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“
Yes
,
sir
.
”
“
It
seems
to
have
made
a
great
deal
of
talk
.
I
’
ve
read
it
,
and
I
’
ve
seen
the
picture
in
Cedarquist
’
s
house
,
the
picture
you
took
the
idea
from
.
”
Presley
,
his
senses
never
more
alive
,
observed
that
,
curiously
enough
,
Shelgrim
did
not
move
his
body
.
His
arms
moved
,
and
his
head
,
but
the
great
bulk
of
the
man
remained
immobile
in
its
place
,
and
as
the
interview
proceeded
and
this
peculiarity
emphasised
itself
,
Presley
began
to
conceive
the
odd
idea
that
Shelgrim
had
,
as
it
were
,
placed
his
body
in
the
chair
to
rest
,
while
his
head
and
brain
and
hands
went
on
working
independently
.
A
saucer
of
shelled
filberts
stood
near
his
elbow
,
and
from
time
to
time
he
picked
up
one
of
these
in
a
great
thumb
and
forefinger
and
put
it
between
his
teeth
.
“
I
’
ve
seen
the
picture
called
’
The
Toilers
,
’
”
continued
Shelgrim
,
“
and
of
the
two
,
I
like
the
picture
better
than
the
poem
.
”
“
The
picture
is
by
a
master
,
”
Presley
hastened
to
interpose
.
“
And
for
that
reason
,
”
said
Shelgrim
,
“
it
leaves
nothing
more
to
be
said
.
You
might
just
as
well
have
kept
quiet
.
There
’
s
only
one
best
way
to
say
anything
.
And
what
has
made
the
picture
of
’
The
Toilers
’
great
is
that
the
artist
said
in
it
the
BEST
that
could
be
said
on
the
subject
.
”
“
I
had
never
looked
at
it
in
just
that
light
,
”
observed
Presley
.
He
was
confused
,
all
at
sea
,
embarrassed
.
What
he
had
expected
to
find
in
Shelgrim
,
he
could
not
have
exactly
said
.
But
he
had
been
prepared
to
come
upon
an
ogre
,
a
brute
,
a
terrible
man
of
blood
and
iron
,
and
instead
had
discovered
a
sentimentalist
and
an
art
critic
.
No
standards
of
measurement
in
his
mental
equipment
would
apply
to
the
actual
man
,
and
it
began
to
dawn
upon
him
that
possibly
it
was
not
because
these
standards
were
different
in
kind
,
but
that
they
were
lamentably
deficient
in
size
.
He
began
to
see
that
here
was
the
man
not
only
great
,
but
large
;
many
-
sided
,
of
vast
sympathies
,
who
understood
with
equal
intelligence
,
the
human
nature
in
an
habitual
drunkard
,
the
ethics
of
a
masterpiece
of
painting
,
and
the
financiering
and
operation
of
ten
thousand
miles
of
railroad
.
“
I
had
never
looked
at
it
in
just
that
light
,
”
repeated
Presley
.
“
There
is
a
great
deal
in
what
you
say
.
”
