The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-09-21
IE DAILY
IORT STORY
'lgarIotta's Second Love
ay Louis Rsybold -,
copyEigiit 1920 By The ~ Mcc4u'

HnIaiN- mIhb SIApASSt 4 NE
s5 49, fssariotte az wasn't at ell the
5of person from whom 10 expsTGL
sSfIeS, being plumply, pretSny
fiine With wfstful eyes ana
dtoie In the chinward corner Oh
ND Firi drew her brows together
little froEn OF dtSPleasuE,esc; 70, ! !
Stf oso that seems shty 70 yOuI
She said but conctdinE Ina It I'LL
soriaWllat fond OF you, m array ~
Il 70 nT6bably a case OF being IN
iese +yifh loye-liking the candy
IA hrfSig me, the orchestra seats
la file hest shows and little atten'
'finsns generally. A girl ought not
"a marry until she's had an oppor'l
lty to make comparisons;
d And by the same token. caIe
sack the man promptly, suppos JOE,
ia feel surer | loved you II liz yts.
we're the ninth or tenth on my rs
Of lady loves instead OF pelnB TUG
II fiESt and only!" ,,
= ~ Nm .fhs compliment mo man
arries his first love, who
oii5 ~ was his Sunday school,
Il asher And anyway, what PROOF
hkye 4 thaS, you really and truly
love me and she smiled teasinglF
Possibly Il WAS that smile thai
dfd It At amy rate, Mark rose from
hiB chair, speaking colby, delloeE.
afafy: "Gharlotte you've often &C
Ssisia me OF not appreciating your
iork, Heaven knows that II you
really were that rare bird, a genius
hope I would not have the nerve
70 propose marriage to you, But
n seems TO me you were destined
lor other things than mussing up
tsnyases with pictures that LOOK
u ne like Italian SCIENCES laid IN
RuGbia with Oriental foregrounas.
However, ! daresay th9ts wneFe
show my ignorance. But as TO
business OF whether ! really
you and this tommyrot about
ryfnr your first 1ove-well
t5.STts,s hoptnR your second love has
j 81 ferI luck than did," and with
1 how attended to be both slightly
ironfo and extremely dignihed,
Mark oIsned the door and went
charIbttsl astonished, looked after
I aim dolbtfpIly. Was he really ac-
epting hisl Dismissal with 50 little
protest? Then she sighed. Poor old
nractical Mark!
so completely lacking any tiniest
hit Of creative genius which would
6sIp him understand her own In
! fsase -yearni1g for seIf-expression!
n So nrosaiclY unromanttc that ne
eouid not comprehend her desire TO
- sure that It was love with cap
itl.l y he offered before surrender
s. month later Carlotta sold her
first picture, at price far less than
shs sxpetted-but then, to sell one
"a an was something. And the girl
regularly took a roundabout way
( aome to look at It in the window OF
4 Sffa small novelty shop where II
~; displayed along with crocheted
tfits for infants and hand.patnted
81 ce cards.
3 Evidently Mark had also seen the
bieture, with the artists name
ofafnly sprawled in the corner, for
5ns night when he and Carlotta
1SS6iind themselves adjacent strap
Myers in the subway he extended
eongratulations, And Cariotta
fr3nkiy pleased, added to her
tkanks the little remark that she
iisd missed his calls.
ssame here" had answered MARK
md nv Jupiter he had been working
M iaFned head off lately and mao
to let all social duties go many,
" Garlotta felt touch OF cnasr ~
NAT she had become merely one OF
9ark Hastings social duties" her
erTemely sweet smile at parting
s. 5jeneSafutly concealed 1t from MIN.
FOR Marx had a rival. A rev
s5aSs after the sale Of her picture
INA .postman had brought Carlotth
(, letter whose writer, on deltcately
nareumed paper. begged her, in
lowing hand to pardon his etfront-
cry In addressing her. and 70 per
rIiit him to express his JOY IN neF
t3eture. which touched within him,
4 "a he wrote, responsive chord. He
signed himself, briefly her admir-
q Other letters followed OF increas-
I 4ne tbulk whose contents took the
eftfre world of art for their own, In
tefpreted here and there with cas-
nal personal illusions calculated TO
arouse In Carlotta an inevitable m
terest in the writer. And Carlotta
recent graduate of a small town
i,art school, set reverently at the
feet this authority and drank his
dissertations on pigments and shad.
ing and tricks Of foreshortening and
and anecdotes OF the great masters.
often she medttated on the utter
dissimflarity Of the two men. The
very difference in their letter writ
tng methods was significant, Car.
loEta, lingering In her coat pocket
e ude of dustave's well.fIlled envel-
opes, compared 1t with the thin
epistles she had received from
Mark away on 3 brief vacation.
n simply can't express my
{ thoughts on paper he had apollo
RiEed. i've got EN-, but they aren't
trained 70 go through a fountain
Eot after that subway meeting
Z 9Th Mark, she sometimes wonder.
ediif 4 were possible to be in love
sWith two men at once. Certainly
he had felt very great thrill
CofPpleasure when she saw Mark, n
thrill as genuine as It was unexpect.
ca, And equally poignant had been
the pang when he calmly told her
I he vas too busy to call. On the
other hand. wasn't che little In
fTigued with this strange corTespon-
dent who so ably interpreted his
"A nd her-soul In terms Of art?
1 ION the very day that Carlotta,
With mingled expectautcy and mis-.
fytngA had decided to yield 10
GuHtaye's plea that she meet him
IN 1ittle-used room Of the Art Mu.
scum, Carlotta met q friend who
worked In the same building where
Mark had his office as claim agent
for the interstate Trolley. And
acroaB. the white tiled table OF the
IN Iunoh, Carlotta learned that
MIX, investigating some upstate
I'D Ina NnF d0T9aRnn had FaIihy, nm