Henri Matisse Painting

Henri Matisse Painting
"'She is not in there.'
'Let's go in.'
"'Don't go there! On the least alarm the man will escape. He has four ways by which to do it ?the door, the window, the boudoir, or the room in which the women are sleeping.'
"'I'll draw him from below.'
Henri Matisse Painting
"'And if you fail? ?If you only succeed in wounding him ?he'll escape again, without reckoning that he is certainly armed. No, let me direct the expedition, and I'll answer for everything.'
"'As you like,' he replied, with fairly good grace.
"Then, after satisfying myself that all the windows of the two galleries were thoroughly secure, I placed Frederic Larsan at the end of the 'off-turning' gallery, before the window which I had found open and had reclosed.
Henri Matisse Painting