Capitolo 13
what he chooses. You employ his/her knowledge to shape his/her his/her own nose
and cheeks, with wax sums to the character he desires
personate. Aquiline you say this duration. Hein! Anything as these
photos?"
He looked through in his/her desk and it gave us two.
"Not in the least one", Mr. to which Charles has answered. "Omits, perhaps, as to the
you throw the neck to, all here completely otherwise from him."
"Then that is the Colonel!" the Commissioner answered, with decision,
rubbing his/her hands in joyfulness. "You look here", and him taken a pencil
and it quickly drew the contour of one of the two faces--that of
a youth that kind-looks, without expression value mentioning.
"There is the Colonel in his/her simple disguise. Very good. Now the clock
me: you show up to you that he adds here a small wax roll to his
nose--an aquiline bridge--only this way; well, you have him straighten there;
and the chin, ah, a touch: now, for hair, a wig: for complexion,
nothing easier: that the profile of Your scoundrel is, it is not?"
"Precisely", us both they murmured. From two curves of the pencil and a
hit of false hair, the face was transformed.
"He had very great eyes, with very great pupils, nevertheless" I objected,
looking nearby; "and here the man in the photo has them small
and boil-fishy."
"That is so", the Commissioner answered. "A drop of belladonna
it expands--and it produces the Clairvoyant; five wheats of contract of opium--and
gives an aspect I dead-live, stupidly-innocent. You are all right away
this bargain to me, gentlemen. I will see out the fun. I don't say me I want
pick him/it up for you; nobody has still picked never up Colonel Clay; but
I will explain as he made the makeup; and that should be the consolation
enough to a man of Your wants to say for a trifle of five thousand!"
"You are not the French and conventional office-holder, the of M.
Commissaire", I ventured me to insert.
"You bet!" the Commissioner answered, and he drew on as a
captain of infantry. "Messieurs", he continued, in French, with the