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AQI SIX . 'WINGIAM A.DV.ANC -TXM,
SYNOPSIS
'Prelude" ... "Love lightly:" Mrs.
Church warned gently, and Ellen won-
dered why? Posing for her talented
another, first as a new baby, then a
bubbling child, then a charming young
girl, Ellen had lived always in a make-,
believe land of beauty. Of the out-
side world her knowledge was meag-
er ,.. While posing in the garden
one day, Ellen now learns from her
mother the story of the broken life.
The chance meeting, the stolen kiss,
marriage .. then years of loneliness.
As the mother waited for her hus-
band, to share with him the secret
of Ellen's coming, a message came
saying he would never return. So
through the years .Ellen and her
mother lived alone. A few weeks
after learning the story of the moth-
er's broken life ... another message
arrives ;. . tragedy, telling of the
father's death, The shock killed Mrs.
Church. Bewildered . . alone
warned to 'Love Lightly " Ellen ar-
rives in New York
GO ON WITH THE STORY:
Oh, it had been a magnificent lie!
'Ellen's hand, wet with herown tears,
reached up to touch her mother's chill
fingers that had clenched upon a cruel
letter.
"And so, said Ellen, little Goldi-
locks came to the big city. Or per-
haps I should say Little Red Riding
Hood. As I remember it, I did wear
a red beret! With just exactly twenty
dollars in my pocket of the old tweed
coat—bnt with all my bills paid, and
the homstead still =mortgaged. You
didn't know, did you, that I am a
landowner? That I, whose knees shall
be 3cnown to posterity, am the pos-
sessor of an estate!"
The >man with the Vandyke beard
reached, through the cloud of his pipe
smoke, for her hand — which Ellen
carefully removed from his vicinity.
He 'shrugged, and reached instead for
the glass that stood at his elbow.
For such a red hot, red capped
littleperson," he said "you're start-
lingly chill! Know that, Ellen? A,",.
he laughed, quite alone, at his pun,
F`ii Clitoch—and why should a church
izegd fortifications?—with battlements
•;Zet?id Mots and a drawbridge!"
One of the two other girls was
speaking.
"Shut up, Sandy," she said. "You're
just about as funny as a wake! say,
Ellen," her voice was shrill, "why
don't you throw a party up at your
place, some weekend? The crowd of
-us .MIDI snake perfectly swell whoop-
ee."
If a shl:146 crept across the care-
ftilly roiiged little face of Ellen
Church, she veiled that shadow with a
slim, raised hand. Her answer carne
with, almost too much nonchalance. i Even
puffed away in silence for a moment.
s. You're telling your life story,"
he reminded Ellen, at last, "Not that
it's such a whale of a story, at that.
There hasn't been a starvation, or a
temptation, or a ruination, yet."
"And," the tremor had quite gone
from Ellen's voice, "there won't be,
either. Not while the old brain sits
firmly just above the well known
shoulders. Well, to make a short
story long, I got in touch with only
soul I knew, believe it or not, in New
York. A person who had sold my
mother's work. Sort of an art agent,
you understand. Mother—she did all
her selling second hand, she wouldn't
see art editors herself. You have to
be pretty swell," there was a note of,
pride, a defensive sort of pride, in
Ellen's voice, " to sell your stuff that
way! But anyhow" the pride was
gone from her voice, now, "anyhow,
I went to this agent and asked her
advice. And she tried to help. `Per-
haps you'd better be an artist,' she
said. 'It's in your blood,' 'but its left
out of my fingers,' I told her. 'Well
what can you do?' she asked rhe.
And I said 'I'm a regular wow at
posing:
A man without a beard and for
that reason some years older than the
Vandyked one, spoke.
"And so you are!" he told Ellen.
"I never knew anyone who could
catch an idea the way you do. I wish
to heaven I could keep you busy all.
thq time. Not that I wouldn't be a-
fraid to have you in the studio all
the time—"
Ellen shrugged.
"I don't eat artists," she said, "not
even raw ones like Sandy, here; not
even good ones like you!"
One of the girls laughed. It was a
sharp laugh, rather.
