I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he
wore kilts. But I see I shall have to amend that, because he was
not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some
time after I had left New York for the West. In the old days, to my
commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius
whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, which I can
safely say he would have done had he written any at that time, and
therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be
pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which
I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention
in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity. Hence I am
constrained to the belief that his eccentricity must have arrived
with his genius, and both after the age of twenty-five. Far be it
from me to question the talents of one upon whose head has been set
the laurel of fame When I knew him he was a young man without
frills or foibles, with an excellent head for business. He was
starting in to practise law in a downtown office with the intention
of becoming a great corporation lawyer. He used to drop into my
chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When
I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked
the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a
celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon
notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's
shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
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