CHAPTER VIII
ARMITAGE walked as men walk in nightmares. He bumped into pedestrians and jarred his knees in stepping off curbs blindly. He wasn't going anywhere; he was just walking. The same identical photograph, the same pose! Daniel Morris—Hubert Athelstone! Morris had actually died in 1870. Twins? Had the pose in one photograph differed from the pose in the other, the supposition might have had weight. No, no; there was something monumentally wrong about this affair; and there didn't seem any way of solving it. The two photographs were identical; there was no getting away from the cameo stick-pin in the tie. Anyhow, it was not possible that the man in the photograph was Doris's father. He had died in 1870. Armitage computed the years. Had he lived he
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