"I'm not so sure of that," she told
Ellen. "I'd say, for all your wide eyes
"I haven't been hear the place," she ! at twenty Ellen couldn't quite
control. the sudden tremor in her
said, ,:since I turned the key in the
voice
lock and went out into the storm,
with neither a wedding ring nor a and your raised eyebrows, that you
baby.. I'd have to have considerable were a regular man-eater. You have
of a weekend—and I mean my head! 'a. come-on garde—"
—to take you all up there. Why," • "That," interrupted the man called
even at twenty Ellen couldn't guite Sandy, " that doesn't corse anywhere!
control the sudden tremor in her . ElIen's come-on game somehow
voice, "Why, the place is full of always fails to arrivel"
ghosts... 1 Ellen laughed ever so lightly, and
The man with the Vandyke beard surveyed her guests through the low
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hanging haze of their tobacco smoke.
The two girls? They --she admitted
it, in h'er mind—weren't important.
Just models like herself; With stagey
names behind which they hid their
own commonplace labels. Gay Var-
don the shorter one, with the angelic
face framed in reel hair, She was in
demand for magizine 'covers, Gay.
Her innocent, eyes were a guarantee.
on any periodical of its faith with
the public. Claire Treniaine — the tall
willowy one, who posed for fashion
work. Who with her boneless, curve-
less figure was just a little passe in
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this new age of fashion elegance.
They weren't of much importance,.
these two. Just white of egg, beaten
to a stiff froth, Not a great deal of
substance, or nourishment, there!
Sandy Mackintosh? Somehow, Al-
though his work sold readily; al-'
though he had a realflair for expres-
sion, he belonged with the two girls,
Ellen told herself. His essays of love-
making . always bored on the comic,
for her. He was always ready to put
her into one of his careless, charming
illustrations, however, always ready
to, buy her a dinner at some place
where the food was good, and the
"Make yourself at home," he told
Ellen.
lights were low, and there was wine
for the asking.
The older man, Dick Alven? He
wasn't a lightweight! He didn't de-
pend upon charm to put his drawings
over. He didn't even care, always,
that his paintings would interest deal-
ers—rather than sell them! Ellen, her
gaze creeping about the room, felt
a thrill of affection as her eyes rest-
ed. upon his face, For it was to Dick
that she had first gone, quite by
chance, in her quest for work. A slim,
frightened child, in a scarlet cap and
an unfashionable topcoat, she had
come knocking at his studio door.
And he, with Curiosity written in
every line of his face, had let her
into the square, somber room in
which he painted,
"So you want to pose?" he had
questioned, "I fancy, from your looks
that you've just run away from
school, with an old copy of The
Common Law' tucked into your poc-
ket. Well, I do need a model. But
you'll find it hard, unromantic work!"
Ellen had answered haughtily, to
cover the shiver in her heart, the
quake in her soul.
"I've posed all my life," she told
him. "I know it's not easy. But I'm
used to it!"
Dick A1ven's practiced, oddly per-
sonal yet oddly impersonal gaze had
runthe length of her slender body.
He sighed,
"You're such a hid," he told her.
"Do you pose for the fietiie?"
Ellen felt the blood mounting into
her cheeks, pounding into her temp-
les. But she answered with a certain
doggedness.
"I have of course, posed that way,"
she said. "I can, if there's no other
work to be had. But I'd rather--notl"
Dick Alves had laughed. "I thought
that would scare you out," he said.
"I'd know you for an amateur any
day. Who've you posed for - you
little bluffer?"
Ellen's head was high. 'rhe blood
had receded from her cheeks,
"I posed for Mrs. Church," she said
"You must have seen her work. She
specialized in drawings of children.
Of young girls. She," F11eri's lips all
at once were quivering; all at once
the tears stood, roundly, in her eyes,
"she was—my mother!"
Dick Alvan, with a certain "mute
astonishment, had watched the tears
spill over on to the pale cheeks. He
had given himself a little shake, and
had closed the studio door,
"llvfake yourself at Moine," he told
Ellen. "I've an order for a sort of
rate Greenway mural, to dress`. up a
haifbaked, junior league inspired
children's theatre. I can use 'you
plenty."
And so Ellen entered the studio,
and buttoned herself into a high
waisted, blue -sashed fnuslindress,
and started out upon her career as a
professional Model, It was as 'easy as
that! Under Dick's tutelage, which
;.almost amounted to chaperonage, she
met other artists, secured other work.
It was getting late. The cigarette
smoke was rising toward 'the ceiling
of the room. As• soon as the ,bunch
left, Ellen thought, she would fling
up the windows-- and make the room
sweet again,
"I think," she called now to the
corner in which Gay and Sandy were
sitting; very close, " that you'dbetter'
clear out, I'm, working tomorrow, and
I'm starting early."
