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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1907. I rTTTTTTTTTTi A Washington s j; Birthday ; Invitation. i Copyright, UOt, by Alios Loutos L. THE pen and Ink class won working with their eyes on their model sad tbelr ears trained to catch the sound of footsteps la the halL It was criticism day, and no on knew at what hour the "master would appear; hence the unu sual silence and application. The sudden opening of the door cre ated a stir which amused the newcom er a tall young woman with a swing tog, Independent gait "No, I'm not the master,1 she announced with a laugh, "but he's just around the corner, and Aldan Is with him." The model gar a slight start, and for left hand moved involuntarily, while murmurs of "Oh, Zr "Good!" and "Wish he'd come every day!" arose, followed by a "Sh!" A watchful silence ensued, broken by a grumble from the far corner. "Amy. your expression Is wretched today." "And there goes the curve of your left arm! exclaimed another. Then, testily, "Amy, do tit still.- The model. Amy low, from the an tique class, flushed faintly and re moMd her first positiou. She sat side- j Vise, bar right arm supported by the ! earved chair back, her head resting on her hand, bringing a delicate profile mro view, "Girls, prepare to meet your doom. Be comethr rumbled Zetella Brown In a sepulchral voice. There were footsteps In the hall and the sound of voices, one high and quer- nt.Mia tIm Atha aw anil fllailntfr TUb door opened, and the master entered, a short man with a Vandyke beard, ; which he Incessantly worried as he J tossed his merciless criticisms right ' and left ! "If ever I saw a face of wood," be begun at Out first easel, "if s right here, j Bow can you look at a face like that" I pointing at Amy, "full of delicate I curves and sensitive lines, and then I produce such a thing as this a face as ' aet as that of an Egyptian mummy 1 Bah! Look at It," Alden." i Af ter the master had taken himself and his querulous voice out of the loom Mr,. Alden lingered. . His pres ence quiet grave and reassuring was an Inspiration to the class. "I Just wish he were our critic!" ex claimed a tearful girl near Amy. "Hah!" muttered Ze, whose easel Stood next "Catch John Alden here as regular crltlcl Ever been In hit studios 7 They're great!" v The tearful girl had never visited them, but Amy had. It was months ago;, when she first came to the city, an ambitious, thy, painstaking worker Jd the antique class, where Alden had discovered ber one day when he was making the rounds of the room with Tan Horn. She retained a vivid recollection- ef that day.. The two men had topped behind ber as she sat absorbed in a drawing of Caesar's bust j. "Great Caesar!" Van Horn had stormed. "He would never recognize himself If he should see his bead on your paper." She dropped her pencil with a start and turned to encounter not Van Horn's fretful gaze, but the kind, steady eyes of the greater artist And, "IF EVEB I SAW A FACE OP WOOD" HS ! IiBOAH. when the master had mutilated her j sketch and passed on, John Alden, the j descendant of that other Alden of ster-1 ling character, remained and saved her i from utter discouragement concerning ! her work. Alden had followed this with other visits to the antique class, and then ! she had sat for him, a demure Martha Washington at her spindle in cap and kerchief. Amy caught her breath as j the thought of those sittings, and now , Her time was up, and she arose pos sessed of one idea to escape from the room without encountering Alden, who persistently lingered near the entrance. With a feeling of thankfulness she saw Ze gathering up her work preparatory to leaving. Slipping over to her, she whispered, "Ze, come down the corrt ' dor with me, won't you?" "Important?" returned Ze, with good natural carelessness, squinting at ber work. a - "Very' returned Amy In a panic as ALICE LOUISE ;s i she saw Alden drawing tiear j She ran her band lightly under the arm of the taller girl, using her as a ; acreeu until they were safely past the artist, whoa eyea followed the Martha ; of his favorite painting. "Alden doesn't favor our room at often as he does the antique," began ' Ze, with affected nouehalance. "I won der why." She gave Amy's hand a lit tie squeese. "I also wonder why he came today. Ahem!" "Ze, please don't tease; my head aches so." Amy's vole ended lu choke. . Ze opened her eyea widely at the note of pain In the other's tone. She pursed her Hps to whistle and then thought better of It at a girl emerged from the door of the Ufa class and swooped down on Amy, exclaiming: "Oh, such hair! What a sham to keep it done up properly. You ought to leave It out like this all the time." She turned Amy's face up and kissed It Impulsively. "You're a dear, any way." The little country girt had won warm place la the hearts of the art students. "By the way, that In vita Uou has arrived by this time, of courser, "Oh, no!" Amy tried to speak nat orally. "I am not Invited, Miss HalL Just because I'm a Daughter of the Revolution doesn't make It necessary for Mr. Alden to include me." "But I supposed that you" Miss Hall stoppl abruptly, but her expres sion said more. She gave Amy a curi ous backward glance as she passed on. "Ze, I'm polug home and sleep off my headache." exclaimed Amy hurried ly. dropping Ze's arm. She spoke cheer fully, but with averted gas. "Good by." "Goodby," responded Ze, looking aft er ber. To herself sho said energetical ly, "If Jotiu Alden has bees flirting with that child, I shall"- She stopped, not being able on the spur of the mo ment to think of a punishment severe enough. "But If eyes tell true tales his do whenever he looks at her. Still that matter Is queer." She referred to the Informal dinner which Alden was giving to a few Daughters and Sons of the Revolu tion on the evening of Feb. 22 and to which Amy bad received no Invitation. "It has certainly been delayed. She will receive it tonight" thought Ze. But the evening's mall brought no Invitation, and the unconsciously pa thetic look in Amy's eyes went straight to Ze's heart. After dinner she repaired to Amy's room and set tled herself comfortably on the bed. "Now, my dear," she began, "being three Inches taller, tweuty-flve pounds heavier and four years older than you, I Intend to talk this matter over with you whether you want nie to or not. I cannot believe that John Alden has slighted you." Amy smiled faintly and laid Buskin aside. "But, Ze, the fact remain that I am not Invited." ; v . "I tell yoo," obstinately, "that 1 be lieve you are. Tou art not only a Daughter of the Revolution, but yon are the dearest girl 1 know, and John Alden no, I won't be abut off-Aiden thinks so, too, If Tin big enough and old enough and know enough to judge thoughts, and I surely can judge few of his." Ze spoke with vigor and con viction. . Later, after she had tutted Amy Into bed as tenderly as ah would a child, she brushed her hair rapidly to an ac companiment" of half ndlgnant half amused thoughts: "Befleves she has been unwomanly and forward with Lira! The shy little thing! She couldn't do a forward thing If she tried. No, I bellove the Invitation has gone astray, and I do hope sh gives him a chance to see her around the In stitute." This hope was destroyed the very next day at the door of the antique room, where Ze and Amy encountered Alden. He removed bis hat with a bow In Ze's direction, but with his eyes on Amy's face, from which all warmth had fled. "I have been looking at your work on Cicero's head, Miss Low," he began. "Will you allow me to add a few lines r Ze had not believed Amy's manner could be so formal and cold. "Thank you, but I have jut thrown that sketch aside. I am beginning another." The muscles about Alden's mouth tightened. With a quick movement be swung on bis heel, bowed and walked away without a word. "Oh, you little wretch!" breathed Ze, seizing Amy's shoulders In an luipa tieut shako, but fi glance at the girl's face caused her hands to drop. "If ever I'm in love," she confided to her easel' a moment later, "may the saints preserve me from idiocy. Here Alden has left in a white beat and I wager we don't see him again In a gool while!" She was right. The days passed, and the mail brought no Invitation or explanation, but still Ze steadily proclaimed, "I believe it's sent and has been lost." "You know Mr. Alden will receive an George Washington at the dinner, and In bis Invitations be has assigned to each of us the character he wishes us to represent," volunteered Miss Hal! the 21 st of February as she showed Amy a photograph of Alden's Martha Washington picture which she had Just secured. "You ought to have been In vited, dear, as Martha." Amy worked on steadily. "Some one else will make a better Lady Washing ton, no doubt," she replied quietly, but she told herself passionately that no one else bad a right to be Martha Washington If certain Involuntary words and actions on Alden's part meant anything. Then her head drop pet In sudden shame that she had been so unworldly wise as to mlsnnder atsnd him. Washington birthday found the boarding house ou Fifty-second strwl astir later than usual, Ze did not open her eyes unttl 10 o'clock, and then she