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o grief) he gave $1,000 out of the first royalty check, inacknowledgment of the memorandum book and other data which Orion hadsupplied. By and by the artistcame over, and nearly wept with despair when he saw his subject shearedof the auburn, gray-sprinkled aureola that had made his first sketch asuccess. Everything, he said. They use root words from a dozen languages, and they obviously understand one another.

I don't believe he was personally involved, but his influence was widespread and pervasive. I didn't intend to start a huge emotional orgy. ' Or, as the case may be, `He has lit the fuse. That was his chief misfortune.