6/16 "He perhaps has parts, but he is a young man and wholly unknown." "That is the very reason I do it," had said his father. "Those who are known need no assistance. Help young men, for thereby some have helped angels unawares." It had come true. The unknown artist had become famous, and these early portraits were now worth--no, not those figures which suddenly gleamed before Livingstone's eyes!-- Livingstone remembered the letter that the artist had written his father, tendering him aid when he learned of his father's reverses--he had said he owed his life to him--and his father's reply, that he needed no aid, and it was sufficient recompense to know that one he had helped remembered a friend. He had not really looked at it in years. |