Gustav Klimt Painting

Gustav Klimt Painting
Whatever's those?" asked Bunting in a low voice.
Daisy clung a thought closer to her father's arm. Even she guessed that these strange, pathetic, staring faces were the death-masks of those men and women who had fulfilled the awful law which ordains that the murderer shall be, in his turn, done to death.
"All hanged!" said the guardian of the Black Museum briefly. "Casts taken after death."
Gustav Klimt Painting
Bunting smiled nervously. "They don't look dead somehow.. They looks more as if they were listening," he said.
"That's the fault of Jack Ketch," said the man facetiously. "It's his idea - that of knotting his' patient's necktie under the left ear! That's what he does to each of the gentlemen to whom he has to act valet on just one occasion only. It makes them lean just a bit to one side. You look here - ?"
Gustav Klimt Painting