition
has no tcrupies.a You arc unScrupul.
Ioul But nuch shouid Be.