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ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION -November 1«. 1929 3 IM amba TM jghtirs I J f S to ry o f Sacrifice. Romance, H um or and Tragedy by D U BOTE HEYW ARD Author o f PORGY SYNOPSIS Balht boasted "You must meet her I answer “ I am employed across the though lie were a part of tlie room's 'And I don t think the Japanese in- ¡river In Phosphates" furnishings. But today one of their ! fluence is conscious 81 m * 1» much | Phosphate»," she wondered ”»«ig- number returned from town where I too unspoiled for influences I.ik< , geata 'ometlilng to do with ‘»odu he. like Saint, had gone for the ball most of us here, she has had to work , water to my uninitiated mind, but 1 and a taste of the social season He out her own salvation I've seen her don't suppose a gentleman ha- any- ragged tlie boy rather unmercifully, (>iit doing the marshes near Hie hing to do a .* f. oda fo in tain aud the others Joined in with the lav ift.-i du\ Ilk.«* a "No," he said, too preoccupied with result that when he stepped again Huy vm n pulnting uway at u i Hu threadbare* deception to Millie "I through the commissary door the i until the got It have the management of the Ptios- shimmering Illusion was gone -salt Wg II ail is- hearing of hn phate Mining Company's commis pork, cabbages, and herrings were day." Valerie afllrmed with convic sary " again salt pork cabbages, and her tion "Khe'a got something of her Hhc gave him her wide gaze rings The swallowtail was definitely 1 own " i hai oundi Uaporlsoi i am bac k in camphor, and his actual wage I Saint Insisted on her seeing the impre sed " I was twelve dollars and fifty cents a permanent exhibit In Ule main gal- Under her look his own eyes began week. j lery They were (Kirtraita. for tlie i« a , «-r ; iidd*-nl\ lie blurtOd OUC He seldom had customers In the inont part and the girl moved "No. that s all rot It isn't Impor- afternoon, as the Negroes were still quiikly along the big room “These Hud In plain BngU h i mhtoo a In the mining fields, and as the lure interesting.” si»!* said after Iwr gang of pliosphate Negroe.^ ull the hours dragged by lie came Into a la pection • tout not aa art i like w t n then on Sunday I wash up of what the week had them be<ttip»e they help to explain come to town, alt In the family pew. realisation meant lo him Now, with the gla you I suppose moat of them were and play the gentleman So there mour gone, lie could see guile plain ' colonels, and 1 am sure Tliry all car- ¡you are ” ly that Its luminous centre ti^l been I tied their liquor like gentlemen ” | She patted his arm In tlie gather Valerie Land Bitting In hts little For un hour they loitered through ing gloom I am so verv glad you sanctum behind the store, with hts I tlie pleasant rooms, and Kaint got | told me that," she confided "Now face burled In his hands lie looked i hla first glimpM* lielilnd the surface j we're going to be real friends " for tiie first time into youth’s of )Mk|ier uud canvas into procebaes I Not until you Iiave told me some- keenest tragedy a vast aspiration and methods He watched the girl | thing about yourself.” lie qualified and the overwhelming conviction .avidly while she talked Down the | " I t s an awfully short story" she of his own Inability to attain it He ¡street st Mlchael'i flung out the ] said, "and a gray little one. You tried to consider It Impersonally and «piarter hours Hr did not h ar them see. Father b> one of thoae artists It as a purely academic strike fltie had the thing . . * K m j who missed greatness He even mls*- debated Was tt better to have liad always want«*d Bile lived It ed dUllnction He thought timt be- question. caught a glimpse of the unattainable breathed it a* naturally ai ah if* !cause he lov«*d painting he could be or to Iiave stayed In ignorance of It h a d waked tliat morning A i ' h a firm painter Now he knows how little all. sweating tt out In tile obscurity resolve to let the old dreams go. to , a that lias to do with it. and he U too of the camp, finding escape only in ted some solid terrain wi».*r. »»«• now < « o o . m m i i m i mk i r o n !<» «'.