I--I did not wish it shown as my portrait." Mrs.Taine, studying the girl's face, became very earnest in her kindly interest; as if, moved out of the goodness of her heart, she stooped from her high place to advise and counsel one of her own sex, who was so wholly ignorant of the world.

"I fear, my dear, that you know very little of artists and their methods." To which the girl replied, "I never knew an artist before I met Mr.King, this summer, in the mountains." Still watching her face closely, Mrs.Taine said, with gentle solicitude, "May I tell you something for your own good, Miss Andres ?" "Certainly, if you please, Mrs.Taine." "An artist," said the older woman, carefully, with an air of positive knowledge, "must find the subjects for his pictures in life.

As he goes about, he is constantly on the look-out for new faces or figures that are of interest to him--or, that may be used by him to make pictures of interest.

The subjects--or, I should say, the people who pose for him--are nothing at all to the artist--aside from his picture, you see--no more than his paints and brushes and canvas.

Often, they are professional models, whom he hires as one hires any sort of service, you know.