a note from the secretary of the Hague Art Club. Their exhibition was to open in a few days. Usually only the work of club members was exhibited. The exceptional praise given to Miss Bradford in the April number of Art and Life made the members of the club desirous of seeing more of her work. Would she do them the honour of sending two pictures to their exhibition?
Anne read the letter with an unmoved face, then put it down on the cherry desk and looked at it.
"It seems utterly impossible," she said, touching the envelope caressingly. Then she laughed.
"I believe that I have a feeling of deeper sentiment about that type-written communication than I've ever had about any concrete thing before. Think what it means!"
Two weeks later a long article about Miss Bradford's work appeared in The Continent, one of the city dailies. It was entitled, "A New Realism." The