«it over at anything -lae hts reading, music, pictures- the sort »■ould plant his feet and renew- hla «»Id Mother Uncle G eorge«» sister vou of things tliat couldn't hit back? struggle to give his mother and know--cJi he'* such a bnck. 8he Now even the little that he was Polly their chance Hut hla motive works too at lots of thing: *i d home was desperately needed .then they laughed together ill lire hail not been altogether unselfish | helps and when I get home I will sending INS i Al l VIKN I V II there. If Polly was given this year, had been something :ibow hi* | quiet echoing room "Oil.” she gitsp- have to turn In. too. and find sonif- . and perhaps next, -he would prob TtM* lic it a ft«* mooli Balllt runu* •*d "you were nu ll a gentleman 1 own experiences of tlie night before .tiling to do not painting. Father ably marry, and marry well In the Somehow far«* to in rr witli Valeric In an alcove • lid not know that they made them that liad shifted values Isays one artistic failure n H v fam meantime she and his mother must I suppose U tlie affair hud assumed a greater ily is enough But In sphe of every have of tile OtblM Art Oallcty MrrtiiM : like that m y more tlie best possible background anyone tlierr wan a little Miriirwunx. Lake» lots of grandfatliers to get ilgniflcanca than he could pa Ibli thing we do we don't get anywhere Looking back on his parting from have imagined Now lie straid as the a* thrtr Mere nevcral tea* In profix***. laway with a lag like that '' Father ran t leave New York because Valerie, he realised that some pro anil at that i>crlocl art ( o iiim I It clif- I She swung film around and »lip|>cd rrcogntsrd head of Hie family Tlierr he ran pH OPi |obi there—aome- tective divination had been at work t Ml* " she was a new and pleasurable sen.se of thing from the scenic studio* nm lt to I hi UI Its own In coiiuietltlon I ter arm through | in within him. for he had made the Rk "It will oon bt fgtlln g dark »•if Impoftanoa m the thouahi With Mir let y In fharlcstoii He stop said deliberately casual. as r had acciimplUli«*d by being terior decora Hons, dribbling little farewell ped short. Ilib surprise und ,>W*ttMire • and we must see wfiat your local ar- things that keep us chained there though they were mere acquaintances I am out discovering autetiy and M*rrnely exactly wha; yet won t give ua enough to really parting after a week of festivities plainly evtdrnt '’ You lierr!” lie cx- Usta can do die was. wtiat no amount of argu Char lent on today '* clalmeil 11 And New York is such a She Had said that surely she would 'it to tuuui. "You know picture* What luck!" ment c-cwild ha. place to be poor in " "O f course." she smiled at him see him on the following Bundav and behind his mother tliat sharp bitter I OUgbt ti> I have Pt t f Wd fOi " T i n . i v h M • i in ;..n^ itoi ...o' Saint slipped hu arm through hers when he would come to town as Then*, thaw ■ iBIM attOi gI his fatlu*r Tlien there I di«t not tallicr from the men I them long enough usual He had replied evasively, tell found her hand and presaed it t e e had la*« tl the approval of the older me4. la*t nipt lit that they went In etchings are rather nice Wtui 1* the MOBla at tlie ball an approval let her Ungers remain in his. and. ing her that there would be a lot of M ill1 f after a moment of silence, looked up work to be made up and he did not very much for ait.** "Oh. she la a Charleston woman tliat tacitly aa*um<d that lie was be "They don't .nut 1 supimim * that U Hern plugging away mostly alone for ing what was expected of him. that at him with her long scrutiny "The know when he would be free again why 1 lia\e always been lather lone several years, bul she has taken sev made him understand tliat measur two of us." she wliLspered " Cinder- He remembered that she had looked at the ball Tliat was why I surprised and hurt Now he thought ly After ull friends have to more eral award, lately I love her work ing up to Utooe expectation* wa> a f films or lex*- like the same Hume*. don't ¡but I don't know enough about etch- ter all a ft. H a t!>e was so glad that you told me about bltterlv that even tliat was best Tlie re was no use to go ahead to they?" rrooa current of Valerie's talk threw your work, too "• • • I mgs to say why " ward an agonising smash A clean “ 11 lev do nowadays. I am aftald Valerie coolly removed the thumb Ills mind Into confusion A longing break—and a memory—surely that After hi« » r r t In the rarrflrd air Life Li *o short, und bcinK bored can | tacks and carried the picture to tlie ' that had nothing to do with reason Now he must null light ’ Keel that surface ( let that! twi*t<*d him with a pain that wa> of ttw social world. Saint s descent was tlie wisest kill so much of lv ." In a moment he to the earth of the mining eatnp himself together—buck u p - face it Good strong work You almost physical They had drifted to a window and texture? squarely had been a gradual one. during hud blurt<*d out: stood lookina aero*» the street Into know how