The Washington times., 1919-03-28

even when he trod on her slender
foot. s
He brought her an ice .afterward.
and seated himself beside her.
I'm a clumsy dancer" he said.
How many times did 1 spike you?"
The GIrf Is shy.
She flushed and would have found
a pleasant word TO reassure him.
but discovered nothing TO say, t
being perfectly patent to them both
that she had, retirsd from the floor
with a slight limp.
I'm a steam roi1eF," he repeated
cafe1esslyfs hut jySu dance very
well, don.4$y6d?.,SsssEL & ]"
II have 6aIs' lsSFhs TO dance this
winter" ~ r.
+ II thought yoa-.aa, expert. Do
you live here?"
'Yes. -, II - mean live at
BrookholloW."
Funny don't remember you.
Besides, 1 don't know your name
people humble so when they intro
duce z man."
I'm Ruhannah Carew.'t
''Carew," he repeated, while a
crease came between his eyebrows.
'of BrookhoIlew- Oh, / know.
ary-red house facing the bridge"
eyes"
Certainly he said, taking
another look at her; you're the lit
tie girl daddy and used to see
across the fields when we were
shooting wopdcock in the willows"
81 remember you" she said.
81 remember yOug"
She coloUred gratefully
Because" he added, dad and
were always afraid you'd wander
into range and we'd pepper you
from the bushes. You've grown a
lot, haven't your He had a nice,
direct smile though his speech and
manners were a trifie breezy, conf
dent, and sans facon. But he was
at that age-which succeeds the
age of bumptiousness-wit life
and career before him. attainment,
realization, success. everything the
mystery of life holds. for a young
man who has just flung open the
gates and who takes the magic
road to the future with q stride
instead of his accustomed pace.
He was already man with a
profession, and meant that she
should become aware Of it.
She Learns His Fame.
Later in the evening somebody
told her what a parsonage he had
become, and she became even more
deeply thrilled, impressed, and tre-
mulously desirous that he should
he IL
to seek him, not dreaming of en-
couraging him to notice her by
glance or attitude-not even know
ing, as yet, how to do such things.
She thought he had already forgot
ten her existence.
But that this thin, freckled young
thing with grey eyes ought to learn
how much Of a. man he was re-
mained somewhere in the back
Nee1and's head; and when he heard
his hostess b, say that somebody
would have to see Rue CateE home.
he offered to do it. And presently
went over and asked the. girl If he
might-not too, patronisingly.
In the cutter, under fur. with the
moonlight electrically brilliant and
the world buried in white. she VEN
tured to speak of his art, timidly,
as in the presence OF the very
great.
"oh, yes" he said: 81 studied in
Paris. Wish / were back there
But I've got to draw for magazines
and illustrated papers; got to make
Art League. too"
ka r,P,yr Van must he n
career!o she said, devoutly mean
ing it, knowing no better than to
say it.
"Its a business" he corrected her,
kindly.
"But-yes-but it is art, too"
''Oh, artr' he laughed. 1t was the
fashion that year to shrug when
art was Observation-Disclosures from
too much gable.
eve don't busy ourselves with
art; we busy ourselves with busi-
ness. When they use my stuff I
feel I'm getting on. You see," he
admitted with reluctant honesty,
"Pm young at it yeti haven't had
very much of my stuff in magazines
yet"
After a silence, cursed by amin
stinctive truthfulness which always
spoiled any little plan to swagger:
I've had several-well, about
dozen pictures reproduced"
One picture accepted by any mag
azine would have awed her -suffici-
emily. The mere fact that he was
an artist had been enough to i'm
press her.
DO you care for that sort OF
thing-drawing, painting, 1 mean?"
he inquired, kindly.
She drew a quick breath, steadied
her voice. and said she did.
Perhaps you may turn out stuff
yourself some day"
She scarcely knew how TO take
the word stuff" Vaguely she sur
missed il TO be professional veTnacu-
lar.
She admitted shyIy that she cared
for nothing so much as drawing,
that she lOnged for instruction, but
that such a dream was hopeless.
Al first he did not comprehend
that poverty barred the way To her.
he urged her to cultivate her talent
bestowed advice concerning the Art
League boarding houses. studios.
Wuys means, and endh. until she
felt Obliged 10 tell him how fer be
lond her means such magic Eplen-
durs las
'to HE CONTINUED TOMORROW .
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