The Persistent Nude

The Persistent NudeMr. Augustus was a teller in a Wall Street bank and painting was his hobby. He had a black bowler hat which sat on top of his head and a melon-like paunch over which he clasped his hands when he was thinking.Twice a year – spring and fall – his paintings went on exhibit in Miss Charity Belle's Tea Roome with those of other of her friends.Some Sunday evenings Miss Belle would invite him to her chaste apartment above the Tea Roome and they would have an intellectual conversation...