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A CASE IN CAMERA
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
DALLAS · ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
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THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
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A Case in Camera
BY
OLIVER ONIONS
AUTHOR OF
"THE COMPLEAT BACHELOR"
"IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCE"
"THE DEBIT ACCOUNT"
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1920 and 1921,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1921
TO
OLE LUK OIE
Where each doth strive to hide himself.
One Mask doth to another say
'Let us be open as the Day'
The better to conceal himself."
PART I
WHAT HAPPENED IN LENNOX STREET
I
The tale I am setting out to tell has to do with thekilling, on a May morning of the year 1919, of oneyoung man by another who claimed, and still claims,to have been his friend. The circumstances weresingular—perhaps even unique; the consequences affecteda number of people in various interesting waysand byways; and since the manner of telling thestory has been left entirely to me, I will begin withthe breakfast-party that Philip Esdaile gave that morningat his studio in Lennox Street, Chelsea.
II
Philip had at least two good reasons for being inhigh feather that morning. The first of these wasthat barely a week ago, with a magnificent new quillpen, he had signed the Roll, had shaken august hands,and was now Philip Esdaile, A.R.A., probably themost gifted among the younger generation of paintersof the pictorial phenomena of Light.
I and his se