It showed a little girl of some ten years with her hair braided down her back.

McTee looked his question.
"That picture was sent to me by my son ten years ago." It showed the effect of time and rough usage.

The edges of the cheap portrait were yellow and cracked.
"He was worthless, that son of mine.

So I shut him out of my mind until I got a letter saying he was about to die and giving his daughter into my hands.

That picture was in the letter.