Corinne had never heard about that painting before.

“How did you discover that painting?” she asked.

“I saw it at a friend’s house. Moreover, the paint on the canvas isn’t completely dry yet.”

Corinne’s eyes became focused. “And you think it was painted by Nellie Nymphaea?”

Lucas nodded sombrely. “Yes. Nellie Nymphaea’s style and brush strokes can be imitated, but there’s one habit that our mom has that no one else knows about.”

Corinne did not have much memory about her mother so she looked curiously at Lucas. “What habit?”

“Mom always adheres to a very standard way of holding her brush when painting, but when it comes to signing her works, she’ll put her hand down, causing her to pick up some paint from the canvas. And this will show up as a ‘C’ shape next to her signature.

herself not to do it again, but she never does remember. So the same thing would happen again and again. The painting I bought this time has a little ‘C’ paint mark next

sitting in the front passenger seat on stand-by—passed Corinne

look at

painting from him and saw the tell-tale ‘C’ mark next to Nellie Nymphaea’s signature, just

folds of the side of a hand running through it.

came face-to-face

her head and stared fixedly at Lucas with reddened eyes. “How did your friend get

was drawn by her art teacher when she came over to her house to teach her a lesson. Her art teacher had just left when I went to visit that friend of

ask your friend to arrange a meeting with

and another student went out on a field trip to do some landscape painting. She

own accord. “You

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