“With a slight shading, just there, where the neck muscle should be thrown up a bit by the turn of the head.”
“Or by introducing a large pendant earring which the copier has left out?”
“Kent, you’re a wonder! That would do it, exactly. But why in the name of all that’s marvelous, should the tracer of this drawing leave out the earring?”
“Obviously to keep the picture as near like as possible to the body on the beach.”
“Then you don’t think it is the woman of the beach?”
“No; I don’t.”
“Who else could it possibly be?”
“Perhaps we can best find that out by discovering who left the drawing here.”
“That looks like something of a job.”
“Not very formidable, I think. Suppose we run up to the village and ask the local stationer who has bought any tracing-paper there within a day or two.”