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The Call of the Cumberlands
where he had had apartments fitted up for him.
That very evening, bedecked with a full-dress suit, Samson was introduced into Lescott's circle of friends.
In the melting pot of New York, the line ore, in the shape of the mountaineer's youth, courage, and brains, soon showed its value, and he began to adapt himself to the changed conditions of his life. His starved mind reached out in every direction. He said little, but saw much, and bolted every morsel of enlightenment. Lescott set him at work at once to toil and sweat over the primer stages of drawing, and several months were spent laboring with charcoal and paper over plaster casts in Lescott's studio, while Lescott himself played instructor. Then, at an art school, his studv was
rival that Samson was able to aid Adrienne and prove at the same time that his thoughts had not been diverted from Sally to her. Wilfred Horton, whose love for George Lescott's sister was kept no secret, was active in political circles, and his opponents noticed, with interest, the apparent intimacy between Adrienne and the struggling young artist, who were often seen together.
Hitting upon a plan, they invited both to a dinner party and incited Wilfred with jealousy by stories of Samson's love for Adrienne. At the table the conversation carried on by the politicians aroused Wilfred's anger, and, blind to the facts in his wrath, he insulted Samson. But the young mountaineer was quicker to understand the situation, and, instead of venting his anger on Wilfred Horton, as the plot
He seized one of the party and thrashed him soundly.
hours, he also worked, using Adrienne as a subject.
In the evenings, Samson turned with insatiable brain hunger to the volumes of instructive reading that Lescott brought to him. Very rapidly great changes were wrought in the raw material that was called Samson South.
It was a few months after his ar
ticians had hoped, he seized one of the party responsible for the insult and soundly thrashed him. Then, turning to Wilfred, he said slowly :
"Come out of this ! You should have been able to see through the scheme. It was plain. I am not in love — with your sweetheart — there is a little mountain girl who can prove it."