Henri Matisse Painting

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"Look here," he said to Bunting. "In this here little case are the tools of Charles Peace. I expect you've heard of him."
"I should think I have!" cried Bunting eagerly.
"Many gents as comes here thinks this case the most interesting of all. Peace was such a wonderful man! A great inventor they say he would have been, had he been put in the way of it. Here's his ladder
Henri Matisse Painting
you see it folds up quite compactly, and makes a nice little bundle - just like a bundle of old sticks any man might have been seen carrying about London in those days without attracting any attention. Why, it probably helped him to look like an honest working man time and time again, for on being arrested he declared most solemnly he'd always carried that ladder openly under his arm."
"The daring of that!" cried Bunting.
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