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It was true that I hadbeen ex- ceptionally successful in my artistzc car- eer, but picture-painting, except in very rare instances, is not a. lucrative 1profes- sion, and for one per-son who woud buy a canvas re resenting seashore and waves there are ye hundred who would pur- chase genre and figure studies. . But I was happy in my art and in my dreams, drc-azr‘s through which, all un- bidden. a certain fairy figure,qu1t-e unlike Lady Madge Lorimcr, sometimes flitted. A young man's va ue idea of freshness. simplicity, and girish grace, a. creature all sunshine and sweetness, glad laugh-tor and spontaneous caresses, unacquiunted with French novels, ignorant of all _ad- vanced. and decadent, and pessimistic {dons but rcveling in youth. and life. and ove. - This slender. ' my dayâ€"dreams. and often of my night- dreanis as well, floated tantalizineg be- fore my eyes under the ark trees, and I wished, as I had often Wished before, that I had suflicient skill as a. figure palm-tor to commit my floating fH-l'lCIGS adequately to canvas. And yet of whatuse was it to dwell on such visions, such yearnings. af- ter an impossible ideal? My way indife lay neatly.- rolled and made smooth for me. Sooner or later, my Cousin Madge. the arbiter of my fate. would get tired of being a “girl-bachelor.” and, failing the man she could love, would signify to me her royal permission to buy the wed- ding ring. We should in due course on- dure a lomz and elaborate wedding in a church crammed with most of the “smart” sigh-teeters of. 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We should keep a yacht. of courseâ€"o. very large One. ins-tend of the tiny vessel _,so dear to my hoart~and we should always have it. full of people, nice people, “smart” people. well-bred people. all singularly alike in style. manner. and conversation, the only original personality among them being that of my wife herself, who, i’O‘ all her patronage of Bohemia. was at heart it Philis'tine. and detest-ed seeing too much of insipid genius with dirty nails. We should be everywhere at the right timeâ€" that is to say. the fashionable time. We should be in Cowes for “the week." in Brighton for Goodwood, Staines for As- cot. Rome for the carnival. Algiers or Cairo for the winter. Scotland in the an- tumn, Paris in the New Year. London in early summer. I had done it all, and was no constituted thmt I pmfcrred all these places without the cackling crowd with whom we should certainly rub shoulders and exchange inanitico all the time. And for home lifeâ€"oh. that would scarcely exist! Madge would be the first to laugh at the "small clerk and his wife" notion of sitting one on each side of the fire in the winter,. and wandering together in country lanes in the summer. She would still have her troop of more or less platonic admirers. and sooner or later I should probably be glad to relegate to them the constant attendance at balls, theatres, concerts. race-meetings and re- ceptions. which I Already found so irk- some. Luckily, it is, not the fashion for husbands and wives to beinceparablc in society. ' , _ And yet in my ideal life that ideal wife and I would be inseparable indeed She would inspire my art, and I should. work for her. Through my studio I could see her slim figure flitting, fairylikc, and could hear her bright laughter cheering me after a long day of happy work. She would know as little of the outside fashionable chattering world so I cared for it: she would live with me. and for me, and I for her. But. here my meditwtions ceased. as I found myself opposite the door of Nicholas Wray's studio, in a side street off High Street. .Ken-sington. CHAPTER II. ."Old Nick" himself. as we used to call him in Paris. opened the door. He looked pale, and ill. and very dirty; but h’lS were the Rembi‘andtesquc style of good looks, to which dirt lends a. mellow- noes and a. deepening of the shadows by no means unpictureoque in effect. He was very tall. and thin, and Kaunt. A long. drooping brown moustache hung over the corners of a. heavy, sensual mouth, and his hair, worn preposterously long, so that he looks-d something be- tween an artist’s-model and a. dancing master, 'was plen-tii’ully streaked with gray._ His forehead was broad and full of intelligence, and the keen. analytical gaze of _hie gray eyes contradicted the more animal tendency shown in his over-full red lips and rotruding iaw. 'At the sin in we had admired him im- mensely. and had sketched that line brad oflhis from every possible oint of view. With all his slovenlinoos. l ray was im- mensely vain. particularly of his long, slender white hands. which he even some- times was induced to wash, so highly did he value their beauty. But on this parâ€" ticular day they had not received this attention, and as he stood peering surlin at. me from behind the half-open studio door he‘llooked like nothing in the world but a big. sinewy. handsome gipsy tramp, overlean from lack of pence and long fast- mg. I could see from where I stood that the studio was almost destitute of furniture. The tapestry hangings, the big brass bowls, the old oak chairs, which had de- corated it a. few months back, were gone. Even the square of carpet and the rugs before the fireplace had vanished from the bare. unswept boards. and-twentv." he observed, with mock dc- fcrence. “Some of us succeed. and some go to the wall. You belong to the former category. I to the latter.” 