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By noon the next day half the occupants of the old studio building came in to see the new portrait. He had not told of this one, but the brother painter had spread the news of the "find" through the building.
It was not the first time Adam Gregg's "finds" had been the subject of discussion among his fellows. The sketch by Velasquez -- now the pride of the gallery that owned it -- and which had been discovered by him in a lumber-room over a market, and the Romney which had been doing duty as a chimney-screen, had been the talk of the town for weeks.