Chapter 41 Summary

Dolarhyde goes back to the Brooklyn Museum looking very much like a student, with books in his arms and a guitar case in his hands. However, he also has a gun and a knife hidden under his shirt. Dolarhyde has an appointment to see Blake's The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun. Dolarhyde signs in with the guards, leaving his guitar in the foyer, and waits for Miss Harper who is to show him the painting.

Miss Harper walks Dolarhyde up to the fifth floor, chatting the whole time about Blake and the study Dolarhyde is supposedly doing on him. In the hallway, Dolarhyde spots a portrait of George Washington and freezes for a moment, convinced it is his grandmother come to mock him. It takes Dolarhyde a moment to regain his composure.

In a workroom where paintings are...