“Well, now,” he sighed, “that is a load of pure crap. Where do I begin? These art historians might know their painters and their pieces, but they’re obviously not very good detectives. You have to understand, the Stewarts were wealthy — outrageously wealthy — old Philadelphia money and social set. W. H. had made his fortune in sugar cane, and he owned plantations in Cuba. For starters, when Jules was a boy, the family went back and forth on vacations. But these were in fact business trips for the father to check on his slaves — yes, slaves — decades after the emancipation in the States. And you talk about records of passage — you won’t find any. You have to remember that this class of people most often traveled by private yacht. They took first class on a commercial liner only if they coul
