The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-09-19
CHAPTER II.

I am disposed to think that never before
lid sincere friendship, one which was
lated to last unbroken for years, ripsu SO
quickly as that between Carriston and my
eli. As now look back find it hard to
associate him with any, even brief, period
II time subsequent to our meeting during
xhicn he was not my bosom friend. l for
get whether Aur meeting at the same pic
nresque spot on the morning which fol-
owed our Standardization was the result
II accident or arrangement. Anyway, we
The precursor Of many passed in each others
society. Morning after morning we sailed
forth to do our lest to transfer the same bits
If scenery to our sketching blocks. Even.
ing after evening we returned to dine side
oy side. and afterward to talk and smoke
together, indoors or outdoors, as the tenn
perature advised or our wishes inclined.
Great friends we soon became-insepar-
able as long as my short holiday lasted. It
vas, perhs p, pleasant for each to work in
company With an amateur like himself. We
could ask each the others opinion Of the
merits of the work done, and feel happy at
he approval duly given An artists stand
md Of excellence is too high for a non-pro-
eessional. When he praises your work he
praises it but as the work OF an outsider
You feel that such comm endation danlns
| t and disheartens you.
However, had Carriston cared to do so,
he might, think, have fearlessly submitted
dis productions to any conscientious critic
his drawings were UNNECESSARILY more arts.
INC and powerful than mine. He had un-
loubtedly great talent, and was much sur
prised to find that good as he was at land
,cape, he was even better at the figure. He
could. with firm, hold hand, draw rapidly
the most marvellous likenesses. So spirited
md true were some of the studies he showed
me- that could without fattery advise him,
provided he could finish Us he began, to keep
entirely to the higher branch Of the art l
have now before me series OF outline faces
Drawn by him-many OF them from men,
Dry; and as look ut them the original OF
zach comes at once before my eyes,
From the very first had been much in
terested in the young man, and as day by
lay went by and the peculiarities of hi:
character were revealed to me, my interes
grew deeper and deeper. flatter myself
that am keen observer and skillful ana
lyst of personal character, and until now
fancied that to write description Of it,
component parts was an easy matter. We
now when am put to the proof find it M
simple task 10 convey in words proper ides
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socn discovered that he was, may say
afflicted by a peculiarly sensitive nature
Although strong, and apparently in goot
health, the very changes Of the weathe
seemed to affect him almost to the same ex
tent as they affect flower Sweet as hi
disposition always was, the tone of his mind
his SPIRITS, his conversation, varied. as j
were, with the atmosphere. He was full @
imagination, and that Imagination, Away
:. rich, was at times weird even grotesquel
weird, Not for one moment did b
seem to doubt the stability of tho vii,
theories he started, or the possibility Of tn
pcetical dreams he dreamed being realized
} He had his faults of course; he was hast
, aud impulsive: indeed, to me one of til
, greatest charms about the boy was that
right or wrong, each word he spoke cam
straight from his heart.
5 So far as could judge, the whole organ
= zation Of his mind was too highly strung
l too finely wrought. for everyday use
t note of joy. Of sorrow. even of pity vibrats
= through it too strongly for his comfort {
Il well-teinc. AS yet It had ,.ot been caiie
{ upon 10 bear The test Il love: apl fort,