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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE INSIDE OF AN ENVELOPE Chilton walked into the photographic studio of Eulogio Llorente shortly after nine o'clock the following morning and found that the proofs of Van Cleve's pictures were ready for inspection. He examined them attentively. Then he made a request of the photographer to see two of the negatives, and while Llorente was absent from the room to procure them Chilton deftly pulled out a drawer from a cabinet and extracted therefrom several blank, cabinet-size cards, which bore Llorente's name and address in letters of gold and which were used for mounting photographs that he had made. These Chilton quickly concealed about his person, and was quietly rolling a cigarette, over by one of the windows, when Llorente returned with the negatives. Within a few moments thereafter Chilton arrived at Van Cleve's office and the two men put their heads together in an inspection of the photographic proofs, and it was the general manager who finally made the selection for his employer. That being done, Chilton took the selected proofs back to Llorente, after assuring Van Cleve of two things: That the mounted photographs would be ready for him by two o'clock of the following day (there isalways bright sunshine in the City of Mexico, so one does not have to consider a possible cloudy day), and that he would return to Van Cleve's office himself late that afternoon to arrange the settlement of their mutual affairs and to prepare for Van Cleve's departure from Mexico. From Llorente's studio, Chilton sought his own rooms in calle San Felipi Neri, and he made good use of the bright sunshine, too. It is sufficient to say that the product of his efforts was entirely satisfactory to himself, and that after his flashlight pictures were mounted on the cards he had sto...