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for which he has committed himself. I need to not tell you that he values this Holbein beyond any picture he has and declares it the rarest and choicest picture obtainable in the world. I saw the painting in company of M. Lombaertz, director of the Brussels Museum, who made the same statement to me. Mrs. Lewis Hind's cable reads "Lane sailing for New York Sunday Can take picture if anything definite. Cable answer." This coming of Lane's is not unexpected as he told me siz weeks ago inn London that he was being urged to go at once to