"They Were Your Faces"

"Rogues' Gallery."
By MacKinlay Kantor (1904-77).
First appearance: Collier's, August 24, 1935.
Reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 1945 and May 1956; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, "Overseas Edition for the Armed Forces," May 1945; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia), September 1947 and May 1948; and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (U.K.), May 1956.
Collected in Author's Choice (1944) and It's About Crime (1960).
Short short short story (1 page).
Online at UNZ (HERE).

"You haff trampled mein statue . . ."

Never, never get between an artist and his work . . .

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"The Watchman."
By MacKinlay Kantor (1904-77).
First appearance: Collier's, February 22, 1936.
Reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1944; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, "Overseas Edition for the Armed Forces," November 1944; and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (Australia), August 1947.
Collected in It's About Crime (1960).
Short short short story (1 page).
Online at UNZ (HERE).

"Heavy breathing beneath him—his arm would come up, like this, and then go down . . ."

It has to come to him in a blinding flash, but Benny Hackett finally comprehends the full import of an old saying—you know the one, about how in the dark all cats are gray . . .

Resources:

- For a while there MacKinlay Kantor was a household name; see Wikipedia (HERE) and Mystery*File (HERE), as well as the SFE (HERE) and ISFDb (HERE) for his few contributions to SFF.