Mrs.Mallard was given to understand that no expenses were involved save those of the lad's support in Manchester, where Banks lived, and Mallard himself did not till long after know that his friend had paid the artist a fee out of his own pocket.

Two things did Mallard learn from Doran himself which were to have a marked influence on his life--a belief that only in landscape can a painter of our time hope to do really great work, and a limitless contempt of the Royal Academy.

In Manchester he made the acquaintance of several people with whom Doran was familiar, among them Edward Spence, then in the shipping-office, and Jacob Bush Bradshaw, well on his way to making a fortune out of silk.

On Banks's death, Mallard, now nearly twenty-one, went to London for a time.

His patrimony was modest, but happily, if the capital remained intact, sufficient to save him from the cares that degrade and waste a life.