"A remarkably good likeness--wonderful! I said so when I saw it before--excellent likeness, Allerdyke, excellent! Couldn't be beaten by a professional.

Excellent!" Marshall Allerdyke felt his heart beating like a sledgehammer as he put his next question, and for the life of him he could not tell how he managed to keep his voice under control.
"Ah!" he said.

"You've seen it before, then?
James show it to you ?" Fullaway nodded towards the door of the outer room, from which came the faint click of the secretary's machine.
"He gave one to Mrs.Marlow the very last time he was here." he answered.
"They were talking about amateur photography, and he pulled a print of that out of his pocket and made her a present of it; said it couldn't be beaten.

You're a clever hand, Allerdyke--most lifelike portrait I ever saw.

Well--any news ?".