I dare say I've bought forty altogether." "Did your little dealer guess whose work they were ?" Priam demanded suspiciously.
"Not he! If he had done, do you suppose he'd have parted with them for fifty pounds apiece?
Mind, at first I thought I was buying pictures painted before your supposed death.

I thought, like the rest of the world, that you were--in the Abbey.

Then I began to have doubts.

And one day when a bit of paint came off on my thumb, I can tell you I was startled.

However, I stuck to my opinion, and I kept on guaranteeing the pictures as Farlls." "It never occurred to you to make any inquiries ?" "Yes, it did," said Mr.Oxford.