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13
  “he would gladly give” ibid., p. 14.

14
  “under no circumstances”
Adam Worth
, p. 19.

15
  “I got talking to him” Worth’s Confession, p. 11.

16
  “Before going away” ibid., p. 14.

17
  “He seemed in good faith” Quoted in Horan, p. 316.

18
  “Now, I do not know whether” Worth’s Confession, p. 10.

19
  “I believe I can make” ibid., p. 13.

TWENTY-SIX

  
1
  “New Scotland Yard had been”
Adam Worth
, p. 19.

  
2
  “a rich American”
History of Agnew’s, 1817–1967
(London, privately printed, 1967), Appendix III, p. 81 (henceforth, Agnew’s history).

  
3
  “suggests that the matter” ibid., p. 82.

  
4
  “there should be”
Adam Worth
, p. 19.

  
5
  “Sheedy took the position” ibid.

  
6
  “Inspector Froest” Agnew’s history, p. 81.

  
7
  “Would not a man offering”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 23.

  
8
  “For the time being”
Adam Worth
, p. 20.

  
9
  “We must have a distinct” William Pinkerton to Messrs Lewis and Lewis, solicitors, Chicago, July 10, 1899, PA.

10
  “he is not in any sense” ibid.

11
  “would allow him”
Adam Worth
, p. 20.

12
  “If the Agnews would” ibid.

13
  “cross the ocean” George Bangs to Robert Pinkerton, Jan. 16, 1900, PA.

14
  “They may be the men using” ibid.

15
  “the Pinkertons received”
Adam Worth
, p. 20.

16
  “insisted that he should” Dilnot, p. 662.

17
  “Mr. Pinkerton at once”
Adam Worth
, p. 20.

18
  “When it was known” ibid.

19
  “It was a secret known”
London Evening News
, April 11, 1901.

20
  “for fear, in his excitement” Agnew’s history, p. 82.

21
  “I have news compelling” Morland Agnew, diary, quoted in Agnew’s history.

22
  “Mother was rather nervous” ibid.

23
  “These Yankees do eat” Morland Agnew to Daisy Agnew, March 17, 1901, AA.

24
  “I spent an exceedingly”
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

25
  “damper to all the hopes” ibid.

26
  “fine, well-set up man” ibid.

27
  “You will have the Duchess” Esterow, p. 200.

28
  “Personally, I was too”
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

29
  “That’s a lot of money” Agnew’s history, p. 82.

30
  “As the hour approached” ibid.; also
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

31
  “About a quarter of an hour” ibid.

32
  “By and by there came” Agnew’s history, p. 83.

33
  “adult messenger” ibid. Agnew’s emphasis on the distinctive age, insouciance, and silence of the messenger all suggest strongly that this was Adam Worth and that the art dealer, for all his later claims, knew it. Pinkerton’s subsequent refusal to identify Worth’s whereabouts during this transaction, when he was so free with all other details, is further evidence that the elderly bellboy was Worth himself.

34
  “When he had gone” ibid.

35
  “watched his features”
Adam Worth
, p. 21.

36
  “I looked up at detective” Agnew’s history, p. 83.

37
  “I am positive the picture”
Adam Worth
, p. 21.

38
  “Well, I am glad it is”
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

39
  “Then we went to a shop” Agnew’s history, p. 83.

40
  “I hung it up on a peg” ibid.

41
  “On arriving in New York” ibid.

42
  “Some 25 years ago a very” Morland Agnew to Daisy Agnew, March 31, 1901, AA.

43
  “our grateful acknowledgement” Morland Agnew to William Pinkerton, March 31, 1901, AA.

44
  “I told the Purser” Agnew’s history, p. 83.

45
  “If the customs officers”
Adam Worth
, p. 21.

46
  “Mother and some of the ladies” Morland Agnew to Daisy Agnew, March 31, 1901, AA.

47
  “a decayed millionaire”
Daily Express
, April 9, 1901, p. 5.

48
  “arranged through our” William Pinkerton to Moreland Agnew, Chicago, April 8, 1901, AA.

49
  “positively untrue”
Evening Standard
, April 10, 1901, p. 1.

TWENTY-SEVEN

  
1
  “going back to England”
Adam Worth
, p. 22.

  
2
  “than the assessed value” Howard Zinn,
A People’s History of the United States
(New York, 1990), p. 316.

  
3
  “His butler said that” Bishop Lawrence, quoted in Cass Canfield,
The Incredible Pierpont Morgan
(New York, 1974), p. 114.

  
4
  “I was determined” ibid.

  
5
  “Going to London” Delos Avery,
Kidnapping Done in Oil
, article in PA.

  
6
  “The Napoleon of Wall Street” Jonathan Hughes,
The Vital Few
(Boston, 1966), p. 404.

  
7
  “saw the Civil War” Chernow, p. 22.

  
8
  “This was a day of corruption” George Wheeler,
Pierpont Morgan and Friends—The Anatomy of a Myth
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1973), p. 131.