0n the table stood an cmp’ty tumbler by an empty bottle. Wray’s reath smelled of spirits, althoueh he was sober. Again he seemed to divine my thoughts, and again he laughed. - "Seems odd to n. well-fed bird like you that a man should drink to forget that h is‘a- hungry failure, doesn’t it?" ' “Wray.” I said. “don't talk like a cheap melodrama. and let me come in." "No good. The chairs are gone." “I don't want a. chair! I want to know what in the world youare up to? How have you got into this condition?" _ “My dear boy. wonderful as it may seem to you, it’s the most natural thing in the world. I came to London, took a. studio on hopes. had a few good notices, thought the world was at my feet, launched out a. bit, treated a few pretty girls to little dinners and little suppersâ€"result the brok- ers. I got laid up with influenza, and couldn’t work on the top of it allâ€"finally. I am one more aspiring artlst who went up like a. rocket and came down like a. - stick; we are not all born like you, with silver Spoons in our months, you know!" "But why don’t you work now?" "Haven't the heart, or the nerve. Hand shakes, too." I looked at him hard. It was not. the effect of drink. starving. “My Cousin Madge was asking after you to-da-y.” I said. “She was much disappoint- ed because you wouldn't come to lunch to discuss a- commission she wants you to undertake." He flushed angrily. , _ "She's heard I'm in low water.” he 'Sflld. “I am not. used to being piticd by women. and I don’t relish it." . “Nonsense, Wray. Your work is valu- able to any one who understands art." The man was actually He shook his head. , "Not now.” he said, with something like a. groan. “I seem to have lost heart. And how could I lunch in my shirt-sleeves with Lady Margaret? My coat went to buy that last bottle of brandy yesterday." 'I went up to him and laid my hand on his arm. "Look Ill-OTC," I said. "I am not going to put up wzth any more of your ridiculous pride. The idea. of a man as full of talent as you lettin all heart and hope go out of him ever t 0 question of a. few pounds is an outrage on your fellow artists. I am goxng out now to order a. little din- ner " . ' "No use I am going out. too, for good. By our o'clock I shall be tunned into the street.” "Where will you go?" "Oh, the workhome. or the Thames, I suppose." "Don't be a fool. Wray! Why in the world didn't you borrow the money long ago? Heaps of tedious would have given you credit." "Do you think I would have written my- 1 self down a. failure by applying for money to keep body and soul together to othe", men already jealous and carping; r-t turf; supposed success? At first I v-r's 1!)?! i“ to think for days together. 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Then you will come with me to my place. and my man Wronshaw will fix you up with everything you want. I have to be out all this evening and to-morrow. shall be out of town for a. day or two; I am longing for a. breath of the sea. While 1 am away make my place your'head- quarters, and you will thcn_have time to look about you. Leaving this place won't do yo any harm, if that’s your > true (lipinim of the set you are surrounded by iere." “Do you think I will accept your char- ity? Become your pensionerâ€"f" “No; I don’t. But you are gomg to bor. row some money of me, and pay me when you are on your feet again. Meantime, wait. here while I go out for the coat.” "Hervey," he called out after me. as I was leaving, "if I am in for becomingnu- dobtcd to you. I may as well do the thing thoroughly. I haven’t had a. smoke. for days. For Heaven's sake, give ‘me a cigar, or a cigarette, or something!’ I left him my case, and returned in a very short space of time with a. ready- made coat. bought in High Street, Ken- singion. This I persuaded him to put on. and then we bowled oi’f together in :i. haneom to my studio and rooms, in the neighborhood of Chelsea. I was sorry I had to leave him so much to himself, for I really thought he was in a very bad way. Truth to tell, in spite of my per- sonal liking for Wray as a man and ad- miration for him as an artist, I did not much relish putting him up at my-place. I was a. bit of an old bachelor about meth- od. and besides, I knew well that Wren- shaw was a ma-rtinet in such matters, and that Wray's habits would be very little to his liking. But Madge's word was law, and I should not have been flesh and blood it I had not raised a hand to seven men of genius from going under. So I left him installed on a sofa-bedstead in my dressing-room. with the run of the studio. and at three pulling o’clock in the morning. when Ila myself Emanflouled nun who pinch .thedr waletg' into my place after seeing Mix go and Aunt Louise home, I found all the lamps lit in the studio, and Wray in a. big arm- chair. pulling away at a long Indian pipe, which I kept as a curiosity, and looking singularly picturesque and handsome in my favorite old brown velveteen smoking- coat. He greeted me with what, for him. was almost effusion, and explained that he could not sleep if he went to bed before our. “This coat of ours is far too shabby for a. gilded wor dl‘in like you,” be con- tinue(. “just as the g orified garment you purchased today is far too fine for me. Wmnshaw objected to my appropriation of this coat and this pipe, and was very in surprise. should never have ventured upon. did you manage it?" “I told him,’ said Wray, with a. twinkle |in his gray eyes, “that I had just got over brain fever, and was liable to at- tacks of mania. if I was thwarted. Wren- shsw promptlyr said good night, and went off like a. lamb. Aren’t you going to have a ‘nightoap‘ of some. sort before turning in? I am dying for a. whichy-and-soda." On this hint I unlocked the spiritvcase. I was tired out, as these social functions always weary me. but Wray was in the hichest spirits. and as I could not snub a. men I had just saved from starvation, I had to yawningly invest myself in dress- ing-gown