Chapter 46 No.46

The night was well advanced when Charteris stepped noiselessly into the room. The colonel was then sedately writing amid a host of motionless mute watchers, for at Matocton most of the portraits hang in the East Drawing-room.

Thus, above the great marble mantel,-carved with thyrsi, and supported by proud deep-bosomed caryatides,-you will find bu

            
            

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