. Wisconsin medical recorder . in the. fall, andthat the young man had come to presshis suit with the physician. Miss Rockford was of a romanticturn of mind and loved to stroll alonein the moonlight, and the solitude ofthe wild prairie held a special charmfor her and she often galloped for milesalone over the rolling plains. Karl Dungar had spent the greaterpart of his life in Europe studying art,and was now on the evening side ofthirty. Within the last year he hadsettled in Blue Jacket, and devoted his ers with their limbs in spider-like posi-tions; snap shots of his chums in ques-tionable en
. Wisconsin medical recorder . in the. fall, andthat the young man had come to presshis suit with the physician. Miss Rockford was of a romanticturn of mind and loved to stroll alonein the moonlight, and the solitude ofthe wild prairie held a special charmfor her and she often galloped for milesalone over the rolling plains. Karl Dungar had spent the greaterpart of his life in Europe studying art,and was now on the evening side ofthirty. Within the last year he hadsettled in Blue Jacket, and devoted his ers with their limbs in spider-like posi-tions; snap shots of his chums in ques-tionable environments and company,taken in the Latin quarter of gay Paris,and these were coupled with Boccaccian-like tales of clandestine meetings withMesclemoiselles, and escapades with Mes-dames. So the Knight of the Plaqueand the Brush vied with Don Juan inhis love affairs in every walk of life. He was six feet tall, slim, athleticbuild, of Spanish type. His skin wasa clear brown, hair dark and curly,and a black mustache and imperial. Dr. Rockfords first home and office. time to making sketches of cowboys,Indians and ranch scenes. He hadgradually formed the acquaintance ofa small circle of men. He had a touchof Bohemianism in his nature with amorbid dissipated turn. He often gave smokers to his ac-quaintances, in his bungalo, and thebottle held supremacy; he would dis-play to these few a startling photo-graphic collection of models minusdrapery, show girls attractive for thescantiness of their apparel, instead ofthe richness of their robes, ballet danc- framed in a face of peculiar strongbeauty. His eyes had something intheir depths too deep to be altogetherpleasing, yet they were filled with laugh-ter, good nature and cheerfulness. Hisface, and his pleasing manner alwaysgave a good impression. He was fop-pish and sportish to the extreme. Hehad met Miss Rockford, called severaltimes, painted her a sketch, paid hersome attention and then to all appear-ances this ended, for they were se
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