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"If this had happened to Lonny here, we should never have heard the last of it." "Perhaps not!" responded the old gentleman dryly. "When a young gentleman is trusted with a letter to mail containing money, and that letter never reaches its destination, it may at least be inferred that he is careless." It will be remembered that this was the first knowledge Mrs.
It seemed to Lonny that fame and fortune were in his hands. Certainly, a spark of the divine fire was in the little brown centaur's breast, for he was counting the two thousand dollars as but a means to future development of his talent. Some day he would paint a picture even greater than this one, say, twelve feet by twenty, full of scope and atmosphere and action.
No more pictures. You look healthy. That's genius. Cultivate it." He looked at his watch. "Twenty minutes to three. Four capsules and one tablet at three. That's all you wanted to know, isn't it?" At three o'clock the cowpunchers rode up for Lonny, bringing Hot Tamales, saddled. Traditions must be observed.
Should I paint some more or cut it out and ride herd a-plenty?" "I heard a rumour during pie," said the artist, "that the state is about to pay you two thousand dollars for this picture." "It's passed the Senate," said Lonny, "and the House rounds it up to-morrow." "That's lucky," said the pale man. "Do you carry a rabbit's foot?" "No," said Lonny, "but it seems I had a grandfather.
The gallery of the Senate chamber was early preempted by Lonny and the San Saba lobby. In the front row of chairs they sat, wild-haired, self-conscious, jingling, creaking, and rattling, subdued by the majesty of the council hall. The bill was introduced, went to the second reading, and then Senator Mullens spoke for it dryly, tediously, and at length.
"Should like to have your sentiments," said Lonny, "just as they run out of the pen." "It's the way they'll come," said the painter man. "I took three different kinds of medicine before dinner by the tablespoonful. The taste still lingers. I am primed for telling the truth. You want to know if the picture is, or if it isn't?" "Right," said Lonny. "Is it wool or cotton?
I may as well add, to make a clean job of it, that you can't buy the chuchula plant in the drug stores. Out of the wilderness had come a painter. Genius, whose coronations alone are democratic, had woven a chaplet of chaparral for the brow of Lonny Briscoe.
While these important changes were occurring in the lives of Philip Brent and the poor cousin, Mrs. Pitkin remained in blissful ignorance of what was going on. Alonzo had told her of his encounter with Phil on Broadway and the intelligence our hero gave him of his securing a place. "You may rest assured the boy was lying, Lonny," said Mrs. Pitkin.
At bedtime Lonny stole away from the campfire and sought Hot Tamales, placidly eating grass at the end of his stake rope. Lonny hung upon his neck, and his art aspirations went forth forever in one long, regretful sigh. But as he thus made renunciation his breath formed a word or two. "You was the only one, Tamales, what seen anything in it. It did look like a steer, didn't it, old hoss?"
The painter had been held up as a grandson, pure and simple. While this was gratifying on certain lines, it made art look little and slab-sided. The Boy Artist was thinking. The hotel Lonny stopped at was near the Capitol. It was near to the one o'clock dinner hour when the appropriation had been passed by the Senate.
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