opened them on Amy with an offering of bread and Jmn. , "Vou dear smugglcrr she exclaimed. chewing valiantly at" the dry bread "This la the nectar of th gods. Lorn) live boarding houses' May they inr vivo their bread crusts! Amy, I had au Idea In the small hours of the night and I thought to treasnr It as sucb Ideas are few, but- Oh, yea! Go and bring your wastuhasket to ine." Amy stared. "Ze, you are not yet awake, are your "Very much awaka and wanting to be obeyed. Go henccC tragically. Amy obeyed with a laugh which did not conceal the hollows under her eye. Tha basket proved to be full, contain ing a large number of unopened art circular. Ze, plunging among the with awakened Interest suddenly ut tared an exclamation. "Eureka! I've found It! I've found It! I was right after all. Hurrah!" j Slipped among the leave of a circu lar was a square euvelope addressed to Mist Amy Low lu a big flowing baud With fingers which shook, Amy opened the missive. It contained a note be sides the formal Invitation, a note which brought the blood surging up on he? temples and a tremulous smile to "PABBOS MV, MIHH HltOWH. t TDOUOUT 1 WAS VAN H011N." her Hps. "Ze. be auks me to be Mar tha." she almost whispered without looking up. "and wishes me to wear the costume I wore when I sat for the picture." There was something else- Is the note which Amy did not mention. "And so you shall!" cried Z. "tt't not too late." Amy shook ber bead. "You forget Ze, that It Is noon now." "That makes no difference!" cried the other. Dlannlns energetically. "Yew fcavo made the mistake, and It Is your duty to fix things np the best way yso tan. Yon owe It to John Alden." Amy glanced again at the last few Bnes of the note and faltered. "If tM shoutd have selected another Martha by this time?" "Huh!" exclaimed Ze unbelievingly. "We'll leave that for blm to settle. AB I want of you Is to do the decent thing, and that !, chaperoned by meme," with laughing emphasis, "yon are go ing Instanter to bis studio, explain the- mistake and ask for the togs wtil en make a Martha." "Oh, Z. I couldn't!" cried Amy. turn ing ber burning face away. Half an hour later Ze, the energetic, disappeared. When she came back it was to Amy's room, where she busied herself In the clotbespress. 'Tier are your wraps," came her muffled voice, "and I've ordered a cab. It will a here In five minutes, so you better hustler , "Oh, Ze, how un unwomanly,". Amy whispered at the entrance to the Ar lington, on the top floor of which were the studios. Ze pressed ber Hps together and rang for the elevator. She was determined not to give Amy an opportunity to think. Up they flew to the top floor, where Amy paused In a sudden reali sation of what she was doing, but Zo hurried along to a certain door and gave It a hasty rap, her eyes turned back to where Amy stood like a star tled wren ready for flight. "Come In!" shouted a familiar voice. "You come out," muttered Ze Indis tinctly, giving a louder rap. The door opened hastily and Alden appeared. "Why!" he began, and then with a change of voice continued: "Pardon me, Miss Brown. I thought It was Van Horn. Won't you" Zo Interrupted him briskly, casting an apprehensive glance over her shoul der. "No, I thank you. I've brought Miss Low along, and I think If you will Interview her you'll find there has been a mistake made that no one Is to blame for." With this bald und direct state ment she dlHcreetly withdrew around a corner, having had the satisfaction of seeing the artist turn dswn the hall with a face as pala r.s Amy' nva. "What mistake. M!rs Low?" ho nil: ed, stopping a little dlsttncp from ber Amy followed Ze's retreating figur with startled eye. "Vv'by iihj fouim the Invitation only this iwrn;;:tf !n m a wa8tebaskct-and"-tk s'.i herself back agnlnit the wall, looking up tlmldly"8lie m;i!e me cou.o to ns plain and" "Blessed bo Ml: Brown." fa'.l A! den, with a ring In bis voice which car rled the words to Ze. "But If you have Invited .nuot'uc: Lady Washington" "I . haven't" Interruptsd AIUcu. "There's just one Lady Washington f jr CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. HUP WANTED. VANTIU-TVVO ELEVATOR BOYS; must be over 1 years of age. In quire Astoria Paving Bunk. 4-28-Tt. WANTED TWO 8KWINO J GIRLS. Mrs. A. Myr, 261 Duant street tf. WANTED EXPERIENCED SALES lady to work In store; on speaking Finnish preferred; good wagea paid. Apply SSt Commercial. tf. WANTED SALESMEN. Af ANY MAKE 1100 to 9180 per month. Soma vn mortv Stock clean j frown oa Its? ration, far front old orchards. Cash advanced weekly. Choice of territory. 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