This would suffice to explain the resemblance which your sagacity has
enabled you to detect between these two pieces. That is what I mean by
saying that they came from the same workshop. What do you think of my
theory?"
"I think it accounts for the fact in a most satisfactory manner," the
expert had replied, thoroughly convinced.
Mr. van Koppen knew all this.
But he only believed half of it. . . .
"You were saying, Count?"
The Italian shifted his glance from the dainty outlines of the Locri
Faun and smiled upon his interlocutor and then upon Mr. Heard, who had
at last taken a seat, after walking approvingly round and round the
statuette.
"I was going to tell you of another point which occurred later on to
Sir Herbert; a man, by the way, of unusual acumen. We agreed that Locri
was the indubitable place of origin both of the Demeter and of the
Faun. 'Well,' said he, 'granting this--how came they to be unearthed up
in the hills, on your property, twenty-five miles away?' I confess I
was at first nonplussed by this question.
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