Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1937, Page 22

DAILY SHORT STOR' MASTERPIECE By Josepha Daws. Tfl] swarthy gypsy glanced from the small paim she held into the eager face of the frail girl oppo- site. “I see genius,” she informed her customer shrewdly. Jane Seaward sighed. “Genlus,” she echoed. “I have slways known that some day I should paint something fine! Do you see the picture?” The gypsy closed fer eyes and was slent for many minutes. Jane grew uneasy. Perhaps the task was too difficult—too stren- uous for this an- clent seer. She had Worked diligently at her canvas. learned enough, eagerly, she also accepted the rest. We will consult a psychiatrist,” the doctor decided. ‘The psychiatrist ordered Jim to find the gypsy woman and have her re- tract her statement to Jane. So Jim set powers in force to find the old woman, and Jane worked doggedly on. She seldom spoke any more, but one even- ing she called Jim to her side. “Jim,” she said, and her lips trembled, “promise me sol- emnly, on your word of honor, that on the morn- ing of the 16th you will place my anyway—all she had hoped to hear.| picture on display at the institute re- Jim had laughed at her all along. She | gardless of what happens.” would show him now. She would | bring glory upon their name! | The old crone opened her eyes. “I| see the subject,” she said, and her | voice was ominous. “It is death!” Jane was startled out of her rev- erie. “Death,” she repeated incred- ulously. “But I know nothing of death. You must be mistaken.” The gypsy's dark eyes burned into hers. Suddenly she was afraid. “You | must be brave, my little one. You | will know death. eonstant companion!” “Be brave!” Jane's lips managed to 13 frame the words. “Yes. Death will walk with you. However, my dear, you may live to | see your work acclaimed. | of the sixteenth day of the twelfth The pleading look she gave him|tered the He will be your| ? Beware | month. This is but the first month. | You have much time.” ® Kk ¥ ¥ ANE shuddered involuntarily as she left the tent—already she felt that she was no longer alone All day, every day, Jane worked diligently at her canvas. Never strong, ghe grew thinner and more wan until one day several months later her good- matured husband lost his temper. “Jane, you will have to stop this puttering around. It's wearing you | down!"” “Puttering! That's funny, Jim." Jane's laughter grew hysterical. “Stop that!” shouted Jim, and then, more softly: “Lord, your nerves are all shot. I'm going to call Dr. | Brown. We never should have stopped | Four treatments.” Jane's face sobered. “It won't do any good now, Jim. It's too late.” “Too late? What on earth are you falking about? I can't seem to under- and you at all any more, Jane. hat is that crazy looking thing | you're painting?” | “You wouldn't understand symbolical. It represents death!” | “Death? What death? Whose | death?” “My death, Jim.” Jane drew her- gelf up to her full 5 feet 2 inches, and her voice was pregnant with drama. *I am putting my life’s very essence fnto this work, but I don't regret it. 3 will have given the world a master- plece!” L SHS reminded Jim of the heroine of & melodrama they had seen snce, but somehow he couldn't laugh at her pose. There was a touch of the rajestic in her seriousness. “Tell e, darling,” he said tenderly. It was then that Jane broke down gnd told him of the gypsy's message. ‘When she had finished Jim could enly stare at her. “You mean you sctually believe this bunk?” he asked. Jane said no more, but resumed | &er work. That evening Jim called Dr. Brown. He explained the situation fully and | ghe kindly old man examined Jane et once. | “Nothing physically wrong with fer, Jim, but you know she has always Peen a nervous, high-strung girl. | And extremely impressionable. This | thing has become an obsession with r. The words of the gypsy—that lane has genius—fulfilled a sub- | eonscious belief. Accepting them; SECRETER OF JEWELS STILL IN TOILS OF LAW| Wriend Accused of Stealing Gems Released as Officials Study Course of Action. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 11.—Louis Qorelick was released today after two | days in a Brooklyn jail, while authori- | tles considered what action to take | 3 sgainst his former friend, Joseph Rose, who secreted $250,000 in jewels n a safe deposit box and then ac- d Gorelick of stealing them. For several months Rose has been llecting $15.70 relief money every vo weeks, and the Emergency Relief Bureau will seek recovery of these payments. When Rose, who is 64, said Friday that Gorelick had stolen the fortune tn diamonds from a mattress where they had been hidden, Brooklyn au- thorities were dubious. Rose lived in @ shabby furnished room. District Attorney Willlam F. X. Geoghan sald Be gave his estranged wife and daugh- $er only 50 cents a day for support. Many business offices in Austria have been modernized in the last year with accounting machines and the lat- est equipment. 1WAS CRANKY, I HAD NO ENERGY MY DOCTOR TOLD ME | WAS LAXATIVE ~ STALE. BEECHAM'S THE PURELY VEGETABLE COMPOUND, GAVE ME B> ) QUICK RELIEF FROM @ (@ff CONSTIPATION -NEW PEP 5 AND BRIGHTNESS 7o0ur or 10 LAXATIVES ARE ALIKE. FORA REAL CHANGE TAKE | Z -4 ® Black Skunk ® Canadian Wolf THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937 made objection impossible and Jim gave his pledge. It was on the afternoon of the 15th of December that James Seaward dashed into Dr. Brown's office. His hair was disheveled and his eyes were shot with red. “My God, doctor,” he shouted wildly, “is there nothing you can do?” L DR. BROWN'S face was devoid of its habitual cheerfulness. His eyes had lost their twinkle during these last hectic months, and ss he contemplated the young man ucross from him they reflected pain. “Jim, my boy, you must pull yourself to- gether. You're as near collapse as any man I've ever seen.” “Pull myself together?"” Jim's volce was hollow. “How can I when I see her lying there wasting away? She's finished the picture now, doc- tor. It's the creeplest, weirdest thing & human brain could conceive. The last effort seems to have drained her remaining strength and she just lies there looking at it. It's horrible!” “Has there been any report on the whereabouts of the gypsies?” “None. It's almost as if they faded into thin air,” Jim replied. “Jim, that old hag has come as close to murdering your wife as if she had been administering & dead- ly poison. We have one chance, but it’s & good one! It's almost evening now. I will return with you.” Jane opened her eyes as they en- bedroom. “Tomorrow,” /, she sald quietly, “I shall be gone, but my spirit will live on in my work.” The doctor had regained his old cheerfulness. “I don’t think we will allow you to leave us like that, my dear. A live genius is better than a dead one, you know. Here, give me your arm.” Deftly he inserted the point of a hypodermic needle. ox o % H! WAS actually beaming as he turned to Jim. “Don’t waken the little lady until the day after tomor- row, the 17th, to be exact.” . James Seaward's face cleared as the meaning registered. “You think —?" he began. “No, now I know. BShould have done my thinking long ago!” boomed the doctor. “And now bed for you too, young man.” Sunlight was streaming into the room when Jane opened her eyes. 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