Individual Reading (Part 6)

His last years Strickland passed in Tahiti. There he got married Ata, who hadn’t a drop of white blood in her. This woman did everything he needed and she had never been against his lifestyle. All this time Strickland created a lot of pictures. Nobody liked them except a French captain who was sorry for him and had bought a couple of his pictures for small sums. Some years later Strickland was ill. He had leprosy but in spite of it he continued his painting. Two years more a message was brought to the Doctor that Strickland was dying. When he came into his house, he saw that there were paintings on the walls. The Doctor understood that Strickland was a genius. Also he was shocked by the news that Charles had been blind for nearly a year. The last Strickland’s wish was to destroy this house after his death and his wife kept her promise.