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--then  the  artist  with  a  ghostly  face  asked  ben  as  if  he  already  knew  why  he  was  there,  not  surprised  of  his  coming  there  again, what  ben  was  after  was  the  painting  of  the  beggar  sitting  on  a  diamond  pile, ben  explained  he  could  not   wait  to  get  out  of  the  jail  to  obtain the  art  piece,  though  he  liked  so  many  other  things  well in life  but  this  was  different, the  artist  said  he  was  the  producer  of  the  art  piece  and  knew  the  soul  and  spirit  of  it  but  did  ben  know  what  was  attracting  him towards  it, it  was  ben  in future , the  painting  was  a  prophecy  of  ben  and  it  was  his  own  self  showing  in the  art  that  was  pulling  him to  it