“You may.”
“They represent two greatly enlarged sets of finger prints, enlarged some fifty to sixty times—both the photographs and the initialled enlargements are in the lower left-hand corners—by my photographer and myself.”
“Both made at the same time?”
“The photographs were made at the same time—yes.”
“No, no—were the finger prints themselves?”
“Oh, no, at quite different times. The set at the right is a photograph of official prints—prints made especially for our file; the one at the left, sometimes known as a casual print, was obtained from a surface at another date entirely.”
“A clear impression?”
“A remarkably clear impression. I believe that I may say without exaggeration—a beautiful impression.”
“Each shows five fingers?”
“The official one shows five fingers, the casual print shows four fingers distinctly—the fifth, the little finger, is considerably blurred, as apparently no pressure was exerted by it.”