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AN ART SHOP IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
The little shop was dimly lighted--a lurid red glow at one side and a faint amber radiance from above. For a moment I stood looking around uncertainly--at the slovenly display-cases and tables, the unframed paintings on the walls, and the long shelves crowded with curios.
I glanced back into the black shadow that shrouded the farther end of the room, and then turned to meet the snakelike little eyes that were roving over my figure appraisingly.
I shook my head. "No," I said; "nothing in particular."
The little old man straightened his bent back with an effort, reaching a skinny hand toward the shelf above his head.
"No," I said, and moved away down the length of the table. "I lived in Spain a year. Your place interests me."
He laid aside the ivory figure and followed me down the room with feeble steps; I noticed then that one of his feet dragged as he walked. It was peculiarly unpleasant--indeed the whole personality of this decrepit little old man seemed unpleasant and repulsive. I stopped in the red glow of an iron lantern that hung from a bracket upon the wall.
"I lived in Spain a year," I repeated. "That is why, when I saw your sign, I stopped in to look around."
He stood beside me, looking up into my face, his head shaking with the palsy of old age, his eyes gleaming into mine.
"In Granada," I added briefly.
He put a shaking hand upon my arm; involuntarily I drew back from his touch.
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