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Famous artist painting
They were passing a half-open door when Chandler suddenly stopped short. "Look in there," he said, in a low voice, addressing the father rather than the daughter, "that's the Finger-Print Room. We've records here of over two hundred thousand men's and women's finger-tips! I expect you know, Mr. Bunting, as how, once we've got the print of a man's five finger-tips, well, he's done for - if he ever does anything else, that is.
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Once we've got that bit of him registered he can't never escape us - no, not if he tries ever so. But though there's nigh on a quarter of a million records in there, yet it don't take - well, not half an hour, for them to tell whether any particular man has ever been convicted before! Wonderful thought, ain't it?"
"Wonderful!" said Bunting, drawing a deep breath. And then a troubled look came over his stolid face. "Wonderful, but also a very fearful thought for the poor wretches as has got their finger-prints in, Joe."
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