Whistler as I knew him . **(? J SPEKE HALLEtched figure completed with THE MAN 39 I committed the unpardonable offence of going toJapan. Japan should have been saved for the must admit that I really did slip off like a naughtyboy sneaking out of school. I felt that he wouldresent my leaving him. I remember quite well writ-ing a note to Whistler on my way to the station, andleaving it at a little tobacconist shop in the KingsEoad, not far from his home, which I begged the manthere not to deliver until some hours afterward. Allthe way to Paddington, as I journeyed onward, Ibl
Whistler as I knew him . **(? J SPEKE HALLEtched figure completed with THE MAN 39 I committed the unpardonable offence of going toJapan. Japan should have been saved for the must admit that I really did slip off like a naughtyboy sneaking out of school. I felt that he wouldresent my leaving him. I remember quite well writ-ing a note to Whistler on my way to the station, andleaving it at a little tobacconist shop in the KingsEoad, not far from his home, which I begged the manthere not to deliver until some hours afterward. Allthe way to Paddington, as I journeyed onward, Iblamed myself bitterly for having left the felt that I was doing a wrong thing in leaving himat that his greatest period, when he needed all hisfriends about him. Still, I too had a career to make,and was determined to succeed. Whistler, when Ileft England, was much occupied with me. He wrotea series of letters — pin-pricks every one of them— which reached me in Japan, and even in theirjourney out they had lost none of their power tosting. I longed then to go back a
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