The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-01-01
Hearts and Arts
Nv FREDERICK HART

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The sight of young man strldins Il
ronidly along the road toward her Ia p
tber's voodlot was not i'm itself enough i
70 make pretty Elsie Dean raise hei q
eves 70 follow him; but when the par q
ticular young man is dressed in nan |
nols instead of the "blue jeans that
were the accepted weekday attire ol
her immediate environment, ana Wheh
h. carries in one hand a splndly look
| ing arrangement of rods and braces
and i'm the other black case tiial
is too large TO be doctors bag anu
TOO small to be a suitcase; ana Wien
no has on his back an oddly shapeu
bundle: and in particular when he IL
Handsome and care-free looking, IL Is
small wonder that Elsie looked alter
him.
Indeed. she went to the front gate |
IN see him 90 down the road, when Is
why she saw him suddenly SWING
aside from the beaten path and cillhD
over the fence that divided the woou-
LOT from the outer world.
Now her fathers woodlot was ter
RI sanctissima, as she well knew. IL
: bristIed with mo Trespassing' signs
and warnings limiting at the extremi-
g ties of legal pains and punisnmeh's
n for the hardy soul who should SET
a foot within its sacred glades; so FL
r sie's surprise soon turned to wrath.
o Her father and his men were all III
g the far field, haying, and there was no
A Immediate male to whom she couiu
4 look for assistance; but she DID not
a hesitate. Down the road she ran ana
over the fence on the strangers traii'
She was up with him in almost a
moment: he had evidently not hearo
v her coming, and she was prepared u
HAST his soul with a scathing com
mand to depart, when the Oddly o.
his conduct struck her. de mao uh
folded the spindly arrangement AM
Ia, II was a tripod with a cross-piece
and on the tripod rested square o
snowy canvas; and out of the iitti
black bag many, many brushes an
LOT of little tubes and a near
shaped niece of wood on which IN
IN voung man proceeded to squeeze III
,at contents of some Of the tubes-u
ing brightest reds and green's and yeilo"
ing Elsie had ever seen. And then tn
a., startling young man began TO mar
~ lines on the white canvas. hummif
the to himself as he did so. Enthralie
in and totally forgetting her previo'
as venpeful ideas, Elsie drew neare
Fny he heard her and turned sharply.
"Ohw she gasped. And then,
the Numbering his iniquity, she went
lea. sharply. "This is my fathers woo
pect lot!'
sale "Reallyf" The young man did !
'1e'' seem particularly impressed by
this statement.
Dr "yes II is-and you're trespassin
or Q $50 7 ami I did notice some sig
and but I didn't pay much attention
tbem 7 don't believe in signs"
"Obp Elsie was not quite sure
INV was not being made fun OF;
stranger seemed so irritatingiy ca
h,s as though the right was on his
rather than hers. you'll be arres
,ot,, II YOU stay here much longer
~ n "Pye never been arrested. won
can't what It's ike. is 'he io." o. II,
comfortable, do you think
dropping his manner OF badihage'
continued: Really, l know quite
that l am trespassing; but l am W
baim' ing ON a painting with which hop
pleas win a great prize. and these W.
ehess are exactly what / want for a
narm- ground. 1t seemed pity TO miss
perfect opportunity just for the
free chance of being arrested, so l
W Ut in. I intended to ask permission
there seemed to be no one In sign
lust 7 inst broke and entered. Now. p
don't turn me over to the police
His nenitent manner notified
'yDody and besides, her curiosity was arc
uust' "Oh-you're an artistT
"Yes-in a way. If my picture
I'LL the prize l shall know that l al
|Uu artist. l live in hope. And you
not he so hard-hearted as to bias
, ambition. There is no other ST
4 If forest which so exactly suit
l etop purpose as this.
A "Well-yon can stay-but you
Or ask my fathers permission aft'
day."
.Ihos "I will" But he seemed In M
badly nv TO go on with the work. In
eek and he looked at Elsie--looked so
rs DID," that she became embarrassed
blushed.
r stom- 81 beg your pardon" he excl
FLOATING 81 had no right to stare so, but
'ause II "But what?" as he hesitated
50 most 'Oh-nothing. If you will
e "tried me i VIII go aheau WIN my
not give Elsie fingered; but he did no
relief to to be doing much but putting
big box looking lines on the canvas,
ruggist's soon left. When she had go
artist fell to work with fury.
ing like lightning. Il must he
OOI he muttered to himself. Il mu
Sse It'll Just what I have sought