But the suave dealer, waiting at his door, salaamed with effusion as the manager passed.

His salute distantly included Clayton, and the action was not lost upon Robert Wade.
"Do you know Lilienthal ?" somewhat sharply asked Wade.
"Not at all," carelessly answered the younger man.

"I happened to drop in and buy a bit of a landscape from him the other day.

He mentioned when I gave him my cheque that you occasionally patronized him." "He is a rare art connoisseur," musingly said Wade, "and I've picked up a few pretty bits of etching now and then at his shop.

You must come up and see my collection some day." Clayton, busied with his day dreams, did not notice the sudden paleness of the pompous manager.