Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1921)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section The Photograph 99 (Continued) Arlock, the dep'ty sheriff, he allowed we'd put it aside an' not let his folks have it, seein' perhaps they didn't know nothin' about the girl. An' then two year after, the girl herself wrote an' said her husband was dead an' she was free at last an' she an' her little girl was livin' in San Francisco . . . would I write to her? She never give me her name. I never asked. I wrote care of the Post Office, San Francisco . . .an' sent her the things she'd left, but not the picture. Ellen asked her if we might keep it, as a kind uh memento, an' she wrote back an' said that we could. Purty, ain't she, Mr. Wainton?" "May I look at it a minute?" said the young man. He took the picture into his hands. "That's just how she was, Mr. Wainton, when she was here. Appearances was ag'in her, mebbe, but I don't care. Thar warn't a better nor a truer girl in the world than her . . . Is anything the matter, Mr. Wainton? You're lookin' queer . . ." "No," said the young man in what Sol considered a strained, unnatural voice: "no, Mr. Gritting . . . it's the heat of the room, I guess. And so this is the girl, is it? I see . . . pretty, isn't she? you're right ..." "You bet! She must have had that took soon after she married that pizen skunk of a husband uh hers. Seems kind of old-fashioned to us, don't she? But I guess if we was to see Mrs. Wainton dressed up in them same clothes an' wearin' her hair done that ways, we'd be surprised how diff'rent she'd look! An' come to think of it, Mrs. Wainton ain't unlike the picture herself, anyways, is she? Say, I never seen it before, but ain't that a wonderful likeness? Only that Mrs. Wainton ain't so dark an' she's taller! Why, Mr. Wainton, what's wrong with you?" THE young man's head and shoulders fell forward limply, as though he were no longer able to sit upright. His fingers relaxed and opened and he let the picture slip into the fire. Sol gave a cry of horror and made a wild, despairing clutch at his treasure. But he was too late. He drew back his hand swiftly from the scorching heat and with bitterness in his heart saw the paper and cardboard shrivel into black nothingness in the midst of the flame. "It's gone," he said, "jest gone! Mr. Wainton, sir, what in thunder was you thinkin' of . . ." The young man put his hands to his forehead. He seemed to be in pain. For a moment he did not answer. Sol watched him in dull amazement. "I wouldn't uv had that happen fer anything," he said. "What did you do it fer, Mr. Wainton?" "It was an accident, of course!" An accident! Only the deep-rooted feeling that there could be no possible reason for the young man wanting to destroy a photograph of a girl who was a grown woman before he was born kept Sol from saying that he did not believe what was told him. "I'm sorry, Mr. Gritting. I ... I felt queer . . . dizzy . . ." "I'm sorry, too," said Sol gloomily. 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