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.

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 to

was sitting in the front passenger seat on stand-by—passed Corinne a painting that was about

look at this,

tell-tale ‘C’ mark next to Nellie

side of a hand running through it. This

finally came face-to-face with proof that her mother was still

did your friend get

was drawn by her art teacher when she came over to her house to teach her

a meeting with her art teacher for you?” asked

meet her art teacher because she and another student went out on a field trip to do some landscape painting. She wasn’t sure she would be back, but she promised she’d inform me first thing when her art teacher is

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