" Mr. Dixon called his chief draughtsman and requested him to put in order the drawings in the drawers of the inner room that had been disarranged by the search, and to send Ritter, as Hewitt had suggested.

At Florence she entered the studio of Signor Guiseppe Bellucci, an eminent historical painter and consummate draughtsman, a fellow-student of Sir Frederick Leighton at the Academy.

"All out of whack, you see," explained the draughtsman; "but here are my points, Gilly.

Ten minutes later Mr. Dixon, having questioned his draughtsmen, followed him.

I applied to Prof. Challis (at the Cambridge Observatory) requesting him to receive the draughtsman, Sly, in his house, which he kindly consented to do.

He also says that Cook had been to the Tower to try to secure a draughtsman, and towards the end of the letter applies for the instruments necessary to carry on the operations.

So as Mr. Copplestone knew all about her in July, he was not likely to suborn a draughtsman in November.

"They should arrive in two or three hours," said he, "and in the meantime we will tackle the draughtsman who made that plan of the battleship.