Sandy eyed her reproachfully.
„Women," he said, "they're all
alike. Just puppies in mangers. Ellen
won't let me touch her hand. But the
moment I seek any consolation in
Gay, she throws ine out. Jealous cat,
i call her!"
Claire rose lithely from her place
on the cushioned day bed. She stret-
ched as a slim, lazy panther stret-
clies. Nobody had been making love.
to Claire.
"I'm ready to blow," she said. "This
party hasn't been what you'd call a'
wow for excitement. The story of
Ellen's past is too blameless to make
what might be known as . a hectic
evening. See me home Dick?" there
was a slightly eager note in her draw-
ling voice. "You, go my way!"
But Dick, slowly, was shaking his
head.
"I'm staying on here, for a bit,
after the rest of you leave," he told
her. "I want to talk with Ellen. I'm
the guy she's working for tomorrow.
We're starting on that Indian thing --
and I want to talk to her about cost-
umes."
Sandy, rising, had dragged the
diminutive Gay to her feet.
"We'll drop you at your shanty,
Claire, he said. "That is, if you're
really afraid to venture ou alone on
the sidewalks of New York!"
Claire shrugged.
"I'd suspect you, Ellen," she said,
as she pulled the season's smartest
hat over her beautifully arranged
hair, "only it's hard to suspect any-
one with milk—frozen milk—in her
veins! I don't doubt," there was a
queer note of almost envy in her
voice, "that you and Dick witty really
talk about costumes,"
Ellen tried, very hard, to copy the
spirit of. Slaire's shrug.
"Be that," she said, "as it niay!"
Then they were gone, the three of
them. Clattering down the uncarpet-
ed stairs. Sandy laughing—Gay's
shrill giggle echoing his mirth.
"They're laughing about me," El-
len told Dick, and her tone was tran-
quil. "They think I'm something
from another planet. That I have six
toes on each foot, and they're web-
bed. You tell 'em different, Dick.
Youve seen my feet—"
But Dick was staring ather
strangely, through the drifting srnoke
most of which he was now creat-
ing, himself,
"Sandy may laugh at you," he said,
"but he's in love with you, Ellen."
Ellen, again, attempted the shrug.
It was more ,of a success this time.
"Oh -love!" she said. Just that,
Dick went on.
"So," he said evenly, "am I, for that
matter! I love you, Ellen, you know.
Foolish4isn't it?"
Ellen agreed.
"Yes, it is, rather," she said. "Be-
cause I have reason to suppose, Dick,
that love would stand for mrariage,
with you. You're that sort. Sandy?
Possibly he isn't. But — well, what
would marriarge with you mean,
Dick? Figure it out, from my point
of view. Only a new name, and a
wedding ring. I'd work just as hard
as I'm working now. I'd have the
deuce of •a lot more to worry about
— babies, for instance, And I would-
n't have lots of things that I have
now, either."
Disk's voice rasped just a little. It
was a very nice voice when it didn't
have that grating note.
"What, for instance?" he question-
ed.
"Privacy, for instance!" Ellen an-
swered; trying to snake her tone flip-
pant.
Dick was risingfrom his chair, His
tall figure, despite his breadth of
shoulder, gave the effect of gaunt-
ness. He came swiftly -across the
room and laid his hands, not too
lightly, on Ellen's shoulders.
Continued Next Week)
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
CHRISTIAN GROWTH
Sunday, . Nov. 4—Luke 2:42-52;
2 Peter 1:5-8,
Golden Text;
Ilut now in grace, and in the know-
ledge of our Lord. and Saviour Jesus
Christ. (2 Peter 8:8.)
The only normal life is the growing
life, Some one has said that the dif-
ference between a post and a tree is
this: when you plant .a post it begins
to deed'.ir. Y ' when you plant a tree it
begins' to grow, $o we are confront-
ed with the question, Are we, in
Christian life, ones or posts?
A growu•up friend of a little giro
did not see her for quite a while;
and then, evlten they met each other,
the friend exola!med, "Why, how you
have grown."
"Of course," answered the tial;
girl, "I wouldn't be real if I didn't
grow,,;
Real Christians are growing Chris-
tians. Our lesson tells' us what enters.
into Christian growth.
