Ask me anything about her--I don't mean about her dress, but about her head or hands, all you can see of the real woman." I accepted the challenge, and there was great sport, and a little-great result.

I made the inquest a most searching and minute affair.

I asked him to tell me if there were any mark upon the neck, near one ear, and he described the precise locality and outline of a tiny brown fleck, no larger than a pin's head.

He told of any little dimple, of any sweep of the downward growth of the brown hair, of any trifling scar from childhood.

And of her chin and neck he told the very markings, in a way that was something wonderful.