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"Which you will, in due course, i of the sort," was The Sparrow's reply "The lad is in serious peril I happen to know that"

"Then why don't you warn hientleman known in Mayfair as Mr Peters

"IF Henfrey is here, then I'd like to h the pair were in a rooh stood at some distance away, he could hear the words quite distinctly At this he was much surprised He did not, however, know that in that house in Ellerston Street there had been constructed a curious syste place in a distant apartment could be heard in certain other rooood many queer visitors, and some of their whispered conversations while they awaited him were often full of interest

The house was, in h a e--and several other mysterious contrivances which were unsuspected by visitors

"It would hardly do for hih heard Howell say a moment later It was the habit of The Sparrow's accoreat director--the brain of criminal Europe--by the name under which they inquired for him The Sparrow had twenty names--one for every city in which he had a cosy pied-a-terre In Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, Marseilles, Vienna, Ha, Budapest, Stockholm and on the Riviera, he was, in all the cities, known by a different name Yet each was so distinct, and each individuality so well kept up, that he snapped his fingers at the police and pitied thenorance, and lack of initiative

Truly, Il Passero, the cosmopolitan of ht cri there breathless, listened to every word Who was this man Howell?

"Hush!" cried The Sparrow suddenly "What a fool I aot to close the ventilator in the roo fellow has been shown! I hope he hasn't overheard! I had Evans and Janson in there an hour ago, and they were discussing ood job that I took the precaution of opening the ventilator, because I learned a good deal that I had never suspected It has placedHenfrey But," he added, "be extre the affair"