THE GOLDEN GIRL Under a canopied platform stood a young girl, modeling in clay.

The glare of the California sunshine, filtering through the canvas, became mellowed, warm and golden.

Above the girl's head--yellow like the stalk of wheat--there hovered a kind of aureola, as if there had risen above it a haze of impalpable gold dust.
A poet I know might have cried out that here ended his quest of the Golden Girl.

Straight she stood at this moment, lovely of face, rounded of form, with an indescribable suggestion of latent physical power or magnetism.

On her temples there were little daubs of clay, caused doubtless by impatient fingers sweeping back occasional wind blown locks of hair.