Budge, Frame-maker and Gilder, 16, Gt.

Anne Street, W.C." "Well ?" I said, when I had read the label without gathering from it anything fresh.
"The label, you observe, is the right way up as it hangs on the wall." "So it is," I rejoined hastily, a little annoyed that I had not been quicker to observe so obvious a fact.

"I see your point.

You mean that the frame-maker hung the thing upside down and Jeffrey never noticed the mistake ?" "That is a perfectly sound explanation," said Thorndyke.

"But I think there is something more.