and slippers and sit up for a chat and smoke. , “First.” he said. "tell me what your cousin wore this evening." “She wore a very beautiful dress,” I an- vacred. "smothered with crystal beads, so that she looked like a glistening fount- ain. Then she had her usual diamond necklace and line of diamond stars at the back of her head. As to Lady Carchestcr. she looked for all the world like an ir- ridescent beetle.” “Never mind Lady Carches-tcr. Was your cousin's With sleeves?” “Very low, and no sleeves at allâ€"only Istrings of diamonds over her shoulders." I replied, in tones of emphatic dIE'lD' “Why. that’s a. liberty 1 How- dress out low? short prove]. "How delightful she must have looked! That beautiful cream-colored neck and those satin smooth shouldersâ€"4’ . "Please drop the subject. I object to hear env man allude to my relations as though they were burlesque actresses. And I strongly disa prove of a. fashion in dress which ma (as such remarks pos- sible." ‘ . “How intensely priggich . you are!" observed Wray, looking across at me in evident surprise. “Why should you be so selfish as to wish :to deny to your friends, who can apprecmto what is beautiful. the pleasurable sensation of ad- miring your cousin? You are geing to marry her; for another _mo.n_to compli- incnt you on her attractions is no more than if he praised :1 fine picture in your possession. You ought to ieei flattered and pleased." _ “We don't look on these subjects from the same point of view,” I said. . “You are right. If ever I am foolish enough to take a. wifeâ€"and Heaven send I may never ~beâ€"I should invite all. the men I knew to see how pretty a thing I had chosen. The more they admired her beauty. the more they envied me. the bet- ter pleased I should be with my bargain. ’ “I hope, for your wife's sake, then, that you will never marry. I could not degrade the woman I wished above all others to honor by regarding her in such a light.” “My dear Hervey, that is because you have fallen into the modern error of over- rnting women. It is a hallucination due to ovei'civilizartion to suppose that women nllnllld “he waited upon and worshipped by the superior sex. In savage communities she occupies her proper place as a. hand. maid and the plaything cof man. Her task and insular Then I shut. i . l - read French novels on the sly, and fell in I lie to attend to his wants. to follow and [that she may be agreeable to his eyes, to anxious to explain that the latter was an ornament. I pointed out to him that its value would be doubled if it were made useful as well as ornamental, and when he didn’t see it I sent him to bed." “You sent Wrenshaw to bed!" I repeated obey his commander to beautify herself bear children to perpetuate his name an family, and to amuse his leisure moments with her songs, her dances, and her ig- norant and emu-sin chatter." “I should like ady Madge to hear you!” I exclaimed. "If on believed what you say, I might be isgusted. But, 1 now your tricks of talking for effect. “I an entirely in earnest," Wroy do clared. "This recent deiflcabion of woman is the greatest possible mistake. Women recognize that themselves, for who are the men they love best? Invariably those who treat them and think of. them from the lowest possible point of view as prct. ty, engagin , spiteful, and untrustworthy little animal a. Does in. women overvalne a. husband who adores her? _ will allude. to him among her friends In terms of pitying contempt as ‘Poor, dear old thing. He is really never happy with- out me.’ In her heart she knows that her superior is voluntarily abaein himself. and-she despises him according y. .Ac to Lady Madge, she is a product of the age. and an example of the overdevelopment of the female brain alt the expense of qualities for more necessary to a. woman than intellect. If she had less wit and more feminity she would be irresistible. As it is, she can’t even make you fall in love with her." ' “You haven't the least idea,’ I said. “how you annoy me by discussing her. “If you were in love With her,” pursued Wrcy doggedly, “you would be delighted to discuss her. A man can't help leading the conversation onto the creature he hap- pens to be in love with? . f‘Yet you donft admit. the exmtenco of loveâ€"as I conceive it.'_' “On the contrary, it is a. necesser evil, a. temporary madness, which clouds our mental vision and makes us put an undue and altogether disproportionate value on some commonplace woman, whom in our rsaner moments we should know to be no more desirable than any other fe- minine thing. I don't underestimate the value of love; I simply decline to see the value of its temporary sub cot." "You have no ideals," I egan, when he interrupted me. 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I don't suppose I have been spared to do much good in the world:‘ and the worst of it is that I am almost. aorta-in to bring ill-luck upon you. Forj every fatalist knows that saving a. man‘s life is the best way to turn him into a. ungorous enemy.” (To be continued.) DI;â€" liNIGH'I‘LY ELEI’IIAETS. When Conicnding for Female Give a Display of Strength. The Duo do Montpensiicr, of the royal House of Bourbon, who is a hunter of note, recently returned to France from a. hunting trip in south-5 eastern Asia. When an attache of the French logati-on at Washington; who was on a. visit to Paris, told him the anecdote about the Burmese elephants who refused to work on Sunday, the duke said that he had observed in the elephant many simi-: lar evidences of a. high order or in- tellect. , Almost all male animals, he said," when contending for a. female,'se~ttle the question by battle, usually to the death . 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