The results, although not artistic triumphs, being most inexpensive, had been rather successful as likenesses.

Babbie had come trotting in to show Jed the proofs.

A day or so later he found one of the said proofs on the shop floor where the little girl had dropped it.
It happened to be a photograph of Ruth, sitting alone.
And then Jed Winslow did what was perhaps the first dishonest thing he had ever done.

He put that proof in the drawer of the oak writing table and said nothing of his having found it.

Later he made a wooden frame for it and covered it with glass.