The greenhouse proprietor did not take any heart in his work, for he firmly believed he was destined to be a great painter. The result was he neglected business for his easel and customers gradually fell off until the inevitable happened, he went into bankruptcy. His wife, who had faith in her husband's ability with the brush and a deep and abiding love for him, supported the household by her skill as a dressmaker. One day, unexpected good fortune came to the couple, a distant relative of the wife's died and left her $1,000 in his will. The woman made all sorts of plans, but finally decided that she would pay off the mortgage on their little home. Then she noticed for the first time that her husband had left the room, and following him she demanded to know what was wrong. At first he would not tell her, but he finally explained that he wanted the money himself, for it would pay for the art course in Paris. Again the self-sacrificing wife yielded and turned over her legacy to the husband who departed for the French capital. There he got along famously and achieved success. His fickle heart, however, did not remain true to the woman to whom he owed everything, and at last he brutally wrote her that he had decided to get a divorce so he could marry one of his models, a woman he explained "who thoroughly understands me." The wife did not interfere, but sadly dragged out her lonely existence. The painter in time was punished, for he lost his sight and his second wife cruelly deserted him. The faithful woman in America in time heard that her former husband was dying in the Paris slums, blind and a beggar. She sold everything she had to cross the ocean to him, and reached him just before he passed away. The man was so low he did not recognize her, but believed she was the faithless model and welcomed her with tears of joy. The wife did not undeceive him and he died holding her hand and babbling his love for the other woman, hut the first wife did not falter, for she saw her husband not as he really was. a weak, deceitful creature, but as the man he might have been and as the man she hoped he would have been, a leader among artists and a faithful and loving husband.