After Carter's misunderstanding with Mildred, he went west to forget everything and she went to New York, where she was soon engulfed in the struggle for subsistence, having had no vocational training. When the young artists who took his ...See moreAfter Carter's misunderstanding with Mildred, he went west to forget everything and she went to New York, where she was soon engulfed in the struggle for subsistence, having had no vocational training. When the young artists who took his meals at her boarding place asked her to pose for her, she joyously consented. Paul Leighton had a liberal allowance from his mother, and painting had always been for him more of a pastime and a luxury than a possible means of livelihood. When Mrs. Leighton suddenly died and the lawyers found it necessary to use what property she had left to settle her affairs, young Leighton, for the first time in his life, was flung upon his own resources. "Pretty girl heads," mostly Mildred, saved him, and led to a contract with a big canning concern. With Mildred posing for him, he designed a label for a new brand of peaches the firm was putting on the market. Robert Carter was successful in Montana. He struck pay dirt early, and built a bungalow, planning to winter in the new house. He laid in a supply of canned goods. The opening of the first box of peaches proved a stunning surprise. He traced her to Chicago. His coming just then was providential; she had suddenly found herself in the old dilemma familiar to women in her position: she must either accept Leighton's unwelcome advances or forfeit her means of self-support. Written by
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