Crossword-Solution: LEPAGE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Was there, then, no fixed law? The short period, for instance, between 1875 and the present time has been long enough for the talent of one painter (Bastien-Lepage) to be discovered, discussed, lauded, acclaimed, then gradually forgotten and decried.

Yet, only this spring, while dining with two or three art critics in the French capital, I heard Lepage’s name mentioned and his works recalled with the smile that is accorded to those who have hoodwinked the public and passed off spurious material as the real thing.

And this was the moment that fate had chosen to throw Claire Lepage into my arms, and give me the key to the future of Sylvia’s life.

One hears the saying, when unexpected encounters take place, “How small the world is!” But I thought the world was growing really too small when I went into a hotel tea-room to wait for Sylvia, and found myself face to face with Claire Lepage! The place appointed had been the “orange-room”; I stood in the door-way, sweeping the place with my eyes, and I saw Mrs.

And I waited another week, for good measure, and then one morning dropped in for a call upon Claire Lepage.