By the way, I couldn't make out his face very well.
Is that a picture of him ?" He stood up suddenly and stepped across to where the portrait hung.

There was nothing very startling about the picture.

It showed just a very ordinary face with straight closed lips, of a man seated in an embossed chair, with the familiar white cap, cassock, and embroidered stole with spade-ends.
"He looks quite ordinary," mused Monsignor aloud.

"It's.

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