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Updated: June 14, 2025
Arthur Markam made up his mind not to tell his family of his terrible adventure until at least such time as he should be complete master of himself. Now that the fatal double his other self had been engulfed in the quicksand he felt something like his old peace of mind. That night he slept soundly and did not dream at all; and in the morning was quite his old self.
Why, what've we been calling him, the last two months?" "That," Cash retorted, "depended on what devilment he was into when we called!" "You said it all, that time. I guess, come to think of it tell you what, Cash, let's call him what the kid calls himself. That's fair enough. He's got some say in the matter, and if he's satisfied with Lovin, we oughta be. Lovin Markam Moore ain't half bad.
Indeed, Markam, the painter, seemed this morning to be the only luminous spot on the Countess Olga's social horizon and by the time the car had reached lower Fifth Avenue she had related most of the known facts of his character and career including his struggle for recognition in Europe, his revolutionary attitude toward the Art of the Academies as well as toward modern society, and the consequent and self-sought isolation which deprived him of the intercourse of his fellows and seriously retarded his progress toward a success that his professional talents undoubtedly merited.
The other boy, on being told that his father had sent for him to come for a walk, had managed by accident, of course to fall into the water butt, and had to be dried and rigged out afresh. His clothes not having been as yet unpacked this was of course impossible without delay. Mr. Markam was not quite satisfied with his walk. He could not meet any of his neighbours.
'But you will let me thank you, said Mr. Markam, taking both the great hands of his deliverer in his and holding them tight. 'My heart is too full as yet, and my nerves are too much shaken to let me say much; but, believe me, I am very, very grateful! It was quite evident that the poor old fellow was deeply touched, for the tears were running down his cheeks.
Markam intended to have her say out. It was not a pleasant say, and, truth to tell, it was not said in a pleasant manner. A wife's manner seldom is pleasant when she undertakes to tell what she considers 'truths' to her husband. The result was that Arthur Fernlee Markam undertook, then and there, that during his stay in Scotland he would wear no other costume than the one she abused.
'Here's a guy! Great Scott! It's the governor! And the boy fled forthwith and tried to bury his laughter under a cushion in the saloon. Markam was a good sailor and had not suffered from the pitching of the boat, so that his naturally rubicund face was even more rosy by the conscious blush which suffused his cheeks when he had found himself at once the cynosure of all eyes.
But I must warn you that your vanity will some day get a rude shock if indeed you are not before then in an asylum or dead! It was manifest after a few days that Mr. Markam would have to take the major part of his outdoor exercise by himself.
When the specimen had been shown to Markam he had feared somewhat lest it should strike the eye of his domestic circle as gaudy; but as Roderick MacDhu fell into perfect ecstasies over its beauty he did not make any objection to the completion of the piece.
As the moon rose over the headland, the rocks of the Spurs and then the beach by degrees became flooded with light. For a good while Mr. Markam sat and looked at the rising moon and the growing area of light which followed its rise. Then he turned and faced eastwards and sat with his chin in his hand looking seawards, and revelling in the peace and beauty and freedom of the scene.
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