“Well, what of it?”
“Plainly enough, Chick, the fold does not hang quite naturally,” Nick went on to explain, still pointing with his pencil. “It appears drawn a little to one side and back of her, with the edge of the skirt carefully arranged to touch the ground, precisely as if to conceal something beneath it.”
“Something on which she was standing!” exclaimed Chick, quickly seeing the point.
“That’s just it,” declared Nick impressively. “No skirt ever hung quite like that, if it hung naturally.”
“Surely not.”
“Notice also the distance from her hip to the edge of the skirt, where her feet should be,” added Nick. “Her limbs would be as much above the regular proportions as her arm is below them.”
“I see what you mean.”
“In a nutshell, Chick, such an anomaly could not be,” continued Nick decisively. “A person with abnormally long legs and disproportionately short arms is out of the question.”
“And in your opinion——”