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In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called âplaces.â
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These âplacesâ make strange angles and curves.
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One street crosses itself a time or two.
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An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street.
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Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!
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So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.
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Then they imported some pewter mugs and a chafing dish or two from Sixth avenue, and became a âcolony.â
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At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio.
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âJohnsyâ was familiar for Joanna.
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One was from Maine; the other from California.
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They had met at the table dâhÃŽte of an Eighth street âDelmonicoâs,â and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted.
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That was in May.
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In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers.
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Over on the east side this ravager strode boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod slowly through the maze of the narrow and moss-grown âplaces.â
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Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman.
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A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer.
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But Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarcely moving, on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick house.
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One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy, gray eyebrow.
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âShe has one chance inâlet us say, ten,â he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer.
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âAnd that chance is for her to want to live.â
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âThis way people have of lining-up on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopeia look silly.â
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âYour little lady has made up her mind that sheâs not going to get well.â
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âHas she anything on her mind?â
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âSheâshe wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day,â said Sue.
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âPaint?âbosh!â
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âHas she anything on her mind worth thinking about twiceâa man, for instance?â
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âA man?â said Sue, with a jewâs-harp twang in her voice.
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âIs a man worthâbut, no, doctor; there is nothing of the kind.â
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âWell, it is the weakness, then,â said the doctor.
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âI will do all that science, so far as it may filter through my efforts, can accomplish.â
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âBut whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent. from the curative power of medicines.â
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âIf you will get her to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves I will promise you a one-in-five chance for her, instead of one in ten.â
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After the doctor had gone Sue went into the workroom and cried a Japanese napkin to a pulp.
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Then she swaggered into Johnsyâs room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime.
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Johnsy lay, scarcely making a ripple under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window.
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Sue stopped whistling, thinking she was asleep.
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She arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate a magazine story.
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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
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As Sue was sketching a pair of elegant horseshow riding trousers and a monocle on the figure of the hero, an Idaho cowboy, she heard a low sound, several times repeated.
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She went quickly to the bedside.
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Johnsyâs eyes were open wide.
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She was looking out the window and countingâcounting backward.
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âTwelve,â she said, and a little later âeleven;â and then âten,â and ânine;â and then âeightâ and âseven,â almost together.
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Sue looked solicitously out the window.
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What was there to count?
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There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away.
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An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall.
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The cold breath of autumn had stricken its leaves from the vine until its skeleton branches clung, almost bare, to the crumbling bricks.
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âWhat is it, dear?â asked Sue.
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âSix,â said Johnsy, in almost a whisper.
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âTheyâre falling faster now.â
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âThree days ago there were almost a hundred.â
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âIt made my head ache to count them.â
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âIâve known that for three days.â
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âOh, I never heard of such nonsense,â complained Sue, with magnificent scorn.
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âWhat have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well?â
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âAnd you used to love that vine so, you naughty girl.â
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âDonât be a goosey.â
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âWhy, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well real soon wereâletâs see exactly what he saidâhe said the chances were ten to one!â
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âWhy, thatâs almost as good a chance as we have in New York when we ride on the street cars or walk past a new building.â
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âTry to take some broth now, and let Sudie go back to her drawing, so she can sell the editor man with it, and buy port wine for her sick child, and pork chops for her greedy self.â
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âYou neednât get any more wine,â said Johnsy, keeping her eyes fixed out the window.
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âThere goes another.â
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âThat leaves just four.â
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âThen Iâll go, too.â
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âJohnsy, dear,â said Sue, bending over her, âwill you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working?â
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âI must hand those drawings in by to-morrow.â
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âCouldnât you draw in the other room?â asked Johnsy, coldly.
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âIâd rather be here by you,â said Sue.
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âBesides I donât want you to keep looking at those silly ivy leaves.â
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âTell me as soon as you have finished,â said Johnsy, closing her eyes, and lying white and still as a fallen statue, âbecause I want to see the last one fall.â
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âIâm tired of waiting.â
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âI want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves.â
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âTry to sleep,â said Sue.
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Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them.
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He was past sixty and had a Michael Angeloâs Moses beard curling down from the head of a satyr along the body of an imp.
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Behrman was a failure in art.
