van Koppen is staying too."
"Very good of you!"
"Delighted to make your acquaintance," said the millionaire. "Keith was
talking about you only yesterday--such nice things! Do stay. Count
Caloveglia has been touching on most interesting subjects--I would come
from the other end of the world to listen to him."
The Count, manifestly shy of these praises, interrupted by asking:
"What do you think of that bronze, Mr. Heard?"
It was an exquisite little thing.
Perfect to the finger-tips and glowing in a lustrous patina of
golden-green, the Locri Faun--so-called from the place of its
discovery--was declared to be stamped with the hall-mark of individual
distinction which the artificers of old Hellas contrived to impress
upon every one of the rare surviving bronzes of its period. It was
perhaps the finest of the whole group. No wonder the statue had created
wild excitement among the few, the very few, discreet amateurs who had
been permitted to inspect the relic prior to its clandestine departure
from the country.
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