famous painting

famous painting
It was perfectly obvious to me, on reading the Ritual, that the measurements must refer to some spot to which the rest of the document alluded, and that if we could find that spot we should be in a fair way towards finding what the secret was which the old Musgraves had thought it necessary to embalm in so curious a fashion. There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm. As to the oak there could be no question at all. Right in front of the house, upon the left-hand side of the drive, there stood a patriarch among oaks, one of the most magnificent trees that I have ever seen.
""That was there when your Ritual was drawn up," said I as we drove past it.
""It was there at the Norman Conquest in all probability," he answered. "It has a girth of twenty-three feet."
"Here was one of my fixed points secured.
" "Have you any old elms?" I asked.