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Mary held out her hand and Dugdale gave her the magazine, opened at the drawing of the Dragon vase. The girl glanced at it casually at first, then her dark eyes suddenly lighted up with interest as she gazed at the page.
"This is amazing," she cried. "Why it is the picture of a corner of my drawing-room and this is the very vase which stands on a pedestal. Oh, this can be no accident. The artist must have been in the house. He must have been here a considerable time, too, because that elaborate detail could not have been copied at one sitting.