The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-08

buL WflSn ne IOlu Jlleul JuSt Wlld he was going to do for them, Nors caught her breath almost like a sob He was going to have trust funt for Aunt Elm. AS for Nora and him self he stopped and cried:
 Mora doesn't believe in me. Blu wait. Wait!" He smiled at her.
 It was just one more fantasti' scheme that would end as the oth CTS had, Nora knew, in failure. Ant 1 Aunt Elm and Hallie were begin ming to believe in him. Perhaps i was because they had never seer his pictures, Nora thought ironi cally.
 Jon, too, was as enthusiastic a her father. He told her that a soon as the show was launched they would be married.
 "Nothing's going to stop us Nora"
 Not if it's a horrible failure?"
 Ut couldn't be, darling" he as sured her
 At the end of the week Jon drov' her father to New York.
 Don't come to the old show Nora. It will only bore you" hel father said.
 But Nora was depressed by th' thought of the failure that awaited her father. No one but a fool O. genius could have believed so ut terly in himself. And Julian, sht admitted, was not genius.
 They had a letter from Fran tt say that she felt better already She would be home in a fev months It seemed to Nora, thest days in September, that she wa surrounded by people who neve touched reality.
 On Sunday they saw in the pa per a notice of her fathers exhi bition by well-known art critic
 "The paintings of Julian Lake,
 on display this week at the
 Weiland Galleries, show a pe-
 culiarly rich individuality. They
 have a rude vigor and com-
 manding craftsmanship. The
 luminous character of his color
 arrests and haunts the mind.
 His peasant studies have the animation of truth. This is an outstanding group of paintings,
 not only in it's variety and it's number, but in that he has reached out to new horizons.
 America may well be proud
 when she adds this talent,
 would almost say genius, to long line of splendid artists" l If they need e d further proof came an enthusiastic telegram iron Jon saying that her fathers pie lures were being sought by ar dealers.
 { But it was of Jon that Nor thought with rapture. N ct h in could ever separaoe her and Jo now. She could not wait to SC him. Why should she not g straight down to New York in tn morning? What did it matter tha she should be in the office? Thing like this happened only once in lifetime.
 i It was in the same excitemer that she dressed next day in tt beige dress that was Jon's favorit drew on the small beige hat. Sf had never, she knew, looked { lovely. Her eyes shone with happ ness, for her heart sang over ar over that at last they were all s, cure Julian had saved them. No she and Jon could be married. The dream was with her all u way to New York. At the Grar Central she took taxi and ga the address of the Weiland Gall ries with a thrill of excitement.
 They did not know she was con ing.
 She watched the crowds swi past. As she stepped into the ga lery she caught her breath. It W still early afternoon but she ss small groups of people standil about, heard the buzz of talk. the far corner of the gallery S saw Julian looking amazingly han some as he made a graceful ge ture. He did not see her. She W happy that she should have the first few minutes alone.
 She stood looking about at t pictures, that seemed to glow wi light and color under a blaze sunshine. She turned at last look intently at one.
 Alpine meadow. She could hs COW bells chiming down the Howe slopes, and smell the wild, sw, tang of summer. But this-thfs N not the way her father paint She moved to the next pictu Devon Lanes The twisting la with flock of sheep winding pa the light on the shepherds uptui ed face. She could hear the tn of sheep's feet, taste the dust as rose in a cloud behind them. S remembered her fathers m mu r