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"Who is with her?"

"Nobody yet Franklyn will go in due course"

Howell's thin lips relaxed into a curious smile

"Franklyn is in love with Lisette," he reether to execute the little o, and I o, in order to survey the situation"

"The gaet the lot Van Groot, in Aive at least fifteen thousand for theht most of them from old Leplae in the Rue de la Paix There are so some of the jewels at the Palace Hotel, in Madrid, while they were staying there before their villa was ready Moulaert, with his wife and two friends froation, dined at a table next tohat purpose I ate my meal alone"

Truly, the intuition and cleverness of The Sparroonderful He neverevery phase of the consequences Unlike lass of dry sherry at eleven in the lass of claret for his dinner

Yet often at restaurants he would order chae clarets, and liqueurs--when occasion demanded He would offer the previously arranged with the waiter to lass

Of the peril of drink "Mr Peters" was constantly lecturing the great circle of his friends

Each year--on the 26th of February to be exact--there was held a dinner at a well-known restaurant in the West End--the annual dinner of a club known as "The Wonder Wizards" It was supposed to be a circle of professional conjurers

This dinner was usually attended by fifty guests of both sexes, all well-dressed and prosperous, and of several nationalities It was presided over by a Mr Charles Williauests believed him to be The Sparrow; but in reality Mr Williah had believed to be the great leader, until he had gone to Mayfair andfailed to arrest

The situation was indeed humorous It was The Sparrow's fancy to hold the reunion at a public restaurant instead of at a private house Under the very nose of Scotland Yard the deputy of the notorious Sparrow entertained the chiefs of the great criminal octopus There were speeches, but fro It was siuests were those who conjured fortunes out of the pockets of the unsuspecting And while the chairman--believed by those who attended to be The Sparrow hinificant-looking little man occupied a seat in a far-off corner, frouests very closely, and smiled at the excellent manner in which his deputy performed the duties of chairman