In the mystery of the Incarnation,
when. He who was eternally' the Soni
of God, therefore "in the 'beginning
with God" (John 1:1), became "flesh,
and dwelt among- us," we find that
growth entered into His human ex-
perience. As God He could not grow;
but when, while still God ,He became
man, He accepted all the experiences.
that are common to mankind --ex wpt
sinning. "And being foundin a fas-
hion as a man, He humbled Himself,
and became obedient" (Phil. 2:8),
So obedience is a secret and condi-
tion of true growth.
From babyhood on, we read .that
"the child .grew, .and waxed strong.
in spirit, filled wfth wisdom (Lu.ke
2:40). When He was 12 years old Be
was taken by Joseph. and Mary to
Jerusalem for their annual observan-
ce, as God-fearing Jews, of the Feast
of the Passover. After the cerernon-
ial was over the family party start-
ed on their way 'northward to their
Nazareth home, not knowing that
"the child Jesus tarried behind in
Jerusalem."
When His absence was discovered,
Joseph and Mary "turner back again
to Jersalem, seeking Him," but found
Him not for three days, and then
they found Hiin in the temple, sitting
in the midst of the doctors, both
hearing them and asking them ques-
tions. And all that heard Him were
astonished at His Understanding and
answers.
The Boy's mother rebuked Him .for
what He had done, and His answer
must have surprised her still more,:
"How is it that ye sought me? Wist
ye not that I .must be about my Fa-
ther's business?"
Mary had just said to Him: "Thy
father and I have sought Thee sor-
rowing." She knew, of course, that
Joseph was not the father of Jesus
except by adoption: and our Lord's
reply was a reminder of'His-unique
relationship to God as His only Fa-
ther.
The chapter closes with the signif-
icant words: "Jesus increased in wis-
dom
isdom and stature, and in favor with
God and man."
Yet Joseph and Mary "understood
not the saying which he spoke unto
them," as He explained His presence
in the temple.
One thing is very plain, however.
The boy Jesus, at that time and al-
ways,
lways, was doing the will of His
Heavenly Father. He was concerned
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only about that which concerned God.
While His "increase in wisdom" was
divine and supernatural, and perfect
in a way that we as redeemed sinners
cannot experience, nevertheless it
obeyed the same law that God would
have us obey; faith in God and faith-
fulness to God's will.
The apostle Peter, in his Second
Epistle, tells us what enters into the
normal Christian life, which is the
growing life, The Revised. Edition
gives us the meaning of the original
better than the King James Version,
which reads: "Add to your faith vir-
tue; and to virtue knowledge; and to
knowledge temperance; and to tem-
perance patience; and to patience
godliness; and to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity."
The Revised Version reads: "In
your faith supply virtue; and in your
virtue knowledge; and in your know -
lege self-control;' and in your self-
control patience; and in your patien-
ce godliness; and in your godliness
brotherly kindness; and in your bro-
therly kindness love."
That is, we are not to understand
that as we go on growing in the
Christian .life we are first to Have
faith, then later add virtue, then Iater
knowledge, and so on. We are to'
have all these characteristics togeth-
er, not one after the other; just as
we are to have, in the normal 'Chris=
tionlife, all "the fruit' of the Spirit"
continually: `love, joy, peace, long-
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,.
meekness, self-control" (Gal. 5:22,
23).
The Gold Text tells us to "grow
in grace, and in the knowledge of our -
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." We -
cannot "grow into grace," as some
mistakenly think. We step into grace'
by faith in Christ as our Saviour, and'
then at once we are born again, be-
coming a new creation. From that
time on we are "in grace", saved' by
the grace of God through the great
gift of His Son. Then we are join-
ed to Christ, having been made mem-
bers of His body, branches in Him
who is the vine, as we saw in the -
first lesson of this quarter's studies.
"I ars; the vine," says our Lord, "ye -
are the branches: he that abideth in
Me, and I in him, the same bringeth
forth much fruit: for without Me ye -
can do nothing."
If we would keep on growing, we
n:sist abide in Christ and do His will;
yield ourselves wholly unto Him, and
trust Him to keep us and to live nut
His life in us.
"Anxiety- has no place in the life,
of one of God's children, Christ's ser-
enity was one of the most unmistak-
able signs of his finial trust ... His
mind was kept in perfect peace be-
cause it was stayed on God."—Maltbie.
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