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"And so clever is he that nobody suspects hiraciez!' and he cares not a single rotin for La Reniffe," she replied, dropping again into the slang of French thieves

"Of course he is on friendly terh reht of the tragic affair"

"He may have been He was, no doubt, somewhere on the Riviera, and he sent Paolo in one of the cars to rescue you from the police"

"In that case, he at least knows that I auilty person That would account for the interest he takes in you, though you do not know him," said Lisette "I have known Il Passero perform many kindly acts to persons in distress who have never dreamed that they have received money from a notorious international thief"

"Well, inHenfrey replied "But," he added, "why cannot you tellMade that she was a , but won't you explain what it means? You have explained irl thief was obdurate She was certainly a chic and engaging little person, apparently well educated and refined, but she was as sly as her notorious employer, whoh, the daughter of a man who had made jewel thefts his speciality and afterten years at the convict prison at Toulon She had been bred in the Montmartre, and trained and educated to a criminal life Il Passero had found her, and, after several ti" where coups could be made, she had been taken into his e on the international wagon-lits and restaurants, where she succeeded in attracting the attention ofthem in conversation with a ated the contents of their valises Fro between Paris and A with her had stolen a packet containing diamonds of the value of two hundred thousand francs, while frone to Paris, two days later, she had herself taken a wallet containing nearly four thousand pounds in English bank-notes It was her share of the recent robbery that Il Passero had paid her three days before at the Concordia Restaurant in the Via Garibaldi, in Genoa