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Because it was a club of conjurers, and because the conjurers displayed their new tricks and illusions, after an excellent dinner the waiters were excluded and the doors locked after the coffee

It was then that the bogus Sparrow addressed those present, and gave certain instructions which were later on carried into every corner of Europe Each roup its district and its sanctuary, in case of a hue-and-cry Every cri save murder

The tall, thin man whom everyone believed to be The Sparrow never failed to impress upon his hearers, after the doors were carefully locked, that however they ht attack and rob the rich, human life was sacred

It was the real Sparrow's order He abo human life, hence when old Mr Henfrey had been foully done to death in the West End he had at once set to work to discover the actual criminal This he had failed to do And afterwards there had followed the attempted assassination of Yvonne Ferad, known as Made the young French girl, Lisette, who in the Via della Maddalena in Genoa

"I only hope; that she has not told young Henfrey anything," Howell said, with distinct apprehension

"No," laughed The Sparrow "She came to me and told me how she had met him in Genoa and discovered to her amazement that he was old Henfrey's son"

"How curious that the pair should meet by accident," reht game That iniquitous hich the old ned under so for a life policy--or sonatures to wills have been procured under many pretexts by scoundrelly relatives and unscrupulous lawyers"

"I know And the witnesses have placed their signatures afterward," rehtfully "But in this case all seems above board--at least so far as the will is concerned Benton was old Henfrey's bosom friend Henfrey was very taken with Louise, and I know that he was desirous Hugh should h would acquire the old man's fortune, and Benton would step in and seize it--as is his intention"

"Undoubtedly All we can do is to keep Hugh and Louise apart The latter is in entire ignorance of the true profession of her adopted father, and she'd be horrified if she knew that Molly was simply a clever adventuress, who is very loved man