they’re made don't you?” Through the heavy stillness came " I have always meant to go In for which he was stilt enveloped in trail an old churchyard where areal live | Kiimt shook his head, and she The events of the sound of an automobile engine i am going to paint.” ing clouds of glory oak» were bron/ed bv the lute sun |ggve him a brief »«■«■«»• ni* ••! the pro this tome dav the brief sojourn had remained so throbbing in the sand of the main siu^ turned and studied ins face "T h a t* ttie sort of tfuna I like,“ lie |cean scratching the design on the It "I | vividly In his mind that they seemed road some little distance away fund "funny «»Id tombstone» pic i protected plate tfien biting die Pic erlously her own very grave ture out with at id I wish l had didn't know you felt that keenly ( for those first few days more ac fretted the structure that the boy tures iviuatt book* " tual mm tlie humdrum routine in was commencing to build—challenged "T ell j I'd about It.” she said at length Valerie looked up quickly, and ! m * you In Dud's studio for a while rather its permanence He drooped hU face I which lie moved by habit And that group over me more about yourself, please rlosed lit cataloau« with "and brown show you than thought He measured cloth in his hands "A bunch of tourist« really want to know ” I there T h a is Interesting” eyes and weighed out provisions, but on their way to see the Ashley river He asked to escort her home and | "And cham pune." »lie supple- I Kfie hurried Saint ucruvs the gal lery to a small collection of misty they took their wav through the there was a shimmer over hts tasks, gardens" he thought They were mented ■ enln • around the as though an Iridescent gauze float commencing to discover them now At a dis lie was Immediately embarrassed low-country landscape* "Ttiat . unkind of you 1-ast ntaht tance they gave the Impression of | Batlory where a winter sunset burn ed between hts hands and the thine Coming from wav up North in their ed low aero— the Aahley end flooded that they touched It was not until great new machines that looked sc pastel, but on close scrutiny they ap- j was an event, a sort of tniUation It won l iMppeti attain And now that liearnl to be tiTated by some process • he river with crimson lacquer Hut tlie fifth dav that lie rould actually out of place In the ancient solitude- He was of marsh and forest He Wi.h,\t now Valerie had turned from the bo said to have arrived I come to think of It. you were un I of colour w ash Vul- | contemplation <»f beauty t«» the more dining as usual at the mess main they'd stay away Their appearance kind last night, too You liimthed i ’ Kay. here's something new . • » liects of life Klie asked tained by the white employe- in a stressed differences so heavily, start erie exclaimed "8tn»n< Japanese i when I tou ted yflu at supper ” near the washing shed H f ed absurd longines "Clod forbid,” she repin’d ptouMv influence, ami yet how Individual, bluntly: "W iiat do you do for a liv cottage was always silent at his meals and ing? * He heard a step in the store, got and how they nave captured the "A tiobod} ftom New York lumflt af Saint flushed Her forthright news the other men usually took him as a wearily to his feet, shook himself mood of vour country. It la local a t'tiarleston gentleman'" matter of course and discussed their • halien fed hie own, but tubii pre A suspicion mused Saint to bend I work, of course." 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I laaa la f a u n * l a b » * » » » l a p l n g Inla • » » » y b a a a llfa l girl jThc Stormy Career of .luck Johnson -- ,Vo. 3 11«: N he recovered from this accldeai hi. friends provided him with fond« and he returned to flalveston. Al (he age of thirteen hr went la work an the dock«. , K k l his associates were some af the toughest and most hard M i n t im aginable. that fought on the slightest pretest consequently Jack often *ounat himself embroiled In battles with «oiilh- much larger and older than hiuwelf. NK of the most important fights of this early stage of hlo career was one urged on him by his sister, Lucy. Jack was threatened wad l owered by a vaang man much alder and larger than himself. His sister pushed hint into the fight and he wan It. H T »*t by ROLFE DELLON Drawn by FRED B. WATSON HIS battle was the first that served to establish hts self-confidence His reputation grew very fast after this significant victory. It was natural that the reigning bully of the docks should challenge lark's new supremacy, but Jack whipped him before the other dock hands in a decisive and fashion