  
9
  “anybody who even has” Frederick Lewis Allen,
The Great Pierpont Morgan
(New York, 1949), p. 154.

10
  “The man who had accumulated” ibid., pp. 111–12.

11
  “there were two Pierponts” Chernow, p. 35.

12
  “Never under any circumstances” ibid., p. 26.

13
  “I commit my soul” Allen, p. 13.

14
  “generally behaved himself” Wheeler, p. 132.

15
  “That’s nothing” Chernow, p. 115.

16
  “smile, and smile” William Shakespeare,
Hamlet
, I:v, 105.

17
  “a high-minded young girl” Wheeler, p. 82.

18
  “a young and delicate” ibid., p. 83.

19
  “reminiscence of Mimi” ibid., p. 84.

20
  “is true of all” John Fowles,
The Magus
(London, 1977), p. 178.

21
  “a deeply sentimental” Chernow, p. 42.

TWENTY-EIGHT

  
1
  “Down the gangway”
Daily Express
, April 9, 1901, p. 5.

  
2
  “Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan”
Daily Express
, April 10, 1901.

  
3
  “fondness and keen” ibid.

  
4
  “Mr Morgan’s vaulting” ibid.

  
5
  “save for the slightest”
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

  
6
  “in a beautiful”
Times
, April 9, 1901, p. 8.

  
7
  “Father telegraphs his delight” Agnew’s history, p. 84.

  
8
  “that the thief fought”
Evening Standard
, April 10, 1901, p. 1.

  
9
  “the police in both England” ibid.

10
  “So far as I know it” Agnew’s history, p. 84; also
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

11
  “romance as strange as”
Daily Telegraph
, April 9, 1901.

12
  “the third sensational”
Times
, April 10, 1901, p. 4.

13
  “that the man who stole”
Times
, April 9, 1901, p. 8.

14
  “Its authentic history”
Times
, April 10, 1901, p. 4.

15
  “Papers full of reports” Agnew’s history, p. 84.

16
  “The Dear Old Dutch”
London Evening News
, Thurs., April 11, 1901.

17
  “We have been literally”
Evening Standard
, April 10, 1901, p. 1.

18
  “Her value must have”
London Evening News
, April 9, 1901, p. 2.

19
  “You may take my word”
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

20
  “The newspaper reporters” William Pinkerton to C. Morland Agnew, Chicago, April 8, 1901, AA.

21
  “Now that the ‘stolen duchess’ ”
London Evening News
, April 9, 1901, p. 2.

22
  “the real Gainsborough” Photograph in AA.

23
  “It is to be hoped”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 29.

24
  “Now that the picture”
London Evening News
, April 10, 1901, p. 2.

25
  “My ship was faster” Canfield, p. 114.

26
  “but Mr Morgan was given”
New York Herald
, Feb. 7, 1902.

27
  “subject to Sir William” Thos. Agnew & Sons to J. Pierpont Morgan, April 12, 1901, AA; also Agnew’s history, p. 84.

28
  “I have this morning” Agnew’s history, pp. 84–85.

29
  “a reporter flatly” ibid., p. 84.

30
  “more columns of newspapers” Satterlee, p. 352.

31
  “This was one of the many” ibid.

32
  “Nobody will ever know” ibid., p. 353.

33
  “rather hastily” Morland Agnew to William Pinkerton, Nov. 19, 1902, PA.

34
  “What else have you for sale?”
New York Times
, Aug. 11, 1963, cited in Chernow, p. 100.

35
  “license to stay on earth” Allen, p. 179.

36
  “Pierpont Morgan calls in” Wheeler, p. 203.

37
  “The Outcry deals with” Henry James,
The Outcry
(London, 1911), jacket blurb for first edition.

38
  “beautiful duchess” ibid., p. 22.

39
  “the most beautiful” ibid., p. 30.

40
  “the billionaire with” Adeline R. Tinter, “Henry James:
The Outcry
and the art drain of 1908–9,”
Apollo
, Feb. 1981, p. 110.

41
  “Bender knows what” James, p. 21.

42
  “Kitty wants so many” ibid.

43
  “The art world is at” ibid., p. 52.

44
  “Precious things are going” ibid.

45
  “This time it will”
London Evening News
, April 9, 1901, p. 2.

46
  “She looks splendid” Agnew’s history, p. 86.

47
  “The music halls were” ibid., p. 84.

TWENTY-NINE

  
1
  “all in the world”
Adam Worth
, p. 22.

  
2
  would not take any
Pittsburgh Leader
, March 3, 1905.

  
3
  “the worst deal Harry” Guerin, p. 298.

  
4
  “The sudden return”
Magazine of Art
, June 1901, p. 368.

  
5
  “Never previously in the history”
The Gainsborough Duchess
, p. 5.

  
6
  “one newly brought” ibid., p. 6.

  
7
  “she is not, after all”
Pall Mall Gazette
, April 9, 1901, p. 1.

  
8
  “will vanish as the” ibid.