“What is the little job, Mr Freyberger?”
“Oh, it’s simple enough to you, impossible to anyone else.”
“Ah!”
“I want you to restore a broken—what shall I say—well, I believe it is a marble bust.”
“Yes?”
“I want you to do more than restore it, for I want you to do the job as quickly as possible.”
“Possibility has its limits,” said Antonides. “Show me the article.”
Freyberger went out and took from the cab the drawer wrapped in the sheet, brought it in and unwrapped it.
Antonides examined the fragments.
“I will restore it for you,” he said, after examining minutely several of the pieces and gauging in his mind the total number.