I In the upstairs room of a City restaurant two young men were finishing their luncheon. They had taken the corner table by the window, and as it was past three o’clock the room was nearly empty. There being no one at either of the tables next them, they could talk at their ease. West, […]

The Master was dead; and Peschi, who had come round to the studio to see about some repairs–part of the ceiling had fallen owing to the too lively proceedings of Dubourg and his eternal visitors overhead–Peschi displayed a natural pride that it was he who had been selected from among the many mouleursof the Quarter, […]