Chapters III-V of this story detail Ernest's pursuit and meeting with the Professor, Ernest and Elora's marriage and their being haunted by the Professor, Ernest's continued desire for revenge against the Professor and his intrusion into their lives, an accidental meeting between the Professor and Ernest in Paris, and Ernest's murder of the Professor and his purchase of the original portraits at a Paris auction.
Originally published anonymously in the New York Sunday Courier and reprinted in the June 1852 Photographic Art-Journal, as "The Magnetic Daguerreotypes." Henry Clapp later posthumously published North's short story in The Saturday Press in two parts during the fall of 1858, as "The Magnetic Portraits."
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