Unfinished Portraits: Stories of Musicians and Artists

BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
STORIES OF MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS
BY JENNETTE LEE
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1916
Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published September, 1916
TO GERALD STANLEY LEE
AND THE GREAT ROAD THAT LEADS FROM THE SEEN TO THE UNSEEN
CONTENTS



The soft wind of an Italian spring stirred among the leaves outside. The windows of the studio, left open to the morning air, were carefully shaded. The scent of mulberry blossoms drifted in. The chair on the model-stand, adjusted to catch the light, was screened from the glare; and the light falling on the rich drapery flung across its back brought out a dull carmine in the slender, bell-shaped flowers near by, and dark gleams of old oak in the carved chair. The chair was empty; but the two men in the studio were facing it, as if a presence were still there.