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My dear Sylvestre, how can I thank you?" I seized my friend's hand and begged his forgiveness for my foolish haste of speech. He, too, was a little touched and overcome by the pleasure his surprise had given me. "Look here, Plumet," he said to the frame-maker, who had taken the sketch over to the light, and was studying it with a professional eye.
"There will be no difficulty, sir," said the genial frame-maker, beginning, with the aid of his assistant, to unhook the picture from the long brass chains by which it was suspended. "And, now, where shall we carry it to, Mr. Gray?" "I will show you the way, Mr. Hubbard, if you will kindly follow me. Or perhaps you had better go in front. I am afraid it is right at the top of the house.
Let us see." He disengaged the frame from the two nails on which it hung, and, turning it round, glanced at the back; which he then presented for my inspection. A label on the backing paper bore the words, "J. Budge, Frame-maker and Gilder, 16, Gt. Anne Street, W.C." "Well?" I said, when I had read the label without gathering from it anything fresh.
Hubbard, please," he said, wearily, turning round. "I am sorry I kept you so long. I was thinking of something else." "Always glad to have a rest, Mr. Gray," answered the frame-maker, who was still gasping for breath. "Where shall we put it, sir?" "Oh, anywhere. Here: this will do. I don't want to have it hung up. Just lean it against the wall. Thanks." "Might one look at the work of art, sir?"
Hubbard, please," he said, wearily, turning round. "I am sorry I kept you so long. I was thinking of something else." "Always glad to have a rest, Mr. Gray," answered the frame-maker, who was still gasping for breath. "Where shall we put it, sir?" "Oh, anywhere. Here: this will do. I don't want to have it hung up. Just lean it against the wall. Thanks." "Might one look at the work of art, sir?"
It is the painter, not the frame-maker, who upholds the art of painting; it is the poet, not the book-binder, who carries the torch of poetry. It was the sculptor, and not the owner of the quarry, who made the Venus of Milo. It is sometimes necessary to re-assert the obvious. Now there are plays in which symbolism is appropriate those of Maeterlinck, for instance.
It's an abominable conspiracy. Monsieur Plumet, I call upon you to give your wife the lie. She has written what is false; confess it! "The frame-maker hid his face in his hands and made no reply. "'What, Plumet, have you nothing to say for me? "Mademoiselle Charnot was leaving the room. "'Where are you going, Mademoiselle? Stay, you will soon see that they lie!
On the fourth floor a smell of glue and sour paste on the landing announced the tenant's profession. To make quite certain there was a card nailed to the door with "Plumet, Frame-Maker." "Plumet? A newly-married couple?" But already Madame Plumet is at the door. It is the same little woman who came to Boule's office. She recognizes me in the dim light of the staircase.
Sylvester had been the last to depart of a small crowd of afternoon callers, and Dick was interviewing somebody a frame-maker, a model, or a dealer in the studio.
I took a second cup of the sweet warm liquid which my new friends called tea, in order to have an excuse for loitering, while I tried to obtain more light from the reminiscences of the old frame-maker. No more light came, however. So I was fain to take my leave, reserving to myself the privilege of calling again on a future occasion. Oct. 18th.
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