yet, do you hear?--an artist!"

They compromised on the Grammar-School, with three lessons a week by a
drawing-master.

Grandfather Fortuny did not starve. Mariano was a regular steam-engine
for work. He made more images evenings, and better ones, than they had
ever made before during the day.

Finally Father Gonzales' wishes prevailed and Mariano was sent to the
Academy at Barcelona. Out of his own scanty income the old priest set
aside a sum equal to eight dollars a month for Mariano; and when the
grandfather's sight grew too feeble for him to work at his trade he moved
over to the rectory.

For a year, Father Gonzales sent the eight dollars on the first of each
month. And then there came to him a brusk notification from Claudio
Lorenzale, the Director of the Academy, to the effect that certain sums
had been provided by the City of Barcelona to pay the expenses of four of
the most worthy pupils at the Academy, and Mariano Fortuny had been voted
as one who should receive the benefit of the endowment.

Father Gonzales read the notice to Grandfather Fortuny, and then they
sent out for a fowl, and a bottle and a loaf of bread two feet long; and
together the two old men made merry.

The grandfather had now fully come to the belief that the lad would some
day be a great artist.

We do not know much concerning the details of Mariano's life at