Maud Marian, artist

MR. MARIAN and his daughter, separated by the length of a large table elegantly decorated with flowers, plate, and glass, were dining together. It was seldom they dined thus alo...

IN a large old-fashioned house in one of the quietest of the many dull streets of Devonport lived, as a brass plate on the door announced to the passerby, Dr. Mildmay. The two w...

A YOUNG girl was standing on the highest gallery of the Colosseum. Every detail of her attire, from the simple felt hat, which could defy any weather, to the stout boots made fo...

MAUD succeeded in obtaining the studio on which she had set her heart, and for the next fortnight she was engaged in the delightful occupation of furnishing it. No consideration...

"It does, indeed," said Maud, who spoke Italian fluently, if not with perfect accuracy. "Well, if you are disposed to learn, I have heard of a teacher for you. Signora Campodoni...

JULIUS DAKIN did not fail to appear at the Studio Mariano on the following Thursday. In the company of the two girls, he paid his visit to Miss Strutt, and Enid was pleased to f...

MRS. DAKIN was a tall, graceful woman, young-looking for her five-and-forty years, with sparkling dark eyes and a vivacious manner. On the day of her reception, she had a warm w...

ENID continued to enjoy her lessons with Adela Ravani. The pleasing impression made on her when first she saw her young teacher did not wear off. She was charmed with the girl's...

CHRISTMAS came, and Enid Mildmay found the season at Rome very unlike the ideal English Christmas. True, bunches of red-berried holly were being sold at high prices in the Piazz...

AFTER Julius Dakin had left the studio, Enid sat for awhile doing nothing. It was not like her thus to sit in idleness; but she was in a mood which was altogether strange to her...

ENID was greatly distressed. The more she pondered what had occurred at the studio that afternoon, the more she regretted it. She could not feel that she was to blame in the mat...

MAUD did not return to her "pension" till the evening. She had thoroughly enjoyed going about Rome with Sidney Althorp. It was so long since she had seen him that his society wa...

ALTHOUGH she had come so bravely out of her misadventure, Enid felt the effects of it for some days, and looked pale and languid. She was embarrassed by finding herself the obje...

"I think she would be more unhappy," said Enid with energy, "for she would lose self-respect. Whatever she suffers now, she has the satisfaction of knowing that she is true to t...

ON the following afternoon, Enid went to Miss Strutt's studio, for she knew that her friend, whom she had not seen at the "soirée" on the previous evening, would be interested i...

THE weeks passed rapidly by. The cold "tramontana" had ceased to blow, and spring was advancing with swift strides. The flower vendors in the Piazza di Spagna offered to the pas...

WHEN Enid reached their "pension" in the Via Sistina, she found that her cousin had risen and was slowly making her toilette. The medicine which Enid brought was sufficient excu...

FOR three weeks—three long weary weeks—had Maud lain in the unconsciousness of fever. To Enid, the time had seemed like three months. The bright happy days when she had so thoro...

WHEN she had given Maud's message to Mr. Marian, and he had gone to his daughter, Enid felt sure that Maud would not need her presence for some time, so she availed herself of t...

JUNE—a glorious month in Italy—was in its full tide of beauty at Frascati. In Rome the heat was growing unbearable, but fresh breezes still tempered the heat of the sun on the s...

DR. MILDMAY drove up to the door of his house in Devonport, alighted with extraordinary quickness from his carriage, and hurried up the steps. Opening the door with his latchkey...