Anyhow I thought it was all right.

I put Parfitts' name and reputation on their being yours.

And then one day I heard from Mr.Witt that on the back of the canvas of one of the pictures the name of the canvas-makers, and a date, had been stamped, with a rubber stamp, and that the date was after your supposed burial, and that his London solicitors had made inquiries from the artist's-material people here, and these people were prepared to prove that the canvas was made after Priam Farll's funeral.

You see the fix ?" Priam did.
"My reputation--Parfitts'-- is at stake.

If those pictures aren't by you, I'm a swindler.