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s6varal times repeated. She went quickly to the bedside. Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and count lng— counting backward. "Twelve." she said, and a little later "elsvep." and then "ten" and "nine." and then "eight" and -aeven-" almost together. 8ue looked solicitously out ibf win dow. What was tbere to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen and the blank side of tbe brick twenty feet away. An old. old vine gnarled and decayed at the roots climbed halfway up the brick wall. Tbe cold breath of autumn had stricken Its leaves from the vine until skeleton branches clung almost to the crumbling bricks. "What Is it, dear T asked Sue. "Six." said Johnsy In almost a whisper. • "They're falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. - It made my head ache to connt them. Bnt now It's easy. There goes aaother one There are only flv« left now." "Five what, dear? Tell your Sudle." "Leaves on the Ivy vine. When the last one falls 1 mast go too. I've known that for three days. Didn't the doctor tell yon?" "Oh, 1 never beard of such nonsense," complained Sue. with magnificent acorn. "What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well! , And you used to love that vine so, yoo naughty girl. Don't be a goosey. Why. your chances for getting well real soon were — let's see exactly what he saidhe said the chances were ten to one! Why. that's almost as good a chanet as we have In New York when we ride on the street care or walk past a new building. Try to take some broth now and let Sadie go back to ber drawing, so she can sell the editor man with It and buy port wine for ber sick child and pork chops for her greedy self." "You needn't get any more wine." said Johnsy. keeping her eyes fixed out the window. "There goes another. No; I don't want any broth. That leaves Just four. I want to see tbe last one fall before It gets dark; thei I'll go too." "Johnsy. dear." said Sue. bending , over her. "will you promise me to keen your eyes elosfed and not look out the window until I am done working ? I must hand those drawings in by tomor row. I need the light or 1 would draw the shade down." "Couldn't you draw In the other room V asked Johnsy coldly. "I'd rather be bere by you." said Sue. "Besides, I don't want you to keep looking at those gllly ivy leaves." "Tell me as .soon as you have finished." said Johnsy, closing her eyes and lying white and still as a fallen statue, "because I want to see the last one tall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. 1 want to turn loose my bold on everything and go saillnR down. down. Just like one of those poor, tired leaves." "Try to sleep." said Sue. "1 must call Bebrman up to be my model for the old hermit miner. I'll not be gone a minute. Don't try to move till I come back." Old Behrman was a painter whe lived on tbe ground floor beneath them He was past sixty and had a Michel angelo'B Moses beard curling down from the bead of a satyr along the body of an Imp. Bebrman w'as a failure In art Forty year! be had wielded tbe brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his mistress' robe. He bad been always about to palut a masterpiece, but had neTer yet begun It For several years he had painted nothing except now and then a daub In the line of commerce or advertising He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists In the colony who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to ex-' cess and still talked of bis coming j masterpiece. For the rest be was a I fierce little old man. who scoffed terribly at softness In any one and who regarded himself as especial mastiff In waiting to protect the two young artists Id the studio above. Sue found Bebrmao smelling strong ly of Juniper berries in his dimly light ed den below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that bad been waiting there for twentT-five years to | receive the first line Of the master j piece. She told him of Johnsy's fancy and how she feared she would Indeed j light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away when ber slight hold upon the world grew weaker. Old Behrman. with his red eyes plain ly streaming, shouted bis contempt and derision for such Idiotic Imaginings. "Vass!" he cried. "la dere people In de world mit Uer foolishness to die because leafs dey drop off from a eon founded vine? 1 haf not beard of such a thing. No. I vlll not bose as a model for your fool hermit dunderhead. Yy do you allow dot silly puslneas to comc ln der prain of her? Ach. dot poor lettle Miss Johnsy!" "She is very 111 and weak," said Sue. "and tbe fever has left her mind morbid and full of sj range fancies. Very well. Mr, Bebrman. if yon do net care > to pose for me, you needn't But I think you are a horrid old— old flibbertigibbet" "You are Just like a woman!" yelled Behrman. "Who said I vlll. not bose? 1 Go on*. I come mlt ; on. _ For half an j hour 1 haf peen trying to say dot 1 am ready to bose. Gott, dis is not any blace in which one so goot as Miss Johnsy shall lie sick. Some day 1 vlll baint a masterpiece, and ve shall all go avay. Gott yea!" Johnay was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade 1 down to the window sill and motioned Behrman into the other room. In there they peered out of the window fearfully at the Ivy vine. Then they looked at each other for a moment without

