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As day followed day in that hus concerning the fa his exploits in terh learnt that it was The Sparroho had planned the great jewel robbery at Binet's, in the Rue de la Paix, when so to the Shah of Persia, which had been sent to Paris to be reset, were stolen It was The Sparrow, too, who had planned the burglary at the art gallery of Evans and Davies in Bond Street and stolen Raphael's faet away to Brussels, but compelled to obey the order of thebooks and newspapers hich Beppo's wife provided hih the silent city, with its gloomy old palaces, the courtyards of which echoed to his footsteps At such tihts and would walk around the port and out upon the hills which surrounded the bay, and then sit down and gaze out to the twinkling lights across the sea and watch the long bea in the darkness

His host and hostess were undoubtedly criminals Indeed, they did not hide the fact Both were paid by The Sparrow to conceal and provide for anyone whom he sent there

He had been there four weary, anxious days when one evening a pretty, well-dressed young French girl called, and after a short chat with Beppo's wife becauest He did not know her name and she did not tell hih found her acompanion Truly, he had been thrown into very queer company, and he often wondered what his friends would say if they knew that he was guest in a hiding-place of thieves