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Forty years he had wielded the brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his Mistressâs robe.
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He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.
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For several years he had painted nothing except now and then a daub in the line of commerce or advertising.
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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.
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He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece.
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For the rest he was a 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 in the studio above.
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Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper berries in his dimly lighted den below.
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In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece.
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She told him of Johnsyâs fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.
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Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt and derision for such idiotic imaginings.
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âNo, I will not bose as a model for your fool hermit-dunderhead.â
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âVy do you allow dot silly pusiness to come in der prain of her?â
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âAch, dot poor lettle Miss Johnsy.â
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âShe is very ill and weak,â said Sue, âand the fever has left her mind morbid and full of strange fancies.â
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âVery well, Mr. Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you neednât.â
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âBut I think you are a horrid oldâold flibbertigibbet.â
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âYou are just like a woman!â yelled Behrman.
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âWho said I will not bose?â
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âGo on.â
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âI come mit you.â
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âFor half an hour I haf peen trying to say dot I am ready to bose.â
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âGott! dis is not any blace in which one so goot as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick.â
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âSome day I vill baint a masterpiece, and ve shall all go away.â
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âGott! yes.â
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Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs.
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Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room.
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In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine.
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Then they looked at each other for a moment without speaking.
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A persistent, cold rain was falling, mingled with snow.
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Behrman, in his old blue shirt, took his seat as the hermit-miner on an upturned kettle for a rock.
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When Sue awoke from an hourâs sleep the next morning she found Johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes staring at the drawn green shade.
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âPull it up; I want to see,â she ordered, in a whisper.
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Wearily Sue obeyed.
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But, lo! after the beating rain and fierce gusts of wind that had endured through the livelong night, there yet stood out against the brick wall one ivy leaf.
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It was the last on the vine.
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Still dark green near its stem, but with its serrated edges tinted with the yellow of dissolution and decay, it hung bravely from a branch some twenty feet above the ground.
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âIt is the last one,â said Johnsy.
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âI thought it would surely fall during the night.â
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âI heard the wind.â
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âIt will fall to-day, and I shall die at the same time.â
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âDear, dear!â said Sue, leaning her worn face down to the pillow, âthink of me, if you wonât think of yourself.â
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âWhat would I do?â
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But Johnsy did not answer.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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The fancy seemed to possess her more strongly as one by one the ties that bound her to friendship and to earth were loosed.
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The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall.
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And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low Dutch eaves.
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When it was light enough Johnsy, the merciless, commanded that the shade be raised.
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The ivy leaf was still there.
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Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it.
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And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken broth over the gas stove.
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âIâve been a bad girl, Sudie,â said Johnsy.
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âSomething has made that last leaf stay there to show me how wicked I was.â
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âIt is a sin to want to die.â
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âYou may bring me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, andâno; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook.â
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An hour later she said.
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âSudie, some day I hope to paint the Bay of Naples.â
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The doctor came in the afternoon, and Sue had an excuse to go into the hallway as he left.
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âEven chances,â said the doctor, taking Sueâs thin, shaking hand in his.
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âWith good nursing youâll win.â
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âAnd now I must see another case I have downstairs.â
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âBehrman, his name isâsome kind of an artist, I believe.â
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âPneumonia, too.â
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âHe is an old, weak man, and the attack is acute.â
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âThere is no hope for him; but he goes to the hospital to-day to be made more comfortable.â
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The next day the doctor said to Sue: âSheâs out of danger.â
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âYouâve won.â
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âNutrition and care nowâthatâs all.â
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And that afternoon Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, contentedly knitting a very blue and very useless woolen shoulder scarf, and put one arm around her, pillows and all.
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âI have something to tell you, white mouse,â she said.
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âMr. Behrman died of pneumonia to-day in the hospital.â
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âHe was ill only two days.â
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âThe janitor found him on the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain.â
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âHis shoes and clothing were wet through and icy cold.â
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âThey couldnât imagine where he had been on such a dreadful night.â
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âAnd then they found a lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that had been dragged from its place, and some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it,â
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âandâlook out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall.â
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âDidnât you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew?â
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âAh, darling, itâs Behrmanâs masterpieceâhe painted it there the night that the last leaf fell.â
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Original story:
O. Henry, The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
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