speaking. A persistent cold ruin was falling, mingled With snow Bebrman. In bis old bine shirt took his seat as the hermit miner on an upturned ket tie for a rock. When Sue awoke from an hour's sleep the next morning she found Johnsy with dull, wide open eyes star ing at tbe drown green shade. "Pull It np: I want to see." she or dered in a whisper Wearily Sue olieye^. But lo. after dhe beating rain Apd fierce gusts of wind thai had endured through the livelong night there yet stood out against the brick wall one Ivy leaf. It waa the last on tbe vine. 8til. dark green near Its stem, but with Its serrated edges tinted with tbe yellow of dissolution and decay. It bung bravely from a branch some twenty feet above the gronnd. "It Is tbe last one." said Johnsy. "I thought It would rarely fall during the night 'i beard the wind. It will fall today, and I shall die at the same time." "Dear, deat'tnald Sue. leaning her worn face down to the pillow, "think of me if you won't think of yourself! What would I do?" But Johnay did not answer. Tbe lonesomest thing in all tbe world la a soul when It la makjng ready to go on Its mysterious far Jerarney. The fancy seemed to possess her more strongly as one by one the ties that bounty her to friendship and to earth were loosed The day wore away, atjd even through the twilight they could see -the -lone Itjt -leaf -cllnglog to Its stem against the wall. Jknd then with the coming of the night tbe north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low Dutch eaves. When ' it was light enough Johnsy. j the merciless, commanded that the shade be raised. Tbe Ivy leaf was still there. Johnsy lay for a long time looking at It And then she called to Sue. who was stirring her chicken broth over the gas stove. "I've been a bad girl. Sudle." said Johnsy. . "Something has made tha'

"Mr. Behrman died ol pneumonia today In the horpitaL"

1 last leaf stay there to show me how 1 wicked I was. It Is a Bin to waut to die. Yon may bring me a little broth now and some milk with a little port 1 In It and— no. bring me a baud mirror 1 first and then pack some pillows about 1 me. and I will alt 'up and watch you An hour later sbe said: "Sudle. some day I hope to palm tinbay of Naples." ' The doctor came In the afteruoun. and Sue bad an excuse to go Into tbe ' hallway as he left "Even chances." said ibe doctor, taking Sue's Lhlu. shaking baud In his. 1 "With good nursing you'll wiu. And now 1 must see another case I have downstairs. Behrman his name Is Some kind of an artist. 1 believe Pneumonia too. He is an old. weak man. and the attack Is acute There | la no hope for him. but be goes to the | | hospital today to be made more coin- I fortahle ' The next day tbe doe-tor said to Sue: . "She's out of danger You've won ' , Nutrition ntid rare now — that's all ' I Aud that :ifi--rinjoti Sue ea ue hi the bed where Johns") lay contentedly km. I , ting a very blue anjl very useless woolen shoulder scarf and put oue arm around her. pillows and alL "1 have something to tell you. white mouse." slif said. "Mr. Behrman die.! , of pneumonia .today In tbe hos^tal I He was ill only two days. The Jamtor found him on tbe morning of the first , day In his room downstairs helpless with pain. Ills shoes and clothing were wet through and Icy cold. They couldu't Imagine where be bad been on such a dreadful eight. And then they found a lantern, still lighted, and . , a ladder that had been dragged from I Its place and some scattered brushes and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on It. and— look out the I window, dear, at tbe last Ivy leaf on t the wail. Didn't you wonder why It , never, fluttered or moved when the ! wind blew? Ah. dnrliiig. It's Ucbr- . man's masterpiece. lie pointed tt there i the night that the last leaf fell." HERE IS A RELIEF FOR WOHEK , " If you havejpains in the back, Urinary, Bladder or Kidney trouble, and want a certain, pleasant herb cure for 1 woman's ilia, try Mother Gray's Australian Leaf. It is a safe and never failing regulator. At Druggists or by I mail 50 cents. Sample package FREE. i Address, *The Mother Gray Company, LeRoy, N. Y. 11-14 & : v "

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