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His mind pointed out that Maisie, having her own work to do, would not care. His experience had taught him that when money was exhausted women went away, and that when a man was knocked out of the race the others trampled on him. 'Then at the least, said Dick, in reply, 'she could use me as I used Binat, for some sort of a study.
All that comes of the study and the work and the knowledge was to him even when he came. After he left me he should have done all that could be done with the colour, the form, and the knowledge. Only, he had not the conviction. So to-day I hear no more of Binat, the best of my pupils, and that is long ago. So to-day, too, you will be glad to hear no more of me.
Binat raised a blue-white face from a cot in the inner room. 'I understand, he quavered. 'We all know Monsieur. Monsieur is an artist, as I have been. Dick nodded. 'In the end, said Binat, with gravity, 'Monsieur will descend alive into hell, as I have descended. And he laughed. 'You must come to the dance, too, said Dick; 'I shall want you. 'For my face? I knew it would be so. For my face?
Dick leaned against the wall and sketched for an hour, till the kerosene lamps began to smell, and the girls threw themselves panting on the hard-beaten ground. Then he shut his book with a snap and moved away, Binat plucking feebly at his elbow. 'Show me, he whimpered. 'I too was once an artist, even I! Dick showed him the rough sketch. 'Am I that? he screamed.
Sit here until the house is a little quiet I must attend to my guests and afterwards go to bed. Thou shalt go, in truth, thou shalt go. 'To-morrow? 'As soon as may be. She was talking as though he were a child. He sat at the table listening to the voices in the harbour and the streets, and wondering how soon the end would come, till Madame Binat carried him off to bed and ordered him to sleep.
And in the desert there is always fighting, but that is impossible also, said she. 'I must go to Suakin. He knew, thanks to Alf's readings, that Torpenhow was at work with the column that was protecting the construction of the Suakin-Berber line. P. and O. steamers do not touch at that port, and, besides, Madame Binat knew everybody whose help or advice was worth anything.
'Will you take that away with you and show all the world that it is I, Binat? He moaned and wept. 'Monsieur has paid for all, said Madame. 'To the pleasure of seeing Monsieur again. The courtyard gate shut, and Dick hurried up the sandy street to the nearest gambling-hell, where he was well known.
But for a little accident of complete darkness he could hardly realise that he had ever quitted the old life that hummed in his ears. Somebody opened a bottle of peculiarly strong Schiedam. The smell reminded Dick of Monsieur Binat, who, by the way, had spoken of art and degradation.
The house shouted and sang and danced and revelled, Madame Binat moving through it with one eye on the liquor payments and the girls and the other on Dick's interests. To this latter end she smiled upon scowling and furtive Turkish officers of fellaheen regiments, and more than kind to camel agents of no nationality whatever.
'But you shall remember that it is not enough to have the method, and the art, and the power, nor even that which is touch, but you shall have also the conviction that nails the work to the wall. Of the so many I taught, here the students would begin to unfix drawing-pins or get their tubes together, 'the very so many that I have taught, the best was Binat.
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