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The Diptych

(Continued from Papa 9.),

THE CHINA MAIL.

It so happened that we both ar rived on the doorstep at the same instant, and the parlour-mald ́ gave us an apologetic message to the effect that Mr. and Mr. Bacci had enly just come in and weren't down

dinner yet, and would we excusE being a few 'minutes late? We said we would, and she showed us up to the drawing-room. There were cocktails and things about.

While we were waiting we had 'a look at the snuff-box. Izzy didn't think an awful lot of it. He said it was quite good of its kind, but it was only Napoleon and not worth more than fifty or sixty pounds, and (we put it back in its place.

Just as we were carefully shutting down the lid of the glass table Izzy started to say something and then stopped in the middle. I looked up to see what was the matter and found him staring at a pair of pictures hanging 011 the wall straight in front of us. He didn't make any remark, but merely wan- dered off round the room.

Litvinoff And Hull Confer,

M. Maxim Litvinoff, the Su viet Commissar of Foreign Af- fairs (left), photographed in the State Department with Mr. William Cordell Bull, United States Secretary of State, during the recent negotiations which led to President Roosevelt grant- ing American recognition to the Soviet

The pictures certainly were rum looking-quite enough to make any. one stare. They were about eight inches square and apparently palat- ed on wood. The left-hand one was

thought Izzy had said seven instead that he didn't trust them, but there so dark and worm-eater that i couldn't make it out at all, but the of a quarter past, so they'd been was some slight trouble with his bank. He was a bit chary of pay- looking at all the pretty things." right-hand one wasn't so bad.

We waited a few minutes more ing anything in, in case he couldn't It was evidently meant to portray the incident of Jacob's Dream.and then the Baccie blew in. They get it out again. Also he was leav-

thought the time had been fixed for,ing for Italy fairly soon. There was Jacob, in the foreground, fast asleep, and further back there half-past seven instead of a quarter they wind letting him

not more auspicious Well, I'm No one ever is a funny house. was a ladder leaning up against a past. I remember thinking: "This money in cash? cloud with lots of angels going up turns up at the proper time except than most people, but you must ad- and down it.

mit that this made things look The angels weren't like any I've

One would have somewhat fishy. ever Been

would have taken fright at thought that a couple of art dealera

But they didn't in the least.

came

in. They

frightfully were

me."

Would

have the

once.

They

and neither was the Anyway, we finally did gel off, and Jacob's ladder. I was just going to we spent a very pleasant and costly nak Izzy about it, but the Baccis evening.

After the theatre the Baccis Bug- sorry to be late, but they'd some gested our going back to their place greed to hand over this four thou how made a mistake in the time. for a few minutes, which we did-sand pounds at their office the next I don't think anything of interest and when drinks had been handed day but one-in other words, Fri- happened during dinner, except round the subject of Wall Street day.

The only glimmering of caution that Izzy went out of his way to be somehow managed to crop up. The particularly civil.

They hadn't

it.

through, and they said they would,

slump was at it very worst by this they showed was to ask if one of Afterwards the snuff-box was time, and Bacci anid it was affecting their clerks could come along next trotted out again, and Izzy told him pretty badly. He talked quite day and make a list of the stuff. Bacci said: "Certainly," and that Bacci exactly what he'd fold me-freely about his affairs. namely, that it wasn't worth more He told us that for a year or two was thai. The party broke up and I was left wondering precisely what than sixty pounds at the outside. they'd been spending part of their

Then they both happened to look time in Italy and part in England. form the swindle was going to take. It was my turn to do some ex- as the two dirty old pictures, and They'd originally taken this house tertaining, so I asked them all to Bace said what a pity it was they furnished, with the idea of reptac weren't genuine. He told us how ing the furniture by degrees with lunch at my club after the deal was he'd picked them up in an old shop really good things. in Milan for a hundred ira. A hun-hurried, and this room was the only But it was all most disappointing. No one was Toff without a hitch. dred lira is roughly twenty-two bob. jone they'd actually-well, which had The paying-over ceremony passed I wouldn't have given tuppence for nothing but their own stuff in

fetched out to the telephone and the them, but Izzy seemed to think they But affairs had got so perfectlyer notes didn't vanish, except into were rather quaint.

-foul owing to this Wall Streel

Bacci's pocket.

Lunch was quite Jolly. It was Then we started talking about business that they'd decided to sell, something else theatres, I think the room as it stood as it were--also rather embarrassing, because

Did Ikey Thursday, 14th Dec. at midnight. yes, it was theatres. Izzy said his and go back to Italy.

Bacci would thank me for my share Tucaday,

father had the stage box for "Go-know anyone who'd like to buy it? in the business-introducing him to ing Up" for the next evening but Well, Ikey looked at Izzy, and Izzy one-that is, Wednesday. Would looked at Ikey, and they thought they Izzy and so on, and then he sug- gested my having some little thing! we all like to dine with them some might perhaps be able to find a pur

as a souvenir. Did key mind my where and go? The others were all chaser, provided the price was mo choosing one of the snuff-boxes? I for it, but I rather hung back. You derate. What sort of a figure did; know how sometimes people have to Mr. Baoci put on it? And what defsaid I didn't take snuff, but they all seemed to wish It, so I could only Six thousand ask you because you are there and you think he said?

accept gracefully and thank them they can't leave you out. Anyway,pounds!

very much. 1 gave him the chance, but he want I naturally thought he was joking. Now let's see what happened on being pressing, so I said I would. If he'd said six hundred I should

next 7 Oh, yes.

After lunch the Mind you, I shouldn't have gone have thought it a bit stiff, but six Baccis said they were going to a even then, only I was beginning to thousand was too utterly wild for matinec, so they rather hurried off, get curious. I mean, it was all so anything.

And when they'd gone Izzy said he utterly unlike Izzy. It even crossed my mind that he might have con- the art dealers, but there weren't and Pa were thinking of running

up to Campden Hill. They just sat perfectly still me coming too, and choosing my ceived a sudden passion for Madame any.

not to say Signora-Bacci, but I like a couple of overfed gargoyles, enuff-box? So we all went. 16th Dec. looked at her again and

decided and finally Ikey murmured

The door was opened by the in- 24th Jan. "No," he must have just turned thing about two thousand pounds ventory clerk. He said:

being rather nearer the value.

"I suppose you know they've Well, that settled it. Either they cleared out?" He was being princely, and no mistake. He wouldn't bear of us were all mad or else there was some-

(Continued on Page 11).. 24th Dec.meeting at the restaurant Rather thing wrong with the whisky, al End of JanuaZY not. I was to be at the Bacels at though it tasted all right,

saven-fifteen and he and his father. Before you could say “knife" whose names was Ikey, would call they'd started a proper haggling t was match, and it went on and on. For

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li abject to rent. Izzy and his "pa" were standing thing, and he wouldn't come down All broken, chafed and | damaged over by the snuff-box table, but anything to speak of, mond if goods are to we left in the Godown, when they saw me they sort of However, at the end of half an where

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