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.

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 to the signature. She must’ve thought it was okay to leave it there since it was a painting she did in

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

a look at this, Miss

the tell-tale ‘C’ mark next to Nellie Nymphaea’s signature,

‘C’ mark had all the lines and folds of the side of a hand

so many years, she finally came face-to-face with

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

“My friend said this painting 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

ask your friend to arrange a meeting with her art teacher for you?” asked

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

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