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I THINK THE

DOC'S GOT THE RIGHT-DOPE!

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

WAY OF ART

check book.

Marcus wanted to paint. He sup- carefully. At last he took out pressed the desire because he was his mother's only means of support, and an artist who is learning the profes sion could scarcely hope to make ja living at it.

"For it I will give you $15,” said..

his

he

Marcus was so overjoyed he could That night he went So instead Marcus secured employ scarcely spóak,

he ment as a clerk with a shipping house. down to the beer parlour where He worked ten hours a day, and at sometimes sat with friends and cele- night when he came home he spent his brated. There was a girl there named evenings in his garret room painting. Mazie, whom he thought very beauti- His materials

the ful. He talked with her and finally were poor and light was never as he wanted to have she agreed to sit for her portrait. it, so these attempts at developing pis. natural talent were poor indeed,

.

very

She came every Saturday afternoon

Marcus was for five weeks. More than n year passed before much pleased. with the results but he Marcus had the courage to show one was much more pleased with Marzie, of his pictures to Henderson, his He decided he must be in love with friend, Henderson shook his head. hor. If, he thought, he could sell this "It has no commercial value," the new picture he would ask her to mar- said.

ry him.

"But does it show. promise?" Mar- cus asked anxiously.

Henderson nodded slowly." "It shows promise," he admitted.

"It The dealer looked at the canvas. is goot, but not goot enough. I have not sold your first picture yet."

Marcus went home feeling depress- ed and unhappy. Marzie could never Elated, Marcus took his painting love him now. When he switched on and went home. His mind seethed the light in his room he found with thoughts of the future.. His sitting by the window.

He act

soul burned with ambitión.

to work on a new painting at once...

During the next year two things hap pened. Marcus lost his job as clerk.

her

Did you asked.,

sell the picture?"

she

He shook his head, and then impul

in the shipping house, and his mother sively he said: "Mazie, I love 'you. died. The second event took place Will you marry mo?"

By Stanley Cordell

three months after the first.

Mar-

She smiled at him. "I will if you You are & cus felt sharp pangs of remorse. He will give up painting.

felt that his mother's ill health was brilliant man, Marcus. You could go. due in a great "measure to his inabil- far-in other fields." ity to provide for her, properly. If, in these dark hours, he had not had his great dream he would have been unhappy indeed,

Marcus could not speak. This was

in the worst blow of all to his vanity. He loved her, and she had no faith 'him:

The public He suffer-

After his mother's funeral Marcus

Marcus So Mazie went away and collected his belongings and moved to a room on the top floor of a great tene- went in search of work so he could ment building. It was a cheap, smelly earn enough money to paint again. Marcus sold only a place, but the light was good and he Years passed. was happy. He had a few dollars few of his paintings. left; by depriving himself he figured give him no recognition. he could live a month and do nothing, ed bitter poverty. He met other wo men and loved them, but always they but paint

He brought the result of this left him alone.. He had offers to do month's effort to Henderson. Hender, big things in other fields, but he `lg son looked at it a long time. Then he nored them all,

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called a numbor on the telephone and At length his health failed. He w after awhile a man wearing derby old and thin and wrinkled. But the hat appeared. The man, who was a

dealer looked at the painting, pursed light still gleamed in his eyes. AI- his lips, testered onto his toes and ways was with him the belief that be then back onto his heels. Finally he

shook his head.

"Gooti Goot!" he said. "But not goot enough. Let me know when you have painted another, my boy."

mind cause bis heart and soul and went into his work, he would one day become great, receive recognition,

?

Five years later an art connoisseur,

He died in wretched poverty, in the same room on the top floor of the tene- The next day Marcus went in searchment house. The art dealer and Hen- of work. He searched for, three days derson, out of pity, bought the paint- and at length secured a position washings that wore in the room to pay the ing, dishes in a hotel, which paid him minor expenses of his burial. one meal a day and five dollars... a week. He thought he was lucky àhd- would have been content, except that visiting the dealer, saw one of Mar- he had to work late at night and was cus' paintings by accident. He bought it at a ridiculously low figure and unable to paint when he got home.

He was cheerful, however, and hap hung it in his galleries. A week lat py

Soon he would have enough ter he sold it for $5,000. money saved so that he could devote⠀ This all happened thirty years ago To-day an original by Marcus bring all of his time to painting,

$50,000 on the open market. Such then way of art.

Almost-year passed béföre: Mar- -cas finished another canvas, cho He brought it to the man with the duchy hat, and the man, studied the picture.

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