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As it stands low down towards the river, and as all the space above it to the road is covered with trees and shrubbery, it is entirely hidden from view in that direction. The descent to the house is rather steep and long. And here it is! Abbotsford! It is the photograph of Sir Walter Scott. It is brim full of him and his histories. No author's pen ever gave such an individuality to a human home.
"But here is a name on the back of the photograph: 'Jack Andrews." "Yes; this is Jack Andrews," said Le Drieux, nodding. "Have you ever heard the name before?" "Never." "Well, Andrews is noted throughout Europe, and it is but natural he should desire to escape his notoriety by assuming another name out here. Do you note the similarity of the initials? 'J.A. stand for Jack Andrews.
As she came in he pointed to the photograph of Marr. "And this?" he asked. "Who's this?" The lady burst into a shrill laugh of mingled fear and cunning. "That's the old gentleman!" "What do you mean?" "What I say, the old gentleman, Nick, the devil, if you like it." "Now you are trying to take a rise out of me." "Not I, dear," she said. "That's the devil, sure enough."
"I've my own ideas of good manners, and to look friends between the eyes is one of them; and this" he tore the photograph across "and this" he tore it again "and these " He flung the pieces at the man, who had sunk into a chair. "For my part, I'm off." Then Rickie was heroic no longer. Turning round in his chair, he covered his face. The man was right.
"Suppose," said Harren, growing suddenly red, "that I should tell you I have succeeded in photographing this phantom." The Tracer sat silent. He was astounded, but, he did not betray it. "You have that photograph, Captain Harren?" "Yes." "Where is it?" "In my rooms." "You wish me to see it?" Harren hesitated.
"I suppose," hazarded the Admiral, "it helps the police in identifying criminals." "But the letter says 'all the prisoners. You don't seriously tell me that anyone wants a photograph to identify Poacher Tresize, whom I've committed a score of times if I've committed him once? And perhaps you'll explain to me this further demand for a 'Composite Photograph' of all the prisoners, male and female.
He is taught how to draw by the masses rather than by the character, and the advantages of this teaching permit him, if he is an intelligent fellow, to produce at the end of two years' hard labour a measured, angular, constipated drawing, a sort of inferior photograph.
If you will not come, will you write to me occasionally, then? It would be delightful to get letters from you, I think. Never was man so subtlely flattered, so tempted. Again he bit his lip, and without answering, he took a handsome frame from the piano, and glanced indifferently at the photograph he held.
My theory about that old leather box is that Maitland had that carefully planted before his arrest; that he dug it up when he came put of Dartmoor; that he took it off to Australia with him; that he brought it back with him; and that, of course, the silver ticket and the photograph had been in it all these years. Now "
The whole affair is still a mystery. My friend in Vienna, a pearl merchant like myself, assisted Andrews in his endeavor to discover the thief and, being much impressed by the young man's personality, sent me this photograph, asking me to meet him, as I have told you, when he reached America." "Is his home in this country?" "New York knows him, but knows nothing of his family or his history.
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