Love and Romance Library #176

Pat runs away from her foster parents in Nebraska and ends up penniless in New York. A painter offers her a dollar to pose for her, but she is so weak she passes out after posing. He takes her to the boarding house where he lives and they soon fall in love. Although poor, they decide to get married. Pat shows the first painting Johnny did of her to an art critic and Johnny soon becomes successful. But success goes to his head and he leaves Pat and their friends from the boarding house, unaware that Pat is expecting his baby.