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"'Well, really! "'Yes, I mean it. "'Since you make such a secret of it, I shall ask Monsieur Plumet to tell me. Monsieur Plumet, for whom is this portrait? "Plumet, pale as death, fumbled at his workman's cap, like a naughty child. "'Why, you see, Mademoiselle I am only a poor framemaker. "'Very well! I shall go to Madame Plumet, who is sure to know, and will not mind telling me.
I shall be the framemaker for Roger's magnum opus. And not over my dead body shall you wear after December twelfth a tartan-cravat." As you will observe. Jack Ballard exactly defined sophistication, root and branch. But his sophistries were always colorful and ornamental and of course Jerry laughed. "I'll take your word for it, Uncle Jack," he said. "But you know I rather like color."
"To think that everything should have been broken except this beastly little Ikon!" he said to himself. "I wonder whether that was what Sledge meant when he said I should not mix my deities." Next morning he sent again for the framemaker, and abused him roundly. The framemaker said he could not understand how the accident had happened. The nail was an excellent nail, the picture, Mr.
Ferrol must admit, had been hung with great care before his very eyes and under his own direct and personal supervision. What more could be done? "It's something to do with the balance," said Ferrol. "I told you that before. The picture is half spoiled now." The framemaker said the damage would not show once the glass was repaired, and took the picture away again to mend it.
After some time the servant came in, and told Trevor that the framemaker wanted to speak to him. 'Don't run away, Hughie, he said, as he went out, 'I will be back in a moment. The old beggar-man took advantage of Trevor's absence to rest for a moment on a wooden bench that was behind him.
He had no servant in his rooms, and when he had gone out that morning he had locked the door, so no one could have entered his rooms during his absence. Next morning he sent for a framemaker and told him to mend the frame as soon as possible, to make the wire strong, and to see that the picture was firmly fixed on the wall.
Then something occurred to him, and he touched the house-bell at his elbow. "Maggie," he said gently, when the housekeeper appeared at the door, "I will have the coffee and FINE CHAMPAGNE up here, if it is no trouble. And oh, Maggie I was compelled this evening to turn the blameless visit of the framemaker into a venial sin, and that involves a needless wear and tear of conscience.
For, as you will doubtless have guessed, the meeting between Jeanne and her lover, so dreaded by the framemaker, had been arranged by Madame Plumet unknown to all, and the damning inscription was also in her handwriting. "I need not add that Mademoiselle Charnot, upset by the scene, had a momentary attack of faintness.
He paced the floor restlessly and brought up before his desk, where the janitor of the building had a few moments ago laid the morning mail. He took it up idly and glanced over it a note or two in the fashionable feminine scrawl about sittings, a letter from a framemaker, one from his Paris agent, and the usual litter of circulars.
"'Well, really! "'Yes, I mean it. "'Since you make such a secret of it, I shall ask Monsieur Plumet to tell me. Monsieur Plumet, for whom is this portrait? "Plumet, pale as death, fumbled at his workman's cap, like a naughty child. "'Why, you see, Mademoiselle I am only a poor framemaker. "'Very well! I shall go to Madame Plumet, who is sure to know, and will not mind telling me.
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