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Updated: June 26, 2025
It had been in that room. And since then she had seen Garstin's terrible portrait. But he was like a palm tree singing. Even Garstin had been forced to say that of him. When at last he stopped all the artistic part of her was under his spell.
This is the explanation; Johannesburg at the time contained many Cornishmen; to the average Cornishman St. Michael's Mount is what Mecca is to the Moslem. Garstin's shrewd disciple had his daubs framed and sent to the Rand. Here they were all absorbed, fetching prices which left an average profit of 5 each. And all this time Garstin's own beautiful creations were wanting purchasers.
Many people would be glad to buy it, I suppose." "Oh, yes!" "Do you consider it one of Dick Garstin's best paintings? I know you are a good judge. I wish to hear what you really think." "He has never painted anything more finely that I have seen." "Ah! That is indeed lucky for me." "Yes." "I shall send and fetch it away." "Oh, but " She stopped speaking.
"I understand you met this man at the studio of Mr. Garstin, the painter?" said Sir Seymour. "Yes. But he wasn't a friend of Mr. Garstin's. Mr. Garstin saw him at the Cafe Royal and wished to paint him, so he asked him to come to the studio." "And he has painted a portrait of him?" "Yes." "Is it a good one?" "Yes, wonderful!" she said, with a shudder. "I mean really is it a good likeness?" "Oh!
In the strong light of the studio Garstin's unusual appearance of fatigue was more noticeable, and Miss Van Tuyn could not help saying: "What on earth have you been doing, Dick? You always seem made of iron. But to-day you look like an ordinary man who has been dissipating." "I played poker all night," said Garstin. "With Arabian?" "And two other fellows picked them up at the Cafe Royal."
She took the note, and at once recognized Dick Garstin's enormous handwriting. Quickly she opened it and read. Wed. Dear B. Does your mourning prevent you from looking at a damned good picture? If not, come round to the studio to-morrow any time after lunch and have a squint at a king in the underworld. At once her feeling of acute boredom left her, was replaced by a keen sense of excitement.
She began with Beryl Van Tuyn's acquaintance with Arabian, how she had met him in Garstin's studio, and went on till she came to the night when she and Craven had seen them together at the Bella Napoli. "I recognized the man Beryl was with," she said. "I knew him to be a blackguard."
Arabian was before her eyes, standing there by the opening door, and Garstin's portrait was before the eyes of her mind in all its magnificent depravation. Which showed the real man and which the unreal? Garstin said that he had painted her intuition about Arabian, that she knew Arabian's secret and had conveyed it to him. Was that true? "Please!" said Arabian, holding open the door.
The latter was very apt; after a comparatively short time he was able to turn out some daubs, the meaning of which could be more or less recognized. When he had outraged St. Michael's Mount from one side, Garstin's pupil attacked it from another. St. Michael's Mount at early morning, at high noon, at dewy eve, and at all intermediate hours; St.
As I'm giving it to you, I thought you'd like to know that it's appreciated." There was an unmistakably malicious expression on Garstin's face as he spoke, and his small eyes travelled quickly from Arabian to Sir Seymour. "In fact," added Garstin, lifting the decanter to pour the whisky into Arabian's glass, "Sir Seymour is so pleased with my work that I shouldn't wonder if he lets me paint him."
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