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"We must wake up that dolt of a watchman and get the place made fast once more." And after giving his name and address, Dick was glad to go home away from the sight of Whatman's rage. "I am sorry I had to do it," he told Mrs. Garth over the fire that evening, "but it wouldn't have been right to let them steal, would it?"
"That's a smart lad," said the manager to Dainton that evening, "and if the firm doesn't do something for him, I will." "You're right, sir," said Dainton emphatically. "He's smart and plucky too. Whatman's neither more nor less than a brute when he's roused, and this affair proves that he's none too honest. You know he was more than suspected when the brass filings were missed, that time."
And maybe we could help one another there, for something tells me he'll still need a friend." And truly Dick had not been long in the cleaning shed before his trials began. The man who had offered him beer on his first day was Jem Whatman's father, and Dick's quiet refusal had angered him greatly, and his threat to make him know better had not been an idle one.
How surprised I was when I read your card!" "You paint, yourself, Miss Foster?" "No, I only try to. I wish I could." She reluctantly yielded her block of Whatman's paper to Jack, and in the portfolio attached to it he found several sketches that showed real promise.
"If you don't go this minute I'll give you such a hiding as you'll never forget. I owe you one for interfering with Jem the other day." But Dick did not move, and his brown eyes met Whatman's angry scowl without shrinking.
I knew you wouldn't grudge me a bit of paper to get into the 'Household Album' with. Come down into the ravine. You're as white as a blank sheet of Whatman's hot-pressed water-colour paper!" The increasing heat was really beginning to overpower me, but I refused to leave my sketch.
You learn to read a story-book in two or three modern languages, to meander up and down the piano, and spoil Bristol board, or Whatman's hot-pressed imperial, and then you call yourselves educated; while we have to go back to the beginning of civilisation, and find out what a lot of old Greek duffers were driving at when they sat in the sunshine and prosed like old boots."
Drawing-boards and Whatman's paper were sent for, and in a few days Somerset began serious labour. His first requirement was a clerk or two, to do the drudgery of measuring and figuring; but for the present he preferred to sketch alone.
As he told her of his trip up the valley and the effect it made upon him, and how he had never dreamed of anything so beautiful, and how good the Pollards were; and what he had painted and what he expected to paint; talking all the time with his thumb circling about as if it was a bit of charcoal and the air it swept through but a sheet of Whatman's best, her critical eye roamed over his figure and costume.
Although generally employed for watercolor drawing, Whatman's "cold-pressed" paper has some advantages as a pen surface. Slightly roughish in texture, it gives an interesting broken line, which is at times desirable. A peculiar paper which has considerable vogue, especially in France and England, is what is known as "clay-board."
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