it was awful. After a while two young ladies looked into the catalogue to see whom I represented. At Madame Tussaud’s I made a somewhat unpleasant discovery: either I am quite incapable of reading human faces, or else physiognomies are deceptive. So for example I was at first sight attracted by a seated gentleman with a goatee beard, No. 12. In the catalogue I found: “12. Thomas Neill Cream, hanged in 1892. Poisoned Matilda Glover with strychnine. He was also found guilty of murdering three other women.” Really, his face is very suspicious. No. 13. Franz Müller, murdered Mr. Briggs in the train. H’m. No. 20, a clean-shaven gentleman, of almost worthy appearance: Arthur Devereux, hanged 1905, known as the “trunk murderer,” because he hid the corpses of his victims in trunks. Horrid. No. 21—no, this worthy priest cannot be “Mrs. Dyer, the Reading baby murderess.” I now perceive that I have confused the pages of the catalogue, and I am compelled to correct my impressions: the seated gentle-
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